The Chetboard

I stumbled across this video on Youtube tonight. I actually never saw him play but enjoyed chatting with him in the Belmont room in the late nineties. He had a great Merle Travis story that he once shared with me.

Great video...I'd never heard him play either. Thanks for sharing the link.
Ray

Thanks for posting that video, Tom. Perfect time of year to remember him.

He was a special guy - musically, spiritually, and had an unlimited amount of Chet energy. I missed him like crazy the first few years he was gone. He showed me how to "run the Room (Belmont)" at CAAS. So, if any of youz/ya'll folks have complaints about the way it is run - you can blame it on Tuck. (lol) My favorite "instruction" from him about the Room was, "Hey, Parmer, I don't care who's on stage - if one of the "stars" come by and want to play - they're off!" Another favorite one was, "Chet didn't play it down there - he played it up here."

Before I found Billy Tustin, Terry Efaw and JD Norman right here in Columbus, Ohio - I used to drive an hour out to Dayton to pick up Chris Vickers - then, we'd drive 3 more hours to Louisville just to go steal some Chet licks at Tuck's garage on Belaire Ave on Friday evenings for his Kentucky Thumbpicker's Club weekly jam. He sure was a plethora of Chet's licks and tricks.

I'm so glad somebody saved a video of him playing..... Thanks,

Palmer