For those that didn't know Chris personally, THIS is The Chris Experience in a nutshell.MoreSpaceEcho wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:54 amYeah, I only went to the one in Tucson in 2007 (i think? maybe 2006), but it was a great time and that's actually where I met Chris for the first time. We became fast friends, which was very easy to do with him.
I'm so going to miss the epic, sprawling phone calls. It'd be like this:
me: I really dug the harmonica solo on that track I just did for you.
Garges: Oh man! Do you know *insert name of local Charlotte legend*?
me (lifelong New Englander): *has no earthly idea at all*
Garges: OH MAN! So, Jim started playing harmonica when he was 2, sitting on the floor in the back of his dad's tv repair shop. One time, his dad was fixing a tv for Manny McGuillicutty, one of the best jazz drummers in town. Manny's wife Abigail tended bar at Johnny's, well actually, before that she was at Finnegan's, but that place burned down back in '82. Anyway, Abigail was friends with the Johnson brothers, who.....
and I'd be like DUDE! You're been talking for like 2 minutes and we're already 5 tangents deep! How is my weed-addled mind supposed to keep track of all this? And we'd die laughing.
I got to play a couple gigs with him back in 2011. My first night there, we're at his house, sitting and sipping bourbon. I still smoked then so I asked if we could move outside to the porch. So we do, and we sit and sip and talk shit literally all night. At some point about 5am, Carrie comes down and she's laughing and says "you guys are so fucking loud!" We're like shit we were trying to be quiet! In an attempt to sober us up, Carrie brings out a tray of homemade cookies.....which of course had rum in them!
I felt unspeakably terrible the next day but it was a great hang.
Anyway, I worked on this record for him last year, it's a masterpiece, it's for a great cause, and I'm so glad he was able to do this, it must've been a mountain of work:
https://thedefactobrothers.bandcamp.com ... o-yourself
I forgot to mention the DeFacto Brothers records in my first post. That was truly a labor of love for Chris. There are a few things on there that I was lucky enough to get an email from Chris with "What does this mix need?" in the subject line. He and I did that a lot for each other. There would be 3-4 emails back and fourth and we would both be grateful for the other's insight. He made A LOT of my mixes better over the years.
Does your Lexi from Chris have a name written on it in grease pencil?trodden wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:08 amFuck.
I wasn't as close to Chris as some of you, but with nearly 20 years of hanging out on this board, Chris was one of those talented people who was alway happy to share, teach, and discuss making records, listening to records, and his love of music with others without an air of gatekeeping superiority. I alway respected his kindness and the wealth of information that he gladly provided to anyone. I never got to meet him in-person, but I always felt that if I did, it would be a pleasant conversation much like his presence here, online. I've had a handful of Lexicon LXP-1's in the last 25 years. The one in my rack at the moment I got from Chris, maybe 10 years ago? I have and will continue to think of him whenever I use it.
The Tribe is both better for having had Chris in it and suffering a massive deficiency without him.Recycled_Brains wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:43 amSad to hear this. Also never met him, but he was a guy I just knew I could trust when he offered his insights and opinions on this forum (and elsewhere), to the point where I would skip to his posts very often and then leave it at that. I had a couple of minimal interactions with him via social media over the years and he was generous with his knowledge.
I'm so sorry for those of you that were close with him. He sounds like a really great person and our tribe has clearly lost someone special.
