Sweet but weird cat. Interacted with him on a number of times. He would never hurt a fly. Remember sitting in a studio for hours waiting for him (the leader) to show. The band finally went ahead and did the date leaving spaces for Lin to drop in his solos. He did that a few months later. By coincidence I was in the studio one day when he was doing this and he kept calling for another and another. He was never satisfied with his playing. God bless Bob Koester for putting up with all this to make some recordings 18 people bought.
Edit to say: A band including Lin, Carl Leukaufe and Jack Noren would have been a "shrink's jackpot". Every nook and cranny of "white, junkie, jazz, musician' combined in a perfect storm. Only the master of the genre, Ira Sullivan, could tame this beast. AND Ira's another story.......