Mark Lipsitz died yestereday. You meet a lot of people on the music path. Some of them don’t care. Some of them help you out when they can. Some of them go out of their way to make absolutely sure you have everything you need, and that everyone and their grandma knows about your music. Mark was the third kind. This is an incalculable loss for those of us who knew him that way, and we can only imagine what it’s like for his family. I think we’ll slowly discover in the coming seasons that, simply by being who he was, Mark quietly built a web of sparking connections that would not have existed without him. I’ll be grateful for that web, for Mark’s lifework, and for his impact on mine, forever. Blessings to you and your family and your legacy, Admiral Lipsitz of the mighty tugboat Bar/None. We’ll do our best to make you proud.