DAMN! Three fourths of the band gone! I'd heard from a friend who works for Rhino Records that Johnny was very sick. I saw him at Amoeba records in Hollywood a couple of years ago, just browsing through the discs with some hot girl. I thought how cool it was that a rock legend was just hanging out at a record store, no pretense or big deal. And he was a Republican. BTW, it said in the paper that Eddie Vedder was by his side when he died. I hope Johhny's last words to asshat Eddie were "God bless President Bush," as he said at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. How it must kill Angry Eddie to know that his hero was an admirer of the president.
I saw him browsing the DVDs at Dave's Video on Ventura on a couple of occasions. Now he and Dave's are both gone.