I don't think I wouldn't necessarily consider this Bluegrass. I consider it a hybrid form of Bluegrass. I don't think they have organs or pianos in Blue Grass. LOL. I would just consider this one one hell of a jam session. Maybe the best jam session ever.
Well, I'll argue FOR you. For another post I looked up "best bluegrass songs" and according to ranker.com Foggy Mountain Breakdown is the NUMBER ONE all time favorite, and since this has GOT to be the best version of that tune you're right, this HAS to be the "greatest bluegrass video ever made."
Albert Lee on the red electric guitar. The other electric, Vince Gill. Other banjo, on the far left, Steve Martin. Piano: Paul Shaffer. Keyboard: Leon Russell. Dobro: Jerry Douglas. Mandolin: I forget his name; a popular country musician. I don’t know who the bassist and drummer are. I think the violin, harmonica, and acoustic guitar might be sons of Earl Scruggs.
@@cameronriviere To finish out the lineup: Mandolin: Marty Stuart, Bass: Glenn Worf, Drums: Harry Stinson, Fiddle: Glen Duncan, Harmonica: Gary Scruggs, Acoustic Guitar: Randy Scruggs.
I thought this video was some elaborate comedy sketch when I first saw it - had no idea he was an expert banjo picker! BUT - is he in the room with these guys? The shots of him don't have anyone else in them, and he's not in the group shots. Odd.
@@Baddawg_313who is who, the man who paved the way? Earl Scruggs. The guy sitting down in the middle that they are all looking at with like worshipful eyes.
@@stevepalpatine2828 Please carefully read the preceding conversation again. "He" is referring to Steve Martin. As I said, Ain't no one that can play like Earl.
If you're still listening to this, you're not alone and I love you! I love bluegrass music. What a talented group of musicians. Legends. .... from Fort Worth, Texas
I sometimes forget what a talented musician Steve Martin is until I see him here, playing that banjo! This is a great rendition of this classic bluegrass song!
What still impresses me with this video is that Harry Stinson could continuously play a train rhythm on the drums for almost 5 minutes. That's challenging.
Albert Lee is at once the most anonymous musician in the world, while being the greatest guitarist in the world. Always a session player, never a leader. And he absolutely shreds everything he touches.
i'm a guitarist, but not a country guy. I wouldn't recognize him on the street, but the second he started playing I thought "is that him?". My dad would say that's the best of both worlds. Playing, creating, and get to go to the grocery store without being bothered.
@@nestorvelasquez9633 You both mean Paul Shaffer. Googling Paul Schaefer brings up Nazi war criminal and child rapist Paul Shäfer as the first result. I wish I was joking.
The original 49 version is still pretty hard to beat too. Earl had to dry his head with a light globe heater he made as they were all using calf skin heads still then, and he also always destined his banjo and removed the bridge before casing his axe and in those days before Gotoh planetary machines that stay in tune and are 14 to 1 on the 5th, it took him 40 minutes to get the banjo all soughted and intoned again. Old Earl never did anything by half measures. Even his banjo tutor was also a Luthier's manual Banjo History book and Flint hill of the 30s and tour Biography lol he even had a section on how to make his D tuners God luv him. I think I’ll end up buying Keith’s or one of those new no hole drilling clip on pairs for 3 bennies but you never know. It’s handy knowing how to knock out a pair of home made D tuning cams! The point being though, that’s some “ Tune a day for Banjo” book there Earl bless your soul. Has any one else seen the Martha White show version of Groundspeed ( I think the second time they had used it) and Earl starts waving his left hand around in the air when he’s on the G chord and sets of the whole band and announcers laughing. Extra funny as he was usually so laid back and quietly tongue in cheek you'd never expect it. They are GEMs those Old Opry shows.
Hah. I get it. But Bluegrass is part of your country's history, and time won't change that. As I said on another comment, it's music written for people living hard lives to cut loose to. I love it so much.
I’ve never seen a group have so much fun before. They’re all VIBING, especially the pianist he’s having a blast. They love the music and creating it with each other, it’s definitely no wonder that it’s “& Friends”
@@VioletJoyPaul Shaffer was always such a goober! An incredible musician, though. Watching this on Fathers Day in memory of my dad, a big Grand Old Opry and Earl Scruggs fan.
I'm not really into country music. But I really like bluegrass...and am a HUGE Vince Gill fan. The man is criminally underrated: A killer guitarist...AND possessor of an equally-killer voice.
Watch him play the same with the same, on Letterman. To be asked to do that shows they don't want any of martins' comedy , just the man showing what a professional playing of the banjo looks like.
@@markmcguire9770 First time I saw him on TV back around then he was playing banjo with a fake arrow through his head. Shoulda done it here. No, not really.
