I saw a video of Tony Franklin talking about this the other day. It sounds pretty good.
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Jaco and Jimmy Page
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I saw a video of Tony Franklin talking about this the other day. It sounds pretty good.
we watched that tony franklin video just yesterday - i thought he was very engaging as he told the story. we were going to watch the video you posted today. thanks for posting it!
Sounds a bit like a typical Friday night blues jam to me. Nice to hear but not his best work if you ask me.
Long story short,he was the man. Jaco. Ah many players are great but Jaco, AJ, and Stanley Clarke are the guys. With all respect to the others.
[edit]Marcus Miller to add to the group[/edit]
[edit]Marcus Miller to add to the group[/edit]
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I think that being a great player is a combination of hard work plus some real talent. What is truly remarkable is having the vision to do what has not been done before. By that standard Jaco, AJ, Larry Graham, Victor Wooten, all really standout to me. Billy Sheehan, with his tapping, was real pioneer too. Finally, Monk Montgomery, deserves credit for being the first legitimate Jazz bassist to see the creative potential of the bass guitar. Stanley Clarke deserves credit for being the first totally unabashed virtuoso on bass guitar. I see Marcus Miller as the bass guitar version of Charles Mingus, a great bassist who also has fabulous bandleader and compositional chops.
Now that's the coversation I like. Charles Mingus is a dedicated upright bass player. I was talking about the electric bass players. So one of the Montgomery bros played the electric bass (as well as Wess did on his records) but in the modern world there are Jaco, Sanley and Anthony. Of course many great players like Alphonso Johnson, Marcus etc that are absolutely great musicians (and bass players)
Jimmy Page regularly makes posts pictures and stories to his instagram account. He posted this one recently, and wrote very kind words about Jaco.
Page is a class act.
Tony is doing a great job promoting his upcoming book. His conversational style should translate to a fun read.
