I'm looking for recordings of Larry Taylor on double bass. You guys know any? Can you recommend something?
Thanks,
KN
Thanks,
KN
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Double Bass Larry Taylor
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I got into Larry Taylor through Tom Waits.
Tom Waits - Hows It Gonna End - YouTube
I've been meaning to listen to him in a different context for a long time, but alas.....
The wiki page on him references a documentary in which he is prominently seen, 'lightning in a bottle'. Gonna have to check that out.
heck, one more...
Tom Waits - "Lie to Me" (Late Show with David Letterman, November 2006) - YouTube
I should also add, that there are usually 1-3 bass players on most Waits records, including Les Claypool and/or Greg Cohen, but Larry is usually there, just don't acquire blindly.
Can anybody suggest a good Canned Heat record? I was born in the 80's and am relatively clueless.
Tom Waits - Hows It Gonna End - YouTube
I've been meaning to listen to him in a different context for a long time, but alas.....
The wiki page on him references a documentary in which he is prominently seen, 'lightning in a bottle'. Gonna have to check that out.
heck, one more...
Tom Waits - "Lie to Me" (Late Show with David Letterman, November 2006) - YouTube
I should also add, that there are usually 1-3 bass players on most Waits records, including Les Claypool and/or Greg Cohen, but Larry is usually there, just don't acquire blindly.
Can anybody suggest a good Canned Heat record? I was born in the 80's and am relatively clueless.
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Don't forget Canned Heat...though I prefer the Tom Waits stuff...he also played on an awesome record with the late, great, Hollywood Fats
Thanks guys! If you know more let me know ;-)
Btw, I'm more interested in his blues(y) stuff. I already knew he played with Canned Heat. But it seems he played with a lot of artists. A friend of mine mentioned Kim Wilson. Also thanks for the Hollywood Fats recommendation! That's the stuff I'm looking for. The album with Charlie Musslewhite is "In my time" (I googled it). Great info!
I guess I'm going to have to invest in a new iTunes prepaid card ;-)
Btw, I'm more interested in his blues(y) stuff. I already knew he played with Canned Heat. But it seems he played with a lot of artists. A friend of mine mentioned Kim Wilson. Also thanks for the Hollywood Fats recommendation! That's the stuff I'm looking for. The album with Charlie Musslewhite is "In my time" (I googled it). Great info!
I guess I'm going to have to invest in a new iTunes prepaid card ;-)
The Canned Heat album to get is "Future Blues." Harvey Mandel had joined the band and plays spectacularly, Dr. John guests on piano, Al Wilson in top form on vocals and harp, and, of course, Larry "The Mole" Taylor on bass. Contains their hit take on Wilbert Harrison's "Let's Work Together."
One of my all time favorite bassists. His gut string sound got me back into playing upright in my early twenties.
Check out Kim Wilson's Smokin Joint for some great Larry Taylor playing.
Check out Kim Wilson's Smokin Joint for some great Larry Taylor playing.
Bit old this post, but hell...
Larry's blues upright crops up all over the place ... check recordings by Lynwood Slim (esp albums with Junior Watson), Junior Watson's own albums (not most recent, Kedar Roy has taken over), Kim Wilson, James Harman, a great if lo-fi live album by Rod Piazza from 1975. Alex Schulz. And on Fred Kaplan's first album Signifyin. And he was on Smokey Wilson's 88th St Blues ... with the Fats band again. He crops up on John Lee Hooker's Mr Lucky, on albums by Kid Ramos and of course the Mannish Boys (blues supergroup), the Floyd Dixon Celebration tribute album ... and ... and.. and.
Yes he played upright on the Hollywood Fats Band album, and the reissued 'Complete Studio Sessions 1979' and also on a couple of live compilations issued since in packages with Hollywood Blue Flames albums ... they are the re-incarnation of the Fats band, and still with Larry on (mainly)upright. 3 albums out there, classic stuff.
The same band, with Larry on upright, also recorded a couple of albums under Al Blake's name .. but it's basically the Fats band without Mr fats himself. Because he was dead. Still is actually.
Best way to sample his output is go to cduniverse.com, and search for artist = Larry Taylor ... dozens and dozens of albums he's cut with dozens of different artists (including all the Canned Heat bass guitar stuff, as well as Mayall, Tom Waits, and also his guilty secret ... the Monkees).
My pleasure. I''m quite a fan.
Next, try Willie Brinlee ... Bill Stuve ... Kedar Roy ... Ronnie James Weber ...
Larry's blues upright crops up all over the place ... check recordings by Lynwood Slim (esp albums with Junior Watson), Junior Watson's own albums (not most recent, Kedar Roy has taken over), Kim Wilson, James Harman, a great if lo-fi live album by Rod Piazza from 1975. Alex Schulz. And on Fred Kaplan's first album Signifyin. And he was on Smokey Wilson's 88th St Blues ... with the Fats band again. He crops up on John Lee Hooker's Mr Lucky, on albums by Kid Ramos and of course the Mannish Boys (blues supergroup), the Floyd Dixon Celebration tribute album ... and ... and.. and.
Yes he played upright on the Hollywood Fats Band album, and the reissued 'Complete Studio Sessions 1979' and also on a couple of live compilations issued since in packages with Hollywood Blue Flames albums ... they are the re-incarnation of the Fats band, and still with Larry on (mainly)upright. 3 albums out there, classic stuff.
The same band, with Larry on upright, also recorded a couple of albums under Al Blake's name .. but it's basically the Fats band without Mr fats himself. Because he was dead. Still is actually.
Best way to sample his output is go to cduniverse.com, and search for artist = Larry Taylor ... dozens and dozens of albums he's cut with dozens of different artists (including all the Canned Heat bass guitar stuff, as well as Mayall, Tom Waits, and also his guilty secret ... the Monkees).
My pleasure. I''m quite a fan.
Next, try Willie Brinlee ... Bill Stuve ... Kedar Roy ... Ronnie James Weber ...
