It was Thursday 3 PM when Zamprata's private detective finally contacted Frank Stafford.
"I found him, Mr. Stafford," came the gruff voice over the phone. "His boat is off the coast of Jost Van Dyke. Noone really talks much but what I did find out is he comes in once, twice a week gives a show at a bar, they give him some food and a little cash and he goes back to his boat."
"Have you made contact yet?"
"No, I wanted to wait and see what you wanted to do."
"Well we need him here in less than 3 days do whatever it takes," Frank Stafford said coldly as he hung up.
Jack Dillon knew what that meant. He had known Philk and all the Steel Tigers back when they were playing to thousands and their songs were overplayed on every hard rock radio station. He never got too close to Phil, noone really did except Mike Sandel and even then there was tension and distrust on Phil's part that everyone saw except Mike. Back in those days, when everything was going right everyone ignored the man's eccentricities. Hell, the rest of the band was so in awe of his talent or in J.C. and Mark's case so stoned, that they may not have seen the madness.
Then Phil married that bitch sister of J.C.'s and the end came fast. Jack remembered how he never saw a man so in love yet so blind to what a woman could do.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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