

There’s an article in today’s Chronicle that Michael Goldberg has a biography of Jimmy Calvin Wilsey the Chris Isaak founding guitarist and former member of the punk band the avengers, Who died three years ago. I never met him but I saw him play several times. coincidentally I am a childhood friend with Chris Isaak’s current guitarist Hershel Yatovitz who has been with Chris more than 20 years now.
I have met Dede Wilsey because my parents and my siblings and I are all in kind donors to the DeYoung museum where she was the long time board president. I would have to report I have a slightly unfavorable opinion of her because the Deyoung essentially reneged on the deal my parents made before they died; It seems that a wealthier donor scuttled our deal to make his gift look more impressive.
For a while I wondered if the two people the guitarist and the philanthropist were related.
This wicked game you play it makes me feel this way/ this wicked thing you do…