Eric Mayers Credit: Photo via devon.brady.58/Facebook

To some people, everything in the world is “The Best.”

That’s the way Eric Mayers saw it, and his community is still feeling his loss, four months after he died, and six after the Tampa musician and scene champ was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Mayers—who showed up to the old New World Brewery in a cheerleader uniform to root for the bands he loved (and saw the Spice Girls movie in disguise, as pictured)—loved almost everything, including weird music like Captain Beefheart, Melt Banana, and Lubricated Goat. He even played some himself as part of Diaphragments (hear some unheard, 20 year old material below).

For this show benefitting Gilda’s Club and The Lung Cancer Research Foundation, the favorite charities of his wife Michele, Mayers’ musician friends will take to the stage at Ybor Heights arts compound/carnival/roadside attraction Crab Devil, which is also, the best.

Donations will be collected at The Best Fest happening Sunday, June 25 at Crab Devil in Tampa.