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Cool. I have an old old vinyl of it, with the cover signed by the band members. Great stuff. Thanks for your comment. Enjoy this video and all the other classic concert clips here - and tell your friends.

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Happy to share my videos of them with you. Be sure to watch their other (afternoon) set from the same day. Tell your friends, too - enjoy and thanks.

Thank you and happy you are enjoying my videos of those old shows. They did indeed add some originality by playing a lot of (what today is called) 'Americana' and not simply jam-session bluegrass standards. But they could get down with the best of 'em on 'Little Georgia Rose' :) Be sure to watch the video here of the other (afternoon) set from the same day at this festival back in 1992. And tell your friends. Enjoy.

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@@user-xj7px1mz1s Well all of our students here at JamAlong Music already know :-)

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Thank you for your story and glad you're having fun with the videos on this channel. Be sure and tell your friends and share this one with Dan Tyminski and others. Then have a look at the other vintage concerts I've put up on the channel by some other great bluegrass performers. Enjoy.

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At this point the Seldom Scene had been at it just over 20 years and you could say they had hit their stride :) Thanks again. Tell your friends and share this video with them.

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Thank you. It was very cool to have been there and fun to share the video with everyone here on CZcams. Tell your friends and enjoy the other videos of great bluegrass shows on this channel.

Thanks for your feedback. Very happy to have put this up where lots of other folks can enjoy it. Please tell your friends and share it if you can. And of course don't miss the other Seldom Scene videos on this channel as well as the other great concert footage from vintage shows.

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Absolutely the stupidest statement ever made . . . In the history of mankind.

Thank you. It's great to see how much people like these videos I made 30 years ago. Be sure to tell your friends, too.

Thank you. It was a memorable day with Bill and the boys in fine form.

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Thanks for your comment. It was one fantastic show and special to have John Starling there rejoining the seldom scene.

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Thank you. Great shows.

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Ok I sure will I pass yr songs on to my friends in Nottigham uk. Cousens in connammarra ireland .thy dont he much western in England. But thy love your music. Thnks. Guys I nd a drink now go with yr relaxn music wee hours of th mornn.. 😁👍🏽 🥃🍹cheers to ya'from idaho.

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Thank you. Enjoy the full afternoon show of the same day that is also here. And tell your friends.

Thank you. Glad you like it. Don't miss the other Seldom Scene shows also available here. And don't forget to tell your friends.

Thanks for watching - please tell your friends. Glad I was able to be at that show and had the presence of mind long ago to have the video camera and then save the old tapes before they are lost.

Thanks for watching and letting me know you enjoyed the clip. Be sure to watch the other one from the same day - afternoon set. And of course, tell your friends :)

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I'll see if I can find out just how much they were paid. They did appear other times in California.

@@user-xj7px1mz1s There's an old John Duffey story. He hated to travel far from DC. Once he was called by a venue in California who wanted to book the Scene, and when they told him how much, he said, "Which one of us do you want?" I was lucky to live in Alexandria and saw them about one Thursday night a month over a 10 yr period.

I thought I saw them in NYC. Am I remembering wrong? Late 1970s?

@@robertewalt7789 They travelled sometimes. But they basically wanted to stay close to home. They had other jobs and professions in addition to being stellar musicians.

Sure. One of the all-time greatest groups.

When I first met them, as I recall, Ben was working for a government agency and Mike was a graphic artist with the Washington Star News, which later folded in 1981. That's when Mike went 'music full time'. If Ben later was also able to live well from the Scene it was a well-deserved musical life which landed him in the IBMA Hall of Fame. Musically excellent and a friendly individual, I hope Ben is well and pickin' banjo still in 2022. Thanks for watching the video. You may also enjoy the short video on this channel with Ben and Pete Wernicke doing a banjo workshop at one of the Grass Valley summer bluegrass festivals when the Seldom Scene were on the bill the same weekend as Hot Rize.

I wasn't aware of Ben's professional carrier outside of bluegrass. I was aware of Mike's graphics work carrier but not in detail. I last communicated with Mike in texts some years ago and only a few years before his passing. Yes, I too hope Ben is still picking his banjo, he was my favorite of all the banjo pickers! Not sure you may have known Joe Val, of the New England Blue Grass Boys? Joe was my first influence in Bluegrass. He played in my home town of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. in early 70's. "GrandFathers Clock" was one of his many popular songs. Joe invited me, as I lived nearby in Annapolis, to have dinner with him and the band at the Birchmere, in Alexandria the night he opened for the Seldom Scene, that was the night back stage I met Duffey, and Gray but I don't remember who it was on the guitar. I think it was in 1982 or 83. I miss them all, my favorites!

If you're in the area you can probably find Ben Eldridge in Maryland. I don't know Joe Val. First met Mike in DC during a work trip related to some medical equipment at GWU in summer of 1977. Looked Mike up in the phone book or directory assistance from my hotel room and called when I was done for the day. Mike's wife said they were playing that night at the Birchmere and told me how to get there so I hopped a cab and went right over. Mike was very pleasant and invited me to come by for a Dobro lesson that Saturday morning at his home; went directly from there to the airport to catch a plane back home. Pretty memorable. It must have been another time that I was talking to Ben and learned about his profession and it stuck with me - a brilliant individual in more than just music. By then, I think, John Starling had become a physician and left the band to pursue his medical career. Afaik when the Scene first began in 1971 or 1972 they all had 'day jobs'. Got to see the Scene several other times at festivals and performances mostly in CA, including the shows you've been watching in Grass Valley, CA and the ones that I taped in 1992 in Santa Maria, CA. I met Jerry Douglas and Josh Graves in the Chicago area a couple years before that trip to DC. JD was 17 and on his first tour with The Country Gentlemen, then headed by Charlie Waller and with Ricky Skaggs on mandolin. We were all so young :)

Was just reported he passed , Ben Eldridge !!! April 14, 2024. Natural causes.

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Bluegrass is for the acoustic class, which takes raw talent to play an acoustic instrument!! I love it !!!!

The difference between Bluegrass music, and all the other music in the world, leaving none out, is when the lights go out, our boys are still playing,while the rest are shut down! Am I right?? Somebody quote me if I'm wrong!Bluegrass is definitely in a class all by its self. Robert Hubbell. Take that to heart Bluegrass lovers!!!!!!

Thanks and tell your friends. Glad I had the presence of mind to shoot videos at these events long ago so they survive for everyone's enjoyment today.

After 1987 for sure. Probably around 1989 or 90..I didn't even have a video camera until then.

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