THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I've been searching for footage from these years all over the place! This is the New Grass Revival I remember so well. I saw them play many, many times at the Down Home Pickin' Parlor in Johnson City, TN in 1977, '78, '79 as well as at lots of bluegrass festivals in North Carolina and Tennessee. Thank you!
Was a wonderful show. The whole BlueGrass Blue Grass Series was good. I went with Edd Kelough, Tony Testerman and Ted Harland and we got there an hour or so before the doors opened. As we pulled into the parking lot of DIners Playhouse we saw a van leaving the side door.... We were getting out of the car and the van did a big swerve and came toward us. It was the band. I'd worked with Monroe during the time that he hired the Blue Grass Alliance that Sam and Courtney had been a part of in 71 and hadn't seen them in a while.... They recognised me and pulled up and we had a nice visit before they headed out for a meal.. They had just finished the sound check. A couple of times during the taping...the camera got us when they were doing audience shots. Wish I could remember which. But it was a wonderful time that night.
This is the single greatest video on the entire internet - by the greatest band of all time (in my humble opinion). I was not fortunate enough to ever see this incarnation of NGR. Would give anything to have a time machine. I first saw NGR in 1984 at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas shortly after Fleck and Flynn had joined the band. THAT was a life changing experience for me. But to see Courtney Johnson and Curtis Burch live would have been incredible. This is the next best thing. Thanks for posting it!
Glad you've found this and like it, Eric. Check out the other NGR things I've put on RUclips, including "Nobody Knows" and "Ralph's Banjo Special." They were recorded a full 5 years before the 1977 KET footage that contained "Sally Goodin."
I use to watch these guys at the Storefront in Louisville Ky, in 1972. This is when Bush and Courtney split off from the Alliance and Ebo Walker was on bass. I wish I would of had a movie camera back then, I tell ya man they would get down.....
Driving 66 Mustang on NAS Whidbey Island..leaving the base going for a drive. I popped this tape in (never heard em before) someone gave me the tape said "here check this band out. He played banjo too, we both did..it was them days when festivals were raw and you could afford a festival. Now it's all RV's in the back and tickets out of my range. So like many others I still play only many of us play underground with peeps that are like minded.
THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I've been searching for footage from these years all over the place! This is the New Grass Revival I remember so well. I saw them play many, many times at the Down Home Pickin' Parlor in Johnson City, TN in 1977, '78, '79 as well as at lots of bluegrass festivals in North Carolina and Tennessee. Thank you!
Was a wonderful show. The whole BlueGrass Blue Grass Series was good. I went with Edd Kelough, Tony Testerman and Ted Harland and we got there an hour or so before the doors opened. As we pulled into the parking lot of DIners Playhouse we saw a van leaving the side door.... We were getting out of the car and the van did a big swerve and came toward us. It was the band. I'd worked with Monroe during the time that he hired the Blue Grass Alliance that Sam and Courtney had been a part of in 71 and hadn't seen them in a while.... They recognised me and pulled up and we had a nice visit before they headed out for a meal.. They had just finished the sound check. A couple of times during the taping...the camera got us when they were doing audience shots. Wish I could remember which. But it was a wonderful time that night.
This is the single greatest video on the entire internet - by the greatest band of all time (in my humble opinion). I was not fortunate enough to ever see this incarnation of NGR. Would give anything to have a time machine. I first saw NGR in 1984 at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas shortly after Fleck and Flynn had joined the band. THAT was a life changing experience for me. But to see Courtney Johnson and Curtis Burch live would have been incredible. This is the next best thing. Thanks for posting it!
Glad you've found this and like it, Eric. Check out the other NGR things I've put on RUclips, including "Nobody Knows" and "Ralph's Banjo Special." They were recorded a full 5 years before the 1977 KET footage that contained "Sally Goodin."
I got into NGR in 1989...the year they disbanded so I never got to see them live and the are one of my favorite bands ever!
I use to watch these guys at the Storefront in Louisville Ky, in 1972. This is when Bush and Courtney split off from the Alliance and Ebo Walker was on bass. I wish I would of had a movie camera back then, I tell ya man they would get down.....
Driving 66 Mustang on NAS Whidbey Island..leaving the base going for a drive. I popped this tape in (never heard em before) someone gave me the tape said "here check this band out. He played banjo too, we both did..it was them days when festivals were raw and you could afford a festival. Now it's all RV's in the back and tickets out of my range. So like many others I still play only many of us play underground with peeps that are like minded.
Eric Graham you must be on meth.
This band revolutionized the acoustic music genre and was always unsurpassed regardless of band members. Always Awesome!!!
That baby is pushing 40 now. thanks for the upload.
Bluegrass fiddle Jean-Luc Ponty style. This is phenomenal.
Great video! Curtis's solo has two parts and isn't cut off in the version they played in Louisville in September 1975. =)
All I can say is thanks and please post more NGR
Just put up another one: "This Heart of Mine" from this same 1977 NGR show. One of my very favorites!
Thanks for sharing this gem, Tom...
Courtney Johnson is so underrated. I don't like all NGR's music but when I hear Courtney I stop and listen. May he rest in peace.
and this shows why Sam Bush is my favorite fiddle player ever
so long gooood begining!!!
Similar intro to Lee Highway Blues - must be their standard fiddle tune kickoff - AWESOME!
The best NGR footage I've ever seen! Please post the rest if you have it! Many thanks!!!
This is remarkable footage Tom-great to see the classic lineup in its prime. Thanks so much for posting. Any more info on the show?
The show was at a place called "DIner's Playhouse". I've just added (7/4/14) another cut from that show: "When The Storm Is Over." Check it out!
Courtney was a sweet guy.
Skip to 5:15 to when he actually gets to something that is kinda like Sally Goodin..
Bluegrass was saved by hippies!
Too many narcotics
Fast!
That is not Sally Gooden.
Such a waste of talent. Pitiful. It hurts to watch.