Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, musical director for Hall & Oates and "Live From Daryl's House", and bass player in the "Saturday Night Live" house band from 1986 to 1992 (when it was led by guitarist G.E. Smith), has died from a heart attack at age 58.Daryl Hall said shock was "the ultimate understatement."
"T-Bone was my musical brother and losing him is like losing my right hand," Hall said in a statement. "It's not if I will go on, but how. T-Bone was one of the most sensitive and good human beings that I have ever known. And, I can truly say that I loved him."
Hall's longtime musical partner, John Oates, said Wolk made everyone around him a better musician.
A busy session musician, Wolk appeared on scores of recordings with such varied artists as Bette Midler, Billy Joel and Avril Lavigne. He played bass on several of Elvis Costello's recordings, accordion on Robert Palmer's "Heavy Nova" and guitar on Carly Simon's "Coming Around Again."
"Any instrument that he touched resonated with a sensitivity and skill level that I have never experienced while playing with any other musician," Oates said. "He possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of styles and musical history which he referenced to support all the artists that he played with over the years. So many times when I'm working on a musical passage or part, I think to myself: 'How would T-Bone play this' and aspire to his level every time I perform," Oates said in a statement. "To this day I always keep one of his 'I Love Vermont' guitar picks with me where ever I go and know in my heart that starting today the Heavenly Band just got one of the greatest multi-instrumentalists of all time and that band will from this day forward sound better than they ever have before."
According to Hall & Oates manager, Jonathan Wolfson, "Daryl used to refer to him as the ampersand in Hall & Oates." He adding both members of the duo were crushed by the loss.
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