David Lindley, a virtuoso guitarist and multi-instrumentalist best known to many for his work with Jackson Browne, as well as a recording and touring artist in his own right, died Friday at age 78.…
No cause of death was immediately given. The musician had been known to have been ailing for some time. A family member posted late last year that Lindley had been repeatedly hospitalized for kidney issues, pneumonia and influenza; a fundraiser that had been recently set up for Lindley and his family said his medical issues “seem to have begun with a terrible bout of Long Covid.”
Lindley also had a longstanding career as a frontman, first with the band Kaleidoscope, which issued four albums in 1967-70, then in the 1980s as the leader of what he called a “party-rock” group, El Rayo-X, with whom he had a minor hit with the classic song “Mercury Blues” in 1981. Lindley started out playing five-string banjo, growing up in San Marino, Calif. — playing literally in the closet. “My mom and dad were disturbed by their son, the hillbilly musician,” Lindley laughed in an interview. “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.
Browne recalled first hearing of Lindley while visiting the Topanga Canyon Banjo and Fiddle Contest, where his future bandmate had been made a judge after winning “about five times in a row.” He told Ben Harper in an interview he didn’t actually get to see Lindley play until he saw his band Kaleidescope perform at the Ash Grove club in Santa Monica, where he was impressed by the musician “playing harp-guitar and electric instruments, but also really steeped in folk music.
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