Bela Fleck with New Grass Revival - Deviation

[oftheeld]

2 people are deviants.

[songsmadeforyou]

no offence but this is tighter than any flecktones song

[TierodMcslush]

funky as shit!  I DIG IT

[biolover612]

I've watched an loved these guy forever,and there work in this period is there peek

[genebh1]

This is amazing picking; it's a wonder there is no smoke coming from their fingers. Hot dayum!!!

[NKL1956]

Bela Fleck is a musical genius!

[SinyoR1000hp]

thank you

 THAILAND...

[blackjeweler]

Blows my mind, every time.

[MIKElikestoMOSH]

@blackjeweler try listening to it high. you'll blow a load.

[Malzarin]

Lol, this is the first Flecktone song! The band wasn't formed yet but this sounds very much like what Fleck formed right after. Fantastic!

[metalmandoman]

I would love to jam with them.

[rl34008]

NASA should go ahead and send this into space for communication with whatever planet Sam Bush is from. That just ain't right.

[greenbeej]

the one person who disliked had a family member who was killed by intensity of the mando solo

[mario4prez]

sam bush: the badass of bluegrass

[DreJoystick]

places is one of the best albums ever

[guitardudebanjoman]

What idiot disliked??????  Someone is JEALOUS...

[buddhidev]

Amazing!

[chrismccrth0]

Exciting stuff from Bela Fleck & Sam Bush! Superb.

I'm sorry, but Pat Flynn is significantly below par when compared to todays hot flatpickers & Bela & Sam.

Should have TONY RICE in this band!

[510631]

@chrismccrth0

Now you funny too! Pat Flynn rocks-way more versatile than "todays" hot pickers, and probably inspirational to most of the hot pickers out there.

[chrismccrth0]

@510631 Newgrass Revival as a band produced some great music. Pat Flynn is a 'very good' guitarist. It's just bela & sam are like 'the best', 'the peak' on their respective instruments. Debatable yea - but Pat Flyn get thrashed by at least 10 or so guitar pickers i can think of off the top of my head.

[Lvl50sAreBad]

Pat gets "thrashed" by nobody...ignorant statement. Scroll through the New Grass videos and tell me who thrashes Pat. He also wrote many of their best tunes.

[funkybitch19]

yow!

[juice3659]

CharlieHend if you rly like bela you need to listen to alison brown shes just as good if not better

[CharlieHend]

@juice3659

Alison Brown is good but (and we all have our opinions) she is not in Bela Fleck's league, though, by saying this, I am not inferring that I don't like her. In fact, I have a few of her albums. There are other female bluegrass/country/jazz who are as good.

[Geeto7]

Banjo solo KICKS ASSS!!!!! at 2:46

[TheGhostofGeddyLee]

ya that mandolin was badass

[harveylegs]

foggy mtn breakdown lick on Mando at 1:18

[genesicosmica]

assurda

[brotherbrubru]

I've just witnessed 'shredding' on a mandolin!

[tejasbullet]

@brotherbrubru

Amen, brother. And it was a beautiful thing. Sam is the shredman.

[ubda1]

Out of this world!!!!

[CharlieHend]

Bela Fleck and Jens Kruger are, without a doubt, the two best banjo players in the world!

[twoeyes]

wowww

[MartinGuitarLover1]

2 favorite songs from this album Deviation and Revery

great video

[antoniaworbridge]

I'm thrilled!

[elhombrejefe]

this rocks.

[cademanu4]

the guy the plays the first solo not bela fleck the guy with the beard he is really good

[mikulasvselicha]

@cademanu4 sam bush

[strav12]

Anyone know the type of the little black guitar that plays the first solo is called?

[PMBusby]

@strav12 That's a mandolin and the master playing it is Sam Bush. New Grass Revival was great, but both Bela and Sam have great solo stuff. Check them out.

[strav12]

@PMBusby Thanks so much for the education. Got the Deviation album - will look up Sam. I'm a Gary Lucas fan - psychedelic bluegrass - so this kindda string differentiated sound is...er....music to my ears?! 

[IaMoDiNaRy]

I agree with everyone else! The talent displayed here deserved a standing O! What a dead audience....... All of these guys are awesome....

[Brynnium]

Great song. And Bela, even in this video, would have been playing for over 10 years.

[Spacegalaxking]

The King of Banjo......

[1516levi1]

well said n8tureboy.....

[MartinGuitarLover1]

Awesome video !!!!! Sam and Bela what a duo, Fantastic

[ArkPony1]

I agree! How the #@#*& can the audience sit on their butts and just politey applaud this tremendous performance! They should have been screaming their heads off!

