here on earth tornadoes top out at about 300 miles per hour. and a towering figure in music has died. do you remember this? ♪ because earl scruggs wrote it with lester flat. he came up with a new way of playing banjo that captivated people everywhere. >> i could get records at 33 rpm, and i would tune my banjo down and pick out the songs note by note and learn how to play them that way. >> even steve martin considered scruggs a hero. but scruggs was always modest, saying, i'm just a country boy from north carolina, never even traveled much. earl scruggs was 88 years old. coming up, two little boys, one big bite. >> charlie bit me.