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Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is one of the most celebrated electric bass players of all time.
The Wooten Brothers band (Regi, Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years in the 1970's around Williamsburg, Virginia in the Busch Gardens theme park, as well as opening up for Curtis Mayfield and War.
His most innovative are the double-thumbing technique, which utilizes the thumb in a manner similar to a guitar pick in conjunction with a funk slapping technique, and the open-hammer-pluck technique, which uses sometimes multiple hammer-ons from open strings to the desired fretted pitch.
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Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is a highly respected electric bass player and is regarded by many of his peers as one of the finest players to emerge in the 1990s.
Their group, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones became famous first by playing a mixture of jazz, funk, and bluegrass, then later becoming one of the most stylistically free-swinging bands of the modern era.
His most innovative are the double-thumbing technique, which utilizes the thumb and ultra light gauge strings in a manner similar to a guitar pick in conjunction with a funk slapping technique, and the open-hammer-pluck technique, which uses sometimes multiple hammer-ons from open strings to the desired fretted pitch.
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 Higher Ground: South Burlington, Vermont
Victor Lemonte Wooten got to music early, growing up in a military family in which his older brothers all played and sang.
By the time he was 3, Victor was being taught bass by his oldest brother Regi, and at age 5 he was performing professionally with the Wooten Brothers Band.
Victor was influenced by bass mentors, Stanley Clarke, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins, while learning about the music business at a wildly accelerated pace.
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 Chromatic Musings (and other drivel): Me And My Bass Guitar -- The Life Of Victor Wooten
I recently finished a biography of Victor Wooten, written by Paul R. Hargett.
As Wooten is one of my heroes, I was looking forwards to reading about his life and better understanding the man. I did get what I expected, but not what I hoped.
However, the definite biography of Victor Lemonte Wooten remains to be written.
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 THE STICK CENTER official web site: VICTOR WOOTEN
Victor Lemonte Wooten is one of the most celebrated electric bassists of all time.
Victor: I don´t really remember, but it was probably early eighties or maybe late seventies, and just because my brother played piano and i have another brother that play saxophone.
Victor Lemonte Wooten es uno de los más renombrados bajistas eléctrico de todos los tiempos.
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 victor owoten information,victor wooten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is one of the most celebrated electricbass players of all time.
The Wooten Brothers band (Regi,Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years in the 1970s around Williamsburg, Virginia in the Busch Gardens theme park, as well as opening up for Curtis Mayfield and War.
His most innovative are the double-thumbing technique, which utilizes thethumb in a manner similar to a guitar pick in conjunction with a funkslapping technique, and the open-hammer-pluck technique, which uses sometimes multiple hammer-ons from open strings to thedesired fretted pitch.
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 Wooten, Lemonte Victor: Show of Hands (Compass Records, 1996.02.20)
Victor Wooten has taken a bold step and released an album of solo bass, and at times you'll find it hard to believe there's not more going on behind him.
Victor is a 2nd generation pioneer in the truest sense of the word.
Victor Wooten is the greatest bass player alive and is matched only by his charm and modesty in person.
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 Béla Fleck: Over the top fantastic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Victor Lemonte Wooten played fretless bass, Jeff Coffin played soprano sax and Future Man played percussion on a guitarlike drum and melody machine of his own design—the synth—axe—drumitar.
Victor Lemonte Wooten’s bionic hands stroked, flailed and covered every inch of the bass as he and Fleck tried to one-up one another in traded riffs.
Wooten’s moment came in a transcendental solo that was as much aerobic percussion as melody.
www.freelancestar.com /News/FLS/2003/102003/10092003/bela/printer_friendly   (431 words)

  
 Victor Wooten Bass Guitars
Victor's performances as a member of the Grammy-award winning Béla Fleck and the Flecktones have gained him the adoration of bass players and music fans worldwide.
Victor made his professional stage debut at age five with "The Wooten Brothers Band", the five-brother band that started out playing covers and later opened concert tours for Curtis Mayfield and War.
In 1988, Victor moved to Nashville and was immediately recruited by blues and soul singer Jonell Mosser.
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 Victor Wooten - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Regaled as the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, Victor is known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning supergroup, Béla Fleck and The Flecktones.
