David Grisman & Billy Strings "Eat My Dust" 4/22/2017

[@Deltron37]

Here I am just finding Billy and I said, man I sure would love it if him and Grisman would play together.... Boom. I love internetz. 7+pts

[@matthewanthony5940]

Virtuosity. I've seen Grisman play with Del McCoury within the last 4 years....he is phenomenal!!! Also saw Bill Monroe on his last "City Limits Tour" about 8 months before he passed. Like drinking from the primordial artesian well of Bluegrass....86 years-old, and still burning the strings!!!

[@cjrukstad6500]

It is absolutely incredible how fast dawg played this with the quintet.

[@flappycelery]

Wish to heck I'd been there for this. Lived in Portland 20 yrs. & did see David Grisman at the good ole' Aladdin, but not for this one, dang it!

[@dlagrua]

A divergence of styles, a mix of Bluegrass and Jazz. Quite unique . All excellent musicians. The old guys still have it and the young guys rise to the occasion.

[@flappycelery]

That's why Billy admires David Grisman. I've heard Grisman and his quintet live, here in Portland, OR about 4 years ago, and that is what they do. Extremely top notch, versatile musicians play with him and he's been around a long time. So, players like Billy admire the heck out of him and what's he's done so well with collapsing both genres together. I don't know how Grisman does it at his age (75), but he is healthy, still on his game & has a LOT of musical energy!

[@rogerwillcox7890]

Great jam. Nice to see Grisman still that good

[@Jeff-fx5vu]

What a trip playing with David Grisman

[@trippie-gone]

Billy Failing - you KILLED it!!!

[@d4ydr34m3r420]

I hope they collab more, perfect

[@dianacrow7509]

Wonderful! Reminds me of my Granpaw, same mandolin...almost! Flip~tailing! Grateful 🙏

[@PeteSmith509]

So many great musicians on that stage.

[@tomberlied7260]

Wow!!!!! Sooooooo good!!!!!!

[@TheMisterNomad]

Thank for posting this. We caught this show during our first time visiting Nashville.

[@snookdock]

Holy moly.

[@佐藤信人-r2y]

Billy Strings bad shit

[@JacobThomas-kk1jk]

Casey Campbell is an underrate mandolin player! (Guy on end)

[@craigs7730]

Everyone gets to play, love it! Including the drummer, sorry haters

[@jessiesandifer4404]

This was epic

[@davidgrisman4858]

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[@94757598494309438]

Love it. Thanks for the share!

[@flappycelery]

I caught David Grisman in Portland several years ago. I wonder if I unwittingly caught Billy Failings & Strings that night. Wish I could remember when that was! It was even more incredible live! Dave Grisman was SIZZLING!

[@marcocurtis8562]

To be on stage with Grisman........ "That was the Shit!"

[@roymanning8893]

My family is from W.VA. Around Hurricane .

[@dustinsimpson1124]

That's country folks getting down hell yeah 😅👍👍👍

[@billroberts4910]

Breath-taking

[@thomasramsey6942]

No egos. That's how it's done boys.

[@samgifford2639]

Soundguy riding the faders.

[@justkicking6236]

I never knew what the name of the song was just always knew it as E.M.D

[@JimSasse]

Fun!

[@chadandcath]

Actually, the fiddle player is Chad Manning. He been in Dawg's bluegrass band since around 2002 and joined the sextet about three years ago.

[@fretfix1]

You sir, are correct.

[@roymanning8893]

That's the kind of pickin' and fiddle playing I like .

[@Emmetgriffin9]

❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@anthonymidgett5843]

That's what you call a clusterpluck!!!

[@billorphus]

You're punny

[@hhughes7963]

LEsS DRUmS- Derps

[@bendummitt888]

Nice...

[@jackd.ripper7613]

Spacegrass music! Kill the drummer, though. Originally, they had five mandolin pickers but Grisman and the guy on the end at 5:35 each ate one.

[@94757598494309438]

Lmao!

[@jime6517]

used to have five mandolin players "but they each ate one" that is just funny!! (I'm an upright & electric bassist, I warn people that "bass player humor isn't funny but it makes you laugh... sometimes."

