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05-28-2007, 04:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Duckenfield Nsw Australia | | | Victor Lemonte Wooten
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Victor Wooten is certainly one of the greatest bass players that will ever exist. His techniques really bring out the music from the bass and i think he really promotes the bass as an instrument rather than just a background sound. He is truelly inspirational to listen to and see. This forum should probably be used as a discussion place for his music and technique.
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05-28-2007, 04:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | over-rated
LOL...someone put that in my Lee Sklar w/ Toto thread...I thought it was hilarious...
actually, Victor is a musician first and foremost...that's what makes him such a good bass player is that he's such a fantastic musician... |
05-28-2007, 05:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Duckenfield Nsw Australia | | | When i saw Victor at the bluesfest he put on a great performance. It took me 4 concerts but i got to the front row for the flecktones. Twas awesome. |
05-28-2007, 05:40 AM
| | | | Victor wooten? (rolleyes)
He can't play clean to save his life, always sloppy ugly sounding double-thumping played twice as fast as he can handle and all the noobs who worship flea thinks he's a god..
He can't write good music to save his life either..
Listen to some real bassplayers instead, sting, mccartney, rutger gunnarson etc.. |
05-28-2007, 05:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Belgium | | ^ It's true that you can hear a lot of fret noise sometimes with Wooten, but that counts for a lot of bassists, and for some it's just part of their style, it doesn't mean they can't play clean, just raise the action on their bass a bit and they're there  .
Oh and this has to be one of the most impressive jams I've ever seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHJp-W11B8
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05-28-2007, 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Kasper007  ^ It's true that you can hear a lot of fret noise sometimes with Wooten, but that counts for a lot of bassists, and for some it's just part of their style, it doesn't mean they can't play clean, just raise the action on their bass a bit and they're there . | i'm not talking about fretnoise, when wooten plays fast every note sounds higher and lower in volume then the other one, it sounds like a huge mess and when he starts to double-thump in the higher register there is there is no tention in strings when he slaps so it just sounds extremy weak and ugly.. |
05-28-2007, 05:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Belgium | | | Yeah sometimes that's true. Anyhow I respect him very much, even though it's not entirely my style, and you have to respect his technical abilities and control.
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05-28-2007, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Kasper007 Yeah sometimes that's true. Anyhow I respect him very much, even though it's not entirely my style, and you have to respect his technical abilities and control. | Well, i just questioned his technical ability and control.
Somebody who constantly plays above their level does not have control at all, someone who can't play clean don't got technique.. |
05-28-2007, 06:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Belgium | |  OK, I get it, I don't want to convert you. It's just that he has been a great influence for many bassists, and not only those who can't play clean. He has developped techniques and a speed that are very impressive to me, and it also irritates me that he doesn't sound very clean a lot of the time, but that doesn't make him a bad bassist to me.
I can accept that you don't appreciate his technical abilities, but who are you to say that he doesn't have any, when there are thousands of bassists looking up to him and getting inspiration from him, amateurs as well as well respected pros.
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05-28-2007, 06:05 AM
| | | | You guys putting down Victor must really be good. Please post your Utube performances so we can see how it should be done. |
05-28-2007, 06:07 AM
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Originally Posted by RWP You guys putting down Victor must really be good. Please post your Utube performances so we can see how it should be done. | Why?
I think even my lilbrother can tell that victor wootens bassplaying is
dirty unclean.. |
05-28-2007, 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by seeinsidemycell Why?
I think even my lilbrother can tell that victor wootens bassplaying is
dirty unclean.. | I will admit that a lot of his super fast double thumb stuff is not my cup of tea, but he can play clean. Then there is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9a4ThBNacY  |
05-28-2007, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by RWP You guys putting down Victor must really be good. Please post your Utube performances so we can see how it should be done. | Hey, you guy s? Did you even read my posts? I was actually saying that I respect him a LOT, even though he can sound a bit sloppy sometimes IMO. And no I can't play as well as he does, and I will never be able to, but that's not my ambition either  .
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05-28-2007, 06:30 AM
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Endorsing artist:see profile/Current Setup | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CHICAGO,IL. | | Who is Victor Lemonte Wooten ? |
05-28-2007, 08:21 AM
|  | Working on his world citizenship... | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Colonies | | Great player, but I've never been a fan of his tone - a little overly "modern" and clanky for my taste. Would love to hear him on a '62 Jazz through an SVT. |
05-28-2007, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X Who is Victor Lemonte Wooten ? |
Damn good question. |
05-28-2007, 09:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: N.W. Indiana, USA | | | Victor has said at clinics before that his tapping style isn't the most proficient or cleanest out there. But it works for the music that he likes to create and that's all that he cares about.
At this point in his career, I don't think he has to worry about trying to impress people... |
05-28-2007, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Bernie Connors Victor has said at clinics before that his tapping style isn't the most proficient or cleanest out there. But it works for the music that he likes to create and that's all that he cares about.
At this point in his career, I don't think he has to worry about trying to impress people... | Well, it's not his tapping that's awfully sloppy and bad, it's his double-thumping.. |
05-28-2007, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Kasper007 even though he can sound a bit sloppy sometimes IMO.. | everyone sounds a little sloppy sometimes.....we're humans. but if you put victor in the "sloppy" category of bassists you are an idiot or very uneducated on the matter. no offense. 
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05-28-2007, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Bayou_Brawler everyone sounds a little sloppy sometimes.....we're humans. but if you put victor in the "sloppy" category of bassists you are an idiot or very uneducated on the matter. no offense. | If you can't hear that he is sloppy then you gotta start doing eartraining excercises.. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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