Larry Tamblyn, Keyboardist for 'Dirty Water' Garage Rock Pioneers the Standells, Dead at 82
Source: Rolling Stone
Larry Tamblyn, founding member and keyboardist for the pioneering garage rock band the Standells, has died at the age of 82.
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When the Standells formed as a doo-wop band in the early Sixties, Tamblyn initially served as their lead singer, including on their debut 1964 single “Girl In My Heart.” After the band signed with Liberty Records, they shifted toward rock music and enlisted Dick Dodd as their drummer and lead vocalist; Dodd died in 2013.
While the Standells formed in Los Angeles, their producer Ed Cobb hailed from Boston; it was Cobb who penned the band’s 1965 single “Dirty Water,” which would later become both an unofficial Boston anthem (thanks to references to the city laced into the lyrics) as well as a garage rock classic (thanks to its inclusion on the acclaimed 1972 Nuggets compilation).
“‘Dirty Water’ is still played to this day whenever the Red Sox or the Bruins win a home game,” Dennis Tamblyn wrote of his uncle; the Standells notably performed the song at Fenway Park during one of the Red Sox’s curse-ending World Series games in 2004.
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Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/larry-tamblyn-keyboardist-the-standells-dirty-water-dead-obit-1235301740/
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