David Lindley in concert at FAIRfest 2014, Friday June 20, 2014. This clip shows his first three songs in performance. Videorecorded and edited by Richard K. Thompson.
That gracious performer sitting there just itching to get his fingers on those strings was, is and forever more shall be my MAGICAL MUSICAL MUNCHKIN and he has now gone on ahead damn it.
While or just after he was with Kaleidoscope he won the Topanga Canyon Banjo and Fiddle contest five years in a row. They asked him not to enter in the contest and give someone else a chance..he was that good. Great man and talent..
I have to agree, Him with El Rayo was the most educational concert I ever saw, and beautiful from one end to the other. Treats his band like gold too, at least onstage.
Mr Lindsey’s talent on stringed instruments is far beyond that of 99% of all other musicians!! First time I saw him, he was with Crosby-Nash about 1976. He was playing electric violin (Simply Incredible), slide guitar and acoustic and electric guitars. I was Hooked!! Mr Dave Is Beyond Compare!!!!!
***** This man isn't amazing, he is God on strings!! Forget Clapton! His capabilities make me cry. He conveys feelings and down home earthy feelings...I've admired him since 1982 when he appeared in Germany at the Loreley Concert at Rockpalast.
Cornelis Steinitz i want the stringed instrument on the second song he's playing on this video. I know he has all kinds of special custom instruments and he plays them all. I love his sound and he just is a really wise man who i respect deeply.
What can I say David? You are a true Master - a Musician's Musician. I am so thankful to have been alive at the same time as you and have seen and heard you perform. It will be a long time coming before others are ever able to play like you. Thank You So Very Much. God Bless!
We just saw him at the first stop of his Summer 2017 tour. He had 3 of those hollow-necked Hawaiian guitars in different tunings and he played a number of songs like the first one he played here. I saw him back in the mid-60's when he had his group The Kaleidoscope, and he was wonderful then. A player's player : See him if you get the chance.
I think David was the last beatnik muso that was still playing, it was truly a great loss to the music industry, yes he was even known down here in the deep south (New Zealand) God bless you David Kiwi Rod
The man who stole the water will swim forevermore/ but he'll never reach the land on that golden shore/ that faint white light, will haunt his heart/ til he's only a memory lost in the dark.... Dig a hole in the ground, all the way down to hell/ til there ain't no more water in the Well Well Well/ when you're down on your knees, you got nothin left to sell/ dig a little deeper in the well well well.... The water used to run so clear and so fresh/ now poison creeps in it that withers the flesh/ the man sells us back our water like we're fish on a line/ gonna turn our blood into his wine..... Dig a hole in the ground...chorus You care for your money, like you care for your soul, take care you don't dig yourself into a hole/ til you pay the price that you don't know the worth/ of the air and water, none finer on Earth... Dig a hole in the ground.....chorus
@@hobgoblin4199 , "Well Well Well" was written by Bob Dylan and Danny O'Keefe. Lindley recorded a different version on one of his "official bootleg" CD's where he played it on the Turkish Saz, with a violin bow. It sounds, in Dave's words, "like a McCullough chain saw, or a Kawasaki at 180 mph".
Sadly, Lindley passed away 3/3/23; he had been ill and unable to gig or record for the past two+ years, suffering from long Covid, pneumonia and eventual kidney failure. May he rest in peace. He was unique, one of a kind, a One of One.
David Lindley the Slidemaster! Don't know what he's playing. Sort of a cross between a lap steel and a guitar. Probably his own creation. What a genius.
The first is a Weissenborn guitar which is of Polynesian origin. The classic Hawaiian lap slide guitar and made of Koa wood as per the reason for their rich warm tone. It was adapted by Blues players from the south who had toured the islands in the 1930s. The second is a Irish bouzouki (8 strings, 6 strings would make it a Greek bouzouki)
@@JoeTheGrunt The difference is not in the number of strings. The Irish Bouzouki has a flat back like a guitar, the Greek Bouzouki's body is shaped like a bowl composed of numerous strips of wood. Modern Greek Bouzoukis have 8 strings also, 6 strings is the traditional style like the ones used in 1930s Rembetiko.
Sorry folks. I should read before I post...to make it worse my comment was about the first instrument not the one being discussed. Now I will silence myself and just listen, and listen and listen some more...
It looks like an Irish Bouzouki with an unusual fret job tuned to some open chord. The usual tuning I use on mine is an octave down from a mandolin EADG
@@JayMon39 , Lindley passed away on 3/3/23 from long Covid that lead to pneumonia and kidney failure. You asked about his hybrid Bouzouki ---- he also had an electric bouzouki made from the body of a Vox Bill Wyman teardrop bass with a bouzouki neck grafted onto it, and earthquake sensors for pickups. It sounded thunderous! PS, His long illness and inability to play gigs led to a huge stack of medical bills over the last couple of years, and Lindley's friend music promoter Douglas Reynolds had set up a donation drive and T-shirt sale to benefit Dave's wife Joanie, through the Custom Ink website. I bought a couple of T shirts and left a donation in Dave's memory, but the donation drive has since closed. It both saddens and angers me that a musician of his caliber should need a benefit drive for he and his family in order to defray medical and funeral costs.
