| Local 50's & 60's Musician Carl Grossman Dies at 60 |
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| By Michael Grossman |
| Thursday, September 03 2009 11:48 |
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Carl Grossman, an active participant in the Northern Virginia and D.C. music scene in the 1950's and 60's, died early in the morning Saturday, August 22, 2009, of respiratory failure. He was 60. Born September 7, 1948, when Carl was six-years-old, he studied classical guitar with Sophocles Papas, a prominent figure in the Washington music scene for much of his life. Papas was a close friend to music legends Andres Segovia and Carlos Montoya and founded the Washington Guitar Society. After studying classical guitar for years, once rock 'n roll came of age, and Carl came of age, at age 13, he played in his first band, the Jazzmasters, who played instrumentals a la The Ventures. From 1964 to 1966, he played in The Organic Cavemen, perhaps the most popular band in the McLean, area then.
For the remainder of Carl's life, he had one career of about 15 years in publishing at a Houston based, Nasa-funded institute, and later had a career working in the IT department for Loudoun County, but still played music for friends, and began putting videos of his ingenious arrangements of popular songs on Youtube. In his later years, he spent a lot of time playing in the online gaming community, playing World of Warcraft, and made many friends in the virtual world, across the country, and even the world, who will miss him dearly, despite never having met him. Carl Grossman was diagnosed for the first time, finally, at the age of 58 with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, which explained why his life had gone in so many strange and difficult directions. It also makes his many accomplishments that much more remarkable, that a man who struggled through his life with undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome managed to have such a profound effect on all who knew him and loved him.
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