Дэвид Линдли: Музыкант, "Принц Полиэстера" и мастер струнных инструментов.

American musician (1944–2023)

David Perry Lindley (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2023) was an American musician who founded the rock band El Rayo X and worked with many other performers including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Warren Zevon, Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton. He mastered such a wide variety of instruments that Acoustic Guitar magazine referred to him not as a multi instrumentalist but instead as a "maxi instrumentalist." On stage, Lindley was known for wearing garishly colored polyester shirts with clashing pants, gaining the nickname the Prince of Polyester. The majority of the instruments that Lindley played are string instruments, including violin, acoustic and electric guitar, upright and electric bass, banjo, mandolin, dobro, hardingfele, bouzouki, cittern, bağlama, gumbus, charango, cümbüş, oud and zither. He was the unparalleled master of the lap steel guitar in the rock music sphere, and an expert in Hawaiian style slide guitar blues. Lindley was a founding member of the 1960s psychedelic band Kaleidoscope and worked as musical director for several touring artists.

David Perry Lindley was born in San Marino, California, to Margaret and John Royal Young Lindley (brother of actress Loretta Young) on March 21, 1944. When Lindley was growing up in Los Angeles, his father had an extensive collection of 78 rpm records that included Korean folk and Indian sitar music, as well as Spanish classical guitarists Andrés Segovia and Carlos Montoya. Lindley took up the violin at age three, and kept at it despite breaking the fragile bridge. He then moved on to the baritone ukulele in his early teens. He played banjo with the Dry City Scat Band which included multi instrumentalist Chris Darrow, and Richard Greene on fiddle. Lindley and his bandmates aspired to emulate multi talented folk singer Mike Seeger. Lindley began to frequent the Los Angeles–area folk music scene of the 1960s, primarily going to the Ash Grove club, but also attending the Troubador in West Hollywood, encountering an eclectic assortment of music including flamenco, Russian folk music, and Indian sitar music. Lindley formed an especially close relationship with Cooder; the two shared a love of "exotic music", and they both turned away from corporate mainstream music to focus on less popular idioms such as folk and world music. At Ash Grove, Lindley learned from traveling blues and folk musicians the "right" way to play certain styles, and he learned violin methods from local star Don "Sugarcane" Harris. From 1966 to 1970, Lindley was a founding member of the psychedelic band Kaleidoscope which released four albums on Epic Records during that period. The media often commented on his colorful polyester clothing, with jarring contrasts between pants and shirt, earning him the nickname Prince of Polyester. Artist Ben Harper credited Lindley's distinctive slide guitar style as a major influence on his own playing, and, in 2006, Lindley sat in on Harper's album Both Sides of the Gun. He was known in the guitar community for his use of "cheap" instruments sold at Sears department stores and intended for amateurs. He used these for the unique sounds they produce, especially with a slide. In the early 1990s, he toured and recorded with Hani Naser adding percussive instruments to his solo performances, and his instrumental repertoire which he used in his session work. Lindley also toured extensively and recorded with reggae percussionist Wally Ingram. Lindley's voice may be heard in the version of "Stay" performed by Jackson Browne. Browne's version is a continuation of "The Load Out", and its refrain is sung in progressively higher vocal ranges. The refrain of "Oh won't you stay, just a little bit longer" is sung first by Browne, then by Rosemary Butler, then by Lindley in falsetto. Lindley joined Jackson Browne for a tour of Spain in 2006. Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino, a 2 CD set of recordings from that tour, was released 2010, with Browne and Lindley touring together starting in June of that year. They played together at Glastonbury Festival in 2010, and they won an Independent Music Award for Best Live Performance Album in 2011.

Lindley had a large collection of rare and unusual guitars and other instruments from the Middle East and various parts of the world. He listed and categorized many of them on his website but admitted that he had "absolutely no idea" how many instruments he owned and played, having gathered them since the 1960s.

Lindley married Joan Darrow, the sister of his musical colleague Chris Darrow from the band Kaleidoscope. The Lindleys lived in a quiet neighborhood of Claremont, California. He had COVID 19 in 2020, which his family said developed into Long COVID, with chronic kidney damage.

Year Title US Billboard 200 Label Notes 1981 El Rayo X83Asylum1982 Win This Record!— Elektra 1983 El Rayo Live— Elektra / Rhino 1985 Mr. Dave— Wounded Bird 1988Very Greasy174 Elektra1991 The Indian Runner—original soundtrack with Jack Nitzsche A World Out of Time—Shanachie Recordswith Henry Kaiser in Madagascar 1992In the Running— Elektra/East West Recordswith Howard Jones1994 The Sweet Sunny North— Shanachie Records Wheels of the Sun— Hermans Records by Kazu Matsui with Hani NaserOfficial Bootleg #1: Live in Tokyo Playing Real Good — Ulftonewith Hani Naser1995 Song of Sacajawea — Rabbit EarsOfficial Bootleg #2: Live All Over the Place Playing Even Better— Ulftone with Hani Naser 2000Twango Bango Deluxe— with Wally Ingram 2001 Twango Bango II—with Wally Ingram 2003 Twango Bango III — with Wally Ingram 2004 Live in Europe — with Wally Ingram 2007 David Lindley—Big Twang—