Dueling Banjos by Flats & Sharps (on a Bristol to London Train)
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2016
- Well we don't normally play Dueling Banjos as a rule, but seeing as someone on the train asked us NICELY we thought we'd have a go...
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"I thought I was on my way to Birmingham, England, not Birmingham, Alabama"
birmingham al is a really nice place, most of it that is.
@@jesuschrist680 no, its not. bham stinks, inner city is awful. roads are awful. just a bad place. i live a little north of it. avoid it on purpose..
@@zak4477 don't be hatin on good ole bham now ya hear
@@MrModestdeeman I'm around cullman.
@@zak4477 whole country is a cesspool
banjo somehow manages to be the goofiest and coolest instrument all at the same time
Damn no comments? What a shame
Wait
Amen
I cannot begin to explain how true this is
Once you watch some "Steve'n'Seagulls" that goofiness is in doubt. Just start with their version of Thunderstruck and you are hooked.
@@Muck006 oh yeah I saw that! I love how they didn't use any guitars
It took 7 years for CZcams to recommend this to me . Glad it finally did
8 for me 😂
I have concerns that four lads from Cornwall play American bluegrass this well. The banjo work is especially well done.
It’s just bluegrass. Bluegrass is american
Cant surf all the time. 😂😊
Yep! Consider it stolen and we will never give it back.
@cane870 And where did the Americans come from? Oh wait..
@@DG-iw3ywbluegrass is derived of blues which came from the songs of African American slaves. You nasty Brits can't take any responsibility for this.
People don’t understand the responsibility of being this capable at bluegrass. There’s always a risk of friction fire, summoning the dead to dance, or spreading highly contagious “yee-yees”
Ah yes the witchcraft of frantic bluegrass and strings, summoning the dormant hordes of country bumpkins, befuddling all who stand in the way of the almighty force that is the musical instrument
yee yee ass
Not to mention having to constantly out duel the devil with your fiddle.
@@FBI_Overlord hair cut
Subconsciously did scream yee yee, I've been awake for like 5 minutes, I'm oddly like.. energized
I didn’t know Anakin used the force to play the banjo like a mad man.
What do you think led him down the path of the Dark Side?
@@BigWalex 😂😂
Love how you can see count Dooku being pleased with his performance at 2:27
Anakin hated sand because it got into his banjo
GOD DAMN BRO! LMAO!
"We're nearly at London Kirk" As dude was stuck on repeat kills me every time
Literally the best thing to ever come out of the London public transport
It's a Bristol to London train. It's not London public transport, it's a high speed national rail service, between 2 major cities 118 miles apart by train.
I dunno... I stepped off one of those trains once. 😎
@@gregoryclark8217oh, my bad. I don't actually live in the UK so I'm not familiar with transport there. But thanks for the info! Pretty interesting in fact.
The Banjo player has been waiting his entire life for this moment.
With how good his picking is, he’s been living this moment his entire life.
More like no
@@TheMusicLeak 😂
Solo time? hold my beer.....
We all do
If someone is walking around with a banjo, they’re actively looking for a duel
If they also carry a fiddle, you just know the Devil won't be around.
It's a fundamental law of nature 🤣
Touchè. 🤣🇦🇺❤❤❤
LMAO
He ain't fucking around next time i saw one I'm gonna fight him Banjo against my Portable Electric Guitar, the hunt is on.
This music touches the soul, you can't help but smile.
1 Great artists make it pure
2 A train makes it classic
3 In London makes it Epic
In England: Epic banjo battle
In New York: Epic Sax battle
nice
Damn, it’s been more than 3 years and my comment got so much attention. I’m going to note it in my CV because I grew up since then. Crazy times!
Mississippi*
Meanwhile in Canada: maple syrup bottle blowing duel
In Russia:
Do i really need to tell you? ;P
@@natetorres18 epic battle of Stalingrad?
@@natetorres18 vodka and misery?
*Banjos play
*Train +10% speed and starts to exhaust steam
Sum bandits climbin the side of the train
Arthur Morgan joins the chat.
yeehaw
everybody becomes a noble in the train
Does that happen to be a spirit tracks reference? 😅
Were I on that train, being from Tennessee, I'd probably think I'd entered the twilight zone. Of course as a graduate of the University of Tennessee, the best rendition of Rocky Top I've ever heard was in the Village on a student trip to NYC. Neighborhood bar with about 9 regulars, the bartender, the piano guy played for Nipsey Russell when he was in town, and 3 UT students. When the locals asked where we were from they broke out a full rendition of Rocky Top and continued to entertain us thruout the evening.
