Jaco is dead and has been for quite a long time. Regardless who owns it, it will always be somebody else's from now on regardless of their surname.
No?
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Jacos bass - where?
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Jaco is dead and has been for quite a long time. Regardless who owns it, it will always be somebody else's from now on regardless of their surname.
No?
you're 100% right, no doubt. In addition, we're just talking about a piece of wood with some metal on. Plenty out there. Even of better quality. But now for a moment place yourself in Felix's shoes, would you?
you're 100% right, no doubt. In addition, we're just talking about a piece of wood with some metal on. Plenty out there. Even of better quality. But now for a moment place yourself in Felix's shoes, would you?
Oh I'm sure he wants it, no doubt he does, and I do sympathise,but isn't that the extent of it really?
To come back to it: what's with all the other basses that Jaco owned and used?
one is in some private collection (anyone?); about the others who knows? But THE main axe, the Bass of Doom is the one he used 80/90% of times through all of his career actually.
Think of other dedicated and strongly characterised players: Marcus Miller or Chris Squire, to say just two: they have probably 20 basses each at home, but only one is THE Marcus Miller or Chris' bass!!!
Not at all.
I once - unknowingly - bought a Fender Jazz bass that was stolen from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. The sheriff came to my house, confiscated it, and gave it back to the rightful owner. My reimbursement was exactly half of what I paid for it... many, many months later.
Trujillo should simply make a gift of it to the Pastorius Family - that would be the right thing to do. I think he should know that.
Considering all the back-slapping and stories of his famous bass player friends in tears of happiness about Trujillo's gesture, this is exactly what I thought he had done. Was surprised to find out it's not quite so. It is a much better situation for the family though, regarding the bass of doom. Not perfect but better.
That so they can sell it again and the bass will show up again 20 years from now with a lightwave system and a composite neck in some basement in Mars...
Is it proven that the bass was stolen rather than lost?
If so, I guess it might be returned to next of kin and do agree.
I'd also wonder why someone would buy an instrument they knew was stolen and therefore could not legally be sold (Isn't that the case?).
As far as I have heard , stolen goods are returned to their rightful owners if recovered(as you describe happening pretty much), without anyone being able to buy those goods or the owners having to pay for them...I may very well be wrong though.
Stories of this bass having been stolen have been around a long time before Trujillo bought it which makes it kind of interesting I recon.
If all this is as many people seem to say it is he should not have been able to buy it in the first place, should he?
It was stolen in central park during a pick up baseball game.
I use to live in west palm beach Fla. and frequented Kevin Kaufmans shop in those days. I had a bass in being setup or repaired or something and I went in one day to pick it up and we chatted a few minutes when I noticed a couple bubble wrapped pieces of a jazz bass sitting on the work bench, I asked about them and kevin began to tell me about how it was Jacos and that it had been tossed off the top of a hotel in japan, I could see through the wrap that it was badly damaged and colored with a dark marker pen, apparently jaco had had a bad day, at any rate he (kevin) just sort of had this exasperated look on his face and said he wasnt sure he was gonna be able to fix it this time. He obviously did and he said later that Jaco was overjoyed that it was back together and playable once more, he (jaco) then went to new york with it and lost it shortly there after.
I use to live in west palm beach Fla. and frequented Kevin Kaufmans shop in those days. I had a bass in being setup or repaired or something and I went in one day to pick it up and we chatted a few minutes when I noticed a couple bubble wrapped pieces of a jazz bass sitting on the work bench, I asked about them and kevin began to tell me about how it was Jacos and that it had been tossed off the top of a hotel in japan, I could see through the wrap that it was badly damaged and colored with a dark marker pen, apparently jaco had had a bad day, at any rate he (kevin) just sort of had this exasperated look on his face and said he wasnt sure he was gonna be able to fix it this time. He obviously did and he said later that Jaco was overjoyed that it was back together and playable once more, he (jaco) then went to new york with it and lost it shortly there after.
I am on talk bass and we are talking about Jaco's bass.I love it.
I would personally donate 5 bucks to the restore the BOD to Jaco's family fund.
If each member did the same, we would have over a million bucks even without the haters and the trolls.
Who would like to organize it?
Also,I think the repaired and restored BOD should have been made to look like it used to, Like Fender did.
I would personally donate 5 bucks to the restore the BOD to Jaco's family fund.
If each member did the same, we would have over a million bucks even without the haters and the trolls.
Who would like to organize it?
Also,I think the repaired and restored BOD should have been made to look like it used to, Like Fender did.
WOW! Awesome story. He was pretty drugged up and washed out at that point, it's not surprising he would do something like that.
Not sure this is possible given the extent of the damage. I think its about as good as its gonna be.
Man it's not hard to read guys.
The details to the story are effortlessly SIMPLE to find.
Trujillo paid the Pastorious families legal fees which they were NOT able, or WILLING to pay.
Trujillo did this as a favor to the family after being made aware of the situation by Jaco's nephew (David Pastorious)Trujillo made it possible through HIS bank account for them (the Pastorious family) to finish the legal battle to regain possession of the bass.
The guy was a huge Jaco fan, and viewed him as one of his bass heroes growing up.
This guy bends over backwards to help the family out and you guys are here making him seem like a selfish prick for a bunch of assumed crap he's not even done.
Based on the interviews I've read, he acknowledges that the bass belongs in a museum and also that he will NEVER be the rightful true owner of the bass.
It would seem the bass is currently EXACTLY where the Pastorious family WANTS it to be.
It's safe, it's in the hands of someone who appreciates it for what it is.
And all of you guys that are hating on the way the bass was rebuilt, keep in mind that was done while Jaco was alive and still owned it.
Those repairs were made with Jaco's say so and approval.
Jaco apparently loved the results. Why are you guys having such a hard time with it?
The details to the story are effortlessly SIMPLE to find.
Trujillo paid the Pastorious families legal fees which they were NOT able, or WILLING to pay.
Trujillo did this as a favor to the family after being made aware of the situation by Jaco's nephew (David Pastorious)Trujillo made it possible through HIS bank account for them (the Pastorious family) to finish the legal battle to regain possession of the bass.
The guy was a huge Jaco fan, and viewed him as one of his bass heroes growing up.
This guy bends over backwards to help the family out and you guys are here making him seem like a selfish prick for a bunch of assumed crap he's not even done.
Based on the interviews I've read, he acknowledges that the bass belongs in a museum and also that he will NEVER be the rightful true owner of the bass.
It would seem the bass is currently EXACTLY where the Pastorious family WANTS it to be.
It's safe, it's in the hands of someone who appreciates it for what it is.
And all of you guys that are hating on the way the bass was rebuilt, keep in mind that was done while Jaco was alive and still owned it.
Those repairs were made with Jaco's say so and approval.
Jaco apparently loved the results. Why are you guys having such a hard time with it?
^That.
The magic was in the guy's brain and hands. The bass was a tool. It makes me wonder if Art geeks anguish over famous paint brushes.
The magic was in the guy's brain and hands. The bass was a tool. It makes me wonder if Art geeks anguish over famous paint brushes.
No- his original fretted Fender Jazz bass. His fretless was a '60, and the fretted was a '62 (or vice-versa).
Jaco played two basses in his heyday. The '62 fretless, and the fretted '60. Listen to Teen Town on Weather Report' 8:30 album- Jaco got around pretty good on his '60, too
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