THE FORUMS
NO TREBLE
KEVIN JOHNSON
One of bass’s most dynamic powerhouses remembered
This month sadly marked the loss of bassist Larry Taylor, who passed away at 77 after a long battle with cancer. Born in Brooklyn, Taylor is perhaps best known as the founding bassist for Canned Heat, although he was an integral part of blues, pop, and rock music for his whole life. He began his career as a teenager touring with Jerry Lee Lewis and began landing work as a session bassist in the mid-60s. There he played on music for a load of blues greats, as well as TV sensations the Monkees, with whom he recorded ‘(Theme From) The Monkees’ and bassist favourite ‘Last Train To Clarksville’. Taylor formed Canned Heat in 1967, playing the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock with them, before splitting in 1970 to
