Oh my lord what a concert ! Great pictures. I am also a big Austin Lounge Lizards fan (their bluegrass covers of Pink Floyd are classic in their own right )
When I lived in the Bay Area in the 70s and 80s Bela Fleck was, of course, the young prodigy who had just won all the bluegrass banjo stuff. You would see him and Mike Marshall and Daryl Anger, Tony Rice, Rob Pederson etc all over the place and those latter four would be staples of the various David Grisman quintets and quartets that made Dawg music what is was. Seeing them with Stephan Grapelli, Sven Amundsen, and Jerry Garcia were definitely some of the best musical experiences I've ever had. Credit the amazing Great America Music Hall for a lot the combinations.
There are recordings of the David Grisman Quintet live at GAMH with Stephan Grapelli. All Grisman albums worth hunting down. When I saw the Flecktones at the Beacon Theater in Manhatten about ten years about Grisman opened for them.
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>>I have to ask if you've ever seen Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in concert? No to be missed !
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>I agree about a billion percent with that statement my friend!
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>April '05, Old Settlers Music Festival, Austin Tx, I sprung for the backstage access passes, I got to meet him. He wasn't with the Flecktones it was his Acoustic Trio. A fiddle and guitar with him. I was camped out right side of the stage and got some awesome photos. He is amazing to listen to and watch.
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>I uploaded some of the shots I took here:
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http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/davidfrankenbach@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=/6325re2&.src=ph&.tok=ph6U3CFBPIG8Icu8>
>from the viewing page you can click the download button to get the fullsized image.
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