Re: Orrin Star Passes
Oh my! this is sobering news. Such a great fellow and heck of a picker - both mandolin and guitar.
I have to take the rewind machine back about 30+ years. We had recently moved to Boston and married. Having just moved from Blacksburg, where I regained my interest in mandolin, I went looking for a teacher - somebody to keep me moving forward. Not sure how it happened, but Orrin ended up being that person. The two of us in his co-op in Cambridge - well and my little cassette recorder.
I recall Orrin playing his Kettler. Never-ever seen a bench-made mandolin. I, of course, was playing my A3.
He was a great guy. It was another 25 years or more before I saw him and Jimmy G. at a house concert right here in Richmond! That night it was Jimmy on mandolin and Orrin on his D18 (light-strings?). Heck yeah, he (they) still had his chops.
So sad. . .
Fine memories!
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¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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