UPDATE: CA steel player/teacher Chris Allen Burke gone home
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UPDATE: CA steel player/teacher Chris Allen Burke gone home
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A Memorial Service for Chris Burke will be held at 4 pm, Saturday, Feb 26th at Parkcrest Christian Church, Heartwell Campus, 3936 Woodruff Ave, Long Beach, CA 90808. Friends are invited to visit with his family at their home afterward. Tribute donations in Chris’ memory can be made to MusicCares at Grammy.Org.
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3936 Woodruff Ave, Long Beach, CA 90808
As you enter the parking lot, the service is in the "Unplugged" building on your left, north side of the campus. Mission tile roof, bell tower.
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After a relatively brief fight against aggressive cancer, Chris Allen Burke of Long Beach, CA slipped away while sleeping early this morning, Feb. 15, 2011. He was just 56 years old.
Chris is survived by his wife Michele, and daughter Cadence, and 2 older brothers, Earl and Bruce, who reside in Washington, D.C.
Chris was a close neighbor and great colleague of mine. Outside of Riverside's Blackie Taylor, he and I have been the principal steel guitar instructors in the Los Angeles area. We filled in for each other on gigs, referred each other out, and enjoyed heckling each other when we could drop in on gigs.
Chris was a very talented steel player, guitar & Dobro picker, harmonica player, and singer-songwriter. He was also a great steel guitar technician and builder, trained by Bud Carter at the Carter factory. He had a strong and fun-loving personality, tons of energy, and a pronounced stubborn streak, but he was a delight to know and work with.
RIP, my friend, you'll be sorely missed.
A Memorial Service for Chris Burke will be held at 4 pm, Saturday, Feb 26th at Parkcrest Christian Church, Heartwell Campus, 3936 Woodruff Ave, Long Beach, CA 90808. Friends are invited to visit with his family at their home afterward. Tribute donations in Chris’ memory can be made to MusicCares at Grammy.Org.
Paste the address into google maps for a map or street view:
3936 Woodruff Ave, Long Beach, CA 90808
As you enter the parking lot, the service is in the "Unplugged" building on your left, north side of the campus. Mission tile roof, bell tower.
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After a relatively brief fight against aggressive cancer, Chris Allen Burke of Long Beach, CA slipped away while sleeping early this morning, Feb. 15, 2011. He was just 56 years old.
Chris is survived by his wife Michele, and daughter Cadence, and 2 older brothers, Earl and Bruce, who reside in Washington, D.C.
Chris was a close neighbor and great colleague of mine. Outside of Riverside's Blackie Taylor, he and I have been the principal steel guitar instructors in the Los Angeles area. We filled in for each other on gigs, referred each other out, and enjoyed heckling each other when we could drop in on gigs.
Chris was a very talented steel player, guitar & Dobro picker, harmonica player, and singer-songwriter. He was also a great steel guitar technician and builder, trained by Bud Carter at the Carter factory. He had a strong and fun-loving personality, tons of energy, and a pronounced stubborn streak, but he was a delight to know and work with.
RIP, my friend, you'll be sorely missed.
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Oh my God. I knew CAB very well and played guitar in several bands with him as well as studio dates. I had no idea he was ill. I will keep his family in my prayers
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OMG. This is terrible news. Chris was relatively young. Way too young to die.
Is there anybody who has not been touched in one way or another by this terrible disease? Let us hope they find a cure soon.
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My condolences to his family,very sad.
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My condolences to his family and friends.
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This is so sad. Chris was such a generous person and musician. He was the first steel player I worked with in so cal.
I remember the first time we worked at the Cowboy Palace, everyone in the band except for Chris, was new to that "boot scooting crowd", and we're starting this song, playing super loud too, vamping on the 1 waiting for the crowd to start dancing, and they're just standing there, frozen, ready to go...but not going. All of us start exchanging panicked glances, as we can tell that something is going very wrong...but we're not sure what... and then, from his side of the stage, Chris just yells out over everybody "5,6,7,8..." and they all start dancing... and everything was well after that.
Yep, Chris was always the guy who knew how it went. And a very good friend.
I remember the first time we worked at the Cowboy Palace, everyone in the band except for Chris, was new to that "boot scooting crowd", and we're starting this song, playing super loud too, vamping on the 1 waiting for the crowd to start dancing, and they're just standing there, frozen, ready to go...but not going. All of us start exchanging panicked glances, as we can tell that something is going very wrong...but we're not sure what... and then, from his side of the stage, Chris just yells out over everybody "5,6,7,8..." and they all start dancing... and everything was well after that.
Yep, Chris was always the guy who knew how it went. And a very good friend.
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My condolences to Mr. Burke and Family
I cannot believe that he passed so young also Chris and I had a nice rapport, he would set up my steels from time to time also we had something in common in that we both come from the DC-MD-VA area, my prayers to him and his family upon this very sad news also on the recent passing of another friend, pedal steel guitarist, Steve Bishop from Nashville, TN
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I had a great transaction and correspondence with Chris a few years ago when he purchased a Carter D10 from me (the modified one in the above photo). It's strange when a forum member passes away and you feel like you know them even though you haven't met in person. Chris was a guy whom I felt I knew personally from our correspondence. He will be missed around here for sure.
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Chris was a great guy. We had alot of fun playing in bands and duos and the studio together. We shared a love of baseball and went to games together. He was a knowledgeable steel mechanic as well as a very good player. I am so sorry to hear of his passing and my sincerest condolences to his family.
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