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04-07-2007, 12:08 AM
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Yeah that's him drumming on Teen Town, he also cut some of the drum tracks on the Weather Report album Mr. Gone, though I don't recall which tracks they were. |
04-07-2007, 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by WarriorJoe7  wouldn't that be keyless piano... it's just one long rubber mat (hey they could do that with midi and a keyboard nowadays LOL) | like a continuum? ironically enough not the song jaco does, the intstrument. jordan rudess of Dream Theater has one. looks to be more of a cloth material though.
...i want one...
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04-07-2007, 06:50 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Bill Dickens is pretty sharp on the piano, and Shawn Lane is was an absolute MONSTER on the piano (just listen to some of his live solos, like the one on Abstract Logic), however, we seem them as bassist and guitarist. |
04-07-2007, 06:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Maryland | | | Reminds me of Eddie Van Halen he "HAD" to be a guitar god and they would not let him play keys until he begged
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04-07-2007, 07:02 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Didn't Eddie start off playing piano, before he played guitar, as a method of staying up late? |
04-07-2007, 07:06 AM
| | | | I happen to own that instructional video also and Jaco is playing the tune "3 Views of a secret". Its true Jaco played other intruments too. Ive seen him here in NYC playing acoustic guitar fairly well in the middle of the night in New Yorks Greenwich Village with some hip hop artist in the street. He was not a great guitar player nor pianist or drummer because he simply ate slept and dreamed of the bass. But he did have a great sense of musical harmony and did understand music so he played enough piano as most jazz players do to write some wonderful tunes. Mingus was the same way he played fairly decent piano to compose. |
04-07-2007, 09:14 AM
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04-07-2007, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by brianspencer66 I happen to own that instructional video also and Jaco is playing the tune "3 Views of a secret". | You sure you're talking about the same clip I am? In the one at the end of the Modern Electric Bass DVD, that is definitely "Liberty City" he's playing.
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04-07-2007, 11:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | JAco was a pretty great drummer. His father and grandfather were drummers and when he was a kid he delievered newspapers early every morning to save up for his first drumset. Ive heard tracks of him playing drums after his accident and he was still better than alot of r&b drummers Ive heard. Before his football accident that twisted and tangled his left hand , he was an excellent drummer but didnt have alot of strength in his arm till he eventually had surgery on it when he was 18 or 19. |
04-07-2007, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X You can here Jaco play some very nice piano on his Word of Mouth album/cd on the track John & Mary and he also was known to be a very talented basket ball player as well. | Cool, thanks. I'll have to check that out 
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04-07-2007, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: California | | | Because he is known as a innovative bassist. You can't be two things at once.
If you want a innovative pianist, most oeople might think Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock and Steve Wonder.
They'd be right.
Jaco ain't got nothing on those cats. |
04-07-2007, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by andyroo Yeah that's him drumming on Teen Town, he also cut some of the drum tracks on the Weather Report album Mr. Gone, though I don't recall which tracks they were. | He played drums on River People |
04-07-2007, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Erlend_G I just find it strange that Jaco's piano playing is so overshadowed by his bass playing. | Why? What's so strange about it? He was a far better bassist than he was a pianist. He was an ordinary pianist, if that. He was an extraordinary bassist.
justinb515 was right. It's the same reason Michael Jordan wont be remembered as a baseball player.
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04-07-2007, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Rumblestiltzkin Because he is known as a innovative bassist. You can't be two things at once. | Yes, you can. But few people are, and Jaco wasn't one of them--instrumentally anyway.
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04-08-2007, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Richard Lindsey Why? What's so strange about it? He was a far better bassist than he was a pianist. He was an ordinary pianist, if that. He was an extraordinary bassist.
justinb515 was right. It's the same reason Michael Jordan wont be remembered as a baseball player. |
Sorry, maybe I didn't use the right words. What I really meant was "It's sad that Jaco's piano playing was overshadowed by his bass playing". |
04-08-2007, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Erlend_G Sorry, maybe I didn't use the right words. What I really meant was "It's sad that Jaco's piano playing was overshadowed by his bass playing". | I don't think it's sad, because I'd much rather listen to his amazing bass playing than mediocre piano playing.
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04-08-2007, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by doctorjazz You sure you're talking about the same clip I am? In the one at the end of the Modern Electric Bass DVD, that is definitely "Liberty City" he's playing. | Yeah he only made one instructional video in I think it was 85 and I have his second solo record for which he recorded that same tune with arrangements he wrote. Im almost certain the tune was "3 views of a secret". But I could be wrong none the less its a wonderful tune. And not to put down Jacos drumming he was a fine drummer its just that in comparison to his bass playing there was not contest. And well Ive heard much better drummers but I will say Jacos drumming was most dynanic on tunes like teen town and he knew how to ride a hi hat really well. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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