A Pretty Decent Band

Hot on the heels of the death of Ellie Greenwich comes news of the passing of that fine keyboard player Larry Knechtel (who also, among much else, worked with Phil Spector). Knechtel was, along with James Burton, part of the creme-de-la-creme session band on John Phillip's masterpiece Wolfking Of LA, his rolling, lazy piano essential to the album's unique sound. As my old friend, the Sage of Tiverton, remarked, we'll have a pretty decent band waiting for us - but he ain't going till Hal Blaine is of the company. And me I'm holding out for James Burton...