{"id":21176,"date":"2026-03-21T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21176"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:55:17","slug":"spinal-tap-rock-star-passed-away-at-age-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21176","title":{"rendered":"Spinal Tap\u2019 Rock Star Passed Away At Age 79!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"321\">Legendary actor and musician <strong data-start=\"117\" data-end=\"131\">David Kaff<\/strong>, best known as keyboardist Viv Savage in the cult classic <em data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"210\">This Is Spinal Tap<\/em>, has died peacefully in his sleep at 79 on July 11, according to his band, Mutual of Alameda\u2019s Wild Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"684\">Born David\u202fKaffinetti on April\u202f17,\u202f1946, in England, he co-founded the progressive\u2011rock band Rare Bird, releasing five albums between 1969\u20131975, including the hit \u201cSympathy.\u201d He later worked as a session musician, contributing to Chuck Berry\u2019s <em data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"600\">The London Chuck Berry Sessions<\/em>, and played in bands such as Model Citizenz and Mutual of Alameda\u2019s Wild Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"973\">Kaff is remembered for his warm, charming portrayal of Viv Savage, delivering iconic lines like \u201cHave a good time\u2026 all the time,\u201d and performing on <em data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"855\">Saturday Night Live<\/em> in 1984. He remained musically and artistically active, sharing his visual art online during the COVID\u201119 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HsFm6Yk_HkE?si=OJJ9SPdFK9k6KDcy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary actor and musician David Kaff, best known as keyboardist Viv Savage in the cult classic This Is Spinal Tap, has died peacefully in his sleep at 79 on July 11, according to his band, Mutual of Alameda\u2019s Wild Kingdom. Born David\u202fKaffinetti on April\u202f17,\u202f1946, in England, he co-founded the progressive\u2011rock band Rare Bird, releasing five&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21176\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Spinal Tap\u2019 Rock Star Passed Away At Age 79!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21178,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions\/21178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}