Post by CM Poor on Apr 20, 2008 13:01:30 GMT -5
How has this not been posted?
RIP Phantom Dan
The E Street Band is mourning one of its own. Danny Federici, the longtime organist and keyboard player for the Bruce Springsteen-fronted group, died Thursday afternoon of melanoma at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
The rocker, who reportedly battled the disease for three years, was 58.
"Danny and I worked together for 40 years—he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much...we grew up together," Springsteen said in a statement posted on his official website.
After taking a leave of absence from the band in November to focus on his treatment, Federici last performed with Springsteen and the others March 20 in Indianapolis. Concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Saturday in Orlando have been postponed.
"You couldn't help but miss Danny's presence," former Los Angeles Times pop-music critic Roger Hilburn told the paper Thursday, referring to a Springsteen concert he attended last week in Anaheim, Calif. "Without him, the band was not whole."
A native of Flemington, N.J., Federici hooked up with the future Boss in the late 1960s, jamming at the famed Upstage Club in Asbury Park, N.J., and, by 1969, playing in the band Child.
The rocker, who reportedly battled the disease for three years, was 58.
"Danny and I worked together for 40 years—he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much...we grew up together," Springsteen said in a statement posted on his official website.
After taking a leave of absence from the band in November to focus on his treatment, Federici last performed with Springsteen and the others March 20 in Indianapolis. Concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Saturday in Orlando have been postponed.
"You couldn't help but miss Danny's presence," former Los Angeles Times pop-music critic Roger Hilburn told the paper Thursday, referring to a Springsteen concert he attended last week in Anaheim, Calif. "Without him, the band was not whole."
A native of Flemington, N.J., Federici hooked up with the future Boss in the late 1960s, jamming at the famed Upstage Club in Asbury Park, N.J., and, by 1969, playing in the band Child.
RIP Phantom Dan
I dont know good luck 
