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Magic Fingers Silenced 2006-06-06 - 9:38 a.m. Just read in James Hudnall's blog that Billy Preston has passed. Anyone who's as old as I am knows that Preston was the only artist who received a co-credit on a Beatles single. When Apple released "Get Back" b/w "Don't Let Me Down", the label read "THE BEATLES with Billy Preston", big as life. Not even Yoko Ono got a credit for when she did a guest vocal on "The Continuing Adventures Of Bungalow Bill". And here's Billy's name, for the world to see. Billy was more than a session player. He'd had a few hits of his own. One of his biggest was recorded by another artist: "You Are So Beautiful" was rendered by Joe Cocker and became a smash. I bet John Lennon is telling him now, "Man, it's good to see you. We needed another organ player." === Another keyboard player, Vince Welnick, has also passed. He was the final keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. But I remember him as a longtime member of The Tubes. I saw them live during the Outside Inside tour, and I remember Vince playing and looking like he was having a ball. He couldn't get out and join vocalist Fee Waybill as Fee cavorted about, but that was okay - he sure looked like he loved what he was doing. So...if any of you play keyboards, maybe you could play a song that these guys did. I'm sure they'd've done the same for you. === UPDATE: From Neal Boortz's site comes news of this fine product. No further explanation is needed. Be seeing you. === 0 comments so far
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