Tucson-based writer and journalist Tom Miller is remembered for many things, including being a yippie journalist during the anti-war movement of the 1960s and '70s, a self-proclaimed “Bamboligist' and a rye observer of humanity’s follies.
Danyelle Khmara Tucson-based writer and journalist Tom Miller died Monday, Dec. 19, at age 75 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He is remembered for many things, including being a yippie journalist during the antiwar movement of the 1960s and '70s, a self-proclaimed “Bamboligist" and a rye observer of humanity’s many follies.
People are also reading… His parents were “good folks,” says his brother John Miller. In his 80 years, John has rarely met anyone who's had as good an experience with both their parents as the Miller children did. “We were very lucky with parents like that,” John said. When he was first on retainer for Rolling Stone, he wrote about things such as the 1968 Democratic National Convention and related protests against the Vietnam War. Rather than follow around the delegates, Miller stuck with an ambulance crew whose members were patching up protestors getting clubbed by the police, says Miller’s longtime friend James Reel.
“This is the most amazing story I've ever read,” was Fuller’s reaction. He was pleasantly surprised when he found out the author lived in Tucson. So he looked him up. He called himself a “Bamboligist,” based on his interest in the song La Bamba. He owned more than 80 recorded versions of the song and researched its origins and how its popularity developed in Mexico. And he helped produce an album for Rhino Records with 10 different recordings of the song, with versions that varied from Ritchie Valens to The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
While Miller put himself in his stories, writing in first person, he was not the focus, Reel says. It was only once he developed Parkinson's disease that he started to center himself in his work. His Parkinson's had gotten to the advanced stages about a year ago. Miller fell and broke his hip in August and never fully recovered.
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