Rick Rosas (I) and Kurt Kelly (II) first met when Rosas was on tour in Detroit and Kelly was working in Michigan Radio and Television. A few years later when Kelly moved to work for ABC in Los Angeles, where he and Rosas worked together on numerous syndicated shows with Joe Walsh of The Eagles, members of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Neal Young, Los Lobos, Richard Marx, Ringo Starr, Roger Daltrey and a long list of celebrities. Over recent years, the pair had lost touch due to each other's very full schedules. In fact just before shooting his last film, the pair had plans to go back into the studio to work on new music for soundtracks for Kelly's productions, and Kurt was going to have Rick appear on the series Actors Reporter; however Rosas died after his last film wit .Meryl Streep as Ricki in, Ricki and the Flash where Rosas played Buster, Dedicatee 2015.