Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

I second Sndsel on "Uncommon Ritual". I had the good fortune to see those three live on their tour. Defintely the best acoustic concert I have ever gone to. Listening to track #7, and seeing Edgar Meyer on the bass live, you can understand how he won a fiddle contest playing the double bass!!! Swallace, check out the "Live Art" CD if you want to hear them live. One more thing, every concert I have gone to, they always have had a special guest. Used to be Paul McCandless of Oregon, and now Jeff Coffin (he may be counted as a regular now), but the last one I saw, there was this guy from Mongolia singing "tuvan throat singing" (he sings duet by himself) that was quite a site. He is featured on track #3 of "Outbound". My only objection to Bela concerts is that they play very loud (all concert soundmen are deaf I think) and some unruly fans occasionally. And my only regret is that I never got to see Howard Levy (of the original Flecktones).

I believe the disk Piezo refered to is the aforementioned "Tales from the Acoustic Planet", w/ Corea, B. Marsalis, et. al.

I still occaisionally use the Flight of the Cosmic Hippo to show off my system. It's a lot of fun to listen to.