Amber Tamblyn Instagram – For Rolling Stone, I wrote a tribute to my uncle Larry Tamblyn, founding member of the Standells, garage rock icon and godfather of punk music, who died last week. I love you, Larry, and I’ll miss your solidarity, support, and kindness. But I’ll always have your music. Rest well.
“I grew up in a bohemian household in Southern California where icons of the literary, film, and music worlds would often converge. On any given evening, there might be a noted author in our living room reading something they’d just written, or a titan of the fine arts drinking whiskey with my parents at the dinner table. These guests were friends of my parents, one of whom is the actor and artist Russ Tamblyn. As a kid, I knew them to be godfather-type figures — Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, and Neil Young among them — whose presence informed my own life as an artist. But out of all the cool people I was fortunate to grow up around, the coolest of the cool was by far my dad’s little brother, my uncle Larry.”
To read in full, click the link in my bio. Thank you Simon Vozick-Levinson at @rollingstone for publishing, and Aly Sarafa, Cindi Leive, and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd for the support. | Posted on 26/Mar/2025 20:23:47
