Completely bonkers. How they switch who starts the phrases, how they begin at different parts of the bar and interweave what they're playing, going up until the "continuum" climax. It's like the best part of the record, which is amazing on it's own.
I used to play that over and over and over after I first listened to it. For some reason I always thought that at my funeral I want this to be played lol
Totally. I stoked from the very first time watching it, listening it hundred of times, and still kinda felt sentimental to their trading lines. In fact I teared sometimes thanks to the beauty of the trades.
Such nice guys... Cory loved Victor and today victor posted: “Thank you Cory Wong and Michael Palmisano. You’re very kind. Cory, thank you for taking the baton and running with it. You’re the leader now. Much love.”
I often trick myself into thinking that it's weird to enjoy music in such an unadulterated, passionate way. Guys like Cory Wong help remind me that it's totally cool.
I like how you put that. Very true. I often feel like an oddball for how excited I get at some music, this Wooten solo among them. Seeing how unashamedly excited Cory Wong gets is inspiring.
Its true! Have you ever had an interest that other friends dont share and you finally meet someone that shares it and you are so happy to have someone to geek out with about it? Cory is so completely in love with it. It brightens my otherwise dim life to live vicariously through someone that gets to do what they absolutely love for a living and because they love it at the same time.
There was a special on PBS, the Aces of Bass. Introduced me to Ray Brown, Edgar Meyer, and Victor Wooten. Blew my mind and opened my eyes and ears. Just monsters of their craft.
Wild seeing this two years later, when Vic was just part of Cory's band during his recent tour. "Meeting your heroes", indeed. 😃 Also, I was at that DMB show in Chicago that Cory references. Vic coming out as a special guest was such a total surprise, and I'm so glad the recording was later released so that I could hear that performance.
Wow. To see Cory Wong geek out on Victor Wooten's bass playing is awesome, considering how the rest of us geek out on Cory's playing. I used to see the Wooten Brothers play here in Nashville. Victor, Reggie, Joseph and sometimes Bela would join them. Some of the most amazing musicianship, technical playing, fun, and believe it or not, audience interaction. I cannot imagine growing up in that house with all this musical talent.
I got to see the Wooten Bros once in Fayetteville, AR...so memorable and fun!! You can't hold no groove if you ain't got no pocket! And JD Blair on that tiny kit was always great!
I've seen Bela & the Flecktones a few times but also saw Victor's band with all his brothers in Birmingham, AL at a small venue back in 2000. World class
Vic gratuitously signed the bass I built from scratch with my dad. It’s my most prized possession because my dad built it and my dad is my hero. But it sure doesn’t hurt that my musical hero signed it too :)
Okay, I just want to say at the top that I love Cory Wong. He's one of the most amazing musicians I've ever come across in my life, and I've been around for nearly 40 years now. Much like Cory, one of the first musicians who really, truly, opened my eyes (and ears) to what music could accomplish, was Victor Wooten. I got to see him for the first time back when I was in college in the early 2000's and he and his brothers came through town to play a gig. My mind was properly blown and I've been a lifelong Wooten (yes, not just Victor, but *all* of them!) fan ever since. Let me just say that to see that the #1 influence on Cory's decision to dedicate everything to his music was Victor Wooten? That is just incredible. I mean, it makes sense because it goes without saying as to why after watching this video of Victor, in particular, but I just wouldn't have guessed it out of all of the other amazing and influential musicians that are out there (especially considering Cory has taken to guitar rather than bass). Anyway, I played the alto saxophone all through school and during college, so Cory took my fandom of him even further when he name-dropped Jeff Coffin when he was talking about this era of The Flecktones. Jeff Coffin is like a superhero to me, and *THIS* is the video that makes me want to keep going: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lUMGSr3b67g.html I'm also a huge DMB fan, and always have been, and when Jeff Coffin took over for LeRoi after he passed away, I couldn't have wished for a better replacement (not the LeRoi could ever be "replaced") since Jeff's style fits in perfectly with what DMB does on stage night after night. Anyway, I'm not afraid to admit that I teared up quite a bit while watching this video. Keep doing what you do here, Michael. Love your videos and reactions. I've learned a lot even though I don't play guitar!
I saw the Flecktones at racetrack concert and Vic came down after the show the side of the stage and we walked over and talked. His kids were there and they all played with my kids. He is such a genuine and down to earth nice person. An inspirational human.
