A Veeeery Young Nickel Creek! (3 of 3)

[emilymichellenelson]

I always wondered if Sean felt awkward being older and taller than his band mates when they were kids. Four years is a lot when you're 15. Thanks for posting these videos--I've always wondered what they sounded like as kids, and now I know. They were pretty dang good.

[hcmontessori]

How cute is this! ^_^

[JDvorak2009]

Gosh i love this stuff!

May Blue Grass NEVER DIE

[longlists]

kinda looks like sara and chris could be more bro and sis than sara and sean in this :)

[setibamrahk]

HA!  Love it! Great seeing them as kids! I love Nickel Creek and this just tickles me!

[BluegrassForte]

This is one of my faves! I play guitar and violin with a group called the Bar G Wranglers and this is one of the main songs they do! Love the old western music. You all did this so well! 5*

Gretsch'n

[sarahxboxbeara]

OMG. So great! And did you see that little girl in the corner towards the end? She was funny. I know that sounds bad that I noticed it, but it was funny. Man they are incredibly talented now, and they were back then, too!

[wwfrench]

Yes! You must mean the little girl with the can of soda! I never noticed her until you said something. But now I see that she just LOVES whatever she's drinking...and then takes a peek in the can to see if there's anymore!!! Hah!...that is funny -thanx! :-)

[halfpint02]

you have got to be kidding me...the girl drinking the soda is me! i showed this to my dad and he said it was me! this is crazy!

[fetymann]

what a trip huh?! I wish personal video cameras were used more in the early 80s. It would be awesome to find myself in someone else's video.

[sirlonghair]

@halfpint02 well you upstaged the band you had me rolling and giggling are you still cute and a soda junkie

[fiddlyoleben]

hey who is that on mandolin?cause it doesn't look like chris thile.and does not have the same stage presence as Chris.i have seen some videos of chris thile at nine years old.and he has a better stage presence then that kid did.don't get me wrong though.that kid played amazing mandolin.but it wasn't chris thile was it?i mean,sara and sean didn't even meet chris thile until they were like 14 or 15 right?and they met at mark o'connor fiddle camp or something like that.isn't that right?

[wwfrench]

All I know, is that Sean is on mandolin and Chris is on guitar. Check out the ending of the previous song (2 of 3) where Scott Thile (on bass) says "Sara and Sean Watkins" and then points to his left & right. Chris (on guitar) also extends his arms out in recognition of them. Sean (on mandolin) say's "Thank you very much!" Finally, Sean is much older than Chris...thus allowing Sean to be much taller than his super-picker friends! :-)

[piratebob13]

Wrong

Sean,Chris,And Sara all met at a pizza parlor in Carlsbad california called "That Pizza Place". Chris was 3 or 4 when his parents started taking him there to see John Moore's band "Bluegrass etc." The watkins were going there around the same time...Sara was the same age as Chris and Sean was 3 or 4 years older. Chris and Sean both started taking guitar and mandolin lessons with John Moore while Sara took lessons with Dennis Capplinger...that's where the first met and played together.

[piratebob13]

by the way....I'm saying wrong to fiddlyoleben's question, "i mean,sara and sean didn't even meet chris thile until they were like 14 or 15 right?and they met at mark o'connor fiddle camp or something like that.isn't that right?"

wwfrench is completely correct

[ladybuggcla]

Wow, amazing vocal harmony even at that young age...and, of course, their instrumental work goes without saying.

[Mysterio1984]

Haha, this is awesome!!

[wlumbor]

Is it any wonder that they are so sensitive to each other (musically speaking) today? SO impressive!

[giggleblaggle]

WOW

[triton338]

Just as entertaining as today. Great stuff!

[Jazluvr]

anyone know where this is?

[wwfrench]

Location: Temecula, California

Event: Temecula Valley Arts Festival, 1991.