I heard from
Larry Taylor today. Many of you will recall Larry as the bass player for Canned Heat, John Mayall, and Harvey Mandel. He's played on a lot of what I consider important albums in music history, including Woodstock, and laid down a lot of great bass lines on those albums. I listened to a lot of Canned Heat, Mayall, and Mandel back then; so Larry's played a part in my musical development. And of course for a lot of us, Going Up The Country is part of the soundtrack of our lives.
Larry asked that I post the following story for him. He said that he's also signed up with the Alembic club and plans to join in later. His story is written without punctuation, so I've put in carriage returns to make the phrasing easier to read. It's a pretty cool story about the bass he used at the Monterey Pop Festival. The video he references is pretty cool !!
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My name is Larry Taylor
I played bass with the Band Canned Heat
played at monterey pop 1967
have some rare info about the 1966 slab p bass
if you go to you tube
put
canned heat monterey pop rollin and tumblin you can see me playing a black with white pick guard 1966 slab bass with maple board
I bought it 1966 at Music City
the music store was called fife and nickles
part of Music city sunset and vine Hollywood Calif
got to be the rarest bass ever
don't have it any more.
All the info I can find on these basses says they only made them in white with black pickguard
well I don't wanna bust the experts bubble's but in fact I had the bass Black with white pick guard
Monterey is the only place I can find that you can clearly see it's the slab Bass
hope you can use this info
Larry Taylor
