Comments on: Bela Fleck Brings Banjo’s Roots to the State Theater http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater A Roots Music Publication Sun, 19 May 2013 17:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Rick http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-830 Rick Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:22:12 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-830 Juli, you'll have to forgive me as being one of the unwashed masses when it comes to banjo music. One of my favorite banjo related songs is Ryan Shupe's "Banjo Boy" if that is any indication....(lol) Juli, you’ll have to forgive me as being one of the unwashed masses when it comes to banjo music. One of my favorite banjo related songs is Ryan Shupe’s “Banjo Boy” if that is any indication….(lol)

]]> By: Jon http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-829 Jon Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:37:52 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-829 Bluegrass-esque... ;-). For the most straightahead of Bela's bluegrass on record, check out "Whitewater" from Drive (I think I mentioned this as a new bluegrass instrumental standard tune in the discussion of your Steve Martin review), as well as the Dreadful Snakes album. Bluegrass-esque… ;-).

For the most straightahead of Bela’s bluegrass on record, check out “Whitewater” from Drive (I think I mentioned this as a new bluegrass instrumental standard tune in the discussion of your Steve Martin review), as well as the Dreadful Snakes album.

]]> By: Juli http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-828 Juli Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:22:54 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-828 Bluegrass-ish might be a better way to describe it? Clearly I need to work on better defining my suffixes... After all, he learned at the feet of Tony Trischka, so he's gotta have that bluegrass sound in him somewhere underneath all that fancy jazzy Flecktone pickin' ;-) Nice clip with Steve Martin...Triple Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, perhaps? Bluegrass-ish might be a better way to describe it? Clearly I need to work on better defining my suffixes…

After all, he learned at the feet of Tony Trischka, so he’s gotta have that bluegrass sound in him somewhere underneath all that fancy jazzy Flecktone pickin’ ;-)

Nice clip with Steve Martin…Triple Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, perhaps?

]]> By: Jon http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-827 Jon Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:05:12 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-827 "Rick, if you’re not into world music, get the previous two Tales from the Acoustic Planet albums. Good bluegrassy stuff." Well, er, um, emphasis on the "y" in "bluegrassy" there ;-). Bela doesn't play too much straightahead bluegrass, though he can; he tore up a couple of tunes when he sat in with us (the Tony Trischka Bluegrass Band, southern/midwest version) at the Station Inn at the end of February (pic here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2233729&id=647013893), and you can hear him on a different version of one of them, Steve Martin's "The Crow," here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBENuoVORJg). “Rick, if you’re not into world music, get the previous two Tales from the Acoustic Planet albums. Good bluegrassy stuff.”

Well, er, um, emphasis on the “y” in “bluegrassy” there ;-). Bela doesn’t play too much straightahead bluegrass, though he can; he tore up a couple of tunes when he sat in with us (the Tony Trischka Bluegrass Band, southern/midwest version) at the Station Inn at the end of February (pic here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2233729&id=647013893), and you can hear him on a different version of one of them, Steve Martin’s “The Crow,” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBENuoVORJg).

]]> By: Juli http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-826 Juli Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:29:47 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-826 Rick, if you're not into world music, get the previous two <i>Tales from the Acoustic Planet</i> albums. Good bluegrassy stuff. Leeann: check out the documentary trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCxaQhhL0A. If that tickles your fancy, definitely pick up the album (Bela's shows are the only place you can get the DVD right now). Canadian jazz banjoist Jayme Stone also did a somewhat similar banjo/Africa project a year or two ago. Also a good album if you want to expand your banjo horizons even further. Rick, if you’re not into world music, get the previous two Tales from the Acoustic Planet albums. Good bluegrassy stuff.

Leeann: check out the documentary trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCxaQhhL0A. If that tickles your fancy, definitely pick up the album (Bela’s shows are the only place you can get the DVD right now). Canadian jazz banjoist Jayme Stone also did a somewhat similar banjo/Africa project a year or two ago. Also a good album if you want to expand your banjo horizons even further.

]]> By: Jon http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-825 Jon Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:20:40 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-825 Bela does a lot of different things, Rick. Bela does a lot of different things, Rick.

]]> By: Rick http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-824 Rick Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:02:38 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-824 Juli, you definitely have a taste for the eclectic. I have a couple of tracks by Bela on CDs I own and he's just too artsy-fartsy for simple ole me. Its like when Mark O'Connor or Sam Bush start to "jam"... Juli, you definitely have a taste for the eclectic. I have a couple of tracks by Bela on CDs I own and he’s just too artsy-fartsy for simple ole me. Its like when Mark O’Connor or Sam Bush start to “jam”…

]]> By: Leeann http://www.engine145.com/bela-fleck-brings-banjos-roots-to-the-state-theater/#comment-823 Leeann Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:32:20 +0000 http://www.the9513.com/?p=5511#comment-823 Sounds like it would be an incredible live experience. I'm a sucker for the banjo, but I'm mostly exposed to more traditional uses of it. I should rectify that. Sounds like it would be an incredible live experience. I’m a sucker for the banjo, but I’m mostly exposed to more traditional uses of it. I should rectify that.

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