All hail the King! Hal works hard, sounds great and does what he is supposed to do. Don't hate on Hal, he's a nice guy, a good father and a great bass player. He has a new band with his son, they are called Maryanne Cotton. Andy LaRoque just finished building an amazing recording studio in Copenhagen. Mikkey Dee is touring with Motörhead . Pete Blakk is also in Maryanne cotton as is Snowy Shaw. Her's hoping that King's recovery is going well and that he will soon be recording and touring again! Btw Tim Hansen ( bass, Mercyful Fate) is currently managing a semi pro soccer team in Denmark. Hank Shermann is MIA. Michael Denner owns a music shop in Copenhagen and gigs occasionally .
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Where were you when Jaco died?
- Thread starter bassrique
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Steve DiGorgio is better than both of them, though...
...and he plays metal!!!
+100
Steve Digiorgio >>>>>>> Paco Jastorius anyday
jeff arddun said:Wow, I wonder where all those guys were when Jaco died?
If I knew what year you were talking about I could probably tell you. If it was early mid "80's then you are talking about the transitional period between Mercyful Fate and the band King Diamond. Tim had quit to raise his daughter, Andy , Hal ,Mikkey and Michael were recording and touring with King . Who knows where Hank was!! He pretty much disappeared.
I know! He was only like 19 years old! I am in fairly regular contact with all but Mikkey and King and nobody knows where Hank is!! Uber creepy indeed!
Every thread has its little side trips but what you've done is a full blown hijack. If people want to pay tribute and remember why don't you step back and let them? I have a hard time imagining anyone who was touched by Jaco coming over and sh!tting all over a Hal thread like you've done here. Enough already.
Good point - UncleMattGuy - please stay on topic in this thread or start another. Thanks.
Kwesi said:LOL!
Thanks for getting it kwesi! Btw dig your YouTube vid, looking forward to more.
Wow. You're so starved for attention you just can't shut up even after being asked very nicely. Prove me wrong.
When Jaco died I was living a few miles down the road from where it had happened. I was young but my step dad who is an avid jazz fanatic told me all about him and what had happened. Sad day indeed. His music, not just his playing, changed everything for me. He's as big of an influence on me as Miles Davis, Mingus, and Bach (he's the Thomas Jefferson of my "mount rushmore" of music so to speak. I wish mt rushome was 5 guys so could get bird on there too, oh well). Eventually I made friends with his family, the twins in particular, and while at Jaco's house one time was able to hold his coiled up, used strings collected by a roadie from the bass of doom in my hands from the Weather Report days. A truly numbing experience that still gives me chills.
God Bless Jaco!
God Bless Jaco!
At the time of Jaco's death I had just heard fretless bass for the first time (Paul Simon's Graceland album--bassist Bakithi Kumalo is a Jaco fan) and was about a year away from becoming a bass player myself. I did not hear Jaco's music until a few years after the fact.
