Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

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obviously dud, I just wanted to see people make fun of them.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

They were fun to see live, when I was like 15 and lived in a town where no national artists ever toured.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

They're not too bad musically, then you begin thinking about their fans and personae.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE FOR THE BABY JESUS FUCKS SAKE - CLASSIC!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i hate that dru-tar player named Dr Wazbo or something

― chaki_burger (chaki), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to like them in high school, when i liked phish a lot (iknowiknowiknow). whenever i hear the phrase "synthaxe drumitar" tossed around in casual conversation these days, i cringe at my shady past.

D-D-D-D-D-D-DUD

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think his name is actually Spacey Jimmy

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

FUTURE MAN he is one of the Wooten brothers and once when they played here I saw them do an after-hours set with just Future Man and Vic Wooten and Future Man was playing a kit so maybe he should've been billed as Past Man that night.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

They need to turn up the sax player dude in their new record.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i once watched victor wooten do a bass clinic and i did not know about his relation to "Future Man"

― chaki_burger (chaki), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

He's actually Future Man's great-great-great grandfather

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

just about the best jazz musician I've ever seen live.

― gygax!!, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

no! this is not what I had in mind.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, Victor Wooten is probably technically the best bass player I have ever seen, when the came to Princeton he played the bass line and melody to Duke Ellington's Caravan on his bass at the same time while also soloing on it while swinging his 26 string bass around his head or something. It was still totally gay though.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

sucks harder than a vampire convention

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

gear, that made me laugh. much more than necessary.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 10 June 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them a couple times and used to be reasonably be into them when I had friends who were fans (hippies and bass players, natch). Thinking of their sound right now is making me a little ill, however. If I hadn't lost Live Art (the only one I had) years ago I'd listen to it and probably soften up.

The best Bela Fleck-related music I've heard by far is the duo tour he did with bassist Edgar Meyer, who is AMAZING and much more pleasant to listen to than Wooten.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 June 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I hear it in a dream, or is there really a Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer/Yo Yo Ma album out there somewhere?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 June 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

Victor Wooten should start his own band called the Wooten Clan.

― Vestigal Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

He's actually Future Man's great-great-great grandfather

hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't know anything about them or their fans. I downloaded one show from Furthur that seemed cool. So, I downloaded another one. It seemed like the same exact show. Sounds nice, but there doesn't seem to be enough variety. This opinion based only on 4 discs worth of music chosen random like a stab in the dark, though.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Nick, you're not thinking of that album with Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer and Yo Yo Ma, are you? I know that Edgar and Bela did one together too.

I've got huge respect for the Flecktones, and Victor Wooten could kill you dead with his abilities on the bass, but I've been growing rather tired of their more recent albums...Bela Fleck albums should NOT have vocals, let alone half-assed raps. I did appreciate what he was trying to do with the Little Worlds album, but more recently I've been enjoying the ones he's done in a more classical fashion more, like Perpetual Motion, or the ones with Edgar Meyer.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

They're not too bad musically, then you begin thinking about their fans and personae.

The worst thing I can say about them is that they are exactly the type of band that people will only admit to liking if they aren't concerned with being thought of as having good taste in music. I like them.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

....

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 13 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

HEDONISTIC GUTTON!!!!!!

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I do not like these guttons that bang the bango.

― Pablo (Pablo), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

NPR band

― Alex in Baghdad, Friday, 28 April 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

well duh, no vox

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

i want them to be good, but they often aren't

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

he loves his bango more than the world lol.

― the ghost of Marissa, Friday, 28 April 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

OK I'm not even a casual fan, I don't hate them, don't listen to them. Saw a bit of the set at Bonnaroo this year, it was all right. But and even so, this is pretty tight. (I admit to a weakness for things in 11/8, it's such a hiccupy time signature.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69URqgGzslM

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 14 October 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

(suppose it's really only the first minute or two that I like, it gets meandering after that.)

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 14 October 2011 02:08 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

good lord this shit is the worst!

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

Marissa was right.

― John Gaw Meme (_Rudipherous_), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

no doubt!

this is like the mahavishnu orchestra of the dave matthews band

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

omg

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 20 January 2012 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

seriously fuck this guy marissa 4 lyfe

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.artandframing123.com/prints/Framed%20prints%2010/fpig.jpg

Remember the good times...

― Peter Hook's Beard Hits the Low Notes (leavethecapital), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

this is like the mahavishnu orchestra of the dave matthews band

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 20, 2012 3:40 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:25 (six years ago)

I heard some on WBGO this morning -- tbh there were a lot of cool little chord changes and melodic tricks and licks and there was a lot going on to hold my interest, but it just seemed a little too much like the pleasant sound of sliding into middle age and I'm not ready for that yet.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:27 (six years ago)

it was this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah7nX8sRmmo

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:30 (six years ago)

anyway it's still better than DMB or Phish imo

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:31 (six years ago)

This is one of my favorite wikipedia entries, highly recommended:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Man

― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:35 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Oh hi it’s the sound of me pleasantly sliding into middle age. I went to the Carnegie Hall show. Very NPR but fucking amazing nonetheless.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 01:58 (four years ago)

This thread was started by Home Blitz?

I like some of Bela’s solo banjo albums but I was like 16 when the Flecktones were really on the scene and that was never going to be cool then. I could probably get into them now but is it even worth trying?

― zacata, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:27 (four years ago)

I'm still not really in love with the flecktones thing, but the current album is more like acoustic prog bluegrass supergroup and it's really good. Dense, compositionally interesting, non-stop impressive picking, etc.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:35 (four years ago)

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