Double Bass RIP Tony Rice

[BobKay]

Passed away Christmas Day.

 

[Winoman]

Oh no. 2020 keeps getting worse and worse. RIP Tony.

 

[boombloom]

Great leads. Fascinating rhythm playing. I love his music.

 

[Prof.Dr.Metz]

RIP Tony

 

[james condino]

Rest in peace old friend...

 

[mark286]

RIP Tony.

 

[neddyrow]

Two words: Gasoline Brothers.

we lost one half of my favorite bluegrass duos.

RIP - Tony

 

[neddyrow]

One of my favorite albums if you’ve never heard it, I recommend it.

 

[Dee-man]

Way too soon.

 

[SteveBassJr]

Rip Mr. Rice.

 

[lowplaces]

RIP brother

 

[brianrost]

When I was in college and rooming with a banjo player, the early Tony Rice solo albums and his recordings with Grisman were getting a lot of turntable spins in our dorm. That period was like a bomb going off in the bluegrass world.

 

[standup17]

If I had to choose (or recommend) a single bluegrass recording it would be Skaggs and Rice (1980). I trust y'all have listened to it many times over. If you didn't see this remembrance from Molly Tuttle I think it's really good:

Tony Rice Was My Guitar Hero

Cheers,
Z

 

[Ruknrole]

Oh man! R.I.P

 

[Jeffon]

I got the chance to talk with Bill Amanteek about playing with Tony and he said it was like riding on the rhythm that Tony created instead of the other way around... just easy to play with. It was always a deep groove when Tony Rice played!!! Got the chance to see him many times in FL at Spirit of the Suwannee Springfest and with Larry Keel from VA down to GA. Sad that he couldn't play much towards the end.

Bill Amanteek just published a book - Discovering Tony Rice - that apparently has some hard stuff to read about the end of Tony's life... I will prob read it. I thought Still Inside was too shallow a dive into his life. Maybe because Tony was still alive when it was published?