The David Grisman Quintet - Swing 51

[@marcozeta136]

Questo album è una perla inarrivabile. ..Lo ascolto da 40 anni e non invecchia. ...musicisti top

[@indiandoctor7900]

I wore out this record in the 70's when I was in high school.

[@j.c.h7127]

Totally agree, but just to clarify, Swing 51 was written by Tony Rice.

[@tjcolatrella943]

I have the album "Fish Scales" is great and was written by dear old friend Artie Traum..

[@jeffsmallwood4194]

This album spawned a new generation in acoustic music. Love the DAWG

[@lottaandgus]

So beautiful. The slower tempo here is such an improvement over Tony Rice hauling ass through it. Although Tony wrote it, so there's that...

[@4Naturalgreen]

I was invited to a David Grisman show at the Mexicali Blues Cafe in New Jersey by David’s manager. I was given a feee ticket and invited backstage to meet David. We were talking and he asked me if there was a song that I’d like to hear them play that night. I was kinda caught off guard. He started naming a few songs. “How about Dawgs Bull, or Swing 42?” he asked me. I said, how about Swing 51? He just gave me a dirty look and walked away. A few minutes later one of his people, some woman, walks over to me and asked me to leave. It was really embarrassing because I was in the middle of a conversation with some other people when she interjected, and asked me to leave. I was really disappointed. I’ve been a huge fan of Grisman for decades, and been to lots of his shows, and have so many of his CDs and stuff, but I never went back to another show or bought another CD ever again. I saw the underbelly of the Dawg that night.

[@michaelbarnes6274]

Why did he react that way, do you think ? Because he didn't write it ?

[@4Naturalgreen]

@@michaelbarnes6274 I guess so.

[@michaelbarnes6274]

My opinion of him has gone down.@@4Naturalgreen