Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell - Dueling Banjos (Deliverance 1972)

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I put this together a long time ago, but did not upload it because (1) I was embarrassed that I misspelled "Dueling" (actually my third finger twitched and I failed to notice, TWICE), after I deleted the setup and didn't want to start from scratch again; (2) the video quality is lousy because it came from a poor broadcast of DVD quality; (3) there are already plenty of versions of it available. However, I decided today to upload it because some of my 20,000 subscribers may not have heard/seen it and will enjoy it. At least the aspect ratio is correct, as you can see by observing that the banjo head, or pot, is round, as is the guitar sound hole. That's not the case for some you might see. BTW, the banjo music is NOT coming from the junker that the kid pretended to play. I love the part where the local fellow overhears the comment about low-IQ people, walks up to the offender and rhetorically says, "Who's playin' the banjer?" That's funny on two levels: (1) the wise guy gets a comeuppance because the kid can play banjo and the wise guy can't (he was guessing, but most people can't), and (2) the answer to his question is "Eric Weissberg," not the kid holding the junker.