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...about frustration with a dead-end life. McCormick apparently couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of Mercer’s lines “Been alone since you were 21 / You haven’t laughed since January” with a shot of keyboardist Marty Crandall in a pine tree costume diving into a moving van filled with stolen balloons. The band takes their contraband to an idyllic field where they release the orange balloons that match their jumpsuits—shallowly symbolic, but forgivable. The imprisoned balloons are gleefully liberated into the air just as Mercer sings...
...begins dazed and ends dumbfounded. The first shot is upside down. The camera rights itself before the music starts, but by that time there are already six or seven CGI Maxïmo Parks performing, and the video can’t decide which version of the keyboardist it likes best. We end up careening between multiple iterations of the same musicians, massed before neon-hued backgrounds. Part of the band’s personality problem stems from lead singer and lyricist Paul Smith. He’s dreamy enough to be a frontman, but he’s saddled...
DIED. Billy Preston, 59, effervescent master R&B keyboardist of the '60s and '70s, later derailed by struggles with alcohol abuse and cocaine addiction; after a long battle with kidney disease that had left him in a coma since November; in Scottsdale, Ariz. At age 7, Preston started directing choir sessions at his Los Angeles church before impressing larger audiences with such hits as Nothing from Nothing and Will It Go Round in Circles? Yet to such peers as Bob Dylan and the Beatles, the gregarious, gospel-influenced virtuoso, who also wrote You Are So Beautiful for Joe Cocker...
...DIED. Vince Welnick, 55, the last keyboardist for psychedelic-rock gurus the Grateful Dead; in Forestville, California. Formerly of the Tubes, he joined the Dead in 1990 and played with the group until it disbanded after lead guitarist Jerry Garcia's death in 1995. Welnick, who suffered from depression, is the band's fourth keyboardist to have died prematurely. Some fans believe the position was cursed...
DIED. Vince Welnick, 55, the last keyboardist for psychedelic-rock gurus the Grateful Dead; in Forestville, Calif. Formerly of the Tubes, he joined the Dead in 1990 and played with the group until it disbanded after lead guitarist Jerry Garcia's death in 1995. Welnick, who suffered from depression, is the band's fourth keyboardist to have died prematurely. Some fans believe the position was cursed...