Vassar Clements

Okay.

Because of the history of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Vassar Clements and John McEwen and the fiddle players on the Circle Records, Stuart Duncan and Mark O'Connor and name them.

Yeah.

To play the songs in this band, I certainly play them the way I play them.

yeah yeah you said if it's packed you can sit probably 75 people in there they've got tables you know sit around and eat and that and i and i am uh In November, I'm getting to do a gig with Peter Rowan.

He called, I'd played with Peter years back, just a few days with him when him and Vassar Clements did a few things and played gigs with him.

He remembered me and he seen that we were playing.

It's one of the same dates that farmhands are playing.

Richard Greene played it in the early months.

Then, for a tour of the East Coast, they called Vassar Clements in Nashville, and everything lifted.

Grisman said Vassar was a hero to all three of them and at the height of his powers, and that playing next to him was like being next to Charlie Parker in his prime.

Garcia, he added, had never worked with real bluegrass musicians before, and he was in seventh heaven.

So in the autumn of that year, he turned his attention to something much smaller, a little club, five musicians and no electricity to speak of, beyond what his own machines needed.

The band was Old and in the Way.

Jerry Garcia on banjo, David Grisman on mandolin, Peter Rowan on guitar, Vassar Clements on fiddle, and John Khan on the acoustic bass.

They played a run at The Boarding House in early October, and Bear taped more than one of those nights.

She, okay.

So her, Her dad used to play with Vassar Clements back in the day when he would play in Florida.

Steve was part of Vassar's band when he when Vassar would like come to that region.

And he also made dentures, Lindsay's dad.

And so he made Vassar Clements teeth.

And it's.

I told

that story to Sam Bush the other night and it cracked him up to no end.