Paul Jackson Bad Pocket???

[Mumwup]

I know I'll be flamed for this, but over the years I've listened to Paul Jackson, it sounds to me like he has bad pocket and poor technique. Listen to Hang up you Hang ups, Actual Proof, Spank a Lee, Palm Grease and many others. Maybe my ears just aren't big enough, but he sounds like he just doesn't get the groove. Can anybody talk me down?

 

[eyeballkid]

youre absolutely right! thats the BADDEST FUNK EVER!!!

 

[Nicolay3535]

Paul is one of my heroes, I think his work with the headhunters is untouchable!

 

[123321]

I know I'll be flamed for this, but over the years I've listened to Paul Jackson, it sounds to me like he has bad pocket and poor technique. Listen to Hang up you Hang ups, Actual Proof, Spank a Lee, Palm Grease and many others. Maybe my ears just aren't big enough, but he sounds like he just doesn't get the groove. Can anybody talk me down?

The cat's unique and very funky to my ears... I don't know what to tell you...

 

[bassfreakah]

Dude those songs define what pocket is. Stop listening so hard and slip behind the beat. Or smoke a j or something.

 

[superbassman2000]

I beg to differ--I think he sits in the pocket pretty tight. I've never really heard anything by him where he really sits at the front of the groove, but that's what makes him so funky in my opinion, and to me he was a good counter to herbie hancock's left hand, which covered bass too, as hancock always seemed to sit on top of the groove in his basslines to me.

 

[gai113]

oh man if you don't think actual proof is pocket.. then you don't know what pocket is..

A lot of his grooves are behind or ahead of the beat.. but they are in the pocket alright

 

[eyeballkid]

I thought it was so good, it made me just go and pickup THRUST!

 

[Gus Borden]

There is an old saying about a forest and some trees. Not to flame you, but how can you not hear it? Or feel it. Someone upstairs from me here said it already, but: Stop listening so hard.

.a.

 

[bluesblaster]

"hang up your hang ups" not in the pocket??????

Dude, your stereo must be broken

would love to hear just the isolated bass and drums for HUYHP,s
I think paul jackson was really inventive the way he did that track.

 

[evilgabe]

Part one
Paul Jackson and Mike Clark part 1 - YouTube

Part two
Paul Jackson and Mike Clark part 2 - YouTube

 

[m.oreilly]

paul is ipocket (intelligent pocket). wth?

 

[JimmyM]

Headhunters, "Hang Up Your Hang Ups" (1/2) - YouTube

You can listen to that and call it bad in any way, and I'll think you're on drugs. That's live, dude. That's some bigass bass playing. Might not be your thing and that's cool, but that's what most of us call amazing playing.

 

[Duckwater]

Paul Jackson is one of the funkiest and most groovy players ever IMO

 

[JimmyM]

Headhunters, "Hang Up Your Hang Ups" (2/2) - YouTube

Yes, I know between the two parts this jam is 20 minutes long, but Paul Jackson just gets better and better.

 

[klaus486]

Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters - Palm Grease (November 1974 Bremen, Germany @ Musikladen) - YouTube

Maybe you need to see the funk!

 

[younggun]

I just can't believe some of the stuff that gets posted on TB. Nothing should surprise me at this point, but this thread does.

 

[wes stephenson]

I know I'll be flamed for this, but over the years I've listened to Paul Jackson, it sounds to me like he has bad pocket and poor technique. Listen to Hang up you Hang ups, Actual Proof, Spank a Lee, Palm Grease and many others. Maybe my ears just aren't big enough, but he sounds like he just doesn't get the groove. Can anybody talk me down?

Well then what is you idea of pocket!

 

[sunnycal]

Of course, Herbie was never one to pick the best players!

 

[One Drop]

Yeah, and James Brown was a lousy dancer and Ray Charles couldn't sing.