Filmed live from the My Bluegrass Heart show with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton. Video by: NoCoast.tv www.belafleck.com -
Wild Story I went to see Béla Fleck and the Flecktones on April 26, 1996 in Atlanta GA. They sold the last ticket to the guy in front of us. Disappointed, we went to a bar. I walked in and sat down in the seat of the woman that would have my son 9 months later. If I would have gotten in to see the show I may not be a dad today. He is now the age I was when I became a dad. He plays music all over Atlanta.
All y'all,. For sure no more Tony Rice on this planet hurts. Hope to hear his playing when my time is done on earth. As Bela has said interviews, Tony can't be replaced. Yet Bryan has licks that Tony did not. This group honors the past yet makes the music today. No better than this,
Sam Bush will be 70 in April people! 70!! And he still plays like this?!? Unbelievable. I hope the younger fans are watching and listening, there’s a whole wide world of bluegrass out there beyond (and better than!) Billy Strings!
If Billy is getting folks to listen then that's a win! they will start to find the other gems like Bela, Sam or Tony or even Scruggs, Flatt, Monroe or Stanley Brothers. I was into all them before Billy! How did I get there? Jerry Garcia and Old and in the Way. I'm glad a Jammy psychedelic goofball introduced me to this wonderful music
@@nathanlazickas1179 Same here with Old & In the Way. My issue has nothing to with how someone is introduced to bluegrass. It’s the many many Billy Strings fans that I’ve heard say things like “he’s the best ever” and don’t have any clue who Bryan Sutton, David Grier, Cody Kilby, etc. are. And many have said that they don’t care. I’ve encountered disrespect for the genre of bluegrass from Billy fans and at Billy Shows. I even had to email a “journalist” once because he mis-credited literally every song that Billy played at that show except for his originals. To his credit, Billy really does his part to cover a wide variety of traditional bluegrass from years past and expose his audience to all that greatness. He absolutely has respect for bluegrass. I can’t say the same for all of his fans…
@@Yobanero yeah unfortunately some folks don't know their history nor respect their elders. I'm glad Billy does. I wish more of his fans looked more deeply into the music
@@nathanlazickas1179 Yeah, that’s all I am trying to encourage. I’m really not trying to be harsh. I mean, I used to be that newbie, hippie fan who whined that bluegrass shows weren’t louder 😆 None of us know until we know…
This is such a treat! Of course there is the Bluegrass Heart, but I hear southern Indian phrasing in there and even some Rock. The best thing since "We Hide And Seek".
Our whole family of five travelled from Detroit to Grand Rapids in swirling snowstorm a couple of weeks ago. Bela and the fellas mesmerized us from the first note. I really think the whole band fed off each other with their skill and energy. Memorable night!
Wow ! Now I'm even more bummed I missed these guys in Minneapolis a couple weeks back. They are GIANTS ! Just some serious heavy hitters. Also: dang I miss Tony Rice.
I first saw Bela at Colorado College in 1990 and was privileged to see him and this amazing ensemble at the Paramount 31 years later. Thank you for all the brilliant music and memories!
Counting the days to see them at the Ace Theater in Los Angeles. Yes this is a Allstars line up.Some of the top musician in their field. This will be a Historic moment in my life.
This is the A+A+A+AAA Team! All thats missing is Michael, Justin, Sierra & Mr. Shatz. GOSH I could listen to these people and amazing compositions all day long! Bela: You've produced an AMAZING album. Jerry, Stuart, Brian... EVERYONE AFFILIATED with 'My Bluegrass Heart' - thank you from the bottom of MY heart!
Bela fleck is definitely...definitely..definitely..one million percent...... what Muhammad Ali was to the boxing world...... Bela is the greatest!!!!! Banjo player in the whole wide world....wow what a tune!!! Fantastic!!!!!!!!.....
With all due respect to Bryan Sutton, it would have been so nice to see Tony Rice up on the stage with these former bandmates of his. How I miss him so.
Branford Marsalis has "Jazz at Lincoln Center". After you watch this, I think it's time for Bela's "Bluegrass at Lincoln Center". Some kind of Blue Grass, Classical, Jazz?
Sick track great band, the D tuners really allow for a crying out sound that normally only bowed instruments could get really made incredible use of that
Down tune song White house blues Slow hunter song Swing funk tune w Bela slide Cumberland reel Boulder dash Slow tune Us chickens 🐔 Up on da hill Charm school Baptist pumpkin center double fiddle 🎻 Revenge of the tenticle 🐉 Salty 🐕
There’s a couple dozen Paramount theaters around the country. Most built late 20’s-early 30’s by Paramount, when Hollywood was huge (bigger than today in many ways). They built them to show their own movies. Lots of Fox theaters too, Paramount’s competition.
Saw Bela Fleck and the Flecktones perform at the Bass Performance Hall in Ft. Worth in October 2004. I had never seen banjo played like that before. It was really amazing. If you like Bela then you should also check out Jens Kruger with the Kruger Brothers. He is also a virtuoso banjo player and even writes symphony music that they play with world renowned orchestras.
@@davemiles94 because looking at profile pic I would say this is a generation zoomer. Too much time on 4 chan. Memes about fappings and Trump. In actuality. Someone who has become and considered the number 1 person at some skill in the world barely has time for his wife and kids so there's not much time for any other debauchery unlike this original commenter. It's called jealousy.
