![]() Well, let’s see… I’ll play the fiddle.” Still, he said, “I didn’t learn it so I could work. You want to be in a band? Oh, oh, they already have a five-string player. I can remember having conversations about that with everybody. ![]() ![]() Lindley’s multi-instrumental abilities soon made him a popular session player because I played everything. “Then a light bulb came on… Hey, hey… Lindley… come on… wake the fuck up! Check this out! So I did, and boy, did it work.” “I also went to a party in Balboa and there was a guy there with a guitar just strumming chords, you know, and there were all these girls hanging around him,” he said in a conversation with ToneQuest. “It was very much a classical music family, so what did I get interested in? Hillbilly music, dammit!” Ultimately, though, “I just had this burning interest in any instrument that had strings on it.” His early influences ranged from Duane Eddy to the Kingston Trio to Segovia, with no small assist from an uncle who was a concert pianist playing at the Hollywood Bowl, not to mention a father who listened to classical Indian folk music. “My mom and dad were disturbed by their son, the hillbilly musician,” Lindley laughed in an interview. Lindley started out playing five-string banjo, growing up in San Marino, Calif. VlVo0GS元7- Steve Silberman March 3, 2023Īfter starting out as a bluegrass player with the group the Dry City Scat Band, Lindley had his first band of real renown with Kaleidoscope, which Jimmy Page was said to have described while he was still with the Yardbirds as “my favorite band of all time - my ideal band.” He was so obviously brilliant musically he didn't have to care at all about looking "cute." So he wore the most bizarre and garish shirts possible under that sly grin and rat's nest of hair. One more thing about the late great #DavidLindley in time for tomorrow's #WeirdPride day.
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