[ConfinedAbrasion]

Mind blowing performance, This is superior quality music and should be far more popular than it is.

[n8tureboy]

@ConfinedAbrasion

That's exactly why it isn't more popular. People are so used to mediocrity that they've become accustomed to it; heck they've even come to demand an inferior product! Their so used to bland, over commercialized, tripe that when something great comes along they can't even recognize it. NGR provides Grade-A++++ music, no fillers, no preservatives, just straight forward grass.

[scody311]

a billion thumbs up!

[kdawg16a]

Fantastic stuff!

[klnine]

Amazing ....!!!!!!!!!!! (A brit Zep ELP fan !

[ajjs02]

Virtuo-city is the town this comes from. techinically brilliant and incredibly forward looking....^_^ AWESOME!!!!!!!

[Steevlan1]

I don't understand why the audience wasn't on their feet at the end giving them a standing O. I know I would have had I been there. This is exciting stuff.

[5150printer]

@Steevlan1 Probably because it's the south and they're being too stiff. :-) I Can't believe how young Bela is.

[songsmadeforyou]

@Steevlan1 this song gave me a "standing O"

[brotherbrubru]

Is the video of the complete performance

available for purchase anywhere? I'd love to

get a copy of their whole set for this session.

[brotherbrubru]

Damn, Sam is an animal!

[TEXWolverine]

prjctcivilian - highly recommend all of New Grass Revival's music as well as a lot of their solo efforts, particularly Sam Bush. Also check out Cornmeal, The Waybacks, Leftover Salmon...  That should be a great start

[prjctcivilian]

wow this is great, im not a real blue grass fan but if someone could give me a few names that'd be great. Personally my musical taste revolve around bands like the allman brothers, grateful dead, phish and umphreys Mcgee so if you know any blue grass musicians that have cool riffs and no how to improvise tell me

[scscotto]

You can really open and improve your musical ears by checking out any and everything and anyone Bela has worked with as well as his own works.you'll quickly see your list [while great musicians in their own right] are amateurs compared to the many modern bluegrass/jazz/ fusion folks.

[prjctcivilian]

of course there are much more talented players out there than jerry, trey and jake but to me some just clicks with them. For instance, guthrie govan is an amazing player but i cant listen to him for long. On the other hand "fluffhead" by phish is perfect - everytime! However, i'd say Umphreys Mcgee are a rediculously talented band, their videos on youtube dont do em justice

[fluffaduck]

Hey prj Ngr is great but the arn't really bluegrass. If youd life a few names check out Bill monroe Ricky skaags, Earl scruggs Tony rice(great guitar player) just to mention a few. They sound nothing like bela fleck though, this is is more of newgrass.

[HillbillyJ]

"...this is is more of newgrass."

Hence "New Grass Revival."

[olLonely]

Don't leave out some wonderful women; Sam Bush and Tony Rice are big supporters of Sierra Hull (quite traditional). Of course Alison Krauss is awesome. Check out Dale ann Bradley or GoldHeart.

[beatleman27]

the allman brothers are the best! but as far as bluegrass id have to say check out yonder mountain string band and leftover salmon. and just to get crazy with it, check out bela fleck and the flecktones

[Lvl50sAreBad]

@beatleman27 yonder mountain and leftover salmon both say Newgrass Revival was their biggest influence-these guys changed the music forever. Bela and the flecktones came after Newgrass Revival.

[jruzich43]

@Lvl50sAreBad you are 110% correct man. If not for NGR we wouldn't have a lot of jam bands that we love so much.

[banjocam]

boy you guys with yur book lernin sure are smart. I hope you learn to sit back enjoy it one day.

[HillbillyJ]

Whoa, back up. No one said they didn't like this. I loved this song since the first time I heard it.

We were just having a discussion.

[gtq838]

lol, true that

[HillbillyJ]

Agreed. Sorry if I come across as a jerk.

[HillbillyJ]

If its repetitive then wouldn't that be a lack of variation? Obviously, variation means "instance of change." Sorry but when I see a comment like "the theme and variation... tends to be a bit repetitive" it kinda seems self-contradictory. You know?

And also I wasn't seperating old from new bluegrass. Bluegrass has always had jazz/blues influences.

[HillbillyJ]

Well actually bluegrass has strong jazz influences. You can see that whenever instruments trade breaks in any bluegrass song. We didn't get that from Appalachian music, usually they had only one lead instrument. That comes from jazz. Plus there is alot of improvising in both genres. I think they are alot more interchangeable than most people think.

