Jazzdogg
Less barking, more wagging!
I don't get it. He's very proficient, and musically talented. But, if he wants to play like a guitarist and sound like a guitarist, why not just play a guitar?
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You NEED to See This
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Just gotta laugh at the people knocking Vic in this thread. Y'all be sure to come back and tell us when you get the respect he does, okay?
Whatever. After seeing my one millionth video of Vic displaying his mind-numbing dexterity on a bass, wankety wank wank, I got really bloody bored of it. Same goes for all my favorite musicians. As much as it is impressive to watch what they CAN do, that doesn't mean I want to see it over and over. The internet is flooded with videos of Vic soloing. I'm amazed people still want to watch it.
Plus, I've never been a big fan of solos to begin with. I'm much more impressed by well-arranged songs preformed by a group of talented musicians, as opposed to one guy playing something of the hook.
Hence: Yawn.
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Some of you more mature guys, I gotta wonder if you couldn't see it in your hearts to place this solo interlude in the context of a concert where a band is doing most of the numbers, and imagine what audiences are feeling and hearing. Not all musos in the audience, but real people who still have the capacity to be amazed with no other agendas or conflicted ideologies to get in the way. They are hearing presentation of melody, reharmonizations, cool magic tricks, a couple of grrove treatements, and then final restatement of theme. And these live audiences always seem to diplay appreciation for the gift given and the talent and gazillion hours of honing it. Why beliitle the combination?
On the other hand, as a bassist and musician, I admire a level of technical dexterity that I will never have a tenth of no matter how much I practice, and it seems to be married to an incredible mind that sees and understands musical possibilities and can showboat in a way that attracts people to become fans and to hear the other music these guys make too, all while connecting emotionally.
I usually don't post much in music threads because there is so much callow pulling-down on the flimsiest of pretexts, and people seem to not appreciate any but their own own chosen approaches. Anyway. Where are the Jacos, Roccos, and Vics of the next few generations going to come from if instead we just let the bar be lowered rather than to say it has been set high?
Will the electric bass role best be served by becoming for the most part once again just the low string of the guitar repeated an octave down, or an oom-pah instrument? ; }
On the other hand, as a bassist and musician, I admire a level of technical dexterity that I will never have a tenth of no matter how much I practice, and it seems to be married to an incredible mind that sees and understands musical possibilities and can showboat in a way that attracts people to become fans and to hear the other music these guys make too, all while connecting emotionally.
I usually don't post much in music threads because there is so much callow pulling-down on the flimsiest of pretexts, and people seem to not appreciate any but their own own chosen approaches. Anyway. Where are the Jacos, Roccos, and Vics of the next few generations going to come from if instead we just let the bar be lowered rather than to say it has been set high?
Will the electric bass role best be served by becoming for the most part once again just the low string of the guitar repeated an octave down, or an oom-pah instrument? ; }
My thoughts exactly - not detracting from his ability - but it shows some level of immaturity in my opinion - and it is wankerish in the middle and LESS Musical IMO when he show boats for the sake of show boating - there is a point there where he crosses the line that makes it less cool.
Still a great performance overall.
I suggest not watching it. Click the link, and then come back here while it plays. Listen to it. If it is impressive to you while LISTENING to it, great. Go back and watch it to see how it is done.
I find the same thing when I watched Manring's "Enourmous Room" I had a completely different take on it while watching it vs. just listening to it. To be honest, I enjoyed it a lot more while not watching how it was done.
He's good, but I don't understand the idea of taking a good song and turning it into a technical display. It *seems* like he's more interested in showing off than arranging/playing a good song. Watching/listening to Wooten is like watching a juggler or a gymnast to me, I go "hey, that's impressive... probably took a lot of practice" but I don't feel like I'm listening to a real or honest piece of musical expression. Someone else mentioned in another thread that Wooten is sort of like Thomas Kinkaid, which was odd because I've always said the exact same thing. You can tell it requires a lot of skill and it's very well crafted, but it just seems sort of empty and done for the sake of doing.
