Movie Music Duels of Awesomeness

Some dueling musicians and their instruments from movies, inspired by watching the 1977 Scott Joplin bio-pic starring Billy Dee Williams as the great composer himself.

I loves me some ragtime, I really do:
dueling pianists from the Scott Joplin movie




from the one everyone should know, Deliverance, banjo vs guitar:




from Crossroads, guitar duel, or Ralph Macchio vs Steve Vai:


oh sweet sweet guitar




and finally, another piano duel, perhaps my favorite from The Legend of 1900, with Jelly Roll Morton against the titular character, 1900:


gimme a fuckin' cigarette, will ya


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