Joni Mitchell - In France they kiss on main street

from "Shadows and Light" - 1980 -

Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny e Lyle Mays

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• In
• france
• they
• kiss
• on
• main
• street
• Joni
• Mitchell

[marinman39]

Joni, Jaco and Pat! Two jazz greats get into this song which is sort of rock, but really beyond genre (its a Joni song, she is her own genre).. What bass tones! My version of history: The electric bass was invented in the 1950's, then it had to wait so that Jaco could play it. I play both electric and acoustic bass, and whenever an acoustic bass purist asks me why I bother with electric (fretless) I sent them to this recording. Magic.

[catalystdrums123]

One of the greatest bass parts of all time

[Dreamofthereturn]

CANADIAN FIESTA! OLÈ !!

[Piero2374]

Jaco, STRAORDINARIA la tua performance!!!!

[Musicenthusiasm]

@rosskolnikov

Not to mention Jaco's astounding bass line.

[PageTheFisherman]

Now that.

Is how you play bass.

[paulmeard]

thanks for posting this

[rosskolnikov]

This is the best version of a remarkable song.  Pat Metheny's solo just lifts it up to a new plateau.

[AleekahTV]

This is the type of jam that cannot be easily be identified as this certain genre or that certain genre. That makes for the best music in my opinion.

[bassployer]

@marinman39 i haven't the hejira here (still not, but will order it tomorrow, thanks for the tip!) but listened to Refuge of the Roads on youtube - its definitely fretless, the singing-fretless-jaco-sound. these pro studio guys won't succeed - they'r not jaco - what did he say in an interview: its all in the hands :) btw i'm playing "In France.."(the jaco-line) on my fretless and it sounds great (never as great as jaco) - keep playing fretless - we don't need the cage-bar-fretts! ;)

[marinman39]

@bassployer Wow, didn't know that. He somehow makes it between the notes, just like a fretless. Did he also play the fretted bass on some of the songs on Hejira by Joni? That last tune, Refuge of the Roads, has got to be fretless, totally inspiring tune and bass part in any case. After that album, every pro studio guy in the world tried to get that sound for years.

[marinman39]

@jamesedwardtheobald Thanks. Purism is some kind of intellectual thing. Music is felt, and if it sounds/feels good you've succeeded. These musicians succeed, Jeff Beck wow, another great. Run into the purity thing with some roots types I play with sometimes, bluegrass purists, country swing purists, which is really funny because bluegrass was an invented music designed exactly to move traditional country music into the jazz age, ditto for country swing. Sounds good or it doesn't.