Gary Sinise

He was my number two drummer.

So if my guy couldn't play, I would always ask Mac to sit in and play with us.

He was just really exceptionally good.

There's a picture of him over there when he's nine years old with his drumsticks.

It's the first day I put him on the drum set.

uh it's over there and i took a picture um uh he became just a great drummer went to usc music school wrote a lot of music um ended up working for the foundation writing music for the foundation um he got very very sick and uh with with a rare cancer called chordoma and he fought it for

He fought it for five and a half years, and in the last year of his life, he hadn't been thinking about music at all.

And he said, Dad, there's a piece of music I wrote in college.

I never finished it, and I've been thinking about it, and I think I'd like to try to finish it.

And he was paralyzed from the chest down from the cancer, and he was in a hospital bed and

and uh he finished the piece of music they ended up going to the studio uh recording it with an orchestra you can see it at max and east youtube you can see the recording sessions for the first record he called the record resurrection and revival he ended up doing a whole album 10 10 pieces of music and he and the album went to press the week that he died

So he never got to see that album.

But that album, that's a picture of my grandfather and his grave grandfather on the cover.

And one of the things Mack did for the foundation was kind of resurrect and revive

things in my archive, old photographs that I have from World War I, World War II.

And he loved that picture of my grandfather from World War I. And he brought it back to life and put it on the cover.

And he brought that piece of music that he wrote in college back to life, you know?

resurrected it and revived it after he died i started to find all this other music that he wrote so that's when i did uh resurrection and revival part two um and then believe it or not i started a five even more after i finished that record

so we're putting the finishing touches on resurrection and revival part three right now and that'll be available uh in june 31 pieces of music are on this record wow i thought i found everything he wrote when i when i did the second record but then i found all these little things and

just all these melodies they created.