Word: bela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Despite their different musical backgrounds (Bela was trained and played for years on the bluegrass circuit; Victor got his musical training from his eclectically talented family), Bela and Victor continually find new ways to complement each other. They weave patterns, they build harmonies, they layer melodies, they solo, they return and play together, they stop and start and pop and jump and reach and it all works. Future Man is a subtle and exciting SynthAxe player (the SynthAxe Drumitar is an instrument that Future Man invented: it looks like a guitar, is played with one's fingers, and sounds like...
...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...
...Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Presentedby Don Law Co. Sanders Theatre...
...undead have stalked opera houses as disparate as San Francisco and Bayreuth, in both cases in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. But Zambello goes further in her use of pop cultural references, particularly cinematic ones. The expressionistic sets recall Tod Browning's original 1931 film, Dracula (Bela Lugosi would have felt right at home at Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola...