Jaco Pastorius-Weather Report- Birdland-live 1978- Germany

[hofnerbass345]

Jaco is the best bassist ever to live

[human453]

holy shit

[GLRDI56]

14 people hit the "I'm tone deaf with no sense of timing and don't understand music" button.

[heckto35]

@GLRDI56 I don't know what you just said, but i agree! :)

[CGO777]

wow



[piero2925]

BEST SONG EVER COMPOSED!

[SupernalOne]

OK, Jaco, we love you but that's enough yodeling now

[McPhersonBassMaster]

@SupernalOne

There is never enough Yodeling.

[ValterraBlue72]

...while i was watching this incredible performance, July finally ended and August 'jes rolled in~!

[davedulake]

Best thing Jaco ever did was just swing, the blokes amazing,

[TheJazzbass95]

i love this song:)



[pjdrjcat]

My intro to synth this one back in 1979. Amazing! Heard Wayne live in Crtagena Spain again last October; he still plays like a "god"-

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[bernie91294]

this isjaco his head day good band we lost to the best in weather

[pastorius1]

Jaco's TWO sections of false harmonies are DEFINITELY inimitable - even Billy Sheehan gives has his hats off tribute to the legendary fretless man himself.....heck yeah! Love the swing rhythm of the 3rd part of the song as well as the chorus too!

[godbluffvdgg]

I hope the fucker that killed Jaco has brain cancer and ass cancer is dying a long slow horrible death.

[frenchmayne]

this reminds me of band

[Musiclogic]

Heavy Weather, still mandatory for any impressionable bassist, along with any of jaco's solo stuff.

[tylthomas]

This makes my want to grab my bass and practice more.

[darthbondable]

Fusion that isn't horrific! Yay...

[7Beyonder]

this band had so much style. they were capable of playing anything.

[shalommeodedff7]

i didnt knew jesus know how to play the bass?

[thecrashinghighways]

14 people went to cat land

[2ManyNoobs]

this tune is SEXY !!!!

[RemnantOfBirth]

Ahh.. I tried learning to do the harmonics thing at the beginning but they just don't come out very clean on my bass. So sad. So I'm stuck playing the intro about 3 octaves too low.

[Kamisamadesu1]

13 clueless mofos on this thread! Jaco Pastroius...RIP Bassman!

[41114n]

jaco = god

[numanuma20]

Joe is the reason I wanna play synth. Any tips would be great for this style

[gabeant100]

down them stairs lose them cares....jaco is tight on the bass all day, baby

[toxicfire83]

good music. but no musician is the best even though this guy is awesome

[pday1nd]

@toxicfire83 actually, "this guy" jaco was the best. IMO no one has surpassed him and im willing to bet a good number of people would agree. he's without a doubt the most revolutionary bass player in recent times

[rowdymax1]

Obviously, the drummer wasn't into "manscaping"...lol. At least he saved on sweaters in the winter....in the stagelights he looks like he's wearing a body-stocking...lol.

[rowdymax1]

Did u know?......that Jaco Pastorious grew up in Miami and was a heckuva an athlete and an altar boy. He suffered from bipolarism and died after injuries sustained in a brutal fight outside a Miami nightclub...he was 35 yrs. old.

[sunplenty]

Ah Jaco the King, you rocked hard and all you twits, rocking out is in the perception of so many different kinds of music. This is fusion jazz at its best. Beethoven rocks, rock is what you do when you throw talent heart and soul into it and go for it. Hate and dissage...that's not "rocking out", just waste of a human life, for lack of any imagination. RIP dear Jaco

[1hipgig]

peter erskine looks like a weed smokin' hairy ape

[popliphaha]

@1hipgig He's fuckin re-inventin this tune!! Greatest drummer ever!

[BedroomBassist]

A friend of mine asked me to cover this on my channel.. fuck my life. :)

[MetalHead420100]

wat an interesting looking sweater their drummer is wearing......wait a second................

[claslow]

oh, birdland rocks, just loves the song/ music i guess : )

[plant30]

very nice to see Jaco moving his fingers from neck pick-up to the bridge for modulating the timbre during the melodic phrase

[BoxHeadBassist]

@plant30 Here's not moving between the pick ups he's using artificial harmonics to play in different octaves. When he's near the bridge pick up he is an octave higher than when he is playing near the neck.

[KSTCBH23]

@BoxHeadBassist Pinch harmonics are usually played at the halfway point (or multiples of such). Jaco typically preferred to place his thumb at the halfway mark between the bridge and the fretted note when playing near the 12th fret, and using the quarter-way mark (near the bridge) for upper and lower register pinch harmonics (those further away from the 12th fret). In fact, this is the most economical way to do it, as your resting thumb (or finger) usually stays in the usual picking area. 

