I saw Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer in concert together last year.

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I saw Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer in concert together last year.

Mary Anne — 4/15/2004 1:12:16 PM (archived)

Oh Lord, can those men play! Fleck was supporting his classical banjo CD, Perpetual Motion.

The Paganini piece the CD is named for is unbelievable: he flies through it. He said, in a radio interview, that his life is shortened by several minutes every time he plays it in concert, because he gets so wound up. (He has to watch the fretboard every minute, so if he loses concentration he's done.) He does a "straight" version and a bluegrass version on the CD.

Meyer does things with the string bass that makes the audience holler -- jazz licks -- and he turns around and makes it sing like a cello.

I put the Flecktones on in the toddler and picture book section of the library regularly. They dance. And giggle and scream. Banjo appreciation begins among the very young. :)

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Okay Tony - FrankC - 4/15/2004 2:11:54 AM
- the concept of change is always perceived as a threat to conservatives..... - Publius - 4/19/2004 1:22:01 PM
  - re: Abe Lincoln didn't seem to think so and neither do I. (oh, oh, does that makes me and Lincoln conservatives?) - Marcia - 4/22/2004 12:10:44 AM
    - Thanks for chiming in Marcia nice to know you are still out there (n/t) - FrankC - 4/22/2004 4:24:06 AM
- re: Okay Frank, seriously - Davin L. - 4/15/2004 11:20:24 PM
  - seriously? - FrankC - 4/16/2004 3:38:53 AM
    - Now, Frank. Let me define "True Believer". - Bowser - 4/17/2004 12:51:20 AM
    - re: Why categorize? - Raoul - 4/16/2004 10:33:55 PM
    - R.L is a combination of four and six. (n/t) - Todd - 4/16/2004 9:32:38 PM
      - While you fit 3 better than any liberal I know here. (n/t) - Davin L. - 4/16/2004 9:49:22 PM
        
        I must be a clairvoyant. - Todd - 4/16/2004 9:58:06 PM
        
        then why don't you buzz off? - Davin L. - 4/16/2004 11:15:32 PM
        
        I may need to clarify this - Todd - 4/17/2004 1:20:39 AM
        
        re: I may need to clarify this - Davin L. - 4/17/2004 1:57:08 AM
    - Gee, I feel kinda left out - Lindy - 4/16/2004 4:19:37 PM
    - Which one was I? I need the feedback. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/16/2004 3:25:44 PM
      - comeon alcaray, you weren''t one of the unannoying for no reason - FrankC - 4/16/2004 3:50:31 PM
        
        Glad you can tell that I'm annoying on purpose (n/t) - alcaray - 4/16/2004 5:18:42 PM
      - Oh, please. *Everybody* listens to you. - Mary Anne - 4/16/2004 3:44:03 PM
        
        You should hear me when driving on the freeway! - alcaray - 4/16/2004 4:00:49 PM
    - Need more clues - Tony - 4/16/2004 1:30:56 PM
      - Yes useful - FrankC - 4/16/2004 3:44:43 PM
        
        Still nothing - Tony - 4/19/2004 6:29:24 PM
        
        I do! I do! - alcaray - 4/20/2004 6:22:59 PM
        
        Weel, if you put it that way..... - Tony - 4/20/2004 7:12:54 PM
    - re: seriously? - Davin L. - 4/16/2004 4:21:09 AM
  - Short(er) form - Bowser - 4/16/2004 12:27:00 AM
  - PS - Davin L. - 4/16/2004 12:10:52 AM
- No, Frank, you are simply of the LEFT BEHIND - Davin L. - 4/15/2004 10:52:16 PM
- Hmmm?? - Bowser - 4/15/2004 7:07:44 PM
- How to respond, how to respond - Tony - 4/15/2004 3:24:34 PM
  - You've got to be kidding! - Lindy - 4/15/2004 4:34:05 PM
    - Nope - Tony - 4/15/2004 5:58:39 PM
- deja vu - Robert - 4/15/2004 3:06:12 PM
- What goes around, comes around....... - Lindy - 4/15/2004 4:27:06 AM
  - we liberals will be screaming at the top of our lungs again........ - FrankC - 4/15/2004 4:38:32 AM
    - LOLOL - Mary Anne - 4/15/2004 4:56:47 AM
- re: Okay Tony - Johannes - 4/15/2004 4:14:51 AM
- I'm going to answer you even though I know you no longer have much regard for my opinion. - Mary Anne - 4/15/2004 4:12:31 AM
  - You make some good points. - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2004 7:28:01 AM
    - re: You make some good points. - gbaikie - 4/15/2004 9:46:54 AM
      - you did, too, geoff - Fox - 4/16/2004 2:58:18 AM
      - for once - Davin L. - 4/15/2004 2:28:29 PM
  - Your opinion is as good as any - FrankC - 4/15/2004 4:41:39 AM
    - ...and better than most. Banjo's are awesome! (n/t) - et - 4/15/2004 4:47:33 AM
      - I saw Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer in concert together last year. - Mary Anne - 4/15/2004 1:12:16 PM
        
        re: I saw Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer in concert together last year. - Marcia - 4/22/2004 12:01:01 AM
- The end of an era or the L end of the cycle.... - et - 4/15/2004 3:53:02 AM
  - Or scrap the CE and OT boards? - et - 4/15/2004 4:06:28 AM
    - LOL (n/t) - alcaray - 4/15/2004 3:33:08 PM
    - Now there's a plan. The space board is okay - FrankC - 4/15/2004 4:34:57 AM
      - We need a crack band of peacekeepers. - et - 4/15/2004 4:45:53 AM
        
        Until conservatives stop winking at ebnelson their protests ring a bit hollow. (n/t) - Arf - 4/15/2004 7:14:00 PM
        
        Or a few good willow switches. ;) (n/t) - Lee - 4/15/2004 6:47:37 AM
        
        You DA MAN! (n/t) - Bowser - 4/15/2004 7:12:07 PM
    - You don't knit quilts. You quilt quilts. :P - Mary Anne - 4/15/2004 4:22:40 AM

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