About 12 years ago a good friend died. He was the same age as me, both 35. He was a haemophiliac and had to get a blood transfusion when he was a kid - unfortunately this was before blood was screened for HIV, and he became one of the only people in Australia to get hospital-aquired HIV. He was a great guy - knowing that his days were numbered he lived every day as if it were his last. I'm tearing up just writing this. He was a prolific singer-songwriter with a very dark sense of humour. Here is Baterz playing live not long before he left us:
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