Therese C - the people that hit the dislike button are clearly dead inside. Its either that, or a slutty home wrecking banjo seduced their mothers and destroyed their family when they were young...
To be the same room as all of that talent must have been amazing. To actually play in the same group as all these guys, truly a life-changing event. I don't even listen to bluegrass, or much country music, but I do know greatness and excellent musicians when I hear/see them. Earl Scruggs, Leon Russell, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Albert Lee, Steve Martin, Paul Shaffer, Randy Scruggs, Gary Scruggs, Harry Stinson, Glen Cuncan, Glenn Worf, and Jerry Douglas. Truly some legendary guys in this line-up.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown," with Scruggs's sons Randy on acoustic guitar and Gary on Harmonica, and a stellar group that included Vince Gill and Albert lee on electric guitar, Marty Stewart on mandolin, Glen Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, Glenn Wolf on bass, Harry Stinson on drums, Leon Russell on organ and Paul Shaffer on piano. For those debating Martin's inclusion, want to rethink. He is a better banjo player than 95% of all banjo pickers. He even personally fund an award in the field of banjo and/or bluegrass music. He is straight up legitimate.
When he first performed stand up comedy he most always had his Banjo on stage with him If not carrying and playing it in his act. He is a top most Banjoist.
This is probably my favorite performance of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" ever!!!!! Earl Scruggs. Leon Russell. Vince Gill. Marty Stuart. Paul Schaffer. Steve Martin.
WHAT A JAM SESSION!! Has there ever been a better instrumental than Foggy Mountain Breakdown? Just a group of guys having a blast and collaborating beautifully.
I love how everybody (even Harry Stinson) has gotten love from the comment section but nobody yet has mentioned that awesome bass player, Glenn Worf. He killed it in this song, props to him.
Stinson and Worf were working just as hard as the soloists. To maintain the beat that steady, that fast, and that long - well, all I can say is Saaa-LUTE!
How magnanimous was Scruggs to allocate ample time to each and every musician to showcase each one’s unique instrumental talents. My fav was the harmonica at 2:12. Hell every time I watch this, I have to watch it many times just to watch the nimble fingers move like they all have little brains in them!
When I was a little boy growing up in West Texas, this Kentucky Blue Grass classic, a favorite of mine, literally brought tears to my eyes...And it still does. How I love FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN!
I grew up on bluegrass, and everytime I heard Foggy Mountain Breakdown I would stop what I was doing and just listen to the excellent musicianship. This, of course, is no different. But, my God, just look at the musical juggernauts that slay on this track!!
I’d just like to say that I’ve been a drummer for 35 years, and I was amazed to hear Earl’s flawlessly metronomic playing. A computer couldn’t be more precise.
An amazing and timeless performance made two years before Earl's passing (2012). A true pioneer in a lot of ways, hats off to ya, Earl, we miss you to this day. Thanks
And yet Steve plays a near perfect rendition of the original banjo solo from Flatt & Scruggs 1959 original version, which someone had to quote, freeing up everyone else to embellish in different directions.
How many times did Earl play this song? I bet he never got tired or board from this bread and butter song. "Come on Earl, take my money and play it again and when you're done please teach me!!!".
Hello to you, too! I was stationed in Bitburg, Germany from '78 to '81. I LOVED IT!!! Some of my Absolute FAVORITE memories are during that time. 5 other guys and I put together The Bitburg Bluegrass Band, and won the USAF Worldwide Talent Contest in 1980.
There are different types of country just like any type of music. Relax and go listen to the one that brings YOU joy. Who cares what others listen to for THEIR joy?
幸せな子供たちが遊ぶように、彼らは遊んで微笑みます。耳よりも目で音楽を楽しんで、聴いてニヤニヤしてみましょう。神のお恵みがありますように。 They play and smile like happy children play. Enjoy music with your eyes rather than your ears, and smile while listening. god bless you.
Wow! Just wow! I loved how Paul Shafer looked like he was having the time of his life playing outside of his genre! All these guys were great This is coming from a hard rock fan!
Outside of his genre? What are you talking about? Primarily a session musician, as the musical director for Letterman's Late Show, he played with nearly every musical guest to come on the show. The man is a musical genius.
Shaffer doesn't really have a genre. If anything its Blues, RnB and Boogie, but not that far from bluegrass when it comes to piano. He started as a top-40 session player and played everything. SNL, Letterman, he played with everyone... not just because he could, but he knew EVERYONE. He was the one who put the Blues Brothers together with all those greats, after all. I bet he could hook up a Norwegian Black Metal band to a String Band if he was so inclined!
