Youtube video of Grappelli, Grisman, and O'Connor on the Johnny Carson Show-1979

Buco

Damn!?! That's nuts. Well at least it was this guy, if she'd done it with second fiddle that would've been the real bummer. And there's entertaining story to tell now. But I can (try) to imagine how not-funny it was at the time, ouch. And you got Shopis today.

Russell Letson

I'd been listening to Grappelli for a decade or so when that album came out (kicked off in part by Grisman's work on the score for King of the Gypsies, and to Django for a bit longer, and I wouldn't push very hard at the Dawg influence on guitarists who aspired to Hot-Club-proper rhythm playing. I know that I wasn't. I certainly could tell the difference between the version of "Swing 39" on the Carson clip and the pulse I got from the QHCF and later European outfits like Schnuckenack Reinhardt's.