Peter E. "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow (August 20, 1934 – January 6, 2007) was an American country-rock musician. He is best known as a member of the band The Flying Burrito Brothers and as a

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playing

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for such artists as

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, Rita Coolidge,

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, The Steve Miller Band,

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, Spencer Davis,

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and many others. He is a member of the

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. Kleinow is also noteworthy for having composed the '' Gumby'' theme song as well as being an animator on the 1960s iteration of the show.

Biography

Kleinow was born and raised in

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; inspired by

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, he took up the

in high school. Following graduation, he was employed for over a decade as a maintenance worker at the

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. In 1963, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he began a career as a

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artist and

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animator in the film and television industry. After uncredited work on '' The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' (1962), '' The Outer Limits'' (1963–1965), and '' 7 Faces of Dr. Lao'' (1964), Kleinow became closely associated with the long-running children's series '' Gumby'' and ''

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'' while moonlighting in the city's country-oriented nightclubs as a member of

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& the Western Caravan (from which his distinctive nickname originated) and the Detours (often deputizing for bandleader Red Rhodes, then concurrently employed as a session musician). FlyingBurritos1970

Through this scene he became acquainted with Chris Hillman and

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in 1968, helping the group to replicate their newly country-infused sound onstage with banjoist Doug Dillard on several local club dates. Guitarist

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later alleged that Hillman and Parsons intended to replace Dillard with Kleinow and did not countenance Kleinow's inclusion alongside Dillard in an upcoming European tour, a decision that hastened Hillman and Parsons' departure from the band. After signing to

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and briefly considering

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(who, as per Hillman, "would have never left a lucrative career as a session man to go out with us"), Parsons and Hillman invited Kleinow to join their new project: the Flying Burrito Brothers. For Kleinow, the opportunity was the culmination of his desire to "finally make a living with music," and he would work for much of the next decade as a professional musician. Never paragons of commercial success (the band's first album, ''

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'', peaked at #164 on the ''

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'' album chart), the Flying Burrito Brothers would go on to influence generations of popular musicians. One of the first pedal steel players to work in a rock context, Kleinow favored the outmoded Fender 400, a cable-operated eight-string model. According to bandmate

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, "Sneaky uniquely played an eight-string Fender cable pull steel tuned to B6 instead of the more common C6. He played a usually more

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tuning in a style that most other players use an E9 tuning for. His rationale was

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B is the 'five chord,' or dominant chord, to the key of E. This resulted in absolutely-to-Pete steel licks. And no one else thinks like him anyway." In addition to favoring atypical tunings, Kleinow liberally incorporated such electronic accoutrements as the fuzzbox, the

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and the Echoplex into his style. His unorthodox style of playing would immediately influence a number of second-generation country rock pedal steel players, including

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, Buddy Cage of the

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and his eventual replacement in the Burrito Brothers, session musician Al Perkins. Favoring a relatively abstemious and reclusive lifestyle in comparison to some of his bandmates (nevertheless, according to bassist Chris Ethridge, he "loved to drink wine" and frequently exhibited

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at the "Burrito Manor" shared by Parsons and Hillman in Reseda throughout 1968); intolerant of the group's infamously erratic live performances; and increasingly disenchanted by his exclusion from the creative process—including the diminution of his parts in released mixes and the summary rejection of his songwriting efforts—Kleinow eventually left the Flying Burrito Brothers in 1971. Despite this setback, the imprimatur of the band allowed Kleinow to enjoy a lucrative career as a session musician throughout this period. He appeared on albums by

('' Joe Cocker!'', 1969), Delaney, Bonnie and Friends ('' To Bonnie from Delaney'', 1970),

(''

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'', 1971),

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'', 1971),

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'', 1972),

('' The Second Coming'', 1972), Sandy Denny (''

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'', 1972),

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'', 1972), the

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('' Life in a Tin Can'', 1973),

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(''

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'', 1973),

('' Mind Games'', 1973),

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('' Paris 1919'', 1973),

(''

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'', 1974),

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('' Pussy Cats'', 1974),

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'', 1974 and '' Songs in the Key of Life'', 1976),

