Chris Thile & Michael Daves: Forked Deer / Big Sciota 

Can't believe this has been on here for eight years and no one has commented! Great job 😮

I thought I was a musician but now I understand I'm just a clown playing some chords around a campfire, lol.

This is the video I watch when I’m sad. Absolutely phenomenal

That’s one rushing river! What skill!

Breathtaking. This is what happens when two virtuosos get together. Pure magic happens.

WARP SPEED MR. SULU! my brain barely comprehends the tune of Big Sciota these fellas are so fast!!!!

Wow THAT was impressive ! This is the best piece of Bluegrass I have heard in a long time.Sorry Billy.. Fantastic !

the dual-improvisation on big sciota that starts around 5:35 is just phenomenal: they are so instantly responsive to each others thematics, dynamic changes, where they need to be range-wise to complement each other and fill the sound spectrum. I couldn't come close to writing counterpoint like that, and thile-daves are doing it on the spot!

Those guys are amazing!

This is a master class.

YOU ARE AMAZING GUYS!!!!... Wonderful song.... :)

Incredible musicians. Wow.

Absolute genius. Period.

Excellent !!!

And, I like the way they share the mic!

It's not for me to understand how one could not like this?

This is just sick!!!!!

I wanted to be at this show but it sold out quick. Glad I can see it here!

That tempo shift when going to Big Sciota. Wow.

STUPENDOUS!

Quality!!

Fantastic

This is insane!

Too good.

Ha! Thile is hammered in this video, and still rips it up better than anyone.

OMG! They're "off the hook!" Thile is super human. He was born with a mandolin in his hands I think!

i love big sciota. it reminds me of big sci country (montana).

ahh that transition around 3:30 is so beastly

Whew, I know every fiddle tune called. Every one of these tunes gets called at the bluegrass jam sessions in Chicago.

Kaaaaboooom!

I thought I didn't like blue grass until my music teacher sent me this video!! WOW AMAZING!!

he puts the fingers on his left hand in a pencil sharpener before every gig :D

There ARE lyrics to "Big Sciota".

Ha ha..so amazing! 😂😂😂

Waiter I like my deer forked and tender. I just learned the second one now to dig into the venison. Hopefully I can track a basic version.

What kind of mic are they using? Sounds amazing no feedback. Great playing by the way! Cheers!

This is what it must've been like to watch Charlie Parker...

Listen and learn Billy 'Twings

GeemaNIDDLY!

There is a reason Chris Thile and Nickel Creek recorded their first album at the age of 14 (and kudos to the Watkins, who are amazing as well), and won the MacArthur Genius Grant at the age of 31, has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas, founded the Punch Brothers, and now hosts Live From Here. He is a flat-out genius who hangs around with like people. Oh, to have him sitting around the campfire with me and my friends!

so jealous! lol

I have sciota. And it hurts.

Michael Daves is one of the few people who can show Thile up when it comes to improvising around a fiddle tune man

I’d be offended if you just didn’t come over to my house and play mando for me all day every day

My only wish is that they cut out the first 1:30 and got right to the music.

OK.....er........ok....😶......

Chris Thile is the Mozart of the mandolin. However as Salieri once said to Mozart "too many notes." I couldn't hear the melody on Forked Deer. Sorry, I said it.

It is not a requisite for a fiddle tune to have no lyrics. That's a misconception. Maybe playing a, ahem, fiddle, would be a more essential item to be concerned with when playing, you know ehh, fiddle tunes