If you haven’t tried it, it’s basically doing the harmonic and immediately pushing down softly and dragging whichever way you want to do it. Works much better on heavier strings, such as basses. Super fun to try to implement somewhere though
Exactly what is so incredible about sliding a harmonic? It isn’t as if it’s at all technically difficult, original or hard to execute. In fact, it doesn’t actually work or sound correctly due to the frets on Victor’s bass; on a fretless instrument, whether it be a bass guitar, upright string bass, violin, or whatever, the harmonic can only be slid and sounded correctly on a fretless instrument. Classical musicians have been doing it for literally hundreds of years and jazz bassists for at least 50+ years. Just my 2c worth 😊.
I love this. I had a nearly identical experience to Cory's. I was already a fan of the Flecktones but the first time I saw this video I was in college and it set my brain off in a new direction musically. I remember watching it like 10 times in a row, showing all my friends and thinking "why isn't literally everyone talking about this?" So cool that Cory got to meet Victor and tell him thanks. Jealous of him and also jealous watching you getting to see this for the first time lol.
Victor is a legend. If you don't see him live and in person, I'm super sorry. It is an amazing experience. Also, if you've not see Bela Fleck, with or without Victor, do nothing other than make that your number one priority to see them. Future Man, Bela, Victor. My brother got his bass signed by Victor himself. A treasure. They typically play small venues that make every note more personal than in a large arena. I can't even begin.
Had the rare honour of Victor actually giving us a proper clinic when he came down to play with Prasanna (another master guitarist in his own right). This was in 2010. I carry those lessons with me to this day.
That "high harmonic" at 6:20 was actually a tap-on with his right hand. He talks about it in his clinics, referring to it as a misdirection. You're looking at his left hand, but his right is doing the work.
I used to hang out with my buddy while he was doing his radio show at our High School. We needed to kill like 10 minutes, so we grabbed the top CD off a random stack. That CD was "Live at the Quick" and neither of us had any idea what we were about to unleash. We picked "Big Country" because it sounded like it was going to be easy to make fun of. Much like Cory, this shit absolutely changed my life. It was like getting struck by lightning. We ended up stealing the CD and drove around the whole summer listening to it. Absolutely incredible piece of work.
.. it is so cool to see one of the coolest and funkiest guitar player reacts to one of the funkiest and coolest bass player. Thank you, makes my day...and I love the flecktones DVD, too - incredible! ❤️👍 Keep it up and stay safe, huge regards from germany!
This makes me love Cory even more. Live at the Quick is in my top 3 all time albums. All the musicians in that band are A1. If you've never listened to the Flecktones do yourself a favor and take in the whole discography.
All we need to know...."Dude,....Dude....yeah, Dude!" Was fortunate enough to grow up and be around these guys, all the Wooten Brothers in High School. Amazing, Humble humans.
This is the Dave Matthews gig Cory was talking about. The song #41 with Victor Wooten on bass: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZiCSBH-uPxI.html
Saw the Flecktones back in the 90's at the Frederick MD County fairgrounds. I was playing bass in a bluegrass band, having fun but it was pretty much root, five, root five on the first and third beat, right? So after a show of bass pyrotechnics, double thumbing, sliding harmonics, two basses at once, the band brings out a guest, bluegrass fiddler Stuart Duncan. He launches into some traditional burner- Fire on the Mountain I think- and what does Wooten do? Root, five, root five on the first and third beat. And it's killing. Big lesson for me. It's what the music asked him for and he delivered.
That's such an excellent story. I can't say I'm surprised. This is the perspective he has repeated for decades now. What good is it to just go up there and serve yourself. He sees beauty in the world and translates it perfectly into music. Simple things can still be beautiful, and differences between players and styles don't make us worse, they make us special.
I JUST saw your video! Vic, Jeff Coffin, Roy Wooten (Futureman) and are friends of mine for over 30 years. I KNOW that you guys think that Vic worked this out for years to do this. But, he can improvise this stuff!!! He used to do 3 hour SOLO BASS gigs at The Slice Of Life, an organic restaurant in Nashville. 3 HOURS!!! And, he was just creating things like this on the fly! Vic, Jeff & Roy are ALL astounding musicians and I'm so honored to be friends with them.
I had the opportunity to see the Flecktones at the Indiana Roof Ballroom a few times in the late-90s. During one show, Victor broke a string at the start of his solo. Mid-solo, asked a roadie to bring his backup to the stage. It was plugged in and out on a stand while…all while he kept his solo going on three strings. Integrated into the solo, he started tuning the fresh bass and ultimately switched instruments while maintaining the groove. When he finished the whole audience erupted in awe and appreciation of what we just saw and heard. It was the most incredible thing I have seen at a concert.
I’ve been VERY into all things Cory recently. Hearing that we share an obsession with Live at The Quick is really cool!! How does Vic slide that harmonic?!! I’ve also seen this 500 times. I have no clue.....
And he does it so perfectly! It's difficult to explain in a short comment but in a nutshell, you play the harmonic, then you both press the string down against the fretboard and slide. If you give the harmonic enough time to sound and press down and slide with the correct timing you should then be able to hear it sliding. It's good to practice on the 12th or 7th fret harmonics as they're naturally a lot more loud and clear I came across this performance quite early in my bass playing days and like you, I've probably watched it at least 500+ times, and it's like a fine wine that gets better and better! So beautiful!
I'm happy to see you guys introducing this to a lot of people. Vic is so incredible, and this performance is so emotive. I love seeing new reactions to things so I can re-live some of the first experience feeling again. When Vic hits the end of this performance, descends with the harmonics then leaves the #11 tension, and the showmanship to resolve it with the tuning key, it feels like I have gone to heaven for a brief moment.
Actually Vic came up with this the day before he was asked to play at the funeral of one of his best friends, Joe who passed away in New York City many, many years ago.
They took down the original video 😭 I hope someone reuploads it for now I have this which is nice seeing other people nerd out to Victor Wooten jamming 😂
That solo's insane! Thank you for this and for introducing me to Cory Wong! I've seen a few of the Vulfpeck videos, but Cory is so cool, the kind of dude you just want to hang out with!
It bothers me that the greatest of the great are always the least known... Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Buddah, Chic Corea, Jaco, and the list just goes on for days... Bela Fleck in particular is like an alien if you get to see him live... He never scuffs... Never... It's flawless beauty from start to finish... When I first started out on bass a friend gave me a video for super bass techniques that Victor had put out... Wearing all purple and a fanny pack... Up until then the most outrageous thing I'd heard was Geddy Lee, or Les Claypool... But then I was introduced to the world of music with Victor's 'Classical Thump'... I was hooked... Then about three months later I heard about Jaco, went to MediaPlay and bought his solo album and Donna Lee started up... I have actively sought the depths of the music world ever since... I owe these people everything in regards to the amazing experiences I've had in listening and learning from these underappreciated geniuses...
Used to own this DVD and my girlfriend at the time would come in to the room and see me watching it and would be like wtf is this? And I remember thinking this is everything. Victor MFing Wooten. thank you so much for sharing.
I've had the privilege of seeing Victor with the Flecktones many times, and with his Soul Circus band a couple of times. He is always amazing. What I want to know is, when are we going to see a Wong/Wooten/Larnell Lewis trio jamming? This needs to happen!
To me, there are 3 people at the top of the list when it comes to Bass: Victor Wooten, Les Claypool and Tony Levin. That's not me going "and everyone else SUCKS!" either, it's just the first people that spring to mind when someone asks me who my favorite bass players are.
HEY VICTOR...you can't HOLD no pocket if you ain't got no groove Victor every time he picks up his instrument: All your groove are belong to me Seriously, Victor is one of the greatest human beings in all of music.
I have owned this concert on dvd for many years and at my first concert ever victor was the opening act for Dave Matthews. When they jammed together live for the second half I was in musical heaven. Victor is the man! You guys rock! So glad you got exposed to this clip and keep on keeping on.
Left of center, left of cool!!....nice reference. How has Michael never seen this!!!???? Where have you been!? And Cory, I'm right there with you man. Graduated and started college in 98' and that was THE time. Changed my life....made me a bass player!
Had the CD and the DVD back in the day. Wore em out. I was in college. Music major on saxophone. And Jeff Coffin came and did a clinic one year. It was awesome. Then a few years later, I bumped into Coffin outside a Susan Tedeschi show. I live in TN, so it's not unheard of to run into a Flecktone. I also saw Sinbad do stand up once and Victor Wooten was also in the audience.
