Word: drumitar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...features highlights from the band's eight previous releases. The Flecktones fuse jazz, funk and bluegrass into an eclectic mix of musical virtuosity that escapes the confines of any genre, using sounds ignored in mainstream rock, including Bela Fleck's Grammy-winning banjo skills and Future Man's synthaxe drumitar, a sort of percussion guitar that changes from rhythm to lead. Victor Wooten, arguably the best bass player alive, shines throughout...
...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...
...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 drums), and lays down serious rhythms to round...
...Blair String Quartet in a four-movement classical work by Fleck and composer Edgar Meyer. It ended with a jazz section riffed by Bela and the trio that became the Flecktones: Howard Levy on keyboards and harmonica, the brothers Victor and Roy ("Future Man") Wooten on bass guitar and Drumitar (a guitar wired to electric drums). Bela Fleck and Guests was one of the series' most popular programs and led to the record album. "I want to give people stuff they can move to and that is melodic, and that is also complex and satisfying for us to play...