We all fell in love with her and wanted to support her. The special part was her curiosity, intelligence, feral artistic nature, and truly rare talent. She was a trans crust punk who lived on the street in SF and slammed dope straight in her neck to fight the demons in her head. Mike, Shannon and Sturgeon biked around SF together to find this special human who’s genius was on par with her drug use. They reached out to Mike and within no time Mike & Sturgeon were in the studio with Sam recording an album. Shannon & Sturgeon found this amazing human in their social activist work in the harm reduction/drug users rights realm. I was in the height of my addiction, and the height of my denial. "Several years ago Sam Sadowski came into our lives and made a huge impact. Update: Soma snakeoil released a statement: You can see the video Sturgeon showed to Mike, which was recorded while Sam was in high school, below. There will be a memorial for Sam in Austin at a later date. I think we brought Sam straight to the studio that very day." It was chilling just how good the performance was. We got Sam to play all of the original songs that Sam could remember in the “acoustic room”. We brought Sam to the guitar center near the tenderloin. I called Mike and came over that night or at he next day to play him the video and I believe it was the next afternoon that we got on our bicycles and searched the tenderloin and found Sam. The lyrics, the writing, the crazy chords and above all the voice. But I found it that night and it blew me away. I think that Sam was embarrassed about it.
Sam's friend let it slip that there was a song on YouTube. They told me that Sam was a musician and I asked if there was anything that I could hear. Sadowski's friend, Alex, who’s legally blind, recognized my voice from my records and asked if I was who I am, surprisingly. Sadowksi and a friend told me how much they loved my music. Sturgeon reflected on meeting Sadowski: "I had met Sadowski at a drop-in center.
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Scott Sturgeon of Leftover Crack and Fat Mike of Nofx ran into Sadowski during one of Sadowksi's periods of homelessness, which resulted in the Closet Fiends recording. Sadowski did a few summers of a “school of rock” camp, working on the instrument.įollowing that, Sadowski had bouts of homelessness. in 5th or 6th grade, Sam picked up a guitar and without any warning or prep, played at a school assembly to great affect. Sadowski passed away peacefully while sleeping in Sadowski's apartment in San Francisco. Unfortunately, earlier this week, Sam Sadowski, who released an EP as Closet Fiends on Fat Wreck Chords.
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