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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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R.I.P.
Damn, another rock 'n roller from my 60s hippie daze, is gone. RIP, Jim.
RIP.
John Barleycorn still gets a bit of play in my household.
Comparing Capaldi's chops to Baker and Appice isn't fair. But Jim's songwriting compares well. I'll be 41 in March; "Low Spark" was my 2nd rock album, after "Mad Dogs & Englishmen". Gosh, if a young teenager these days wants a classy but current album for a gift, whaddya get him?
Benjamin Orr of The Cars died of pancreatic cancer about three years ago. The lasting image is vile.
Sad news.
I'll put 'Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' in the ole Walkman today.
Modern music, except for Christian, absolutely sucks. All the great songwriting is now in Christian music: POD's "Youth of the Nation," Mark Schultz, "Letters from Home," almost anything by SonicFlood or Avalon. I also like Pillar, Rick Altizer, and, on the other end of the spectrum, Newsong, the Newsboys, Echoing Green, Apt Core, Fleming & John, Evanscence, Plumb, Ashley Cleveland, and Andy Hunter.
Now that I think of it, there is *some* decent songwriting; Fountains of Wayne is pretty good. Their last album(Welcome Interstate Managers) had some very catchy pop tunes.
Any of those Christian groups get airplay? I will occasionally tune in to a local(Detroit) Christian station on the drive home, but a lot of what they play is syrupy dreck. There is a reason why Dante's Inferno is read and his Paradiso is not.
What a great loss. One of my fondest high-school memories was attending a Traffic concert at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, circa 1971. It was with the "Canteen" band, including the incomparable Rebop Kwaku Ba on congas. They did a blow-out jam on "Gimme Some Lovin'" that was incredible. I played the Fender Rhodes in a small jazz-rock band at the time. One of our numbers was "Low Spark." I remember spending wonderful hours learning Stevie's piano solos for that piece! God Bless Jim and God Bless Traffic, one of the greatest bands ever!
Hard to believe I'm ___......
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I was an intern at a studio where they cut one of their albums a few years back. They were a wild bunch.
...Echoing Green
There was a popular Jesus Freak era Christian rock guy named Green. I'm blanking on his first name but he had some great songs. "Six O'clock News" was one of them. I wouldn't be surprised if the bandname Echoing Green is a reference to him.
"When the toast is burned
And all the milk has turned
And Captain Crunch is waving farewell...
When the big one finds you,
May this song remind you
That they don't serve breakfast in hell."
Not necessarily good...but certainly offbeat and interesting.
One more classic guy down, bump.
Traffic is on my list of good bands. May he rest in peace.
Welcome to the Canteen, probably Traffic's best work
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