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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...
...Fleck obviously likes playing in front of people more than he likes speaking in front of people. He waits for a second and leans down nervously...
...Bela Fleck: Well, when this band started I tried really hard to stay away from the bluegrass thing because a lot of people didn't know what [The Flecktones] were and so they would say, "Oh it's bluegrass" and it's certainly not bluegrass. But as time has gone by I've felt a lot more comfortable integrating the bluegrass side of my music back in and so now we're doing more things that have that feel. There's a couple of hundred thousand people in the United States that know me from the bluegrass world. Then...
...Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Presentedby Don Law Co. Sanders Theatre...
Never getting out of condition is the best way to maintain an athletic career. Top athletes now train year-round instead of seasonally. "It's not advancing age that necessarily hurts performance," says American physiologist Steve Fleck, "it's deconditioning." Experts believe that swimmer Mark Spitz, 42, whose technique in the butterfly stroke is still regarded as ideal, failed in his comeback bid earlier this year in part because he had been out of condition for 17 years and did not do enough resistance training. Nonetheless, notes Fleck, "the trend is in the direction of the better performances coming from...