Sal Maida, the nimble New York-born bassist who performed with bands together with Roxy Music, Sparks and Milk ’N’ Cookies, has died. He was 76.
Maida died Saturday in New York of issues ensuing from a fall in December, his spouse, singer-songwriter Lisa Burns-Maida, introduced.
The 6-foot-6 Maida additionally carried out with Ronnie Spector, The Runaways, Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven, Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las, Annie Golden of The Shirts and Velveteen throughout his profession.
Born in New York on July 29, 1948, Salvatore Maida was raised within the Manhattan neighborhood of Little Italy, the place he “heard a mess of sounds emanating from the jukebox beneath my window, from Sinatra to the Stones, Motown, Ray Charles, The Beatles and Dinah Washington,” he as soon as wrote.
A loyal Anglophile, he traveled to London after graduating from Fordham College with a bachelor’s diploma in economics and was working in a document retailer when he met Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson.
Maida joined the artwork rock band for his or her Stranded Tour in 1973 and the following 12 months turned a member of Milk ’N’ Cookies, who had not too long ago come out of Lengthy Island to be signed to Island Information by Muff Winwood, the top of the label.
Although short-lived, the power-pop sound of Milk ’N’ Cookies proved to be influential on the burgeoning punk scene, and when their debut album was reissued within the mid-2000s, they briefly reformed and performed occasional reveals by means of the 2010s.
Maida, who stated he used a blue Rickenbacker bass early in his profession as a result of Chris Squier in Sure performed one, additionally was with Sparks for his or her 1976 album, Large Beat.
Lately, the fun-loving Maida hosted a radio present, Spin Cycle, and wrote the 2017 memoir 4 Strings, Phony Proof and 300 45s — the final little bit of the title is a reference to his prodigious assortment of 45s — printed by HoZac Books.
HoZac not too long ago launched an up to date version of the e-book, including Bottoms Up, the place Maida wrote about his prime bassists from 1960-70. Additionally for HoZac, he co-authored and co-edited two volumes of the White Label Promo Preservation Society, collections of essays on under-achieving traditional albums.
Mentioned the writer on Fb: “Sal had such an unimaginable life that it simply needed to be made right into a e-book, and we’re so glad we received to not solely make that occur a number of occasions but in addition received to satisfy him in particular person, as he was just like the cool older brother we’d by no means had.”
His son, Dylan, died in December 2019 of melanoma.
Along with his spouse, his survivors embody his son’s godparents, Anthony and Kathleen Lifrieri, and “numerous pals who liked him dearly.”
