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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2063)	2/18/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2390

Why can't he take care of himself?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2063)	2/18/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2390

Moby Grape. Damn, but that brings me back. I still have very fond memories of the late 60's and some of my closest friends in the world are some that I met during that period. Two weeks prior to my enlistment, several of us attended a free concert at Piedmont Park in Atlanta where one of the headline groups was Moby Grape. (If I remember right, the other one was Goose Creek Symphony). Two weeks later I was at basic Training in San Antonio, Texas. As a last (really stupid) act of defiant independence, I showed up at basic with my full compliment of waist length hair and ragged blue jeans. Not very bright. I can remember the barber at basic asking me conspiratorially "Do you want to keep your hair son?" I told him yes, and he told me "Well hold out your hands, cause here it comes". I was a skinhead in less than 15 seconds. But that's a long time ago. The members of Moby Grape would be in their early 50's now. I don't think that your homeless guy would be either one of the lead guitarists Peter Lewis or Jerry Miller because they have made a pretty good living for themselves as musicians. It would most likely be Bob Mosley, the bass player. I read someplace that he had been living on the streets in San Diego. He did have the presence of mind to request that fans email and write Warner Bros., requesting that they re-release his self titled album from 1972. Maybe that could be a way to help him out. Having said that, I still don't think that I owe him a living out of my own pocket any more than I would have expected him to support me if he had made it as a millionaire rock star. I don't know what brought him to his current sad state, but the truth is that he had an opportunity at one time to achieve a level of comfort that few of us can reasonably expect. When he was still headlining shows in front of thousands of fans, I was earning $212.00 a month base pay as an Airman first class in Viet Nam. Now, thirty years later, I find myself financially very comfortable through years of hard work, self improvement and some judicious investments, and he is living on the streets. Go figure. Personally I believe charity and compassion for others are two of the traits that separate "good" people from "bad" people. It makes me feel good to be able to do for others that are in need. At the same time, to be bound by law to give my hard earned monies to a bloated, inefficient, wasteful, government hand out program has very little to do with charity or compassion. I firmly believe that we have lost the contributions of perhaps millions of our citizens over the past 60 years because they were never challenged to produce and contribute. The fell into the trap of depending on a government that never asked them to do anything but live off of welfare and not rock the boat too much.