Gary Phillips was a musician who played keyboard with The Greg Kihn Band

The Greg Kihn Band

The Greg Kihn Band is an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright. Their most successful singles include "The Breakup Song " and "Jeopardy" .-History:...

. He joined them in 1981, just before their US #15 hit "The Breakup Song". In 1983 they had a #2 US/#63 UK hit with "Jeopardy". He was also a writer, who sang and played guitar in the Bay Area band Copperhead along with John Cipollina

John Cipollina

John Cipollina was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service...

. Prior to joining Copperhead he played in the SF band Freedom Highway. Gary was also a co-guitarist in the East Bay band Earth Quake (band)

Earth Quake (band)

Earth Quake was an American rock and power pop band, formed in the San Francisco area in 1966, who released several albums in the 1970s, mostly on Beserkley Records, a company which they were involved in setting up.-Band members:*John Doukas...

and was with them (John Doukas, Robbie Dunbar, Steve Nelson and Stan Miller) for four albums ("Rocking the World", "8.5", "Leveled" and the live "Over Germany"). He sang lead on 'Tin Soldier' and 'Street Fever'.

He died of cancer in 2007, just several weeks shy of his 60th Birthday.