Voodoo Chile - Billy Strings with Umphrey's McGee 

I feel like the kid is just getting warmed up too.

Noted!

Too true

He is the real deal indeed! Nice to see him on an electric. His acoustic work is top shelf, nice to see him jamming some Hendrix!

@@wizaxed He is steeped in the classics. Gonna be making major statements along the way. "Avoid the '27 club' & prosper.."

2 long years for some “Dust” ☮️

I grew up down the hill from that prison

Dang, I was wondering where to get one, oh well.

Thank you for this story!

I feel like the necks is strangely short.

write hit songs. hes going to need help with that

@@lovebug8144 Ehh, today's "hit songs" are complete trash for the most part. You will be listening to the worst that music has to offer if you only listen to stuff that is considered a mainstream hit song. Unless you mean "hit" bluegrass songs, which he definitely has written at this point. For example, Dust In A Baggie has become an instant bluegrass classic standard. But I'm not concerned about that at all anyway; Billy can sell out many, many mid to large-sized venues like the Ryman or even Red Rocks playing his music. He is definitely a "hit" in bluegrass, even venturing into the folk, americana, and psychedelic jam music world as well. Don't expect a bluegrass tune to be a mainstream hit song anytime soon lol.

@@STSGuitar16 There is nothing Jesus Christ cant do. ..,except maybe write hit songs.....hes going to need help with that. ..ehh lol He volunteered me involuntarily. Your stern critique of todays "pop" shows some personal bias We all have some. To me.. a hit song penetrates those biases and genres and races and cultures...and finds that common ground shared by all. Perhaps Strings is on that path....traveled by some of the greats. ..but as you say....i wont be expecting it from a bluegrass tune... anytime late but too. soon. Be good my friend! E K

@@lovebug8144 bro you're trippin, jesus could write the hardest mumble rap pop song if he wanted to lol jkjk I am a musician and play in several bands myself, so yes, I do have a bias against mainstream pop in _that_ sense simply because of how most of today's hits are incredibly lacking in overall musicality. You could seriously put any of today's most popular rappers (like Da Baby, Tekashi, Playboy Carti, Trippie Redd) on any of each others' beats with that hit popular sound (which are mostly trap beats with that cicada-sounding 32nd note high hat), and there would be pretty much nothing that would change at all from one artist to another. Everything in pop music is highly interchangeable (to a MASSIVE fault) without making a song sound any different than any other artist who happened to play on the radio before the next artists. I.e. you could put any of Trippie Redd's beats over a Bobby Shmurda song and pretty much nothing would change about the overall experience of hearing one of their songs. This is partly because there are just a handful of teams of writers who make MANY of those songs anyway, and partly because it has become cool for every pop song out their to talk aboit the exact same things (girls, money, overall gang stuff, etc.) as every other song out there. The Silk Sonic song with Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak (Leave the Door Open) has really gotten me excited about what pop artists might start doing what used to be done back in the day before a team of 25 writers make the music for them, and computers and autotune did all the heavy lifting for most songs. Silk SOnic actually wrote their great song, which is a massive, hit themselves, for real. That is real musicality to me, but 95% of other pop songs are so "factory-made" that they don't come anywhere close to what those guys are doing by themselves as crazily talented musicians. Billy has as much musicality as pretty much any of those guys in pop, and for that, I put him waaaaay above the other people. So it's not so much that I hate pop music outright, I actually do enjoy some of it, I just hate seeing bs "artists" putting out all the same stuff as anyone else and people thinking it is the best that today's music has to offer. Good musicians require having good musicality, by my standard, and billy has heaps and heaps of musicality, whereas many mainstream artists do not possess. I get it; getting fired up and lit with a bangin trap song is definitely a great time, but that is just the tip of the iceberg fir what music has to offer. So yeah, I am not at all concerned with who has a mainstream hit and who doesn't. From a purely musical standpoint, hit songs are mostly garbage created by a team of 30 people and autotuned/gridded to death for them to maintain any of their already-lacking musical ability. I simply could not give less of a damn about "hit songs." Most of them are terrible, and billy isn't. For him to hit the mainstream would mean he sold out. I say he's a great artosts; the top of the whole bluegrass world right now, and he shouldn't worry sbouy writing hits. Hell, the Grateful Dead had ONE mainstream hit song, but they are one of the best and most prolific bands of all time. Hit songs have no bearing on what songs are good and what aren't.

