Rick Rosas, longtime bass player for Neil Young, dead at 65

Rick Rosas, longtime bass player for Neil Young, has died at the age of 65.

Rosas passed away yesterday (November 6). The respected session musician also played with Jerry Lee Lewis and Etta James over the years, as well as Young associated acts Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Earlier this year Rosas filled in for Crazy Horse bassist Billy Talbot on the Neil Young and Crazy Horse European tour, after Talbot suffered a stroke.

The bass player appeared on six Neil Young albums, between the years 1988 and 2009, and regularly toured with Young, also playing with his wife's band, Pegi Young & the Survivors.

A cause of death is currently unknown.