So John Lennon was one Genius, but here was another. A young man who came from out of no where with a $90.00 Fender bassguitar in his hand. In his biography I read he was doing free jams till one day he had his first kid and said "well it's time to make to make some money at this bass playing thing." (Something like that been a while since I read the book, but that really stood out), But one of his most famous stints was with the 70's Jazz fusion band Weather Report. And with that one of his most memorable tunes with them "Teen Town." He also did a did a solo album around the sametime. One bassplayer heard his first solo release and said I can play this stuff. But the thing that put this bassist in awe is when they heard this kid wrote it. One track that awed many of us bassist especially me, was this track when I first engulfed it with fresh ears...
Posted on 04/15/2007
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very nice, I wish I knew how to put songs onto guitar hero, I would love taking a stab at this one
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Pat Matheny Transcibe this one I think...
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This is fantastic! And I absolutely LOVE Weather Report. I need to digitize my vinyl....
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Cool!
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I always loved that story about how he removed the frets from his bass to make a fretless.
Pastorius was most identified by his use of two well-worn Fender Jazz Basses from the early 1960s: A 1960 Fretted, and a 1962 Fretless. The fretless was originally a fretted bass, from which he removed the frets and used wood filler to fill in the grooves where the frets had been, along with the holes created where chunks of the fretboard had been taken out. Jaco then sanded down the fingerboard, and applied several coats of marine epoxy (Petit's Poly-poxy) to prevent the rough Rotosound RS-66 roundwound bass strings he used from eating into the bare wood. Even though he played both the fretted and the fretless basses frequently, he preferred the fretless, because he felt frets were a hindrance, once calling them "speed bumps."
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius#Instruments_and_technique
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That is part of the Jaco Myth\Legend I first heard the story from my bass teacher around the mid 80's...said "this fricken guy just grabbed a pair of pliers and started ripping out his frets"...heard back then if you even owned a frettless they considered you a Jaco rip off...one time I was playing a fretted bass at a Mesa Boogie outlet did some double stop melodic stuff with harmonics in it, granted I was doing this b4 I heard Jaco. More of a Steve Harris influence...a guy turns to me and says in a sarcastic voice but a kidding laugh along with it"O.K. JACO?" I responded "I Wish!" LOL...