@@STSGuitar16 ...who tripping. chill Bill Im with you. Do you think i would be "hear" if not for the music . Im not a proponent of all that manufactured jumbo you described above...whatever that was. but it has its place. dont know why i got the dissertation Youre under the wrong impression. Lost in the weed troop. . I must have struck that diminished chord augmented by some insecurity. haha. Thanks for the lesson in music though. Politely, i decline . youre not the only artist megala man. I was just here for the good music and a playful Jesus comment. not for the pent up angst of some perceived failures. I have my own crosses to bear, Everything is gonna be alright though. And i wish you the best in all your future endeavors. Hers my lesson.... even Jesus needed help writing his book of melodies.

Because he sold out to satan and the masons....

Mr.SmithGNR Smith well that’s a pretty big accusation

Mr.SmithGNR Smith his artwork on his albums portraits that

Go on believing in your imaginary enemy. You sound like you may be losing touch with reality.

@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 How are you an adult? Did you miss the day when critical thinking was suppose to develop?

I've been missing live music so much obviously but this made me LOSE it goddddddd I need it! 🤯

Social distance 😉

I miss it more than anything else.

We must demand our freedoms back folks. I'd rather die of covid, if that's possible, than to live in the world fauci and birx are forcing on us. Get up, Stand up! Stand up for your rights!

Yeah, I was there. 😌

UM shows have incredible lighting. Indoor shows, I love the balcony seats as you're at about the level of the lights....and even totally sober, it's mind blowing. Sometimes the fog's a bit thick and oily, but like we used to say, back in the day, "onward, through the fog."

I can’t I’m having a seizure

I've been trying to talk my wife into settling into the balcony at our next show but she loves "riding the rail" 😂 We've only not been on the rail at our 1st show at the Canopy Club in '03. After that, we would hang out all day just to get a spot between Stasik and Bayliss.

dont forget the univibe

@@kylewalsh9124 I personally think the uni-vibe is the key component of Jimi's sound.

And a simple blues scale

And a marshall amp smh

Those boys back in the day experimented with their equipment, with sometimes dangerous result. That’s why it’s hard to pin down, he worked to make it unique. At least now it’s safer!

I am, everyday...😎🙏

His girlfriend... (s)

I saw Billy and his band live last month. He was smiling so often, but would then go in to his solo face, and melt your brain.

@@apancher I can only imagine!

Local Michigan boy (Lansing) makes good. Billy played the hell out of bluegrass and Americana for the last 10 years. This is obviously his new direction and he's good at it.

How was your July?

@@lionrawr92 so incredible 😭😭 Billy strings shred so hard

I just saw them both at Summer Camp on Friday. What a treat.

Well for only 20years on this earth, youve gained something the majority of your generation and the generation before and maybe even the generation before that, lost and gave up trying to find; Good Taste! So heres to you Ms Lucy Smart, Cheers!

@@greenthumb707 there’s Hope for the future lol

I saw jimi and the experience at hunter college in march '68, and at the fillmore east in may '68. billy kills it.

never too late to learn. I didt learn how to play until i was 23 im now 37 and am a full time working musician

hey I am 70 and so Can I.

For real! Sounded like Billy was definitely giving Jake a run for his money there though

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Almost like they're all controlled by the same brain. Absolutely brilliant musicians.

Yeah, I latched onto him for the same reason. I worship talent.

Does he tour ?

