Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell - Dueling Banjos (Deliverance 1972)

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I put this together a long time ago, but did not upload it because (1) I was embarrassed that I misspelled "Dueling" (actually my third finger twitched and I failed to notice, TWICE), after I deleted the setup and didn't want to start from scratch again; (2) the video quality is lousy because it came from a poor broadcast of DVD quality; (3) there are already plenty of versions of it available. However, I decided today to upload it because some of my 20,000 subscribers may not have heard/seen it and will enjoy it. At least the aspect ratio is correct, as you can see by observing that the banjo head, or pot, is round, as is the guitar sound hole. That's not the case for some you might see. BTW, the banjo music is NOT coming from the junker that the kid pretended to play. I love the part where the local fellow overhears the comment about low-IQ people, walks up to the offender and rhetorically says, "Who's playin' the banjer?" That's funny on two levels: (1) the wise guy gets a comeuppance because the kid can play banjo and the wise guy can't (he was guessing, but most people can't), and (2) the answer to his question is "Eric Weissberg," not the kid holding the junker.

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@timothyhenegar7484 9 месяцев назад

This really goes to show why folk music, bluegrass, and much more is entertaining in Appalachia. When there was little radio, or TV, no internet. This is how folks threw down for a good time.

@michaelwoodrow3295 2 месяца назад

I don't care what he looks like. Just love his musical skills! Bless him!!!

@MJT777X 7 месяцев назад

This video is proof that music, too, is a universal language 😅😊

@Feral_Wolverine Год назад

as a music teacher , this scene brings tears of joy ............. iam gonna watch this movie along with my students 🥲

@bleonardyou Год назад

Er, you might want to watch it yourself before showing it to your students. I don’t know how old they are but there are definitely scenes designed for mature audiences.

@paulgr2113 Год назад

@@bleonardyou Oink oink.

@narvul Год назад

As a language teacher, your post brings tears of pain.

@Feral_Wolverine 11 месяцев назад

@@bleonardyou dude , really ?

@guysmiley4830 5 месяцев назад

@@Feral_Wolverine have you actually seen the movie? This particular scene is epic. Other scenes in the movie are not great for mixed company.

@GarrisonNichols-ow1hb 4 месяца назад

One of the greatest American films ever made.

@gorn9161 Год назад

"🪕...that creep can roll, man." - Lebowski

@emmawylde100 Год назад

Well when I wasn't a miner 49er and driving a big rig I used to play a mean banjo. True story man

@titteryenot4524 2 года назад

Many years ago, I saw *Straw Dogs* and *Deliverance* weeks apart and they instantly became linked forevermore in my mind, not just because of their temporal proximity of release, but because of the similar feel and overlapping themes of the two movies. It was only much later that I discovered that Peckinpah was slated to direct the Duelling Banjos classic, before Boorman took the reins of that film. Whatever, both great films and both starkly showing to humanity just how thin that crispy veneer of ‘civilisation’ really is.

@guysmiley4830 4 месяца назад

"Civilization" is only 6 weeks away from cannibalism at any given moment

@Rodrigo-ri7sg 6 дней назад

o filme strw dogs é sem duvida um incrivel filme dos anos 70

@gypsynick Год назад

Steve Mandell was a great bluegrass banjo player along with Eric Weissberg who played dueling banjos in the movie Deliverance, Steve was in a band that loved bluegrass music and played it in the park at the end of 5th ave in New York called Union Square. They called themselves the "Jewgrass Boys". I met him in a recording studio in Nashville and they all went to dinner but excluded Steve because he was Jewish, I took him home for supper and we became lifelong friends. I understand there is now no more prejudice againstjewish musicians in Nashville. In New York I started with a comic strip I worote for and ended up on Wall Steet. That is another story for another time. Niki Shrode

@morehn Год назад

Jews are always different, though, excluded or not

@DerTrolliver Год назад

Just like anybody...@@morehn

@morehn Год назад

@@DerTrolliver actually no

@PHJimY 4 года назад

Warner Brothers changed the name of this tune to "Dueling Banjos" without permission of the composers, Don Reno & Arthur Smith, or the players, Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell. The tune is called "Feuding Banjos".

@brianwarner308 3 года назад

"Who's playin' the banjer?" hahahahahahahahaha love that part

@guysmiley4830 9 месяцев назад

sickest shred of all time

@drevakelemen52n92 2 года назад

Thank You for this masterpiece.... I already learned what happened... God bless you ..... And sorry ..

@1cultural 4 года назад

Rip Eric weissberg 1939_2020

@heinzdauer9487 Год назад

Fabled !!!

@satishchandra1904 3 года назад

This took very long for me to find. Came back here after the Oscars 0:55

@SidsCardShop 3 года назад

Satish Chandra: I'm glad you found it.

