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Best known as owner of Hyde & Zeke Records, Charles Scales was a pillar of Gainesville’s music community for three decades, playing guitar in his signature style with numerous bands.
Friends and family knew him as Charlie or Chaz, a man with an open heart who was easy to talk to and who showed those around him that he cared.
“I loved him like a brother,” says Bill Perry, a friend and coworker of more than 30 years.
Scales died Tuesday from what is believed to be a heart attack. He was 59.
Scales attended Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia and graduated in 1972.
He then moved to Gainesville, where Perry said Scales had family in the area.
Scales started working at Hyde & Zeke shortly after it opened in January 1977 under original owners Bob McPeek and Ric Kaestner.
“He was one of the primo guitar players,” McPeek said.
McPeek and Kaestner sold the store in 1986, but the store fared poorly under the next owner.
Scales bought Hyde & Zeke in 1990 and brought it back to life, McPeek said.
