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| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/11/2004 : 4:45:18 PM
man we just watched the dvd him live at the spoons or something like that but they had this chinesse monk a goty monk or something.. he could sing 3 tones at once!! it was outa this world.. really crazy.. also how about the guy who made his own drum machine whata genius... |
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| Zachmozach |
Posted - 06/04/2004 : 12:42:02 PM
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Originally posted by Arthen
Fourthly, does anyone have that Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer/O' Connor album, "Journey Through the Appalachians" or something? I saw it at the store today, and I'm looking for an opinion on it.
WOW this is really weird cause I'm listening to that right now. This is freaking me out like I'm on the Truman show or something. Anyway the CD is called Appalachian Journey. It's a great CD if you're into some kind of neo classical fusion stuff. That's the only thing I think I can call it. There are 2 stephen foster tunes on the album. Both are good but the one with Alison Krauss is absolutely beautiful. The musicians on this album are absolutely incredible too. I mean Edgar by himself is awesome and if you haven't heard him in Strength in Numbers you should definitley check them out. I recomend it though. There are some other Cd's similar to this that are really good too. Uncommon Ritual (w/Mike Marshall & Bela Fleck), Short Trip Home (w/Sam Bush, Joshua Bell, and Mike Marshall), Appalachia Waltz (this one has the same muscians as Appalachian Journey), and Heartland an Appalachian Anthology which takes songs off of all these related albums. I don't own them all, but I've heard them all and I'm working on owning them all. They are all very good. Need to get the Bela Edgar CD first though. |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 06/04/2004 : 11:02:53 AM
woah i'd pay big bucks to see them two go at it.. who do you think won? and could i get it through the ftp here?? |
| Arthen |
Posted - 06/04/2004 : 01:58:25 AM
First of all, Flaming Moe!
Second of all, Tim and Bela "duel" during a DMB Concert. It was in Philly, during the winter '98 tour. IT's worth checking out.
Thirdly, I just got my grubby hands on a copy of the Edgar Meyer/Bela Fleck album, and holy cow! It is unbelievably good! I haven't had time to check out the DVD yet, but the music is some of the best stuff I have ever heard.
Fourthly, does anyone have that Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer/O' Connor album, "Journey Through the Appalachians" or something? I saw it at the store today, and I'm looking for an opinion on it. |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/29/2004 : 12:09:29 PM
Has TR ever thought about maybe doing something with bellafleck? i'm sure he ran into him working with dmb on some of the albums sence he did some banjo work with them... i think it would be cool to see them jam with TR |
| Jay |
Posted - 05/21/2004 : 3:32:40 PM
'97...I guess they didn't find him for a couple of days, too...And he didn't have a life insurance policy...He was such a great player, totally re-invented the instrument...And talk about alternate tunings...jesus kroust! CFDF#AD and others, really insane... |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/20/2004 : 4:07:36 PM
that was the song!! gossip of nerouns i couldn't think of the name lol but yea i heard he died in a car crash? in likeeeee 1998 maybe? |
| Jay |
Posted - 05/20/2004 : 3:57:12 PM
glad to hear someone bring up Hedges, he was the man...If you haven't heard him, imagine something along the lines of Gossip of the Neurons but without effects...Aerial Boundries was done without overdub or effects... |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 05/17/2004 : 9:39:00 PM
There will be another radio broadcast of Bela and Edgar playing on WAMU in the DC area or broadcast on line at http://www.wamu.org/ starting at 1:30 on tuesday May 18th. That's tommorow. The last one was great and if you're a fleck fan this is a must listen. |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/17/2004 : 7:57:17 PM
oh yea i saw him reach up and tune it down i was like Woah... he did every possible thing there is to do on bass and then some he most have hit every harmonic there is lol i'd say he's the best slap bassit in the world? |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 05/17/2004 : 5:05:08 PM
