Eric Thompson, Garcia, Grisman, Tony Rice, Greenwich Village

I don't know if this will be of interest to people, I often stop listening to this sort of thing after about two minutes but this was, as it says, a real history lesson. Interesting what he says about his Martin Dreadnought that he got when he was 15 years old: to paraphrase, "you realise the sound is really nice so you play it a lot - that's how you got good". That seems the right way around to me, as does a lot of what he says. He also talks about the change of build by Martin after the 2nd World War and how the sound changed - interesting.

The way he talks, he has the same view of the sixties that I've always had - I wonder sometimes if I was wrong, but apparently, I wasn't.

Eric Thompson