1935 Martin D-18 played by Billy Strings 

LOL was thinking the same

Lol yes

Bro literally what I was thinking. Sometimes you have to be humbled to get better. He’s someone I can always look to for inspiration.

This comment makes me not want to play guitar anymore

Anybody that uses a Capo is a stiff, including Billy Strings.

That guitar had been waiting 85 years for that moment

It also survived the Holocaust

This guitar has been around long enough to have had many amazing players play it.

Keep Kurt Russell away from it.

@@danieltrue1689 I was thinking Pete Townsend

I noticed that too. I know a well known picker and he's ripping fast like Billy but there isn't the same inclusion of chording between licks like Billy and it sounds like you could drive a mac truck through the holes in the tune when he plays solo.

Made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

@@pickersgrip billy is the exact opposite. Never a moment without color. Half the time he sounds like two guitars

@@Bluegrasshero Don't forget Clarence White

@@Bluegrasshero ...The video is not about your view of Tony Rice, who was a top pro performer. So stay on the subject, and skip being snarky/sarcastic.

It might like this one instead ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zfPn1u8AwJ0.html

Nice, lol

Same here bud

Jeff Puras is your guitar a '35 Martin D-18?

Heck no. It’s just a young 25 year old D 28 whippersnapper with no respect.

Imagine how much Smoke on The Water it's been through while waiting.

Nah, he missed a few notes,... but it just makes it better x

Honestly he misses notes all the time but doesn't stumble and keeps right on pickin' it's a big part of what makes him such a great musician, you almost never notice cause he doesn't skip a beat when it happens

Word

I've never heard him make a mistake. I want to hear people throw song requests at him he's never played before and doesn't know the words to and see if he can do it.

I've heard that this is what playing clean tone will do for you, if you stick with it. As an example, plenty of country musicians do well with it. Specifically, I'm thinking of Merle Travis, Joe Maphis, and Chet Atkins. Put Danny Gatton in there too, but I'm not as familiar with his music.

get your hormones checked

Yeah it's waiting there because it costs 10k. lol

You're the dumbass. A friend of mine just bought a 1955 D18 that was in it's case under a bed since 1956 (owner died, his sister had it). Mint. They're out there. Stop being a douchebag.

I come back with ;"What did your Harley cost. You know , the one you ride 3-4 months of the year.."? hahaahahahahahah

It's funny how you word it like it's some dusty old beat-up student guitar in a pawn shop waiting for some wide-eyed kid with his piggy bank money to give it new life. Haha. It's probably got a $12,000 price tag on it and is going to be used by some millionaire or professional musician! Rock on!

no sh*t even in key with the tune, lmao

"A bluegrass version of the fly over." Noam Pikelny. I hope he won't mind me quoting him.

I live near trains too. Damn it! LOL. Have you ever been trying to learn a song, and that dumb train whistle starts blowing? LOL

Perfect time to break into 'Folsom'!

@@guitarttimman Even with no train in the back ground I'm not as good at picking !

😂

Lmao nice

If it doesn't. It should because he sure is.

I could see myself forgetting what I even made the call for.

yes you would..

thats the first thing i thought as well lmao. he backs it up for sure

Kevin Barr

His real name is pretty cool too)

Josh turner

Kevin Barrett When I saw my first poster advertisement for him in Northport, Michigan in 2014, I thought the same thing! I was NOT disappointed. I took off from work to be able to see the concert. It was fabulous. I am pretty sure it was my birthday in August. I bought both CD’s available. What a gift for my birthday!

You, sir, are no slouch yourself! Not many people play with as much pure joy as you do!

Hear! Hear!

Amen !

Well... you can pay about $100 to listen to him for an hour when his quintet stops by your town lol. At least I did last year in Denver when he played sold out shows 4 nights in a row. This dude won a grammy.

Years ago Doc came to play at the Walnut Valley Festival held every September at the county fairgrounds in Winfield, Kansas. On one side of the fairgrounds is the Walnut River but on the opposite side there's a railroad line and I remember once he even stopped playing because the train horn was so loud that it overpowered the sound of his music. Surely the WVA has a film of this but I haven't ever seen it. Hopefully they do. Billy Strings is definitely another great artist carrying on the legacy of a style of guitar music that is a relatively recent invention, American as far as I know, called flat-picking or cross-picking. One of the original ideas spurring the development of the style was probably some guitar player's wish to play a fiddle tune and keep up with the fiddle note for note. The Delmore Brothers, Doc Watson, and others like Norman Blake, Tony Rice, and of course many others continued to devlop in that stle and now there is a third or even fourth generation carrying on all the lore and details of this specific style of American folk music- of course the style itself, if it is Bluegrass, goes back to bill Monroe and his blue Grass Boys, as Monroe is generally credited with the invention of a "bluegrass" style of acoustic string band music, and as anyone who knows anything about the style learns, bluegrass really is a very specific genre, with some rules and limits; however, despite any rules and limits, its possibilities seem to be infinite. Just ask Sam Bush or anyone else from the Newgrass Revival band- the bluegrass style not only survived the advent of newgrass, but was, once people got over the shock, enhanced and broadened by it.

