We’ve tried, but we just can’t take it anymore!

Please come out and support a great cause. For more information please visit http://www.walktorunrecords.com/rickbenefit.html

 

Event Schedule

6pm - Various bands playing Rick's music

Sunday Drive Bye

 

Phoenix For Saints

 

The Tim Nichols Band

 

Lions And Scissors

 

Nerd Parade

7:30pm

Break with Raffles and announcements

8pm - Leadcar Holiday w/ various singers

Andrew Zonneveld (The Sane)

 

Tim Nichols (The Tim Nichols Band)

 

Alexis LaSalle

 

Jon Sleep (Sunday Drive Bye)

 

Sonia Tetlow (Herman Put Down The Gun)

 

Dennis McGrew (The jonesplan)

 

Liz Lee

9:30pm

Break with Raffles and announcements

10pm

Attention System

11pm

Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun

12am

End of night sign off

 

Bio

Rick was born in Ocala, Florida, but his family moved to Marietta, Georgia when he was 13 years old. He has 2 younger sisters, and has a B.S. in Biology from Kennesaw and a Masters in Ecology from Kent State. He married Jennifer in June of 1999, and they have 3 kids (Abby age 9, Will age 5, and Jack age 18 months). He currently (until recently) is working on his PhD, teaching part-time at Kennesaw, is working full-time as an environmental consultant (hence the nickname Swamp Thing), owns his own music production company (Walk To Run Records), and sings in the band Leadcar Holiday.

Rick has always been great at bringing people together through music. From his initial efforts with The Green Review in 1995 to establishing Walk To Run Records in 2006, he has always made it the focus that musicians work together to achieve their common goals. With 20 years in the music industry, Rick uses every bit of experience he has garnered to help musicians and make this Atlanta scene all that it can be.

Rick has sung with the bands IRR., Taboo Few, Attica Adams, Bib Bob Racecar, Division Street, Am Cinema, The Tundra Bunnies, and Leadcar Holiday. The goal of this benefit is to showcase this wonderful music he has produced and use it as a vehicle to bring him and his family help in their time of need.

Rick has always been an active, healthy guy, so we were concerned at the end of the summer when he started having ringing in his ears, loss of balance, vision problems, slurred speech, and numbness/weakness on his right side. After visiting general practitioners, neurologists, and neurosurgeons with no definite diagnosis, we arrived at Emory. The doctors here are wonderful, and they ran every test possible (spinal taps, x-rays, MRIs, PET scans, CAT scans, blood, urine), but we still did not have a diagnosis. Rick's case continued to baffle doctors until a diagnosis was finally reached in late 2008. Rick has an inoperable brain-stem glioma (cancer).

Rick has just finished his second round of chemo therapy. Another round is scheduled later this spring. We hope that this benefit will help support a man that has help support so many others in the past.