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Article: Musician, counselor Mike Lantz leaned into life.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- April 24, 2006
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Byline: John Lehndorff, Rocky Mountain News
Watching Mike Lantz playing mandolin and singing tenor caused his bandmates to label the sight "the Lantz stance."
"Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did," said Ron Lynam, who was a bandmate of Mr. Lantz's for 16 years in Front Range and Western swing-oriented Cowtown Boogie.
"He had a great enthusiasm for music - really, for everything he did. He was a ball of fire," Lynam said.
Whether it was counseling students at ThunderRidge High School, cooking a gourmet dinner, riding his bike 400 miles ...