[BrainstormSongs]

I heard Them plying at the CCH Hamburg. Amazing!

[BrainstormSongs]

I heard Them plying at the CCH Hamburg.

[BobbySinner821]

12 people missed the "like" button.

[renenoir]

全盛期のウェザーでのジャコの映像、どうもありがとうございます­。

演奏は『８：３０』と同時期のものと思われますがアルバムといろ­いろ違うところもあり面白いです。

歌いながら弾くジャコいいですね。

後半ザヴィヌル先生調子っぱずれに聞こえるところがあるんだけど­、まさかキートランスポーズ間違えて押しちゃったんじゃないです­よね？ｗ

[cacaorocks]

the drummer is so hairy,,,

[cagfly]

Joe is so pissed internally - the reason he is not smiling is because oscillators drifted back then. He's using 2 hands - it is a small ensemble - and he has no way to reach over and tune the frikkin flat synthesizer. That's WAY flat, to the point of - he was contemplating maybe shifting up a half-step and being sharp.

How do I know? I've been there so many times back then. He probably should have dropped the bed and just played the lead. But that's retrospect. ;-)

Love it.

[DrFeelgoodBB]

JACO!

[wbaxwbax]

this is beautiful.

[BassicallyMusic]

6:23 wayne nods to jaco to end it, they're so subtle yet amazing at communicating, its the only way songs this crazy could ever work

[scalpelboy1]

has jaco got his mind illnes aroun 1978?

[kevinkgillette]

I really love these guys, and this tune in particular - I just wish Joe Zawinul had smiled a little more. He and Jaco were both geniuses, and the music world is certainly less bright with their departures from this mortal coil. Rest in peace, Jaco and Joe!

[neszemelyi09]

awesome song great sound, technik everything fantastic

big greeting

ATTILA JELINEK

INDIE MUSIC AWARD WINNER 2009

NOMINEE NEW YORK 2008

[ratfinkdc]

jaco. so young. rip.

[kapowyadao]

I'ts hard to believe Jaco was playing HIS style of bass way back in the 70's. Even in todays standard he would be a phenom. Way ahead of his time or any time. Inovator, originator, truly amazing.

[leokasper7107]

1:40 --that's why i love this performance more than the studio take

[adrysvlor12]

yeah , jaco is the best ,he was the first bass men to do that things on his bass.

[RideTheRainbowTV]

I don't think that the drums should have been playing on Jaco's intro.

[hendrixkeating]

Great band and (dare I say) an even greater bass player! Jaco's music and playing will live on forever

[kapuska1234]

ahaha the drummer should have shaved himself:P 1:47

[dennman1]

@kapuska1234

The drummer is the great Peter Erskine by the way, and he was only 23 or 24 years old when this was recorded. Back in the 70's it wasn't in "fashion" so to speak, to shave, like it seems to be now... Who cares anyway... Still, these guys played their asses off...

[kapuska1234]

@dennman1 i agree with you. thanks for the response and the information

[NreeKelBastardos]

great stuff, nice shuffle.... those analogue synths... ouch so out of tune

[dougaltaylor]

fucking incredible.

Songs Used to br written, like porperly and you can effing tell tbh!

[WhiskeyDeadMan]

I ask my self why lots of shitty neo-punk bands have a 5 or 6 strings bass. I HATE them! They just need one stupid string to play their music!

[efd996mk]

It's not enough that he lays down the killer bass line...he has to add scat vox:)))

Just amazing stuff.....Thanks for posting.

[bobbydesi]

what is that instrument that looks like a saxophone that doesn´t curve upward halfway?

[1WFE3]

@bobbydesi that is just a straight soprano sax, you can also find curved ones but they are less popular. you can also find straight altos and sometimes even tenors. they're really cool

[bobbydesi]

@1WFE3 thanks, is there any difference in the tone or playability or is it just an aesthetics thing?

[1WFE3]

@bobbydesi no, the only reason saxophones are curved is just because they would be too long and people wouldn't be able to reach all the keys, but sopranos, alto, and I've even seen a tenor can be straight because they're not too long. the same goes for bassoons.

[windmilldwellers]

@bobbydesi 0:42 is a soprano saxophone

[windmilldwellers]

@bobbydesi 0:42 that instrument is a soprano saxophone.

[Kharmaireth]

Fantastic Jazzists. Man, to live in this time.

