Legendary American bassist and session musician Leland Sklar talks about his involvement with Bob Carpenter’s sole LP “Silent Passage” - one of the finest records ever pressed in Canada. There’s some really interesting information on Bob and his music - one anecdote describes Bob playing at the farewell party for the Festival Express tour.
"After the final Festival at Calgary, a young guitarist mysteriously showed up at the York Hotel where the farewell party was taking place," Rolling Stone's correspondent wrote, "and with the deep and painful voice of some Ancient Mariner performed songs of unbelievable dignity. No one knew his name. He said: 'It doesn't matter the kind of music I play. Your mind sort of melts and becomes that one place of beautiful bliss which is the only place to be.'"
Also recommended is Ed Och’s essay on Bob which can be found here.
Bob Carpenter was born March 12, 1945 on a reservation near North Bay ON and died in 1995.