Jack Casady - underrated!!!!!

[mellowgerman]

I am obsessed with jack casady's style of playing, sound, and everything!!! He is my absolute hero. If I could jam with one person it would be Jack! I feel like he is sooo underrated. everyone talks about Jaco and all the other big bassists, but nobody really seems to recognize jack! why is that? i realize it's a different type of music and a different plain all together... but still. he's the man as far as i'm concerned. thoughts?

p.s. just check out this clip if you're not familiar with his work. he's phenominal.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fisrdbYOdtY

[Barkless Dog]

Jacks is the king of hippy cool

[mellowgerman]

also, take note of the bass solo in this song. soo much feeling! so good
http://youtube.com/watch?v=papi84CXQ5U

[black.rose1402]

even if I'm a jaco , miller, wooten... fan, jack is one of my hero too, and I think that most of the guys here (not everybody) just loves fancy playing with a lot of notes and technical stuff, but most people (not everybody lol) just forget that playing bass is first lay down a groove plain and simple, I can play jazz, wooten style marcus style and jaco style, but I'm always amazed when I heur a great song because it makes me realise that all the stuff I know is nothing compared to a great song with simple stuff (listen to mc cartney, casady .... or more recently, robbie williams stuff, some songs are great and with great bass lines)

I think that here we praise too much technical stuff and technical players and forget that we play bass, and bass is all about laying a groove and be a support.

that's what a player like jack casady is all about. a solid supportive player.

[FL Knifemaker]

Not exactly my type of music but he's good. REEEEEALLY GOOD!!

[etoncrow]

Jack hangs out on Jorma's farm outside of Gallipolis, OH, about fifty miles from where I live. The place is called "Fur Peace Ranch".

http://www.furpeaceranch.com/

They have workshops there all the time so if you are serious about jamming with Casady, it can be done.

[kevinmoore73]

You can take lessons from Jack at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. Most of his 2008 sessions are booked, but space is available 11/14 through 11/17: http://www.furpeaceranch.com/schedule.html

[JohnSS]

Jack is my #1 influence and a lot of his specialties, like octaves, chromaticism, and melodic runs while nailing the groove creep in both consciously and subconsciously into my playing all the time.

[mellowgerman]

Originally Posted by kevinmoore73

You can take lessons from Jack at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. Most of his 2008 sessions are booked, but space is available 11/14 through 11/17: http://www.furpeaceranch.com/schedule.html

that's soo cool! only problem is i'm in college and having a hard time paying for that as it is... so it's really not an option at this point

[Thor]

Originally Posted by kevinmoore73

You can take lessons from Jack at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. Most of his 2008 sessions are booked, but space is available 11/14 through 11/17: http://www.furpeaceranch.com/schedule.html

That's the level 4 course. You will have to have taken level 3
with him or provided a recording of your music to take the
level 4 course.

Marjorie Thompson, a friend of mine who is a teacher there,
clued me in to that.

I was going to submit a cd, but the mid Nov timing doesn't
work for me.

By the way, many of us ARE familiar with Jack, and he is
not underrated around here.

Also, if you checked the 'Bassists' forum which is where your
thread belongs, and not the 'Basses' forum, you would have
found some threads about Jack there.

[mellowgerman]

Originally Posted by Thor

That's the level 4 course. You will have to have taken level 3
with him or provided a recording of your music to take the
level 4 course.

Marjorie Thompson, a friend of mine who is a teacher there,
clued me in to that.

I was going to submit a cd, but the mid Nov timing doesn't
work for me.

By the way, many of us ARE familiar with Jack, and he is
not underrated around here.

Also, if you checked the 'Bassists' forum which is where your
thread belongs, and not the 'Basses' forum, you would have
found some threads about Jack there.

sorry thor, didn't mean to step on your toes or anything.

[The Golden Boy]

Originally Posted by mellowgerman

sorry thor, didn't mean to step on your toes or anything.

I would have expected it to have happened sooner!!

[NorCal Dog]

shouldn't this be under Bassists,, instead of Basses ?

[mellowgerman]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dog

shouldn't this be under Bassists,, instead of Basses ?

yeah man, that was my bad. sorry haha

[Marcury]

Jack was my number one influence followed a very close second by that other Jack... Bruce. Both the Godfathers of strong, supportive, melodic jamming bass. the thing about Casady is that h always supports the groove, but with such monster lines.

[JKT]

Yeah, one of the first guys that made me realize as a young lad that it was "okay: for bass players to chord.

JKT

[Zooberwerx]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dog

shouldn't this be under Bassists,, instead of Basses ?

Boy, I sure love those JC basses, too!

There...that should take care of things.

Riis

[RED5]

People or places that start with a J? Jack C, Jack B, Jamerson, J. Entwistle, Jaco JP Jones....Is this a trend or an alien plot?

[Marcury]

Originally Posted by RED5

People or places that start with a J? Jack C, Jack B, Jamerson, J. Entwistle, Jaco JP Jones....Is this a trend or an alien plot?

I suspect aliens from Jupiter.

[NorCal Dog]

Originally Posted by Zooberwerx

Boy, I sure love those JC basses, too!

There...that should take care of things.

Riis

atta boy,,, please continue on as if,,,,,