This brings back memories. Playing in this band was so easy, such solid rhythm, great playing, and singing with John Duffey - that required all you had to offer. He could hold a note longer than anyone I ever sang with. Hope more of this surfaces. Phil R.

My uncle was Mike Auldridge, and I had the joy of hearing some of the greats cover this song at MerleFest this past weekend with Jerry Douglas playing dobro, Peter Rowan, T. Michael Coleman, Sam Bush, among others. Amazing musicians.

Rip Ben Eldridge. My favorite banjo player! Live at the Cellar door showed that they were the tightest bluegrass band ever! What a show🪕

This is the bluegrass that I fell in love with 40+ years ago! Love Seldom Scene.

Inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame yesterday!

I miss The Birchmere circa '77 ! Those of you who know, know

The Seldom Scene-also one of the greatest EVER!"Live At The Cellar Door" was an awesome CD.

Probably the BEST live progressive bluegrass live performance ever.

RIP MIKE AULDRIDGE - I believe he is the best Dobro player who ever lived, founding member of my favorite Bluegrass band, The Seldom Scene, and a personal friend. He leaves a hole that music may not be able to fill.

i dont understand how everyone is sitting down i cant stop movin love this music drink a handful of beers and start jiggin even got 19 20 yr old brother and his freind and my 11 yr old boy just bustin out with a jig this music will never die

I've lived live in concert 14 years and I disappeared from the heavy metal punk rock background , to start training in art restoration and fine antiques . Saturday evenings WYSO Yellow Springs Ohio College radio would play 6 hours of the best bluegrass music. I got introduced to Seldom-Scene and it changed my life till this day 45 years later.

I can't believe that I get a chance to see this again. I about fell over when they played this at the Opry in 1979. I think John knew this was his first and last shot at the Opry establishment and he stuck it in their eye with his most acid grass song in their repertoire. However, he was able to showcase the musical prowess of the band. Duffy was one of the most hilarious front man ever. Sorely missed.

The Best there ever was. I had the privilege of meeting Mike at a Festival in Stuart, Va. in 1978. I was trying to learn Dobro and Eventually took 8 lessons from Him. I still have the tapes. Yes I'm old. I still noodle around on my 51 Year old OMI. Mike and Josh were the best Dobro players ever. I cannot separate them because of their different styles.

In the 1970's this Band, The Seldom Scene was probably the Top band to want to see. I seen them 3 times.

Duffy was the BEST tenor vocalist in bluegrass. Still miss him!

Talent unmatched in Bluegrass this version of the Scene was legendary.

This band was THE bluegrass band when I was gigging with my dad's band. Played a LOT of their stuff. This is part of my childhood!

John Duffy and Ben Eldridge are the only two people that can shred the mandolin and banjo like they do! I've always loved their music and enjoyed their shows. Great musicians they are. I miss J.D.s' tenor singing and his playing as I'm sure alot of us Seldom Scene fans will.

Best version of Rider

I went to High School with both John Duffy and Mike Aldrich in Bethesda Chevy Chase H.S. in Maryland Best of the best ! Miss them !

Tom Gray is one of the best that ever stepped up beside a bass fiddle!

Used to see this band regularly around DC, Va., WV, like 35 years ago. Consistently good shows, some outdoor performances were really terrific. Glad to find this on the internets.

Man, that mando break was wild. I dont think anyone pushed the limits more than John. Most other mandolin pickers of this time period played pretty simple stuff, but John was like some rock and roll guitar player or something! John Duffey will live forever!

Love...love...love. So many memories of sunny festivals.

Mr. Duffy has one of the most uniuque voices. I love this band, grew up listening to there records on my dad's old record player, im 26 by the way. And yes I play guitar (bluegrass style)

@philrosenthal Dude, you have a fantastic voice! Enjoyed all the playing too. Well done.

Used Michael Auldridge(Dobro) on a Kawasaki Motor Bike commercial in 1973 in Washington DC. Emmy Lou Harris sang lead on it with Fayssoux Starling singing background harmonies.He was a great player and a true gentleman as well as a fine commercial artist... RIP.

Jerry Garcia is looking down, smiling, nodding his head in approval and thinking to himself..... "Holy shit man......those guys can flat out play!!!"

never get tired of these guys and this song

The Seldom Scene... in my opinion, the VERY BEST bluegrass band in the world during their time. They went beyond everyone and everybody. AND btw, John Duffy (the mandolin player) was a friend of mine

I saw the Seldom Scene at the Birchmere in the eighties. It was my indoctrination into bluegrass, and I will thank the lord forever for that. Go,Scene, and RIP for a great life in the hereafter for John Duffey, who was so sweet and made friends with my dad before he went. I mean, my dad was just a fan, and John reached out to him and made him a friend, and that is awesome.

