• TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
    Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
    Join free Log in
    Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.

Jaco the world greatest bass player ...

#61
ugly_bassplayer said:
Jaco, true legend and genius.

Everyone in here owes him a dept a gratitude. Even if they can't admit it.

/

Respect and RIP

Seems to be a huge lack of respect towards certain bass innovators that’s been a trend here on TB for some years. $%^& shame
Click to expand...
My thought on this as far as lack of respect.
Most bass innovators like Jaco or James Jamerson are dead. Not all but, some. So at first, their work is daunting to them and two things happen. Folks will either woodshed their catalog until it becomes second nature to them and will think, at that point, there's nothing to it. Forgetting that just because they copped it, they didn't originate it and that artist is no longer contributing to their catalog.
Or dismiss it as a lot of noise and then also think there's nothing to it. Mainly because they can't cop it.
But, that's just me :)
 
  • Like
Reactions: bassobrutto, PJ Muzikmansky, J_Bass and 5 others
#62
Kukulkan61 said:
Yes he did. His arrogance got him killed..
Click to expand...
I believe he was bi-polar. Add to that, he couldn’t really process all the drugs he was taking. Sad. Yes, he was bit uppity, but when he was in his prime he could back it up. Saw him one time in 1980 in with the classic Weather Report line up. Heck, he even reached out after the encore and shook a few hands in the first row. Thought that was classy. No, my friend, his arrogance didn’t kill him.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sascha Erni, Arthur U. Poon, LBS-bass and 3 others
#64
DJ Bebop said:
My thought on this as far as lack of respect.
Most bass innovators like Jaco or James Jamerson are dead. Not all but, some. So at first, their work is daunting to them and two things happen. Folks will either woodshed their catalog until it becomes second nature to them and will think, at that point, there's nothing to it. Forgetting that just because they copped it, they didn't originate it and that artist is no longer contributing to their catalog.
Or dismiss it as a lot of noise and then also think there's nothing to it. Mainly because they can't cop it.
But, that's just me :)
Click to expand...
+1
 
  • Like
Reactions: DJ Bebop
#66
REV said:
I can add only one thing to this discussion. Listen to Stanley's first solo record and then listen to Jaco's first solo record. End of discussion. Write this down!
Click to expand...
I bought both. Stanley's album came out in 74?. I liked Bill Connors guitar playing, but album didnt get near the play that Heavy Weather did a few years later. I bought Jacos solo album much later. After Hejira for sure.
 
#69
Although Jaco's world of music was far different from mine, there was no mistaking a completely transformational and transcendent style and vocabulary, just eye-watering brilliance that only comes along once in a very great while. Just today the local 'smooth jazz' college station was playing the studio cut of Weather Report's take on 'Byrdland', and to hear those little side of the thumb harmonics, it brought it back in buckets.

However, I've never been able to not feel just bereaved and heartsick over the many times he may or may not have been able to seek effective professional help to tame the mighty forces that were loose inside him, and impossible to ignore he died essentially homeless and alone. That's why I'm only occasionally able to listen to him any more, it's too hard to fathom how it could have ever happened, though in the Great Big Music Business, this is sadly far too common, and too common by too many to chalk it up to that 'live fast, die young' idiocy.

That this sort of thing still happens today is unconscionable.
 
  • Like
Reactions: barrenelly, Watchootognbout, Arthur U. Poon and 1 other person
#70
Tubehed said:
My post wasn't meant to criticize Jaco. I just remember reading about where that statement originated. Not from others, but the man himself. His death was a tragedy.
Click to expand...
I'm not criticizing, someone asked if he said that and I simply answered his question. Jaco was great and i have respect for him and others who have left this world but in reality he was arrogant about his playing not a humble man by all means..
 
  • Like
Reactions: FRoss6788
#72
Jaco the world greatest bass player ...

tenor (1).gif
 
  • Like
Reactions: Squittolo, Arthur U. Poon and DJ Bebop
#77
These threads need to be abolished.

For the record Tony Levin is the world's greatest bass player. Oh wait, that just my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

Wedha Pop Art Portrait: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Was this thread supposed to be about this portrait? If it was then I don't care for the style and it seems to be quite popular in Indonesia.
 
  • Like
Reactions: DJ Bebop and FRoss6788
#79
He's like the Jimi Hendrix of the bass. Changed the perception of what the instrument could do. In that respect he can't be touched. There have only been a few artists who are truly revolutionary. The Beatles, Les Paul, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis... Each took the current state of the art and propelled it into the future. That's what a revolutionary, visionary artist achieves. There are many talented musicians who stand out as individuals within the established framework of the status quo, but they don't reinvent it. James Jamerson wasn't the first funky P bass with flats player, but he's become an institution for the legions of bassists who emulate him. He didn't change how music was played or how the bass sounded (it still was a P bass), yet his style has a huge impact to this day. Jaco wasn't the first fretless player, nor the first to have a bright tone. His use of loops and electronics wasn't that uncommon in fusion circles, but his technique and approach to the instrument made people notice. Such a brilliant and tragic figure. As far as being "the world's greatest bass player", what does that even mean? I can't imagine Jaco in a country and western band. He wouldn't be the best in that genre. Then again, I can't imagine Roy Huskey, Jr. playing in Zappa's band.
 
  • Like
Reactions: DJ Bebop, Watchootognbout and Arthur U. Poon

Latest posts

Top Bottom
Back