Joni MItchell - In France They Kiss on Main Street - Bassline (Pastorius)

[MrCloudseeker]

Last week I ordered a set of Van Zant pickups for my jazz bass...I hope to recive them tomorrow and have them installed next week. I sure hope they sound good! Thanks for the heads up!

[MrCloudseeker]

Man I love that bass!

[MrCloudseeker]

@MrCloudseeker And your playing is great too!

[ato71]

@MrCloudseeker, I have sold it...

[Centigonos]

You, Sir, are amazing!

[rulloproprio]

compliments, really clean sound

[alexmejia26]

Dude, you're a great musician! why the heck are you not touring around the world with those skills??? Anyway, you rock man!

[ato71]

@alexmejia26, well I think you're overestimating my skills just a bit ;-)

Anyway THX!

[1974Qball]

I got this saved as one as my favs :)

[goodtime212]

excellent...absolutely marvellous!!

[satchelpooch01]

Thanks ato71. Keep "feeling" the music and not "thinking" it, the way jazz snobs do.

[druguls]

Excellent!! please play the "black crow" song!!!!

[sixfingr]

The really messed up thing—Jaco was almost certainly improvising that badass line.

[ato71]

@sixfingr, I agree with you! 

[sixfingr]

Nice work! One of my favorite bass lines, too. Got me hooked on Joni Mitchel. A friend turned me on to this album and was pretty unfamiliar with Mitchel. I started listening and was immediately saying "Who's in that BAND." What a surprise to find most of the Pat Metheney Group (one era or another) backing up a pop star.

Well I don't think of her as just a pop star anymore, needless to say.

[MrJadePinwheel]

how do you do those whole chord harmonics on bass like jaco does

[ato71]

@MrJadePinwheel, with my fingers, I guess!?!

[alphakid42]

Damn, what a feel for the baseline you have! Thanks for sharing!

Hey, would you do the Jackson 5's "I want you back?" That's my favorite baseline in a pop song and I bet you'd blast off the face of the planet with that!

[KicknStep]

Thank you so much! This song/bass line totalky warped my idea of how bass can be played within this kind of framework. Great-great job man! Nailed it! Groove that changed me forever. :)

[vzsozs]

beutifull bass!!!! nice fender :)

[Everyvideo123]

make it look like a piece of cake!

[nik201023]

This would make anyone want to learn bass.

[DevilMan38]

I love how you can play so well and look so laid back. Very nice playing.

[yeah572]

much love man ! great.

[1974Qball]

LMAO lov this!

[GalaxyHorse]

Salute' very fine Bass playing indeed...you would be an asset to any band

[jasonfallon123]

FUCKING CLASS! You look like you don't give a shit.respect!

[bohigasss]

eh la madonna ! questo e' gia' il terzo o il quarto dei tuoi video che va tra i miei favorites...sei spettacolare, come sempre!

[townshend1969]

Good job ! Great bass work.

[ivanmike1968]

fantastic - one of my favorite jaco lines and you pulled it off without a hitch! subbed

[MalcaratMartinez]

I didn't know Robert Downey jr. played bass :). Now seriously, you totally nailed it ! great playing !

[fleales]

Amazing job! i love this bassline...and you nailed it. 

[KicknStep]

Wow, man I thought that was great.  I've listened to this song for years... great job on all of it. I really enjoyed 1:07 - 1:15

[ato71]

@KicknStep, thanks mate!

[dcordova79]

chevere...

[senikle]

awesome work my man!

just out of curiosity, are you thinking roots - progressions - etc. when you learn and play this, or is there another musical process you use to transcribe and play?

[ato71]

@senikle: well, I'd say I play everything by ear, by heart and - if I can say so - by hand positions (according to the underlying chord I have ideas about what notes to play or not). I'm not so keen on writing and reading music...

[Peteron111]

Outstanding!

[metersfan]

Great job on an insanely creative bassline. Thanks for helping keep this brilliant song alive.

[TontonLOUB]

tranquille....



[sebastianguerrerop]

Robert Downey Jr?

[juanono]

great playing man!!!!

[aiyic]

Great playing man. What about playing Black Crow, no?

[midlander4]

There's at least one other "In France..." bassline on youtube. I'm not gonna pick sides here, but this is fantastic. Oh, and Jaco's take is pretty good, too... ( don't think it's him on the Summer Lawns album version but a lot of people like his live version even more than the studio reccid).

[ivanmike1968]

fantastic job! great tune one of my favorite jaco performances. - ivanmike from talkbass.

[culpritto]

love your videos, dude

[RickCogley]

Outstanding job, ato71. One of my favorite tunes.

[42BASSMAN]

Excellent work friend you may like the rare Jaco footage on my player..

[siglino]

Great job! As a bassist, you caught notes that I never heard in that piece before! I appreciate being "enlightened" in that way! What are the specs on your equipment?

[ctcdf74]

nice, and a great voice with that Bass.....

[rachmaninov46]

that's laid back playing! :p

very nice rendition!!!

[BulletWithYerName]

Awesome bassline, but I doubt I could remember it all.

[ato71]

Actually I played it some months ago and I don't remeber it either!

[siglino]

You did a GREAT JOB with this! This version is a song that is on my Desert Island Disc list!

