David Kaff, the British actor and musician who played the keyboardist Vivo Savage in the successful 1984 drill of Rob Reiner, “This is Spinal Tap,” died on Saturday. He was 79 years old.
His death was announced in a Facebook publication by his mutual band of the wild kingdom of Alameda, who did not specify a cause or said where Kaff died beyond pointing out that “he died peacefully while he slept.”
“We are devastated by this event,” the band added in the note. “David always had a kind word and a quick ingenuity that would kill you where you are. Then I would make you smile doing it!”
Like Savage, Kaff touched keyboards in Spinal Tap behind the main singer David St. Hubbins (portrayed by Michael Mckean), guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). The Reiner film, which followed the introduction of the band in a sketch in the 1979 ABC comedy special, “The Show,” heavy metal stylistic excesses parodied expensive: a lasting gag had Tufnel demonstrating that the volume of the knobs in his national cinema register of the Congress.
The film generated a soundtrack with original songs written and interpreted by the actors, including “Stonehenge”, “Sex Farm” and “Tonight i'm Gon Ghon Rock You Tonight”. Kaff acted with Spinal Tap in “Saturday Night Live” after the movie launch, but left the band before he made a second album, “Break Like the Wind”, in 1992; It is not expected to appear in an long -awaited sequel to the film, “Spinal Tap II: The End continues”, due to theaters in September.
Kaff was born David Kaffinetti in 1946 and co-founded the British rock group Prog-Rock Rare Bird, which obtained a success among the 40 best in the United Kingdom in 1970 with “sympathy.” In 1972, he played the piano for Chuck Berry in a live concert that was recorded for Berry's album “The London Chuck Berry Sessions”, which generated the “My Ding-A-Ling” list. Information about Koff survivors was not available immediately.
