Dust in a Baggie - Billy Strings
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- čas přidán 26. 09. 2019
- In a quiet room at a loud party.
William Apostol also known as Billy Strings before his rise to fame. This was originally filmed on 9/16/2012 around 3am in front of a small group of friends at a house party.
#billystrings #bluegrass #guitar - Hudba
#Billystrings is a buddy of mine and this video was taken
back in September of 2012.
He wrote the song earlier that summer. Check out his channel czcams.com/channels/7PLUlfQMnPtf4sjZ7N5gXA.html
if you really want to melt your face.
I’ll upload more of the classics when I get a chance!
Danm good
Why did yu wait so long to upload
What a talent - headed there now
I like this one better
Boomer is still my hero
Dude in the back standing there like he gives side quests
Frodo we need to get back to the Shire
underrated lmao
Hahaha. Nice
Also has no sense of rhythm 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 side quests yano 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
He came off nerdy and really opened up a can of whoop ass on us. Props to his weed dealer for standing strong support in the background.
More like the guy who tags along to smoke all your weed lmao
Pretty sure it’s about crystal meth...
🤣
@@rossguillory5556 yea but he clearly isn't a meth user.
Guy's trying to smoke an unlit cig, doubt he smokes anything else
Legend has it that Barefoot Ben is still barefoot, smiling, and smoking an unlit cig..
can confirm, he is still barefoot
Yep. That’s barefoot Ben. “He always knew where the parties were, he was at all of them”
That’s the guy who smokes all your cigarettes when your drinking
Just keeps smokin …. 😂
@@dimples5933 He's a joker, he's a smoker, he's a midnight toker.
The fact he said they were all on 🍄… and a party going on above them here…
It just keeps getting better!!
We also finally got the name of the legend standing in the back. Barefoot Ben.
We should dance to this my girl loves country🤸💃🕺
Look at Billy's slow head turn at 45 seconds in, you can see the magic
Blows J.D. Stinukus his banjo bag
Green shirt is the most supportive drug dealer I’ve ever seen.
Ha ha ha
Watch dobet gnahore...
He reminds me of my bf
@@Amir-lz1tk which of them?
I know guys similar to both of them old hippies ha ha
Michael the one in shorts and lo g hair
@@Amir-lz1tk ha ha ha.
I know guy same as him music and boooze never got sense yet he is 53....kind of hippy artist.
That guitar smoked a cigarette after this
Whitney Moon this is true I was the guitar
Lolol
Lmaoo
@@nathanlizarraga7037 lollll
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Guy in green is a perfect example of a friend who knew you before you knew you were good and who loves you no matter what
There are fk loads of musicians at parties like this, or rooms full without room to walk with writers, pianists, gutars, singers loads of talent and we won't ever get to hear them. Glad Billy got his story told. Respect.
To the man who said "play the latest one you wrote", bless you.
Amen to that!!!
That's me with my best friend , and he's amazing, but... nobody is this lol
I love you
@@melissamatherne8487 Agreed!
18 million people would agree
Green shirt guy was planted there 32 years ago. House just changes around him.
😂😂😂😂
@Rob Roy Aha, a logician. lol.
The whole thing is one, and organic; just lacks a context......and a lighter. ;)
Ha ha ha thats so funny
Hahaha! Perfection of a damn comment lol
AHAHAHAHAAHHAHAA
I'm forever grateful the cameraman filmed this correctly!
they all knew there was a star in the room with them. not fame, but literally bright shining star. one of a kind talent.
@@drewberry5737 You might be an asshole (figuratively).
Billy Strings was also there
Music ain't dead, it just ain't on the radio. 👏👏
Scott Witkowski no truer words have ever been spoken
Cheers to the turth
Exactly, Scott... exactly.
XM radio has bluegrass. Sometimes Sun Radio in Austin plays it. Their app is free.
amen brother
The dude in the back looks like he solves mysteries with a dog
@Chrissie Julien are you blind
LOL
Solves mysteries with a dog, now that actually made me laugh out loud. Thanks Liro!
