Kingston underground music icon Wally High dead @ 59

[Jaimoe]

From what I've gathered over the years, Wally was an enigma of sorts - in good and bad ways - but I'll admire him for his dedication to The Joe Show. His brand of folk music was actually pretty good in a gruff, stripped down way. R.I.P. Wally.

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=842522&auth=Ian+Elliot

[headymamamyrna]

I never heard of him until this week when he died.

Sounds like he was a wonderful person.

Its too bad we hear how wonderful someone was after they died.

He died too young and probably had lots more good things to do.

R.I.P. Wally.

[dave-O]

The first thing that always comes to my mind when I think about High, is when Aykroyd announced him as from Kingston while intro'ing to the Hip on SNL.

[Red dog]

I had met Wally high through mutual friends, he had come out to our shows in Kingston. One time when I was passing through a studio near kingston and stopped in to talk to the engineer, Wally was working on a song and out of the blue says "hey will you play guitar right now on this?" not wanting to miss the spontaneity of it all I did it and he sang live right beside me. 5 minutes later it was done. I found out later he had Willie P Bennett add some stuff to it (whom I love willie as well), and a few months after that I heard a mix. That was the kind of guy Wally was, he'd bring people together.

He also had us play a few of his Joe Shows and was extremely dedicated to those events as well as the music lending library in dedication to Joe Chithalen. I had met Joe Chithalen only once a few days before he died but Wally talked to me as if I had known Joe and himself all my life. He will be missed. Wally, I'm sorry I didn't make it to the cd release a few weeks ago, if I'd only known it would all happen so quick.RIP

Here is an example of Wally's efforts:

JoeShow

Edited January 5, 2008 by Guest

[Patchoulia]

RIP

I met him a few times in K-town and heard a ton of stories about him over the years..seemed like a great guy.