Bill Monroe & Earl Scruggs at the Grand Ole Opry

[SeanAllenCanan]

Happy 100th Birthday to the Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe! (eh.)

[MrHadley2011]

listening to this back stage jam session sends chills up my spine.

OMG i does not get any better than this.

[indesexable]

Todo é boísimo pero a parte final é suprema. Estouno poñendo unha e outra vez.

[bigmrclean]

There's nothing that makes me happier than seeing Earl Scruggs back in the day and his head get to moving and nodding side to side or back and forth...That pretty much means he's "Gettin' the job done"

[md65000]

@bigmrclean I agree with you - I noticed that too. It reminded me of fmr Eagles guitarist Don Felder who also has a very distinctive "gettin the job done" look when he plays. (You can really see it when he rips out those spanish-style licks on the "unplugged" version of Hotel Calif.)

[mightycujo]

I worked with John Hartford for a while in the 80's and was introduced to the bluegrass scene bigtime. Impromptu jamming in the dressing room happens all the time. Even local bluegrass acts will play in the dressing room until it's time to go onstage. A real love of the music.

I thought the blugrass piano was a hoot in "9 Pound Hammer."

[wellhill99]

god bless em

[jaygatsby1]

i'm sending you a private message (assuming I can figure out how).

[jaygatsby1]

agree....this is a treasure. how did you convince them to perform an impromptu jam in the dressing room?

[allinaday]

@jaygatsby1 In those days, at the Grand Ole Opry, it was kind of easy once the security guard. Inside, everybody was friendly. The scene just happened. I was there with my soundman. Just rolled film.

David Hoffman -- film maker

[jaygatsby1]

@allinaday have you done the festival circuit already with this film?

[allinaday]

@jaygatsby1 The film has never been a film festival. It once ran

at the San Francisco Bluegrass Festival but other than that has never been in the Festival.

David Hoffman -- filmmaker

[mytubenow11]

What a Treat! (goo-goo cluster)

[migasaguiar]

you filmed this?

[allinaday]

@migasaguiar Yes I did. And many other country, Mountain, and bluegrass scenes. It was and still is my favorite music.

David Hoffman -- filmmaker

[migasaguiar]

@allinaday great footage. this is a treasure

[holysnikeys]

if we as the "white folk" had W.E.T. (White Entertainment Tv, all hell would be raised, so we don't cuz that would be racist

[jwhardin740]

To Anokopoet:

What's wrong with a white person being proud of themselves?

Big difference between white power and white pride...just sayin'

[boblackey1]

@jwhardin740 Ain't nothing wrong with being proud of white people. But remember Jesus loves ALL the little children. Red, yellow, black or white..they are all precious in his sight.

[cherokee762]

enjoyed very much...great music.

[EmotionalResQ]

Does anyone know who the young man is in the blue shirt and black vest playing guitar next to Randy Scruggs?

[Pickinbuddy]

That's Jody Maphis, who was Joe Maphis' son. He actually played drums with the Earl Scruggs Revue.

[EmotionalResQ]

Thank you. I thought he resembled Joe Maphis.

[FunBoy15]

This isn't anglo saxon music. if anything it is celtic music. But in the words of Bill himself: Scotch bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound. It's plain music that tells a good story. It's played from my heart to your heart, and it will touch you. Bluegrass is music that matters."

[KmusicSteve]

good old white anglo saxon music...Thank God for our Culture!!!

[Anokpoet]

Shit...where did the banjo come from? Oh fuck you mean it came from Africa and much of this music was born not just out of "WASP" culture but also out of african culture and generally all music comes from various parts of the world at various times and all comes together at some point. Looks like you and your moronic ideas have just been fucked in the ass by the truth. Thank everyone for all cultures. That and KILL WHITEY...LOL! Seriously though kill white pride and all those who believe in it!

[Anokpoet]

that and the jam in the dressing room was awesome...Then again you get Monroe and Scruggs and it is going to be good, they are masters at their instruments.

[Rcksaltnnails]

While I will agree the original idea of the banjo came from Africa, to say that what they play as a banjo today as as close to the banjo's of Africa as a bazooka is to a sling shoot. They are now so removed that it isn't even the same instrument anymore. If it were the case of them being the same, any stringed instrument with a wooden body would be called a guitar and every brass instrument a trumpet!

[banjoman5424]

Well.. I have to say, it's nice that Earl played with his boys Randy and Gary, but I never found the music they played together very interesting. Rather hear Earl and Bill.

[Amakisongs]

I sing a song about tearing down the opry

[crowebroke]

Wow, Bill got some volume from that old Loar, just cuts right through. Great to see such talent enjoying their skills and eachother's. Thanks for sharing this.

[thisiswho2]

What kind of music is top-class?

The music we love that is Bluegrass

[Banjomountain]

The Opry was packed that night. Those good ole days in the Ryman will never be relived.

[lookwhatidid]

aviator wearing nashville hipsters take note,...this melts your face

[DanWhiteHere]

best comment i have read on here in months.

[TheTopfuel]

pure class, you wont see this on x factor,!!,

[fuckerfromfermanagh]

Thats because x factors got nothing to do with actual music, it's for the exploiters of music

[TheTopfuel]

well said,

[mosrite60]

would have been nice seeing Ralph Stanley in the jam. Monroe, Earl, Baker, Stanley =none better

[smurfthumper]

Kenny Baker!

[thikapuhnuh]

bill monroe &earl scruggz.....nuff said

[rhoads3120]

Simply One Of The Best!

[FieryLocks]

It's great to see a father and his sons jamming together like that...greatness passed to the next generation!

[blobassplayer]

who is drumming on nine pound hammer

[Banjo1115]

Gotta love the fathers of bluegrass playing together again.

[KyndestKid]

The Big Mon.... Bill Monroe!

[fgleich]

Simply AWESOME !!