That was an awsome deliverance of a superb tune! Well played!
Doesn't it make you just want to squeal like a pig?
And well played by you 😂
He got a purty mouth....
@@jonlitchfield8888and then they…..
@@andydunn5673 paddled back down river and lived happily ever after after a relaxing stressfree camping trip. Thats how i want to remember it anyway 😁
Did i just witness a British individual go "WOOOWEEE" to another British individual playing a banjo?
Nowhere does it say they're British. They're just on a British train. WOOOWEEE
they know whats up.
We won the war bro we influence their culture now
@@jeffreymorris3002 sometimes the British are more southern than the south
@@jeffreymorris3002 this made me laugh
The teacher: And you better start paying attention because this is important-
The boys in the back:
Back of the class gang best gang
Ye
Don't worry, it's music class. ;)
like check
I hate those guys-
Every train has two people with the same instrument that will battle it out to see who is the better musician.
So happy to see the generation coming through recognising the complexity
Musicians dueling in random places is the best thing in this world
Uh... they're not dueling... "Dueling Banjos" is the *name* of the song...
@@exavierdelacruz4269 was just about to tell him Class film aswell 👌🏽
@@exavierdelacruz4269 youre breaking the immersion bro.
They are dueling. Let us dream
Until you realize that you are a drummer
Amen
Epic Sax battle : ✅
Epic Banjo battle : ✅
Now i need epic piano battle on train
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
is that a challenge
@@sadboisombr Do it
@@SpysixVT im not sure of it will be on a train for the fact ive only been on one twice but ill figure something out
@@sadboisombr *we will watch your career with great interest*
Deliverance the film that brought banjo duelling to the masses.
This was actually the best duel I've heard in a while
These dudes look like their instruments.
bruh ahahahah that's spot on
So underrated comment
👌😂
@@tenaciouslee1808 skinny dippin' in a sea of Lee, I propose a bended knee! To Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee
Fr tho
The bass player is sick of hanging out with his friends because they always bring their instruments and keep breaking out in to jam sessions everywhere they go and whenever they hang they make him carry around that massive instrument just in case they need some backup and he just wants to go out to the pub
Being a double bass player, I can wholeheartedly agree with this.
Tell me about it🙄 I reckon all guitar and fiddle players should be made to carry the bass for at least 5 gigs per year 🤣🤣🤣
@@c0ldesteeny being a double bass player, i agree, but slightly. only because of how expensive they are i cant buy one xd
Yeah but when you don't bring your bass and ya miss out on that jam it feels real bad man.
I'm drummer dude ಥ_ಥ
The lick at 1:58 is lethal.
And so clean the man sounded like a piano playing for a moment
Proof that music IS the universal language. Brits with a mountain twang...gotta love it.
i’m obsessed with their little hillbilly screams
they are from south west england not quite hilbilly but yh
yyyyyyyyyyyyyOW!
Actually hillbilly culture is descended from British culture, if you look at Appalachia it was primarily settled by British miners
It’s just annoying really. Sounds more like a cat who’s had his tail stepped on.
Yeah I really hate those lmao
I like to imagine while all this is going down the conductor just passed out and they’re on a speeding out of control train with frantic bluegrass playing while whacky hijinks ensue and they’re blissfully unaware and just having a great time
Then it would be titrainic
I clicked the like button twice, so I felt obliged to comment. This comment is fucking gold
@@fortty4finger Thank you
I love it man. Spending the last moments in bliss
HOODWINKED!
I used to love playing this tune w/ Mrs. Sullins, God rest her soul.
when I was a kid I used to hear this kind of music all the time now I I regret taking it for granted you just don't hear this much anymore
Meanwhile in an underground train, 2 guys are having a sax battle
Train battle multiverse
I hope that is cannon
CHALLENGER 2 APPROACHES
in a subway, actually!
@@jnoded A subway is an underground train, is it not?
And in a moment, all them londoners on that train gained a thirst for the shine and looked fondly back on the Old Kentucky Home they never knew
Underrated comment.
Amen, underrated comment for sure lol
Might want to look into where that old Kentucky home got its music in the beginning.
And the shine is a poor replacement for uisge beath.
Best comment ever made.
@@jeeves6490 jesus lol I bet you’re TONS of fun at a party
I once personally witnessed a leprechaun shake out a significant collection of lucky charms in reponse to bluegrass. Little fella can't have been taller than the size of a garden gnome but my god, could he jig. The devil obviously came for him in the end but the spirit of the little guy in the face of adversity will always stay with me
Saw these lads at the Sage in Newcastle a while back- brilliant musicians
Girls: "Ugh where's my boyfriend, he said he was just going to the bathroom"
All the boyfriends in the back of the train: 1:45
XDDD absolute genius
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe I am a retard I didn't find it funny nor did I get it.....