A fitting super pack of musical brilliance near the end of a musical geniuses Life. Earl will never be far away with this superb Bluegrass hit of the ages. Long live all the excellent musical talent that joined him in this rendition. ❤
He is the Double Stop king and between him and Ray Flake they molded the modern Nashville Rockabilly Guitar style. I'm sure Brent Mason would give these guys lot's of credit for opening up the door for Hick Rock on Country Radio and starting a whole new style of Hot Country Pickin.
OMG. Sitting here, fall afternoon 2021 watching Bonnie and Clyde on TV, I hear that tune as a backdrop to a chase scene and IMMEDIATELY think "FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN"???! So I come to RUclips to see if that might be right, and see of course that's the tune! CUH-LAS-SIC!!!
Beats any 2021 modern pop song. This piece straight up amazes me! The fact the tempo is that fast and the song flows this smoothly baffles me. This song will go down in history…
I love the subtleties of this video: How Earl is the master but also lives up to it, no one can hang with the timing of his Banjo playing Steve Martin is great but he's no where near the mastery of Scruggs or most all of the players, but you can tell he knows it, you can see it on his face, and yet he is very good and has confidence in his playing Paul Schafer shows off his true chops (nbd) But yeah dude is a true piano master and this video proves it, there's a reason a guy like him was picked to be the band leader of the Late show and looks were not it Dude is powerful on a keyboard
This brought tears to my eyes🥺i used to listen to my grandaddy play this on the Banjo and fiddle and im talking lick for lick, he nailed it...i Miss him so much😭
Everyman who touches this kills it beyond words. They are gifted beyond what you can even think to appreciate. It's just a masterpiece no matter how you look at or listen to it. Amazing
Fabulous group of supremely talented musicians playing this great bluegrass classic! I love Steve Martin as an actor and comedian but who knew how talented he was on the banjo!? Amazing!
"They didn't start chasing us until you turned on that getaway music" - a legend
exactly
@@Zak-tz4gy .
🎉😅😢❤
😂😂😂😂😂😂 H.Simpson
Perfect
Little known fact: They had to stop the recording numerous times when Earl's banjo burst into flames during his solo.
He claimed that was only a rumor... A rumor that happened over and again!
Hahaha right on
That's too bad😂😂😂
😛👍 *In the voice of Jim Carrey from "The Mask" .....
" SsMOkin'!!!!!💨 🚬🔥🧯😁😉😝
Whas he picking that fast?
Argue if you want, but this is the greatest bluegrass video ever made.
No can do
I don't think I wouldn't necessarily consider this Bluegrass. I consider it a hybrid form of Bluegrass. I don't think they have organs or pianos in Blue Grass. LOL. I would just consider this one one hell of a jam session. Maybe the best jam session ever.
Every time I hear this song I imagine someone escaping from an avalanche while riding a mine cart
Well, I'll argue FOR you. For another post I looked up "best bluegrass songs" and according to ranker.com Foggy Mountain Breakdown is the NUMBER ONE all time favorite, and since this has GOT to be the best version of that tune you're right, this HAS to be the "greatest bluegrass video ever made."
Have you heard rawhide from Ricky Skaggs yet?
This is a the ultimate bluegrass supergroup! Even if it's just for one song, it was a blessing to us all.
Amen and hear here!
Yes luv those banjos❤
Who all were playing?
Albert Lee on the red electric guitar. The other electric, Vince Gill. Other banjo, on the far left, Steve Martin. Piano: Paul Shaffer. Keyboard: Leon Russell. Dobro: Jerry Douglas. Mandolin: I forget his name; a popular country musician. I don’t know who the bassist and drummer are. I think the violin, harmonica, and acoustic guitar might be sons of Earl Scruggs.
@@cameronriviere To finish out the lineup: Mandolin: Marty Stuart, Bass: Glenn Worf, Drums: Harry Stinson, Fiddle: Glen Duncan, Harmonica: Gary Scruggs, Acoustic Guitar: Randy Scruggs.
Can we talk about how Steve Martin is killing on that banjo. What a G!
I thought this video was some elaborate comedy sketch when I first saw it - had no idea he was an expert banjo picker! BUT - is he in the room with these guys? The shots of him don't have anyone else in them, and he's not in the group shots. Odd.
Steve Martin can pick a mean banjer. Look up some of his music if you're into some good bluegrass.
Hell yeah! If you don't like this, we can't be friends. 😂
Steve's cool, but Jerry Douglass on dobro is sick too.
@@johnbevan4879 Steve Martin is a very accomplished banjo player. He even has an amazing band!
It is so heartwarming to see men, who are legends in their own right, paying homage to the man who paved the way.