[jpriosc]

Jaco, con quien haya tocado siempre se robó la pelicula, porque fue un genio como pocos y esa facha es increible.

[josh78413]

HEy I played with Peter Erskin, HAHA

[coxysax]

Nice one. I'm no drummer (sax), but is he playing 24 to the bar most of the way through this?

[DesmondPastorius]

yes...Jaco the best!!

[otaypanky888]

Have you ever checked out Alphonso Johnson?

[Zaul2410]

@otaypanky888

he is great too!

[pretorious700]

@otaypanky888 Alphonso is great...jaco is transcedent

[slappygrab]

Any of you dorks know who Wayne Shorter is?

[puffytaco420]

Its the "Bass of Doom." Thats what he called it. He played so hard it would eat up the fretboard and he would have to refurbish it everytime he played with it. It was only used for important big shows. It was fretted but he removed them himself.

[Zaul2410]

This controversy of Jaco Pastorius's Basses, whether it's fretted or not,

became very interesting if you guy's know something about "the Bass of Doom" it'll be great to share info about bass playing history, and its American Bass pioneers

thanks to everyone who post a comment regarding this!

[Zaul2410]

and in this time the fretted!

[BlazinJzZz]

i'm pretty sure that's a fretless bro.

[Zaul2410]

i don't thing so, jaco had fretted too

sometimes in the gigs he alternate them

[reedorius]

he kept the same bass but would exchange necks between the same body.

[Ackamoracca]

no, he had two basses. One was fretted, the other was not. They were the same model and whatnot, just one fretted the other was not. There's a DVD of their 1976 performance in Montreux Switzerland and you see him swap out the basses during the show at one point.

[Zaul2410]

Halelluya!

[RossM3838]

He took the frets out of one bass and filled in the gaps. Jaco would switch from one to the other depending on the song and the tone he wanted.

[feldkampje]

not entirely true...one had a thicker neck

[TIMMYDEEZ]

@Zaul2410 Jaco's Bass is a fretted bass but he took the frets out.

[Zaul2410]

you mean by the fret marks?

man i know what i'm talking!

[boomkid98]

That bass was a fretted bass but jaco removed the metal frets, wood filled the holes and epoxy'ed the face of the neck to make his own fretless bass

[Zaul2410]

you guy's don't get it do you?

[Zaul2410]

look at 1:11 how the frets shine against the light, i mean, i know that jaco remove the frets and out of his bass and all of that , but he pesonally says that it's easier to have false harmonics with a fretted, wich are plenty in this song

[reedorius]

Absolutely right he had to have been using a fretted neck on this performance. It sounds so different from his normal playing without his usual slides. But it wasn't because it was easier. He wouldn't ever had done something like that. He said that playing artificial harmonics on a fretted bass were easier as a way to discard fretted bass players excuses for blaming thier inability on thier instrument.

[Zaul2410]

Absolutely Correct, Jaco says that in the "Modern Eelctric Bass Instructional video" interviewed by Jerry Jemmont BB King's bass player

wich you can find it here in you tube

[Zaul2410]

@boomkid98yes they were filled with this thing called Wood Putty you can find it with any carpenter/joiner

[trojanluck88]

A beautiful and timeless classic. Really miss "Weather Report"..down in birdland!! R.I.P. Jaco P.

[stuforty2]

es buena funka !

[combcard]

i can't help but laugh when they play that melody at about 2:25

[rodcrippler]

thi song's got something special,maybe an innocence aura, and magnificiently performed too!

[ikeeptime]

Who was drumming on this tour?

[wyattdawg]

Peter Erskine.....and apparently it was cold that night seeing as how he decided to wear a sweater.

[rodcrippler]

Peter Erskine? damn hes got old!

[Coranglias]

Dear god that is an enormous analogue synth setup.... (props to Jaco, yes, I know he's not the keyboardist, but he's awesome, and he looks like he's having a great time.)

[carabata64]

una de las mejores bandas de la historia !! un dream team !!

[Artediar]

FMChapman, man I don´t now what your problem is...You put people like Phillip Glass and Steve Reich (Classical Composers) against Jaco and Weather Report (Jazz Fusion) and try to prove your point with, quote: "ALWAYS keep it basic" ??? Man if you would have listened to Reich or Glass you wouldn´t leave a comment like keep it basic...In addition to that, people like Jaco revolutionized music forever,

[Artediar]

so did Glass so did Reich, Feldman, Davis, Coltrane...and a few more to mention all of them here throughout different genres. In my humble opinion you have no idea what music and specialy the revolution of certain styles means...

