Word: bassists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twenty years now,The Fringe has played a weekly Boston-area gig. The Jazz trio--sax man George Garzone, bassist John Lockwood, and drummer Bob Gullotti--first got regular at Michael's in 1974, when they were still fresh out of Boston's Berklee School of Music. The stayed there for seven years, before doing a year or so at the old 1369 in Inman Square...
...after eight. The lights went off about twenty minutes ago, and for the first time, banjoist Bela Fleck approaches the microphone set up at the front of the stage. He and his Flecktones--bassist Victor Lamonte Wooten and Synth Axe Drumitarist Roy Wooten (also known as Future Man)--have just ripped through an amazing rendition of "Vix-9," the first song on the Flecktone's new album, Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...Sanders show, Phish bassist Mike Gordon sat in the front row. Gordon is not so emotive. Still, after a scorching banjo solo by Bela that bled into a ten-minute solo by Victor (who was just named Bass Player Magazine's bassist of the year) involving, in turn, a four-string bass, a five-string bass, a six-string bass, and two four-string basses played simultaneously, Gordon was standing up grinning broadly and applauding with the rest of the audience...
...zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send f2 to Nick Saloman, Woronzow Records, 75 Melville Rd., Walthamstow, London...
Bookcellar Cafe. Bassist John Voigt and Debris perform at the Cafe on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. 1971 Mass Ave. Free...