GroobySteven
08-30-2004, 03:57 AM
Vegas Bob, photographer for Shemale Yum and Black Tgirls since 2000 died earlier this week by taking his own life. The information as I have it, is that he had been depressed and some recent incidents had compounded that further. He left a brief note but with no real explanation. He was 50 years old.
Certainly one of the more elusive of the Grooby crew, he elected not to come on any trips but was always a genial host in the city he'd made his home. Few who met Bob, will forget him easily, with his exaggerated mannerisms (at times he was the double of the Doc/Christopher Lloyd in the "Back to the Future" movies) and his unwillingness to remove his long trench coat, even in a crowded club were just a few of his eccentrities! Tony, Frank, Greg and I had met him on various trips to Vegas and I had regular contact with Bob up until last week, in fact his latest shoots were taken in the week before he died.
Bob had started shooting for us sporadically in 2000 but quickly became popular, especially with some of his finds for Black Tgirls. While Bob had as many misses as great girls, we've got to remember that it was he who first showed such stars as Vanilla, Nefertiti, Gi-Won, Celeste and Armani - most of these before they were even dressing/living fulltime, if it wasn't for the break he gave them who knows if the rest of the shemale erotica world would have benefited from seeing them?
Bob wasn't quite a loner but he was an individual. I'll miss him as a friend and contributor to the websites and site forums, I'm sure many models are going to miss opportunities from his exposure and it's a sad week for the shemale erotica world to lose the only person who was on the ground, in Las Vegas shooting the talent that passes through that transient city.
He left no family.
Go in peace Bob and I hope you find what you were looking for.
Steven (seanchai)
Certainly one of the more elusive of the Grooby crew, he elected not to come on any trips but was always a genial host in the city he'd made his home. Few who met Bob, will forget him easily, with his exaggerated mannerisms (at times he was the double of the Doc/Christopher Lloyd in the "Back to the Future" movies) and his unwillingness to remove his long trench coat, even in a crowded club were just a few of his eccentrities! Tony, Frank, Greg and I had met him on various trips to Vegas and I had regular contact with Bob up until last week, in fact his latest shoots were taken in the week before he died.
Bob had started shooting for us sporadically in 2000 but quickly became popular, especially with some of his finds for Black Tgirls. While Bob had as many misses as great girls, we've got to remember that it was he who first showed such stars as Vanilla, Nefertiti, Gi-Won, Celeste and Armani - most of these before they were even dressing/living fulltime, if it wasn't for the break he gave them who knows if the rest of the shemale erotica world would have benefited from seeing them?
Bob wasn't quite a loner but he was an individual. I'll miss him as a friend and contributor to the websites and site forums, I'm sure many models are going to miss opportunities from his exposure and it's a sad week for the shemale erotica world to lose the only person who was on the ground, in Las Vegas shooting the talent that passes through that transient city.
He left no family.
Go in peace Bob and I hope you find what you were looking for.
Steven (seanchai)