Walter 'Shep' Cooke was a member of one of Tucson's most promising bands of the 1960s before working with Linda Ronstadt and then going solo. He was 76.
Cathalena E. Burch Walter"Shep" Cooke, the bass player for one of Tucson's most promising 1960s bands and a member of Linda Ronstadt's Stone Poneys band that launched her national career, died early Monday, Nov. 7, at his Tucson home.
People are also reading… Cooke is perhaps best known for playing bass in The Dearly Beloved, the 1960s Tucson band that was on the verge of a national breakthrough when their lead singer was killed in a car accident outside Yuma in 1967. “Shep was, in my opinion, easily the best musician in the band," said Dearly Beloved founder and guitarist Terry Lee."I think he was one of the best players in one of the best bands. ... He was just the kind of torchbearer of the music of the 1960s.”
Cooke was only with Stone Poneys for several months, touring the country and appearing on a pair of national TV shows, before he left"a little disillusioned about 'the big time,'" he wrote.
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