More sad News!
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Topic: More sad News!
Posted By: Garion81
Subject: More sad News!
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 17:39
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Traffic founder Capaldi dies aged 60 ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 17:41
Johnny Carson died too earlier this week. Was Johnny Carson Prog?
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 17:43
Drummer Jim Capaldi, who co-founded the late-Sixties psychedelic blues band Traffic with then eighteen-year-old Steve Winwood, died early today of stomach cancer at a London hospital. He was sixty years old. Born in England to Italian immigrants, Capaldi lived and made music with friends Winwood, Dave Mason and Chris Wood in a cottage in the Berkshire countryside. The crew of multi-instrumentalists and songwriters scored U.K. hits with songs such as "Dear Mr. Fantasy," "Paper Sun" and "40,000 Headmen," releasing eleven albums before breaking up in 1974. Capaldi went on to record eleven solo records with his own band, the Contenders, while Winwood achieved chart-topping success with his own solo career in the Eighties. In 1994, the two reunited to tour extensively as Traffic, appearing at the revived Woodstock festival. (Of the other original band members, Wood had died of pneumonia in 1983, and guitarist Dave Mason has had a tempestuous relationship with Winwood over the years.) Traffic were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last March, five months before Capaldi was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winwood and Capaldi had been set to launch another Traffic tour last October but were forced to cancel in August when Capaldi began treatment for a severe gastric ulcer. Capaldi is survived by his wife Aninha and his daughters Tabitha, 28, and Tallulah, 26 ------------- 
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 17:50
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HEEEEERE"S JOHNNY!! |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:08
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:25
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Capaldi was a smoker, eh? I seem to remember seeing pics of him with a fag hanging off his lips.
Dammit Garten, Wise up! Sputnik! |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:30
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:33
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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/index.html?excamp=GGGNjohnnycarson - http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/index.html?exc amp=GGGNjohnnycarson |
Reed Lover wrote:
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:35
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:40
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why? ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 28 2005 at 18:41
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 29 2005 at 10:38
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Sad new indeed, Here's the Billboard write up. http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000779534 - http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_co ntent_id=1000779534 |