WOOOWEEE
Nice Marathon avatar
Banjoo is the best instrument by far. No matter who you are, when a banjoo sounds, everybody feels like a farmer.
Nah. Electric guitar
@@krave2789 no matter who you are it sounds badass
what if you play all 4 lol banjo bass electric and acoustic but i cant love the sound of banjo and piano the most out of all instruments
Hahhahahahahaha
I think that's the first time I've seen somebody misspell "banjo".
Music is so powerful that it can bridge any gap between any people if... they want it to but it usually does
listening to a good banjo riff is definitely above self actualization on Maslow's hierarchy of needs
hell yeah, tho maybe it makes more sense to be below it, you need to fufill the need of banjo before you can figure out yourself, but i guess it works just as well needing to actualise yourself to acheive the highest level of appreciating banjo
Id say listening to a good banjo riff is a key element to EVERY layer of the hierarchy
Ohh look someone’s been studying business at school…
Maslow's hierarchy of banjo
Best comment ever 👍🏻😄
Imagine just trying get a quick nap in on the train then these guys kick down the door to your car
That would be a pleasant surprise
My nap can wait
When I studied in London, my home was Bristol. This service has a quiet carriage. I always used it. It were great.
0If your life is that sad... you should really consider making changes to your life, man.
0.0
had a rough day, watched this, had an great evening. this is so amazing
This makes me ceaselessly happy on this random Wednesday night
Looks like Anikin Skywalker stopped playing with Laser Swords.
The good ending
😂
He's definitely got the force tho
That's not me
Ikr
0:05 that little girls face scared the shit outta me
...im sorry but, there IS no little girl....
I must be on meth again
She’s not used to seeing a banjo that far out in the wilds
Lmfao, the god damned grudge just getting spawned by the power of bluegrass.
She kinda looks like a jpeg.
This made the train run comically faster.
So this is an alternate universe where anakin instead of joining the dark side and become Darth Vader, he chooses to be more free and play banjo
The hypeman going "wooo-OOH!" gets me going every time.
Same 😂
Yes you need a good hypeman
Was a great touch
this scene happens at 1:02
Wow❤
*i fall in a river on bayou
* an aligator start chasing me
* i try to escape
* The music:
Muneh
Spesifically 1:57
So getting caught in this case isn't getting eaten, yikes.
Amos moses
DUDE I FREAKING DIED LFMAO
Coole Aktion Jungs! 😊
Nach 25 Jahren wegen eines Unfalls, habe ich erstmals wieder mein Banjo in Händen gehalten. Ich fange wieder neu an und es ist verdamnt schwer, aber es macht Spaß. Es macht mich glücklich ❤
Wir brauchen mehr von euch Jungs ❤❤❤
Musik kennt keine Grenzen ❤😊❤
Herzliche Grüße aus Germania ❤😊❤
See y’all got this recommended by the algorithm too, not disappointed
No I searched for it. But good times.
Got me
So did the people on the bus
Not... exactly
Algorithm is weird ain’t it
1:03
That guy who made the sound that was just pure gold to add to this masterpiece happening on the train.
I know right 😂😂
He did not get the credit he deserve
It was so cringe.
@@darkknight1604 was it? I dont think so at all at all. you need some more confidence dude!
His timing was impeccable!
Amidst what has obviously been lost in today’s sad generation, it brings tears to my eyes for the ears and soul to hear and resonate with true song writing, talent, and pure music. The true beauty of music is an art.
I wonder who raised todays generation? Oh wait
😂 I absolutely love dueling banjos, I play it alone just double up on everything, love it
Nobody gonna talk about how that banjo lick at 1:57 was absolutely smoking? That man can play.
I just love these 7 Licks hahahaha
ohh you mean the banjo solo that was advertised in the video title? xD
You are therefore your comment makes no sense
oh so you mean, uh, part of the fucking song
@@rexjolles calm down lmao if u dont get it look it up
Man, if I could play the banjo that well I'd be playing it everywhere, on the , bus, on the train, doctors waiting room, funerals the lot....lol.
So pick one up and practice. The great thing about the banjo is a few simple finger rolls easily impress...lol.
The banjo’s actually an easy instrument to learn. It’s harder to get good at. So go for it! Takes about 3-4 months to get pretty decent
Being a left hooker doesn't help, but ill look into it. Thanks guys.
