Punch Brothers - Live at House of Blues (Full Set)
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- March 6, 2015 - FULL SET - Brooklyn-based, Punch Brothers, performed live in front of a sold-out crowd at Boston’s House of Blues. Boston is a town that "lead the way right from the beginning," says Chris Thile. “To step on stage here is to feel like you’re part of a chapter meeting of music lovers-people who love listening to and making music. It’s a vivacious crowd, and they strike that balance….in that golden zone between participating and absorbing.”
The all-star quintet performed a number of tracks from their fourth full-length album, The Phosphorescent Blues (released earlier this year), as well as fan-favorites ("Rye Whiskey”) and outstanding covers (Radiohead’s "Kid A”).
Set list:
My Oh My 2:20
Chris and Gabe talk about The Phosphorescent Blues 7:09
Boll Weevil 10:56
Chris and Gabe talk about the band name Punch Brothers 13:24
Watch 'At Breakdown 16:41
This Girl 21:29
Familiarity 26:30
Rye Whiskey 39:54
Gabe & Chris talk about their first meeting and the band's origins 43:58
Passepied (Debussy) 48:51
Another New World (Josh Ritter) (WATCH: bit.ly/1R73DPf)
Through the Bottom of the Glass (Paul Craft) (WATCH: bit.ly/1c2QCGr)
I Blew it Off 52:35
Gabe & Chris talk about technical skill as a means to musical expression 56:48
Flippen 59:21
Movement and Location 1:06:20
The Auld Triangle (Luke Kelly & The Dubliners) 1:12:21
Julep 1:16:48
Kid A (Radiohead) (WATCH: bit.ly/1AgNf44)
Chris and Gabe talk about Boston 1:23:00
Wayside - Back in Time (Gillian Welch) 1:25:02
Magnet 1:27:47
New York City 1:33:47
Little Lights 1:38:24
Credits 1:46:20
Chris Thile (mandolin)
Gabe Witcher (violin)
Chris Eldridge (guitar)
Paul Kowert (bass)
Noam Pikelny (banjo)
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Greg Shea - Producer/Director/Camera/Editor
Kegan Harrington - Producer
David Sinko - Sound Mix
Alan Mattes - Audio Mastering
Mike Kligerman - Camera
Steven Davy - Camera
Andrea Wolanin - Camera
Annie Shreffler - Camera
Kyle Werder - Camera
My Oh My 2:20
Chris and Gabe talk about The Phosphorescent Blues 7:09
Boll Weevil 10:56
Chris and Gabe talk about the band name Punch Brothers 13:24
Watch 'At Breakdown 16:41
This Girl 21:29
Familiarity 26:30
Rye Whiskey 39:54
Gabe & Chris talk about their first meeting and the band's origins 43:58
Passepied (Debussy) 48:51
Another New World (Josh Ritter) (WATCH: bit.ly/1R73DPf)
Through the Bottom of the Glass (Paul Craft) (WATCH: bit.ly/1c2QCGr)
I Blew it Off 52:35
Gabe & Chris talk about technical skill as a means to musical expression 56:48
Flippen 59:21
Movement and Location 1:06:20
The Auld Triangle (Luke Kelly & The Dubliners) 1:12:21
Julep 1:16:48
Kid A (Radiohead) (WATCH: bit.ly/1AgNf44)
Chris and Gabe talk about Boston 1:23:00
Wayside - Back in Time (Gillian Welch) 1:25:02
Magnet 1:27:47
New York City 1:33:47
Little Lights 1:38:24
Credits 1:46:20
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THE NUMBER ONE GREATEST BAND IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.
Number fucking one.
And nobody is number two.
bro you are completely right, no one has pushed the boundaries of music like this since Radiohead, before that the Beatles, and before that the king of jazz Miles Davis!!!!!
Meh youve never listened to prog rock then, check out The Contortionist
Every single time I hear Familiarity it destroys and rebuilds me. That song is a masterpiece.
+krroebsu Well said. Completely agree!
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I agree. It’s incredible! every time I go back to listen again it gets better.
Let us just take a moment to acknowledge the tuning, clarity, timbre and tessitura of Thile 's voice.
In addition to the impressive tessitura he ranges from Roy Orbison heights to Irish tenor lyricism.
Absolutely the best band that's emerged in decades.
These guys are without parallel in my books. I have never seen a better performance of music.
