@tomic601, have you seen Lyle live? Oh, man, is he great. I saw him with his Large Band, with Russell Kunkel on drums. Whatta band!
Roger knew a lot about music. In an email, I was telling him about all the guys I had worked with who had died in the past few years (not knowing he was about to), and my inclusion of Evan Johns elicited a query from Roger of "You mean of Evan Johns & The H-Bombs?" I was impressed; you have to be pretty heavy into music to know about Evan.