"You can't win, buddy."

Met Gary on eBay back in 2005. Became friends, and used to hang out in his blog a fair bit. Great guy...I know he's missed deeply by his closest family & friends, and though we never actually met in person, I feel very fortunate to have known him for the short time that I did. RIP Lumpy.
I bought his Steve Gibbon's Band vinyl collection (along with many other LP''s), and each time I spin one of these records I think of Lumpy aka Buddy Ray X aka Gary Bullock...

Here's a video that I uploaded featuring one of the LP's I acquired from Lumpy;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Qf4j6Ifpw&list=PL487188AE9194CFE7&index=50

2 years? Is it possible?

Yesterday, on my way to work on the train, "Strange" from Wire's Pink Flag came on and my thoughts were transported to a time when you lived in Markleville and I came to visit. It was incredibly hot, there was a container of Shower to Shower powder on the table, wooden floors, records all around...We were listening to Pink Flag and I remember listening to The Cramps "Gravest Hits, too. Donna was pregnant with Niles...Talking.

Let me see if I understand this. Lumpy's ashes are going to be scattered in the pit of a Bad Religion show? Is that right?

Calling ALL midwest folk (esp Bloomington).....Lumpy (March 10, 1953 - April 29, 2010 R.I.P.) of the "Repellents" (Midwest Hardcore/punk band) is going with me in under 3 hours too see BAD RELIGION on a long standing favour where upon we will both enter "the pit" & only one will come out of it !! Already got the song picked out on request......here too a "special" night for both of us !!

I can't believe it's been a year.

 

Lumpy, you are missed, my old friend.

Thanks for doing that Andy-I can't help but smile when I think of Lumpy hitching a ride in the mohawks of a few hundred English Punk Rockers!

Thanks Andy. I truly appreciate your thoughtfulness. He was one of the greats.

I can't help but smile at the irony of the heading on this page: "You can't win, buddy", followed by: "is this thing on? 'Hello, hello?"...

 

Geez...I think about you all the time.

Lumpy, You are missed.