Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi dead at 60

CNN ^ | Jan 28th, 2005

[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.

[LS]

I have XM, so they all get airplay on my radio!

[LS]

If I have to look too hard, it can't be very good.

[lugsoul]

Wow - is the incorrect gross generalization your own personal forte?

Since you claim to have XM, perhaps you should try to listen to some of the other stations. Everyone I listed is played on satellite radio.

Of course, if you'd rather just carry on with the misguided impression that there is no good songwriting outside of Christian music, that's your loss.

[dmz]

Bell bottom blues...

let's not forget duane allman on slide...

[LS]

I listen to the whole spectrum, and can't stand most of the junk on the so-called "contemporary." Is that a gross generalization too?

[wardaddy]

Greenbaum is Jewish and has taken flack for doing a "Jesus Song".

[wardaddy]

Traffic is one of my top 10 bands.

Winwood is my neighbor...no fooling. He and Eugenia.

Capaldi RIP

Didn't Capaldi do other work outside Traffic.

[SuziQ]

At least he was recognized for his professional abilities before he died. Always like the group, Traffic.

[Yardstick]

Whoops, that's right -- Greenbaum did Spirit In The Sky, the song with the great ripped-speaker fuzz guitar tone. The guy I'm thinking of isn't Greenbaum. He was a Christian (or was Greenbaum a Jew who became a Christian?). I'm back to thinking this fellow's name was Green, as I originally was thinking.

[lugsoul]

Well, most of the folks I listed will be on ch. 12 (xcountry), ch. 15 (bluegrass), or occasionally xm live. Is that the "so-called contemporary" you are talking about, or are you just referring to all of the other 120+ channels?

As I said, your loss. But if you think there is no good music, then you don't like music.

[Guvmint_Cheese]

Nope, just plain old Traffic. However, I've experienced East Bay Traffic, and it's pretty bad...

[missyme]

Medicated Goo:
Welcome to the Canteen

[missyme]

Play Rock and Roll Stew...

[wardaddy]

While a believer....I am fairly ignorant of Christian music though I know one performer very well.

Stacy Beam


..and Jars of Clay used to rent rehearsal space from me her in in Music City where i think most Christian Record labels are based are they not?

Greenbaum was just trippy top 40 to me as a 12 or 13 year old at the time.

I would not have known a Jewish last name from shinola at that time in my life...it wasn't till I was in private school later with Jews that I learned that many have distinct names....like Shornick, Shulmeister, Sklar etc.

[AppyPappy]

Winwood lives in TN?

[dennisw]

I pinged you because you did let drop previously that Steve W is your neighbor. You do know it was billed as "The Spencer Davis Group with little Stevie Winwood". Winwood was 16 or so back then.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2002-01%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=Spencer+Davis+Group+with+%22little+Stevie+Winwood%22

[dennisw]

Didn't Capaldi do other work outside Traffic......

Odd session work here and there.

[wardaddy]

Yep

He has a large estate on Laurel Ridge above me. My valley (holler) road does a switchback up a 4-500 foot ridge and tops out to the right where he and local gal Eugenia have their 14 acre Nashville digs. It's a big modern Aspen looking hilltop lodge with acreage sweeping down towards Radnor Lake with 30 mile views.

Really nice. I think he and Eugenia school the children in England at their Cotswalds manor but summer and holiday some here for her family and his occasional business here.

My wife sees him on occasion jogging or riding his bike...he's quite small actually but he must be in good shape because these hills and knobs are grueling climbs. I think he must be around 55-58 now...he was quite young with Spencer Davis.

Regards AP.

[wardaddy]

unabashed namedropper....lol....i have no shame admittedly.


actually in nashville...like LA or Manhattan....it's easy.


i saw Alan Jackson at a BBQ joint today for lunch after he'd washed his (yep) Silverado at my car wash in West nashville.


lol....you can slap me...lol...but only you.

[Yardstick]

Here's the guy I was thinking of. His name was Keith Green:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/artists/keithgreen.html

And yes, Nashville is the Christian music capital of the world. The studio where I interned, a place called the Sound Kitchen, was popular with the Christian artists and producers. We had one room that was almost continually booked by Steven Curtis Chapman. It was like his home away from home, kind of a project studio for him.