GENE'S BOOGIE WOOGIE (LIVE) - GENE TAYLOR 

DAMN that man could PLAY!!!!! Make you get outta your chair!!!!

Well he was a national treasure💖... Represented the good part of American Culture... Died so a few oligarchs could get rich... F late stage capitalism.

It was a pleasure to meet you Gene, unfortunately God needed a good keyboard player in heaven. Rip gene

This guy can play that piano......WOW Gene may you Rest In Peace and keep on playin the ANGELS LOVE TO BOOGIE❣️💙🙏

Pian OH!! 😃

Gene Taylor, a renowned blues and boogie-woogie pianist in Los Angeles in the 1970s and ’80s who moved to Austin in the 1990s to play with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, died Saturday at home in North Austin. - He was 68. ~ Taylor’s housemate, filmmaker Monty McMillan, said Sunday that he found Taylor’s body in bed Saturday morning. The house had been without heat for five days as a result of statewide power outages related to the recent winter storm. ~ “I don’t really know exactly what happened.” McMillan said. “I don’t know if he had some underlying health condition, but I know the cold didn’t help. - “We both stayed in our own beds trying to stay warm. I came out of it OK, and he obviously didn’t.” ~ Born July 2, 1952, in Norwalk, Calif., Taylor had family ties in the Fort Worth area. Grammy-winning Los Angeles guitarist Dave Alvin, who played with Taylor in the roots-rock band the Blasters for several years in the 1980s, said Sunday that he’d known Taylor since they were both teenagers. - As a teen in the 1960s, Taylor got gigs in Los Angeles with blues greats such as Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker. He played in bands around Downey, Calif., with Alvin’s older brother, Phil Alvin, in the early 1970s before getting hired to tour with the California rock band Canned Heat. "He was the first guy to get out of Downey, so he was sort of our hero,” Dave Alvin said. ~ Taylor moved to Canada in the late 1970s and spent time playing with renowned musician Ronnie Hawkins, whose band the Hawks at one time included members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group the Band. After moving back to California in the early 1980s, Taylor joined the Blasters, recording and touring with the group for several years. ~ Between runs with the Blasters, Taylor also toured with rock ’n’ roll pioneer Ricky Nelson, who died in a plane crash Dec. 31, 1985. ~ “He was supposed to be on the tour when the airplane crash happened,” Alvin said, explaining that Taylor had ended up playing a couple of gigs with the Blasters that week instead. ~ 'He was so looking forward to going back to Europe' Taylor’s initial connection to the Fabulous Thunderbirds was another fateful encounter, on a night when both Alvin and Taylor simultaneously quit the Blasters. Band members “were fighting onstage in Montreal, and I just decided this was the end for me,” Alvin said, noting that the Thunderbirds had opened the show. Taylor made the same decision. Alvin recalls that “Gene walked directly onto the Thunderbirds’ bus and said, ‘Do you guys need a piano player?’ ” Taylor remained based in Canada for a few more years after that - he shared a Juno Award with Austin’s Doug Sahm and Canada’s Amos Garrett for their 1987 collaborative album “The Return of the Formerly Brothers” - before moving to Austin in 1993 to join the Thunderbirds. He recorded and toured with the group until 2006. More:Matthew McConaughey organizing virtual fundraiser for Texas winter storm relief efforts In addition to playing on albums by James Harman, the Red Devils, John Hammond and others, Taylor made three solo records: 1986’s “Handmade,” a 2003 self-titled album and 2013’s “Roadhouse Memories.” He performed often at nightclubs around Austin and had a weekly residency at the Continental Club with guitarist Chris Ruest in 2017. ~ McMillan said Taylor, who at one point lived for several years in Belgium, had been set to perform in Sweden in early 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic hit. “He was so looking forward to going back to Europe to play,” McMillan said. “They loved him over there.” Taylor stood out as a pianist because of the “percussive intensity of his playing, which harkened back to early blues boogie players,” Alvin said. “A lot of modern-day pianists, when they play that stuff, sound like they’re coming at it from the outside. With Gene, it always sounded like it was coming straight from the inside.” ~~~ (rip) Gene Taylor ~~~

worked with him several times & every time was an honor & a joy. Thank you & may you be forever blessed. RIP

Played with him in the late 80"s when he was in Toronto. A fantastic player , I was lucky

How beautiful. Astonishing fabulous playing. RIP

Outstanding playing! RIP :(

RIP Gene - you brought us so much

Awh - RIP. Let the music play on.

RIP sir, thank you for the music.

We all know Gene wont be resting them fingers in heaven anytime soon RIP sir😔🙏

GENE GENE THE MEAN MACHINE THE BADDEST IVORY TICKLER ON DA SCENE ~ TOP JIMMY CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042

He brought such joy.

Gene Taylor God bless you up in heaven I just found out I was getting ready to call you and wish you happy 4th of July. I bet you're having fun with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and all the musicians that have passed on over the years. I love you my friend. I bartended at the peanut gallery where I met you and we hung out together and then we'd go next door to the bar that had a piano and hard liquor and you'd play piano and get free shots of whiskey and I get free beers just for being with you and being your friend. I was wondering why I haven't heard from you and I saw it when I went to your Facebook page. God bless you up in heaven I miss you so much. I love you Gene Taylor ♥️☮️♥️☮️😇🎹🎹🎹☮️☮️

Respect, R.I.P. 🙏

R.I.Peace Sir!

R.I.P.

Rip big fella.

Excellent pianiste

RIP🎹🎹🎹🎹

🖤

EVERYTIME GENE STAYED AT THE HOUSE THERE WENT ALL THE WEED BOOZE AND BEER GONNA MISS GENE TAYLOR CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042

Gene Taylor died in Austin today 💔

Better than Jerry Lee Lewis I would say and I love Jerry Lee.. Regards Tony

Gene was incredible! But off topic & something completely different & just a point of interest? The drummer is a dead ringer (no pun intended) for Jazz keyboard great, Joe Zawinul (Weather Report)...at least for a long stretch of his life. It's uncanny.

wtf!!!!