Most eclectic musical performance ever (and also the best?)

moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
edited October 2007 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Bela Fleck and the Flecktones performing "Hoedown"</div>Check this out. It's worth staying to the end.
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On stage we have steel drums, tabla, drums, banjo, sax put through a harmonizer, bassoon, electric bass, and some sort of whistle that I don't recognize, the best bass player alive, and potentially the best banjo player ever, with many other virtuosos performing a bluegrass/rock arrangement of "Hoedown" by Aaron Copeland (probably the most famous American composer.)

I get giddy every time I watch this. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Edit: oboe-> bassoon.
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I'm diggin' it. Nice complexity, but a happy, fun melody. The whistle really made it for me though XD
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Wooten isn't the greatest bass player ever, he's just a technical soloist.
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    <!--quoteo(post=1654803:date=Oct 9 2007, 01:01 AM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Oct 9 2007, 01:01 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1654803"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Wooten isn't the greatest bass player ever, he's just a technical soloist.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I said <i>alive</i>, but you are free to disagree <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. (And actually, if you know enough to disagree, you are probably right.)
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Flecktones are awesome, and I'm not a big jazz (or bass) fan, but I always found Wooten was more about technical showmanship than music when he was on his own. Turned me off.
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    You've mistaken a bassoon for an oboe.
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  • NeonSpyderNeonSpyder &quot;Das est NTLDR?&quot; Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17913Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1654821:date=Oct 9 2007, 02:23 AM:name=OttoDestruct)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(OttoDestruct @ Oct 9 2007, 02:23 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1654821"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->You've mistaken a bassoon for an oboe.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    It's a common rookie mistake, he couldn't have been expected to recognize the glorious bassoon, after all the oboe is the much more widely recognized and "popular" musical instrument.



    Not like us musical upper class.
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited October 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1654823:date=Oct 9 2007, 12:33 AM:name=NeonSpyder)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(NeonSpyder @ Oct 9 2007, 12:33 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1654823"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's a common rookie mistake, he couldn't have been expected to recognize the glorious bassoon, after all the oboe is the much more widely recognized and "popular" musical instrument.
    Not like us musical upper class.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Wind Instruments are for street urchins.

    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Busettosolano.jpg/297px-Busettosolano.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
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