Herbie Flowers

[Findlayhibby]

Bassist and tuba player Flowers has died at the ageof 86.He played with Blue Mink, he played with T Rex,Bowie, Elton John and countless others.For me his greatest moment is Lou Reed's Transformer album.The bass riff on Take a Walk on the Wildside is iconic.A track which was a rite of Passage for myself, a song I heard when I was 10,about Transexualism just a few years after the Stonewall Riots,a hot topic now, groundbreaking 50 years ago.Anyway RIP Herbie.

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

Legend. Always seemed to have the right tricks n riffs for the studio work which I think was his forte (but I never saw him live!) - now very sad to hear this as he was an oft-unrecognised background to a big chunk of my youth.

Worked with a lot of the greats who he will be cooking up some low hooks for in the big RCA studio in the sky as I write.

RIP Herbie

 

[Archie]

Bassist and tuba player Flowers has died at the ageof 86.He played with Blue Mink, he played with T Rex,Bowie, Elton John and countless others.For me his greatest moment is Lou Reed's Transformer album.The bass riff on Take a Walk on the Wildside is iconic.A track which was a rite of Passage for myself, a song I heard when I was 10,about Transexualism just a few years after the Stonewall Riots,a hot topic now, groundbreaking 50 years ago.Anyway RIP Herbie.

It's a fantastic bass line, made up of electric and double bass. What a production by Mick Robson (though Bowie was credited too). But Herbie Flowers also wrote...Grandad for Clive Dunn!

 

[GORDONSMITH7]

He was very talented.

BIG G