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Wrecking Crew & Bread Member Larry Knechtel Dies
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Award-winning musician Larry Knechtel dies
YAKIMA, Wash. - Award-winning musician Larry Knechtel, who recently called Yakima home, has died at the age of 69.
Knechtel performed live and in the studio with top-selling artists for nearly half a century.
Most recently, he played keyboard on the Grammy award-winning Dixie Chicks’ album “Taking the Long Way.” He was a key member of such groups as the Wrecking Crew and Bread.
Born in Bell, Calif., Knechtel also played with artists as diverse as Neil Diamond, Randy Newman and Elvis Costello.
Knechtel died Thursday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Memorial services are pending.
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Quote from: Ed Roach on August 21, 2009, 05:19:37 PM
Award-winning musician Larry Knechtel dies
YAKIMA, Wash. - Award-winning musician Larry Knechtel, who recently called Yakima home, has died at the age of 69.
Knechtel performed live and in the studio with top-selling artists for nearly half a century.
Most recently, he played keyboard on the Grammy award-winning Dixie Chicks’ album “Taking the Long Way.” He was a key member of such groups as the Wrecking Crew and Bread.
Born in Bell, Calif., Knechtel also played with artists as diverse as Neil Diamond, Randy Newman and Elvis Costello.
Knechtel died Thursday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Memorial services are pending.
RIP!
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That's really sad. Three of the five members of Bread are now deceased. Larry played bass on the first Doors' album btw...
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Very sad to hear he has passed on...
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R.I.P. mr. Knechtel.
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That is sad news. R.I.P.
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Here's a list of some of the albums he contributed to over the years:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~mansion3/larryknechtel.html
May he rest in peace now.
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Larry Knechtel dies at 69; bassist, keyboardist for '70s soft-rock group Bread
Knechtel played keyboards and bass with the Wrecking Crew, a group of L.A. studio musicians, before joining Bread in 1971. His arrangement of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' won a Grammy in 1970.
By Keith Thursby
August 24, 2009
Larry Knechtel, a member of the 1970s soft-rock group Bread, who had a wide-ranging career as a studio musician, has died.
Knechtel died Thursday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Wash. He was 69. A hospital official would not release a cause of death, but a report in the Yakima Herald-Republic said he apparently suffered a heart attack.
Knechtel played keyboards, bass guitar and harmonica as a member of the Wrecking Crew, a group of Los Angeles studio musicians that included future headliners Glen Campbell and Leon Russell and session drummer Hal Blaine. Knechtel played with Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Mamas and the Papas and many others.
"It just snowballed. I was in the right place at the right time," Knechtel told the Yakima paper in 2004. "It was a lot of fun. We were all young. I was making big money and hearing myself on the radio."
In 2007, members of the Wrecking Crew were inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville.
Knechtel, who was born Aug. 4, 1940, in Bell, first played with Kip Tyler and the Flips and in 1959 joined Duane Eddy, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist. He won a Grammy in 1970 for his arrangement of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel. Knechtel also played the piano on that song.
In 1971, he joined Bread after the group's second album, when Robb Royer left.
"We needed somebody to play bass and keyboards and provide a strong instrumental element that we had been lacking," singer David Gates told The Times in 1977. "Larry was just what we needed."
Knechtel played on the Dixie Chicks' "Taking the Long Way" album and toured with the group in 2006. He had been living in Yakima since 2003.
According to the Herald-Republic, Knechtel is survived by his wife, Vickie; son Lonnie and daughter Shelli Kokenge; his mother, Edna Knechtel; brothers Don and Bob Knechtel; and three grandchildren.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-larry-knechtel24-2009aug24,0,3190712.story
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