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10-19-2008, 07:10 PM
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Hey everyone, discovered Canned Heat a while back and I was just fascinated with their bass player Larry "the mole" Taylor.. Anyone know what kind of amp/gear he used..I've seen a couple of vids of him playing a P. Is is till playing today? |
10-19-2008, 07:30 PM
| | | | Last time I heard about Larry (some years ago maybe in a Bass Player mag.) he had given up electric bass for upright and wouldn't play with anything but gut strings. Yep, as I remember he played a P bass in the 60's-70's. I assume he is alive and well. |
10-19-2008, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MN_Bass  Hey everyone, discovered Canned Heat a while back and I was just fascinated with their bass player Larry "the mole" Taylor.. Anyone know what kind of amp/gear he used..I've seen a couple of vids of him playing a P. Is is till playing today? | He's still kicking - here's his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/larrythemoletaylor
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10-19-2008, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Westfield, MA, USA | | | He's on a bunch of Tom Waits records, playing upright.
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10-19-2008, 08:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Tulsa , OK | | | Opened for Canned Heat years ago, they were endorsed by Randall back then, a veritable wall of Randall amps,...and yeah, he was on a P bass.
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10-20-2008, 03:23 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | His work with Canned Heat and John Mayall was a big influence on me when I was young.
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10-21-2008, 01:44 PM
| | | | Great player, I had the opportunity to hear him at several shows in the '60's and '70's.
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10-22-2008, 11:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | I saw him with Canned Heat around 1974 or so. Still playing the Precison then (don't recall the amp) with LaBella flats. He broke a string and a buddy of mine (we BOTH should have been studying for an organic chem final that night) got it when Larry tossed it out into the audience.
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10-23-2008, 01:13 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | I heard "On the road Again" in a movie I saw recently - & it sure sounded good again. Also heard "Reelin in the Years" too - I'll always love that song 
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12-03-2008, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by jerry His work with Canned Heat and John Mayall was a big influence on me when I was young. | Me too! "Fried Hockey Boogie" Though I wasn't so young. |
12-03-2008, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Solarmist I heard "On the road Again" in a movie I saw recently - & it sure sounded good again. Also heard "Reelin in the Years" too - I'll always love that song | Reelin in the Years; Was a steely Dan song off a album cut in 72. I don't believe he played with them ever? |
12-03-2008, 07:55 PM
| | | | Larry Taylor laid down some swingin bass on Ceasar Rosas (Los Lobos) solo record from a couple years back. |
12-03-2008, 08:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cottage Grove, St. Paul suburb | | | He is still alive and well. I particularly liked his work with Hollywood Fats. He plays upright now and occasionally an old, defretted Harmony electric when there are space considerations. He was one of my major influences. |
12-03-2008, 09:47 PM
| | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | Taylor shares bass duties with Willie Weeks in the concert film 'Lightning In A Bottle', wonderful stuff!
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12-04-2008, 06:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | love his playing, the bassline to 'bullfrog blues' is just so dynamic. great P tone too. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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