Love your comment1
Grew up listening to Blue Grass, my father and mother played. Lester and Earl were great. Bill Monroe was one of my all time favorites.
Who is that?
@@Baddawg_313who is who, the man who paved the way? Earl Scruggs. The guy sitting down in the middle that they are all looking at with like worshipful eyes.
@@philtll mmmmkay
To be playing banjo as “friend” to earl Scruggs is such a daunting task, you can even see the relief on Steve Martins face after his solo wraps
Steve Martin ain't no slouch on the banjo himself.
@@stevepalpatine2828No, he isn't. But he ain't no Earl, either. No one else is. (All apologies to Tony & Bela, but y'all ain't Earl.)
@@michaelclark9762 Naw Earl is a legend. Guy pick a Banjo like he borrowed Gods fingers.
@@stevepalpatine2828 Please carefully read the preceding conversation again. "He" is referring to Steve Martin. As I said, Ain't no one that can play like Earl.
If you're still listening to this, you're not alone and I love you! I love bluegrass music. What a talented group of musicians. Legends. .... from Fort Worth, Texas
Sending love back from North Carolina ❤️
Love back from the other side of the Atlantic ocean, in Brittany.
sending a lotta ❤from Maine...can you imagine being in that room with that group? magic....
Don’t get no better man!
@@cindy844we l💜our NC brothers and sisters.:) Appalachia strong 💪
I sometimes forget what a talented musician Steve Martin is until I see him here, playing that banjo! This is a great rendition of this classic bluegrass song!
I love the relieved look he has after his solo
Foggy Mountain was part of his routine back in his standup heyday,
Talented is an understatement, Steve is one of the top banjo players.
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He certainly has put his many great talents to use throughout his career.
@@FenrisTheMannis
What a bunch of talented musicians and who's still listening to this in 2021
TRUE Talent
Me cause country music is not what it used to be
@@oreobenavidez953 yeah its all about drugs and beating wife
@@Herr_Keystyne to totally honest I have no idea what the lyrics are about cause if the music sounds horrible I ain't listening
Anyone who sees this comment is listening in 2021.
It’s scientifically proven this song is able to cure depression.
Abso-freaking-lutely
It cured mine🤗just saying
I'm not depressed, but this song makes me happy and I've now listened to it probably 30 times since discovering it yesterday.
I played this song, over a dozen times yesterday on a continuous loop on my way to my property.
Do you have any peer-reviewed research to back up that claim?
If you're good enough to play on the same stage as Earl Scruggs, you're a legend.
What still impresses me with this video is that Harry Stinson could continuously play a train rhythm on the drums for almost 5 minutes. That's challenging.
Always enjoy listening, good for the bones
Yeah no kidding
Handsome Harry is the man. Top shelf talent.
Albert Lee is at once the most anonymous musician in the world, while being the greatest guitarist in the world. Always a session player, never a leader. And he absolutely shreds everything he touches.
i'm a guitarist, but not a country guy. I wouldn't recognize him on the street, but the second he started playing I thought "is that him?". My dad would say that's the best of both worlds. Playing, creating, and get to go to the grocery store without being bothered.
He's phenomenal
I’m pretty sure I bought a chest freezer from him once
He's in a Carlene Carter video " I fell in love " .
And was a member of Emmylou's Hot Band
"They didn't start chasing us until you turned on that getaway music!"
"Think about me when you're having the best sex of your life"
I think the reason why half of us came here is that Homer's quote 😂
wait what are y'all talking about ahahhahahaha. I need to see this
Wow look out here comes Bonnie and Clyde lol
This RUclips comments is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. Kudos!
Everytime i see this i always smile, just a bunch of dudes absolutely vibing together
I wish I could be as happy about anything as Paul Schaefer is when he's playing the piano.
It's funny seeing Paul Schaefer so energetic while Leon Russell is just playing there, so calm
Truth
paul is looking like nirvana is upon him
He nailed his part, too.
@@nestorvelasquez9633 You both mean Paul Shaffer. Googling Paul Schaefer brings up Nazi war criminal and child rapist Paul Shäfer as the first result. I wish I was joking.
I have never heard a better version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and the people doing it look like they knew this was the best one that ever was.
I'd say so!
The original 49 version is still pretty hard to beat too.
Earl had to dry his head with a light globe heater he made as they were all using calf skin heads still then, and he also always destined his banjo and removed the bridge before casing his axe and in those days before Gotoh planetary machines that stay in tune and are 14 to 1 on the 5th, it took him 40 minutes to get the banjo all soughted and intoned again.
Old Earl never did anything by half measures. Even his banjo tutor was also a Luthier's manual Banjo History book and Flint hill of the 30s and tour Biography lol he even had a section on how to make his D tuners God luv him.
