Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - C/D

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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.

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.

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

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

good lord this shit is the worst!

Marissa was right.

no doubt!

this is like the mahavishnu orchestra of the dave matthews band

omg

seriously fuck this guy marissa 4 lyfe

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Remember the good times...

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

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.

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

anyway it's still better than DMB or Phish imo

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

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.

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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?

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.