In late 2007 he took a leave of absence from the current E Street Band tour to fight the melanoma he was diagnosed with 3 years ago. With only weeks to live, he called up his old friend and came back for one last performance on March 20th in Indianapolis. His organ and accordian playing is one of the signature sounds of the greatest and most triumphant live rock band of all time. Here he is giving it his last :
RIP Phantom Danny Federici, the Minister of Mystery
workin' on the rodeo, workin' on the rodeo workin' on the rodeo, workin' on the rodeo for how much longer I just don't know I'm workin' on the rodeo for five dollars and a dime it's where I spend all my time where the cowboys flick their cigarettes I sit and watch the sunset workin' on the rodeo, workin' on the rodeo it's a lonely life on the road it's the only life that I know workin' on the rodeo, workin on the rodeo my best friend is a clown his floppy feet always keep him down we're workin' on the rodeo, just workin' on the rodeo you can buy hotdogs at the concession stand the opening act is a honky tonk band the audiences come and go but there will always be the show workin' on the rodeo, workin' on the rodeo workin' on the rodeo, workin' on the rodeo
Sometimes I forget that me and the Was Man seen him do a Q&A session at the Esquire to promote his movie "Man With the Screaming Brain". When I was 13 I thought Bruce Campbell was the coolest guy ever. I'm 23 now and I still do.
I never forget that me and the Was Man are the EXPERIENCE.
I have easily seen this movie 50 times. The special effects and fashion aside, I think the film holds up surprisingly well and is far more relevent today than it ever was when it was released. That is, perhaps, the most frightening aspect of the film. The end scene of this 9 minute clip remains one of the most masterful, powerful, and well put together scenes I have ever watched in a movie.
Okay. Every now and then there comes along a little movie that changes the way people watch movies and sets a standard that countless films will strive to match or best. This is one of those little movies.
"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome." - George H.W. Bush, A World Transformed (1998)
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