Джим Капальди - RIP

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In memoriam: http://www.jimcapaldi.com/tribute_to_jim.htm

Пересечения Capaldi/Harrison:

Jim Capaldi, who provided the backbeat for the legendary group Traffic, died Saturday of stomach cancer at 60, reported IC Birmingham. Besides his career with Traffic, he also had some success as a solo artist. Capaldi and Traffic had several hits, including "Mr. Fantasy," and later, the stunning "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys." In 1988, he recorded "Oh Lord Why Lord?," which featured George Harrison and Eric Clapton on guitar.

Jim also had George play solo slide guitar on his hit (in Brazil anyway, don't know how it did in the UK) "Anna Julia" which was released on a single in September 2001 and on Jim's "Living on the Outside" (Steamhammer label) in October 2001.

Jim and George also had penned a song together called, "Love's Got a Hold" which Capaldi told the Traffic fanzine "Coloured Rain" he had been performing on tour in the fall of 2003.

He also said in the same interview that there was a multitrack recording with George on guitar and vocal harmonies on "Love's Got a Hold" and he had hoped to release it someday. Jim and George also wrote "Doing the Bonzo Dog" together and recorded it, swapping vocals between them. It is also unreleased.

And here is an obscure reference to Jim. When George played the Royal Albert Hall in 1992 for the Natural Law Party, George did a shout out from the stage for "Les Pellicules" (it means "dandruff" in French...). You can hear/see it on the bootleg audio/video that exists of the show. No one seemed to understand that one, and people speculated it was Julian Lennon who was in the audience. When George passed away, Jim Capaldi said that George used to call him "Les Pellicules"! So, mystery solved.

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/130capaldi.html

More on Capaldi from Patti Murawski:

I forgot to mention that...

George made a cameo appearance in the video for "Oh Lord Why Lord". I remember hearing about it after the Free Nelson Mandela birthday/Anti Aparteid concert in 1988 at Wembley stadium. (The song is dedicated to Steven Biko.) I was at the concert, and the show was being televised, but people in the stadium didn't get to see the video, it was only shown on the feed to UK viewers!

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/130capaldi.html

More:

Jim Capaldi was one of the battery of percussionists at The Concert For George (while ironically Steve Winwood, who once recorded with George, can be seen in the audience on the DVD.

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/130capaldi.html

21 января в Лондоне пройдет вечер памяти Джима Каполди с участием Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, Joe Walsh, Jon Lord, Bill Wyman, Simon Kirke, Andy Newmark, Ray Cooper, Mark Rivera, Dennis Locorriere, Paul 'Wix' Wickens, Sam Brown, Tommy Byrnes, Margo Buchanan, Dave Bronze (список пока не полный).
http://www1.roundhouse.org.uk/whatson/event.aspx?prod=341&perf=0