I love you Jaco, I love the way your music has made me feel ever since I first heard you more than 10 years ago - listening to your albums never grows tiring or stale - your ideas are eternally fresh and sing through my heart like the morning sun. Thank you for your amazing and heavenly musical gifts!
I'm a professional bassist myself, but I feel nothing when Jaco plays... really is it that good..? And no I'm not your conventional Kings of Leon bassist but mainly a Jazz and Blues bassist.
@Murreh Jaco's reputation is not merely his ability, but the fact that he took the bass to places people did not. It is legacy that is important, he has influenced many bassists, Victor Wooten, Victor Bailey, Neil Stubenhaus, Jimmy Haslip, Oteil Burbridg and many others. what he did, was lay down the foundation for modern Jazz Fusion and other styles. That is why e is essentially famous.
@Murreh Yeah, I run hot and cold with Jaco's playing myself. Sometimes I think it's great, other times (like this vid) it just sounds like oodles of noodles to me.
Does anyone know which 'Tracy' the song title refers to? Hearing this I imagine a hauntingly beautiful, mysterious woman (I'm thinking Gene Tierney in the movie 'Laura')...
... but alas 'Tracy' can also be used as a man's name.
@jdubbjazzbass I don't think you have the proper education to appreciate the huge contribution he made to the bass guitar and the music itself.I might be wrong,but that's what I think.
@cursedswordsman All his compositions are not enough to you?.Amazing speed or technique is not everything.The art goes first.And the way Jaco expressed his art on the electric bass was the most genuine at his time.It is a great inspiration for many players around the world,including Marcus Miller,Michael Manring and Victor Wooten.If that is not a decent contribution to the bass and the art of music itself you're deaf.
@jdubbjazzbass "Overrated" is a word that the ignorant use to describe hugely important things or people that they haven't yet learned to respect and appreciate...
@jdubbjazzbass It's ok if you don't get it, the first 1000 times... I once thought Jaco was shit too, but after my hearing and knowledge grew I started to recognize such complex geniuses, it's not as obvious as abba or the beatles you know..
weather report came into my studio many years ago (rainbow) in omaha , nebraska.....mostly just to hang out and buy some strings and accesories...they were a lot of fun to be around...we had the beastie boys in for three days rehersing their second tour....before that....needless to say it was one incredible week..especially for omaha nebraska
Learn this or die: When you are in the evil heart of your addiction, it seems like you can't concentrate creatively on your art. That's a chemical lie of the poison-substance you're taking. It has alienated you from your love, your art. The only way to beat this lie is to lay your art down, go into continual treatment WHILE discontinuing use. This you make a permanence. As you learn about the nature of addiction, you'll relearn true love, hate, and slowly pick your art up along the way.
THIS guy is the greatest bass player in the world...? I'm sorry, but *facepalm*... He's really really good, but I wouldn't classify him as greatest, he's definatly up there, though, in the top 5.
@Link2000999 Just wondering who would you put ahead of him? I can only think of three people I would be content with saying are "better" or on the same level as Jaco; Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten. Comparing bassists is a waste of time, learn from all of them, not just your favourite or the best.
@coolmaster5000 James Jamerson as number 1, Flea as number 2, and this guy would be number 3. As I said, he's really good, just not the best in my opinion.
@ceddagr8 Many players borrow from Jaco, and Stanley Clark. They blazed the trail for many of us. But why are we "comparing" artist anyway? When it comes to masters of their craft, there is no comparison!
I "appreciare" playing with a pick, I just think if someone never picked one up, then they would lack the most intense skill to master on the bass, which I think is being able to play whatever you want WHILE muting all other strings without having a pick (the side of your hand is what would mute in that case)
If you make a mistake, do it twice? I don't like pick, and I do like jazz. But I don't like this composition. Seems like someone's rehearsal of flageolet technics on the fretless for the first time.
I love Jaco, I love playing fingerstyle but there is no need to hate on picks. Dug Pinnick, Carol Kaye, Paul McCartney, Bobby Vega to name a few fantastic pick users. Why can't we just appreciate all styles of playing?
@robert9369 Also Mike Gordon from Phish. I started with the fingers but also learned with pick. If you are comfortable with both you can jump into any musical situation if that makes sense
Would you look at that, Jaco found distortion before Cliff Burton. (Just saying this because a lot of Metallica fans seem to think Cliff was the inventor of distortion on bass).
@Jan77bass What are you talking about? If you think I'm saying Jaco was the first player to ever use distortion I am not. I just said Metallica fans tend to think Cliff was the inventor of distortion on the bass and at the end here is clearly shows Jaco playing with distortion way before cliff did.
maybe in the technical ability as a bass player.. i feel like jaco may have been faster... but as a musician i honestly don't think anybody rivals him, including coltrane, miles, etc.
