Big Punisher R.I.P.

Big Pun, his wife, and children were staying at a hotel in White Plains, New York. They were there because their Bronx home was being worked on. On February 7, he experienced difficulty breathing and collapsed in his hotel room. His wife called 911, but emergency medical workers were not able to revive him. Only 28 years at the time, Big Pun died of heart failure, weighing nearly 700 pounds at the time.

The hip-hop and Latino communities mourned the passing of one of its stars. Thousands of fans attended his wake in the Bronx a few days after his death. To honor him, a local sign painting company, TATS Cru, painted a large mural about him on a building in his neighborhood. Famous friends also expressed their grief over his death. “He was a source of pride for the Latin community, a great artist and a great person,” Lopez told MTV. “I lost a brother,” Fat Joe said to The New York Times.

We became LRC a.k.a. @LoveRageComedy

Notice the 7-String Guitar!

So I may have mentioned Landon & I were jamming pretty heavily with Brandon "Fluff" Baker (a.k.a. King Of Stupity) & James Burkett (Drums) and well they wanted to take the band to a heavy sound and Landon & I weren't feelin it. 

Artwork: Landon Reidy & Rob Clark

So we started making tunes on our pc's with a program Fluff gave us called Cool Edit 96. We have "Mix Paste" everything in layers, but its fairly simple I wish it had multi-track like studios have! but we make due! We're working on our first album "A Trip Through A New Dawn" Its very techno-ish as were using loops we found on the web!

So we are no longer part of Point Blank, Thurteen, Project X, or whatever name we are this week! We are LRC! I still personally dug Guitarded-- but as a favor to Kevin --I won't steal his name. I'll still jam & play bass with Chelsea Clegg Jr. though! 

Notorious B.I.G. R.I.P.

His real name was Christopher Wallace, but he went by the names Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls.

In early 1997 there was a warrant for his arrest, stemming from an assault charge. He allegedly beat up a concert promoter. He was also ordered to pay over $40,000 to a man called Nathaniel Banks, who claims that he was sent to pick up Biggie from a cancelled show back in 1995. He said, and the judge agreed, that Biggie and his entourage beat him. At the time of Biggie's death, he was under investigation by the FBI for an alleged connection to a New York organized crime family.

On Saturday March 9th of 1997, Biggie was attending the 11th annual Soul Train Music Awards at the Peterson Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in LA. Other guests included Busta Rhymes, Heavy D, Da Brat, Yo Yo, Sean "Puffy" Combs, and of course, Biggie.

The party really got going around 9:30 or 10:00. Biggie was sitting at a table near the dance floor. Findadeath.com friend Jackie Smith was there that night. Jackie met Biggie in the Peterson, and said that he was "high as a kite," and pretty cool. She also tells me that she was standing on Wilshire Boulevard "when we heard the "caps getting busted," meaning the shots were fired. Jackie says that everyone went apeshit, and scattered like roaches.

Just after midnight, the event was becoming too crowded, and the LA fire marshals were called in and shut the party down. By 12:45, the street was crowded with people leaving the event from the front doors. Biggie and Puffy came out in the back of the building, to the valet parking. They discussed going to another party, and their cars arrived. Puffy left, and Biggie and two friends got in to a GMC Suburban. They drove out of the garage and up to the light at Wilshire and Fairfax, just to the left of where this photo was taken. (Sorry, I should have done better research.) The light was red, and Biggie was in the passenger seat. While waiting at the light, a dark full size car pulled up to the right side of Biggie's car and shot 6 to 10 bullets into the car. The driver took Biggie straight to Emergency Room at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Thank you Terri Rios, for the photos.

The car remained at the hospital, until police impounded it.

At 1:15 Sunday morning, Biggie was pronounced dead. He was 24.

Eyewitnesses described the lone gunman as an African American wearing a suit and bow tie, similar, police say, to the attire favored by Nation of Islam members. (But why? They're so nice.)

Fans turned the sidewalk nearest to where Biggie was slain, into a memorial.

Biggie's body was shipped back to New York City, and received by the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home. He was dressed in a white suit and a white hat. Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion, Queen Latifah, Lil Kim and others gathered to pay their last respects. Okay, I'm kidding about Celine. She was busy.

Biggie's body was then taken via hearse to the streets of his old Brooklyn neighborhood, Fort Greene, giving fans a chance to say goodbye. It was going well until some onlookers got a bit too carried away in their grief. Supposedly prompted by the police and their use of excessive security, the onlookers began jumping on cars. The police used pepper spray and arrested 6.

The murder is still not solved and police suspect a former officer, David Mack, who is already in prison for bank robbery, for arranging the "professional hit." Supposedly this hit was based on a feud between East and West Coast rappers. Also arrested is Marion "Suge" Knight, founder of Death Row Records. Police impounded a vehicle at Knight's house, which matched witness' description of the shooter's car. The gunman is possibly identified as Amir Muhammad. He and Mack were classmates, and he disappeared shortly after visiting Mack in prison just after Christmas 1997.

Biggie was supposedly cremated. Rest in peace. Please. Jackie Smith tells me that Biggie's ashes were divided in 3. His mother, his ex girlfriend Lil' Kim, and his wife Faith Evans. At the time of Biggie's death, he was dating Chali Baltimore.

Got My First Electric Guitar!