In one way I hate listening to a Punch Brothers concert because I know it will come to an end. But thankfully what they do warrants repeated listenings for with art on that level you can't "get" it straight off. The Punch Brothers are consummate musicians, which means that if they want to play something they CAN play it. That alone creates confidence in the listener, but there's more. The songs go to strange places, almost always unexpected, yet the changes never sound contrived or arbitrary, but inevitable. When your musical imagination is as fine-tuned and intensely inventive as theirs, then inevitability is the likely outcome. When what you hear in imagination, no matter how intricate and complex, comes out sounding inevitable, that's the real deal. And they do this with such apparent ease, not to speak of joy. They are serious, but never solemn, and they can groove and have folksy fun: the real deal. Their mastery of dynamics is also quite breathtaking. They can turn on the volume but also be intensely quiet, and induce equally intense listening. They are, indeed, living proof of the fact that you don't have to play to the gallery to get respect. If you play with genuine imagination and true inspiration people WILL pay attention, they WILL respect and appreciate what you're trying to do. The Punch Brothers are a special moment in the history of American music - long may it continue.
At the end of the second part of "familiarity" i yelled
"DID THEY JUST PERFORM A FADE-OUT, LIVE. WHAT."
alex0589 haha, yeah, that live fade out is ridiculous. These guys are absolute pros
They are. This is the closest ill come to seeing them live this year since im in montreal so thanks again.
alex0589 That's a shame. I saw them in Nashville. They're even better live. You think you fully appreciate them until you sit down and watch them.
Michael K every time I see them, I'm like "oh, yeah!" And then I binge listen to them for a full month afterward.
Thanks so much WGBH Music not just for the awesome soundboard audio recording, but more for the fine multi-cam recording and post-editing. The show might have lasted 90 minutes but I'm grateful for the hours upon hours upon hours upon hours you must have put into producing this beautiful thing. A soundboard recording is wonderful enough, but this beautiful video is like having both a front row seat and a backstage pass.
So awesome... and I'm grateful.
Thanks.
the botnet Wow. Thanks so much for the great compliment! It's a privilege to be able to work with content like this Punch Brothers concert. We do our best to present it as best we can so it's nice to be recognized for our efforts. Appreciate the thoughtful comment.
WGBH Music You do your best and it's easy to see! Your best is very very good. The botnet put it perfectly: it's like a front row and back stage pass. Thanks WGBH. You guys are great.
Mappleget Thank you!
Fantastic performance. I really think these guys are on another level when it comes to musical expression. It's like every band around is busy writing (some really good) news articles and editorials, and punch brothers is just over here writing poetry; they have a completely different mastery of the musical idiom.
Also, jesus did Paul melt some face at the beginning of Flippen.
Fucking incredible. Music needed these guys so badly.
this band restores my faith in music these days!
Wow - I feel guilty, as if I sneaked in and didn't pay! This was just amazing - thanks so much for posting : )
Another observation:
I love that the discussion about being technically proficient is right before the song Flippen (The Flip). I don't play a string instrument, but my guess is that through their virtuosic playing they make that song sound easier than it is. A lot of great PB instrumental songs, that is probably my favorite just because it looks seriously fun to play. Even Paul Kowert was smiling.
+krroebsu Great observation!
I love watching Gabe Witcher hit that snare drum with his $40,000 bow lol
He's not using a 40k bow. There are very few bow makers that would ever have a bow that high and I can't think of any. Not sure what a Sartory goes for these days. I've played for 25 years just for context.
@@theforeverpuddle8754 Sartory bows go for figures commonly in the $40,000s these days; Thomassins range from the $10 - 20,000's. For reference, Witcher does indeed use a Sartory, which he estimates to be worth about 20 times as much as his violin.
I was there! It was my favorite concert to date (well...Andrew Bird was so good too...). The video doesn't express how great the show was.
25:35 Oh, how do I love the live ending of This Girl. So much fun!
Amazing as always.
If this was made into a DVD, I would buy the hell out of it.
jonathan mortensen Thanks, Jonathan! Appreciate the compliment
Not just great music but Chris offers up some 'pearls of wisdom' in the back-stage interviews. Enjoy
What a voice! That man goes everywhere with that voice. These musicians work better together than any I have ever heard. Bless my ears!
Every.Single.Song. .. is a masterpiece. Cover and original.
Saw them in Portland and was by far the best concert I've ever seen
Absolutely AMAZING! I've never been a fan of what I would term 'standard' Blue Grass. My son listens to what I would call contemporary, so I decided to look it up and came across this. This is far better than anything I've ever heard. Not sure what style you call this, but I'm now a fan; at least of Punch Brothers. Such great talent coming from 5 guys!!!!
+terry beaton Newgrass!
+terry beaton I like it!
Neither am I, but good art transcends genre.
Thank you, WGBH Music, for documenting this phenomenal show and making it freely available the world over! For those of us in the Antipodes, it may be the closest we get to the Punch Brothers in 2015.
RandyHooHa Thanks for your comment! Glad you found the video!
They're literally perfect.
Thanks for making this available.
