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11-28-2012, 08:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Jaco Pastorius - Modern Electric Bass
http://youtu.be/pZSa9niKKE4
with Jerry Jemmott. If this ain't a sticky, it sure as **** ought to be. |
11-28-2012, 08:40 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | That's the one instructional video I know of worth a damn. Worth paying for, IMO. |
11-28-2012, 09:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Wow! New dose of tacklin' fuel! |
11-28-2012, 10:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: US | | | The best of the best! RIP Jaco.
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11-29-2012, 08:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arcadia, CA | | | The lesson which stood out for me was Jaco explaining how the bass guitar was an inherently noisy instrument and he practiced it was to discover ways to control extraneous noise
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11-29-2012, 08:45 AM
|  | Rather biased towards Skjold basses. | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denver | | | The internet is amazing. I used to have to go to the fine arts library at the University of Texas, where I could check this video out to watch there in the library for no more than 30 minutes at a time. Now you can just watch it on YouTube.
Great video. Based on Bill Milkowski's biography, which is not without controversy, Jaco was in very bad shape at the time this was shot, essentially homeless IIRC. I only mention that because it illustrates what a wonderful player and insightful person Jaco was all the way through his jounrey. |
11-29-2012, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | It's good to hear them talk. It's good to hear them play. |
11-29-2012, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arcadia, CA | | | Could Jerry Jemmott still play at the point? How much of a recovery did he make from his injuries?
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11-29-2012, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by WJGreer  The internet is amazing. I used to have to go to the fine arts library at the University of Texas, where I could check this video out to watch there in the library for no more than 30 minutes at a time. Now you can just watch it on YouTube.
Great video. Based on Bill Milkowski's biography, which is not without controversy, Jaco was in very bad shape at the time this was shot, essentially homeless IIRC. I only mention that because it illustrates what a wonderful player and insightful person Jaco was all the way through his jounrey. | Yeah, Jaco even looks rough in the video. The quote by him when asked what it is like to play with the greats and he says "Get me a gig" is such a depressing statement on the state his life was in at the time. |
11-29-2012, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | I'm going to watch it again right now. Peace. |
11-29-2012, 04:12 PM
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11-29-2012, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Napier, New Zealand. | | | There are players who can play faster, there are players who can play eleventy string basses fluidly, but Jaco will always be the one who showed us the new way of playing.
He was an outstanding musician, bass playing aside. He wrote charts for his 20 piece (?) Invitation Big Band, they came in and played them live, and the harmonic content was/is outstanding. No piano, no guitar, and the band just killed it.
Clapton was God to guitarists in the 60s, and Jaco was God to bassists in the 70s. IMO, he still is today.
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11-29-2012, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by chuck norriss Check 44:30 | But remember...Jaco couldn't improvise.  |
11-29-2012, 04:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: SATX | | | I watched this video at least 100 times all the way through during high school. I can't even describe how big of an impact this video had on me. |
11-29-2012, 05:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | I've seen clips of this in the past, but this is the first time I've ever watched it (almost) all the way through in one sitting. It certainly has given me a much greater appreciation for him. |
11-29-2012, 05:12 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | As someone who idolises Jaco and rates him without any contest as the greatest musician ever on our instrument, I always find it very sad to watch that video, impressive though the playing is in places. But knowing what Jaco achieved as a player at his peak and seeing what had become of him at that point in his life is just tragic.
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11-29-2012, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | Well his head drops in the beginning but then he resurrects as the video goes on. We grieve for him but celebrate his virtuosity and his badass-ness. I didn't understand the phrase s/he still lives in us, for the longest time, but I may understand now.
There are a few people in this world who I wish were still alive, so ****ing bad. |
11-29-2012, 05:27 PM
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Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jaco Pastorius... |
11-29-2012, 05:38 PM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck norriss Well his head drops in the beginning but then he resurrects as the video goes on. We grieve for him but celebrate his virtuosity and his badass-ness. I didn't understand the phrase s/he still lives in us, for the longest time, but I may understand now.
There are a few people in this world who I wish were still alive, so ****ing bad. | I guess I've always watched it (I bought it years ago) through the "filter" of knowing what he was up against at the time. It's hard to watch it without that knowledge constantly making you think about the whole thing.
I was lucky enough to see Jaco at his absolute peak with Weather Report and for that I'm forever grateful.
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11-29-2012, 05:58 PM
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