@@oldbladderhorn , Lindley actually did live in England, with his wide and baby daughter, in the early 70s for a couple years, when he was playing guitar with Terry Reid. England was where he first became heavily exposed to Reggae and Ska and became a lifelong convert to it.
I have loved guitar and blues all my life. ..Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson....but David Lindley surpasses them all. A true gift to hear him play Well,Well Well..
RIP David
Sad to know he's on the long walk. They don't make them like they used to. Forever missed.
That gracious performer sitting there just itching to get his fingers on those strings was, is and forever more shall be my MAGICAL MUSICAL MUNCHKIN and he has now gone on ahead damn it.
While or just after he was with Kaleidoscope he won the Topanga Canyon Banjo and Fiddle contest five years in a row. They asked him not to enter in the contest and give someone else a chance..he was that good. Great man and talent..
According to an interview in Guitar Player Magazine in about 1982 (give or take...), they asked him to join the judges.
The king of lap guitar. The tone was spectacular.
rip Mr dave!
It's hard to belive that this man whas in a small town in norway in the early 80's. Thank you for that. Memories for life♥️
there is absolutely no one better than David Lindley. He is the master.
I have to agree, Him with El Rayo was the most educational concert I ever saw, and beautiful from one end to the other. Treats his band like gold too, at least onstage.
HE WAS A FRIKKIN MAGICIAN
Mr Lindsey’s talent on stringed instruments is far beyond that of 99% of all other musicians!! First time I saw him, he was with Crosby-Nash about 1976. He was playing electric violin (Simply Incredible), slide guitar and acoustic and electric guitars. I was Hooked!! Mr Dave Is Beyond Compare!!!!!
Lindley - 😐
LEGEND
THIS GUY IS FUCKING AMAZING
***** This man isn't amazing, he is God on strings!! Forget Clapton! His capabilities make me cry. He conveys feelings and down home earthy feelings...I've admired him since 1982 when he appeared in Germany at the Loreley Concert at Rockpalast.
Cornelis Steinitz i want the stringed instrument on the second song he's playing on this video. I know he has all kinds of special custom instruments and he plays them all. I love his sound and he just is a really wise man who i respect deeply.
genau - das war der Initialzünder :-)
@@neohomme me too
Passed out watching a Ry Cooder video, I guess autoplay is turned on cause I woke up to this. Wow! Buddy really is amazing
David. RIP
heaven....mr lindley u r a god
Great quality of sound and vison. David was a treasure. Always will be missed.
RIP, brother David .. beautiful soul, Master of Music ..
What can I say David? You are a true Master - a Musician's Musician. I am so thankful to have been alive at the same time as you and have seen and heard you perform. It will be a long time coming before others are ever able to play like you. Thank You So Very Much. God Bless!
This guy is why I play slide guitar, he's one of a kind for sure.
Incredible Talent. His fingers just dance across the fretboard and when he plays the Slide he can make it sound like a Strat. Just brilliant.
Mr Lindley! You are my hero and my inspiration!
Absolute pure root deep water blues. Mr. Dave, forever.
Thanks for sharing this masterpiece of music, thanks to David..well done big boy...
David is amazing. Jaw dropping, gifted guitarist - what a talent. Wowee!
I love me some Fairfield, Iowa! Attended in the summer of 1979, about half of which I remember. I think I had a pretty good time.
Really? They do more than meditate in fairfield?
BRILLIANCE ⚡
Gift
We just saw him at the first stop of his Summer 2017 tour. He had 3 of those hollow-necked Hawaiian guitars in different tunings and he played a number of songs like the first one he played here. I saw him back in the mid-60's when he had his group The Kaleidoscope, and he was wonderful then. A player's player : See him if you get the chance.
David so lovely ... Listen. Well ,well,well.........
Excellent sound!🖒
Superbe!
Wouah, quel artiste !
I think David was the last beatnik muso that was still playing, it was truly a great loss to the music industry, yes he was even known down here in the deep south (New Zealand)
God bless you David
Kiwi Rod
Thanks for putting the camera where a student of music can see his hands. Very good.
The man who stole the water will swim forevermore/ but he'll never reach the land on that golden shore/ that faint white light, will haunt his heart/ til he's only a memory lost in the dark....
Dig a hole in the ground, all the way down to hell/ til there ain't no more water in the Well Well Well/ when you're down on your knees, you got nothin left to sell/ dig a little deeper in the well well well....
The water used to run so clear and so fresh/ now poison creeps in it that withers the flesh/ the man sells us back our water like we're fish on a line/ gonna turn our blood into his wine.....
Dig a hole in the ground...chorus
You care for your money, like you care for your soul, take care you don't dig yourself into a hole/ til you pay the price that you don't know the worth/ of the air and water, none finer on Earth...
Dig a hole in the ground.....chorus
Wish I could like it twice.
@@hobgoblin4199 , "Well Well Well" was written by Bob Dylan and Danny O'Keefe. Lindley recorded a different version on one of his "official bootleg" CD's where he played it on the Turkish Saz, with a violin bow. It sounds, in Dave's words, "like a McCullough chain saw, or a Kawasaki at 180 mph".
