After knowing and being with John in his strong healthy years it's very tough for me to watch "Hurt". To see John in such frail shape, after knowing him as a tall strong tough "man's man".
I was no longer in close contact with him then, but I know it had to be hard for him, to have people see him in that condition. He was spending more and more time in Jamaica. Recording when he could.
But with John, it was all about the music, he lived and breathed the music inside of him. When he lost June the first thing he did was go back to work. More than anything else, music was his drug. I haven't said much about John and June's relationship, it's pretty personal - but a tremendous love story, especially among show business people.
Near the end he had to rest most of the time, recording only as he was able, for short periods. Perhaps the strangest thing of all, is the fact that he and I shared the same physical problem. The doctors tell me the same thing that took him will get me. But that's ok, they say that good health is only the slowest way to die.
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon right now, and Jenny and I are listening to John's "When The Man Comes Around", a song I keep listening to over and over. It's on a CD gifted to me by a fine Cbid brother.
Thanks for all the nice things said about his music.
Tuck