I think I’ll end up buying Keith’s or one of those new no hole drilling clip on pairs for 3 bennies but you never know. It’s handy knowing how to knock out a pair of home made D tuning cams!
The point being though, that’s some “ Tune a day for Banjo” book there Earl bless your soul.
Has any one else seen the Martha White show version of Groundspeed ( I think the second time they had used it) and Earl starts waving his left hand around in the air when he’s on the G chord and sets of the whole band and announcers laughing.
Extra funny as he was usually so laid back and quietly tongue in cheek you'd never expect it.
They are GEMs those Old Opry shows.
I drive a 68’ Shelby Mustang and this is what I put on the radio every time I go somewhere.
You must have been doing 120mph every where you went! 🤠
Fantastic car (my brother owned a '67 fastback), but with this song you really need a Ford De luxe Coup, 1932-34 vintage to really do it justice.
This song adds you AT LEAST 70 more horsepower, and moonshine spontaneously appears in your trunk.
Now it is 2025 and I still love Bluegrass! Love the banjo!
Hah. I get it. But Bluegrass is part of your country's history, and time won't change that. As I said on another comment, it's music written for people living hard lives to cut loose to. I love it so much.
This should be in a national archive! Amazing!
I dare say we may never see a gathering of such legendary musical talent on one stage again.
Yep, this is like The Traveling Wilburys on steroids.
Love you Earl Scruggs.
I’ve never seen a group have so much fun before. They’re all VIBING, especially the pianist he’s having a blast. They love the music and creating it with each other, it’s definitely no wonder that it’s “& Friends”
He is INTO it. 😂 That's Paul Shaffer. He was the band leader on The Letterman Show for many years and was always this enthusiastic.
@@VioletJoyPaul Shaffer was always such a goober! An incredible musician, though. Watching this on Fathers Day in memory of my dad, a big Grand Old Opry and Earl Scruggs fan.
Good, ain't it?
@@TerpsichoreanSelenophile LOL. But he was sure enjoying himself.
Leon is minding his own business back there😊
SIMPLY THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST ensemble of top notch musicians playing a most enjoyable bluegrass standard! I actually got a tad emotional watching it.
You are NOT alone there buddy!!! TRUST ME! 😁😉
Talk about "a gathering of eagles". You can tell they are honored to be in each other's presence, each artist smiling from ear to ear in shear bliss.
Albert lees solo is like something from another planet. Absolutely shreds. If I hear it a million times I still won’t be tired of it.
I can never get tired of Albert Lee
Amen
When I heard Vince Gill's solo, I thought "Uh oh, poor Albert." So wrong.
This video should have AT LEAST, 87,500,000 views because it's DEEPLY underrated.
I'm not really into country music. But I really like bluegrass...and am a HUGE Vince Gill fan. The man is criminally underrated: A killer guitarist...AND possessor of an equally-killer voice.
I just love Steve Martin's sigh of relief when he finished his solo. He's playing with the gods and damn well knows it!
Watch him play the same with the same, on Letterman. To be asked to do that shows they don't want any of martins' comedy , just the man showing what a professional playing of the banjo looks like.
steve martin has been playing banjo since 1978, so he can hold his own with the best
@@markmcguire9770 First time I saw him on TV back around then he was playing banjo with a fake arrow through his head. Shoulda done it here. No, not really.
He wasn't even in the room in this video
@@chasein7019 Still. He knows.
Probably some of the best stringed instrument players in the world at the time in that room !
No matter where you go, there he is, that ass-kissing, obnoxious Paul Schaeffer. Oh Lord the man is an ass.
Woodie thompspn totally agree with you and yet there are some idiots who disliked this video.. shame!
@@ferahcankaya yeah I know Therese, there is no accounting for taste !
Therese C - the people that hit the dislike button are clearly dead inside.
Its either that, or a slutty home wrecking banjo seduced their mothers and destroyed their family when they were young...
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !!
To be the same room as all of that talent must have been amazing. To actually play in the same group as all these guys, truly a life-changing event. I don't even listen to bluegrass, or much country music, but I do know greatness and excellent musicians when I hear/see them. Earl Scruggs, Leon Russell, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Albert Lee, Steve Martin, Paul Shaffer, Randy Scruggs, Gary Scruggs, Harry Stinson, Glen Cuncan, Glenn Worf, and Jerry Douglas. Truly some legendary guys in this line-up.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown," with Scruggs's sons Randy on acoustic guitar and Gary on Harmonica, and a stellar group that included Vince Gill and Albert lee on electric guitar, Marty Stewart on mandolin, Glen Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, Glenn Wolf on bass, Harry Stinson on drums, Leon Russell on organ and Paul Shaffer on piano.
