R.I.P. and condolences to House’s family and friends. From The Washington Post:
Everyone in Washington’s tightknit go-go community knew Derek Colquitt simply as “House.” It was a fitting nickname for the formidable bass player, the big man who held down the rhythm for D.C.’s Junkyard Band, one of the marquee groups of the syncopated, percussion-fueled music style that has provided a soundtrack for Washington since the 1970s.
Now a fixture of that world is gone. Colquitt, 47, and his girlfriend, Jeri Lanelle Whorton, 34, were killed in a fiery motorcycle crash Sunday afternoon in Charles County, Md. Colquitt’s Harley-Davidson smashed into the rear of a Dodge Ram truck that was stopped in a left-turn lane on southbound U.S. Route 301 in Waldorf just before 4 p.m. Police are still investigating the crash but said speed was a factor. The driver of the truck suffered minor injuries.
News of the deaths spread rapidly among family, friends, fans and the many members and former members of the band. All of them are grieving.
