who wuz those guys?
The original string quartet that changed all the other things. The Turtle Island String Quartet: Anger, Balakrishnan, Sazer, Summer.
a nice Irene Young photo of the mid-late early period Turtle Island String Quartet: Anger, Summer, Seidenberg, Balakrishnan.
Middle-early period Turtle Island String Quartet: Katie Wreede, Summer, Anger, Balakrishnan, Turtles. A well-traveled band.
DA and The Grand Old Man, 1980
So many bands: The Montreux Band just after returning from Europe, 1984. Just recorded Live At Montreux for Windham Hill.
Barbara higbie, darol, Todd Phillips, Mike Marshall, Andy Narell.
The Duo, and another duo, Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka — so young! — at a Bluegrass festival in Toulouse, France.. yeah.
Vassar. We’ll miss you.
A rare 1983 combo: Steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell, DA & Mike Marshall, and the great Jiohnny Cunningham in the middle, at the Great American Music Hall, SF. We miss you, too, Johnny.
Somewhere in Nashville, 1980… or was it Boston? The DGQ with all the fiddlers: Matt Glaser, David Balakrishnan, DA, and the Towering Presence Mark O’Connor.
The band that recorded the NPR “Car Talk” theme:
Tony Rice, David Grisman (producer), The one & only Earl Scruggs, DA, and Rob Wasserman. Not shown: Mike Marshall.
the Lean Clean DGQ Machine.
Some of us looked pretty silly. But that’s showbiz.
