One of the last remaining Funk Brothers, Bob Babbitt, passes away

You know the bass lines for Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered ", Edwin Starr's "War", the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" or The Capitols' "Cool Jerk". Those were all Babbitt. He did a lot of other things too. He would have been better known but for the fact that he was 2nd best bassist at Motown behind the incomparable James Jamerson. Babbitt was a very very good musician who never really got the credit he deserved.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.