For those debating Martin's inclusion, want to rethink. He is a better banjo player than 95% of all banjo pickers. He even personally fund an award in the field of banjo and/or bluegrass music. He is straight up legitimate.
I've heard it said that, if Martin had his druthers, he'd be known as "that great banjo player, and hey, did you know he's funny, too?"
Andrew Rodgers , you left off Steve Martin
When he first performed stand up comedy he most always had his Banjo on stage with him If not carrying and playing it in his act. He is a top most Banjoist.
He's been doing it for a long time..
@@kevincleary7808 No he didn't. Click on the show more link. Martin has his own paragraph. Paul Shaffer doesn't belong in the group.
Paul Shaffer is straight vibing here
lmao always is
I know 😆 I verbalized "he is ALL the way in"
Wow, that keyboard is on fire.
I like how Leon Russell is just playin and chillin back there while Paul Schaefer is jumpin all over the place!
@@b3j8 Everyone interprets and plays music in their own special and wonderful way.
This is probably my favorite performance of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" ever!!!!! Earl Scruggs. Leon Russell. Vince Gill. Marty Stuart. Paul Schaffer. Steve Martin.
Jett Carlburg a
These guys all nailed it on their solos. Each one is spot on.
Hello how are you doing today…?
There will never be another recording like this one…. Ever!
Every player was a master in his craft! Magnificent!
This here's Earl, Gene, Randy, and over on the keys we have Gandalf
Is that Leon Redbone?
Patty Barnes You’re halfway there. That’s the late, great Leon Russell.
No, silly, that's Disney's Merlin from the end of the movie when he was vacationing in Bermuda.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Jajajaja que risa no entiendo mucho el inglés pero como me rei jajajjajajaj
3:57 When you get water in your ear after swimming.
😂😂😂
Relatable
LMAOOOO
lol I just made the same comment for 0:34. Yours is a better shot lol
WHAT A JAM SESSION!! Has there ever been a better instrumental than Foggy Mountain Breakdown? Just a group of guys having a blast and collaborating beautifully.
Earl, you're legacy will live on forever. The granddaddy of bluegrass banjo. All us banjo players owe you a tremendous debt.
Having Leon Russell on Keyboard was great! So lucky to have in on this not long before he passed away. What a great video!
This was done in 2001. Leon did not pass away until 2014.
Steve Martin, your talent keeps up with legends. I never knew 😢
I’m a hard rock and heavy metal guy, but there is so much totally incredible talent here!! I love this so much!!
Bluegrass is awesome! I used to mostly be a rock musician but I've switched to bluegrass!
Bluegrass is the heavy metal of country!
I never tire of watching this.
same here
Makes glad to be alive chum
I come by once or twice a week.
I love how everybody (even Harry Stinson) has gotten love from the comment section but nobody yet has mentioned that awesome bass player, Glenn Worf. He killed it in this song, props to him.
Stinson and Worf were working just as hard as the soloists. To maintain the beat that steady, that fast, and that long - well, all I can say is Saaa-LUTE!
Doctor: "You have just five minutes to live"
*Me putting on this video"
How magnanimous was Scruggs to allocate ample time to each and every musician to showcase each one’s unique instrumental talents. My fav was the harmonica at 2:12. Hell every time I watch this, I have to watch it many times just to watch the nimble fingers move like they all have little brains in them!
That's Earl's son Gary. His son Randy, who passed away recently, played acoustic guitar.
Well, he had been playing that tune since 1947. He was plenty used to everyone else having a shot at it.
My favourite part is the mandolin solo, which starts at 2:00.
Thst is bluegrass music. On instrumentals or with vocals each instrument gets a solo. Always been that way
@@teastrainer3604 Randy was the one who did the acoustic solo on Rosanne Cash's version of "Tennessee Flat Top Box."
I hope Randy, Earl and Leon are having a big ol jam session in heaven.
*sadly yehaws*
Magic like this song happens when a bunch of super talented musicians get together and start jamming.
Just amazingly enjoyable music.
When I was a little boy growing up in West Texas, this Kentucky Blue Grass classic, a favorite of mine, literally brought tears to my eyes...And it still does. How I love FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN!
I grew up on bluegrass, and everytime I heard Foggy Mountain Breakdown I would stop what I was doing and just listen to the excellent musicianship. This, of course, is no different. But, my God, just look at the musical juggernauts that slay on this track!!
pure f'ing genius. I don't care if you are a metalhead like me. If you can't respect this, you are hopeless
Exactly my friend!
HA, I purchased my first banjo from a metal head. And that was because he had a better one!