The drive to create is a maddening desire most don't get to experience let alone try to work into a career. Jaco had more talent than the world could handle, just not the stability to market it.
pretentious? it's beautiful, first of all. and second of all its a solo spot, of course its pretentious. the point of a fucking solo spot is to show technical ability!!
@ChrisKoe82 I agree with you, its an unbelivable technical feat, but in reality, who is going to put this on and listen to it...its technically great...but not really pleasant on the ears. Im not stuck in the box of modern pop music. I play bass for a band quite the opposite
I just wanted to say that music doesn't necessarily have to be pleasant to the ear to be brilliant. At this moment I'm listening to Zappa's "Jazz from Hell" - not quite what you would call beautiful music, but ingenious nonetheless.
@twjstevens What? I think it's very musical, at least it isn't a bunch of slapping and popping crap, I do agree that's it's probably more of a demonstration than an actual piece.
This isn't a grooving sort of a piece. It's a sensitive and harmonically complex portrait piece. Jaco (as well as the Weather Report (Wayne Shorter for fuck's sake)) has roots in jazz, and is therefore strongly invested in the exploration of harmony, especially the more dissonant (tasty) cadences and resolutions.
And if you think Jaco has no groove, you probably listen to Maroon 5.
@TheDionysiac I listen to maroon 5 and I love Jaco... seriously those "oh if you don't like this, you probably listen to "insert artist/band here" make me sick, why can't one person enjoy multiple styles of music eh?
However, my dislike of Maroon 5 has less to do with their style than it does their total lack of musicianship. So when I say "you probably like Maroon 5", I mean your musical interests are probably restricted to mainstream conventions, epitomized by formulaic and unsubstantial bands like Maroon 5. Now, while you may enjoy both Jaco and Maroon 5, you can't possibly deny the unimaginably large discrepancy in musical integrity between the two.
@TheDionysiac the musicianship in Maroon 5 is amazing, they are all super talented guys, yes i agree that there is a huge gap between them and Jaco but you can't deny it when you find good musicians especially in today's music
If you don't feel anything when you listen to this then you must be listening to it with biases and expectations. Just listen. Don't expect anything other than an honest performance and you'll always be happy in regards to your greats.
no one musician is ever better than every other. there are many greats, if you have an open mind you will appreciate them all. Music is about feeling, creativity and expression of both. Shut up and listen!!!!!
It's funny how people get trashed on if they criticize or dislike Jaco.
He had great talent but he didn't have a great "feel" for music, at least not in my opinion. There's a big difference. His stuff isn't very enjoyable to listen to. I understand he was a great bassist but people who go nuts because someone else doesn't like his style need to chill. It's not for everyone.
@johnchezy You are right, there is no need to trash people who dont like it, but they shouldn't post idiot comments about it and they shoud support their oppinions with reasonable arguments,not just blindly saying its shit. Like yousaid that you think he hasn't got good ''feel'' for music, I personaly disagree because it takes a great deal of musical ''feel'' , asyou described it, to actually think of and play such interesting and and tehnicaly difficult ideas.
@LarryBizzerrd it's like saying, "beethoven just doesnt groove to me"...... this isnt P-funk, it's jaco taking an amazing solo purely for the audience to see his technical ability.
My God, Jaco is so young and beautiful here! This playing elevates the bass to art. The sophisticated harmonics, the crisp arpeggios, the improvising on a theme......just everything! What a waste of a life. I miss him a lot.
@dokcso I don't think it's necessarily bad. But if you don't at least try and develop calluses on ur index and middle fingers, then you'll be missing out on the plethora of tones that those two fingers create depending on how you pluck.
@GuiseppePipes in fact, i can play with fingers. i almost learned all techniques (2 fingers, 3 abd 4 fingers, slapping, tapping and playing with pick.) i dont say that i can play really well with all the techniques, but i know the basics. but for my favourite music i just need a pick! and i just need it for my sound and tone.
@dokcso It's not bad to play bass with a pick. It's good enough for Anthony Jackson, so it's good enough for anyone. However, it's easier to learn fingerstyle and then learn pick rather than the other way around. Use whatever gets you the sound you need. I'm mostly a fingerstyle player, but I'm rather proud of the pick and palm mute sound I got for a country song in studio once. It's whatever suits what you need to do.
@Kunstdesfechtens Good man,and don't forget thath a lot of grat bass players on all the genres usually use a pick( for example Roger Glover of Deep Purple,David Ellefson of Megadeth,Noel Redding of The Jimi Hendrix Experience,Lemmy.......)
Fair enough, he had a lot of skill. Maybe its because I don't like jazz, but I just don't get this guy. I play bass and he is revered as a bass legend, but I cant listen to anything he does.
