{"id":299743,"date":"2021-07-15T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-at-58\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:06:21","slug":"cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-at-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-at-58\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar dead at 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar dead at 58<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jeff LaBar, longtime guitarist for the glam metal band Cinderella, died Wednesday at his Nashville home. He was 58.<\/p>\n<p>His son and Tantric guitarist Sebastian LaBar confirmed his dad\u2019s passing. \u201cMy father, my hero, my idol, passed away today,\u201d he posted in an emotional via Instagram<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRUzGlDnzD2\/\"> tribute<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m currently at a loss for words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause of his death has not yet been announced, but his ex-wife Gaile LaBar-Bernhardt discovered him unconscious after not hearing from him in a few days, The Sun <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/3285371\/jess-labar-dead-at-58-in-nashville\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LaBar joined Cinderella in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-obituary-1197576\/\">1985<\/a>, three years after its creation, when the band\u2019s original guitarist, Michael Schermick,\u00a0left. The Philadelphia-based metal group welcomed him on as they were signing to a record label.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Cinderella, photo shoot in the backstage area, Moscow Music Peace Festival 1989 at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, USSR, 12th and 13th August, 1989.\" class=\"wp-image-18818950 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Cinderella backstage at a music festival in 1989 \u2014  and guitarist Jeff LaBar in 2011. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1986, the band released its debut album \u201cNight Songs,\u201d which jumped to the third slot on the Billboard 200. It wasn\u2019t until their next album, \u201cLong Cold Winter\u201d in 1988, that the band released its signature song: \u201cDon\u2019t Know What You Got (Till It\u2019s Gone).\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cinderella - Don&#039;t Know What You Got (Till It&#039;s Gone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i28UEoLXVFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Cinderella <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-obituary-1197576\/\">toured <\/a>with the iconic hairband likes of Bon Jovi and Poison until they eventually disbanded in 2017 after years of hiatus. LeBar later released music of his own as well as touring with other groups including Cheap Thrill, Freakshow, and the Naked Beggars.<\/p>\n<p>LaBar once said blamed himself for the break up of Cinderella, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/cinderella-jeff-labar-dead\/\">revealing on a 2016 installment<\/a> of the Another FN Podcast with Izzy Presley: \u201cI believe it\u2019s all my fault. It\u2019s no secret that I\u2019ve had a drinking problem. And it showed its ugly face \u2026 I guess that\u2019s what caused a rift \u2026 When I fell out on one of those cruise ships in front of everybody \u2014 like, basically O.D.\u2019d \u2014 that\u2019s when the band, and mostly Tom [Keifer], took notice and was, like, \u2018What the f\u2013k?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surviving Cinderella members Keifer, Eric Brittingham and Fred Coury released a statement Wednesday night saying, \u201cHeavy hearts cannot begin to describe the feeling of losing our brother Jeff. The bond between us over decades of creating music and touring the world is something that we as a band uniquely shared.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"\/>Among those paying their respects to LaBar after his passing was Mark Slaughter, co-founder of the band Slaughter, who <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markslaughter33\/status\/1415468673842786309\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cGone too soon. RIP Jeff Labar.\u201d He shared a smiling snap of the two musicians.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"\/>Poison drummer Rikki Rockett was also among his peers <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RikkiRockett\/status\/1415485387095429123\">paying homage<\/a>: \u201cBlown away hearing about Jeff LaBar. I can\u2019t count the amount of shows we all did together with Cinderella and Poison. Rest In Peace my Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Jeff LaBar and Tom Keifer of Cinderella perform at Revolution on July 31, 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. \" class=\"wp-image-18818955 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar-75.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar-75.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar-75.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar-75.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar-75.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jeff LaBar and Tom Keifer of Cinderella perform on July 31, 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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His son and Tantric guitarist Sebastian LaBar confirmed his dad\u2019s passing. \u201cMy father, my hero, my idol, passed away today,\u201d he posted in an emotional via Instagram tribute. \u201cI\u2019m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/jeff-labar.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[111926,70255,55326,39579,70256,5200],"class_list":["post-299743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-15-21","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-cinderella","tag-music","tag-obits","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}