R.I.P.
If it wasn't for this show, I may have never heard of him..

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this is nice. Doc is one of my favorites and i have had the pleasure of seeing him 3 times. never did catch earl live unfortunately

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Ramonsfreak, that's a cool picture - it's not just Doc, but also Merle, his son, killed in a tractor accident but also a killer picker. Hard to tell who that is with his back to us.... But man, I do love this music.

yea i know about poor merle..he was really good. The one with his back to you his Earl's son Randy. He introduces everyone in the vid

I tried to play Banjo ala Scrugs

Not a chance....

Keep pickin!!

not sure if appropriate.... and can easily be edited out

Steve Martin is a serious ( as serious as Steve Martin can be) Banjo player

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RIP

Steve Martin is a monster banjo player.

Scruggs didn't do Deliverance a fella named Eric Weissberg did the banjo & Marshal Brickman did the guitar....a couple of good ole boys from New York City.:D

That's right! I forgot about those two.

Now I read that Steve Mandell did the guitar.....Oh well, I've been wrong before.

I think Steve's got a Grammy for some banjo work he did years ago.

I first remember Scruggs from The Beverly Hillbillies reruns, but our family was also old school - one tv set in the entire house and dammit, you watched what the adults wanted to see. For us, that meant The Lawrence Welk Show, followed by HeeHaw, which often featured Flatt and Scruggs.

Tying into another thread, that's part of why I wanted a car as soon as possible - I had to get out of there! :) If I'd had a PlayStation,my own tv, a computer and high speed internet in my room, I might have skipped getting a car as well.

Not to be pedantic, but the record that contains the theme music from "Deliverance," "Dueling Banjos," was recorded by a monster pair of banjo pickers, Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman. The great Clarence White was the guitar player for most of that record, with, as mentioned, Brickman playing some guitar as well. It can be found on a CD of the same name that mascarades as the movie's sound track. It's not really the sound track, just marketed as same. It's really their earlier record, "New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass," with "Dueling Banjos" tacked onto the front. Great record, contains some wonderful musicianship - somewhere around here I've still got my vinyl copy. Currently it's my grail - I'm playing some of those songs in the weekly lessons I still take. I am, that is, when both my hands and my brain aren't paralyzed by what's required to play the way these guys do.

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QUOTE]Not to be pedantic, but the record that contains the theme music from "Deliverance," "Dueling Banjos," was recorded by a monster pair of banjo pickers, Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman. The great Clarence White was the guitar player for most of that record, with, as mentioned, Brickman playing some guitar as well. It can be found on a CD of the same name that mascarades as the movie's sound track. It's not really the sound track, just marketed as same. It's really their earlier record, "New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass," with "Dueling Banjos" tacked onto the front. Great record, contains some wonderful musicianship - somewhere around here I've still got my vinyl copy. Currently it's my grail - I'm playing some of those songs in the weekly lessons I still take. I am, that is, when both my hands and my brain aren't paralyzed by what's required to play the way these guys do.[/QUOTE]

Ah yes.....I still have that "New Dimensions..." album tucked away in my stash....no turntable tho. Great stuff.