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12-17-2006, 10:12 PM
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I picked up this DVD tonight. The booklet was missing for some dumb reason... I'll try to order one somehow. All in all this is a pretty sweet video. It's awe inspiring (slightly tragic) watching Jaco. I haven't got through it all and sortof just skimmed through it. Has anyone else seen it / own it? Thoughts?
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12-17-2006, 10:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | yea i got it, and the book. Even tho a lot of people don't recomend getting this dvd, i think its good jus to hav anything with Jaco on it.
Although it wuda been sweet if he had done the video 10 years earlier  but i stil think its a good dvd. |
12-17-2006, 10:33 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: outta this world | | | yeah i've watched that dvd many many times. i love jerry jermott's scroll head stock bass. i love how the body looks like leather sewn together. i want it |
12-18-2006, 02:44 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sargebaker  I picked up this DVD tonight. The booklet was missing for some dumb reason... I'll try to order one somehow. All in all this is a pretty sweet video. It's awe inspiring (slightly tragic) watching Jaco. I haven't got through it all and sortof just skimmed through it. Has anyone else seen it / own it? Thoughts?
R.I.P. Jaco | If you do a search there have been many, many discussions about this over the last 7-8 years and just about everybody has seen it and has their opinions on it.
Personally I think it is a "must-have" - but it is also very sad! 
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12-18-2006, 04:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Boston | | Although it was cool to watch this video being a rabid fan of Jaco's at the time. I feel as though there are easier ways to get the information presented. One of the more important things he states and elaborates on is playing in thirds... Well.. I did that... Great... 1 year later I decided to pick up the sax. And my instructor pointed me www.saxshed.com
Exercises that are on the video are in plain site if you look for them good enough. HE WAS INSPIRED BY HORN PLAYERS... |
12-18-2006, 05:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Bristol, England | | | I found it really useful for picking up the musical approach he had towards practicing. I supose he wasn't at his best when the video was made, i was surprised when he couldn't recall part of P.o.t. The dvd certainly inspired me a lot.
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12-18-2006, 05:25 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by metalguy2 HE WAS INSPIRED BY HORN PLAYERS... | I would have thought that was obvious to anyone from the outset, as the first track on his first solo album was written by a horn player!! 
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12-18-2006, 06:29 AM
| | | | its not a clinical bass tutorial....but its a great dvd!!! ..hanging with jaco and getting some tips and insight on the way...this would make a great xmas pressie!! |
12-18-2006, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | If you have a spare 10 minutes this is well worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6faIJZsmb0w
Jaco had it until the end it seems...
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12-18-2006, 08:48 AM
| | | thanks for that link...never saw it before but i had an idea that he still had it ..rewrite the history books....jaco had chops to the end!!!
long live jaco.... 
also ....that bass looked brand new ..totally different from the bass of doom...obviously that one was lost at this stage.
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12-18-2006, 09:27 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | I think it's great, if slightly tragic. That said, when Jaco gets in there he lays down some seriously stanky funk! If you listen to him soloing there he pulls off some amazing lines and shows that he's still got it. |
12-18-2006, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Flynn | Thanks for that. |
12-18-2006, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Flynn | Great video. Thanks so much, Mr. Flynn! BTW, does anybody know anything about that instrument? That's not his "Bass of Doom", of course. |
12-19-2006, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Montreal QC CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. Great video. Thanks so much, Mr. Flynn! BTW, does anybody know anything about that instrument? That's not his "Bass of Doom", of course. | I was going to ask the same. |
12-19-2006, 02:20 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | I had never saw that video [the you tube link]. Thanks for posting it. Seeing this thread reminds me-i need to get my copy of the DVD back from a guy i lent it to.
take it easy.
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12-19-2006, 07:41 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | great DVD. Love Jaco and Jerry. |
12-20-2006, 08:19 AM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | 1986 when that Salzburg recording was made, had some nice lucid playing from Jaco. The album 'Standards Zone' from that same year has some fine playing by Jaco. I think there was a period there where it looked like he was going to pull out of the downward spiral. Well anyway, thanks for that link, I've not seen it.
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