Two tunes here: Make Me Leave Home @2:35 and Well Well Well @8:20 Both are typical Mr David Lindley awesomeness
Thank you
great. thanks. met Dave in Charlotte several years ago.
Mr Dave 👍 gonzo guitar 🍯
Thanks so much for posting this! I saw Lindley play the first song live months ago and have been looking for it since!
big medicine
oh! MY! f- iNG gAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video, Richard!
Stunning
My favorite guy he played with is David Lindley. I think the second instrument he's playing is an oud/guitar hybrid.
It's a modified irish bouzouki (it's seems like a cheap Hora one) with additional microtonal (quarter-tone) frets, like a turkish saz...
Whow
Delta Roads is my new song keep your wheels slide on the road like your fingers slide up and down scales not to fast not to slow we do
Richard Thompson? I've heard that name somewhere. Thanks.
I was living not far from there at the time. I screwed up.
Here's the insane thought of the day. Cam Cole and David Lindley, make a record.
Sadly, Lindley passed away 3/3/23; he had been ill and unable to gig or record for the past two+ years, suffering from long Covid, pneumonia and eventual kidney failure. May he rest in peace. He was unique, one of a kind, a One of One.
@2:44 and @3:27 . thats the beverly hillbillies intro song. And he is the man in it.
Mr. Dave. Alright.
The first song starting at approx. 3:50 is About To Make Me Leave Home, and the second is Well, Well, Well. There is no #3. ;-)
Those two talking at the beginning should have done that before Lindsey came on stage.
Lindley - 😐
looks that David was playing a bouzouki with a dulcimer scale fret board...making America musical
Dig it.
David Lindley the Slidemaster! Don't know what he's playing. Sort of a cross between a lap steel and a guitar. Probably his own creation. What a genius.
Ed Halfen thats a weissenborn guitar,
Jeff Glenn It's Sass a Pakistani oder Afgahni instrument, I'm not sure, but something like that.
The first is a Weissenborn guitar which is of Polynesian origin. The classic Hawaiian lap slide guitar and made of Koa wood as per the reason for their rich warm tone. It was adapted by Blues players from the south who had toured the islands in the 1930s. The second is a Irish bouzouki (8 strings, 6 strings would make it a Greek bouzouki)
If I remember correctly, he says it's an OUD
@@JoeTheGrunt The difference is not in the number of strings. The Irish Bouzouki has a flat back like a guitar, the Greek Bouzouki's body is shaped like a bowl composed of numerous strips of wood. Modern Greek Bouzoukis have 8 strings also, 6 strings is the traditional style like the ones used in 1930s Rembetiko.
Sorry folks. I should read before I post...to make it worse my comment was about the first instrument not the one being discussed. Now I will silence myself and just listen, and listen and listen some more...
Richard, what is that mandolin looking beast with 6 strings David is playing after the lap steel??? Me want one.
It looks like an Irish Bouzouki with an unusual fret job tuned to some open chord. The usual tuning I use on mine is an octave down from a mandolin EADG
@@rattleshakti Thanks, man. I love when people respond to my weird observations. I think I need a Bouzouki!
@@JayMon39 , Lindley passed away on 3/3/23 from long Covid that lead to pneumonia and kidney failure. You asked about his hybrid Bouzouki ---- he also had an electric bouzouki made from the body of a Vox Bill Wyman teardrop bass with a bouzouki neck grafted onto it, and earthquake sensors for pickups. It sounded thunderous!
PS, His long illness and inability to play gigs led to a huge stack of medical bills over the last couple of years, and Lindley's friend music promoter Douglas Reynolds had set up a donation drive and T-shirt sale to benefit Dave's wife Joanie, through the Custom Ink website. I bought a couple of T shirts and left a donation in Dave's memory, but the donation drive has since closed. It both saddens and angers me that a musician of his caliber should need a benefit drive for he and his family in order to defray medical and funeral costs.
@@oldbladderhorn , Lindley actually did live in England, with his wide and baby daughter, in the early 70s for a couple years, when he was playing guitar with Terry Reid. England was where he first became heavily exposed to Reggae and Ska and became a lifelong convert to it.
Ben Franklin with a guitar!
ITS LIKE PAGE ON STEROIDS!!!
Gutentag. Vas ist los. All you need to say to that crowd.
Pickin’ polyester!
and women are his emissaries. figure that one out.
last week someone told me that I had better be quiet, that I didn't know what I was saying. They are merely words.
What is that second instrument he plays? I would have said it was a bouzouki, but those are some crazy frets.
Actually it is a bouzouki. Take a look at his photos of instruments on his website
www.davidlindley.com/instruments.html
Thanks
+grossjam Its a Bouzouki BUT with Baglama fret spacing (has quarter steps it stead of all half steps)
I have loved guitar and blues all my life. ..Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson....but David Lindley surpasses them all. A true gift to hear him play Well,Well Well..
What kind of music genre is this?
i'd call it "personal" , or person to person , people TO people ....