The Bass Guitar Blog » interviews http://bassguitarblog.com The Blog for Bass Players - Covering all the basses! Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Daryl Stuermer Internet and Monsters of Bass Pix http://bassguitarblog.com/2007/12/daryl-stuermer-internet-and-mosters-of-bass-pix/ http://bassguitarblog.com/2007/12/daryl-stuermer-internet-and-mosters-of-bass-pix/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:50:00 +0000 Benjamin http://bassguitarblog.com/?p=17 On the Lakland Blog there are pointers to some new goodies on the Lakland site:

Nice stuff! Keep it up!



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]]> http://bassguitarblog.com/2007/12/daryl-stuermer-internet-and-mosters-of-bass-pix/feed/ 0 Jaco Pastorius Interview (old of course!) http://bassguitarblog.com/2007/10/jaco-pastorius-interview-old-of-course/ http://bassguitarblog.com/2007/10/jaco-pastorius-interview-old-of-course/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:38:00 +0000 Benjamin http://bassguitarblog.com/?p=16 Very difficult to be a bassist and not have an opinion on the late Jaco Pastorius. I recently stumbled across a classic interview from 1978 on the website dedicated to Jaco: “a portrait“. A few choice quotes:

  • Jaco: “I did all my learning in the clubs. Playing eight sets a night. It was real killer stuff; going in at 9pm and leaving at 6:30 in the morning without days off.”
  • Jaco on Weather Report: “this is the first notoriety with a jazz band, or whatever you call this kind of music. I wasn’t going to come out with anybody playing records until I did something on my own. I made my solo record (Jaco Pastorius) and then I decided I’d come out and work.”
  • Jaco on his basses: ”I have a ‘62 fretless bass and the one with frets is a ‘60. I took out the frets myself and refinished it. I have a few other basses for practicing and stuff… …My fretted bass that I play on stage has three pots in it; one for each pick-up and then a tone control. But it’s one of those basses that had procentric knobs. Really old Fender Jazz basses had just two knobs and outside of each knob was a tone control.”
  • Jaco on his amp: “I use an old Acoustic 360. One of them is the very first one I bought just about ten years ago. I use two bottoms, both stock.”
  • Jaco on his stage sound: “I turn the bass on the amp all the way up because I only use the back pick-up on the bass. I never use the bass pick-up on the front so I have to compensate quite a bit with the amp. I have a sound that’s like an R&B-type sound which is real punchy and hits.”
  • Jaco on right hand technique: “I use my first two fingers to pick and I use the other two fingers to mute as well as my thumb if I’m jumping around.”

The interview is well worth a read. If you have a hunt around on YouTube you are sure to find some video of him playing. Truly a legend.



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