Bruce Collins
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Hello folks, I am Lew Collins' brother, Bruce, from Mission Amps / Stage 5 Amps.
So, you all know by now, my brother Lew passed away on Dec 19th, 23 from this God awful lymphoma cancer.
He made a fantastic fight of it for over 12 years.
My wife and I were with Lew, at his bedside, in his home for the last hours here on Earth and he passed way peacfully.
Exactly the way he wanted it,
But I must tell you all that right up to the very late evening before he passed away, this group was on his mind and he wanted to let you all know how much he greatly enjoyed this forum. He was going blind that last few weeks and had a very hard time reading and typing.
He was sorry he was not able to respond to any late comments. He really wanted to, ut just couldn't do it.
Beleive me, he was a difficult person to satisfy or to respect and stay with any self help guitar or amp groups!
So you guys must be something really special and the family and I want to let you know how much we appreciate the
wonderful relationship you all shared with Lew...
He left me rather loose instructions on what to do with all his musical collection (even mentioning this PRS group).
I have been going through all his gear over the last few weeks.
I recently got all his amps and guitars home and there is a fair number of PRS guitars here. Some are in various stages of being hot rodded and some are gig ready with some hot pickup, volume and tone mods. He had "mod" notes of what he was doing, in most of the guitar cases.
I thought I was bad about never being 100% happy with my amp mods but as you might guess, Lew was quite the guitar mod guru
and has some seriously killer guitars.
He was a fabluous player and his instrumentation background is amazing and was friends with some of the most popular pickup builders and guitar builders you proably all know!
Bottom line:
There are boxes and boxes of parts....PRS, Fender and Gibson ... pickups, pickguards, necks, bodys and a few nearly completed PRS guitars here that I need to figure out what to do with.
I will come back sometime in the early-mid spring to list what he had and or what ever I can get put back together.... as he thought there might be a few players here insterested in his modded guitars.
Thanks again for all the nice comments and condolances!
Cheers for now and Play LOUD!
Bruce
So, you all know by now, my brother Lew passed away on Dec 19th, 23 from this God awful lymphoma cancer.
He made a fantastic fight of it for over 12 years.
My wife and I were with Lew, at his bedside, in his home for the last hours here on Earth and he passed way peacfully.
Exactly the way he wanted it,
But I must tell you all that right up to the very late evening before he passed away, this group was on his mind and he wanted to let you all know how much he greatly enjoyed this forum. He was going blind that last few weeks and had a very hard time reading and typing.
He was sorry he was not able to respond to any late comments. He really wanted to, ut just couldn't do it.
Beleive me, he was a difficult person to satisfy or to respect and stay with any self help guitar or amp groups!
So you guys must be something really special and the family and I want to let you know how much we appreciate the
wonderful relationship you all shared with Lew...
He left me rather loose instructions on what to do with all his musical collection (even mentioning this PRS group).
I have been going through all his gear over the last few weeks.
I recently got all his amps and guitars home and there is a fair number of PRS guitars here. Some are in various stages of being hot rodded and some are gig ready with some hot pickup, volume and tone mods. He had "mod" notes of what he was doing, in most of the guitar cases.
I thought I was bad about never being 100% happy with my amp mods but as you might guess, Lew was quite the guitar mod guru
and has some seriously killer guitars.
He was a fabluous player and his instrumentation background is amazing and was friends with some of the most popular pickup builders and guitar builders you proably all know!
Bottom line:
There are boxes and boxes of parts....PRS, Fender and Gibson ... pickups, pickguards, necks, bodys and a few nearly completed PRS guitars here that I need to figure out what to do with.
I will come back sometime in the early-mid spring to list what he had and or what ever I can get put back together.... as he thought there might be a few players here insterested in his modded guitars.
Thanks again for all the nice comments and condolances!
Cheers for now and Play LOUD!
Bruce