Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Flight of the Cosmic Hippo

[ayellowlam]

So groovy... Victor Wooten is god!

[squirrelgecko]

Silly dubstep kids, bass is for bluegrass.

[3234718]

I read in a Victor Wooten interview that a friend of his who runs a speaker store uses this song to test out woofers.

[ztnagobw]

@3234718 I just frickin' read that now, and that's why I'm here!

[FriedEggsWithChips]

Great sound. New to this and liking it.

[TheBedfordboyz]

Thanks for shearing again cheers bro

[PJ92386]

Thanks for sharing

[robostomo1]

the songs in D guys, played on a 4 string fretless bass..

[slappingpopping]

@robostomo1 

[LooLoothethird]

@robostomo1 no its not Bil Vorndick who recorded this in 1958, is my teacher. Wooten was playing a 5 string bass.

[chadhargis]

The low E on a four string bass is indeed around 41hz, however, given the depth of the note in this song, it's highly likly that Victor was using an octaver.If he played a 5 string on that particular song, the low B string is about 32hz. That's pretty dang low.

[raydio99]

Made a deep impreesion when I heard it on "Northern Exposure" a LONG time ago.

[KPatorx]

This and another band are the only ones where I can listen to any song, even if I haven't heard it before, and love it. With Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, there's no such thing as an "alright" song.

[dakrusch]

this song is frat as fuck

[StealY0urFace]

@dakrusch fail

[zeddybitz]

Fattest bass EVER!

[se7en1976]

@zeddybitz and REAL bass too.. none of that electro synth crap they put in songs these days

[EY30FAC1D]

@se7en1976 and even better the fact that victor wooten is on the bass

[whywatchthistv]

@se7en1976 dude theres no such thing as "real bass" it's a type of frequency if you want to use a synthesiser to create a bass in genres such as dubstep it works because you have to automate every single wobble and design a sound it's pretty hard to do, but yeah i love bass guitar as i'm a bassist and victor is awesome and the bass in this song is awesome.

[whywatchthistv]

@se7en1976 also it's quite hypocritical to insult synth technology as the drums in this group are played on a synthaxe drumitar.

[HighLandHotPocket]

Aww, my parents had this song on the cd. I remember this one only and the cd had a fat pink hippo on it in space with sunglasses. Ahh, childhood :)

[porousllamaboy]

@HighLandHotPocket your parents were cool.

[rjmendera]

my sub woofer says this is WUNDERBAR!!! cheers rjm

[XxMETALJAREDxX]

@rjmendera AMEN to that!

[zeddybitz]

@rjmendera That got the house rattling! Fattest bass ever!

[se7en1976]

@rjmendera PLaying this on a sub is a sin

[LeneKosti]

@se7en1976 Why is it a sin? Sub only provides playback of lowest frequencies that your speakers are not able to play. With small(ish) speakers a lot of deep bass information is lost.

[se7en1976]

@LeneKosti most subs are horrible droney rubbish that doesnt replicate sound truthfully. No musical instrument can get down to 15-20Htz, yet the sub can. Ask most audiophiles and they will say that a sub merely gets in the way of a good set of speakers.

[se7en1976]

@LeneKosti Size of speaker is completely irrelevant.

[LeneKosti]

@se7en1976 E-string on bass guitar is 41hz... Now show me a bookshelf speaker that goes that deep(in reality, not on paper). You mostly hear harmonics! And size DOES matter when dealing with bass!

[11Kralle]

@rjmendera

Mein Tief-Töner sagt: dies ist `wonderful´!!!