On Sunday night, Conway Savage, keyboardist of Nick Cave and the Bad Seedss, passed away. He had been battling a brain tumor for a number of years. He was 58. Savage had been playing with the Bad Seeds since 1990 and appeared on albums including Murder Ballads and Abattoir Blues. See the band's statement below.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds statement
"A member of Bad Seeds for nearly thirty years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike. Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine - he was all of these things and quite literally “had the gift of a golden voice,” high and sweet and drenched in soul. On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang Streets of Laredo to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house."