David Grisman Quintet featuring Mark O’Connor play on Austin City Limits

David Grisman Quintet featuring Mark O’Connor (guitar) Darol Anger (violin) Mike Marshall (mandolin) and Rob Wasserman (bass) play Grisman’s original “Dawg’s Rag“ on the Austin City Limits television show, 1980. For a period of 18 months from 1979 - 1980, this line up of DGQ toured the U.S. and released an album on Warner Bros. Records called Quintet 80. During the shows O’Connor (the youngest musician here on this video at just 18 years-old) always played at least one piece on violin, but his role was guitarist and original member Darol Anger the violinist. Notice at 6:37, as O’Connor begins his guitar solo, his string snaps and one can hear this audibly. The high E string of the guitar came lose from the end pin and dropped all the way down to where it was flopping. You can see O’Connor attempting to figure out what to do as he continued his solo on national television. Beginning on the lower strings, he mutes some with his right hand, then gestured towards Da