Jinkies! By Gum!
R/rareinsults
Barefoot Ben, wherever you are, I hope you are good 🙏
He definitely came downstairs looking for a light and got treated to the best concert of his life
Hes in prison for dust in a baggie
@@mattb4461 please say it ain’t so!
I heard Billy say that he doesn't particularly care for this video, and it's funny when you find out how many people who follow him started with this video ... including me! It grabbed me.
Dude's got more country in one tuning peg than all of Nashville in 2019
Nashville is where country comes to die.. coming from a guy who lives 30 miles out
@@Farmstock24v Was there last weekend. Country isn't what it was 30 years ago, thats the problem.
@@darken3150 it is, but nashville doesnt play it. Bunch of liberals infected the industry
@@Farmstock24v Ahh you are one of those. Sad.
@@darken3150 He's not wrong though. I live in Tennessee too and Nashville is pretty liberal. Country is still the same as it was, just not the kind you hear on the radio or what is getting played the most. Like garbage progressive styles like "Old Town Road". Nashville is more modern country centric. The rest of the state, like the east haven't lost their touch though. Glad I live in the east and away from liberals. It's not "sad", it's reality. I'm sorry you can't see it and must think they are onto something. When really liberals are idiots. And people wonder why so many Californians are leaving and coming to places like Tennessee. They are leaving by the hundreds of thousands. Liberalism ruins the country. California is a shit hole because of liberals/democrats. Look at any city that is politically run like that and you will find nothing but disease, crime, homeless and no progress. Anyway, I help manage a record label and the good music isn't really being paid much attention tbh. There are so many talented artists out there but people like you will never hear them because you don't care to look.
Guy in the green shirt owns 46% of GameStop now.
Lmao this here.
Lmaoooo
Lmao
Golden
Living In moms basement finally paid off.
Someone from the distant past has came back and possessed this boys body. He has an old soul.
Real country music.
Bravo 👏
Spot on
Remarkable
God is real 🙏
Mushrooms can open up them doors
Nah don't take away from his talent and substitute it with BS mysticism.
His father was his inspiration
@@jimsonjohnson3761he’s literally on mushrooms in this video lol
I will be 72 years old with dementia and will still be thinking back to this video mark my damn words
My man went from playing on a dingy couch for a couple of his buddies to playing at the Grand Ole Opry and winning the Grammy for best bluegrass album. Billy is incredible.
I agree this young man has an amazing talent
That's great to hear God damn. I remember hearing this dust in the baggie and being like damn this dude's on another level
For real. I saw this video and discovered one of my now favorite artists. Home is legit one of my favorite albums. It’s so fuckin food. Bluegrass with a heavy dose of psyche-rock. Can’t wait to eventually see him live, hopefully at a festival with Umphrey’s McGee or something.
Hard work got Billy where he is - a legend for inspiration in Doc Watson, and a good ol' flat picking old man. But Billy did the work, and it sure makes me glad to hear him just _smash_ it out eh. He's a legend himself now!
billy won a grammy? damn i didn’t know that
The green shirt guy showed up with no shoes, trust me.
Trust me this is the way
@Kevin G I have no idea what you said, it makes no sense at all,I reread it multiple times, year end up more confused
@Kevin G bro are u the green shirt guy
@Kevin G Do you mean you were there?
🤣
Billy is a generational talent. I saw him summer of 2023 and it was one of the greatest live performances I've ever seen. I highly recommend you all go so him live if you can! Seeing Billy live right now, you are literally seeing a legend in his prime. He will be remembered with the greats of yester year; there is no doubt of this.
I felt the same way reading your message bro
Me too he actually did better live it was an accident even seeing him
I mean if there was moonshine yea I would see that.
With one guitar the man filled a whole room with music.
The carpet on the floor matches the carpet on the wall.
I keep rereading this and laugh every time!
DAMN!!
Highly underrated comment
Acoustics
What Ever, I mean
You're probably right, actually.
