Flecktones at the Fox Theater in Oakland last night
When they broke into Big Country, I felt instantly transported to a very good time of life circa 1998.
Some things never change…
- Victor Wooten still turns the electric bass into an inhumanly textured instrument that leaves you shaking your head in wonder
- Future Man and his drumitar have come no closer to returning to planet Earth
- Bela, sitting by himself, on five string acoustic banjo is still simply transcendent.
Some things do change…
- Nader, one of my best friends in the world for the past fifteen years, was still sitting there next to me at the Fox (that probably should be filed under the best thing that hadn’t changed). Our hair is much shorter now though and he is a proud father.
- Pandolfi wasn’t there sitting in awe and plotting his course to play as fast as Bela, he is somewhere out on tour with a couple of hit albums proving that he can do it.
Thanks Flecktones for taking me on a ride in the time machine!