@kyral210 You really need to listen to Jaco's solo album (simply entitled 'Jaco Pastorious') from 1976. It does a much better job of showcasing Jaco's precision, speed, and overall creativity. Also check out Weather Report's "Black Market" live performance video on here. There are much better examples of his work.
dannon actually has a point. (by the way,i have moved to europe, but DO NOT wear a speedo) i think what dannon means is that jaco's techniques have been adopted by "sober people" some not very hip bass players who, without jaco's incredible feeling for what simply works, play a lot of extraneous shit and are not able to do that and still keep the time and basic bottom of the harmony clearly identified. i've played with some, and man, it's hell.
@gilbert20 Please enlighten me, Gilbert, on how Iam closed-minded and ignorant for trying to be a well rounded bass player and trying new things. I am not trying to be childish, but really, are you talking about yourself again?
I have this concert dvd, and personally I love jaco, but I hate this concert. It was all the same jazzy shit for the most part, camera angles were bad, songs were very repetitive, not much creativity in terms of song choice in my opinion, and of course they focused on everyone else EXCEPT jaco the entire time, except for this song. Shit I want to see what the fuck he's doing, I don't care to see some guy's hair waving or the horn player just standing there, see the rest and you'll understand
some stuff doesn't sound as impressive because it was influential. every bass player who came on the scene after jaco lived in his shadow, so pretty much all of his style has been absorbed into the mainstream. it's like listening to hendrix and hearing just another guy playing blues rock with distortion LOL. as for the song, check out SWV "rain" for an entire beautiful song built on jaco's one little motif
when ever i see an old jaco video it's always like he's searchin for somethin on the bass like he was always experimenting for a new sound portrait of tracy was probably one of those sounds
Now I know who influenced all the jazz/fusion I hate....he does some pretty interesting stuff, but his influence is horrific...that's too bad. Combine his super-technique with sober people and you have crap. He was at least able to compensate for his overtly technical playing with FEELING...and a shitload of drugs...without THAT you have crappy jazz/fusion that makes me want to kill myself... or move to Europe and wear a Speedo.
@TheWALOS Yes it is just you, TheWALOS. It's also just you feeling self-satisfied that you just made me have to look up asinine to confirm that I knew what it meant. Excellent work. Now I'll hold something above your head--I can recognize beauty when I see and hear it.
@TheWALOS Lol you suck even more for using that phrase. Jaco is the shit, you're a douche for posting that comment, and I would encourage you to revisit this without such obnoxious preconceptions
@TheWALOS Lol. Na bro, I'm perfectly chill. You suck even more for using that phrase tho. Jaco is an incredible genius, you're a douche for posting both this and your original comment, and I would encourage you to revisit this without such obnoxious preconceptions
Is it strange that I'm a Metalhead who likes this?
fatfatat444 1 day ago
@fatfatat444 Nope. Never be limited by any music genre. :)
wladarthvader 1 day ago
I think he was an Alien!
mutation999 1 week ago
genius player
fdr968 2 weeks ago
in fact; fingers are just 5 long thick picks.
pipsqueek14 3 weeks ago
I love you Jaco, I love the way your music has made me feel ever since I first heard you more than 10 years ago - listening to your albums never grows tiring or stale - your ideas are eternally fresh and sing through my heart like the morning sun. Thank you for your amazing and heavenly musical gifts!
positiveflame 3 weeks ago
In the Pantheon of Bass Jaco is Zeus. To this Day unsurpassed by ANYONE!!!I thank the Lord he allotted the Guitar to me.
azharkamal 3 weeks ago
Is it me or Jaco resembled Cliff Burton quite a lot?
novembrine1 1 month ago
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Mjolbaggar 1 week ago
I'm a professional bassist myself, but I feel nothing when Jaco plays... really is it that good..? And no I'm not your conventional Kings of Leon bassist but mainly a Jazz and Blues bassist.
Murreh 1 month ago
@Murreh Jaco's reputation is not merely his ability, but the fact that he took the bass to places people did not. It is legacy that is important, he has influenced many bassists, Victor Wooten, Victor Bailey, Neil Stubenhaus, Jimmy Haslip, Oteil Burbridg and many others. what he did, was lay down the foundation for modern Jazz Fusion and other styles. That is why e is essentially famous.
isthatmycow100 4 weeks ago
@Murreh not a big deal man. Some people don't prefer hearing this music, others do. Fair enough.
GammelAske 2 weeks ago
@Murreh Yeah, I run hot and cold with Jaco's playing myself. Sometimes I think it's great, other times (like this vid) it just sounds like oodles of noodles to me.
olflatop 1 week ago
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here's another great musician of our time from the south of italy:
Gabriele Russillo -Amazing live to the Zagreb Bass Contest (Ethn'n'Roll) part I
taratatunda 1 month ago
Amazing
Heatfan1214 1 month ago
I'MMA FIRIN MY LAZAR!
diokeo 1 month ago
John Francis Patorious III ft! ;D
thenudgeshow 1 month ago
Man, the only album I like at all of Jaco is the second solo record of his. This just doesn't do it for me.
