rod poole

I am sorry that i have to inform this community that rod poole was stabbed to death last night by 2 gang members he got into an altercation with.
this is all i know
--
Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

That's horrible. Senseless violence... will it never end?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kraig Grady" <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com>
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Sent: 14 May�s 2007 Pazartesi 23:57
Subject: [tuning] rod poole

> I am sorry that i have to inform this community that rod poole was
> stabbed to death last night by 2 gang members he got into an altercation
> with.
> this is all i know
> --
> Kraig Grady
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
<http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
> The Wandering Medicine Show
> KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles
>
>

I'm just blown away. Rod was a great musician and a
wonderfully hospitable and endearing person, in the
brief meeting we had almost 10 years ago.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
>
> I am sorry that i have to inform this community that rod poole was
> stabbed to death last night by 2 gang members he got into an
> altercation with.
> this is all i know
> --
> Kraig Grady

Kraig Grady wrote:

>I am sorry that i have to inform this community that rod poole was >stabbed to death last night by 2 gang members he got into an altercation >with. this is all i know
> >
I'm stunned. I was just talking to him recently about setting up some performances
here on the East Coast this Fall.

From the LA Times:

Pair held in fatal stabbing
By Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer
May 15, 2007

Police have arrested a husband and wife on suspicion of stabbing a
45-year-old man to death in the parking lot of a well-known Hollywood eatery.

The incident occurred about 9:45 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Mel's
Drive-In in the 1600 block of Highland Avenue. Officers answered a call
of an assault with a deadly weapon and found Roderick Poole, 45, with
multiple stab wounds. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he died at 10:06 p.m.

Poole, of Hollywood, was walking with his wife when he got into an argument
with a woman in a car, said Los Angeles Police Det. Larry Cameron. Witnesses
told police the woman, with her husband, nearly ran over Poole.

They exchanged words and the couple allegedly attacked Poole, police said.
Michael Sheridan, 25, allegedly stabbed Poole several times before the pair drove off, investigators said.

"This was incredibly dumb," said Cameron, referring to how a minor
disagreement turned into a killing.

Detectives later arrested Sheridan and his wife, Angela Sheridan, 24, both
of Los Angeles. They were being held in lieu of $1-million bail each.

Hollywood, among the city's safer areas, has seen a 5% increase in violent
crime so far in 2007. Poole's killing was the sixth in the district this year.

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

Rod and i had spend many years together and at one time we represented the microtonal community of Los Angeles.
We shared many concerts, playing together albeit not enough, and many of the struggles of dealing with a new music community that couldn't figure out how to place us.
He was an exceptional guitar player and worked with a refretted Martin tuned to a 17 tone 7-limit tuning he had worked out.
While his work was often criticized for being repetitive, i found his work exceptionally mesmerizing and innovative.
He was more concerned with exploring the nature of what tuning offered than in filling in former styles with new intervals.
He was more like an artist who say, when they work with glass, are more concerned with what glass does, than trying to make it
do what other materials traditionally might. He was not one to look back which could be heard in how radically different his earlier 12-tone guitar music sounded
He was a constant explorer, experimenting with different open string tunings, and a great variety of techniques.
constantly changing timbres within his finger picking style.
I don't think a single day went by when he didn't play for over an hour or two.
I had just given someone in Berlin his e-mail who was attempting to contact him about playing there.

David Beardsley wrote:
>
> Kraig Grady wrote:
>
> >I am sorry that i have to inform this community that rod poole was
> >stabbed to death last night by 2 gang members he got into an altercation
> >with. this is all i know
> >
> >
> I'm stunned. I was just talking to him recently about setting up some
> performances
> here on the East Coast this Fall.
>
> >From the LA Times:
>
> Pair held in fatal stabbing
> By Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer
> May 15, 2007
>
> Police have arrested a husband and wife on suspicion of stabbing a
> 45-year-old man to death in the parking lot of a well-known Hollywood
> eatery.
>
> The incident occurred about 9:45 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Mel's
> Drive-In in the 1600 block of Highland Avenue. Officers answered a call
> of an assault with a deadly weapon and found Roderick Poole, 45, with
> multiple stab wounds. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where
> he died at 10:06 p.m.
>
> Poole, of Hollywood, was walking with his wife when he got into an > argument
> with a woman in a car, said Los Angeles Police Det. Larry Cameron.
> Witnesses
> told police the woman, with her husband, nearly ran over Poole.
>
> They exchanged words and the couple allegedly attacked Poole, police said.
> Michael Sheridan, 25, allegedly stabbed Poole several times before the
> pair drove off, investigators said.
>
> "This was incredibly dumb," said Cameron, referring to how a minor
> disagreement turned into a killing.
>
> Detectives later arrested Sheridan and his wife, Angela Sheridan, 24, both
> of Los Angeles. They were being held in lieu of $1-million bail each.
>
> Hollywood, among the city's safer areas, has seen a 5% increase in violent
> crime so far in 2007. Poole's killing was the sixth in the district this
> year.
>
> -- > * David Beardsley
> * microtonal guitar
> * http://biink.com/db <http://biink.com/db>
>
> -- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

A tribute page for Rod, since he never had a web page and the LA Times doesn't archive their articles.

http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

http://biink.com/poole

I've added comments and information on contacting the LA county DA
to tell them about Rod.

I could use any photos to be added to the site. All I have is the one I took
of Rod performing at DMG a few years ago and he's at work performing,
his face isn't showing.

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db