Punch Brothers covering The Cars-Just What I Needed

**MacStevenXIII** · Apr-03-2012, 1:01pm

Just what the title says, video of the Punch Brothers covering the Cars.
So good.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/punch...he-cars,70701/

**SincereCorgi** · Apr-03-2012, 1:14pm

Ha, I was just about to post this. So great...

**Chip Booth** · Apr-03-2012, 1:35pm

That's great!

**JGWoods** · Apr-03-2012, 2:15pm

Fabulous!

**mando.player** · Apr-03-2012, 2:52pm

Slightly related to PB covers, looks like the boys are going to open for Wilco at Red Rocks in June. That would be my dream concert for sure.

**cstewart** · Apr-03-2012, 2:55pm

Love the ending. How do you pick a banjo that fast?

**OldSausage** · Apr-03-2012, 4:06pm

That's pretty funny.

**Paul Busman** · Apr-03-2012, 4:33pm

For some reason I can't open that video (PC with Firefox). It comes up black.

**F-2 Dave** · Apr-03-2012, 5:09pm

Love it. Those guys just look like they're having a good time.

**guitarpath** · Apr-03-2012, 6:39pm

Very cool.

You gotta love those guys.

**MacStevenXIII** · Apr-03-2012, 6:51pm

Originally Posted by mando.player

Slightly related to PB covers, looks like the boys are going to open for Wilco at Red Rocks in June. That would be my dream concert for sure.

Oh hell yes. I would LOVE to see that show.

**Larry S Sherman** · Apr-03-2012, 7:06pm

Originally Posted by Paul Busman

For some reason I can't open that video (PC with Firefox). It comes up black.

Me too, but I think it was my ad blocker plugin. Watched with Safari fine.

Originally Posted by mando.player

Slightly related to PB covers, looks like the boys are going to open for Wilco at Red Rocks in June. That would be my dream concert for sure.

Me too...Punch Brother and Wilco...insane!

Larry

**Keith Witty** · Apr-03-2012, 7:06pm

That's stupid good.

**Rosemary Philips** · Apr-03-2012, 8:35pm

Awesome as usual! Thanks for posting this.

**JEStanek** · Apr-03-2012, 8:36pm

Pretty fun and funny. Thanks for posting.

Jamie

**Marcus CA** · Apr-03-2012, 8:40pm

No mando solo???

**Bob Bronow** · Apr-03-2012, 10:30pm

Awesome!

**Grommet** · Apr-03-2012, 11:29pm

Kewl!

Scott

**Appalachia** · Apr-03-2012, 11:43pm

Originally Posted by Paul Busman

For some reason I can't open that video (PC with Firefox). It comes up black.

Originally Posted by Larry S Sherman

Me too, but I think it was my ad blocker plugin. Watched with Safari fine.

Yep, it's probably an ad-blocker issue. I had the opposite circumstance from Larry: couldn't watch it in Safari because of an ad-blocker, so I watched it in Firefox.

**Appalachia** · Apr-04-2012, 12:06am

Originally Posted by cstewart

Love the ending. How do you pick a banjo that fast?

If you look at his left hand, you'll see that he's fretting both the B and D strings (or G and B) so that they are unisoned — that's the secret to the technique; it keeps it from sounding choked by always having one of the strings ringing out while the other is being struck by a pick. He's picking the B string with his thumb and index finger, and the D with his middle; it's just a fast strait roll from there. It's definitely a cool technique, and one that Noam has been using increasingly.

p.s. In that end section he prebends to the note and then un-bends and re-bends quickly for that wobble effect.
p.p.s. This cover is Fabulous.

**Phil1580** · Apr-04-2012, 12:54am

As a rock fan and relatively new mando player, that was AWESOME. Would've liked to see a bigger mandolin part but I think they all fit right into making that an awesome version. Wow.

**journeybear** · Apr-04-2012, 8:09am

This was just what I needed. Very cool version of probably my favorite Cars song (OK, one of the few I can stand ... whatever.). I also wish there were a higher mandolin presence, but then I realized that the banjo was playing the mandolin part, or playing mandolin-style. But just once, if that riff had been played by mandolin, banjo, and fiddle in unison - wow!