Another HRV music fixture is in need of assistance to help pay mounting medical bills. Soundman RD Sisk suffered a stroke last month and has been left unable to work and with no income. Fender Music has donated a limited edition Fender Stratocaster and Alpha Music is running a raffle to benefit Sisk. A benefit is planned in the coming months. Sisk is undergoing physical therapy to regain his mobility. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery in the next 6 months.

Like Eric Insley, most self-imployed musicans have no health insurance, and an illness like this is financially devastating. Perhaps even more important to realize is that during the past few years, half of all bankruptcies in the United States were the result of medical bills. Even sadder is the fact that most of these were by people who had health insurance. Those without it are much worse off.