John Dauphine

John Dauphine grew up in Minneapolis near lake Harriet. He played bass and acoustic guitar and loved the blues. He graduated from Southwest high school in south Minneapolis in 1976.  He started having epilepsy problems a few years later, and lived healthy with medication until a year before his passing in 2007. John moved up to Virginia, in the Iron Range area of northern Minnesota in 1999 after his mother passed away. He liked being alone in the north woods and worked mainly internet insurance jobs. He is survived by brother Bill and sisters Liz and Anne. He kept in touch with his friends in Minneapolis through the years. John was cremated and will have his ashes spread in a park near his home. He will be remembered by his friends and family.

    John was my old friend. We met in 11th grade at Southwest high school in Minneapolis in 1975. He was my first new friend when I moved back from California. We played together in a band for a while, then lived in the old band house together when he was our stage manager and light man. We played hockey, jammed and listened to music, worked & partied together and remained friends in touch through the years. I talked to him a week before he passed away about the good old days, his recent seizure, his enjoying living up north alone and Johnny Winter. I will remember him, Brian Bart

    John was a dear friend and musical colleague for me for the past 7-8 years in northern Minnesota (city of Virginia). JD certainly loved the blues and once gave me a T-shirt of my songwriting hero Townes VanZandt ("There's two kinds of music ....the blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah"). JD once pinch-hit and played bass for Bill Maxwell and Friends (the group I play acoustic guitar with). Per his handwritten wishes, I have his cremated remains and a tentative memorial service and spreading of the cremains  planned for July 26, 2008 near Virginia, MN. (This date would have been JD's 50th birthday).

RIP and Godspeed, JD! Colin Isaacson (called "E.Coli" by JD)


Born: Jul 26, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Died: Nov 21, 2007 in North Woods, Minnesota

Obituary

John Dauphine - Minneapolis, MN- 7/26/1958 - 11/21/2007