Post by TKennedy on Mar 19, 2023 22:26:52 GMT -5
Stumbled across this nine year old video with three original members on a classic. I didn’t know Chris Eldridge was Ben’s son. When I was playing banjo Ben was my idol. Now Starling and Aldrich are gone.
In 1996 I played on an album for a local singer songwriter that we sent to Billy Wolf of Birchmere fame to master because we loved all the Scene albums. I remember calling him about it and he said that John Duffy had died the day before. Sudden heart attack.
I was at a meeting in DC once and saw they were at The Birchmere on a Wednesday night. I went out. It was the original line up. Duffy, Starling, Eldridge, Aldrich, and Tom Gray. Not a big crowd. They were having a lot of fun. Great night. Duffy had on some loud multicolored cargo pants with pockets down on the legs.
He said it was so he could play pocket pool during gigs, regular pockets didn’t work for him.
In 1996 I played on an album for a local singer songwriter that we sent to Billy Wolf of Birchmere fame to master because we loved all the Scene albums. I remember calling him about it and he said that John Duffy had died the day before. Sudden heart attack.
I was at a meeting in DC once and saw they were at The Birchmere on a Wednesday night. I went out. It was the original line up. Duffy, Starling, Eldridge, Aldrich, and Tom Gray. Not a big crowd. They were having a lot of fun. Great night. Duffy had on some loud multicolored cargo pants with pockets down on the legs.
He said it was so he could play pocket pool during gigs, regular pockets didn’t work for him.