So what would you guys recommend as a banjo to start with?
@@britdragster an 5 string closed back banjo in your price range :)
Gollyyyyyy homie shred tf outta that Banjo, made me think I was playing an old nintendo 64 racing game in a desert
We.need more of this kinda thing in the world
Whilst everyone was watching them, nobody saw the real rivalry: the cameramen
😂😂😂😂
😂 dueling camera men.
Geez the dude with the guitar is playing with a little sauce 😂😂😂 He's bending those strings FORREAL
Irish vs American banjo comp would be absolutely epic
See the smiles they are results of the medicine they call music
Bass and treble heal every hurt
What a wonderful saying
Yeesss sirrrrr
Kill the coronavirus with it
you are factually correct. People with demensia can rekindle memories and feelings by music they mustve felt or heard in that moment
if you play music
Everyone was being buffed and healed in a 100 meter radius for 3 minutes while this cast lasted
Are you saying that... Everyone in that train were receiving buffs and heals? Those bards are on a whole another level.
@@victorjun2421 Yes, bard class is always a good choice
@@lilmoris1 At least for everyone in the party except the bard himself.
I fucking lost it at this, man! I watch a bunch of D&D content, but I happened to be in a music mood and this got recommended to me. Seeing a comment snap back to D&D just surprised and delighted me!
They were going up against a boss, they will need all the buffs they can
It's not the equipment, it's the talent.
I love the idea that someone from Central London, on their first trip back from Bristol, came across this and just thought "...I fucking knew this is what happened in the west country"
You know shit is serious when the two people dueling start doing a duo instead, and a third one joins. (Along side the counter-bass. I thank that guy for saying about the fourth one that I didn't noticed.)
There are 4
Also that's how the song goes
Que bacan encontrar otro hermano chileno en estos comentarios 😎
Thats just how the song is played
The title of the song is dueling banjos
This is like a small npc side battle in a video game wen he says “you’re gonna hurt yourself lol”
Alright mister, enough Red Dead for today
"Nah-I don't think so Mister lol"
Oblivion npc
A great version of duelling banjos & brilliant playing by the banjo player & all concerned playing an instrument on this specific CZcams on this specific train journey 7 years ago according to you tube at the time ( March 2023) & duelling banjos is one of my favourite banjo & or accompanied by a mandolin or a guitar tunes of all time!
The one CZcams short that should stay CZcams long
As a guitarist, im always impressed by the fast fingerpicking from banjo players.
love the jam!
The ladies too....( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
They could immediately hybrid pic on guitar lol
It's not that hard since it's tuned in open G and they tend to play with a lot of open strings and hammer ons and offs to make it sound harder than it actually is. I probably butchered the explanation but once you get one, you would understand it's pretty easy to pick up. Not to say there's not a lot of skill, there are some really amazing pickers out there.
@@cchavezjr7 i did always wonder about that because they often to tend very far down the neck and there fingers arent necessarily always moving that fast.
@@iplayzthegames6968 yup, and when they do move up the neck, notice they're only fingering a few strings and just picking the other ones open.
It's dang trickery haha.
As an Appalachian native I'm truly surprised to hear a Redcoat give a rebel yell on a train.
The Levellers used to do it in their songs and they're a British Band czcams.com/video/j5uvl_Psw8w/video.html
the actual rebel yell sounds more like an enraged hound coming to tear your throat out
@@jakegrube9477 more of a rebel yelp then a yell.
Redcoat rebels.... Sounds like a band name right there 🤣🤣
An rebel yell sounds like an coyote howling as this old video of confederate veterans shows: czcams.com/video/s6jSqt39vFM/video.html
Further more I love quality musicians /singers/groups who share their talents in public one offs free. Thank you all.
This falls out the air every time you drive through Alabama
“We’ll look what we got ourselves here boy’s”
"We need a couple drivers to drive our car.... Yep driver brothers"
Touch your toes ... In it goes
*Whoooooooooop!!!*
😄🤣😝🤪
2:08 when you alt tab in a source game
So true
tf2
LMAO this got me good
god that's funny
holy shit best youtube comment i've seen in a long time
The banjo is definitely one of the coolest instruments on the planet.
I just love it when people do this sort of thing. Its so inspiring.
Imagine the driver coming over the tanoy. “Could the people who are making this train sound like a episode of Bonanza please stop”
That killed me lmaooo😂😂
What the fuck is banaza
@@reksie7816 Bonanza was Western tv show, I believe it’s stilled played on the TV land channel
@@reksie7816 Would help if i spelled it right. It's an American Western TV show from the late 50s to early 70s
@@reksie7816 Only one of the greatest western shows ever!
