Comments on: In Memory of Pete Westman aka Paul D. Westman https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/ Music Director and Music Technology Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: askland https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1328112 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1328112 In reply to LJ JOHNSON.

I’m still here – and I still have great memories of working with Pete on his music…

]]> By: LJ JOHNSON https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1328086 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:47:02 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1328086 Its 2021…..anyone still here ? I am thinking about my friend Pete…..xoxo

]]> By: Lance Jekel https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1243360 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:38:29 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1243360 Hello everyone thinking of Pete and I found this wonderful blog. Pete and I were friends in the early 1960s up until his samadhi. We went to Wilson Jr. High school together. We both got into playing guitar at around the same time. We jammed at about 15 years old while having sleep overs at his house in Sierra Madre. He played a Gibson SG and I played a 64 fender jaguar. We went to see the Cream together in 1968 at the Forum in LA. Clapton was a influence on us both. That was the beginning of a marathon of Rock concerts often at the Shrine Auditorium in LA and the Pasadena Civic and Rose palace. We saw all the greats Hendrix Doors Janice Joplin and all the SF groups Airplane Greatful Dead etc. we even flew up to SF to see concerts at the Filmore on School weekends. My folks moved from Pasadena to Huntington Beach but we stayed in touch. We got back in touch a few months before he passed away. He sent me tapes of his music and we caught up on times. And we were instantly best friends again. I will always remember Pete he was a incredible person. So sad he left us so early in life. Happy to see so much love for him is still alive.

]]> By: Julia Westman https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1196862 Sat, 14 Jul 2018 03:39:22 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1196862 I had lunch with my mom today and we were talking about my dad, Pete, and his old band the refugees. I was thinking of him tonight and googled his name which led me here. It’s been many years since my dad passed yet he’s never far from my mind. It makes me smile to know he’s not far from yours as well. Thanks for all of the kind words, my dad kicked ass and he’s smiling knowing he and his music have not been forgotten.

]]> By: Rhonda https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1151820 Tue, 30 May 2017 01:06:03 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1151820 Thank you Pete for making all of our lives enriched by your wonderful self! Greatly blessed and wonderfully enhanced!

]]> By: Rhonda https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1151816 Tue, 30 May 2017 00:10:57 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1151816 Hello,
Well been some years now, but ya know no one will ever forget magical Pete! We all have a seared heart after his leaving us! But nevertheless His soul and love never will leave our hearts and minds! Thank you, … for your time in all of our lives! Made it unforgettable!

]]> By: John Washburn https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1124237 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:04:57 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1124237 I grew up in Pasadena and met Pete around 1970. Ran with some of the same crowd, jammed a few times at parties, etc.. I was an aspiring singer and beginning harmonica and sax player but not really committed to making it. We hooked up again in Santa Barbara in the late 70’s. Pete had been in a good, local R&B, Rock band called Greased Lightning and I’d sit in once in awhile. He truly amazed me with his versatility; Blues, Rock, Funk, he could play it all really well. After that band dissolved, I was putting a cover band together and PD was my guy. We got on really well musically and personally. We rehearsed for a couple of months and at times, it was absolutely magical but Pete was not in a good way then. The booze and coke were ruling his life. He wore out his welcome in SB and moved back to LA. I looked him up around ’84 and he was playing in a cover band. seemed to have gotten control of his life back. That was the last time I saw him. I got serious about playing again around 1998 and have had a series of bands since. I found Pete’s name through Conrad’s label on the internet and tried to reconnect with him a couple of years before he died but with no luck. When I ithink back and imagine if I’d really made an effort to form a musical partnership and try to make it in the early 70’s, it’s always back to when I met PD Westman. Him and me. We only played together for a short time but we had something special. Happy to share my thoughts with y’all…..

]]> By: Anonymous https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1107474 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:37:41 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1107474 12 yrs , never forgotten

]]> By: Anonymous https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1105282 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:42:39 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1105282 11 yrs. Still missed!

]]> By: Teresa Fenn https://conradaskland.com/blog/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1103055 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:35:55 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/07/in-memory-of-pete-westman-aka-paul-d-westman/#comment-1103055 I knew Pete in Pasadena in our 20s. I was married to one of his friends, Chris Papaz. Chris passed away in 2007. Wondering how Pete died if anyone can tell me. He was an amazing guitar player back then. Had not seen him since probably 1980.

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