Yes, and it is rare I’ll call that man stupid, but that was not smart.

In his defense, those incidents were close to the beginning, Lyla was getting shit on in the press, and he was protective.

But Shawn sat him down, had a word with him and explained what Preach had already figured out.

The minute he got up in their shit, it got worse.

So, after the first, the next two happened because the photographer touched her.

Preacher learned to block them with his body in a way that wasn’t aggressive and we all learned a variety of tricks to deal with that shit.

And they ended.

Audie and Lynie Live On is still our most raw, emotional album.

Audie was gone by then, Lynie would die when we were on tour for that album, and it was good and bad we did that.

Good because two people who would have gone quietly into that goodnight without anyone outside those closest to them knowing what solid, decent, good people they were would have sucked.

Bad because we had to perform those songs at every gig and be gutted when we did.

And I’ll tell you what, I never really got it, because the people that gutted the most were Preacher and especially Lyla.

As great as that album was, as meaningful as it was, to the band, to music, to those two and Sonia and Jules [shakes head] I just never got it.

It was like a new death every time, you know?

Like losing them over and over again.

And then I saw Laurie Anderson accept for Lou Reed when he was inducted into the [Rock and Roll] Hall of Fame.

And I sat there and listened to Anderson talking about how you die three times. When your heart stops. When you’re buried or cremated. And the last time someone says your name.

I watched that, her saying that, and the audience chanting, “Lou, Lou, Lou.”

[Turns head, takes a moment, coughs, looks back]

[Quietly] This is it, sister. Listen carefully.

This was the kind of man Preacher was.

This was the kind of thing that Preacher knew.

It was right there in front of me and I was so close to it, I did not fuckin’ get it.

It was all in the title.

Audie and Lynie Live On.

No matter it cut him to the bone to do it, he gave them to the world, but especially to Lyla and her sisters, in a way that they will never die.

That was Preacher.

[Clears throat]

That was Preacher McCade.

When their declining health made the decision easy for her, Lyla decided to move to LA.

Preacher found a house…