Unless it was made in the 70's.. then we allll know what that room was for.
When they offer to get you a chair from the other room but you say “it’s cool I can stand” and now it’s been too long for you to bring it back up.
Lmao
This is the one 😅😅😅😅
Haha Yup! xD
🤣😂 I can’t even
Haha, seriously!
Stumbling across this song just before we are about to head into 2024 and I can't believe i'm not hearing this song everywhere!! It is absolute fire. This guy has lightning-fast finger-picking skills!! Clever lyrics, incredible playing... This is a true classic American country folk song!! ❤❤❤
Looks like a pick player to me.
Bluegrass
Flat picking is the name of it. Look into it's a pretty cool style if you are interested in music.
Dudes huge now bro
That kid had no idea how this video would change his life! 💯
I've personally listened to it at least 100 times over the past few years!
I just ran across it at 1:00 am this morning while waiting for my dog to go to sleep. I am blown away by his talent! He’s a natural. He plays really well with his eyes closed.
Guy in the back has impacted country music more than Florida Georgia line.
Haha🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
lmfao
Underrated comment lol
This is funny because Florida Georgia line isn't country
Guy in the back is so amazed he smokes an unlit cigarette for over 2 minutes
LOL I was thinking the same thing. Just put it back behind your ear and stop already...
That guys on some dust from a baggie
That's definitely weed.
Omg yes lmmfao I was thinking the same fucking thing
Lmao
His playing just makes you smile.
That guy in the back is every one of us, he's realizing that he's watching history and the beginning of something incredible. There's few times when an event like this is captured on film fit the world to look later. What an incredible thing to see.
Dude in the back is high on mushrooms Billy said in an interview 😂😂 he's tryna hit an unlit cigarette
Sat down to try and learn this, but just ended up buying a green shirt instead.
chimo jones don't forget the satchel
It was either that or a bag of meth, you chose wisely my son!
Hahaha
It’s g c d in chords just need to get that one finger to move 500 mph lmao
😂😂😂
This song will never be better than it is in this moment
This is true...The Gold Standard version of this song.
i swear to god
Truth. This version never gets old.
That’s why we come back here to listen
@@josephcleland2207 yeeahep!
A time and a place that will never happen again, so glad I saw this video
This is actually what got me into country music. Always come back to this song a couple times a year every time I listen to it it always blows me away. Thank you Billy for producing this masterpiece of a song. And a thank you to the cameraman for filming this masterpiece.
My guy is wearing his shoulder bag like he's ready to go, but doesn't have his shoes on yet. I don't know his intentions. This frightens me.
He just want to make sure they're all happy with their latest narcotics purchase
Thats probably the dope
I got a very "Can i light this now?" Vibe off of him. But yes he was probably selling them weed at minimum.
Who wears shoes in the summer?
Lmaooo
That guys foot prints gonna be in that carpet for years
Best comment
Only ever comment that has actually made me lol
😂😂😂
Genius
Or until they vacuum.
Good music is universal. Love from South Korea ❤ my face is melting just listening to this!
I've listened to this song over a 100 times it never gets old He's really great ❤
Damn right!
I dont know what made me click on a home video called "Dust In A Baggie" but holy shit I'm glad I did
Big Country I second that!!
Me too
Big Country Billy strings has played with Bela Fleck! He is amazing
Ditto
1:45 was the moment green shirt dude realized Billy was amazing and he was “that guy”
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the carpet is on the wall.
oh shit,
I think that's just the texture of the wall?
😳
It's to muffle the sound. They probably have neighbors or something over there.
And foil on the windows
I hung around in rooms like this during my 20’s but unfortunately not one of us was ever this talented lol
Relatable. Me and my friends are no nobel price winners either🤣
the dude in the video who is watching his buddy play is a very very kind soul...I see the love brother you did so good...so damn good and the love shows man.
He was High on shrooms and thought he was 🚬
See y’all in 7 years when this in everybody’s recommended
Brett Bentley this was in my recommended today !