@Crazycoyote-we7ey 3 года назад

the most terror inducing music for yuppies

@PHJimY 4 года назад

Eric Weissberg wrote; I hope to set the record straight concerning incorrect/incomplete writer credits on records I’ve made: the “soundtrack” recording of “Dueling Banjos”, and the incorrectly labeled “Deliverance Soundtrack” album, originally recorded as the album “New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass” by Marshall Brickman and myself in 1962, and released in 1963. A number of truly wrong things happened here. The new company, WB, which should have known better, perpetuated incorrect credits. They had eliminated Marshall’s great liner notes (in them he does mention that “Shuckin’ the Corn” is by Scruggs), and not corrected the credits. In fact they added “Dueling Banjos” (where did that title come from?) and “End of a Dream” to the list of incorrect credits. Also gone was the information about which of us was playing lead banjo on which tunes, who took which banjo breaks on the double banjo tunes and who was playing what when not playing banjo. The two tunes removed were “No Title Yet Blues” written by me, and “Black Rock Turnpike” by Marshall. They chose to leave on two public domain tunes for which they would not have to pay royalties., and remove two for which they would have had to pay us royalties for thirty years and a couple million albums.

@NEMO-NEMO 3 года назад

Wow! The world of business is of dark and murky waters. The music industry is full of these stories. The happiness portrayed by the young banjo player, in this video, is about as pure as any of us will ever get. That smile on his face, even though he is not playing that instrument, is still pure gold. The older man dancing is just an expression of the music. And for a couple of minutes, as we watch them we become involved in that music and it’s rhythm and we too smile for a moment. May the creators of this music Rest In Peace.

@SidsCardShop 3 года назад

@@NEMO-NEMO Thanks for the positive comment. My mission is to keep my RU-vid account free of negativity when its only purpose is to be negative. That's not easy with 63,800 subscribers and 284 videos. The rest of this comment is intended to add situation details to the scene in the movie. The "young banjo player" was chosen for the part from a nearby public school, simply because the people doing the choosing thought his appearance best embodied the idea "this kid could not possibly be smart enough to play the banjo in an expert manner." My paraphrase, of course - but that was the criterion. If he had appeared to be a slick product of current social dictates, there would not have been any "wow!" reaction to the sound of Eric's masterful playing. The kid was taught how to handle the banjo to give the impression he was playing, while Eric was concealed close-by and behind him so that the sound came from the correct direction.

@NEMO-NEMO 3 года назад

SidsCardShop Thank you. I had read the small story of how the scene was created and the real banjo player concealed from the audience, I had not realized he was actually concealed within the scene. I also think there is a disconnect in the video as far as the timing of the dancer and the song being played? Maybe it’s just me. I was too young to understand that movie and also the deer hunter. All I could understand was the sorrow it made me feel. But the song was for me the bright spot in an otherwise gruesome movie. Thanks for the video.

@PHJimY 3 года назад

@@SidsCardShop The banjo playing was done on Eric's Gibson Mastertone and not on the banjo that we saw in the movie. They used an old catalog banjo since this is what a mountain banjo player would probably be playing. Although Ronnie Cox does play guitar, the sound of the guitar comes from Steve Mandell, but Ronnie does a much better job of finger-synching because he knows what he's doing. Billie Redden had no idea how to play the banjo and the hands that we see are not doing a great job of faking it to anyone who plays the banjo, but since this movie wasn't made for banjer players, I guess they figured it's not too important.

@SidsCardShop 3 года назад

@@PHJimY Right! When I'm synchronizing the A/V while editing a video, I wish I were a musician. If there are no mouth movements and words to synch, I'm sunk. At least I recognize instrument sounds. I'm so impressed with Alan Jackson responding to the general public ignorance of that, when making a guest appearance on TV, by pointing to the artist who is taking a break, so that the A/V supervisor can call for the correct camera to go live. Here he is in action: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HgEtx8yf_t4.html

@norbertprokschi9730 Год назад

Einfach Klasse

@MORE1500 4 года назад

RIP Eric.

@ManuelAntolinBaigorr Год назад

Cabanilles, one of his "Tiento de Batalla" pieces, XVIII century.

@ricklee5845 4 месяца назад

That oldtimer dances just like Jed Clampett. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they's cousins! 🤠

@sandiehiti5008 2 года назад

Our sales reps were going to go white water rafting in a place like this. I kept humming this theme and grinning at them. Trip was cancelled.

@thatotherguy1 Год назад

Lol...my you got a purdy mouth. You should have Whispered that too.

@Metoza9 5 лет назад

This is one of the highlights of this movie. I've always been intereno, is this guy playing? Thanks for the information. Greetings from Donbass. Sorry for my english