David was one of the most influential people in my entire life. He took me in when I was but 18 years old, and taught me how to be an adult. We lived together for several years, in several aprtments and in his house on Morris St. in Albany. David and I had more adventures together than could fill a volume! Ten years my senior, David taught me more about music than any other single person in my life. He taught me a lot of what I learned early on with guitar. Anyone who knew David, my "doommate", as he called me, knew that he was a complicated person, who was generous to a fault, had a heart made of 24K gold, was deviously funny, was brilliant as the mid-day sun, and would help anyone at any time, if the cause was just. He was one of my greatest early mentors, one of my very closest friends, a soul brother of the closet kind, and I am beyond proud to know that I am among the many who knew him, and the few who knew him deeply and well. He was a life-brother, guide, teacher, the most well-read person I know, a fantastic chess player, backgammon player, an inveterate quiet comic, whose twinkling green eyes held great humor, love, compassion, interest, and fierce judgment. David was a giant of a man, far bigger than ordinary life, and to have played some small part in his life is one of the greatest and most significant honors of mine.