Oh Yeah! Samick left handed Stratocaster model. Even got a 25 WATT CRATE amp. It's factory distortion kinda sucks- but I can eventually get a real distortion pedal for like $50 or something. My parents told me if I break this or lose it they'd never buy me anything again! Apparently it was $350 before the gig bag, chords, picks, & amp. ROCK ON!!!

R.I.P. 2pac

Saturday, September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur and Death Row's Marion "Suge" Knight visit the Mike Tyson - Bruce Seldon fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Travon Lane (a Death Row affiliate also known as "Tray") was confronted by several members of the Southside Crips two months ago on the Lakewood Mall in Compton. During the scuffle Travon Lane's Death Row medallion/necklace was taken from him.
When Travon Lane walks through the MGM lobby he spots a man, later identified as Orlando Anderson (the same man Travon thought who had taken his medallion). Travon Lane points out the man to Tupac and he confronts him with the question "You from the South?" (this scene is captured on tape by MGM surveillance cameras).

After the 109 seconds fight (around 8.55 pm) a gleeful Tupac baits a camera crew in the MGM lobby and leaves the MGM together with Suge Knight.

Back at his room in the Las Vegas Luxor hotel, Tupac is upset cause he couldn't find someone of the Outlawz, who planned to be at the Mike Tyson fight with him. One member of the Outlawz, Khadafi, will become an eye-witness to the shooting the same day and is found dead one week later in New Jersey. Khadafi R.I.P.
Tupac (now wearing a black basketball jersey and not the white silk shirt he wore inside the MGM) and Suge, surrounded by women, are catched by an amateur videographer outside the MGM in Las Vegas.

Saturday,
September 7, 1996
11.15 pm Tupac and Suge Knight turn off Las Vegas Boulevard onto Flamingo Road.

Suge Knight is driving the black BMW 750 and Tupac sits next to him, they are on the way to Suge's Club 662 to get their party on.

Tupac's window is down and he smiles and yells to fans on the street.

Some women in an oldsmobile and several Death Row cars (around 10) follow them, heading to Club 622 in Las Vegas.

Tupac and Suge Knight stop at a red traffic light in front of the Maxim Hotel.

A white Cadillac with California license plates pulls up to the right of the waiting black BMW. Inside the Cadillac are four passengers.

According to Las Vegas Police one of the four passengers takes out a high caliber gun (Glock .40 caliber handgun) and fires between 10 and 15 (probably 12) shots, sparks fly .... glass and metal everywhere.

Three bullets tear through Tupac's chest, one through his hand and one in his leg. Suge sufferes a minor gunshot wound to the head but is not serious wounded by some bullet fragments.

The scene is watched by dozens of witnesses at the street and the Death Row entourage in cars behind the BMW.

The white Cadillac turns off and moves to down south Koval Street.

Two police men hear the shots and immediately give chase, Tupac bleeds through his jersey and is stretched out in the back of the BMW.

Suge Knight gets the car one mile away and is pulled over by a Police Bike Patrol at the corner Las Vegas Boulevard/Harmon Avenue.

Tupac lost allot of blood, he is being brought into University Medical Center's trauma center and undergoes the first operation shortly before midnight. His right lung is removed when he is operated again more than 20 hours later. He is in very critical condition and doctors give him a twenty percent chance to survive. His mother Afeni Shakur, relatives and friends come to the UMC to be there for him.

According to a Compton police informant, Travon Lane later says (at Club 662) that the shooter was Orlando Anderson aka "Baby Lane" or "Keefee D's nephew", the same man they confronted in the MGM lobby some hours ago.

Monday,
September 9, 1996 Since Suge Knight was released from the UMC on Sunday he is not to be found. On Wednesday he appears for Las Vegas police questioning.

Another informant later noticed that Orlando Anderson's cousin drives a late-model white Cadillac into an auto shop.

At 2.58 pm a man (who was mentioned to LAPD as someone who might have been sitting inside the white Cadillac two days ago) is shot.

Tupac still in critical condition momentarily opens his eyes. His family and friends inside the UMC and hundred of fans outside hope and pray for him.

Wednesday,
September 11, 1996 At 9.05 am Bobby Finch (reputed to be Southside Crip) is gunned down on South Mayo. Later Las Vegas police receive telephone calls that Bobby Finch might have been sitting in the white Cadillac too.

The next days (September 13/14) ten more people (five Bloods) are shot (wounded/killed) in seperate shootings.

Las Vegas Police receive more and more calls that Orlando Anderson was the man who shot on Tupac and that people have seen him with a 40. caliber Glock handgun.

Thursday,
September 12, 1996 Tupac is still in very critical condition, his eyes are closed and he struggles for his life. He is connected to several intensive care unit apparates. His family and thousands of fans around the world hold out hope.

Friday,
September 13, 1996
4.03 am Tupac Shakur passed away at 4.03 am because of respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest. He was 25 years old. Rest In Peace.


Tupac's mother Afeni, his cousin Yakki, his family and his friends leave the stillness of the UMC. Hundreds of waiting people outside the UMC cry, Tupac's music (coming out of cars) fills the air .... The world has lost one of the greatest rap artists. His family and millions of fans around the world lost a son, a cousin, a friend .... TUPAC WE MISS YOU.

I am born!

Two weeks after birth! Seattle, WA

Robert Brian Clark Jr.
Monday July 30, 1979 7:30 AM (Pacific)
Kennewick, WA


My dad was an Iron worker and my mom was working as a receptionist at the Grand Coulee Dam. They met in The Tri-Cities, during a boatrace or some ish...