We never knew  words and music would ever affect someone like this... Our thoughts are with the Matthews family..
LUST-



My hubbie passed away three weeks ago. His name was Hal Matthews and he was a wonderful musician. He played with Whitesnake for a short time... Exodus, Gibraltor, Zion, Xylynx (sp) and taught guitar at institute of music. He is the voice on the Saliva CD that says "A rock star?"


He was a very special man who has survived cancer twice... but died instantly from a massive heart attack. He left me, his wife, and our five children. He was teaching our oldest who is fourteen to play guitar. So u can imagine how this has affected him.

Anyway- oddly enough, about a couple weeks before he passed, he showed me LEFT BEHIND and the Lyrics and actually had it as his profile song. He was a big fan. I thought the song was depressing and did not even want to think about him dying.... not knowing later that month, we would lose him.

We put your lyrics on the funeral program and it took people’s breath away that he kinda had a premonition of his death.

Your song LEFT BEHIND captured Hal, my sweet dear husband who was the best hubbie and most wonderful daddy ever. Our youngest two are 3 yr. and 18 months old and are miracle babies. He was not suppose to have children after 18 months of chemo he had to have in the 80’s. He had toured in Europe with Whotesnake and Van Halen and became sick... only to find out he had cancer.

Ultimately, it was not the cancer that got him.

But my point to u is, he appreciated your music which is a huge compliment coming from a man who was a guitar genius and rarely found a connection with bands he hears from this era.

Thank you so much for having a song that has become SO important to this family. We listen to it and SOB, of course, but it makes us feel closer to him. That means the world.

Pray I will raise my children to love and appreciate the kind of music that was sp important to Halford.

Check out the memorial page friends made for him-
www. myspace. com/halmatthewsmemorial
also,
www. myspace. com/hallovestara

thanks from the bottom of my heart-

Tara Matthews
Gadsden, ALabama