[funkbass71]

Great fingering and clean playing...Keep up the good work!!!!!

[waynegrassfield]

great job man! that's a really difficult song to play by ear! sounds great!

[ryanleehammond]

hey ato71, great job! you're very effortless in your playing.. where can i get transcription of this song??? keep it up!

[ato71]

thanks my friend!

I'm afraid I can't help you 'cause I play by hear and I don't have a notation of this one...

[discolando]

Fan-freaking-tastic! I've been learning this one myself... just an overwhelmingly fun line to play along with.

[tellarjj]

Tres bon ,dans le style de Pastorius a vrai dire , super !...

[KicknStep]

Great job man!

[Sandokanbass]

Nice!

[thomaskrag]

You're always a bit fearful when you watch people cover Jaco. You did a wonderful job though. :)

I've also watched your other videos with Pino covers. Great stuff! :)

[jegerfrank]

Great!!

[icekarma2752]

great stuff

[dtmfr]

Terrific playing. I really enjoyed it. Keep it up.

[islandboy1358]

I'm 51 now and I've played bass since I was 13. I still remember the first time I heard Jaco's solo album--it almost made me give up the bass. We all knew things would never be the same. Anyway, great job covering one of Jaco's great side project tunes. He, Pat Mattheny and Don Alias were all great in Joni's band.

[tall32guy]

What year of Fender is that? Looks like a 71-76 maybe?

[ato71]

Unfortunately it's only a new reissue '75 but it sounds quite good ; )

[tall32guy]

There used to be an awesome playalong by a British guy (whose name I now forget) that got a LOT of views and even a couple copycats playing to it and saying it was theirs! LOL In any case, your was about as good as his! Good job mister. :)

[asdfg6691]

Agreed! The British guy's name was "Guy Cee" or something like that. I wonder why that video is not up anymore. In any case, what we have here is a great job as well... Congratulations, Mr. Ato71!

[ato71]

I remeber him! I think Continuum and Portrait of Tracy were his masterpiece.

[toobin151]

Thanks for putting this up. It was great & you nailed it. I was at that concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl when they recorded it for Miles of Aisles. What a day!

[ato71]

Thanks for the apreciation and envios for you having seen Jaco (and what Jaco!) live.

[2ndAsstJizzMopper]

think i saw jaco 5 times -- 3 w/WR and 2 at a small club in DC. this has always been one of my fave jaco moments, and it was fun as hell watching you play it. thanks for posting. nice to know others recognize this tune as primo jaco.

[ato71]

Well, I like his groovy and tastefully lyrical lines the most (a remark you made, the chicken, Continuum to name some) since I'm not able to play tunes like Havona ; )

Thanks for the apreciation and for sharing your feelings.

[2ndAsstJizzMopper]

funny you mention Havona, because just a few hours ago i asserted to a friend that by '81 or so jaco couldn't play that either.

[ato71]

Well, maybe as good as he did in the record! The solo it's one of musical nightmares! Anyway, I think his golden period has been '76-'80 but I'd be happy to play at 1/100 of his '85 value!

Poor old Jaco...what a sad end : (

[tall32guy]

Actually, it was for Shadows and Light. Miles of Aisles was from 1974 and as you know the concert this was from was in 1979. :)

[toobin151]

@tall32guy I stand corrected. I sat at the Shadows & Light concert at the SB Bowl, where it was recorded. I wasn't at the Miles of AIsles show, unless there was a time warp & Robben Ford switched faces with Pat Metheny.

[ameratsu28]

Dude! Wonderful! Congrats .... Will you try it on a fretless?

[ato71]

Thanks very much!

Thanks goodnes Jaco played this one on a fretted bass so I felt free not to play it on a fretless ; )

[ameratsu28]

Ah... Thanks Didn't know that... well you did a super job!

:)

[oblivionmankind]

great stuff man!

[wurger13]

Brilliant! Really nice and inspiring, thank you.

[andybob09]

I LOVE your bass playing on this track. You've nailed every part. It sounds awesome. You've also got a great tone. I tried learning this a few years ago but failed miserably. I might try again after seeing your video. I don't suppose you have the transcription? Cheers, Andy

[ato71]

Well, actually I don't have it at the moment but it's on my list: having studied the line note by note I just want to take advantage of that and do a useful job for others.

So far I've transcribed the first 20 bars (since I play by ear it's quite hard for me)... I'll let you know.

Thanks a lot for the apreciation.

Alessio

[castalian]

congratulation for your skill and style

[amimbari]

what your friend Fabio said...great mellow jam...

BTW, the last time I sat in a chair and jammed like that I was drunk, and fell over backwards....

[groovemak]

Grande Ato!!! Hai fatto un lavoro egregio! Fedelissimo all'originale in tutto....anche nel suono! Veramente un gran bel lavoro, amico mio...BRAVO!!!

Fabio

[ato71]

Grazie Fabio,

avevo un po' di timore a confrontarmi con un mostro sacro come Jaco, ma questa linea è troppo bella! Il suono è tutto merito del basso (tutto ponte e tono praticamente chiuso e gli armonici escono di brutto).

Alessio

[groovemak]

Gran parte del suono è merito tuo!!!! Di nuovo complimentoni, Alessio!

Fabio