{"id":2595,"date":"2010-03-01T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-01T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:14:04","slug":"t-bone-wolk-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/t-bone-wolk-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Bone Wolk Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/wolk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/wolk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"539\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Mad props from one Danko fan to another!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>T-Bone Wolk<\/strong>, longtime <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/hits-that-should-have-appeared-on-an-art\">Hall &amp; Oates<\/a><\/strong> collaborator and bassist for the <strong>G.E. Smith<\/strong> (another H&amp;O alum)-led <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> house, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/news\/hall-oates-bassist-t-bone-wolk-dies-1004071711.story?tag=hpfeed#\/news\/hall-oates-bassist-t-bone-wolk-dies-1004071711.story?tag=hpfeed\" target=_blank>died Saturday, February 27, of a heart attack<\/a>. Known as the third (or sometime fourth, behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/title_22\">Oates&#8217; mustache<\/a>) member of Hall &amp; Oates, Wolk first made his professional mark as a bassist on Kurtis Blow&#8217;s &#8220;These Are the Breaks.&#8221; Along with being the cool, hat-wearing, occasionally <strong>Rick Danko<\/strong>-style bass-playing foil to the ponytailed, grimacing Smith (who in fairness may be as fantastic a human being as they come), Wolk played with Elvis Costello, Roseanne Cash, and many more. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years Wolk was often seen playing guitar alongside Hall &amp; Oates, which taking nothing away from his 6-string chops just wasn&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad props from one Danko fan to another! T-Bone Wolk, longtime Hall &amp; Oates collaborator and bassist for the G.E. Smith (another H&amp;O alum)-led Saturday Night Live house, died Saturday, February 27, of a heart attack. Known as the third (or sometime fourth, behind Oates&#8217; mustache) member of Hall &amp; Oates, Wolk first made his <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/t-bone-wolk-dead\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}