Cinderella Guitarist Jeff LaBar Dead at 58

Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar has died of unknown causes on the age of 58.

The information was damaged by his son Sebastian, guitarist for the band Tantric. “So I simply received the decision… Jeff LaBar, my father, my hero, my idol, handed away as we speak,” he wrote on Instagram. “I’m at the moment puzzled.”

“Heavy hearts can’t start to explain the sensation of shedding our brother Jeff. The bond between us over many years of making music and touring the world is one thing that we as a band uniquely shared,” learn an announcement from LaBar’s former Cinderella bandmates Tom Keifer, Fred Coury and Eric Brittingham. “These reminiscences with Jeff can be endlessly alive in our hearts. It’s unimaginable that one in every of our band brothers has left us. We’re sending his spouse Debinique, his son Sebastian, household, and associates our deepest condolences. Jeff’s reminiscence and music can be with us endlessly.”

LaBar joined Cinderella in 1985 and performed on all 4 of their studio albums, together with their 1986 debut Evening Songs and 1988’s Lengthy Chilly Winter, each of which offered over three million copies.

After the discharge of 1994’s Nonetheless Climbing, the band entered an extended interval of fitful exercise, with recurring vocal points for frontman Keifer and document label troubles retaining them from recording one other studio album. Their final main tour passed off in 2012. LaBar launched a solo album, One for the Street, in 2014.

In a 2016 look on One other FN Podcast with Izzy Presley (as reported by Blabbermouth), LaBar theorized that his substance abuse issues had prevented a Cinderella reunion. “I can solely speculate, however I imagine it is all my fault. It is no secret that I’ve had a ingesting drawback. And it confirmed its ugly face on a kind of [cruises that Cinderella played]. I assume that is what triggered a rift… Once I fell out on a kind of cruise ships in entrance of everyone — like, principally O.D.’d — that is when the band, and largely Tom, took discover and was, like, ‘What the fuck?'”

After explaining that he was not less than in semi-regular contact with Coury and Brittingham, LaBar acknowledged, “It is simply Tom and I that do not speak anymore. And I can solely speculate that he is very upset and does not wanna see me die. He does not wanna witness me dying.”