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Victor Lemonte Wooten

#121
JAUQO III-X said:
I may have to do a search and see if I can find some sound bites and video's of his work.
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Given your web site details, if you are that same Jauqo III-X, Victor is probably your vein of bass playing.

New stuff scares some folks, others are drawn to it.
I've just held: if it sounds good, it is good.
Whatever your personal aesthetic is and can you back it up.

Beaver-
Good point about slapping the troll, if it sounds like crap, you ain't doing it right. A person unable to perfrom the technique well/to a high level has little right to judge it.

Huge fan of yours as well. We are not worthy :D
Just looking at this thread has helped me and gotten a dozen new things to work on and improve my skill set.


Tom










Tom
 
#123
i've heard countless bassists and seen them too. i've listened to solos and jams and bass duels and duets for years now. one thing that makes a good bassist stand out above the rest to me is the way he attacks his instrument. I've seen victor twice, once on his ying yang tour with his brothers and once with the flecktones. every time he plays he has a certain sound that makes him stand out to me. maybe to some it may sound sloppy, i don't think so. i just think that's his sound. that's what he liked when he played it and that's what he's perfected, that sound.
i heard a track on an Adam Nitti cd with him and adam playing together. they did one of those tag team solo duet things going back and forth matching one another and playing against one another. i could tell immediately which one was victor and which one was adam. i didn't even know victor was on that cd until i heard it. something told me that was victor, not adam, playing that. that thing that told me was that sound that he has. then i read the cd song credits and there it was on paper, Victor Wooten. that sound has become monumentary in the bass playing world.
every bassist has a style or a certain sound and every bassist caters to a certain technique over another. i know Adam Nitti does alot of tapping and sweeps. i know marcus miller does alot of slapping. Victor does alot of everything, and not just everything, but everything professionally and musically sound. i've never heard him out of the pocket or off beat on any occasion. in fact, some of the tracks he does with bela fleck blows my mind. some of the crazy time signatures and crazy scales they play and he's always right there playing everything as it was written.
the man's a bass playing genius and deserves nothing but praise from us bass players.
 
#124
Seriously now,

Vic is a wonderful human being. God bless him. I was fortunate enough to participate in his bass camp last year, wonderful experience with wonderful people and got to know him a little bit better. I repeat: wonderful human being.

besides that, he is a top tier musician. I worked as a professional sound engineer / producer for several years and worked with a lot of really good musicians, including some legends (and became friends with a lot of them). Victor is way up there with the best of the best.

I am sure that if you ask Stanley Clarke, Jeff Berlin, Marcus Miller they will tell you the same (as did Beaver).

Ok, jumping out of the discussion about his musical qualities (being that a stupid discussion), Not only he is a great musician, but wonderful educator. If you have a chance, read his book, really interesting.
 
#125
Plantbrain said:
Given your web site details, if you are that same Jauqo III-X, Victor is probably your vein of bass playing.
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Yes it is I,and and with the troll floating around I was just making fun asking who Vic is,me and Vic happen to be very good friends and we've known each other for a very long time.


Vic is indeed a very talented Kat and an equally down to earth spirit who is just at the embryo stage of what he has to offer.
 
#126
JAUQO III-X said:
Yes it is I,and and with the troll floating around I was just making fun asking who Vic is,me and Vic happen to be very good friends and we've known each other for a very long time.


Vic is indeed a very talented Kat and an equally down to earth spirit who is just at the embryo stage of what he has to offer.
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I was hoping you were kidding, cause now I feel like an ass for actually answering! ;)
 
#129
BassSurfer said:
jeff berlin's style is more " colorful " if you ask me IMO

doesnt mean wooten is still great though!
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Definitely different.

I'm trying to understand his plucking hand positioning. That doesn't look comfy to me at all how he has what looks like the butt/palm resting on the body and kind of just stretching out w/ his fingers?
 
#130
First time I saw Victor Wooten, I was rightly impressed. Sure he's a bit technical (and did skip a bit when it came to his playing consistency) but I like how he brought the bass to the forefront.

However, I grew bored in about 2-3 minutes.

In my opinion Victor Wooten is a wanker (so is Billy Sheehan) but so is everyone that just solos to solo. Both are both good players, but they have no soul IMHO. Thats why I prefer listening to people who I think play with feeling.

The Duck Dunn's will always get more gigs than the Victor Wooten's of the world.
 
#132
JAUQO III-X said:
Yes I do and some people are very much aware and me and Victor have seriously talked about recording together.




Our birthdays are the same day(with me being two years older).
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Ok, but who is this Victor? :)

I was mentioning the fact that he has way more to offer, this is only the begining. If you didn't know him, you would probably see him just as a good bass player. You know what it is all about. ;)
 
#133
BassSurfer said:
jeff berlin's style is more " colorful " if you ask me IMO

doesnt mean wooten is still great though!
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Oh man, Vic is so good, I don't think he's even human. He's like some kind of bass playing alien freak, but nobody has the technical skills of Jeff Berlin, and so far, I haven't heard any of Vic's compositions that stir the emotions like Jaco's did.
I'd like to see Vic reinvent himself and possibly explore some (for him) new musical directions, which I'm sure he eventually will. The slapping, popping and thumping (for me) gets a bit tedious after a short while.
 
#136
I've been a fan of Victor Wooten ever since I first saw Bela Fleck on TV...I was floored...I've never seen anyone approach the instrument like that before....

I've seen guys like Larry Graham and Louis Johnson slap the (smelly stuff) out of it....but I've never really ever seen anyone play full-blown rudimentary stuff like that...

Then I bought his "A Show of Hands" CD...and when I heard..."Can't hold no groove"....I really started to get it...

Vic can go from mellow "deep in the pocket" playing...to "up in your face" full-on funk-tastic flash-nastics, and THEN...back to the pocket again...l

I love talkbass...where else can you get Jauqo III X and Beaver Felton contributing to the same thread?

Who IS Victor Lemonte Wooten? Victor is VICTOR!
 
#137
I'm not a huge fan of Victor's tone or style, but man, he can play. I got to catch him doing a clinic at Wild West Guitars and I was extremely impressed by his musicianship and talent. I've never seen a guy so happy to be playing either. He had permagrin. I also noticed this on the face of Doyle Dykes, an amazing guitar player. I'm beginning to think that permagrin comes with talent. :)
 
#140
air force one said:
With all due respect, I don't believe Sting or McCartney would even be in line to tune up Victor's ax. Wooten is DANGEROUS!!
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And to make a statment as ill-informed as this illustrates how musically illterate most people are. I guess some people just don't get it. I'll take a masterfully crafted song and melody over a prolonged display of bass guitar gymnastics any day, as would most people. If the bass line in that song propels the song to greater heights, you've tapped into a vein of gold; and sadly, that seems to be a dying art...
 

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