Rip Ron Tutt

Oh damn.

What a career.

I hope his life was half as good. If it was, it was an amazing life.

On it goes.

Thanks for the fun Ron - RIP

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WTF, I'm a fan.

RIP

From a couple of interviews, it sounds like he had a blast switching off between playing Vegas with Elvis

and everywhere else with Garcia.

Not to mention all the other amazing musicians he played and recorded with.

Sounds like a good ride to me.

who here saw garcia band back then?

i can't imagine.

I saw Tutt play a number of times, but not with Jerry, always with Neil Diamond, who he played with for decades.

He was smooooooth man.

He played with JGB in the Fall of 81. Saw him at Georgetown then.

https://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/jgb1981-11-07/jgb1981-11-07.mp3...

This album is so damn good I can't *not* mention it here.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxEDrQlAWwbrbyWn88MkMmgkh44UXsud6

R.I.P. Ronnie

Saw Tutt w/ JGB in Boston at the Orpheum, sometime 74-76.

RIP Ron.

I looked it up. It was 10-24-75.

From a couple of interviews, it sounds like he had a blast switching off between playing Vegas with Elvis.  Not to mention all the other amazing musicians he played and recorded with.>>Interesting story on recruiting a pedal steel guitar player for a few gigs with JGB....

Pedal steel guitarist John Rich is one of the two most intriguing and unknown guests in the history of the Jerry Garcia Band.  Rich played pedal steel for almost every song for two nights at the Keystone Berkeley, on December 21 and 22, 1976, possibly again on January 29, 1977,

John Rich says pertaining to the question asked;

The Berkley gig was actually an invitation from my friend, Ronnie Tutt, who recommended me to the Jerry Garcia Band, a new group with a few of the Grateful Dead members. This was about a year after Elvis' "Aloha From Hawaii".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smbt0fl04GM  12/22/76