The drums of which you speak are known as Tablas. The player is Sandip Burman. I actually have a great show of Bela on his sitar banjo and Sandip alone playing a full show. It's pretty cool. Burman is pretty good. And well we all know how good Bela is. As far as Victor's playing that guy is amazing. I still have never seen or heard him do anything like what he did at the show I went to in feb. He played this like 45 minute solo where he actually mid playing as in the music never stopped but he would reach up and start slowly tuning his strings down. He was playing like four parts at the same time too. He was playing a bass part and a melodic part then throwing in some other harmony here and there and at the same time he was doing that rythmic percussive slap stuff. He seriously needs no drums or other accompaniment he is his own band. Anyway he ended up tuning his whole bass down like an octave and he was doing the craziest sounding stuff like I've never heard. Regi was sitting close to me on the stage watching and he was like "uh oh it's going to be chaos time now" or something like that. Vic was playing stuff out of this world with these huge bends and reaching up to strum the strings beyond the nut. Then of course he slowly tunes his bass back up with out the music stopping. He went off that night. Amazing and then some. |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/17/2004 : 4:39:52 PM
yea lol i don't know if it is a joke or not either but another jaw dropper was eff'ing victor wooten on the bass playing amazing grace WOW and the duet(sp?) with the arabian drum guy sry don't know the real name of the instrument. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 05/15/2004 : 2:47:59 PM
Yeah I remember seeing that clip. I never knew if that was just a joke or not when the guy asked them to leave. |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/15/2004 : 08:54:42 AM
also when him and i think it was his mentor or instructer played a double banjo... anyone else see this then some guy told them to stop :( |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 05/13/2004 : 2:24:24 PM
The new Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyar cd comes with a free DVD that is a 30 minute documentary of their tour, specifically the two of them trying to learn this song that Edgar wrote. It is very entertaining, and is worth the price of the cd alone. I mean... it must be a damn hard song for Friggin Bela Fleck to take a whole tour to learn it. (He didn't get it right until the last show of the tour). |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/13/2004 : 09:48:18 AM
yes it's very impressive mind boggling actully my teacher has seen one in "concert" or meditation she said it's absolutly wild |
| tericee |
Posted - 05/13/2004 : 03:35:39 AM
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Originally posted by Zachmozach
Yeah Kongar-ol Ondar is the man. Check out this site it's about tuvan throat singing which I haven't got down yet. http://www.fotuva.org/music/emory.html
I was introduced to Tuvan throat singing because of a PBS special. It was amazing. Interestingly, Richard Feynman, a nobel prize winner in Physics, was very interested in the Tuvan culture. The PBS special was about him, but throat-singing is the only part I remember.
Here's another link, which talks about Tuvan music being introduced to us Westerners: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.11.99/tuva-9906.html |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/12/2004 : 3:35:03 PM
is it really? i figured they might be related cuz of the bass slaps n uses of effects n junk... my teacher is supposed to be gettin a dvd of him soon so i can't wait |
| Arthen |
Posted - 05/12/2004 : 02:32:17 AM
Spanish Point is also available on "The Bluegrass Sessions" with Tony Rice, Sam Bush, and lots of other amazing artists. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 05/11/2004 : 10:19:26 PM
aerial boundries. his technique was way different from tim's. he's still ridiculously awesome. really beautiful music. |
| JoeGamo05 |
Posted - 05/11/2004 : 7:26:23 PM
yea deffintly jaw droping things in that band!! have u guys heard of micheal hedges thoguh? he sounds exactly like tim or vise verca... check out his song astral projections i think it is... |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 05/11/2004 : 5:24:15 PM
Yeah Kongar-ol Ondar is the man. Check out this site it's about tuvan throat singing which I haven't got down yet. http://www.fotuva.org/music/emory.html If you can get a hold of the 2-8-99 flecktones show with him do so. Plus it has spanish point which is a great song. Definatly see the Flecktones ASAP. Saw them last summer and I have become a little obsessive over them. I now have all their Cd's, many of their solo projects and I'm getting a good collection of live shows. Probably one of the greatest groups ever. Then Futureman who is the Synth Axe Drumitar player is a genious and then some. Check out his latest invention the Roy-el Piano. He uses new tunings and well a different take on the piano as it's arranged like the periodic table of the elements. He uses atomic tunings though. Then he somehow includes phi music into it. http://www.futuremanmusic.com/ you can find out more about it there. All in all Flecktones =  |
| Arthen |
Posted - 05/11/2004 : 4:55:03 PM
Are you referring to Live at the Quick? Yeah, the guy is amazing. The band is amazing, we've got a lot of posts about them here, but if they are playing by you go, as fast as you can. Or even if it's just Victor Wooten or Bela Fleck solo, got and see them. |