Wooten won two Nashville Music Awards for Bassist Of The Year and is the only three-time winner of Bass Player magazine’s Bass Player Of The Year.
Victor Wooten has the rare ability to continuously raise the bar, always growing as an artist, and he’s excited to have joined the Vanguard roster with the release of Soul Circus.
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 Me and My Bass Guitar; The life and music of Victor Lemonte Wooten
Wooten's world is bigger than that though, and once you read his story, you'll understand not only the man he is, but also the gift he's given the world of music."
Victor Lemonte Wooten is an incredible bass player, one of the best, if not THE best on this planet.
There are chapters about the martial arts and their influence on Victor and his music, tracking and Victor's biannual Bass and Nature Camp, (Victor is an accomplished survivalist and tracker trained by noted author and teacher Tom Brown, Jr.) and a chapter about Victor's talented brothers.
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 Wooten, Lemonte Victor: What Did He Say? (Compass Records, 1997.01.01)
Wooten is, of course, the bass wizard of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
What makes it all the more endearing is that Victor seems to 'doink' a passage before the final recap, but after a sigh, he departs from this momentary lapse into a precise filigree of jaw-dropping arpeggios that bring to mind a coven of giant birds lifting off on a rush of huge wings.
This Wednesday, one of the world's most talented bassists, Victor Wooten, is taking time off from his gigs with the Grammy-award winning band, Bela Fleck and The Flectones to speak the language he knows best-stellar bass guitar.
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 deseretnews.com | Wooten says he wants his music to be popular   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As a soloist, Wooten is a Grammy nominee, the only bassist to be honored more than once as Bass Player of the Year by Bass Player Magazine (three times) and was named by BPM as one of the Top 10 Bass Innovators of the '90s.
The Wooten Brothers began club tours in Virginia and landed opening-act slots with Curtis Mayfield and War, whose styles he had heard as a child.
Wooten's solo band this year consists of his brothers Regi, guitar; Joseph, keyboards; vocalist MC Divinity; and a new drummer, Derico Watson.
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 VICTOR WOOTEN - SOUL CIRCUS, LIVE IN AMERICA , REGI WOOTEN, JOSEPH WOOTEN, JD BLAIR, MC DIVINITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
At 8:20pm, the Victor Wooten Experience began with a mini-movie that discussed the myth about the bass guitar freak with 8 arms (Victor Wooten)...different people of different ages were commenting on the astonishing bass guitar skills of Mr.
Victor's bass solo on the next song was cookin' and he did another solo with guitarist Gerald Veasley.
Victor Wooten Show in Washington DC Thanks to our friend the legendary funk historian "Dr. G" for this review of Victor Wooten's show at the 9:30 club in Washington DC I've been hearing about the legendary bassist Victor Wooten for several years.
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BORN: Hampton, VA Bassist Victor Wooten began his musical career early.
By 1988, Victor Wooten moved to Nashville to join a rock band, and met Bela Fleck, the banjo player for New Grass Revival, the following year.
Fleck was forming a jazz group to appear on a TV show; he recruited Wooten, his brother Roy on drums and Howard Levy on keyboards and harmonica.
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 Victor Wooten
His brothers all played (instruments) and sang, and by the time Victor was 3, oldest brother Regi was teaching him to play bass.
Victor made his professional stage debut when he was 5 in The Wootens, the five-brother band that played the radio hits of the day - - Sly and the Family Stone, War, James Brown, Motown, Curtis Mayfield -- at local recreation center dances.
The Wootens recorded an album for Arista Records in 1985 and learned the ups and downs of the record business from the experience.
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 Victor Wooten
Victor Lemonte Wooten is one of the greatest technical and expressive bass players ever.
By the age of 5, he had made his stage debut playing with his 4 older brothers in a group called the Wootens.
Wooten and his brother Roy joined Fleck and keyboardist/harmonica player Howard Levy for a "Lonesome Pine Special" TV special and Bela Fleck and Flecktones was born.
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 UFO Tofu Music CD is available from Bestprices.com
All songs written by Bela Fleck except "Sex In A Pan" (Victor Lemonte Wooten) and "Seresta" (Howard Levy/Manfredo Fest).