​@@buddybell9711, he certainly does! I saw him in Manchester, England late last year. Best gig I've ever heard.

Stevie is my number 1 with Jimmy 1A. Stevie was the ultimate soul to fingers connection, as Eric Clapton said, it was an open channel, a 1 to 1 connection. When you watch Stevie play with a cigarette in his mouth, dripping with sweat and hyper focused with his entire being on his playing. Nothing like it

Billy Strings has no box. He has no equals. Im 54 and have seen damn near every great guitar player out there, and I cant remember anyone like this. Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes come to mind, thats about it.

Agreed

So true, you can mask an electric, not as much on a flat back, he def is once in a lifetime

What DukeNutron said. We saw Billy and Umphreys the Friday night before this. We missed this performance to see Joe Bonamassa on Saturday,did we go wrong?

@@garynolan3818 Damn man, that was an epic few days of music there!

he started doing metal on electric so his acoustic playing has the rhythm deeply ingrained in the auditory DNA so to speak of his sound...putting an electric in his hands with a prog-rock backing band...he sounds at home really. Honestly i think he sounds better electric since the attack he uses is very much an electric thing his acoustic sound vs say tony rice or Doc Watson ( Doc also got his start as an electric rock n Roll kid BLIND! ) ...well with many years of listening and playing practice to myself i hear it ....but its hard to convey...he is to tightly wound in he has no relaxed flow like Hendrix Stevie Ray Vaughan or Tony Rice in the acoustic realms. I think its made Billy's acoustic playing unique and accurate like metal infused into bluegrass new grass....but I kinda prefer Dave Rawlings unique approach to Jamming acoustic ....his is totally his own.

Billy started as a metal guitarist so this is right up his alley

That’s kris myers on the drums, he’s an incredible drummer to say the least

john such wasn’t he in to metal at one point?

SHARK BITE I think he was into everything at one point...lol

FACTS 💯

If you can play acoustic you can play electric. At the end of the day a guitar is a guitar. Thats said, Billy on acoustic is something special, hes the next Tommy Emmanuel, and i dont say that lightly

SRV is my favorite version but this a close close second

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@@val-le1cf I gave you a subscription. Keep jamming dude

@@drewharrison1840 thanks

Kris Myers, he has a masters in Jazz drumming. He’s one of the best in the biz!!! Check out his channel

As one myself, Yeah he is... He's in that "Place" We Just find, Closed eyes and in The Rhythm realm, Man this was Epic.

Which one..

Widdershins yep, he’s there.

His start was in metal, bet you didnt expect that, lol

I would rather see Michigan burn Hollywood to the ground with talents of fire....

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And his grandfather made this guitar in prison!!!! Legendary 🎸

Ellen Hayes I was wondering what he was playing. Super cool looking.

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@@val-le1cf Alright cool I will.

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Lol.

Billy’s not out of his element. If he’s playing something with strings, he will rip it

He played in a metal band for a while. He isn't really out of his element. Now if he was playing some Vivaldi...

Justin Johnson (30’s, but nevertheless)

Josh Turner Guitar

Taj Farrant. 11 Years old.. Phenom..Great Guitar Faces..

@@CorneiliusLibowitz Justin Johnson is an amazing guitarist and I love his style. He plays the stuff I hear and want to play but I can only dream of playing, maybe one day I'll be able to.

Rock lives and the futures bright for guitar. So many young talented guitarists around

Thumbs turned down are from the assholes who are always around... They don’t know music, they don’t know sound...Their only thumb up is stuck in their own brown!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yPPk3jYvDFI.html check this guy!

Relax you!

@@Qbm2109 lol that's funny)😁

I'm 65 years old and this has got to be the best Voodoo Chile cover I've heard! Billy Strings is a guitar master! He should be entered into rock history with the other hammer gods!

I think it went on too for the ADD kids. Of course that's the original meaning of EPIC-noth great and extended