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Taylor, Larry, 1942-2019

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Personal name headingTaylor, Larry, 1942-2019
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Variant(s)Taylor, Samuel, 1942-2019
See alsoCorporate body: Canned Heat (Musical group)
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Corporate body: Hollywood Fats Band
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Corporate body: Hollywood Blue Flames (Musical group)
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1942-06-26
Death date2019-08-19
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathLake Balboa (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Field of activityRock music Blues (Music)
Profession or occupationRock musicians Blues musicians Bass guitarists Double bassists
Found inHammond, J. Wicked grin [SR] p2001: insert (Larry Taylor, bass)
All Music Guide WWW site, Aug. 23, 2001 (Larry Taylor; b. June 26, 1942, Brooklyn, NY; bass player)
New Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll (under Canned Heat: Larry Taylor; b. Samuel Taylor, June 26, 1942, Brooklyn, N.Y.; bass)
Wikipedia, April 26, 2017 (Larry Taylor; born Samuel Taylor, June 26, 1942, New York, New York; Samuel Lawrence "Larry" Taylor; American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967; before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis; younger brother of Mel Taylor, long-time drummer for The Ventures; played as part of The Hollywood Fats Band led by Mike "Hollywood Fats" Mann; more recently, a leading exponent and practitioner of the acoustic upright bass in the contemporary blues scene)
allmusic.com, October 5, 2017 (Hollywood Blue Flames: after Hollywood Fats' death in 1986, the original members of the Hollywood Fats Band, including Larry Taylor, bass and drums, reunited as the Hollywood Blue Flames, with guitarist Kirk Fletcher, making vital blues music in the same vein as the original group)
Wikipedia, September 6, 2019 (Larry Taylor; died August 19, 2019, Lake Balboa, California)