UFO TOFU is the culmination of three-plus years of unrelenting road work, during which time virtuosos Bela Fleck, Howard Levy, Victor Wooten and Roy "Futureman" Wooten had polished their act to a fine sheen, while expanding and refining their synthesis of jazz, country, funk and world music stylings.
But there's nothing self-conscious or contrived about their concord between urban fl music and folkish, hillbilly elements, which is what makes the down-home funk of "Magic Fingers" and the dancing Afro-bluegrass of "The Yee-Haw Factor" such a delight.
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 Fodera Guitars, Brooklyn, NY
Fodera Guitars, Brooklyn, NY Victor Lemonte Wooten is one of the most celebrated electric bassists of all time.
Chip Stern wrote in Musician Magazine that Victor is "proof that all men are not created equal." To this Victor says, "A lot of guys who have been around for a long time are shocked when they see some of the things I am doing.
In 1998, he received his third Bass Player of the Year award from Bass Player Magazine (the only bassist to have received this award three times) and was named one of the Top 10 Bass Innovators of the '90s by the same publication.
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 Musician Forums - Ask A Pro #1 - Victor Lemonte Wooten - Questions chosen.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Victor, how does it feel to be regarded as one of, if not the, best living bassists, and possible one of the best of all time?
01-13-2005 09:03 PM i tried to write victor a letter for a school project, sadly a got the wrong address and some guy wrote back to me with a crap load of quotes from the bible, it was scary.
Wooten, You are a great and true bass player, to put in simplest terms.
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 Amazon.com: Me and My Bass Guitar (The Life and Music of Victor Lemonte Wooten): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The story of Victor's life is fascinating already, and with a style of writing that reads like a narrative, it makes the book all the better.
Victor Wooten has to be the most phenomenol, world changing bass player since Jaco.
Victor's story is inspirational for anyone and Paul Hargett does a good job of telling it.
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 Victor wooten - Victor Wooten Bass Tabs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bassist Victor Wooten began his musical career early.
Wooten is a bass guitar hero for the '90s, pushing the instrumental envelope forward much as
Netflix: Rent Victor Wooten: Live at Bassday 1998 on DVD - Rent as many DVDs as you want for just $18/month.
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 Béla Fleck & the Flecktones: Victor Lemonte Wooten Gear Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Victor owns many basses, so you may see others on stage from time to time, including his Yin Yang 5-string.
Victor has been using an Ampeg PL-410HLF for a back fill speaker cabinet on the current tour.
Victor uses a Visual Volume pedal to control his overall volume.
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 JamBase | VIC WOOTEN | 02.11.02 | MINNEAPOLIS
Victor also won two Grammys in association with his amazing quartet, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
At the early age of two, Victor Lemonte began learning the bass; at age six he was playing in “The Wooten Brothers Band”, who consistently opened up shows for Curtis Mayfield and War.
Victor, Bela, Reggie, JD, Anthony, MC Divinity, Joseph and even a saxophone player named Jason Peterson, surrounded the stage in a musical cornucopia of sounds as eight musicians gracefully serenaded the overjoyed crowd.
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 Amazon.ca: Music: Live At The Quick [Live]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Anyone who saw the Flecktones in their early days probably told you that it was an amazing experience, and a big part of that praise undoubtedly focused on the group's improvised jams.
With Victor Wooten sometimes playing two basses simultaneously and Fleck wandering through the audience picking cosmic banjo lines, their shows were spectacles to be enjoyed for the simple thrill of hearing virtuosos play music that was mind-boggling but somehow utterly accessible.
Victor turns the bass into a sublime instrument, and throughout this solo you wonder how one musician could possibly be creating this three dimensional sound.
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 Flectone Bassist Victor Wooten Is Coming To Athens - by Matt Toledo - 9/3/1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bella Fleck and the Flectones bassist, Victor Lemonte Wooten is scheduled to play at the Swindlefish October 11th.
Perhaps one of the most innovative bassists of our time, Victor has a new double CD solo project available in stores now.
By the age of 8 he and "The Wootens" had opened for such acts like Curtis Mayfield and War.
www.athensmusician.net /archive/1999-09-03_VictorWooten.php?collapse_all=1   (305 words)

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