Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!jsc From: jsc@nbires.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re:newgrass Message-ID: <199@nbires.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 10:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: nbires.199 Posted: Fri Jul 8 10:54:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 17:54:48 EDT Lines: 13 simply amazing...a net article about bluegrass. the Newgrass Revival is, and always has been, an outstanding band. I remember seeing their forerunner, the Bluegrass Alliance, in Beanblossom, Indiana in about 1970. The only thing wrong with the band was their fiddler, Lonnie Pierce. (He had an album out called The Golden Fiddle of Lonnie Pierce, which we renamed, The Piercing Fiddle of Lonnie Golden.) In the early seventies, I joined a band that played in the same clubs and at the same universities as the Newgrass boys. People (bluegrass "fans") were always coming up and saying, "You guys are good, but the Newgrass Revival played here last week and were fantastic!!" That made us feel terrible, until we played Union Grove, where Sam Bush said, "You know, every time we play someplace, somebody comes up to us and says, 'You guys are good, but...'"