Amen!!!

You don't think it's the train yard less than a block away?

Great comment! They would've most certainly love Billy!

I knew a man who played/sang in the earliest days of live radio with the Carters and Jimmy Rogers in Bristol,TN

Depends on your age. Tony Rice is still the gold standard.

All the heart and soul at a steady pace. Love Billy alot.

@@MeneerHerculePoirotI agree (as a 23yo) give Billy’s music a chance to transcend a generation then we can have the conversation imo

Exactly.

I can imagine that

Did you turn it off and on again?

Mine too. I screamed at mine, and shook it, but only a pick fell out

He really should consider going by his real name. I've had this vid in my recommendations for months, and I kept ignoring it, specifically because of his name. There are a plethora of whiz-bang talented players of all sorts of instruments on youtube, trying too hard to promote themselves. But he doesn't need anything flashy, as his playing is enough. I was glad I was wrong in the end, but I wonder how many others there are out there like me, who will just never click, and never see what they were missing.

lol!!

You should have bought a 1935 D-18 I guess

I knew TM, but thank you for the name of the first tune! you're the best!!!

You’re my hero. Can’t stop playing this since I learned it!

Bless you kind friend!

thanks for sharing this link, it's actually my work ... of cource Billy's amazing playing

Blackdog4818 I was scrolling back up through the comments to comment the same thing when I saw this 😂

I was reading your comment as i heard the train. Brilliant.

" 16 coaches long" ?

😂😂 why don't I hang out with musicians. You guys are funny.

Lol

I think he's a bill hilly ozric tentacle... so you sould check em out maybe, if you like x search string: Ozric Tentacles Dissolution

Plus he's a really nice down to earth guy and even though he's great you can really see the respect he gives to others when he plays, like with Molly.

And the thousands of hours of practice didn't hurt anything either.

He was only 24 in this vid, but he had been playing since he was 4 or so.

Great line

Practice

play it slow and speed up over time.

Oh he sings awesome too look up dust in a baggie it's about going to jail for meth

Here's something you might appreciate and help break it down ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zfPn1u8AwJ0.html

@@jacobvollmar yeah that’s part of it. Then there’s guys like Billy that have the extra 10%.

same, learning it for my sisters wedding lol

I was just playing around with it using a partial capo to leave the low E open. The D parts really sound cool that way. I wish I knew the name of this tune so I could look up different versions of it.

I don't know about the intro but this is Billy's original called Thirst Mutilator on his Turmoil and Tinfoil album. Great tune

The first half is a more upbeat arrangement of Greensky Bluegrass's "In Control," or at least it is the same chord progressions. Second half (starting at 1:38) is his original called "Thirst Mutilator."

yep me too! It's magical

And props to Carter guitars for another great video

Deffo agree, has a dan tyminski twang.

He's a good singer, but I'm not a big fan of the yee-haw yodel'y type songs. Once in a while is OK, but I hope he also gets into some more modern sounding stuff.

@@scottr939 he isn't going to change for some dimwit when he is perfect at what he does.dont hold your breath

@@scottr939 So you want a true talent to sell out and become a garbage, modern, souless radio country "artist"?

Facts

What’s the song ?

@@andrewhillberry678 Greensky Bluegrass' In Control

looooooooooool

You owe me a new keyboard lol. Good one. Cheers.

🤣🤣🤣

Her? Women can't play guitars

@@thomasrobinette3227 Crap. You caught me.

Don't you hate them

It’s like jazz or high end basketball players-you have it or you don’t, AND thousands of hours of practice.

There's a center just takes tons and tons of time finding it.

@@jameswalley7234 bingo

@@garrettlowell7637 Exactly. You're not gonna know if you have it without the practice. You'll know if you're a natural fast. But never know if you can reach yhis peak without practicing non stop i was a natural and let it go. That's why I'm picking it back up before I'm too old to learn new tricks again

There are always fools who do that, on every YT site. I think either because they are mentally ill, or just want to yank our chains. Same twisted minds that vote against their own best interests.

Seems that 62 people got Billy Strings while searching for Silly String.

Ones that could never play that LOL

They missed the like button or hit it by accident, I have before. Lots of people on phone. And it's a tiny button.

I stg its google that doesn't it just to keep it around fair or diversified. Or plum ignorant ass folk

What is the name of this song?

​@@timbercrestdentistry thirst mutilator

D T - people think the world is flat. just proof that some people's opinion aren't worth being heard.

Out of 850,000+ people watching, Im sure there could be 117 people that accidentally hit thumbs down.

Agreed to all. I bet they are just morally opposed to epic flatpicking, or maybe 1935 was a bad year for them, or their exes name was Martin and they didn’t realize it was a guitar.

More like a lot of jealous people.

thumbs up and down are meaningless, the data is corrupted and curated by youtube algorithms and reviewers. ignore it.

That's a cool story, man.