|
Post by leeophonic on Mar 3, 2023 20:08:50 GMT
Sad Sad news David Lindley has lost his recent battle, really sad for those who loved his music and iconic style.
Lee
This is a performance that I keep playing, great tone from the old Valco pickup (Dumble helps aswell)
And another with a nice Koa Squareneck and the sunrise pickup
|
|
|
Post by Pickers Ditch on Mar 3, 2023 20:22:06 GMT
Oh no! Thanks for the music Mr.Lindley. What a legacy. Sleep tight and peacefully.
|
|
|
Post by Michael Messer on Mar 3, 2023 22:48:39 GMT
Oh that is just so sad. I have been listening to David’s music for many decades. Only recently I posted on here about him.
Phew, that is hard to take in.
David Lindley >RIP
|
|
|
Post by Brad Bechtel on Mar 4, 2023 13:55:49 GMT
I first saw David Lindley with Jackson Browne at Fullerton College gymnasium in Fullerton, CA around 1973. Linda Ronstadt was the opening act.
I saw him several other times with Jackson Browne (especially the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles), with El Rayo X, and in duos with Hani Nasr and later on Wally Ingram.
One of the most memorable shows was at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, where he broke two strings during the same song and was unable to keep playing because he was laughing so hard.
He was a major lap steel player, probably the main reason most lap steel players sound the way they do. I last saw him at the Fillmore for a reunion of El Rayo X in 1989.
The few times I met him personally he always had a twinkle in his eye. Rest easy, Mr. Lint Free. Condolences to your family and many friends throughout the world.
|
|
|
Post by pascal on Mar 4, 2023 21:31:10 GMT
I am devasted.
|
|
|
Post by Michael Messer on Mar 7, 2023 9:20:00 GMT
I have been away for a few days and with just my iPhone I could not do this properly. I was going to post something from a newspaper or the BBC website, but then I read this extraordinary and beautiful eulogy posted on Facebook which was written by David Lindley's friend and booking agent, Mike Kappus. I do hope Mike won't mind me posting his eulogy on here, but I have not read anything that even comes close to Mike's words about his friend. I have not changed or edited any part of this, it is exactly as Mike wrote it. March 5th 2023 - 01:15 The incomparable David Lindley has passed.
David was about the coolest person you can imagine. I was deeply shocked and saddened by David’s passing and unsure about posting anything but decided to share about him for those who may not be aware. This is long but please read on.
How about his talent being so admired by his peers that he recorded and / or toured with Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield, Dolly Parton, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, Ry Cooder, Crosby Stills and Nash, Rod Stewart, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, Patti Austin, Lonnie Mack, Neil Sedaka, Terry Reid, James Taylor, Warren Zevon and the list goes on and on. David was a true virtuoso on every stringed instrument you can think of and some you may never have known existed – more naturally, guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, upright and electric bass and violin but also ouds, bouzoukis, Turkish Saz, gumbus, charango and many more instruments played by few musicians outside the Middle East.
David was a hilarious storyteller who could slide easily from his natural voice to Jamaican patois to his spot on imitations of Jimmy Stewart and others. And he typically made sure that even his clothes were entertaining, priding himself on his latest outrageous finds in polyester shirts and pants.
Years ago we shared stories from our Catholic upbringings, after which David referred to me in all communications as Monsignor Robert (my actual first name) Michael while referring to himself as Sister Mary David of The Sisters of Perpetual Guilt.
When we first began booking David, he sent us a tour book that he created for his upcoming tour. These typically document all the needed info for every show on a tour but David also added his own hilarious descriptions of the nature of each venue and promoter as well as his descriptions of the venue's usual clientele (really funny but also without any condescension or negativity). When I first read it, I was working late, alone in my office and laughed until I cried.
During our earliest years representing David, he was mainly playing in duets with Wally Ingram and at a different time with Hani Nasser, having left his band El Rayo X behind when louder rock music was causing hearing troubles for him. Promoters kept asking about El Rayo X and David finally agreed to do a short series of shows with the band, which we also got to book. I had never seen him with the band and one of the first shows we booked for them was at The Fillmore in San Francisco. After the first song I was blown away by the band and thrilled that we got to book them.
Every interaction with David, whether in person or written (he would decorate faxes and letters with his own classic illustrations) or on the phone was a treat and an honor.
As the list of famous names above indicates, David knew a LOT of people and they likely all have treasured stories of their own interactions with David. There was just absolutely no one remotely like him. He will be SO missed by all who knew him or his music, which luckily he has left behind for all of us.
In addition to the song below with Jackson Browne, here are some more great samples of David’s incredible talent: David duets with frequent collaborator and friend, Ry Cooder on Ry’s Bop Til You Drop album. One of my favorite songs in life with beautiful playing by both David and Ry on "Think Its Going To Work Out fine"- bit.ly/3kKByWV
Perhaps David’s best known song on a record of his own, with El Rayo X, -"Mercury Blues", produced by Jackson Browne - bit.ly/3yjmPVP
And catch the shared expressions of love and mutual admiration as David duets with Bonnie Raitt on "Everywhere I Go" bit.ly/3JdMjdy
David covers "The Vast Indifference of Heaven" by his long-time friend, the late Warren Zevon bit.ly/3IQGNMP
Hope you enjoy these and of course there's more gems on Youtube by a somewhat unsung musical hero of our time, the great David Lindley. I'm forever grateful to have known and represented David and only wish he could have stayed with us, in good health, much longer.
Mike Kappus---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you Mike for writing such a perfect eulogy. Shine On Michael
|
|
|
Post by Pickers Ditch on Mar 7, 2023 10:35:42 GMT
As you say, Perfect!
...and also a Rocking David..
|
|
|
Post by michaelsegui on Mar 8, 2023 17:40:25 GMT
I only got to see him once a few years ago. He told hilarious stories and was musically brilliant. My favourite story was about him meeting Walt Disney while high on acid in the tunnels under Disneyland during the 1960s.
|
|
|
Post by pascal on Mar 8, 2023 17:54:26 GMT
Henry Kaiser did this wonderful obituary the other day:
|
|