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60 M PS E . O R G stage. Ross Taylor and Kitty Malone, who I was working with at that time, said that was one of the oldest and greatest engineered stages and those Foley artists were the best. I can't remember quite how it happened but I knew David was a cyclist as was I and we got together and thought well, let's do a ride. We did and he seemed like a really a•able guy and after our first ride, he mentioned he was going to be taking a special bike ride in Death Valley in July. Would I like to come? I'm thinking Death Valley in July? My God, that has to be as hot as the surface ofƒplanet Mercury!!! He looked at me, smiled, waiting for my answer and I just thought well, why not. So, he and a couple other good friends of his loaded up into his friend's van and o• we went and stayed at the Furnace Creek Inn. Weƒgot up at 3 a.m. to ride this crazy ride. One of the other crazy adventurers that went with us got so dehydrated, he started speaking French and you think well, no problem there, but he wasn't French nor had ever studied the language. Another rider who WAS French was conversing with him all the way back to the hotel. We cooled him down and we all sat around and I just thought, what a wild ride! I looked at David and he had this glint in his eye and said, "that was fun, wasn't it?" I said, "Sure" and at that moment, I realized what an amazing person he was. Of course, I would find later just how talented he was. In fact, I was working on The Black Stallion and I could not figure out how to get horse hoofs that sounded correct rampaging over the deck of a freighter that's going to sink. I mentioned it to Dave and he said, "Do me a favor. Just come by the studio and I'm going to spirit out some of our horses' hoof props for you to use. He did and that was indeed a master stroke that worked perfectly. This again speaks to the type of person he was. He wasn't afraid of letting anybody know how he did things because he understood it's the talent, not the tools that make the di•erence. I tell you these stories just to give you a teeny- tiny glimpse of who he was to me and maybe now to you. I will say this, I will miss him terribly and I hope he and Ken Duvfe, his partner of many many years, areƒhaving fun in the cosmos doingƒFoley on an interstellar level.ƒ Dave, I love you, thank you and may your memory forever be a blessing. –John Roesch David Fein and John Roesch. David with a car setup on Speed Racer. L-R: Kitty Malone, Rick Partlow, Catherine Clark, David Fein, Ken Dufve, John Roesch, Gordon Ecker Jr.