Thepopdelusion 1 month ago
Huge pimple there.
communty 1 month ago
Not to forget the legendary Chris Squire(Yes) who did wonders and he used a pick or a coin i guess
metalheadtaz 1 month ago
why do the best musicians die so tragically :'(
bizzeepoo 1 month ago
Sid Vicious forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hear that JP fans, this guy is a hack!
Lasaration 1 month ago
@Lasaration You`re kidding,right?.
3WingedKitten3 1 month ago
Jaco is at the top of the Bass playing game,
it is undeniable; composing and playing.
There are very few original players out there. Myself I am lucky to be playing with James Mobius,
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GregMagDrums 1 month ago
Happy 60th birthday Jaco...
basspowa95 2 months ago 2
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Does anyone know which 'Tracy' the song title refers to? Hearing this I imagine a hauntingly beautiful, mysterious woman (I'm thinking Gene Tierney in the movie 'Laura')...
... but alas 'Tracy' can also be used as a man's name.
... anyone know?
icecreamforcrowhurst 2 months ago
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icecreamforcrowhurst 2 months ago
very overrated!!!!!!!
jdubbjazzbass 2 months ago
@jdubbjazzbass no, I don't think so :)
D92Torre 2 months ago
@jdubbjazzbass I don't think you have the proper education to appreciate the huge contribution he made to the bass guitar and the music itself.I might be wrong,but that's what I think.
3WingedKitten3 2 months ago
@3WingedKitten3 Such as...? He made no contribution other than writing good songs to play.
cursedswordsman 2 months ago
@cursedswordsman All his compositions are not enough to you?.Amazing speed or technique is not everything.The art goes first.And the way Jaco expressed his art on the electric bass was the most genuine at his time.It is a great inspiration for many players around the world,including Marcus Miller,Michael Manring and Victor Wooten.If that is not a decent contribution to the bass and the art of music itself you're deaf.
3WingedKitten3 2 months ago
@jdubbjazzbass "Overrated" is a word that the ignorant use to describe hugely important things or people that they haven't yet learned to respect and appreciate...
blahkaw98 2 months ago 8
@jdubbjazzbass It's ok if you don't get it, the first 1000 times... I once thought Jaco was shit too, but after my hearing and knowledge grew I started to recognize such complex geniuses, it's not as obvious as abba or the beatles you know..
alexjrmarino 2 months ago
beautiful!
tfelixbass 2 months ago
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hey you guys should check out my bass playing, see if u think i can be one of the best in the world!! THANKS...
ckellerism 2 months ago
krist noveselic used a pick to,he may not be the most technically proficient bass player out there but his hooks are catchy and creative.
MrAglassofwater 3 months ago
GROOVE: /watch?v=sTMjT6YsyXk
nandooobass 3 months ago
weather report came into my studio many years ago (rainbow) in omaha , nebraska.....mostly just to hang out and buy some strings and accesories...they were a lot of fun to be around...we had the beastie boys in for three days rehersing their second tour....before that....needless to say it was one incredible week..especially for omaha nebraska
rainbowmusicomaha 3 months ago
Wish you could take leave from heaven and come back for a bit!
s3njibaz 3 months ago
Learn this or die: When you are in the evil heart of your addiction, it seems like you can't concentrate creatively on your art. That's a chemical lie of the poison-substance you're taking. It has alienated you from your love, your art. The only way to beat this lie is to lay your art down, go into continual treatment WHILE discontinuing use. This you make a permanence. As you learn about the nature of addiction, you'll relearn true love, hate, and slowly pick your art up along the way.
Ariel62073 4 months ago
Jaco and Steve Cloutier are where it is at.
MrRobsworld6 4 months ago
Jaco for me has to be probably the greatest electric bass player of all time. Listen to the original 'tracy' on his first solo album...
Magnificent!!
I miss your genius Jaco...
Stodius 4 months ago
Jaco for me has to be probably the greatest electric bass player of all time. Listen to the original 'tracy' on his first solo album...
Magnificent!!
I miss your genius Jaco...
Stodius 4 months ago
aprenda del mejor
clauderoubillie 4 months ago
man, the baddest motherfucker on base was mingus, second to em was bootsy, jaco has swag, flea is cool,
humminalong 4 months ago
straight harmonix
holcombboi1980 4 months ago
Just revisiting my continued love of, about, within and without....Jaco.
Islingtonians 4 months ago
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Amazing player, what a legend! I just uploaded my first bass solo vid. check it out!
D0CT0RPETE 5 months ago
Does anybody know what song that is they start to go in to at the end before it cuts off???
kunluv 5 months ago
THIS guy is the greatest bass player in the world...? I'm sorry, but *facepalm*... He's really really good, but I wouldn't classify him as greatest, he's definatly up there, though, in the top 5.
