[atlantaprog] Re: Victor Wooten, Variety, July 16

Wheat,

Please don't chastise me...I've never heard of the dude! ;) Glad you enjoyed 
the show though! :)

PEACE
Beth


> 
> From: Wheat Williams <wheat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/07/16 Sat PM 02:14:53 EDT
> To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: Victor Wooten, Variety, July 16
> 
> I have to chastise all of you for not beeing at the Victor Wooten  
> Band show at the Variety Playhouse last night.
> 
> You might say, "It's funk. What's prog about that?" but you would be  
> missing the point. The musicianship was staggering. The show included  
> a guest sit-in by Steve Bailey, and a very rare reunion of all five  
> Wooten Brothers (whose history is too deep to relate here) on a  
> Return to Forever cover that I can't quite remember the name of. In  
> addition to Victor's usual band, which is stunningly tight.
> 
> M. C. Divinity opened with her own Atlanta band who played a 30- 
> minute set of rap funk metal. Or metal funk rap. Take your pick. This  
> lady is one of the most talented vocalist/instrumentalists you will  
> ever hear.
> 
> Reggie Wooten, the oldest of the Wooten Brothers, is a frightening,  
> frightening guitarist, and led Victor's band in a very credible and  
> completely internally consistent funk version of Led Zepplin's  
> "Kashmir". Then he took off on a ten minute guitar solo that I could  
> only describe this way:
> Stanley Jordan got very angry and decided to mud wrestle with Vernon  
> Reid, and the two emerged from the mud as one creature who decided on  
> the spot to improvise a neoclassical sweep-picking and shredding  
> arena anthem designed to make Yngwie Malmsteen lose control of his  
> bowels. All on a $100 Squier Strat.
> 
> Victor Wooten finally revealed to the world that he has eight arms,  
> and eight hands, which is what enables him to play so many notes in  
> such a short space of time on a four-string bass. If you've never  
> heard the man's recordings, you can't possibly imagine his technique,  
> and I won't try to describe it to you.
> 
> And overall the show was the funkiest, hardest-funking funk show  
> you've ever seen since Bootsy Collins with George Clinton in their  
> prime. Lots of really great original songs with amazing grooves.
> 
> After the show I turned to my wife and said, "If you work out the  
> number of notes played per dollar, this is the best entertainment  
> value you've ever gotten for your ticket price." It was also the  
> funkiest thing you've experienced in the last ten years, if you don't  
> count previous Victor Wooten Band appearances.
> 
> Wheat Williams
> 
>

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