And here we are 7 years later.
lmaaaao can't wait for the "How does this first show up in my recommened now"
Its here
It's fucking true 😂
Proves the point that most talented people are just playing in someone's living room undiscovered and that's talent
Billy Strings is pretty famous.
That is a basement
They just haven't sold out yet otherwise they'd be on the radio
Didn't this dude play the opry? That's pretty much discovered.
Union Grove NC
This gem wouldn't be complete without side quest Ben chain-hitting that unlit cigarette on the background while holding on to that shoulder bag strap for dear life.
Still trips me out, Yall we’re Trippin Balls! 🤣🤘🏻🤘🏻🍄🍻
Apparently the guy standing in the background is the one with the dust in the baggie.
Sai Tui 😂good one man.. great song tho
too funny
@@wadechubb6365 I love the song!
Lmao 🤣
"Hey man, sing that one song about me"
Imagine just kickin it at a friends house and your friend just busts out one of the best songs ever in one take..
Start going to parties with musicians, this shit happens all the time
@@joss4250 yes its that easy
Oh dude, make some musician friends. They really do be like this.
Amazing!! Unbelievable playing, and a damn good piece of music. Still wet behind the ears here.
This is happening every weekend in the mountains of S.W. Virginia and KY, TN & NC on someone’s porch during the summer, I grew up there and there was many jam sessions every weekend at the cabins and homes in the mountains.
That laugh/smile from his friend when Billy starts singin' and he realizes this man is fucking gifted had me floored!
Imagine being at this party and hearing this man absolutely wailing behind a door and just choosing not to see what's going on
I feel like I've met the guy standing up at every party I've ever been to.
He needs to be a meme
lol 😂 ikr
I've known at least half a dozen of him.
Hahahahaha
Alright alright alright
Imagine hearing a concert level performance in a living room like that.. Kid has unbelievable talent
And that was just the last song he wrote...
I mean, he is famous
Imagine getting a living room level performance at a concert
Andrew Rainer Now he is...
My buddy is this good and always played for us while just chillin..
Dammit brother!! I saw this video 4yrs ago when it was first posted. And I will be damned if the guy didn't impress me yet again. He has the speed of lightening in his fingers!!
Man to be in that room and witnessing such a blessed event. BMFS. This is one of my most favorite videos ever.
This is what CZcams was made for.
I concur
Used to be all that was on CZcams. Now its just professionally made videos by basically companies to make money off views.. Tottal trash now beside a few jems like this that show up...
Yesss
@@srmonkeyflingonpoo2457 I too concur!
@@n.randall6152 dude what videos are you watching, actually expand your search and you'll find more CZcamsrs who are independent and do it professionally. Actually sad if you think that
Please never take this down. It's the best version of the song anywhere.
It truly is, I remember my grandpa sitting me down and showing me this exact video a couple years ago
It's definitely the best version
All due respect this is not the best version, the version from Mishawaka 2 years ago is tops 🔥
@@mileshurley7551 have a link?
@@mileshurley7551 aaah I found it. Not bad. It's my second fave now. This one with green shirt has way more feeling though I think.
Still the best version of this track years later.
Agreed. It's the Gold Standard.
Got that old skool tv that we all played Nintendo 64 on
“Play the latest one you wrote.”
(Proceeds to reduce the house to its foundation.)
He just shrugs his head oh that number no problem.
Hahah... yea and you could see his brain click and wham!
All the Yes.
Thousands of years from now, archeologists will be studying the fossilized footprints left in that carpet by our dude in the green shirt.
You won this month's rally of the Green T-shirt Guy-competition. Congratz!
Your boy in the background is highlighted in this video czcams.com/video/vc-iiqwyWyc/video.html
@@vigeo5 not all heros wear capes (or green shirts). Who ever posted that deserves our dude's unlit cigarette.
You don't understand.
That man IS the all powerful Dustin Abbagie.
I feel like there was always that guy at high school parties
I just cannot stop smiling every time I hear Billy play!