What a great band
what a great show
the sound and picture on this is fantastic
It was my 12 year old daughter's first concert
I can catch a few glimpses of her here and there as a bonus
John Laodicean What a great first concert to go to! Glad we were able to capture it and upload for you to reminisce
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jesus christ why do I live under such a rock. just heard about these guys today!
Actually found these guys on TH-cam a few years ago, and their many TH-cam videos inspired me to see them live in Portland for the first time this year. Great performance. Thanks so much, WGBH, for capturing Punch Brothers live with professional quality sound and video. It's so great this show and others are posted here for posterity. Keep up the great work. Love your classical videos too.
Secretariat of the X Thanks! Appreciate that
They are such amazing singers on top of being incredible players.
I’ve come to these guys late but I love them. David Byrne in an alternate world.
Welcome to the party. Best band in the world.
Thanks for putting up the whole thing! love this. great work!
dr05guitar Thanks for watching & leaving a comment!
Saw them in Brooklyn last month, at Prospect Park, a free concert! Incredible! Love their music and I can say I've never heard a band that sounded like them. "Rye Whiskey" got us all up on our feet- as it rained and rained. What a show!
this would be such a wonderful DVD - I'd buy it fr so many people and watch it frequently :)
Blue Grass to Classic to Acapella, there isn't anything these guys can't play
Watched this many times before...but every time I see a new nuance...I love how they are pushing themselves to CREATE, not just emulate. Reminds me of how people must have felt when they heard Bird or Coltrane or Hendrix or Miles...
Thanks for posting the whole concert!
Front does an amazing job on these and does not get enough credit for how awesome these are!
Thank you so much for uploading this. This show is incredible.
+phattyj811 Thanks for watching!
The fact this set only has 286,000 views after 5 years is insane. This music takes me places..
I've watched this 5 times now, better every time.
Best band in the world
I had a ticket to see them in Chicago but couldn't make it because I got called into work (not complaining!). It's been waaay too long since I've seen these guys (especially since Noam is my cousin), so I've been extra appreciative of videos like this. I second the comment about buying this if it were a DVD. The interview portions were excellent and the concert was fantastic as expected! Very, very well done to all involved!
Lee1115 Thanks for the great comment, Lee. You've got quite the talented cousin there! Glad you were able to experience a recent show through this video. Hopefully you get a chance to catch them in person next time they hit Chicago.
Lee1115 Noam seems like a really cool guy outside of being a talented banjo player. Lucky you.
Oh definitely! I always enjoy when I get to see him.
theoya I was lucky enough to have met Noam last fall in Raleigh at the IBMA bluegrass festival. He was so deadpan cool!! One thing I asked was how cool it must have been to work with Yo Yo Ma. His response.....deadpan serious....."I'd vote for him for president but he can't run." What a freak! :-)
Fantastic interview and set! Thanks for sharing with us WGBH Music
Ya'll are just so perfect on point. So amazing.
Holy !!!, just stumbled upon here, god i love you youtube. PUNCH FOR LIFE.
Watch at Breakdown. Holy moly. They are so good...
Thanks for posting this!!! So enjoyable.
wupeide Thanks for watching!
stunned... thanks!
Got to see these guys in London, they were awesome,
Thanks for the upload as it's the same set :)
No band or artist has harmonies like these anymore. Insanely good live, hugely talented group of men. So thankful to Inside Llewyn Davis for allowing me to find this band, Phosphorescent Blues has become one of my top 10 albums of the year.
+Mark Edmonds Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, and Grizzly Bear. All great singing/song writing as well.
+Mark Edmonds Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, and Grizzly Bear. All great singing/song writing as well.
+Mark Edmonds Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, and Grizzly Bear. All great singing/song writing as well.
Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Avert Brothers. Great singing/song writing as well. Fleet Foxes' harmonies are amazing.
YES!! Many thanks to WGBH Music!
I wish there were a "love" button. Like isn't enough.
Gorgeous sound reproduction.
Great stuff about how we're never fully engulfed in a moment.. So true. We always have one foot out.
Thank you so much!
***** Thanks for watching!
Punch Brothers are never enough !!!
Chris Thile is so wise for someone so young. His emotional intelligence may even surpass his musical talent and that is not an easy feat.
Yeah he really is brilliant. He understands how to live.
Fantastic, warm, behind-the-scenes filming. Love the interview clips. Bravo! One quibble: anyone else think the mando is a little low in the mix?
Nothing short of sublime!
Sound starts out pretty brutally... it's getting better.
This was unbelievable
Tasty as it gets... Awesome sounds, gentlemen!
This is goood! When are they coming to Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe?
what a great concert
Their mic'ing systems have wonderful tone!
