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Jacos bass - where?
- Thread starter dougazbass
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bostonasphalt2 said:
I'm not gonna go dig up a link but it's no big secret he's played it out before.
Edit: Well I'm not sure if it's a well known fact or not really, but I vividly recall seeing pics or a video of him playing it a few months back when I first read this story.
Thanks, millsbass5!
meh... it would have been more fair if Trujillo said: "I've bought it and now it's mine. Period. When I decide it will be for sale it will be sold to the biggest offerer". THIS is business. My opinion.
meh... it would have been more fair if Trujillo said: "I've bought it and now it's mine. Period. When I decide it will be for sale it will be sold to the biggest offerer". THIS is business. My opinion.
DiabolusInMusic
Functionless Art is Merely Tolerated Vandalism
Trujillo legally owns the bass but he feels as though it is still the families and he just gets to have it for the time being, I cannot find the quote but since your speculating might as well look it up...
Right, everybody must read this link before continuing! All questions are answered here. Don't be lazy, read it! All new questions must be post this link.
Thank you very much.
Forget where I read it, but the figure I heard was $50k.
I wonder what happened to his fretted Jazz?
I wonder what happened to his fretted Jazz?
Ouch, such a shame that bass couldn't have been kept in it's original condition.
But I guess the lesson here is that nothing can last forever.
John
But I guess the lesson here is that nothing can last forever.
John
The one he uses on the DVD?
Pretty sure it was sold to a collector few years back for not much money.
He also said, in the article, that it's in storage with the instruments of his bandmates, but he takes it out occasionally.
Which "original"- intact, or smashed to bits? This is how it was when Jaco last possessed it, so it's the way it should be. If it had been reassembled and improved after Jaco's death, it should have been mounted on a board and placed under glass.
Right, everybody must read this link before continuing! All questions are answered here. Don't be lazy, read it! All new questions must be post this link.
Thank you very much.
+100
What does 'fair' have to do with this? Someone stealing it from Jaco wasn't "fair". Keeping it for over 20 years isn't "fair". Selling it after stealing it and not being prosecuted isn't "fair". The Pastorius family having to go through lawyers to extricate it from the greedy hands of someone who didn't have any right to ask for money isn't "fair".
What Trujillo did is more than fair. He financed the return and it's stored in a known safe place. I'm sure that if Jaco's family needed to use it for something, they can get it but in writing, they agreed to him keeping it safe until such time that they decide to buy it from him for the same price he paid. THAT's more than fair- if he did it for money, he would have told them to pound sand and demand whatever he wanted but he did this out of reverence for Jaco, his playing and the tragedy that was his end. If this instrument just went to the collector's market and into a private collection never to be seen again, that would have been unfair to others, but fine WRT the buyer in the sense that an owner can do whatever they want with what they buy.
Please read the article on the Fender site (link on the first page of this thread), you got it totally wrong. No need to make things up when all the information is already there.
it would have been truer if Trujillo said: "I've bought it and now it's mine. Period. When I decide it will be for sale it will be sold to the biggest offerer". This should make my opinion clearer, now
Your respectable opinion. But he just bought the bass and keeps it at his home. This is the fact. He's fully entitled to do this, since he spent a lot (as you say, too). But this is some form of investment, business that (for me, I might be wrong) has nothing to do with being fair or respectful to JP or his family in no way except for some sort of "right" to buy it when they will have the required sum. Surely: better at Trujillo's place than lost who knows where!!!
But, all things considered, it's highly unlikely (God may help them in doing it) that anybody in the Pastorious family comes out with that huge sum of money to get back the bass where it belongs. The rest is only useless talks.
My opinion, anyway...
So, what exactly makes people think that the family has an entitlement to the bass?
That it was stolen is unfortunate but is that it?
Ad what#s with all the other basses HE owned? Do they have them/want them too?
Shouldn't it be a simple case of "Trujillo bought it, therefore it's his, period.?"
Sorry, I have not YET had the time to read the fender article in it's entirety.
That it was stolen is unfortunate but is that it?
Ad what#s with all the other basses HE owned? Do they have them/want them too?
Shouldn't it be a simple case of "Trujillo bought it, therefore it's his, period.?"
Sorry, I have not YET had the time to read the fender article in it's entirety.
Exactly my point! No need to say that he did something special for JP's family.
Reasonable feeling for the family and for an entire community (myself included): it's because the bass was Jaco's and now is somebody else's. Also because it is not any bass is "the" bass of all basses... In addition there are the Jaco's twins that are musicians and one of them is a bassplayer: can you imagine what this axe means to them... but reality is reality. And money is money.
