Career
Meyer was active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1980s and 1990s and did much to promote other artists. As one of the leaders of a musicians cooperative in the Village he handled booking at the SpeakEasy and edited Fast Folk Musical Magazine (1986-1997). Later, he wrote reviews for various media such as Allmusic.
He also worked extensively as a lighting/scenery designer in theater.
Since the summer of 2008, Richard"s advancing Parkinson"s disease made it impossible for him to live independently, and spent his last years at a nursing home in the New York area.
