| Author |
Topic: David Lindley |
David Ball
From:
North Carolina High Country
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 1:46 pm |
|
Fretboard Journal just posted that David Lindley passed away today. RIP Mr. Dave...
Dave |
|
|
 |
Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 2:11 pm
|
|
Oh no! This is a real loss. RIP David.
_________________
Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
|
|
|
Mike Neer
From:
NJ
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 2:11 pm
|
|
To the family and friends of Mr. Lindley I just want to say your pain and grief is shared with the multitude of us who loved and respected him. May that give comfort to everyone.
_________________
Links to streaming music, websites, YouTube: Links |
|
|
|
David Ball
From:
North Carolina High Country
|
|
|
|
Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 2:57 pm
|
|
| This is horrible news. David has been such a monumental figure in my musical world, and that of so many others. I can't think of another musician of any era like him. He just defied any type of neat categorization, a true musician of the world. RIP, Mr. Dave. |
|
|
|
Robert Murphy
From:
West Virginia
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 3:31 pm
|
|
| The most talented and down to earth funny guy I have ever seen live. Prayers for his family and many friends. |
|
|
|
Mark Keating
From:
Colorado, USA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 4:04 pm David Lindley
|
|
This is a tough one. Mr. Dave was the sole reason I picked up a slide back in the early '70s, and the fiddle thereafter. A remarkable inspiration, to me and a million others. Most heartfelt condolences to Joan and Rosanne.
Vaya con Dios, David. |
|
|
|
HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 4:21 pm
|
|
I'm sorry to hear of Mr. Dave's passing......my sympathy and condolences to his family......
In the early 70s we had Sneaky Pete, Rusty Young, and Buddy Cage to push the pedal steel into new & upcoming country music.....in rock, country rock, and other unusual genres, we had David Lindley......now, they're all together and hopefully laughing at Mr. Dave's spot on impersonation of Jack Nicholson.......
We all miss you David.....thank you for everything that you gave us...... |
|
|
|
Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 4:57 pm
|
|
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.
_________________
Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
|
|
|
K Maul
From:
Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 5:59 pm
|
|
I echo everyone else's feelings. He meant so much to me and my musical sensibilities. I really can’t even talk about it.
_________________
KEVIN MAUL: Airline, Beard, Clinesmith, Danelectro, Evans, Fender, GFI, Gibson, Hilton, Ibanez, Justice, K+K, Live Strings, MOYO, National, Oahu, Peterson, Quilter, Rickenbacher, Sho~Bud, Supro, TC, Ultimate, VHT, Williams, X-otic, Yamaha, ZKing. |
|
|
|
Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 6:22 pm
|
|
Proving again you don't have to have a mountain of gear to make beautiful music. Happy trails trouper!
_________________
LeGrande II, Nash. 112, Fender Twin Tone Master, Session 400, Harlow Dobro, R.Q.Jones Dobro |
|
|
|
Eric Dahlhoff
From:
Point Arena, California
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 6:40 pm
|
|
I really adored Mister Dave.
Way back then, I didn't even know what those weird guitars on his lap were... but they sure sounded awesome!
What a funny and wonderful human.
_________________
"To live outside the law you must be honest." (Bob Dylan) |
|
|
|
Ted Smith
From:
Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 7:00 pm
|
|
So Sad...absolutely a wonderful guy! Always would take the time to talk with you and listen. We truly are going to miss him.
_________________
old Melobar guy |
|
|
|
Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 7:45 pm
|
|
I am devastated.
_________________
To write with a broken pencil is pointless. |
|
|
|
Mark Perrodin
From:
Tucson Arizona, USA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 7:54 pm david
|
|
| i was dating a girl in 1986 and she said listen to this cassette. he’s playing the student union in a couple weeks. it was el rayo x. changed the way i heard guitar. super cool. |
|
|
|
Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 9:28 pm
|
|
Ah hell.
It was probably at least 6 years, maybe eight years ago ? when I saw him last at the Belly Up in Solana Beach. The thing I remember that struck me, besides his buddha-like way of holding court on stage, (with his great collection of deep-bodied weissenborns and other exotic stringed instruments), was the audience. The audience was mostly guys my age. Old guys. Looking around, I was guessing most were guitar players, they seemed there to hear,listen, laugh, and adore their string-ed wise-cracking lap steel dalai llama. It reminded me of a respectful crowd of well-reads , listening to a reading by Allan Ginsberg, or Gary Snyder, or Lawrence Ferlinghetti…..
Sometimes you could hear a pin drop. In-between the laughs of course.
What a guy. RIP Mr. Dave.
This Gone Home Section is getting to be like being forced to watch Old Yeller over and over.
But you can’t turn away.
Seems that all my flags are at half-mast.
_________________
A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first.
Last edited by Brooks Montgomery on 3 Mar 2023 9:46 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
|
|
David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 9:38 pm
|
|
He pretty much defined pop/rock lapsteel for a generation. He played with the best, always making them sound better. He could cross over in any direction and still sound like himself.
A deeply profound loss.
RIP DL!
_________________
DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
|
|
|
Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
|
Posted 3 Mar 2023 10:23 pm
|
|
Goodbye Mr Dave. Thanks for all the music. Prayers for the family.
 |
|
|
|
Daniel Dickie
From:
Queensland, Australia
|
Posted 4 Mar 2023 2:13 am
|
|
RIP David Lindley
Loved his solo's on the Jackson Browne albums.
I also believe that he played some of the solos on a couple of Australian singer Jimmy Barnes' songs.
Driving Wheels and Working Class Man.
Haven't listened to his El Rayo stuff, will have to get onto that |
|
|
|
Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
|
|
|
|
Chris Boyd
From:
Leonia,N.J./Charlestown,R.I.
|
Posted 4 Mar 2023 5:53 am
|
|
Phew..This really hurts. David was #1 and an enormous influence on my musicality starting when I first heard Redneck Friend in 1973.That TONE and impeccable tasty choice of notes! Met him once in Providence when he was touring with EL Rayo X and he was a truly nice person. Funny,witty,humble and warm. Thank you David. You will be forever missed. Mercury Blues will never feel the same.
_________________
https://www.reverbnation.com/bigredandtheresonators |
|
|
|
Russ Tkac
|
Posted 4 Mar 2023 9:23 am
|
|
In 1980 before a Jackson Brown concert, I showed David a picture of 5 Rickenbacker's I had, two 6 strings and a 7 string bakelite, a Silver Hawaiian and a Spanish neck Bakelite. He asked if I still had the Spanish neck one? I told him I had sold it. He said, "You f'er." I still smile remembering the gleam in his eyes. Such a loss. |
|
|
|
Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
|
Posted 4 Mar 2023 9:46 am
|
|
Another of my heroes is gone:
Here he is from a few years ago playing the Noah Lewis classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLq9HgGP8G8
R.I.P. David.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
_________________
Steelin' for Jesus |
|
|
|
Larry Dering
From:
Missouri, USA
|
Posted 4 Mar 2023 4:40 pm
|
|
| Tragic news. I'm deeply saddened by this. David was a musical force in the industry. A breath of fresh air to the many lap steel players. His influence covers a wide range of ages and styles. Rip David. My prayers for his family and friends. |
|
|
|
Bruce Derr
From:
Lee, New Hampshire, USA
|
Posted 4 Mar 2023 4:40 pm
|
|
| I got goose bumps the first time I heard the lap steel solo in "To Know Him Is To Love Him" on the Trio album. And his steel work on Running On Empty still does that to me regularly after all these years. I'm so grateful for all the inspiration Dave has given me. |
|
|
|
