Bassist and Classic Rock Legend Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge has Died


Klaus Hiltscher - https://www.flickr.com/photos/khiltscher/4921150642/in/faves-24788065@N02/ 1972 - Tim Bogert, bass & vocals - Beck, Bogert & Appice CC BY-SA 2.0view terms File:Tim Bogert 1972 (cropped).jpg Created: 23 August 2010 (Upload date) Actual photo date: 1972

 

As first reported by Piercing Metal and shared by his friend and bandmate for 50 years, Carmine Appice, rock legend Tim Bogert has died. Tim was 76 years old but had been battling cancer in the last few years. Getting his start in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, Bogert pioneered classic rock bass guitar with virtuoso playing in bands such as Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and the power trio Beck, Bogart and Appice with Rock And Roll Hall of Famer, Jeff Beck. In addition to his playing, he was one of the signature players of the original Fender Precision “P-bass” and made great use of distortion, which would later influence Geezer Butler, Lemmy, Cliff Burton, and others. Tim formerly retired from touring the last ten years of his life but continued to form bands and record albums, notably blues projects. Vanilla Fudge helped innovate a psychedelic sound and proto-heavy metal that has been imitated and copied endlessly. Rest in power, Tim