# "Like A Bridge Over Troubled Water" Larry Knechtel die.

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**Created:** [August 24, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-bridge-over-troubled-water-larry-knechtel-die/507561 "2009-08-24T22:44:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-bridge-over-troubled-water-larry-knechtel-die/507561/1 "2009-08-24T22:44:21Z")

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Larry Knechtel, a Grammy award-winning keyboardist who arranged “Like A Bridge Over Troubled Water” has passed away. ☹  
[Variety](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007629.html?categoryId=25&cs=1) You might also remember him as the bassist in The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” and as Bread’s “The Guitar Man”

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-bridge-over-troubled-water-larry-knechtel-die/507561/2 "2009-08-24T23:22:59Z")

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Wow, a real veteran has gone. He also plays uncredited bass on the Doors’ first album, among about a million other sessions.