Link2000999 5 months ago
@Link2000999 Just wondering who would you put ahead of him? I can only think of three people I would be content with saying are "better" or on the same level as Jaco; Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten. Comparing bassists is a waste of time, learn from all of them, not just your favourite or the best.
coolmaster5000 4 months ago
@coolmaster5000 James Jamerson as number 1, Flea as number 2, and this guy would be number 3. As I said, he's really good, just not the best in my opinion.
Link2000999 4 months ago
@Link2000999 Flea? Over Jaco? Really?
lawlz01 4 months ago
@lawlz01 In my opinion, yes. Remember everyone has their own opinion, and I'm not sayng\\ing this guy is horrible, I just prefer Flea over him.
Link2000999 4 months ago
@Link2000999 Flea Who? Yeah I'm being sarcastic!
ceddagr8 4 months ago
@ceddagr8 Many players borrow from Jaco, and Stanley Clark. They blazed the trail for many of us. But why are we "comparing" artist anyway? When it comes to masters of their craft, there is no comparison!
ceddagr8 4 months ago
actually 122 use a pick
MADWORKTV 5 months ago
fuck luc havan
MrChiffy 5 months ago
I "appreciare" playing with a pick, I just think if someone never picked one up, then they would lack the most intense skill to master on the bass, which I think is being able to play whatever you want WHILE muting all other strings without having a pick (the side of your hand is what would mute in that case)
GuiseppePipes 5 months ago
@GuiseppePipes
Using a pick is not the most intense skill to master on bass.
matizzle32 5 months ago
@matizzle32 i honestly meant to type, '...never put one down'...the rest of my comment says how i feel
GuiseppePipes 5 months ago
If you make a mistake, do it twice? I don't like pick, and I do like jazz. But I don't like this composition. Seems like someone's rehearsal of flageolet technics on the fretless for the first time.
RadioNex 5 months ago
I love Jaco, I love playing fingerstyle but there is no need to hate on picks. Dug Pinnick, Carol Kaye, Paul McCartney, Bobby Vega to name a few fantastic pick users. Why can't we just appreciate all styles of playing?
robert9369 5 months ago 68
@robert9369 Also Mike Gordon from Phish. I started with the fingers but also learned with pick. If you are comfortable with both you can jump into any musical situation if that makes sense
thelandofozz 5 months ago 17
@robert9369 we only hate on exclusive pick players.
Keplaffintech 5 months ago
@robert9369 tell me that Chris Squire was not a good bassist. Hating on picks is dumb.
theendlessenigma 4 months ago
@robert9369 you forgot Greg Lake
RotogloK 3 months ago
@RotogloK and Chris Squire
aidange2 2 months ago 2
@robert9369 chris wood does some great stuff with a pick
fingerstyle will always be the best though :P
thesmelliestwizard 1 month ago
I just bought School Days, Heavy Weather, and Paco Pastorius on iTunes. Life is good.
grevejp44 5 months ago 3
@grevejp44 You sir.. I like you.
coolmaster5000 5 months ago
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n64wilbert 6 months ago
Man, what a creative mind! Curse that rotten bouncer in FL who took Jaco from this world.
GuitarMirth 6 months ago
How does one trash Jaco....
sinisterBOB9 6 months ago
Would you look at that, Jaco found distortion before Cliff Burton. (Just saying this because a lot of Metallica fans seem to think Cliff was the inventor of distortion on bass).
coolmaster5000 6 months ago
@coolmaster5000
What? What man? What have you done for past 40 years? Please listen to the Who recordings in 1964, you know something about it.
Jan77bass 6 months ago
@Jan77bass What are you talking about? If you think I'm saying Jaco was the first player to ever use distortion I am not. I just said Metallica fans tend to think Cliff was the inventor of distortion on the bass and at the end here is clearly shows Jaco playing with distortion way before cliff did.
coolmaster5000 6 months ago
how you gonna do those false harmonics with just your fingers..you cant
aaronamccoy 6 months ago
@aaronamccoy thats not true, you can do false harmonics without a pick, there's a video of jaco pastorius doing it.
Drewish2727 6 months ago
@Drewish2727 reread ,my post, i am in awe, thats what i meant.. he was magical
aaronamccoy 6 months ago
I love Jaco, but this is so sloppy...
cursedswordsman 6 months ago
@cursedswordsman or is it?
javimiami92 6 months ago
potro
duckfuckism 6 months ago
awesome ! made me smile
trioptimumscapes 6 months ago
@pokerstick1
maybe in the technical ability as a bass player.. i feel like jaco may have been faster... but as a musician i honestly don't think anybody rivals him, including coltrane, miles, etc.
buefyYT 6 months ago
Any so called bass player who bashes this guy needs to be cain whipped.
swaggs 6 months ago
The drive to create is a maddening desire most don't get to experience let alone try to work into a career. Jaco had more talent than the world could handle, just not the stability to market it.
Yapostadodat 6 months ago
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pretentious and boring!!!
