Recent content by nicksharpe

If you were in the concert halls and sports arenas in the 60s, before sound men could get it together- Jack's honkin mids cut thru all the boom in the room. Took me a while to figure that out - saw Deep Purple same era and couldn't hear anything because of the bass boom. It was the only way to...

I totally get it. Jaco's rise to fame screwed Miami out of any real bass player for more than a decade. all the 4 stringers wanted to be "Bird on the Bass"- dont get me wrong, portraits of tracy sent me into the woodshed for life! and getting to watch him play live in the early mid 70s...

in the school of white boy funk, JPJ is a prerequiste. it' not so much copping his licks as getting in to the mindset to play that way - prolly from practicing scales and inversions and all that tech stuff that fell by the wayside when punk and 2nd Gen hair metal took over. hey i never...