[David]

I think he has (or had) great skill in crafting a track out of a song, for the two are not different terms for the same thing. That's what I like (or liked) about him. He had marvelous musical ideas & the craftsmanship & intellectual intensity to execute those ideas, whether his blueprint was fully there beforehand or whether he kept refashioning what he had done until, like a sculpture, it had taken the shape it was meant to take.

As an orchestrator, Lindsey is a miniaturist. He puts each element of the track under a magnifying glass, expanding & sometimes distorting its place in the whole. He uses a single filigree -- perhaps a short motive or even a single note on a keyboard, a guitar, or a found sound -- & by embedding it just so within the whole, alters its emotional & musical landscape. Take the relatively simple motive of the ascending-descending pentatonic scale in GYPSY, which transforms a straightforward mid-tempo rocker into a gossamer web of longing with a simple leitmotiv that carries the listener into the nether reaches of his imagination.

I also like the personal style with which Lindsey plays (or played) his electric guitar. His messy picking gave these old pop & rock songs a kaleidoscopic effect -- like shards of colored glass within a prism. Lindsey worked in Technicolor.