In memory of Danny Federici, the E Street Band keyboard player who met Springsteen in the late 1960s at the Jersey shore, where the two kicked it up at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park. Federici, 58, died Thursday after a battle with melanoma. He got his Phantom Dan nickname from Bruce after some antics eluding police in Asbury Park back in the day, or so it is told. Federici gave the boardwalk classic 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) its plaintive accordian sound, here in a video from 1975.
And, in this video from Paris in 1985, he's on the organ in Hungry Heart.
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