David Lindley, journeyman multi-instrumentalist who performed with Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and plenty of extra, has died at age 78.
Lindley’s passing was confirmed to the Los Angeles Instances, although an official reason behind loss of life was not given.
Born on March 21, 1944, in San Marino, Calif., Lindley performed a wide range of stringed devices as a toddler, together with violin, ukulele, banjo and fiddle. He shortly established a popularity as one of the vital gifted musicians on the scene, profitable the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest 5 instances by his late teenagers.
Lindley performed with the psychedelic folks group Kaleidoscope from 1966 to 1970, showing on the band’s first 4 albums. He was a boldly experimental participant even then, attacking his guitar with a violin bow — a transfer later immortalized by Jimmy Web page, who known as Kaleidoscope his “favourite band of all time.”
“David was a grasp of that method, and we’re nonetheless unsure if Web page took it from David or not,” Kaleidoscope’s Chris Darrow advised It is Psychedelic Child Journal in 2011. “We all know he and Robert Plant got here to see us on the Avalon Ballroom and noticed us carry out the tune [with the bow]!”
Ater Kaleidoscope disbanded, Lindley accepted an invite to hitch Browne’s band, a place he held for a decade. Lindley performed guitar and different devices on 5 consecutive Browne albums, starting with 1973’s For Everyman and together with the multiplatinum hits The Pretender, Operating on Empty and Maintain Out. He additionally delivered a co-lead vocal on Empty hit “Keep,” performing the long-lasting falsetto chorus on the tune’s finish.
“It would have been onerous to exit and play these songs with simply anyone,” Browne advised PBS of Lindley in 2021. “No person performs like him.”
Hearken to Jackson Browne’s ‘Keep’
Whereas enjoying with Browne within the ’70s, Lindley additionally toured with Crosby & Nash, James Taylor and Ronstadt. He was a prolific session musician as effectively, enjoying on albums by Rod Stewart, Warren Zevon, America, Joe Walsh, Ry Cooder and extra. In 1981, he fashioned his personal band, El Rayo-X, and launched their self-titled debut album, produced by Browne.
Lindley’s solo work by no means reached the heights of his well-known collaborators, however that did not trouble him.
“I like all completely different sorts of stuff. That’s one in all my issues,” he advised Rock Cellar Journal in 2016. “I by no means quiet down in a single space. At one level, I had the possibility to go the Kiss route, however I made a decision to play what I appreciated. I might fairly fiddle. It is extra enjoyable.”
Lindley is survived by his spouse, Joan Darrow — sister of his Kaleidoscope bandmate Chris Darrow — and their daughter, Rosanne Lindley.
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