Tom Leadon has died on the age of 70.
The musician was one of many founding members of Tom Petty’s authentic band, Mudcrutch in 1970 and returned to the lineup together with Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, and Randall Marsh in 2007 however his brother Mark introduced on Monday (28.03.23) that he had died of “pure causes” virtually per week earlier.
In an announcement, he stated: “It’s with nice unhappiness, however profound love and gratitude for his life, that the household of Tom Leadon Nashville, Tennessee, and Gainesville, Florida, announce his passing on March 22, 2023. [He died] peacefully of pure causes.”
Tributes to Tom – who was additionally the brother of Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon – have been led by former bandmate Mike, who defined that he’ll “miss his spirit and generosity.”
He stated: “Tom Leadon was my deepest guitar soul brother, we spent numerous hours taking part in acoustic guitars and educating one another issues. A kinder soul by no means walked the earth. I’ll all the time miss his spirit and generosity. Sleep peacefully, my previous good friend.”
The ‘Scare Simple’ rocker final carried out with Mudcrutch in 2017, a decade on from after they initially reunited, however within the Nineteen Seventies had additionally acted as a brief bassist for Linda Ronstadt’s band and joined country-rock band Silver in 1976 across the time they launched their signature hit ‘Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang.’
Simply two years after forming Mudcrutch, Tom stop the band and years later revealed that he selected to depart after desirous to department out following arguments with bandmate Tom Petty, who handed away himself in 2017.
He’s quoted by Selection as saying: “The rationale I actually left the band was, I had been desirous to go to Southern California and be a part of the country-rock factor that had been happening there for a very long time. nice and so they have been doing the sort of factor I needed to do which is extra of a country-rock sort of factor. I turned impatient at that time with the band’s progress towards that, and I didn’t have plenty of endurance after I was 20 years previous. I used to be sort of hot-headed and I had some sort of arguments with Petty. I used to be getting the place I needed to do extra bluegrass and nation music, and we weren’t hanging out as typically any extra.”