Whaow ! I've just seen these great band in Toulouse Bluegrass Festival FRANCE, in 1982, it was an unforgetable TIME, A GREAT CONCERT.Peace to the soul of John Duffey.

I skipped my college exams and rode from craftsbury common Vt to a Gettysburg pa bluegrass festival to see them play this song. In 1984. Good times! Ben Eldridge was my neighbor. Shout out to Page and Ben jr. Golf course square was the best.

Suh-weet! Been listening to these guys since I was a teen back in the 80s. They don't make it like this anymore. These guys were the greatest.

havent grabbed my guitar in 2 days, keep fighting in my head but now im back on.....thank you Mr. Auldridge

My favorite bluegrass group and my favorite song by them.

Thank you to the families of these wonderful musicians..you share your legacy of having loved them and their passion and expression of their souls for all to experience freely. They will all be missed, never forgotten and their gifts will be shared generously in kind.

It took me some time to appreciate Bluegrass music -- but The Seldom Scene sealed the deal for me with this song! I first heard it in 1979 as a passenger in a 1947 Dodge truck that was bumping and grinding its gears through potholes on an unpaved road that led to my destiny. But it's only through hindsight that a person realizes that ...

What a group of musicians!. And what a mando brake by Mr. Duffey!

Gets better every time I watch it! The light ain’t too good, but the talent; EMINCELY REWARDING👏👏👏🤙👌🇺🇸

One of the greatest bands ever in bluegrass music. Ck out the creases in Mike's jeans, he still wears them that way, always the gentleman. Gotta love Larry the Legend!

I'm grateful for these bluegrass pioneers! If it weren't for these guys, I would not be enjoying bluegrass music today! Thanks for positing this video!

Wow..reading these comments. Timeless. ♥️♥️

Wow, Just listening to Mr. Eldridge play his solo in this track us breathtaking.

Call me bias because Mike Auldridge was my uncle but these guys were all amazing, thankfully my Uncle Tommy Auldridge is still alive and well and playing the Hell out of his pedal steel guitar! If you get a chance, you should give him a listen.

I was fortunate enough to see this steller band several times over the years.At the Strawberry Spring Music Festival,they headlined,the coolest thing about the outdoor folk and bluegrass festivals was seeing band members sitting around a camp fire after the days events and just jamming with people that wanted to sit in with them.I don't play,but I could see the joy on the faces of weekend pickers sittin in and jamming with these guys.

One o’ the greatest groups ever🤙👏👏👏🇺🇸

Having grown up around DC, I was fortunate enough to have seen these guys many times, most of them at The Birchmere or The Cellar Door. The most memorable being at Wolftrap Farm Park in Vienna, VA, around 1980ish. They opened for John Prine with Steve Goodman. It was one of the most wonderful musical nights of my life, to date, as a spectator.

At festivals back in the early 80's ...when this song was played.... the crowd went wild!

Jumping Jiminy, that's some of the finest playing and showmanship I've ever seen, and I've been a folkie most of my 68 years. I was introduced to this tune by Grateful Dead, but this verson blows them out of the water. "Eat your heart out Bill Monroe"? Yep, and eat your heart out Jerry Garcia, Mama's got a new crush. Or should I say 5 new crushes.

Got to meet and jam on guitar with Phil Rosenthal bout 10 years ago. Great video here!!🎵🎶🎵

you were all great ! the new Scene cant come close to this. Mike, I will love the dobro forever.

One my all time favorites.I've seen them several times

They were an awesome band!! John Duffey on mandolin was a cherri pie!

great to see them great to hear them only had a tape cassette to hear them once upon a time and boy do I love bluegrass. thank you bluegrass library tony lee [ Australia ]

I love these guys this is my favorite song

Man Ben Eldridge can pull tone!! He is one of the best in my book

All of them had day jobs, why they named the band "The Seldom Scene". I worked with Tom Gray at National Geographic and in addition to regularly going to the Red Foxx Inn and Birchmere to hear the band play Tom introduced me to canoeing in the rivers and streams around Washington, DC.

listened to live in the cellar , for umpteen years , great to see the boys performing here I thank you dearly . tony lee Australia.

