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...BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES...
Meet "The New Jed Clampitt for the Millennium." His name is Bela Fleck. He might not have a mansion in Beverly Hills (yet), but he does know how to play the banjo. That doesn't sound like much, but he sure does. And saying he can play the banjo might just be the understatement of the century...
...lite classical music that we hear in television commercials and Au Bon Pain's front foyer. His allegiance is not to music that is popular, but to music that is earth-shattering. And indeed, the BSO's last concert, featuring Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Bela Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, might have been earth-shattering enough to crack fault lines into Symphony Hall...
...night ended with Bela Fleck alone on stage, taking the last solo. Drumitar, two horns and bass playing aside, Fleck is the reason the band exists and what holds it together. In the last few moments, it was clear that Fleck is the inspiration and the glue that puts this band...
Future man's SynthAxe Drumitar took the place of a traditional drum set, and his machine can talk, sing and provide the mind-blowing beats that are required to keep up with Bela Fleck. Future man also brought a cajon, "the box," to onstage and sounded like a twelve-man percussion section during his solos, rather than a single, creative guy with fast fingers and a little help from an electronics company...