We used to go to quite a bit of TBirds games (Seattle’s WHL hockey team), and at the end of every game, as we streamed out of the arena, there would inevitably be someone playing the tuba just above the steps in Seattle Center.  It was a familiar sound that was a constant at every game.

But that constant is no longer.  The Tuba Man (as Ed McMichael came to be known), recently died after an assault in lower Queen Anne.

I’ll miss the tunes of A&W playing in the crisp fall air.