Tom Leadon, a singer and guitarist best known for co-founding the band Mudcrutch with Tom Petty in the early ’70s and participating in a high-profile reunion beginning in 2008, March 22 died …
His brother, Bernie Leadon, born five years earlier than Tom, is a musician of renown, having been a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers before moving on to be part of the Eagles for the first four albums in that group’s history. A song Tom Leadon co-wrote, “Hollywood Waltz,” landed on the “One of These Nights” albums.
He joined the local Gainesville band the Epics at age 13, after precociously playing behind a Black church choir prior to that. Petty was in a rival teen band, the Sundowners. After seeing Petty play at a rehearsal, he returned the next day, knocked on the door, “and basically I went over there practically every day after that for about three or four years!” Leadon said in an interview with Gainesville Rock History. “We were pretty much inseparable. I was fascinated with Petty.
In 1976, he was playing bass for Johnny Rivers when the opportunity to join a band called Silver came along, which was signed by Clive Davis. A single called “Wham Bam” made it into the national top 20 and, by Leadon’s recollection, sold about 700,000 units. Dropped by the label and tagged a one-hit wonder, Silver broke up in 1977. For a few years after that, Leadon was a part of Southern California bands that included musicians like famed Motown bassist James Jamerson.
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