Longtime Springsteen keyboardist dead from cancer at 58.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWBL8bwtky7ejPHSACIDibAWnHwAD90424SO0
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)
Sad. One of several musician deaths this week--Robert Reed from Trouble Funk, Chris Gaffney who played with Dave Alvin and others, Dc soul Singer Denice Daye...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)
RIP.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)
rip!
― max, Friday, 18 April 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)
Listened to Wild & Innocent today, he did some great work on that record, RIP.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 18 April 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)
RIP : (
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 18 April 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
RIP :(
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 April 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)
RIP. Listening to the great organ on The River in memoriam.
― antexit, Friday, 18 April 2008 18:39 (seventeen years ago)
Damn, I hadn't heard about Chris Gaffney passing. My band was set to play a benefit for him in a couple weeks.
― Dan Peterson, Friday, 18 April 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)
Just happened last night
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 April 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)
Springsteen's Miami concert was postponed.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 April 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)
:(
I have always been a bit puzzled about what Federici did and what Roy Bittan did, but Federici did those "ambient" organ parts like in "I'm On Fire" while Bittan did more "beefed-up" piano or synth performances like in "Hungry Heart", "Dancing In The Dark" and "Born In The USA", right?
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 18 April 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)
Federici played organ, accordion, and some synth; Bittan played pretty much all the piano on E Street records (unless Bruce played something) and also lots of synth. Bittan is obv. a more skilled musician, but Federici was a distinctive thread through all the E Street records.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, very true -- good points.
I feel really bad for the guy, so young. Rest in peace.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)
(Bittan didn't join until after Wild & Innocent, to clarify; David Sancious played piano on the first two records)
― Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, 19 April 2008 01:00 (seventeen years ago)