Wooten touring with the Elektric Band

[StanFan]

Originally Posted by j-raj

while trying to look for a Wooten/Elektric Band YouTube clip I found this funny '80's Chick Elektric band clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikTA3dYOKQ

keytar!

I love their cheesy 80s videos. Here's another one. Although it isn't really too cheesy, try to spot the cameo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO3OhDJo7Ls

[WJGreer]

IMO, any combination that doesn't include Patitucci isn't the Elektric Band. Taking nothing away from Wooten or any of the other phonominal guys who have held the bass chair in that band - I think it is a band, and Patitucci is a culturally significant part of it. His contribution gives the band its notable sound as much as Chick's.

It would be sort of like seeing Tribal Tech with somebody other than Willis, or seeing Garaj Mahal with somebody other than Eckhardt. No doubt whomever else would play bass in any of these groups would be awesome, as would the group with their contribution. But it should be called something different.

Again, IMO.

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by WJGreer

It would be sort of like seeing Tribal Tech with somebody other than Willis, or seeing Garaj Mahal with somebody other than Eckhardt. No doubt whomever else would play bass in any of these groups would be awesome, as would the group with their contribution. But it should be called something different.

You make a good point, but to me, the Elektric band is Chick's baby. John is a big part of that, but I'd still say it everything is just a different incarnation of it. That is, unless Chick was missing from the line up!

[WJGreer]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

You make a good point, but to me, the Elektric band is Chick's baby. John is a big part of that, but I'd still say it everything is just a different incarnation of it. That is, unless Chick was missing from the line up!

Obviously that is Chick's feeling as well. And, I would still love to see the show. With Chick, Wooten, Gambale, and Weckl all playing at the same time, we might see a record for the most notes ever played in a single measure of music.

[skb5string]

Originally Posted by StanFan

I love their cheesy 80s videos. Here's another one. Although it isn't really too cheesy, try to spot the cameo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO3OhDJo7Ls

Nice! I got both of those Vid's on VHS had 'em for YEARS Also that Little MAC computer with the black and white screen that you see on Chicks workstation in the Elektric City Video, thats the same model I learned how to MIDI sequence on back in college in '91! We were using "Performer" great program! Love this old stuff.

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by WJGreer

Obviously that is Chick's feeling as well. And, I would still love to see the show. With Chick, Wooten, Gambale, and Weckl all playing at the same time, we might see a record for the most notes ever played in a single measure of music.

Thats may be true! Though I'd try to avoid Gambale, I find him to be an absolutely awful player for some reason!

[Lorenzini]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

Thats may be true! Though I'd try to avoid Gambale, I find him to be an absolutely awful player for some reason!

oy!!! Are you sure you don't just dislike his tone? If you get a chance to hear him on a hollowbody or acoustic guitar you are in for a treat.

[Baryonyx]

His tone I often find I can't stand, though I much preferred it when he was using his Ibanez signature model as opposed to his new Yamaha. But even then, I think there is more to it than the guitar. I don't really find his tone all that bad, it's his note choices that grate on me! A lot of the time on the Gambale Hamm Smith albums he thunders about ruining tracks with some very dubious (imo) outside playing, which is a shame because Hamm and Smith are an awesome combination.

[jerry]

I dug the Elektric Band with the rhythm section of Jimmy Earl and Gary Novak, they added some grease to the band. Chick did add a "II" to differentiate between the two though.