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THE ENDLESS WAVE | PART ONE
We were born within 2 months of each other and we both had wide-ranging tastes in music. Although I had at one point in my life spent time working in the music industry, I was nowhere near Martin’s level. From here, our simi- larities started to decrease. When I first met Martin, I was married (for over a decade) and living in suburbia with two kids. Martin, on the other hand, had a bachelor pad downtown. I can’t speculate on his relationships, I am quite sure he had several hundred admirers!
In writing this piece, I looked up Martin on the internet. There was of course an immense amount of shock when the news first broke. But tied together with the story was the news that Martin had recently been fired from the radio station where he had dutifully volunteered and worked for 25 years. At the time of his dismissal, CFNY’s ratings were suffering. They cleaned house and Martin was the last of the old guard to be sacked.
From the Toronto Star:
Streek’s body was found at his apartment on Monday night, two months after he was let go from his 17-year on-air gig at 102.1 The Edge and mere hours after he’d updated his Facebook status with a cryptic and rather foreboding message: “So ... I guess that’s it ... thanks everyone ... I’m sorry to those I should be sorry to, I love you to those that I love, and I will see you all again soon (not too soon though) ... Let the stories begin.”
“Nobody saw this coming,” said Alan Cross, noting that Streek had been pursu- ing several other projects since parting ways with The Edge.
“I saw him at the Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction show. We sat together. He looked healthy, he looked fine. He looked like I would expect him to look. He was on his way to California to do some white-water rafting with a friend. He said, ‘I’ve got some things planned,’ and we just left it at that because he seemed to be okay. And that was the last I saw of him.”
Paul Smith, Streek’s agent for the past 15 years, was in a similar state of shock.
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