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Post by TKennedy on Oct 27, 2022 23:59:39 GMT -5
Lived in the back of the Hot Rize bus. -
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Post by millring on Oct 28, 2022 4:04:17 GMT -5
I was lucky enough to have caught them in concert in Kalamazoo the year before Sawtelle died.
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Post by TKennedy on Oct 28, 2022 7:53:07 GMT -5
I was lucky enough to have caught them in concert in Kalamazoo the year before Sawtelle died. Me too, at the Extemp in Minneapolis. They were fantastic and great entertainers. Tragic about Charlie. I did a banjo workshop with Pete when they were in the cities that time. He had a bulletproof travel case for his banjo he showed us. He survived that DC-10 crash at the Sioux City airport a few years later and I always wondered about the banjo as the plane broke up and burned in the cornfield by the runway. A few years later we were at a ski bar in Colorado and a bluegrass band was playing. The banjo player was a friend of Pete’s from Boulder and we chatted. He said the outer shell of the metal case was charred but the banjo was fine except for some melted binding on the neck. |
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Post by billhammond on Oct 28, 2022 8:43:06 GMT -5
Huh, I didn't know there was such a thing as a banjo case. Probably meant to protect baggage handlers?
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