I don't know what I like more, watching the video or reading the comments while watching the video. If you listen real close you can hear the neighbor beating on the wall and hollor'n "hey turn that crap down. Some of us got to work tomorrow".
I love how he goes from "Huh?? Latest one? What you talking about" to "Ohhhh you mean this straight fire of a song right here!?" 🤣😂🤣
He's so modest, what a lad
LOL
Mushrooms
Music comes from a different part of the brain and he must have quite the track list up there
"I wrote that for a competition it ain't nothin'!"
*This guy’s guitar pickin is almost as flawless as his hair*
Andrew Greenewald
That is a young bill strings. One of the best flat pickers around
Definitely we will be seeing this guys name get big one day. 1
Because he's a Dapper Dan man
Rando Roberts my thought about 3 seconds in.
@@manbunnmcfanypakjustacoolg4965 he's already played the opry. this was an old video. check out Billy Strings
This was amazing when I first saw this, just face melting stuff. Then later I learned, that they are all _on shrooms_ here, Billy included. That explains the whole "what? which one? huh?" -type of start and barefoot Ben just standing about in the background. The whole vibe of this scene seemed so familiar, but even as a retired psychonaut, I couldn't put my finger on it. Never even occured to me, that someone would be able to play like this when your left arm feels like the right one and vise versa. But seriously, wtf? How can you do this on psychedelics? Unbelievable. I'm not a musical master in any means, but I can play and sing decent enough to have played some gigs through my twenties, but everytime I tried to pick up the guitar on acid or on something else "colorful", I'd feel like when I first started learning the scales. No f' cking way could I play _and_ sing at the same time while tripping, no sir. Truly mindboggling to watch this knowing the background story.
I've just started my journey of this Man's Musical style and Talent he is pure Genius and I'm looking forward to the trip.......
First time shaggy was spotted without scooby in quite awhile
You win
@@w6martin I agree
Too funny.
Scooby-Doo got sold for some dust in a baggie. Along with shaggys shoes
But not without scooby snacks
Everyones met green shirt dude, at least once in their life.
Yep.
He’s slept on everybody’s couch at least once and escaped christian rehab
He lives on my couch
Hell, their might be a green shirt dude standing behind anyone of us right now ..
My green shirt dudes name was a friend I had when I was 18 and his name was Andrew. I was always amazed how prepared that satchel always kept him, that's something I'll never forget
Buffbo Baggins lovin it in the back
I will never forget the first time I saw this video before I had even heard of Billy. I’m still just as impressed with him now this man is amazing
When you get 14 millions views from a song filmed in your living room, you've got something special
I don't like bluegrass much. I love Billy strings.
Yeah, Dust in a baggie...I’ll let myself out...
Dude is a mad picker.. and nobody can take that away.. the reason for the 14 million viewers is people like me thats been playing most my life watching this with my gaw dropped down wishing i had his talent.. hell of a picker .. it's in his heart and soul running through his fingers..
Definitely, to be more specific he has the CZcams algorithm on his side
@@TheGertbos - and talent.
“You can’t play lead and rhythm at the same time.”
“Hold my meth.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kinda like a chicken pickin style no?
Eric Nichol no, meth, it’s all in the lyrics.
Richard K I know, I was just joking, I’ve been playing for over 30 years now.
😂😂
Ive watched this... countless times and gotten countless people hooked on Mr. BILLY.... and same as the person who wrote the Pinned Post... never get tired of the QUESTMASTER!!!!
Mr. Billy Senior is a badass also
Bro Billy said on This Past Weekend (shouts out Theo Von!) that dude in the background is smoking an unlit cigarette the whole time and I can't unsee it haha legend Barefoot Ben!
Dude in the green shirt is waiting for the song to end so he can bum someone's lighter. Seen it a thousand times.
@austin M bro he was holding an unlit cig the whole time 😂
I'm going with the lighter thing, dude seems like he'd be cool ASF to hang out with tho.
Ahahaaahasaa
Lmfao
lmfao best comment
I come back to this comment section a couple times a month to check in on the new green shirt guy comments.
