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A Little Something For Fatboy To Dig On
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:58 am
by Wesley Tucker
Ron,
Found this tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWb-aCW ... re=related
I've always been a fan but this really is incredibly cool.
It's the kind of stuff that will either make you say, "I'm gonna practice 10 hours a day and be just like him!" or, "f#@k it, why bother?"
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:49 pm
by Ron Barbagallo
Wow! Thanks Wes!
I saw Victor with Bela Fleck a coupla years ago - amazing!
He was doin' a solo with a looping device and he screwed up the timing on one part. It was such a small theatre you actually heard him say "F_UCK!" and then he looked up and saw that everyone in the first 10 rows heard it and were laughing.
I rode on a shuttle bus with Steve Bailey at a trade show once, he was nice. Showed us pictures of him playin' with Wille Nelson at Farm Aid.
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:04 pm
by Wesley Tucker
I once read where back in the 1960s whole groups of Japanese music affacianados quit going to concerts because the musicians made mistakes! Egads!
Seems that growing up in Japan and being semi-isolated, the Japanese music lover's only knowledge of Western sound were recordings. So they just assumed the New York Philharmonic always played perfectly. They never considered that Leonard Bernstein would make the orchestra do 22 takes to makes sure the adagio was perfect. In the 1980s half of an audience in Osaka got up and walked out on an Itzhak Perlman concert because . . . he broke a violin string and had to take a break to fix it.
I know as a kid we were mesmerized by all the great jazz stuff that was around in the '70s and many of the greatest were still alive and touring. We'd go see Gerry Mulligan or J.J. Johnson and all raise our eye brows at some of their improv and even occassionally the melody. They were far from perfect.
So, it makes me wonder if Wooten got this right the first time or if it's the result of 18 hours in front of the camera?