I got the chance to play a little bit of music with Fritz during the last few years. I even got to record with him, on my own CD and then last year on Maria Muldaur's Cd -- that might've been his last session.   I only wish I could have connected with him many years before that but I feel so thankful that I was lucky enough to get to play any music with him at all. It was an honor and a joy to play music beside him. Besides being the king of the jug his washtub bass playing was unbelieveable. He really played it like a real instrument, beautiful tone, pitch perfect, right in sync with Geoff. Sad doesn't even begin to express how I feel. Thanks for the music, Fritz.