Fritz Richmond

Folk musician Fritz Richmond was the top jug and washtub bass participant from the psychedelic period. An odd differentiation, to be sure, but his use the Jim Kweskin Jug Music group was instrumental in protecting and popularizing the root base music from the pre-World Battle II period. Delivered John B. Richmond, Jr. in Newton, MA, on July 10, 1939, he was in middle college when he constructed his initial washtub bass, investing in a washtub at Sears Roebuck and stringing it using the cable from a couple of Venetian window blinds. With close friends John “Buz” Marten and John Nagy, Richmond after that formed the original folk trio the Hoppers, frequently playing the Boston coffeehouse circuit before he was known as to serve within the Korean Battle. His military responsibilities included helicopter fix, resulting in the breakthrough that discarded metal flight control wire worked better still using the washtub bass. After his tour of responsibility finished in 1962, Richmond arrived in Cambridge, MA, signing up for regional folkies the Charles River Valley Guys before teaming with vocalist Geoff Muldaur at the favorite Membership 47. He co-founded the Jim Kweskin Jug Music group in early 1963, understanding how to enjoy the jug through the classic 78 blues information Kweskin gathered before getting in Cambridge. Regardless of the implicit novelty from the jug, Richmond demonstrated himself a virtuoso skill, wringing genuine feeling and energy through the unusual device. Upon putting your signature on to Vanguard, the Jim Kweskin Jug Music group emerged being a mass media sensation, appearing frequently on national tv and issuing many well-regarded LPs. Along with his brand granny eyeglasses (put on to disguise the actual fact that playing the jug still left him cross-eyed), Richmond released among the essential products from the folk-rock increase, and he also recommended that young vocalist/songwriter John Sebastian name his fledgling music group the Lovin’ Spoonful. After Kweskin abruptly dissolved his group within the springtime of 1968, Richmond relocated to LA and agreed upon on as an employee engineer with Elektra Information. In 1977 he resolved in Portland, OR, using the Metropolitan Jug Music group and leading Fritz Richmond’s Barbecue Orchestra. He also toured with Sebastian and Muldaur, made an appearance on NPR’s A Prairie House Companion and added one of is own washtub basses towards the Smithsonian Institute. Richmond passed away of lung tumor on November 20, 2005.