athensmusic.com: Musician, artist Bo Tompkins dies
Musician, artist Bo Tompkins dies
Some news from Dan Matthews:
Area artist and musician Bo Tompkins died of a sudden aneurysm at home Saturday in Athens. He was a painter with numerous shows at Lowery Galley near Danielsville, where there will be a memorial service at noon Thursday, May 26 (2400 Booger Hill Road: take Highway 29 North from Athens 13 miles). Tompkins was a thunderous percussionist in many different Athens bands, including the Flicker Orchestra, Synchilla, Houston, Eraser-in-Law, Sky City, Sky Lab, Glen Lizzy, Medaglia D’oro and numerous spontaneous and one-off performances in the extreme avant-garde of dissonance and cacophony. His paintings were often landscapes of varied earthtones.
The Banner-Herald is working on a follow-up.
Posted by David Bill at May 24, 2005 10:37 AM
Are you serious? Wow, I have not thought of him in a long, long time. What a nice guy he was. I’m recalling the old Marion Drive days when he and Allison would come over for parties….good times.
Yeah. I seriously think I might still have a box of pictures that he gave me to hang on to in 1996 or so.