Percy Jones

[JAUQO III-X]

Originally Posted by Jamie_Funk

And IMO, I hear ZERO Jaco when I listen to Percy. Same with Mick Karn (R.I.P.)

J

I totally agree. I have never heard Jaco in those two players.

[MixBass]

I totally agree about no Jaco in either Percy or Mick.
I did hear Percy in Mick though; in his use of modes and microtonal approach, which I believe are/were intentional and not simply out of tune.
I have no idea if Mick ever listened to Percy.
All 3 are/were trailblazers w/Percy being to my ears the most unique/least imitable of them all.

[deanb1043]

Percy also tears up a few tracks on a cd by Paranoise, Think it was called start a new race.

[Paul M]

I love Percy Jones' playing but I blame him for stalling my progress as a bass player.

I listened to him a lot in the 1980s and I tried to imitate him without having any understanding of basic music theory -- that is to say, I was just wanking. So I didn't learn much for a long time.

Of course, it was my own damn fault but I still blame him.

[deanb1043]

I was more of a Jaco follower but everybody gets stuck on their favorite players. I started learning upright and my first lesson was from Milt Hinton. He had me play his electric bass first. i played some Jaco from Weather Report. He then asked me did i know what i had just played. I told him I played by ear and he said you need to learn theory.

[Duke21]

Originally Posted by j-raj

Man.... I have been listening to Brand X for a while, his playing on those albums is amazing!

... on a side note, Brand X is the only Phil Collens I really liked.

Brand X, nuclear burn, Collins on the drums, Percy on the bass, wow! Love that song, and I'm not really into jazz!

[Duke21]

Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X

In the late 70's Lamont had a solo recording out and played a fretless P Bass and did a killer version of This must be Heaven.

and Bunny was introduced to the masses thru Chick but a few years later he put out a few recordings that were fresh sounding and energetic(on one of the albums he and Stanley Clarke did an awesome duet)

remeber the track by Brand X call Wal to Wal that featured both Percy Jones and Jonh Giblin(both playing fretless Wals).

Product and Do they hurt are fine albums, and both Jones and Giblin are playing some very nice chopes.

[winston]

Percy's one of the all-time greats!

I love his work on Brian Eno's Another Green World
Sky Saw
Over Fire Island

and Before and After Science
Energy Fools the Magician

among many other things.

[()smoke()]

Originally Posted by winston

Percy's one of the all-time greats!

I love his work on Brian Eno's Another Green World
Sky Saw
Over Fire Island

and Before and After Science
Energy Fools the Magician

among many other things.

very cool music here, thanks for the links!

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by winston

Before and After Science
Energy Fools the Magician

When I was at Berklee in 1978 we had a Share Your Favorite Records day in my freshman Harmony class. Nearly everyone in my class played something by either The Doobie Brothers or Steely Dan. I played Eno's "Energy Fools The Magician"

...and henceforth was referred to as "that weird kid" for the rest of the semester.

[Premierbass]

Percy is one of my all time favorites. I was just listening to the 1978 Brand X album "Masques". A couple highlight tracks:

Brand X - Masques - YouTube

Brand X - Black Moon - YouTube

Dan