JACO had a an ABG!

oldprussians · #1 08-08-2011, 07:43 AM

He did so! And a 5 stringer at that!

SoVeryTired · #2 08-08-2011, 07:48 AM

It was active. And fretted.

**j-raj** · #3 08-08-2011, 07:51 AM

There are pix floating around the web of jaco playing a Musicman Earthwood ABG (fretted)and I think that there is one of him playing a fretted 5 string Guild pilot.

staindbass · #4 08-08-2011, 07:53 AM

whats an abg ?

Schlyder · #5 08-08-2011, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by staindbass

whats an abg ?

acoustic bass guitar

staindbass · #6 08-08-2011, 07:56 AM

oh thanks

SoVeryTired · #7 08-08-2011, 07:59 AM

The pics showing him with a Cort Gene Simmons Axe bass have been proven to be fakes, however.

Schlyder · #8 08-08-2011, 08:02 AM

If Jaco was still with us, I am sure he would have switched to playing a 6 string.
The added range, more natural harmonics, more chord voicing possibilities.
I know he would be playing an ERB.

JTE · #9 08-08-2011, 08:08 AM

I've never seen any photos of Jaco with a 5-string Pilot, but Guild did a whole series of ads with him endorsing their Pilot and the Guild/Hartke speaker cabinets. It was a black fretless Pilot. I have one of the dealer posters in my garage. I was a Guild dealer from '77 - '88. There was apparently also some video Guild shot of Jacob and Jerry Jemmott jamming at a club when Jack Bruce stopped by. I hounded my sales Rep for two years to get me SOMETHING from that, but Guild changed hands and Larry Hartke went to Samson so the project died.

John

oldprussians · #10 08-08-2011, 08:10 AM

I saw it in the Jaco Bio, that a friend lent me!

JTE · #11 08-08-2011, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Schlyder

If Jaco was still with us, I am sure he would have switched to playing a 6 string.
The added range, more natural harmonics, more chord voicing possibilities.
I know he would be playing an ERB.

Except that at the time he said he didn't see the need for a five- or six-string bass. I'm m very careful about categorically stating what someone I don't personally know would or would not do had they lived.

John