Posted on 01/28/2005 9:12:06 AM PST by missyme
Legendary rock drummer and Hall of Fame inductee Jim Capaldi died on Friday after a brief fight with stomach cancer, his publicist said.
The 60-year-old Capaldi, born in England of Italian immigrant parents, died in his sleep at the London Clinic in the early hours with his wife and family at his bedside.
Capaldi, whose driving rock rhythms and songwriting ability helped make groundbreaking band Traffic a household name in the 1960s and '70s with -- among others -- Steve Winwood and Dave Mason -- also had an illustrious solo career.
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Oooooooohhh stomach cancer - rough way to die.
Dave Mason is also very good. I am listening to "Only You Know And I know" as I type.
Lks like John Mayall is in that photo.
bump - hadn't heard this.
That was Keith Green, the guy who died in a plane crash.
What the hell is going on, and why don't we see these headlines about awful people like Fat Teddy, Sh$$head Clinton and KKK Byrd? Why do they get to keep going? They're evil.
Yep -- that's him. I wound up doing a google search and figured out who it was a few posts later.
He was good because his songs sounded like real rock songs. I don't mean to knock it, but sometimes Christian music sounds a little saccarine. His stuff had some edge and some grit.
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