Larry Taylor?

[hublocker]

Whatever became of Larry Taylor?

I just found some 1967 concert footage of Canned heat and they were umm.. Smokin'.

Larry was so hot right out of the gate with that band.

I learned a killer bass line that I use all the time from a lesson he had in Guitar play years ago.

I had never thought of going from a high tonic note and then to lower notes in a walking bass line before.

It was a complete epiphany.

[JumpKing]

He plays with a lot of westcoast blues now (Kim Wilson, Kid Ramos, Junior Watson and Hollywood Fats). IMO he is the best in this genre. Most of the time he plays a UB.
He also plays with Tom Waits.

[Mojo-Man]

Originally Posted by JumpKing

He plays with a lot of westcoast blues now (Kim Wilson, Kid Ramos, Junior Watson and Hollywood Fats). IMO he is the best in this genre. Most of the time he plays a UB.
He also plays with Tom Waits.

Larry is a big influence .
Played a fretted P-bass with Canned heat.
Then went to fretless P-bass.
Then to upright.

The best of the westcoast players.

[fearceol]

He was on a few John Mayall albums around '69/'70. He and fellow bassist Stephen Thompson played a lovely solo duet on Mayall's "Empty Rooms" album. While we are on the subject, does anyone know what happened to Thompson ?

[hangman]

Larry was a teenager when he went on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis. He also did session work, ending up on some of the Monkees recordings.
Larry's brother, Mel Taylor, played drums in the Ventures during the 60s.
FYI, Michael Mann, aka Hollywood Fats, died in 1986.

Originally Posted by JumpKing

He plays with a lot of westcoast blues now (Kim Wilson, Kid Ramos, Junior Watson and Hollywood Fats). IMO he is the best in this genre. Most of the time he plays a UB.
He also plays with Tom Waits.

[jerry]

A big early influence on me! Larry's still doing it, mostly on upright. On the recent various blues DVD/CD 'Lightning In A Bottle', he shares bass duties with Willie Weeks. He also is Tom Waites bassist.

[GlennW]

I was into Canned Heat when they came out and liked Larry Taylor and read what I could find about him. IIRC he was playing with Jerry Lee Lewis two years after he started playing bass. I still have the first Canned Heat album on vinyl.

Al Wilson was one of the best white blues guys of all time, IMO.

Originally Posted by GlennW

I was into Canned Heat when they came out and liked Larry Taylor and read what I could find about him. IIRC he was playing with Jerry Lee Lewis two years after he started playing bass. I still have the first Canned Heat album on vinyl.

Al Wilson was one of the best white blues guys of all time, IMO.

Wow, great memories! I first heard Larry at the Aquarius Theatre on Sunset in Hollywood in the mid-sixties, he was/is a really great player. The last time I saw him live was in the seventies at the Forum in L.A. we were both playing that night and he did an amazing solo. I also ran into him on the road a couple of times. Since those days I've only seen him on the tube playing upright and he still has that groove!

George

[Mojo-Man]

Originally Posted by jerry

A big early influence on me! Larry's still doing it, mostly on upright. On the recent various blues DVD/CD 'Lightning In A Bottle', he shares bass duties with Willie Weeks. He also is Tom Waites bassist.

Cool DVD.
Larry is in the pocket.

[Alan Vorse]

I started playing with an acoustic singer/songwriter/guitarist this past winter and listened to a lot of Larry's playing with Tom Waits for inspiration. Great player.

[JumpKing]

Originally Posted by hangman

FYI, Michael Mann, aka Hollywood Fats, died in 1986.

I know, but i am still in denial

[blowfly]

Wow, great memories are flooding back into my brain. Canned Heat was the first concert I ever went to - I think it was 1970. Yes, I did inhale... I remember how Larry Taylor and drummer Fito de la Parra (sp?) teamed up to shovel out steaming piles of delicous re-fried boogie. That first live concert was a life changing experience for me :-) Those were the days, my friend.

[burk48237]

Originally Posted by fearceol

He was on a few John Mayall albums around '69/'70. He and fellow bassist Stephen Thompson played a lovely solo duet on Mayall's "Empty Rooms" album. While we are on the subject, does anyone know what happened to Thompson ?

Wow, Talk about memories, that was probably the first solo bass thing I ever heard as a kid ( sixth grade) that really inspired me to pick up the bass. I had completely forgotten about that duet. Thanks

[DocBop]

Larry was one of my first bass heros and I knew how to play most of his solo on Fried Hockey Boogie. I got to sit-in with lots of bands to jam on that tune and do the solo.

I got to hang at a recording session years later Larry was playing bass on. I think it was for Richard Greene of SeaTrain fame. I remember the engineer asking Larry what kind of sound he want for his bass. Larry said I alway ask but no one knows what I'm talking about. Larry said he wanted he bass to sound like a glasspack mufflers. The engineer being a car nut knew exactly what Larry was talking about and Larry was loving the throaty rumble coming through the monitors.

[GlennW]

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[swashbuckler]

Larry has a very unique approach in his style. I've studied his playing since 67 and still to this day, I am constantly impressed with the unusual choice of notes and patterns he applies to even the simplest of tunes. His 'groove' is nothing less than amazing. As solid as anyone I've listened to, if not more so. It was an honor to hang out with him and talk about the the bassists who inspired him when he was coming up. He is a great guy who deserves the reputation of a true master of his chosen craft....

[Mojo-Man]

Originally Posted by swashbuckler

Larry has a very unique approach in his style. I've studied his playing since 67 and still to this day, I am constantly impressed with the unusual choice of notes and patterns he applies to even the simplest of tunes. His 'groove' is nothing less than amazing. As solid as anyone I've listened to, if not more so. It was an honor to hang out with him and talk about the the bassists who inspired him when he was coming up. He is a great guy who deserves the reputation of a true master of his chosen craft....

+1.
His note choice alway killed me to.

[brianrost]

Larry has also done spells playing guitar in Canned Heat rather than bass.