Btw, every kind of music has theme and variation, not just Bela's. Classical is a huge example of this. Just thought I'd point that out.

[JaredB23]

Awesome... such unreal talent !

[umpmcgee13]

That is a really great way to put it. Allot of people assume that just because you are using the traditional bluegrass instruments, that the music that you are producing with them is bluegrass.

[dievibal]

that's a long time ago!! what year is it?!

[HorstHorstmann202]

i don't know exactly, but it must be around the early 80's, 1982 perhaps (that was the year he published his first records i think)

[umpmcgee13]

Bela didn't join New Grass until 1981, and he was with them for a while before he put the album, "Deviation", which this track is from out. I think that album came out in 1995. This looks earlier than 95, but, anyways...who knows.

[umpmcgee13]

scratch that..."deviation" came out in 1984

[gtq838]

did anybody else notice the crazy faces the guitarist makes... that would drive me insane if I played with him... lol, I'd make him put a bag over his head.

[YeshuaFiyah]

ha...how did it NOT click....lol..

[gtq838]

right, lol

[Jbiorobot]

It's rather funky....you've got  a mandolinist from Kentuck, a guitar from Cali,a banjo from upstate NY, and a singer bassist from the mistake on the lake, Cleveland.

Maaaan how did this band click???

[dievibal]

jajaja i wonder the same thing!!

[kirbonite]

Well, they still have no fashion sense but wow what a song. I love real drummers.

I hadn't heard this.. awesom

[dal6464]

this shit is awesome

[comicerrant1]

reminds me a little bit of return to forever.

[jidenlynne]

Back when he used to wear plaid flannel shirts... LOL!

[GrodSamson]

When was this?

[HorstHorstmann202]

this must have been recorded a long time ago, bela fleck looks so young...

[sjin93]

holy shit these guys shred the shit out of dragon force

[tgmod]

Lol Sam bush is wearing a Lab coat. He looks like a mad doctor

[dankodan42]

He's the Mad Doctor of Mandolin.

[kh884488]

Thanks for posting! I've been a Bela Fleck & The Flecktones fan for awhile and haven't heard Newgrass yet.

Such virtuosity...it's inspiring.

[TheWildMoor]

You gotta love the New Grass Revival Moniker!They are all cultured musicians, but Bela moreso than the rest because of his overwhelming virtuosity on the banjo. His classical renditions are amazing! John Cowans singing voice is one of the best I ever heard! I caught him at a festival in Prestonsburg Kentucky, and he was just amazing! it was such an emotional show!

[baztunes]

Thanks so much for posting this. NGR was really on top of their game. When we use to see them at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. We dubbed them "powergrass". All the best,

Barry

[SRVBAND]

es la combinazion perfecta Bela&NGR es espectacular muy buen video

[musicianforjesus]

Bela Fleck can do anything on a banjo

[sabre808]

New Grass Revival GREAT. Thanks David Czech rep. (sabre808)

[ozkarin313]

horale!!!!! muy buen video exelente musica y bela fleck toca muy bien exelente!!!

[123japoneis456filho]

oh man, the best regioanl band

[emphaticmusic]

New Grass...ROCK GRASS! Woo-Hoo! What a treat! Awesome stuff, wonderful to see this piece done live. I discovered NGR a bit late, about '85 - and found this Fleck solo album about the same time, and just went backwards & forward with them from there. One of my favorite assembly of players of all time. They all played so great, all masters on their own, and then add Cowan's amazing voice to the mix. And GREAT SONGS, too. This band is sorely missed! Thank you so much for the post, made my night!

[JBRHC78]

Pat Flynn is one funky sombitch.

[JimRichter]

Hands down, Deviation is one of my favorite New Acoustic music albums. I listened to this album hundresds of times as a teen back in the mid 80's. In my opinion Bela's best album and writing (and some of the best playing of that incarnation of the NGR). Thanks for posting.

[coltshalo]

Can go wrong here SOME OF THE BEST!

[baddd60]

I would love to see some video of the original NGR with Johnson and Burch. I saw them many times as a young boy.

[yank22257]

Bluegrass with a drummer. This band was definitely a rockin!

[FloatingGrin]

I so wish they were still making music together. How awesome was this? They so paved the way for so many.

[dcguitar]

this is fantastic.

thanks

[RUuser]

20 years has passed?

[jidenlynne]

Smokin'!! Sexiest bluegrass band on the planet!!