They all have my respect!
And they respect EACH OTHER'S work--otherwise this becomes just another "I can play this faster than you" moment
I'm a classical nut and I love this. This guys are damned good. Makes me never want to play another instrument as long as I live.
Earl Scruggs? Never will his talent be equaled, never mind beaten.
Bob Beck Bela Fleck is right up there but Earl Scruggs will always be my hero.
Never in the bluegrass world anyway
I agree l grew up listening to him , 💪....
History was made on this one. An all star cast played that day.
I’d just like to say that I’ve been a drummer for 35 years, and I was amazed to hear Earl’s flawlessly metronomic playing. A computer couldn’t be more precise.
Now there is a boat load of talent in that room!!
I grew up where everyone carried their instruments in their car! We lived in Ky. we had so much fun dancing and singing! Music always in my soul!
This music was so much fun! I never even knew I was so poor! Music was my life!
An amazing and timeless performance made two years before Earl's passing (2012). A true pioneer in a lot of ways, hats off to ya, Earl, we miss you to this day. Thanks
what I love is Steve Martin in the background, he not the main, he just there chillin that what makes a star
And yet Steve plays a near perfect rendition of the original banjo solo from Flatt & Scruggs 1959 original version, which someone had to quote, freeing up everyone else to embellish in different directions.
I've seen this video thousands of times and I will watch it a thousand more!
How many times did Earl play this song? I bet he never got tired or board from this bread and butter song. "Come on Earl, take my money and play it again and when you're done please teach me!!!".
I guess I'll get into trouble, but there is essentially the same thing on a You Tube Letterman show.
I'm still here Earl, still listening to it, still wishing you were still here.
I love the United States! Long live the US! Greetings and much respect from Germany! Btw Steve Martin is beyond coolness!
Dunka
Hello to you, too! I was stationed in Bitburg, Germany from '78 to '81. I LOVED IT!!! Some of my Absolute FAVORITE memories are during that time. 5 other guys and I put together The Bitburg Bluegrass Band, and won the USAF Worldwide Talent Contest in 1980.
Come visit brother 😀
Come visit, country music is everywhere! Love it! How I grew up, 65 now and would not change a thing!
From Texas to you. Howdy
Very few, if any, of what passes as “country” artists now days could even keep up.
Nashville doesn't need anyone with real talent, and it shows.
@@Chads6Strings I grew up around the music business in Nashville and your statement brought tears to my eyes. Cuz it's true, and sad as hell
There are different types of country just like any type of music. Relax and go listen to the one that brings YOU joy. Who cares what others listen to for THEIR joy?
@@Chads6Strings I wish what you said was crap, but unfortunately you're probably not wrong.
You got that right......
Just a bunch of dudes jamming. And enjoying it!!!!
Vince Gill. Damn!!!!!!!
One of those timeless songs that stays cool from one generation to the next
one day i hope to be as happy as paul is when he is playing the piano
この上なく素晴らしい演奏です！！演奏している皆さんが心から楽しそうに演奏されている事が何よりも素敵です。
幸せな子供たちが遊ぶように、彼らは遊んで微笑みます。耳よりも目で音楽を楽しんで、聴いてニヤニヤしてみましょう。神のお恵みがありますように。
They play and smile like happy children play. Enjoy music with your eyes rather than your ears, and smile while listening. god bless you.
Greww up as a child to this kind of music! LOVE it!
earl Scruggs is my great grandpa and I play banjo!
+Anna Ashley That's awesome. Keep on picking!
And Obama is my mother in law
+Anna Ashley earl scruggs is your great grandpa?? If that's true, then that's awesome!!!! He's the father of all 3 finger picking
+Gaydolf Shitler I bet this piece stays in the G key (open)
😍
I LOVE THIS! In 2010 some guy said, "Hey, let's get all these awesome musicians together to pick with Earl Scruggs". The man was a genius.
My grandpa used to be able to do this on banjo before arthritis took hold. He's 83--man is a beast.
So did my grandpa. At 90 was still able to pick that banjo. At 40 years old, its my turn to pick up his old banjo and learn to play myself.
@@burningisis How is it going?
one of the BEST all time hits, never get tired of it!
That is so cool to see Steve Martin jammin up there..
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Wow! Just wow! I loved how Paul Shafer looked like he was having the time of his life playing outside of his genre! All these guys were great
This is coming from a hard rock fan!
Outside of his genre? What are you talking about? Primarily a session musician, as the musical director for Letterman's Late Show, he played with nearly every musical guest to come on the show. The man is a musical genius.
