Dr. John is Gone

walrus

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Oh, that's too bad! A unique performer - a classic!

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Saw him live twice - he did an amazing show. He was one of a kind - started as a guitar player ( played guitar on a lot of vintage New Orleans recordings) until he got shot in the hand.
 

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Another gone...last I heard he was living over in Daytona. Not now.
 

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Saw him live twice - he did an amazing show. He was one of a kind - started as a guitar player ( played guitar on a lot of vintage New Orleans recordings) until he got shot in the hand.

And actually an often-overlooked member of the "Wrecking Crew", at least according to Wiki:
"Once settled in Los Angeles[8] he became a "first call" session musician in the Los Angeles studio scene in the 1960s and 1970s and was part of the so-called "Wrecking Crew" stable of studio musicians.[16] He provided backing for Sonny & Cher (and some of the incidental music for Cher's first film, Chastity), for Canned Heat on their albums Living the Blues (1968) and Future Blues (1970), and for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on Freak Out! (1966).[16] "
 
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