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'', 1974), and

('' Death of a Ladies' Man'', 1977). In 1974, Kleinow was briefly part of a new band, Cold Steel, before co-founding the reconstituted Flying Burrito Brothers with original bassist Chris Ethridge later that year. He remained with the band (which also recorded and performed as Sierra) until 1981 before rejoining again from 1984 to 1997. The later iterations of the band enjoyed several minor country hits on

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. His first solo album, ''Sneaky Pete'', was released in 1978 and ''The Legend and the Legacy'' followed in 1994. Following a second stint on ''Davey and Goliath'' in 1972, he returned to visual effects in earnest as an animator on

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's '' Land of the Lost'' (1974–1976) and created the dinosaurs for the comic film ''

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'' (1981). He was a co-recipient of the 1983 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for his work on the highly successful ABC miniseries '' The Winds of War''. Although often uncredited, Kleinow contributed stop motion and other visual effects to a number of films and miniseries over the next three decades, including '' Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'' (1980), ''

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'' (1980), '' The Right Stuff'' (1983), ''

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'' (1984), ''

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'' (1984), ''

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'' (1991), ''

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'' (1997), and '' Holes'' (2003) while continuing to work sporadically as a professional musician.Flying Burrito 'Sneaky' Pete Kleinow dies

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, January 8, 2007. In 2000, Kleinow formed a group called Burrito Deluxe (also the name of a 1970 Flying Burrito Brothers album) with

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, former organist of The Band, Carlton Moody of the Moody Brothers on lead vocals and guitars, bassist Jeff "Stick" Davis of

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and drummer Rick Lonow, a latter-day drummer for

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since 1989 and session player. The group recorded three albums, ''Georgia Peach'', ''The Whole Enchilada'' and 2007's ''Disciples of the Truth'', which feature his last studio recordings. Kleinow's last performance was at a 2005 Gram Parsons tribute "Gram Fest" concert in Joshua Tree, California, the town in which Gram Parsons had died.

Personal life and death

Kleinow was married to Ernestine Kleinow for 54 years until his death. They had three sons and two daughters together. Kleinow died on January 6, 2007, at a

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near the skilled nursing facility in Petaluma, California. Suffering from

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, he had been living at the facility since 2006. Three months before his death, local singer songwriter Jan White and bassist Pat Campbell gave Kleinow a final private concert, performing several Gram Parsons songs for him, set in the nursing facility's garden. Kleinow was brought to tears and expressed his joy and gratitude for the special moment.

Discography

For albums by the Flying Burrito Brothers see their

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Solo projects

Other appearances

Kleinow appears on numerous rock and country-rock albums, including: * '' Joe Cocker!'' -

(1969) * ''

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'' - Dillard & Clark (1969) * '' (Untitled)'' -

(1970) * '' New York City (You're a Woman)'' - Al Kooper (1971) * ''

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(1971) * '' Byrdmaniax'' -

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'', 1972) * '' The Lady's Not for Sale'' - Rita Coolidge (1972) * '' Suite for Late Summer'' -

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(1972) * '' Jennifer'' -

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(1972) * '' The Second Coming'' -

(1972) * ''No Ordinary Child'' - Jane Getz (1972) * ''Casey Kelly'' - Casey Kelly (1972) * '' For Everyman'' -

(1973) * ''

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(1973) * '' Mind Games'' -

(1973) * '' Don't Cry Now'' -

(1973) * ''The Original Tap Dancing Kid'' -

(1973) * ''

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(1974) * '' Pussy Cats'' -

(1974) * ''

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(1974) * ''

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(1974) * ''Kinky Friedman'' -

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(1974) * ''

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(1975) * '' Ringo's Rotogravure'' -

(1976) * '' White on White'' -

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(1976) * '' Death of a Ladies' Man'' -

(1977) * ''

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(1977) * '' Down on the Farm'' -

(1979) * ''Town and Country (album)https://www.discogs.com/release/3088721-The-Rave-Ups-Town-Country'' -

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(1985) * '' I'm Your Man'' -

(1988) * '' Don't Explain'' - Robert Palmer (1990) * ''

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(1990)

References

External links

Official Burrito Deluxe website
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