Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.
He had a great enthusiasm for music - really, for everything he did. He was a ball of fire.
I think early on he knew the prognosis wasn't good. He was basically incapacitated. He couldn't play music, he couldn't paint and after awhile, he couldn't read.
The first thing he noticed was that he couldn't do cross-picking any more.