77montana77 6 months ago
@77montana77
pretentious? it's beautiful, first of all. and second of all its a solo spot, of course its pretentious. the point of a fucking solo spot is to show technical ability!!
buefyYT 6 months ago in playlist Jaco Pastorius
coffee house style
jamovision 6 months ago
So, this isnt very musical, who would actually listen to this? Its more of a demonstration, or a weird alternative piece of expression.
twjstevens 6 months ago
@twjstevens
This is a demonstration of extraordinary technical abilities. But also of a level of musicality only few ever reached.
Try looking out of the box of modern Pop music. This is art.
ChrisKoe82 6 months ago
@ChrisKoe82 I agree with you, its an unbelivable technical feat, but in reality, who is going to put this on and listen to it...its technically great...but not really pleasant on the ears. Im not stuck in the box of modern pop music. I play bass for a band quite the opposite
twjstevens 6 months ago
@twjstevens
I didn't mean to be rude.
I just wanted to say that music doesn't necessarily have to be pleasant to the ear to be brilliant. At this moment I'm listening to Zappa's "Jazz from Hell" - not quite what you would call beautiful music, but ingenious nonetheless.
ChrisKoe82 6 months ago
@twjstevens a lot of people listened to this- SWV sampled it for the hit song "rain"
MrJadePinwheel 6 months ago
@twjstevens What? I think it's very musical, at least it isn't a bunch of slapping and popping crap, I do agree that's it's probably more of a demonstration than an actual piece.
DoubleEdgedSword12 6 months ago
@twjstevens
its obviously musical because me and 3/4 of the views came here to listen to this. and just like me. probly have more than once.
crayZtaco7 6 months ago
@twjstevens This is not musical? Have you any idea how musically genious this piece is? It is insane!
madeinNorwayAM95 6 months ago
what are those holes near the pickup?
san5a89 7 months ago
@san5a89 probably where the pickup used to be... thats just a guess tho
thomasgiannini 6 months ago
@thomasgiannini and why did he put the pup just 2 cm near the original position.....it's the same!
san5a89 6 months ago
@san5a89 previous pickup
leokasper7107 6 months ago
@leokasper7107 and what's the difference??? He moved it near 1 inch......
san5a89 6 months ago
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@san5a89 why don't you ask him?
leokasper7107 6 months ago
118 people have their head up their ass
KenichiNagahiro 7 months ago
If you don't "get" Jaco go back to Kindergarten
dt156 7 months ago
This isn't a grooving sort of a piece. It's a sensitive and harmonically complex portrait piece. Jaco (as well as the Weather Report (Wayne Shorter for fuck's sake)) has roots in jazz, and is therefore strongly invested in the exploration of harmony, especially the more dissonant (tasty) cadences and resolutions.
And if you think Jaco has no groove, you probably listen to Maroon 5.
TheDionysiac 7 months ago
@TheDionysiac I listen to maroon 5 and I love Jaco... seriously those "oh if you don't like this, you probably listen to "insert artist/band here" make me sick, why can't one person enjoy multiple styles of music eh?
kirezar 7 months ago
@kirezar It's a joke, don't be so sensitive.
However, my dislike of Maroon 5 has less to do with their style than it does their total lack of musicianship. So when I say "you probably like Maroon 5", I mean your musical interests are probably restricted to mainstream conventions, epitomized by formulaic and unsubstantial bands like Maroon 5. Now, while you may enjoy both Jaco and Maroon 5, you can't possibly deny the unimaginably large discrepancy in musical integrity between the two.
TheDionysiac 7 months ago
@TheDionysiac the musicianship in Maroon 5 is amazing, they are all super talented guys, yes i agree that there is a huge gap between them and Jaco but you can't deny it when you find good musicians especially in today's music
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s76fitz 7 months ago
This really just sound like random harmonics and someone warming up honestly.
LarryBizzerrd 7 months ago
@LarryBizzerrd How can you possibly fathom this? Judging by your favourites channel, you listen to bloc party and puff daddy for fuck sake.
Meta1Head91 7 months ago
Hideous tone!!!!!! It hurts my ears! These solos sound like noise!
LarryBizzerrd 7 months ago
If you don't feel anything when you listen to this then you must be listening to it with biases and expectations. Just listen. Don't expect anything other than an honest performance and you'll always be happy in regards to your greats.
RainWiLLIDie 7 months ago
no one musician is ever better than every other. there are many greats, if you have an open mind you will appreciate them all. Music is about feeling, creativity and expression of both. Shut up and listen!!!!!
arkeith07 7 months ago
How come this genius didn't play with Zappa?
TheGumboVariator 7 months ago
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@TheGumboVariator
"How come this genius didn't play with Zappa?"
The earth would have been swallowed up by a black hole of genius.
MomoTheBellyDancer 6 months ago
It's funny how people get trashed on if they criticize or dislike Jaco.