Some of those Brits must be thinking “these damned yanks”
Dixies*
The band are British themselves tho’
Dixies*
@Mike lol dixien in my blood fuck the north
Didn't take me long to find this comment XD
Don't you just love it when this happens 😅
This is badass! Well done to both players and well done to the CZcams algorithm for launching another gem at me 7 years after it was uploaded
Sounds great music has a way of bringing people together and making them smile
You guys have no idea how close I came to buying a banjo after watching this
Do it. 🤣🤣🤣
Do it. It's often more fun to learn than a normal guitar
Ngl i am considering it
@@DepressedCrow and expensive
Best comment ever.
I see the CZcams algorithm is spinning its clever sorcery once again.
Aye
Yes distract the masses...
You just wanted to say algorithm
@@Nick-Emery I did.
I didn't comprehend that.. What!? 😂
Absolutely love this music. Incredible stuff. 8 years old and still going strong.
Chick was honed in on the banjo player. Old man was so exited he probably needed that more than we know and the damn band is better than anything I've heard lately. Banjo music puts a fat smile on my face for some reason. ❤
1:00
When your ancestry pulls up and says you’re 1% southern...
Being Cornish I imagine they are more than 1% southern.
😂😂😂 nice joke!
I’d have to move carriages. There’s no way I could put up with other people having fun on public transportation. It’s just not British.
You mean “It’s just nawt Bri’ish”
Ey lads, look at this little fiddly bloke ova hee, he's kinda schtewpid innit?
@@Mei_Ayanam1 bet you've done it before, dont act like you're a saint, you cant even take a joke
@@Mei_Ayanam1 I’m British and I’m cool with it. You should see me teef...
Mono no sense of humor sad to be you 😂
Idk how many times I have rewatched this
An Iconic movie and one of my favourites, smashing guys, well done!! 🙏🙏❤❤❤❤
I know this is in the U.K but being from the Tennessee/Georgia border and being raised in the mountains, I'm making these guys honorary Tennesseans. I wasn't sold until I heard the cameraman's "WOOOOAHW" @1:03
This comment warms my heart. ☺
These lads are Irish. I can hear their accents. So, no need for the honouraries. Paddy brought that music to you.😁
@@musashidanmcgrath since when has Cornwall been part of Ireland 😂😂😂
@@user-vm9hh2se7s Who said anything about Cornwall, mate?
@@musashidanmcgrath that’s where these guys are from. Not Ireland
guitar man '' plays a string ''
banjo '' so you have chosen death ''
Severely underrated comment.
"Our battle will be legendary!"
Fantastic! What a treat for the passengers.
Why are people arguing? It was nice to listen to.
"Bluegrass inherently carries an Irish musical trait..... it is only capable of the most sorrowful or joyful music ever heard, with no inbetween."
No more than anywhere else in the British Isle, it was the English and Scots who settled the Appalachians.
@@hetrodoxly1203
And the Irish?
@@lsmith992 The Irish never settled the Appalachians.
@@hetrodoxly1203 but they did. I'm Appalachian with an Irish heritage. Multiple Irish Catholic Churches in my area, built in the 1800s.
@@erock5b When in the 1800s?
Love when the mandolin and bass come in, it all just flows so nicely Love the addition of the mandolin and bass the mandolin gives it that perfect train sound.
This may be my favorite comment ever. Everything I hear from this moment until eternity will now be weighed in and compared to "that perfect train sound!" ♥🚇🪕
They show us how definitely not set up it was
@@hitchjack that's why the video is titled "dueling banjos by flats and sharps" it's just their cover of the song, they're not pretending to be randomers who happen to all have instruments at the same time, they're just playing their cover of dueling banjos, on a train. i guess they were just bored or something.
@dafpj7536
You don't have to be bored to play music!
Man's never wanted a relative named Bubba more than I do in this moment right now.
Glorious banjo powers.
Why am I not on a train when sometime this happens?😢 Brilliant!
The "You're gonna hurt yourself" and the "WAAA-OOOOOOOH!!!!" just makes this 10x cooler than it already was. Keep going, this is one of the best videos I've seen so far.
nah. the "Your gunna hurt yourself" ruins it. Amazing banjo playing and everything, dude who says that ruins it tho.
@@sphynx6609im sorry but looks like thats kinda a impopular opinion
I personally love those parts xd
The little smile of approval from banjo player to the guitarist when the song starts picking up is one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen