World class musicians. The "call and response" between band members is next level. Love these guys. Give a listen to Dirty Loops if you are not familiar with their music. Thanks for the reaction. My kind of music.
Actually, the bass player (Michael League) is the conductor and composer. The guy who took his headphones is another keyboard player in the band who had a feature song “Sleeper” which just got eclipsed by Cory’s solo on this tune. The black headphones are audience members Silent Disco bluetooth headphones coming of the mixing board’s main feed. You should consider exploring an artist SP collaborated with: Jacob Collier. You can start with the song they did together, “Don’t You Know” (a love song in 14/4)
Sorry dude, you are wrong. Larnell had played with Snarky Puppy before, maybe not this precise lineup, but he did know a couple of these songs already. Not all of them, but a couple. He already knew this particular song and had performed it with them before. I think the other one he already knew was 'what about me'. But he did have to learn the balance of what they recorded on this date on the ride over there. They were able to run through everything a couple of times before they recorded. Still, it's an incredible feat. If you don't believe me, go watch the documentary about it, he'll tell you what I just did.
This is not entirely accurate. While it is true that Larnell Lewis learned a lot of the songs on We Like It Here on the flight and on the days of recording, Lingus was not one of them. Lingus was written long before We Like It Here was recorded and was played live by both Sput and Larnell before this recording. It is hinted at in the DVD (which I highly recommend), where Michael League says that Larnell has played "one or two of these songs before today." Lingus, Shofukan, and "What About Me?" were all played live several times before We Like It Here was recorded. You can even find videos here on RU-vid of Lingus live several months before the album recording. This does not take away anything about Larnell's performance on the record, though.
I'm sorry, but you broke my cardinal rule of "first time" reaction videos. DO NOT pause in the middle of the song to "react to what we've seen so far". Just watch the whole thing and listen to it like a normal person would for the very first time, and then talk about it afterwords. I'm not downvoting, just venting why I hate reaction videos that pause.