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Jeremy Tepper Obituary
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June 14, 2024
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June 24, 2024
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Terry Irving- M.Ed.
July 7, 2024
Jeremy was the brother of my best friend Andy. He was always so soft spoken and in smiling. I know he´ll be missed.
John Rosenfelder
July 1, 2024
Too many to mention but I´m sure he´d want me to cite the famous Dylan/Nassau/UWS night. He loved his own legend too but unlike a lot of bmoc types, he had the humor, intelligence and taste to back up whatever he was espousing at the moment. The main thing I want to get across is that the Jeremy ethos was inclusion! He shared everything and everybody w everyone. And that´s what we must do now, in loving memory. Thanks for all the great times Hoss - you were the best ever at many things, most importantly being a great friend.
Dean Haight
June 28, 2024
My condolences to the Tepper family. Jeremy an i met a few times when we were young when he lived on Academy Street. I was friends with his younger brother, Andy. We were in many classes together at Poughkeepsie middle school plus I lived near by.
A memory that always stands out for me is when visiting Andy we'd play basketball inside bc their ceiling were so high in the Victorian house they lived in it was possible. Good times for sure.
To the entire Tepper family. I'm very sorry for your loss. 63 is way to young to be called home.
God Bless all of you and may Jeremy have eternal rest/peace.
until you meet again. Amen
Daniel Efram
June 24, 2024
As a neighbor growing up in Poughkeepsie, NY, Jeremy's family and mine intermingled often over my formative years, including a few visits to his home, only a couple of blocks away. Though he was closer to my sister's age, and they were closer friends than I was back in school daze, our paths would then cross significantly in the music world just a few years later.
As I labored to work with music I loved, I would often hear his name and come to finally realize that this was the same Jeremy. He became a beacon, always working on authentic music he loved.
I thought: if Jeremy could do this, maybe I could too.
We reconnected from time to time. He was very generous and very present, no matter whom was around to distract.
From the looks of the attendance and the thoughts shared at the Bowery Ballroom tonight, one can only hope to have a small portion of the impact Jeremy had on people; so many felt seen and heard.
Thank you Jeremy, for caring enough to be really present with me. It will continue to mean a lot for a long time to come.
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Irene Trudel & Peter Keepnews
June 24, 2024
Laura, sending lots of love to you and Bella today. Sorry we won't be able to make this today.
Paul Burch
June 24, 2024
Thinking of you today, Laura & Bella. Love from my family.
Jim Schuermann
June 23, 2024
Jeremy was a close friend as young adults, a good friend throughout life and an unfailingly educational, helpful and inspirational former colleague who I miss terribly, as do countless others lucky enough to have known him. I treasure my memories of him, which are so numerous and positive they could fill Top 40 charts or book-length chapter headings in our lives. 10-4, Good Buddy.
Ben Kohl
June 23, 2024
There were 4 of us in the little party shack by Sunset lake on the Vassar College campus on a chilly October afternoon in the mid 1970s. Jeremy was younger than the rest of us by a couple of years and as usual in those early teenage days was wearing his black Greek fisherman's cap. After we smoked he burst into a full throated rendition of Queen's recently released Bohemian Rhapsody. He soon had the rest of us Poughkeepsie punks singing the choruses and crescendo before falling out of the shack giggling and gasping. It was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Tepper always keeping keeping us on the beat. "No we will not let him go (let him go)."
Connie Nelson
June 23, 2024
Jeremy was with me and about 5 others in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a Leonard Peltier fundraiser later that night. We got to go into Cain´s Ballroom for a special tour during the day! Jeremy turned to me and said, "when will we ever get another chance to get on stage at Cain´s Ballroom and sing a duet?" I laughed and said, "Let´s go!" We got up there, maybe 4 other people below us looking at posters on the walls, and he and I sang, "Livin´ on Tulsa Time!"
God bless you Laura and Bella!
Rochelle Yuga
June 23, 2024
Heartfelt condolences to Laura, Bella and family and the multitudes Jeremy has touched. An encounter with Jeremy always included a bear hug, BIG smile, genuine kind word, some laughs and conversation about our universal love, music! Weren't we lucky have to been in his orbit! Fly high my rockin' friend!
Ted Gottfried
June 23, 2024
Condolences to the Laura and Bella. I shared many a good times with Jeremy. I will never forget when he took me up the meet Eddie Layton, the longtime organist at Yankee Stadium.
Steve Wynn
June 23, 2024
I´m pretty sure it´s the first memory. Jeremy invited me to participate in the World Famous Bluejays´ ode to the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms at the Mercury Lounge sometime around 1996. I chose to do the Kinks´ "Alcohol," good wallowing tune. Jeremy had decked out the stage with a full freaking bar stage left. Right on stage! I´d never seen that before. The rest of the evening was a blur but it was the beginning of a good, long friendship and many evenings of music and conversation over the years.
Amy Rigby
June 23, 2024
In 1985, my band Last Roundup set out on a short tour from NYC up to Canada, sharing the bill with Jeremy and Jay Sherman-Godfrey, the World Famous Blue Jays. The news was full of warnings about the path of Hurricane Gloria, but Jeremy was unperturbed and said it would all be okay. Our second gig was at a tavern /disco in Buffalo - I don't think there was even one paying customer. The storm had blown over and after we gave it our all for nobody, we sat outside laughing at the ridiculousness, it was my first experience of being on the road and the hang and Jeremy already came across as an expert. I think he was wearing a trench coat. How could he have been so paternalistic and wise already? He just was, a sage. His confidence made you see the possibilities. I feel lucky to have known him.
Dallas Wayne
June 23, 2024
In Holland at The Blue Highway Festival
Tammy Faye Starlite
June 23, 2024
I remember Jeremy taking me along with him to see Chris Gaines at the Bowery Ballroom in 1999. He knew I would find it hilarious. It was such a glorious night, because the music was so awful and we couldn´t stop laughing. Yet there was a poignancy, an understanding that this was a unique moment, and when "Garth" emerged at the end of the show, I remember Jeremy - and myself - feeling genuine joy beyond the irony. To me, that was Jeremy - finding the humor and the humanity, each inextricable from the other. His spirit gleamed, his love glowed, all-encompassing. There is no one like him.
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