American bassist Lawrence “Larry” Taylor, a founding member of Los Angeles boogie/rock group Canned Heat, died at the age of 77 after a twelve-year battle with cancer. He was best known as a member of Canned Heat, in which he performed from
1967 to
1970. With the group, he appeared at its major performances at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and
Woodstock in
1969, and played on “Going Up the Country” and “On the Road Again”. Before joining Canned Heat, he worked as a studio bassist for
The Monkees and
Jerry Lee Lewis. He was the younger brother of
Mel Taylor, longtime drummer of The Ventures.
