Members t3ch Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Great tone chokes on drink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 He was a real innovator back in the day. If his work pales in comparison to some of today's musicians, it's because they sound like him. I like his work on Bright Size Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FreestyleIntruder Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 chokes on drink Sorry, I meant "incredibly amazing tone" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluescout Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Not a big fan. I just don't really get it. On "Tracy" he's not really playing it like a bass anyway. Wooten is God as far as I'm concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cliff Fiscal Posted October 27, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 I can't handle Wooten, Sheehan or Jaco...... elevator music, just isn't my bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Sorry, I meant "incredibly amazing tone" starts turning blue and coughs profusely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 starts turning blue and coughs profusely Drinks special Kool-Aid, never plays bass again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 [YOUTUBE]jFM-ZX5Trro[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bassius Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Not a big fan. I just don't really get it. On "Tracy" he's not really playing it like a bass anyway. Wooten is God as far as I'm concerned. wooten was heavily influenced by jaco. so i find it interesting that you like wooten and not jaco... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 It's hard to enjoy a fusion bass player if you're not into fusion.Same could be said for Steve Di Diorgio, Steve Harris, Charles Mingus, Michael Manring or any other great player in a style out of mainstream.The thing with Jaco is that he pretty much reinvented bass playing. Hard to understand today though, as Renfield said you had to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 wooten was heavily influenced by jaco. so i find it interesting that you like wooten and not jaco... There's a Mitch Hedburg "influenced or inspired by" bit around here somewhere... I think it applies to these types of instances. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Mango Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Fluttering 16th-notes don't make my genitals tingle. For me, this music sounds too much like it came out of someone's head. I don't feel the soul, the spirit, the flow. Instead, I get: intellect, corny, unnecessarily fancy. But that's ok. People who want to drink martinis and moan about their lives, they need to go out and see live music, too. Hey, why not go see Jaco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 It's hard to enjoy a fusion bass player if you're not into fusion.Same could be said for Steve Di Diorgio, Steve Harris, Charles Mingus, Michael Manring or any other great player in a style out of mainstream.The thing with Jaco is that he pretty much reinvented bass playing. Hard to understand today though, as Renfield said you had to be there. I don't think bass the way Jamerson played needed to be "reinvented", but that's just me... I also enjoy Stanley's playing a considerable amount more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cpt. Spliff Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 My problem with Pastorius is, that I think he could play bass so incredibly well. He knew the useful notes and could lay the sweetest of grooves and he could spice them up, too. In absurdium. I'm totally at a loss as to his arty side. The same with young Felix. I'm sure, it's due to my lack of musical education; but to me, it's notes, not music. Not bass.Flametime ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Whatever happened to just not liking something? It's ok. The world will not implode if someone does or doesn't like Jaco, whether they truly "get" him or not, or whether they've heard his entire discography. Amazingly, life goes on, and we don't have to sit here arguing over how someone probably just "doesn't understand" his music if they flat out don't like him. I Promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 Whatever happened to just not liking something? It's ok. The world will not implode if someone does or doesn't like Jaco, whether they truly "get" him or not, or whether they've heard his entire discography.Amazingly, life goes on, and we don't have to sit here arguing over how someone just can't possibly "understand" if they just flat out don't like him.I Promise. gtfo n00b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Mango Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 wooten was heavily influenced by jaco.so i find it interesting that you like wooten and not jaco... Wooten pals around with Bootsy and grew up listening to Parliament-Funkadelic. He and his brothers opened for James Brown. There's groove and funk in Vic's bones. I can't hear funk in Jaco. I hear him trying really hard ... Jaco is too much in his head. As much as Les Claypool is rock, I can hear Louis Johnson and Bootsy in his playing. Jaco? I just hear thinly-veiled jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members W33nie Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 I like him when he lays back and plays with the band, rather than just Jaco. I love part of his debut album though, like that song Freestyleintruder posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Mango Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 It's hard to enjoy a fusion bass player if you're not into fusion. Ok! FANTASTIC! Thank you for that. Maybe that's really my issue and it's not as much with Jaco as much as it's with the genre. The unison horn riffs, the melodies they write. And the weird feeling I get from something that's uncomfortably stuck between rock and jazz, or stuck between funk and jazz or reggae and jazz. Blech! D'Angelo is the only example I've got of someone who can bring funk and R&B and completely conceal the jazz under-girding. Only when I was in bands trying to cover D'Angelo did it become clear, "this {censored} is hard!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Mango Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 I like him when he lays back and plays with the band, rather than just Jaco.I love part of his debut album though, like that song Freestyleintruder posted I like Jaco when someone else is playing bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members filterthing Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 I always liked jaco, just never with Weather Report. It always seemed like they should have just gone by Jaco and Weather Report. He was just too much of a frontman/soloist for that band. Much more prefer Alphonso in WR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted October 27, 2009 Members Share Posted October 27, 2009 If this thread isn't a troll then I don't know what is Go to a guitar forum and say you just don't get Jimi or something next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted October 28, 2009 Members Share Posted October 28, 2009 If this thread isn't a troll then I don't know what is Go to a guitar forum and say you just don't get Jimi or something next time Yup - apparantly, some people are still in need of a life... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted October 28, 2009 Members Share Posted October 28, 2009 These threads always bum me out a little, too... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Mango Posted October 28, 2009 Members Share Posted October 28, 2009 These threads always bum me out a little, too...- georgestrings I'm having fun with this thing. Just being silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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