Did Jaco have other basses besides his BoD?

BASSATTACK · #1 12-13-2010, 03:05 PM

It's all you seem to see him with. You'd think he'd have picked up a sponsorship or two along the way, especially in his Weather Report days.

J. Crawford · #2 12-13-2010, 03:07 PM

He had a fretted brother to his BoD, and I think a super early Carl Thompson. I mean, I know he had others, but those are all I can think of right off the top of my head.

NickMarinelli · #3 12-13-2010, 04:12 PM

These are lots of pictures of Jaco with a blonde, fretted jazz bass which I believe he used to record "Chromatic Fantasy".

John Wentzien · #4 12-13-2010, 04:14 PM

http://www.jacop.net/gear.html

frisbieinstein · #5 12-13-2010, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BASSATTACK

It's all you seem to see him with. You'd think he'd have picked up a sponsorship or two along the way, especially in his Weather Report days.

He was sponsored by Guild and Hartke, though he seems never to have used their gear on stage. I've seen a video of him with a custom bass but I've forgotten the make.

He also played the piano quite well.

Mojo-Man · #6 12-13-2010, 10:28 PM

I seen him 8-9 times.
Always had the BOD, and a fretted brother.
Twice in the early 80's he had a blond fretted Jazz as a backup.

sonic assassin · #7 12-14-2010, 12:58 AM

he practiced on a fretted bass with a P neck. he said it was a better work out and he wanted to save the neck on the BoD for shows.

Jon_West · #8 12-14-2010, 01:00 AM

There are a couple images floating around of him with an Olympic white, rosewood jazz with (what looks like) a tort picguard.

Some other pics with different basses...

lol...

Reptile · #9 12-14-2010, 01:20 AM

Mørch custom five string fretless.

sonic assassin · #10 12-14-2010, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Reptile

Mørch custom five string fretless.

so much for the "jaco only needed 4 strings" argument. eat it devout anti 5 stringers.

glad he saw the proverbial ERB light.

Bababooey · #11 12-14-2010, 08:44 AM

This may be common knowledge but I just found out yesterday that his bass of doom is now owned by Rob Trujillo of Metallica....interesting.

Tampabass · #12 12-14-2010, 08:49 AM

Thought I knew Jaco, but I somehow never knew he had done any playing on a five-string.

Did he ever play that at shows or on recordings? Was it tuned BtoG or EtoC? Anyone know the circumstances of how he came to play that particular bass?

OPBASSMAN1994 · #13 12-14-2010, 08:50 AM

WHAAAAAAAAAAT???????

Rob Trujillo bought Jaco's bass? Why?

JimK · #14 12-14-2010, 09:05 AM

Bass Player mag (among others) covered this a few months back.

Now you do know BoD has been given a serious cosmetic uplift, right?

JehuJava · #15 12-14-2010, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Reptile

Mørch custom five string fretless.

This only surprises me because of the TB rumor mill that seems to turn into law.

Otherwise, it makes sense that he would try more than 4 strings.

I wouldn't have thought Morch though...but nice choice.

Tampabass · #16 12-14-2010, 09:10 AM

I'm not surprised that he'd be interested in trying one - just never heard stories or seen documented evidence that he had done so.

JimK · #17 12-14-2010, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by JehuJava

This only surprises me because of the TB rumor mill that seems to turn into law.

Otherwise, it makes sense that he would try more than 4 strings.

...for starters, there were not that many 5-string basses floating around in the '70s & early '80s.
That said, I'm sure he was a curious guy & would try anything once...I very vaguely recall an article where he said something like needing to relearn everything in order to make a move to a 5-string.

FWIW, Jamerson also tried a (Fender) 5-string bass...if you read SITSOM, you know how well that turned out.

Rumblefisher · #18 12-14-2010, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by OPBASSMAN1994

WHAAAAAAAAAAT???????

Rob Trujillo bought Jaco's bass? Why?

He gave it back to the Pastorius family.

JehuJava · #19 12-14-2010, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by JimK

...for starters, there were not that many 5-string basses floating around in the '70s & early '80s.
That said, I'm sure he was a curious guy & would try anything once...I very vaguely recall an article where he said something like needing to relearn everything in order to make a move to a 5-string.

FWIW, Jamerson also tried a (Fender) 5-string bass...if you read SITSOM, you know how well that turned out.

Oh, i'm with you. I was just taking a shot at TB in fun.

Reptile · #20 12-15-2010, 06:06 AM

The 5-string was tuned eadgc. He also had a 4-string Mørch.

http://www.tcelectronic.com/user_sto...rDcmntId=11587