In Memory

Buddy Watt



 
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03/17/16 12:22 PM #1    

Bob Janis

Buddy was a fellow musician and we did some jamming together in high school. He was a cut above in talent and went on to find decent success in the competitive world of L.A. I owned the first LP he played guitar on. It was "The Carnival Of Life" by Lee Michaels. His guitar work was terrific. 

My best memory of him was when the Beatles broke with "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Buddy was one of the first of our class to get his driver's license and one night we piled about eight of us into his car and just drove around town, channel chasing the NY stations going absolutely bonkers whenever we found the song being played, which was often. It was a wonderful teenage experience. Who else was in that car that night?

His obit is on line and here is part of it. The photo is from the page.

Watt, Jr., Hamilton Wesley

Hamilton Wesley Watt, Jr, 67, of Sheboygan, passed into heaven on Friday, February 20, 2015, after a 3 year battle with cancer.

Wes was born in Cleveland, OH, on April 22, 1947, the son of the late Hamilton Wesley Watt and the late Jean Grace Baker Watt of Cleveland, OH.

His family moved to Connecticut in 1949, where he and his sister, Bonnie, grew up and where he developed his love of music and guitar. He attended New Canaan High School a year, but moved with his mother and sister back to Cleveland where he attended Lakewood HS. At 17 he joined a local band, The Bushmen, and moved to Los Angeles and began his lifelong career in the music of rock, country, others, and also learned to play drums, sitar and banjo with various bands, traveling all over the country. Around 1968 he partnered with Bill Lincoln as "Euphoria" and produced a well received album called "A Gift from Euphoria", released by Capitol records. It remains a highly rated cult classic from the '60s. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sheboyganpress/obituary.aspx?pid=174260541#sthash.sGQ3Zc0V.dpuf


09/11/16 02:55 PM #2    

Ann Thurber

So close and yet so far...

One summer in the '90's, I drove from California to Connecticut and back to California.  I stopped in Sheboygan to see the mother of a neighbor in L.A. and probably came within a mile or two of Buddy Watt's home.  Glad to know that his love for making music was successful and look forward to hearing from my friends whether they ever heard him play.  Celestial chords companion eternal lyrics now...


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