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King Coffey's avatar

I had a giant Leslie speaker cabinet that had been abandoned in my garage some 20 years earlier. It's an amazing device, the voice of almost every organ on a rock record. But I'm a drummer, not a keyboard player, so this giant, massively heavy contraption sat unused the whole time.

Eventually, it became a winter home for squirrels. So finally, I placed an ad on Craigslist saying it was free to whoever could give it a good home -and- haul it away without me lifting a finger. Ian McLagan wrote almost immediately.

He was able to lift the beast into his truck with the ease of someone who had been doing this his whole life. I had told him I was a big fan, and he arrived with signed, limited edition cd copy of Ogden's in a metal tin. I cherish it. Much as I cherish meeting him.

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Susan Barker-Benfield's avatar

Its Susie Lange, married to Larry Lange. I met Kim and Mac when I lived in Pasadena, Ca. In the 1980’s. I was married to my first husband who is English .I had a store that was Mod / Ska oriented. One day, in came Kim and Mac. They lived nearby , near South Pasadena. Mac came up and said “ Iwas in a mod band”. Isaid “I think I havea button for you” and handed him a Faces pin. From that meeting came a powerful friendship.We decided to have a vintage clothing store above their favorite pub TheJohn Bull . We would put all of the clothes out and drunk people would come up and leave us money!My husband and I separated and I moved here in Austin. When the big earthquake happened in 1993 Kim called and said” we are moving home.” I said “ Back to England?” and she said “ No, to Austin!”

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