Gustaf McIlhenny

To G.R.'s family. I met Gus in 1970. I was learning to play the guitar and Gus was already a pretty good player. We had a band together for a brief time. We had some rollicking adventures on a trip to Columbia, South America. We followed Eric Clapton from New Orleans to Florida. We were pals. I am saddened to hear of his passing. Please accept my condolences. George Felton

Two more Gus anecdotes: I am not sure of the year, but in the early 90´s, Gus enlisted me for a memorable excursion to Seattle to see the Rolling Stones in concert. He had made friends with the guy who was in charge of the stage pyrotechnics of the show. I have a vivid memory of sitting in the back of the extended cab of a semi watching the fireworks genius up front, working on his laptop putting the finishing touches on the show. We both had "laminates" for entry to the stage crew areas,...

He was a great friend to the subdudes. Generous and extremely supportive. "Carry on and have yourself a lovely ride" Drew Holshouser sound engineer for Subdudes

Pardon the typos in my tribute: at the end of the first paragraph, "Perfecting his receipt" should be "perfecting his recipe" and later, "to low to build" should be "too low to build". Thank you. BE

Gus was kind of like the big brother I never had. I first met him briefly in the 70s when he was jamming with some guys in a garage band. When I moved out to Los Angeles in 74, my neighborhood locals kept up with him, and I was once brought to his trailer in the woods on the North Shore where he was perfecting his receipt for injected, fried turkey. Next thing you know Jazzfest took off and my locals were visiting Gus in the stables behind Jazzfest where he was deep frying turkeys or...

As a friend of Gus´s from long ago, I´ll always remember his forever smiling face, his sense of humor and the captivating way he told stories. I enjoyed playing music with him and tasting some of the food he prepared. We lost contact with each other for many years but was fortunate enough to reconnect and catch up recently. l will always remember the good man that Gus was. My Condolences to his family.

G.R. was a wonderful person. I have very fond memories of running around Avery Island with him, his cousin Chaffe and Paul Archinard. The feeding of the alligators was a particularly memorable event. G.R. would call them and their heads would pop out of the water. I will never forget our times together.

Gus was a great friend I met him in 1970 when myself and 2 friends move into 8th street 3 housee off of Camp street. Gus family home was on 8th and Camp. Gus was childhood friends with Robin Durant on of my roommates. Gus came over every day to hang and play music. We became life long friends. Over the years Gus followed me to every Festival I ever did. Cooking turkey. He sent Garnet and I to fry turkeys for Quint Davis in England and then took us to Amsterdam. Over the following years Gus...

On behalf of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart Alumni Association and Brother Martin High School, I offer our prayers and condolences. We will say a Mass in his memory. Kenny Spellman ´84 Brother Martin High School