The Steel Guitar Forum

Caught David last night solo at our new community theatre venue. Absolutely fabulous on a pair of recent Weissenborn-styles, an electric Oud, and a bouzouki refretted with some quarter-tone frets for African scale stuff. Check him out when he comes to your town - he will expand, if not explode, your mind. A nice pause from "A Way To Survive" that might even give me some new ideas on that chestnut.

Let me also say - tone from heaven. I dunno - I didn't see any vintage Emmons P/P's, Sho Buds, 8+9 (or even 3+1), or other du rigeur gear - just Sunrise pickups straight into an acoustic amp, near as I could see. I think it's in his hands.

Funny as blazes, as usual, also.

Lindley is the best. I love his style. I sent him an email 8-10 years ago about a fiddle tune he played. His reply began ... Dude.

Russ

Musicians don't come any better. I'll have to keep an eye out to catch him live.

David's schedule is here: http://www.davidlindley.com/cgi-bin/dltourdates.cgi

He's all over the Northeast this month.

Unfortunately, he's not scheduled to come to the Carolinas. :>(

I love Mr. Dave's music.

I'm going to see Mr. Dave April 29, here in Minnesota. That guy knocks me out!

Dave, thanks for the heads-up on his tour schedule! He's coming to my neck of the woods this Tuesday and Wednesday. I'll be there! (Leo Kottke's on the bill, too--he's no slouch himself.)

Thanks for posting that Dave. I love New York, Frisell is in town for the next two weeks, and Lindley plays on the 16th. Expensive shows, but these guys are worth it!

Gerald

Hey Dave and/or Russ,

If you guys were to recommend one or two of David's CD's what would they be? (I'm familiar enough with his stuff w/ J. Browne and John Hiatt but haven't heard him doing his own thing).

Thanks,

Matt

I would say start with "El-Rayo X Live" CD off David Lindley's web site...also, check out the new release by artist Eliot Morris, "What's Mine Is Yours"...Mr. Dave plays lap steel as a sideman on this CD, & I think it is some of Lindley's best playing since his Jackson Browne days...Terry V.

Wow, I am going to this one for sure...

http://villageatcopper.com/guitarTown/

Huge fan, here...

Gerald, I'd love to catch Frisell in NYC. Ugh, but it's the end of the semester - I'm in crunch mode and there's still 4 weeks to go.

I love all the old El Rayo X records, which I bought when they were vinyl, but I guess are available as CDs now - I saw a bunch of people at the show with them.

To me - the first El Rayo X record was a milestone in roots music. I still think that version of Mercury Blues is the hottest slide guitar song I have ever heard, and the rest of the record is just as cool in its own eclectic way. Of course, this is different than his sideman stuff, since Dave is doing the reggae stuff and fronting with his fantastic high voice.

The rest of his catalog is cool, to my tastes, I have most of them. This website goes over this stuff: http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_lin ... 03_03.html

I picked up his "Live in Tokyo" CD with Hani Nasser on all kinds of cool percussion at the show. Very cool, in fact I'm listening to it right now as I grade project papers. What's unusual is that he's a bona fide dynamo in every aspect of performance, not just a guitar, slide, lap steel, or whatever-stringed-instrument you want virtuoso.

Some good Lindley stuff on youtube--this among others...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXeqblkA6Y0

If I had to recommend just one album, I think it might be "Very Greasy". The song selection (as always) is great and varied. "Papa was a Rolling Stone" is a killer arrangement, with a brief but perfect slide solo with the hottest overdriven slide tone I've ever heard.

(Alas, his shows here were already sold out before I heard about it. I've got to pay more attention! )