The Legend of Timothy Z Sims

The Legend of Timothy Z. Sims

My dear friend Tim Sims passed away on 30th Oct. 

It was sudden, and is still a painful shock. 

He was, is and always will be: a legend.

L-R (front row): Becc Perkins, Joe T Velikovsky, and the one & only Timothy Z. Sims.Back row: David Stitt (Stitty) & Phil Marnie(in 3 Unit Economics class, from memory? with Mr Tapper. Probably.) Tim and I were besties in high school. And, forever after. He visited me in Mudgee, where I got a job, after school finished. And I'd go visit him in Sydney, when I was at uni.  
Tim was the funniest & loveliest guy I ever met. I was lucky to know him. 
Some Random Things to Know about Tim:
In high school, he loved the bands: KISS, Motley Crue, and Genesis. And Prince. And could play most of their songs on guitar!
Tim also had a REALLY long tongue - and while playing the drums, would do that thing, that Gene Simmons from KISS, did. (Stick his tongue out, a very, very long way. It was always amazing. And kinda weird and funny.)
Tim was an awesome drummer. And, played the drums: LOUD.
Tim was really good at soccer in high school. (I went to some of his games.)
Tim would do a really big-cheesy-grin, a lot. It was always funny as hell. 
Tim taught me to play guitar. (...He taught a lot of people to play guitar - he was, among many other great things: a great guitar teacher!). He shared his love of music with so many people, in so many ways.  

Tim could also do a lot of funny voices, and, often did. Tim also quoted a lot of funny stuff. Especially Douglas Adams lines (Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Monty Python, a lot of classy British comedy. Gary Larsen's The Far Side cartoons... Tim was a connoisseur of comedy.

Tim was in a lot of bands, including Gosh, Batman! and Elan. I went along to band practise in Sydney, just to hear Elan play. So many fun times...

One time, Tim told me he liked a song I'd written (`Wonder Why'), and I was thrilled about that, as Tim was such a great songwriter. (His best was maybe `Little Things' that he wrote about / for his lovely wife Ann.) My filmmaker friend Shane T Hall also put one of the songs Tim recorded with the band Cowpoke (`How Would John?') on a short comedy/satire film, about John Howard's government. 

...Here's Tim playing some guitar, when he visited me in 2016:

Timothy C. Sims - #7

Timothy C. Sims - #8

Timothy C. Sims - #9

...One super-talented lad...!!! 

Most of all, Tim was a wonderful family man. Beloved by wife Ann, and his 3 lovely kids, Jade, Isaac & Eli. And of course his brothers & sister and mum & dad and extended family.     

...Tim was priceless. He could always make you laugh, and feel good about the world, no matter what. 
Now he's suddenly gone - and, I'm reminded of what he told me about my left-hand fingertips when he was teaching me to play guitar all those years ago: This is gonna hurt for a while...! 

Timothy Z Sims was an absolute legend. 

Being around him was like a party.

To cite the band KISS:
You keep on shouting, you keep on shouting:

I wanna rock and roll all night - and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night - and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night - and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night - and party every day

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Joe Velikovsky

PS - One time in high school, me and Tim and Chris were just standing around talking about stuff, and Tim suddenly got a faraway look in his eyes, and said, deadly-serious and deadpan, to me and Chris: "The piece of skin between my scrotum and my asshole, is: itchy." We all cracked up laughing. (His honesty was always one of his - countless - best qualities.)