[@rogerhutchins3953]

The younger fiddler player is Andy Leftwich who plays with Ricky Skaggs and KentuckyThunder.

[@bryanmabe9081]

It's Chad Manning not Andy

[@roymanning8893]

Where is Chad Manning from ?

[@takeadeepbreath6053]

Bay Area, California

[@banjobones8075]

who's the hippie banjo player?

[@TShawsProgressiveBluegrass]

That's Billy Failing Billy String's full time banjo player

[@Diggyace14]

T Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass do happen to know the name of Billy's mandolin player as well?

[@TShawsProgressiveBluegrass]

Drew Matulich is Billy's mandolin player. He's got some chops too!

[@Diggyace14]

T Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass thanks again

[@fretfix1]

Portland, Oregon's own Billy Failing....

[@TheTajmahodges]

Who is that fiddle player?!?

[@supertravdoggy]

The worlds first bluegrass drum solo, now we know why that bluegrass has no drums.

[@jakeweber7467]

E.M.D. is jazz

[@佐藤信人-r2y]

Delamei is over when Courtney Hartman is gone

[@fretfix1]

Less Drums....More cowbell!

[@jeremypsmith1979]

Bubbha Ganoush HaHaHa 😂🤣👨🏻‍🦰🐂🔔🐂🔔🐂🔔🐂🔔

[@bennyshaversmusic590]

Can someone tell me why the hell a drummer was there?

[@marekp.8327]

because this is George Marsh. he played with the David Grisman Sextet.

[@silvrface]

Grisman has included George for years in the sextet, which is progressive bluegrass mixed with jazz. He has tasty jazz chops (I've played in an acoustic swing/prog bluegrass group for years with a jazz drummer), knows how to play with acoustic instruments and IMO is one of the 4 or 5 best overall musicians at his instrument on that stage. FWIW on fretted instruments E.M.D. sounds a lot harder to play than it actually is - there are simple ways to play it or off the hook ways (i.e. Grisman's playing) - but good progressive bluegrass musicians that can play at that speed can sorta "fake it". I think Strings either didn't know the tune or was just overmatched, as he seemed to play relatively simple stuff using pick tremolo... but who cares? It was fun as hell!

[@WINDnotOILdotCom]

The drummer playing rhythm is fine. But when he takes his solo break it's horrible.

[@marklozano8388]

can't hear shit

[@deanronson6331]

I'm still a big fan of Grisman's music based on his early and mid-career material. However, this video confirms my conviction that old, grey-haired people shouldn't wear their hair long. If I'm not mistaken, his hair in his young years was short.

[@clintlemonds434]

that drum is completely useless infact it hinders the whole pace of the song

[@silvrface]

disagree. George is a superb jazz drummer who knows how to play in a prog bluegrass/Dawg Music context. He's played with Grisman for years. he was dead on - some of the others were dragging a bit, which can seem like the drummer's "off" unless you've played in that type of band or heard him extensively in that context.

[@sgbsammy]

I thought it was right on

[@avagage1]

Billy was the weak one.

[@alan4sure]

Disagree.

[@flappycelery]

As a singer and someone who has heard a flotilla of live music over the years, and has a healthy sized circle of musician friends, there is good reason for that. When you get a large number of musicians from different bands all on one stage, it's for the fun of it, to gig together, and to thrill the audience. NEVER for one player to hog the limelight. That's a whole different performance. In fact, many a player will complain later about so & so, hogging the stage - taking more than a polite amount of time. You only have so much time and everyone wants to solo. His etiquette in that situation was spot on! And since he loves other musicians and is just a generally respectful guy, you'll NEVER see him do that in this kind of situation.

[@CaptainBobby74]

He got roasted

[@BluegrassPOV]

Slow

[@kodylane5759]

That sucked!

[@curtbayer8144]

sure did- the way that winning the Lotto sucks :)

[@robertnewman4072]

Wicked!

[@redfoley9608]

The smoking 🚬 grass boys