Hey Rodriguez, you were there through it all for me and my friends and my siblings. Through primary school!, through high school, the goddamn army, Wits in the late 80's & early 90's with its astonishing smell of teargas and the end of tyranny. I heard you as the sun came up on Signal Hill and when it went down over Hillbrow. I heard you at The Free People's Concerts, and as we walked Rockey Street you were playing too, was it at Bapita or Dylans, or maybe at Tandoors?

And of course Rustler's Valley. At Rustler's Valley in 1991, as Moose said you could walk through a campsite of hundreds of people and never not be hearing your album Cold Fact played by someone at any time, day or night. I listened to it again in full yesterday and I'll keep listening to it until I'm gone too. You were embedded in our lives and they were the better for it. Thanks, Sugar Man, you were, and are (and I really mean this) truly awesome. Thanks for your time.