If you care about music at all, you should know this man's name. And if you've ever tread through the streets of Detroit, you have no business not knowing it.Fred "Sonic" Smith*
September 14, 1948 - November 4, 1994
Father
"If you hear it you can play it."
- Frederick D. Smith
He was a man who within himself understood the land, the sea, and the sky. He was a musician, a pilot, a golfer, a writer, a thinker, a man of many great things. While on land, he conquered the sky in pilot flight, and dreamed of sailing the sea someday. He had silent ideas of the future and knew what was to come in both the difficult and in the greatest of ways. He knew things that others only quickly passed by.
Somewhere I can only imagine he is at ease, doing all the things he dreamed of. He is both a noble pilot, in flight above us, and is a great captain, confidently sailing the waters the whole world around.
~Jesse Smith
*originally posted on pattismith.net
3 comments:
Lived in Ann Arbor when Sonic's Rendezvous BAND was regularly gigging. I've nicked just about everything I could from Sonic Smith's deeply emotional playing and beautiful phrasing and great tone.Thanks, Fred. RIP Frederico Smithelini. One of the greatest tock guitarists ever.
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. I know this man's name, and I've tread the streets of his burning city. Shows at the Grande, around Detroit, Chances Are, etc. are etched in my memory. This man made his mark and lives on through his art.
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