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Flying Burrito Brothers founder Pete Klienow RIP.

OldschoolspinnaOldschoolspinna 311 Posts
edited January 2007 in Strut Central
Kleinow died Saturday at a Petaluma, Calif., convalescent home near the skilled nursing facility where he had been living with Alzheimer's disease since last year, his daughter Anita Kleinow said. During a musical career that covered six decades, Kleinow helped define the country-rock genre in the late 1960s and 1970s by taking the instrument he had mastered as a teenager in South Bend, Ind., to California. His expertise with the pedal steel guitar influenced a generation of rock-and-rollers, including the Eagles, the Steve Miller Band and Poco. Besides co-founding the Burrito Brothers with the Byrds' Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons in 1968, he was also prized as a session musician, recording with such singer-songwriters as John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell and bands as varied as the Bee Gees and Sly and the Family Stone. R.I.P. Friend

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  • leisurebanditleisurebandit 1,006 Posts
    RIP SNEAKY PETE!!!
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    I had no idea he lived/convalesced in my hood. It's fucking sad how many musicians of this era are droppin' off lately. RIP. the Burrito Bros were awesome!
  • empanadamnempanadamn 1,462 Posts
    rip
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    RIP

    Almost every roots, country rock, pop record recorded in LA in the 70s, he plays on.
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    Kleinow died Saturday at a Petaluma, Calif., convalescent home near the skilled nursing facility where he had been living with Alzheimer's disease since last year, his daughter Anita Kleinow said.

    During a musical career that covered six decades, Kleinow helped define the country-rock genre in the late 1960s and 1970s by taking the instrument he had mastered as a teenager in South Bend, Ind., to California.

    His expertise with the pedal steel guitar influenced a generation of rock-and-rollers, including the Eagles, the Steve Miller Band and Poco.

    Besides co-founding the Burrito Brothers with the Byrds' Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons in 1968, he was also prized as a session musician, recording with such singer-songwriters as John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell and bands as varied as the Bee Gees and Sly and the Family Stone.




    R.I.P. Friend

    RIP, Sneaky Pete.
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