Smooth_Dancer все записи автора Tragedy struck on a Sunday afternoon in July, the day after a job in upstate, NY. Rick & Elaina (his girlfriend) and her sister were hit head-on, on Rt. 17-6 in Goshen, NY, on their way to a county fair. An elderly man on medication fell asleep and crossed the grass divider and hit Rick's car. Rick had been pointing to an area where Russ, Bobby and Rick had seen air balloons the evening before. Elaina was killed immediately, Rick was flown by Medi Vac Helicopter to a trauma center in Vahalla where he remained in a coma until he passed on in Aug. 1983. The sound of such a natural and brilliant musical combination was lost forever. The very talented singer/guitarist/songwriter Rick Blakemore's funeral service was standing room only with the many people whose lives he had touched. His life, like so many before & after, we are blessed with the gift of their being, and broken-hearted by the loss.