It never disappoints
He need to find out who he is
I do too lmao
me too, disappointed
Lmfao
I come back for the song, but I really enjoy the green shirt guy comments. Never gets old.
The look of confirmation from Barfoot Ben was great, cool to learn they were all trippin on shrooms during this.
This is absolutely the finest display of young natural talent I have yet to witness. I shall continue to follow Billy for the rest of my days!
Everyone’s talking about billy strings and green shirt but no ones talking about the camera man staying damn near perfectly still for the entirety of this vid
True
Yeah and how could he keep still for even 2 secs while this song was a-rockin'!?
its a tripod i think
@@muzikmaker84 you think they have a tripod in there?
its cuz he already had some dust in a baggie
- guy is jamming country style
- other guy just standing there
- wall and floor are literally the same
wtf is this video I love it
Don't forget the TV from the early 2000's
@@squeaky_moths that fucker looks heavy..
This is what CZcams used to be
and we'll rock down hillbilly style!
Welcome to West Virginia bud
2024 still love this
Jesus Christ...thank God for Billy strings...long time addict in recovery...God bless Billy
This will forever be the best version of this song
Amen. ... Or as his boy would say, "HEEEEEIIILLL YEAAAAHHHH!!!"
I don't care if there's another version, this is the standard
And thats why im here
Because it's raw and untouched by anyone else...
@@americanmaceire1743 agreed brother
When your drug dealer sticks around for you latest song.
Your boy in the background is highlighted in this video czcams.com/video/vc-iiqwyWyc/video.html
Vincent George I thought you meant he was playing music in that video
Exactly what i was thinking lmao
Got dam son;I was hoping I wasn’t the only one grinnin’ with the same thought😂🤘🏻
🤣
This one will go down in history
I can't stop comin back to hear his song, I doubt I'll ever forget a banger tune like this one!
If you can find a lighter for the man in the green shirt, he will let you have 1 item from his shop.
Like when you bring the guy soda in left 4 dead
Coincidentally, that item is also called "Dust In a Baggie" and will give you twenty long years, if you talk to town guards while having it in your inventory.
fucking lol
Krombopulous Michael yes but it does up your invincibility a few points
@@MyBrokeAssFriends The debuff you get when the initial buff wears off is just not worth it to me with my current character build.
The song was so fire the guy in the back was able to smoke his cigarette without it ever even being lit.
I kept hoping it was Chapstick.
Legend has it, he is still hitting it
He was on dust in a baggy
i dont think that was a cigarette
😂🤣👍❤️
The time signature for this song only exists in the multiverse.
I come back every year and am constantly amazed by the guy in the background, we all coulda been him…why didn’t we?
Who else was actually surprised af when he started singing... Chills man, good shit.
Yeah I did.not expect that voice out of that young of a guy!
All of us we're surprised.
"yeah its still gonna be $50" guy in green
And you're getting a hook up too..he says
Down south some states it fucking is a deal lmao
Classic..
Lol
Lmao
For those wondering, on a podcast Billy said the guy in the back was "barefoot ben."
One of the greatest tunes of the century.
Legend has it that guy in the back never did light his cigarette
Lol... that's gold
Hahhahahaha
How did legend get it though?
Thank you, I'm wondering a lot. Thought he was chewing on straw till I seen him take a hit but then there was no smoke. Wtf is he doing back there and why?
Legend also has it that he took three hits off that cigarette and inhaled .But he only blew out smoke twice.
Alot of non-guitarists would find this impressive, but as a guitarist I'm stunned.
You nailed that one on the fkn head great comment
Also a guitarist, playing over 30 years and this guy is fucking awesome.
For real. Holy crap, who is this guy?
Michael Delay Billie Strings
@@michaeldelay3925 Billie strings, hes signed to a label now and has played at the grand ole opry
probably puts him up there with some of the greatest guitarists of all time, at least in my opinion. Absolutely flawless.
He could be close to Glen Campbell or Roy Clark in the future. A few come around every generation.