I got a dvd copy of that concert from my bass teacher 15 years ago. My mind was BLOWN and i don’t know how many times i’ve watched it but 100 isn’t enough.
I discovered Wooten when I was first learning bass in high school in the early 2000s. This guy changed how I saw myself as a bassist. I didn't have to just hold down a rhythm (I did for 99% of the stuff I played), I learned a lot from Wooten.
I saw the Flecktones in Boston a few days before they recorded Live at the Quick.. that tour was magical. All the stars were aligned. Got a picture with Vic. He was so chill!
I own a video on VHS named after one of the earlier CDs called “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”. It is about the Flecktones and how they came to be, before they even really came to be. Those were the years with Howard Levy and them traveling around on a tour bus from show to show, visiting schools, and all their fun antics together. I went to a show a couple years ago with the original group playing, and as always they stuck around after the concert to talk to all of us who knew they would come out to say hello. They barely remembered doing this VHS video. I was maybe 21 years old at the time, and I would play it over and over every night sitting in complete awe. None of them have changed over the years, they are all still humble, fun, and inventive. And the fact that they hang around each night after the show to talk to the people who support them speaks of their character. This band changed the way I listen to music and who I respect in the music industry. Victor is a huge hero of mine, he drew me towards this unique music and changed everything for me... The ultimate accomplishment of being a musician
Cory - the fact that you too hold this video with VW dear, make me appreciate your work and style even more. You might have heard it twice as many times as me, and i totally get that ‘cause its beyond compare.
I instantly thought on a musical expression level this is similar to a Hendrix star spangled banner at Woodstock....way more in depth musically but you feel the same after watching both....
As much as i love Live at the Quick, its nothing in comparison to LIVE ART. Vics first Amazing grace solo appears on that. that album changed everything for me.
Victor Wooten is one of those "he must be an alien" dudes. He really just feels like his mind and body absorbs his instrument. One of the true all time greats.
Man this video. When I was in high school our band director was a huge Flecktones fan and we all got kinda into them. He showed us bootleg shows and we listened to albums all the time. Some kids would talk and discuss the music we were hearing. The first time he brought this live show vhs in and we watched he paused it as this was about to happen he said “guys I want you to pay attention and actually listen to this. I don’t mind you talking but please don’t for this song” we all sat in awe and from then on out we’d request this live show all the time and he never had to ask us to be quiet again. Every single time without fail the whole room would gather and just listen. I love this video and I’m so happy others are getting to see if they’ve not seen it.
Honestly a reaction to the bass day ‘98 jam video would be awesome. It’s one of the things that really got me to play bass in the first place. There’s just so much talent in that video.
Met Victor Wooten after a Flecktones show a few years back, he's the nicest guy. He talked about his philosophy on music, asked us questions, and introduced his family. All in the parking lot outside the venue.
Back in 93 or so we hung out after a Flecktones concert and our kids all played together while we chatted about music. Vic is one very nice person and so down to earth.
i set myself to learn this at all costs, so i could do it live. i finally learned it (majority of the amazing grace hymn part to the finish, minus the super speed slap) after 3 years.
I saw Vic slacken off all his strings so they were hanging off the neck, literally no pitch, all while keeping the rhythm locked and grooving. He raised them all back up to pitch while triple thumping and doing that funky stuff and ended his solo by counting the band straight back in.
So cool to see this vid, reaction, and story from Cory about this. I've got a similar story: I went to a Flecktones live show at the Seattle Zoo during this era. It was life changing. Bela solo'd over a Bach etude while walking through the crowd that was sitting on the grass. Futch did his thing and I watched and watched him and I STILL don't understand how the drumitar works. And during Vic's solo, he down-tuned all his strings until they were slack and then basically did a percussion solo on his slack strings and then slowly tuned them back up through different modes until the rest of the Flecktones came back in...and he was RIGHT in tune! It was insane! Those guys are nuts!
tfw! Maybe its been already said but... 03:11 "suena muy bien" ? Is it 'cause I'm spaniard and my brain is tricking me or what? Do you guys hear it too?
Holy crap I loved watching this and yelling OH MY GOD at the same time with the final tuning move. That was like eating a musical Wagyu steak, garlic mash and a creme brulee to finish.
Been waiting for this vid. Didn't get to see on the live stream and it was cut from the replay... Holy shit! Amazing artistry on display. Thanks Michael and Cory!