Thursday nights at the Cellar Door was a highlight of the '70's in Alexandria, VA.

Average age of the audience: 92 years old. This is an awesome band playing an awesome song.

Great music..i seen them back in the 70.s at gettsburg penn..and granite hill penn..what good time.s that was..what i can remember anyway..lol..

This is hot! Vintage bluegrass, & smokin' solo on the Dobro by Auldridge. This one gives me goosebumps. Incredible!

Unbelievable bass Tom is awesome!!!

No wonder I GOT HOOKED ON THAT "acid grass" BACK IN THE SEVENTIES! What good memories! Got to see them many times in and around NC. Me and my mom were groupies!!!!! LOL...AWESOME

No, really, this is THE BEST EVER version of RIDER

One of the best song ever recorded by The Seldom Scene. I was lucky enough to see them in performance several times at Granite Hill Campground west of Gettysburg, PA.

I live these old folk tunes.

@philrosenthal I just found this video, and hope that we can all enjoy more. The Seldom Scene- "Live at the Cellar Door" was the first non Flatt & Scruggs album I ever bought. And it forever changed the way I listened to and eventually the way I approached playing the banjo. This line- up is the top band in my book. Thank you Phil for your contributions to bluegrass music. By the way, if I were stranded on a deserted island, the 1 album that would be with me would be Cellar Door. Dean M.

I live in Portland, OR. Several years ago I met a couple who must moved here from D.C. I surprised them when they introduced their dog named Rider....and, of course, I said, named after Ben's break in the Bluegrass song, no doubt!!!!

Saw them at Denton farm park nc in late 80s was awesome

I used to see the Seldom Scene all around the D.C. area, they were the best! Watermelon Park in Berryville, Va. In the Shenandoah River while the band played............................ John Duffey R.I.P. Phil Rosenthal good to see you here too!

Hi Phil. Yeah, I saw you guys at the Great American Music Hall in SF, must have been about 1980. Thanks for all the great music! The Seldom Scene will live forever.

I saw Seldom Scene live when I was 12. My dad took me. It was a few years ago in Henrico, VA at Lewis Ginter Gardens. Amazing, amazing, amazing show.

A bluegrass hall of fame lineup fantastic !!!! What awesome musicianship!!!

Saw them at my first concert outing as a young kid - at the Weinberg theater just down the road a bit from Granite Hill...my brother and I wore the needle through Live At the Cellar Door!

OMG, I never knew these guys played the Opry! This was right when I was a real Scene groupie (mid- to late-70s). I used to determine which BG festivals I'd attend based on if the Scene was on the bill. No Scene, no good! I even used to pattern my mando playing after Duffy. Even had a zippered v-neck golf shirt like his. Still have it as a memento 30 years later! I basically stopped playing BG when Duffy and Monroe died in '96. The new Krauss and Nickel Creek stuff just leaves me cold.

Absolutely amazing.

This is the best (and only real!) Seldom Scene lineup

never had the opportunity to see them live thank you for all that has posted to you tube and thanks you tube

Great performance!

Most dangerous bluegrass band to ever pick up a musical instrument

Shame we didn't do a Mike Auldridge signature model while working for O.M.I./Dobro. GREAT GUYS, GREAT BAND! 👍🪕🎶♥️🤙

Phil: Great great stuff! I can't tell you how many hours I've driven that long road on the outer banks of NC, playing this, White Line and other nice tunes from the Live at the Cellar Door album. Legends, man.

suns gonna shine in my backdoor someday........................awesome

these guys were like gods to me.....and this video shows why...what a treasure

This folk song is also known as "I know you rider", being covered by artists as diverse as The Grateful Dead and Hot Tuna in acoustic mode. Fantastic version by The Seldom Scene!

Duffy was the definition of smooth - and the definition of kind, sweet and talented. I hung with them every Monday at the Red Fox, then the Birchmere. Sweet memories.

Wonderful! Thank You for sharing.

Now more than ever as then... This .. Defines Talent sittin on a foundation of skills..

This is friggin BEAUTIFUL

These guys did us a favor in '82 being on the border of Ct n Ny they Appeared in our Picture and it was Great.

OMG they are great.

Seldom Scene my first bluegrass cd wow these guys are awesome

It doesn't get much better that this...Thanks for posting RC

My hats off....always loved it.!!!

Top knotch performance. Best dobro ever. They we're the best.

Love this! Can't wait to open for you guys!!

No truer words have ever been said. John and Mike are both missed with no one to ever take their place.

Incredible! Goosebumps!