![]() ![]() On Christmas day 2018, I was stunned to learn, when I visited the Mabuhay Gardens Facebook group, that on the previous afternoon, Christmas Eve day, my friend James Calvin Wilsey had died. Jimmy was a busy man, he had plenty of other things to do, but he and I had become friends, and that was the kind of thing Jimmy Wilsey did for a friend. ![]() Each week, the two of us, Joe and I, would drive from our house in the Glen Park district of San Francisco, up and over the hill, down to the funky Victorian apartment in the Haight Ashbury Jimmy shared with a few friends.įor about an hour Jimmy would patiently show my son how to play the killer riffs that drive the Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” or some other oldie Joe wanted to learn. The Chris Isaak song “Wicked Game,” featuring Jimmy playing the haunting guitar intro, was a recent hit. ![]() When my son Joe was a teenager in the early ’90s, Jimmy Wilsey gave him guitar lessons as a favor to me. ![]() The man behind the haunting sound of Chris Isaak’s hit, “Wicked Game,” died on Christmas Eve day he was a friend of mine.īy Michael Goldberg Wilsey backstage at Winterland, when the Avengers opened for the Sex Pistols, January 1978. ![]()
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