In the early70s, Larry left Sly and the Family Stone and started to produce a band named Hot Chocolate, which he eventually joined and renamed it Graham Central Station. As it turned out, it was beyond repair… and the rest is history! He wasn’t concerned with playing the so called “correct” over hand style method of playing the bass since this was only temporary until the organ could be repaired. So Larry compensated for not having a bass drum by “thumping” the strings and made up for not having a snare drum by “plucking” them. Larry’s mother decided to change their trio into a duo, just bass and piano. George bass from Music Unlimited in San Leandro CA. One night the organ broke down leaving the band without the bass sound they had become used to. Larry taught himself to play the bass pedals while playing the guitar & singing, all at the same time. His mother played piano, with him on guitar and Ruben Kerr on drums (a member of his first band).Īt age 15, one of the nightclubs where they performed regularly had a house organ available that had bass pedals on it. At 15 he joined his mother’s band – “The Dell Graham Trio”. By his teens he was playing a number of instruments including the drums, piano, guitar, bass and harmonica.
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Larry then taught himself to play and that same year he began his professional music career playing in his first band. However at the age of 11 his father gave him his own personal guitar since his father decided he wasn’t going to perform anymore. In Junior high he joined the school band playing drums which he continued to do all the way through high school. At the age of 5 he began preparing for his life course as a performer by learning to tap dance and shortly thereafter began to take piano lessons. was born on Augin Beaumont, Texas but he was raised in Oakland, California.
See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Less impressive is "I'm So Glad It's Summer Again," which is nothing more than a poor man's "Hot Fun in the Summertime." But this album's strengths by far outweigh its weaknesses, and One in a Million You is enthusiastically recommended to R&B lovers. "I Just Can't Stop Dancing" was meant to recall "Dance to the Music," a Sly & the Family Stone smash that Graham had played on in the late '60s - although the song is equally mindful of 1960s Motown and has an appealing personality of its own. This isn't to say that One in a Million You is devoid of up-tempo material one of the best things on the album is the very danceable and infectious "I Just Can't Stop Dancing." Nonetheless, the LP is best-known for its ballads. successfully released Graham's remake of "When We Get Married" (previously recorded by the Dreamlovers and the Intruders) as the follow-up single. And if anyone doubted that Graham's fans wanted to hear him doing a lot of romantic crooning, their fears were put to rest when this LP's sentimental title song became a major hit and Warner Bros.
But when he launched a solo career with 1980s One in a Million You, the singer/electric bassist surprised the R&B world by emphasizing ballads. Buy the album Starting at $12.99Īs the leader of Graham Central Station, Larry Graham was responsible for some of the nastiest, grittiest, most gutbucket funk of the 1970s.
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