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Sorry to hear about David Lindley. In the '80s, he would play solo around Los Angeles a lot, and I tried to go see him whenever I could because his shows were fun and he always had really good people playing with him, and good stories.

Listen to the World Out of Time records he and Henry Kaiser did with local musicians in Madagascar. Really fantastic stuff. They're on Spotify.

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wm.oliver wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:21 pmSpot

I knew he was sick from Tim Kerr's IG. Damn.

wm.oliver wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:21 pmSpot

That's too bad. He engineered some of the best records ever.

iembalm wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:52 am Sorry to hear about David Lindley. In the '80s, he would play solo around Los Angeles a lot, and I tried to go see him whenever I could because his shows were fun and he always had really good people playing with him, and good stories.

Listen to the World Out of Time records he and Henry Kaiser did with local musicians in Madagascar. Really fantastic stuff. They're on Spotify.

Yes, I read about this. Don't know a huge amount about his career as a session musician but I loved Kaleidoscope. It's a shame that most of the obituaries I've seen only seem to focus on the fact that he worked with Jackson Browne.

wm.oliver wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:21 pmSpot

Indeed. Meat Puppets - or whoever's running the account on their behalf - posted about it on their Facebook page. He may not have had the most polished signature sound - if he had one at all - but he knew how to make records quickly and capture the essence of whomever he produced without costing the bands an arm and a leg.

Spot was there and he got that shit on tape and he didn't get in the way. If that sounds like faint praise...it is not, given the state of rock recording in the early to mid-1980s in much of the US.

Spot. A legend. Was just revisiting Zen Arcade and marveling at what must have been Roger Corman levels of expedited art making there. Hahah.

This is still cool sounding, all of these years later:





That such a swiftly made record is even listenable much less has several bangers on it is a feat. It's not that easy to crank something out like that, for the players OR the engineer. Try it sometime. Will revisit Up on the Sun soon. These (and others) are cool sounding records. Against the grain for a lot of the norms of the time, yeah.



Also, my childhood dog was born in Sheboygan. So there's that.

R.I.P.

Also, on the brighter side, R.I.P. to George and Kellyanne Conway's marriage.

Comedy writers for T.V., get to work.

My dad, only 27 days after my mom. They were married 70 years.