[madarchot]

Zawinul always had a bottle of whiskey next to his keyboard.He was happy.

[1crow]

Saw these guys in Santa Cruz about '78. Astonishing show, one of the best of v. many I've been to. Jaco had a solo segment--starts out with Blackbird and many minutes later finishes with Hendrix. The whole show we couldn't believe what we were hearing.

[TheRumster]

Is the drummer wearing a fuzzy shir... ?

Oh god.

[wyattdawg]

no, just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill wool sweater.

[bassist101maty]

soooooooooooooo perferct even when live

amazing

[psalmblues]

Fantastic stuff. Joe Zawinul probably needed more keyboards, though, I think he was running out of keyboards at the end there.

[wyattdawg]

yeah but he ran out of hands long before that.

[PDesiderio]

Who is this moron comparing Jaco and Zawinul to Lou Reed? Get that shit outta here.

[jagheterzack]

You know, I really fucking hate all of you, having these stupid arguments all the time. Don't listen to this if you hate it, and there's no way saying "this is the best, and that suck" etc, because music is about personal taste. I love the ramones, but they weren't even close to he genius of jaco pastorius.

This is fusion jazz - it's not about "rocking out", altough I think they rock pretty damn hard. Break all the fucking rules and go to hell with superman, and die like a champion, yeah, hey.

[rohanarchy]

YES! I hate arguments about who is better, if you want to argue or disrespect someone elses personal opinion, go play guitar and get off bass.

P.S Jagheterzack BR rules - do what you want ;)

[pretorious700]

@jagheterzack you are absolutely 100% right...so many haters and clueless idiots....they would never in 100 lifetimes create anything approaching 2 measures of weather report's music....good for you

[Brydenmc]

@jagheterzack youtube should repeat your comment under EVERY music video :)

[deepimplosion]

lol^^ Free Mark....you don´t understand this music!!! Go and hear you little Velvet Underground!

JAZZ IS NOT DEAD....you idiot!

[FreeMarkChapman]

Man, do I remember this swill. These guys couldn't rock out so they diddled and diddled and diddled like a 14-year old in the bathroom.

[bobvanluijt]

BOOH!!!

[FreeMarkChapman]

Dog poo at best; cat poo at worst. If this guy had listened to geniuses like Phil Glass and Steve Reich, or to Lou Reed, maybe he could have done something. Right now he sounds sub-Miles Davis, in my opnion, which is pretty damned bad.

Actually Davis did some cool stuff in ON THE CORNER but that is really rare. Most oif it is Bitches Brews slime. He needed to learn to ROCK AND ROLL! -- Springsteen, Velvets, Stereolab.

What a twit.

[EvanDeRose]

this music is for people who are smarter than you thats all. Lou Reed sucked at guitar and he couldn't sing because he had so many cocks shoved down his throat that his vocal chords were all fucked up.

[FreeMarkChapman]

Pathetic. Jazz died about 1950 and the intelligent minds moved to rock -- not all rock but the BEST rock.

This guy is pathetic. Listen to the Velvets if you want to hear genuinely CONTEMPORARY music, not whacking off to show how stupid and fancy you are.

The Ramones also had some brains.

[wyattdawg]

FMChapman, do you even know what contemporary means or are u like every other pseudo-intellectual butt weasel who throws that word around thinking they were born w/ a mini-mozart crammed in their skull? i love rock but if a band wants air time on the radio or a music video then they're gonna have to perfect their little 3 min numbers and pray they get signed. we're all sorry jazz/blues doesn't sell out and punk does. go back to jerking off on your colorful CD cases and Slipknot poster, u lose

[FreeMarkChapman]

Weather Report never managed to really learn how to rock. They were always hung up on jazz and its frivolous complications. If Zawinul and Jaco had listened more to the Velvet Underground, they might have been a really good band.  ALWAYS keep it basic.

[bassman92110]

They are a JAZZ band! Rock bands are for the simpler minds out there. Don't listen to anything you can't handle.

[dr05guitar]

who said they wanted to be a rock band

[jazzmanEE]

yes..really..whoever said they wanted to rock???

jazz is for people who "get" real music...we'll keep our jaco and miles albums and you keep your hyped rock ones...:)

[PaulNiehausIV]

Is Peter Erskine sitting on a conga as a drum stool?

[kukenimunnen]

Yeah, actually he was sitting on Manolo Badrenas conga as a joke, and farted A LOT into it.

[scappleby]

Two bassists pushed the instrument beyond anything that had been done before and turned them into lead instruments, Jaco and John Enwistle. Both sadly missed.