Look up when he was playing with Chuck Berry, he was living it up there too
Shaffer doesn't really have a genre. If anything its Blues, RnB and Boogie, but not that far from bluegrass when it comes to piano. He started as a top-40 session player and played everything. SNL, Letterman, he played with everyone... not just because he could, but he knew EVERYONE. He was the one who put the Blues Brothers together with all those greats, after all. I bet he could hook up a Norwegian Black Metal band to a String Band if he was so inclined!
My Mom played guitar and Uncle played banjo just like this! Had such fun growing up listening to this kind of music as a kid!
Never seen a group of world class musicians having so much fun together!
Ain't it the truth
IF this doesn't get you revved up, you had better check for a pulse!
I love how they are all having such an awesome time - and how they are obviously honored to play with him!
Hey 👋
What a masterpiece. A symphony of sounds and textures. Absolutely brilliant.
A fitting super pack of musical brilliance near the end of a musical geniuses Life. Earl will never be far away with this superb Bluegrass hit of the ages. Long live all the excellent musical talent that joined him in this rendition. ❤
Little known piece of trivia: There were numerous fire extinguishers placed just out of shot in case any of their instruments burst into flames
I'm surprised the amplifiers could handle it. Must be tube amps.
LOL I reckon would need to be! Oh how I love this!
Rhonda Boncutter They are already on fire! Love it!
Campingcam and not a single one of them was holding their crotch .
Ha ha right on my my my and Earl Scruggs the master shows them hr is still the man WOW
Albert Lee gets me everytime..the man is a beast of a guitar player
Zachary Kelley
Yeah he's a rock star.....kinda. ..
He is the Double Stop king and between him and Ray Flake they molded the modern Nashville Rockabilly Guitar style. I'm sure Brent Mason would give these guys lot's of credit for opening up the door for Hick Rock on Country Radio and starting a whole new style of Hot Country Pickin.
Saw Albert and Vince Gill in Melbourne, Australia at a little comedy venue.
A-may-zing.
I cannot watch this video after 6pm...it gets my heart pumpin' so much I can't get any sleep
Marty is a great mandolin player.
This video is gold.
Amen. And he's cute as a bug's ear!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
OMG. Sitting here, fall afternoon 2021 watching Bonnie and Clyde on TV, I hear that tune as a backdrop to a chase scene and IMMEDIATELY think "FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN"???! So I come to RUclips to see if that might be right, and see of course that's the tune! CUH-LAS-SIC!!!
Beats any 2021 modern pop song. This piece straight up amazes me! The fact the tempo is that fast and the song flows this smoothly baffles me. This song will go down in history…
I love the subtleties of this video:
How Earl is the master but also lives up to it, no one can hang with the timing of his Banjo playing
Steve Martin is great but he's no where near the mastery of Scruggs or most all of the players, but you can tell he knows it, you can see it on his face, and yet he is very good and has confidence in his playing
Paul Schafer shows off his true chops (nbd)
But yeah dude is a true piano master and this video proves it, there's a reason a guy like him was picked to be the band leader of the Late show and looks were not it
Dude is powerful on a keyboard
This brought tears to my eyes🥺i used to listen to my grandaddy play this on the Banjo and fiddle and im talking lick for lick, he nailed it...i Miss him so much😭
This song always makes me feel like it’s flying so fast it’s going to break apart and then there’s earl.....steady on
I suppose I could gush about how amazing this is...
But when you get the best players IN THE WORLD playing for the fun of it, this is what happens.
...got my clogging shoes on...let's dance!
Everyman who touches this kills it beyond words. They are gifted beyond what you can even think to appreciate. It's just a masterpiece no matter how you look at or listen to it. Amazing
Everyone who touches this Skills beyond words...
I love bluegrass and Foggy Mountain Breakdown is one of my favorites - these guys totally shred it! Best and most fun rendition ever!!!
Sometime in life your get to stumble upon a beauty like this.
I feel so blessed.
Wow.
Brilliant playing
I just finished watching this video, and I am overwhelmed with joy
Fabulous group of supremely talented musicians playing this great bluegrass classic! I love Steve Martin as an actor and comedian but who knew how talented he was on the banjo!? Amazing!
One of the best versions I have ever heard of this song. Damn these guys kick ass together. All that's needed now is a cold beer.
What other nation on earth has produced such an infectiously happy sound? None, but I’ll warrant several wish they did. 🇺🇸
Ultimate jam sessions of the worlds greatest musicians.
4 minutes and 43 seconds of pure joy.
Каждый раз когда смотришь на это ансамбль - чувствуешь весь кайф, что они испытывают
Do they have any music in Russia similar to American "Blue Grass"?
@@donhill3182 kind of 😊 ruclips.net/video/0JQ0xnJyb0A/видео.html