I was doing OK, saddened but taking it "like a man" until I heard the obituary on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (US radio).

Oh, where will we turn for our light hearted look at Life, The Universe, and Everything? I will have to dig out the tapes and the books and reread and relisten to them again to remember the wonderfully zany and deeply philosophical ramblings of that cast of characters.

To take this into the realm of music, I always thought the wonderful banjo piece that they used as the theme for the show had to be Bela Fleck but it wasn't. Who was it?