01/03/2010

T-Bone Walk has died. You don’t think you know who that is, but in fact you totally know who that is. As you’ve already figured out from the picture, T-Bone was the tall lanky bass player on SNL in the GE Smith and the Saturday Night Live band era that spanned most of the 90’s. T-Bone is an all time classic “That Guy!”  The kind of guy that is always in the background, but because of his presence, draws your attention to the background and sooner or later, makes the background the foreground. Episode after episode, always at GE’s side at the breaks, digging deep, getting funky and dressed like some kind late 19th century pimp — T-Bone was a guy you’d remember. He also was a long time session musician and member of Hall and Oates band… but to me, he’ll always be a TV classic.  Someday, down the road I’ll be watching an SNL rerun with Farley, Sandler and the crew and when they go to commercial, someone will say, “Dude, did you see that guy?” I’ll be happy, after all these years of not knowing his name, to be able to respond, “Dude, that’s T-Bone.”

T-Bone Walk has died.

You don’t think you know who that is, but in fact you totally know who that is.

As you’ve already figured out from the picture, T-Bone was the tall lanky bass player on SNL in the GE Smith and the Saturday Night Live band era that spanned most of the 90’s.

T-Bone is an all time classic “That Guy!”  The kind of guy that is always in the background, but because of his presence, draws your attention to the background and sooner or later, makes the background the foreground.

Episode after episode, always at GE’s side at the breaks, digging deep, getting funky and dressed like some kind late 19th century pimp — T-Bone was a guy you’d remember.

He also was a long time session musician and member of Hall and Oates band… but to me, he’ll always be a TV classic.  Someday, down the road I’ll be watching an SNL rerun with Farley, Sandler and the crew and when they go to commercial, someone will say, “Dude, did you see that guy?”

I’ll be happy, after all these years of not knowing his name, to be able to respond, “Dude, that’s T-Bone.”

Photo posted at 12:05

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