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Microtonal guitarist Rod Poole died last Sunday night, a senseless killing. I played various festivals with Rod over the years, I'm pretty shocked. I was just talking to him recently about setting up some performances here on the East Coast this Fall. http://www.biink.com/poole A tribute page for Rod, since he never had a web page and the LA Times doesn't archive their articles. From the LA Times: Pair held in fatal stabbing By Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer May 15, 2007 Police have arrested a husband and wife on suspicion of stabbing a 45-year-old man to death in the parking lot of a well-known Hollywood eatery. The incident occurred about 9:45 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Mel's Drive-In in the 1600 block of Highland Avenue. Officers answered a call of an assault with a deadly weapon and found Roderick Poole, 45, with multiple stab wounds. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he died at 10:06 p.m. Poole, of Hollywood, was walking with his wife when he got into an argument with a woman in a car, said Los Angeles Police Det. Larry Cameron. Witnesses told police the woman, with her husband, nearly ran over Poole. They exchanged words and the couple allegedly attacked Poole, police said. Michael Sheridan, 25, allegedly stabbed Poole several times before the pair drove off, investigators said. "This was incredibly dumb," said Cameron, referring to how a minor disagreement turned into a killing. Detectives later arrested Sheridan and his wife, Angela Sheridan, 24, both of Los Angeles. They were being held in lieu of $1-million bail each. Hollywood, among the city's safer areas, has seen a 5% increase in violent crime so far in 2007. Poole's killing was the sixth in the district this year. -- * David Beardsley * microtonal guitar * http://biink.com/db