Met Vasken on a few occasions and spent a nice afternoon in Manchester with him indulging in another of his passions, photography and his Leica M3. A lovely man.
Shit. I had no idea he was Ill. A short while ago he contacted me about making him a tweed jacket and we discussed meeting on his next trip to London, he must have been diagnosed inbetween. He was a lovely chap, we spoke on the phone quite a few times. Really sad…
Oh bummer, what shitty news. Vasken was one of life’s true gentlemen - the world will be much worse without him. We spoke many times late last year because he’d decided to buy a Nagra CD player, didn’t have a clue about his illness though.
I had the privilege to meet her once. Had an unusual characteristic for a politician; empathy yet could be steely hard when fighting for a cause she felt strongly about
I missed this thread while I was away.
i am very shocked to hear about Vasken.
I met him a number of times and have nothing but good memories of him, he bought some unusual speakers from the Dunlop brothers and I had an open invite to come and listen to them which unfortunately never happened.