Craig Counard

Craig Allen Counard was born on October 25, 1962 in Saginaw, Michigan. He moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 80s to make it in the music business. He was a talented musician, guitarist, singer/songwriter, artist, writer, and poet. He loved the Beat Writers, especially Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. He played in many bands over the years, including The Taste, Triple Threat, The Elements, and The Decadents. He wrote music for TV & film,his credits include "The Real World" and "Road Rules" and a movie called "A Drug Called Pornography". Not only did he write music, but he was a published food and music critic as well, with articles appearing in "Wine and Dine Gourmet Magazine", "LA Beat", "Bella Online", and "The Album Network". Craig had just finished the first draft of his novel, "Confessions" prior to his untimely death.

Craig became ill in late February 2004, with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection in his hip area.

He was hospitalized and released after 5 days only to be readmitted in early March 2004. This time, he was in the hospital for 7 weeks because the staph infection had gone to his heart (endocarditis). He was discharged with orders to follow-up and a heart valve replacement surgery likely in his future.

Craig was fine after his release until the beginning of June 2004, when he began to complain of flu-like symptoms. However, he refused to go to the doctor, no matter how much his loved ones begged him to go.

On June 11, 2004, he was readmitted to the hospital, this time unable to see.

Unfortunately, the endocarditis had not gone away completely after his March-April 2004 hospital stay and now the infection had spread to his brain. The hospital did all they could but the infection had spread too much, it was throughout his body and brain.