Lucky to see PB in the front row center lied Center Lincoln Ne ,,,, Wow oh Wow can't explain how great the show was, you need to just make plans and go see them.....
These guys rock! If you want to see more from HOB come visit our channel!
Thats some job they did of the old triangle, mighty stuff.
Amazing!
Personally I think the latest albums from the punch brothers are among the very best ever recorded. Phosphorescent blues is perfect. I wonder if the band gets tired of Chris always writing about phones though lol
Cool. 21st century America's greatest art song comes with bluegrass instrumentation.
Great stuff!!
Hurray!
Awesome
I first saw Punch Brothers at Orpheum Theatre in Boston. I've seen them 5 times but it's been too long since the last time
YES!
Thanks for the great concert film! Just a suggestion: Credit Wayside - Back in Time (1:25:02) to the writer, Gillian Welch.
evsc001 Thanks for the heads up! Added Gillian Welch to the video description for that song.
The Tension's Mountain Boys is probably the best band name ever. Massive missed opportunity there.
+James Cole Agreed- heard that one at Grey Fox. Either way they have crushed it ever since.
Regarding 'Little Lights (in this video, at th-cam.com/video/tsfZ_C4PrkQ/w-d-xo.html )....
- When a person (e.g. me) is using a device that disconnects them from the people around them, or the beautiful environment, I call them a 'Not-here'.
- It's a strange new phenomenon, the paradox of absent presence.
- As technology rapidly advances, we're being both made more intimate with (countless) now available distant people, and less intimate with our surroundings.
- It's as if we are all combining into a singularity of everyone all the time.
Bruce Thomson in New Zealand.
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ya the good stuff
first time i heard them. fantastic. harmonies blend. a little like beach boys .
Cool, just found this thanks to PB email - was at this show
I selfishly want these guys to start making some music outside of bluegrass, just because they are such goddamn geniuses. Think of what they could do with other genres!!!
filteredcreativity Ha! Yeah, it's hard to imagine they couldn't excel at any genre they want...
filteredcreativity
That's exactly what they are doing at the moment. They are writing and performing music without a calcified genre, and that's why it's so good.
+filteredcreativity I think geniuses is an understatement. True emotion music that transcends the time and space of generations. Music that moves you. I can't wait to see them live
+filteredcreativity Um, this is not bluegrass!
+Elliot Begley bruh. it's alternative bluegrass...
Any chance an audio only companion of this will be released? Hopefully in FLAC and/or WAV in addition to lossy MP3? I think many of us would be willing to pay, but I'm sure that could muddle up things with mechanical distribution rights (royalties) and such.
half the people in the crowd are texting
what the hell?
where am I?
+Matt G. Ironically, that troubling idea of distancing ourselves with small glowing rectangles is a major theme that their newest album addressed.
+Matt G. The irony is so...well ironic, given the meaning of the PB album "Phosphorescent Blues".
Reminds me of the early Genesis. Great.
Their music is interesting enough that I watched for over 20 minutes. I don't know what style of music this is but it was amusing. I also find Johnny Hiland's Chicken Pickin' music amusing while sitting here in a rehabilitation center bored out of my mind.
God, could imagine Chris Thile and Kenneth Pattengale on a stage together?! That would be a lot of notes and even more wiggling.
My favorite thing is always Chris's hair, they're all slick in suits and he's some kind of mad genius music scientist who cannot be bothered with hair lmao
Thanks Arnie Cotrell for turning me on to this.
49:58 now hold on a second
Chris describes his songs so eloquently at 1:07
for those who care - The Auld Triangle is by Luke Kelly & The Dubliners, an iconic irish band. Be sure to check em out, such amazing music! /watch?v=P1vpdsEb_30
edit: the song is originally by Brendan Behan, but imho the Dubliners did the best version of it :)
Thanks for the heads up. I changed that in the video description
Definitely prefer this Blue Grass music than those indie folk bands Lumineers, Mumford&S, etc. who just try and imitate it with fashion gimmicks.
i don't get the pun in "The Tension's Mountain Boys". Is it a brokeback mountain reference by any chance?
Ansaar Fatehally - it's a play on the phrase "tension is mounting" implying a situation is getting tense
oh haha should've caught that
What brand of guitar is Critter playing?
Loren Whitaker It looks like his Suda not his vintage Martin D-28.
Cool - thanks!
i died at 18:56
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Fart @ 47:14 lol Saw these dudes at Bonnaroo! Beautiful music! Great video!
Hahaha nice catch
Missing Missy !!
So would this be considered bluegrass?
We have no idea. It's certainly not Bill Monroe's bluegrass. Music critics tend these days to dub this "Newgrass," but it's just ... music? An amalgam of bluegrass, folk, classical, jazz, alternative, rock. So who knows?