He had great talent but he didn't have a great "feel" for music, at least not in my opinion. There's a big difference. His stuff isn't very enjoyable to listen to. I understand he was a great bassist but people who go nuts because someone else doesn't like his style need to chill. It's not for everyone.
johnchezy 7 months ago 2
@johnchezy You are right, there is no need to trash people who dont like it, but they shouldn't post idiot comments about it and they shoud support their oppinions with reasonable arguments,not just blindly saying its shit. Like yousaid that you think he hasn't got good ''feel'' for music, I personaly disagree because it takes a great deal of musical ''feel'' , asyou described it, to actually think of and play such interesting and and tehnicaly difficult ideas.
Brainprobe 7 months ago
@johnchezy
EXACTLY!!!
I'm with you on the feel thing, this just doesn't groove at all to me.
LarryBizzerrd 7 months ago
@LarryBizzerrd it's like saying, "beethoven just doesnt groove to me"...... this isnt P-funk, it's jaco taking an amazing solo purely for the audience to see his technical ability.
GuiseppePipes 7 months ago
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playdrums 7 months ago
@playdrums are you mad at something? seriously. you have to really listen. try listening to his studio album version. it's much more clear
jryuwah 7 months ago
jaco pastorius tirava um armónico não sei de onde!!! esse cara era demais!!!
dougtricolor2 8 months ago
this is amazing
metalheadneji 8 months ago
113 people hung themselves with their strings
chevysdime92 8 months ago
My God, Jaco is so young and beautiful here! This playing elevates the bass to art. The sophisticated harmonics, the crisp arpeggios, the improvising on a theme......just everything! What a waste of a life. I miss him a lot.
gilbert20 8 months ago
113 people broke their basses in rage lol XD
HM2028 8 months ago
JACO!!!!!
HM2028 8 months ago
113 people use a pick
GuiseppePipes 8 months ago 135
@GuiseppePipes xD
XJoSeX969 7 months ago
@GuiseppePipes I c wut you did thar
GODMONSTERRARGH 6 months ago
@GuiseppePipes 119 now lol
derrymadness 6 months ago
@GuiseppePipes would you tell me please, why is it bad to play a bass with pick?
dokcso 6 months ago
@dokcso I don't think it's necessarily bad. But if you don't at least try and develop calluses on ur index and middle fingers, then you'll be missing out on the plethora of tones that those two fingers create depending on how you pluck.
GuiseppePipes 6 months ago
@GuiseppePipes in fact, i can play with fingers. i almost learned all techniques (2 fingers, 3 abd 4 fingers, slapping, tapping and playing with pick.) i dont say that i can play really well with all the techniques, but i know the basics. but for my favourite music i just need a pick! and i just need it for my sound and tone.
so... ahm.
dokcso 6 months ago
@dokcso sweet
GuiseppePipes 6 months ago
@GuiseppePipes thanks^^
dokcso 6 months ago
@dokcso It's not bad to play bass with a pick. It's good enough for Anthony Jackson, so it's good enough for anyone. However, it's easier to learn fingerstyle and then learn pick rather than the other way around. Use whatever gets you the sound you need. I'm mostly a fingerstyle player, but I'm rather proud of the pick and palm mute sound I got for a country song in studio once. It's whatever suits what you need to do.
Kunstdesfechtens 6 months ago
@Kunstdesfechtens Good man,and don't forget thath a lot of grat bass players on all the genres usually use a pick( for example Roger Glover of Deep Purple,David Ellefson of Megadeth,Noel Redding of The Jimi Hendrix Experience,Lemmy.......)
creepingdeatrrr 6 months ago
@creepingdeatrrr And let's not forget the great jazz bassist Steve Swallow, who plays electric with a copper pick. Beautiful tone.
Kunstdesfechtens 6 months ago
@GuiseppePipes playing with a pick soundd good but i play with my fingers fingers do sound better
TheIllegalKind 5 months ago
It's like warm sunshine being drizzled on you for the first time from a golden pitcher
Lwyte17 8 months ago
Every time I listen to that ending, I get chills down my spine. Such a haunting sound from a bass player that's past on.
Matackable 8 months ago
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I hope the first 3 rows have their ponchos on, because if that ZIT at 3:11 burst, it's gonna be like the Gallegher show off-up-in-there!
brownstone2250 8 months ago
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kinkyhairchronicles 8 months ago
I'M a shredd guitarist...but damn i love jacos music
xDimebladex 8 months ago
Fair enough, he had a lot of skill. Maybe its because I don't like jazz, but I just don't get this guy. I play bass and he is revered as a bass legend, but I cant listen to anything he does.
kyral210 8 months ago
@kyral210 Well, there's no accounting for taste, clown...
djfakt 8 months ago
@kyral210 You really need to listen to Jaco's solo album (simply entitled 'Jaco Pastorious') from 1976. It does a much better job of showcasing Jaco's precision, speed, and overall creativity. Also check out Weather Report's "Black Market" live performance video on here. There are much better examples of his work.
folkhippy 7 months ago
Ergh hem, specifically by techniques, I mean Okonkole y Trompa. I would have thought in three months someone would've figured it out by now.
