Posted on March 28, 2009 »
Filed under: Gear, bass, bassguitar, technique and tagged: Fretless, jaco, Japan, Pino Palladino, Sting »
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Lots of the newer bassists who come to chat end up asking about fretless. I was interested in fretless bass from the earliest days of my playing. Partly because of the Jaco influence, but also because when I started playing there were a number of bands in vogue that featured fretless (Japan, Paul Simon, The [...]
Posted on October 23, 2007 »
Filed under: Players and tagged: interviews, jaco »
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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; [...]