[free2bpoppie]

Jaco had no fear of his bass and that's what made him so fresh and innovative.

He seemed to be saying "to hell with convention, this instrument has a voice!" And under his fingers, it did!!

His contributions to the advancement of the instrument is what makes him such an important figure, and will keep him up there forever!

No disrespect to any other player, (I'm one myself), but someone had to be the first, and it was definitely Jaco!

[slorobbie]

Jaco at his best!!!!

He will be deeply missed....

The world is a better place, just having him for the short time we did .....

[wyattdawg]

1:50 - 2:00...i love that transition so much.

has anyone toyed w/ the idea that Zawinal was playing in a different key on purpose?

[stankology]

Wayne seemed to get quit giddy there at the end. Good for him. I am a little surprised that Zawinal didn't do something to tune his really out keys from about 4:49 on. This may sound cold but maybe after years of playing really loud, it may have affected his hearing. I say this also because when I first heard them live in '73 they were louder than Led Zepplin, who I heard live, he year before.

[djmysoul1]

World didn`t understand their music in their time, because they were so modern for that time. Their music we are listening 30 years after, and it is still modern.

[DocLow]

If the world hadnt understood their music 30 years ago, this and all other records wouldnt exist.

Yes they were modern, and no they didnt have huge audiences, but this kind of music never has. That doesnt mean they werent appreciated back in the day.

[TheGpfan]

we did understand and loved it

[ledzeppelin1968a]

one of the best bass player the world have seen, R.I.P Jaco

[ffej980]

this is good music

[Bassplayer1204]

Weather Report, one of the best bands ever! Josef zawinul did a amazing job and jaco is the all time hero for bass players!

[Fymious]

These guys belong in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame! If Run DMC can get in; then why not these guys?!

[davidlockeretz]

I understand your point, but is Weather Report really a rock'n'roll band? On the other hand, due to all of his work with Joni Mitchell and other pop/rock artists you can certainly make a case for Jaco.

[jazzmanEE]

rock and roll hall of fame???? that museum is so overrated nowdays. theese guys dont belong inside a nuseum with madonna in it...they belong to the rock and roll palace of fame..but then again they re on top of everyone else , like jazz music is so no competition really :)

[michaeltgrace]

2:11

That visual right there was enough to trickle some jazz jizz.

[rockerchik918]

omg. at 1:11 he looks exactly like my boyfriend who has long hair and plays bass. haha. nice!

[meikelarts]

hi josh,

i'm sure, the detune was no effect but simply a problem with his synth. the earlier synths were very sensitive for temperature fluctuations and other outside influences.

[joshholdridge220Sb]

Does anyone know why the synth was out of tune at 5:00? I don't know those analog synths so don't know if they had to be tuned, (like Rhodes). Was it an effect?

Just wondering, love this song regardless!

[MeMyselfAndI42042]

I really don't know about having to tune them, but it really sounds to me like its a particular interval away from the sax, so it was probably on purpose. Sweet idea; dissonance in improv.

[civilfailure111]

almost sounds like he is doing it on purpose. that my best guess.

[Farksisten]

Yes, it indeed sounds like it gets out of tune. Happens to analog synthezisers.

[moxotengu]

I like it!

Sounds totally fine to me, not out of tune at all...

[storsanden]

I saw WR two years later. Jaco and Peter Erskine had their shirts on, but the percusssionist Robert Thomas jr. was drenched in sweat when they concluded the concert with stills and Birdland in Oslo. Damned, my eyes are in tears, 'cause this band was such musicians, and now both Joe and Jaco - the two greatest - are gone...

[EvanDeRose]

this isnt playgirl, these are musicians who are trying not to get overheated. good god woman be quite.

[delvindelux]

peter erskine(the drummer)should really really really really really really REALLY put his shirt back on

[billysscreeningroom]

Jaco was the best! Incomparable!

[frank711firefox]

JACO PASTORIUS

[ToMusic22]

I've any words to say.

I can only say that the first 2 minutes of this song have changed my life and took me to play the bass...

I can only say that Jaco rules...

rules my body...

Thanks to him...

[carlopastorius95]

jaco e zawinul erano grandi e lo resteranno per sempre.....

[DesmondPastorius]

Jaco eri una "best" e lo sarai per sempre grande!!!!!!!!! The world's greatest bass player...

[samthegreat4]

Omg, clarinet... soprano sax, mate ^^

[besu92]

The Great Jaco

[JimiXpresion]

Jaco is actually having a tutti with the clarinet at the same time he is playing diffrent bass-line...just a freaking fenomeno!