I just saw this last night, too. Thank GOD for Warren's humor, it got me through the show; I was laughing yet was welling up throughout.
The whole thing just brought back memories of my cousin Paul Bass. Paul was a fantastic musician...he had just recorded a new album and debuted it at a "family reunion/Paul's 50th; his dad's 80th birthday party/CD debut concert" in 1997 (he was already in failing health then, but he was getting treatment)...it was the first time he, my other cousin Bobby & I ever played music together even though we'd all been musicians since childhood (mostly due to geographics). After that concert, Paul had said that he was already working on another special project, but he wanted me to play on the album AFTER that...it never happened, he passed away (suddenly, when he was seemingly improving, up until then) in January 1999, two months before he was to have started that album.
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