The Alabama Man bit is in the Chinpoko episode of South Park. Like most South Park (IMO), hilarious!
As far as the Flecktones goes, my musical tastes are extemely eclectic, so it would've been predictable I'd like them enough to make a 3-hour trip so my daughter and I could see them in concert, literally leaning against the stage in front of the bass player. Only a week after her first rock concert (Rush). She got her new Stradivarious trumpet and saw her biggest music idols all in the span of a week.
Surprisingly, people I know who have more specific musical tastes have universally liked the Live at the Quick DVD, regardless of what their specific musical taste might be.
They really defy categorization, but if you had to try to classify them, I think it'd be "Jazz meets Funk, and gives Bluegrass a nod as it walks by."
The leader may play a banjo and used to be best-known for Bluegrass, but that's definitely not what the band does.
I ran across them accidentally one weekend when DirecTV featured them as one of their "Freeview" concerts, meaning their concert was every other one on channel 103 every weekend that month.
Tuned to it when their bass player (Victor Wooten, who I'd surprisingly never heard of prior to that -- bass is my main instrument) was doing a long solo based on "Amazing Grace". My jaw dropped and I was hooked. Ended up watching that show about a dozen times that month and recorded it. Loaned the tape to a friend and he never gave it back (he was hooked), so got the DVD when it came out.
To give a sample of how eclectic this band is, right now they're performing a song where one guy's playing a recorder and another is soloing on a bassoon that's running through a device that makes chords out of what he's playing. And now they're in a part of the song where Bela (banjo) and Sandip Burman (tabla) are riffing back and forth.
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