GuitarExplicit 8 months ago
dannon actually has a point. (by the way,i have moved to europe, but DO NOT wear a speedo) i think what dannon means is that jaco's techniques have been adopted by "sober people" some not very hip bass players who, without jaco's incredible feeling for what simply works, play a lot of extraneous shit and are not able to do that and still keep the time and basic bottom of the harmony clearly identified. i've played with some, and man, it's hell.
markmarktarmann 8 months ago
@rtcarleton, I agree. Bassists who trash Jaco probably play with a pick! Jaco forever!
48marko 8 months ago 13
@48marko Ok, for you and everyone that thinks the same way as him. Plz watch this: /watch?v=hx2lza1Rb0U . Picks are very unique sounding.
Achilles1223 8 months ago
@Achilles1223 You are ignorant and closed-minded.
gilbert20 8 months ago
@gilbert20 Please enlighten me, Gilbert, on how Iam closed-minded and ignorant for trying to be a well rounded bass player and trying new things. I am not trying to be childish, but really, are you talking about yourself again?
Achilles1223 8 months ago
@48marko hahahahahaha
HallwayProductionz 5 months ago
I have this concert dvd, and personally I love jaco, but I hate this concert. It was all the same jazzy shit for the most part, camera angles were bad, songs were very repetitive, not much creativity in terms of song choice in my opinion, and of course they focused on everyone else EXCEPT jaco the entire time, except for this song. Shit I want to see what the fuck he's doing, I don't care to see some guy's hair waving or the horn player just standing there, see the rest and you'll understand
EpictheEpicest 8 months ago
some stuff doesn't sound as impressive because it was influential. every bass player who came on the scene after jaco lived in his shadow, so pretty much all of his style has been absorbed into the mainstream. it's like listening to hendrix and hearing just another guy playing blues rock with distortion LOL. as for the song, check out SWV "rain" for an entire beautiful song built on jaco's one little motif
SensibleMusician 8 months ago 2
when ever i see an old jaco video it's always like he's searchin for somethin on the bass like he was always experimenting for a new sound portrait of tracy was probably one of those sounds
R.I.P. Jaco "god of the bass"
hollismarshall 9 months ago
this is not music:S I don't like Pastorius's style
Korayerdem18 9 months ago
@Korayerdem18
I'd love to hear your criteria for "music".
IOYB 9 months ago
Is the jazz festival differnt than the pop festival? Or did they just mess up the date by a month
LoverOf60sAndFlutes 9 months ago
anyone who dislikes this should be fucking killed. I play guitar, not bass and I am fucking FLOORED by how good his voicing are.
jrr619901 9 months ago
@jrr619901 Easy there, dude. Maybe not killed. But Jaco is pretty awesome.
cestoiber117 9 months ago
Awesome HARMONICS!!!!!!... GODDAMN!!
funkeety 9 months ago
Love how he just decides to play okonkole y trompa at a faster tempo, and then goes right to portrait of tracy. Jaco, you are godly....
TheAlmightyBassist 9 months ago
the best bassist ever!
beasilentman 9 months ago 2
That's the end of a Hendrix song he plays at the end...
dannon2010 9 months ago
Now I know who influenced all the jazz/fusion I hate....he does some pretty interesting stuff, but his influence is horrific...that's too bad. Combine his super-technique with sober people and you have crap. He was at least able to compensate for his overtly technical playing with FEELING...and a shitload of drugs...without THAT you have crappy jazz/fusion that makes me want to kill myself... or move to Europe and wear a Speedo.
dannon2010 9 months ago
thats jaco!
alisonmlb 9 months ago
Is it just me, or is this the most asinine shit on Youtube?
TheWALOS 9 months ago
@TheWALOS Yes it is just you, TheWALOS. It's also just you feeling self-satisfied that you just made me have to look up asinine to confirm that I knew what it meant. Excellent work. Now I'll hold something above your head--I can recognize beauty when I see and hear it.
ShonoughIdo 9 months ago
@ShonoughIdo
You mad, bro? Calm down.
TheWALOS 9 months ago
@TheWALOS Lol you suck even more for using that phrase. Jaco is the shit, you're a douche for posting that comment, and I would encourage you to revisit this without such obnoxious preconceptions
ShonoughIdo 9 months ago
@TheWALOS Lol. Na bro, I'm perfectly chill. You suck even more for using that phrase tho. Jaco is an incredible genius, you're a douche for posting both this and your original comment, and I would encourage you to revisit this without such obnoxious preconceptions
ShonoughIdo 9 months ago