You are so lucky to have seen him live. I wish I could have experienced it. Some of my favorite solos ever are from Jaco. I can't imagine actually experiencing him live.
I seen him Herbie Hancock and he did a 20 minute solo. I've seen some of the best bassist and never have a I seen anyone solo that long what treat :-) Peace
@@billepperson2662Yes, he recorded on an echoplex the first part he' s doing here i8n the video, the he put that bass down on the floor and got another bass and then started playing along. Sorry I just saw this.
@@windogendoors7566 Ohhh, I understand your comment now. I read it as “Imagine if Jimi and Hendrix had a show together” because I was drunk. Sorry, lmaooo
@@cryptohalloffame for real, for every Pat Metheny, there's a thousand (maybe hundreds of thousands) of guys just playin for their supper. It's a tuff way to go and it can drive to person indulge
He’s amazing. Hard to think he could’ve been one of the many homeless around I saw daily but I never would’ve recognized him anyway. It’s hard to know who, if anyone tried to help him, but it wasn’t like today. You didn’t just call someone’s cell phone back then. Most people in town didn’t know who he was, now we have a park named after him here with a nice mural of him.
Well, he looks unusually proper here, given his situation at the time. (He ofter looked much more sloppy and degenerate during the Weather Report years.)
Mine too ... around this time was when he made the tutorial vid with Jerry Jemmot . The Chicken with John Scofield and Kenwood Dennard is ŕeally cool though .
The interesting thing about Jaco's bass is that it didn't have a pickguard he removed it for whatever reason but now basses are sold without one for this exact reason
I lived in Ft Lauderdale in the 80's and I saw Jaco at the Dania Band Dome, he played this , and 1986 sounds right, he announced that this was a free gig, because he had got in some trouble and was doing this for community service
This is really a historical record. Jaco was living at Brian Melvin's house where he had a chance to recover some of his his health. They did a local gig but I cant recall the details of that.
take it easy dude, he's just saying that their creative imput to the instrument is comparable. Deep RUclips thinkers like myself picked it up immediately
Jaco occasionally played fretted basses. He did an instructional video where he plays a fretted neck on his bass for most of it. In the beginning of the video it looks like he was filing the string slots on the nut, so he wasn't afraid to swap things out and work on his gear.
Still? This was the year before he died. He would swap the fretted neck on at times (my guess is that since this was a show, he did it because the neck was out for a sand and epoxy recoat)
I’ve always said the guys who are way ahead of their time die young so that the rest of us can catch up and have something to add. Jaco and Jimi are the embodiment of that.
DURING THIS PERIOD, HE WAS TAKING MEDICAL ( MENTAL ) SUPPORT IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL WHICH HE CALLED " THE BELLEVUE CASINO HOTEL " AFTER PERFORMING IN SOME LOCAL PUBS WITH LITTLE PUBLIC INTEREST, HE QUIT HIS TREATMENT AND BEGAN SLEEPING IN PARKS...HE EVEN TRIED SHOP LIFTING...AT THAT POINT, HE SAID TO HIS BROTHER " MAN, I AM REALLY BORED...I DON'T WANNA GET INTO THAT CRAP AGAIN....SHORTLY AFTER, YOU KNOW HIS SAD SAD STORY... HE WAS ONE OF A KIND, ONCE IN A LIFETIME TALENT...MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND HEAVEN....
He didn't do anything here that a lot of others couldn't, he was a sick man and he was having a lot of trouble then. He was playing for shit (compared to peak Jaco), it's sad.
I love Jaco and this is good example of his bass chops, however this is also late Jaco, when he was in a poor mental state, and you can tell that his playing got sloppy close to the end
Gabemando Thank you for saying that. He was amazing at the height of his career, and he will rightfully always be considered one of the greats. I have nothing but respect for Jaco. That being said, in all honesty, that was sloppy as hell, and from the middle to the end, it didn’t make any musical sense. I think it’s ok to honor his talent and his contributions to music, and still be able to admit that that was a particularly bad performance.
Cant believe some people think this is fake haha.....yeah clearly not him......exact same hands....same look...same exact sound....same hand/finger positioning....fakeee!! lol...
Here I am after all these many years just now starting to learn the head to "Teen Town." I should sound as good now as Jaco does in this video. Even on my best days I can't remotely come up to this. But I agree with some he's not in top form here. From 1976 with Weather Report to 1986 ... I think Robert Trujillo's "Jaco" completely tells his tale right down to the bitter end. Jerry Jemmott said Jaco plain didn't have the support he should have. How things played out Jaco had no where else to go in life. Even Hendrix had more life ahead IMHO and he ran into a dead end musically. So, I work on "Teen Town" and maybe someday I'll play it without stuttering and stopping and choking. What a killer, man. What a complete killer for now and the ages.
I’m ashamed to say I knew Jaco Pastorius was about as great as Jimi Hendrix in 1976, loved his work till about 1980, then kind of got distracted. I’m catching up now. Poor, poor man, my heart breaks for him.
The Dude killed it on Bass Guitar. Played LEAD GUITAR on a Bass. TOTALLY. Not some heavy metal mug thumper with a Meth Demon in his head playing machine notes. An Angel with notes and rhythym and massive tone, melody and harmony in his SOUL. RIP Jaco Pastorius. THank you for allowingme to see you live amd in your prime. And, they need to find the guy who KILLED HIM and get some JUSTICE.
Whoever says this isn't Jaco don't know Jaco as a bassist. He has a distinct sound that CAN NOT be replicated. There are those that sound like him,somewhat, but voicing, phasing and articulating is a gift only he had that was distinct of his style. Now, for the bass he's playing. That IS the BASS OF DOOM. He would often exchange the neck from his precision bass in exchange for the jazz bass neck which was the fretless one. If you ever watch any of his videos you'll see that the bass of Doom sometime is Fretted and other time it's not. This is from Greg Postell, and I approve of this message. 😂
The bass of doom was stolen before this, this was his fretted 1962 jazz, the same one that he used at the lone star cafe when jamming with jimmy page. This is not a p-bass neck either, you can see that by the neck thickness. There is film of him playing a jazz with a p-bass neck, like on the modern electric bass CD. I think he had to sell this bass at some point, not sure though.
Because their unequivical emotional openness to the world and it's meaning beats them up. Like the victims of abuse they can't run away. They are destroyed by their love.
@@Thedoug369 Tool and APC have great bass players that have made their music great, but Primus is a band that has their bass player doing all the work while the guitar player is doing accentual riffs that compliment the Bass and Drums.
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Even Jimmy would bow his hat to this master.
I wish they got to jam together..
alien on acid & with Miles too
Bubinga5 *jimi
Hardly.
@@med-e-cin-mick3078 deep Miles loved Hendrix he attended his funeral ....he said what a terrible waist ...read Miles's autobiography
When I saw Jaco with Weather Report he did a solo set, and played Purple Haze with 2 basses and an echoplex...something I will never forget
You are so lucky to have seen him live. I wish I could have experienced it. Some of my favorite solos ever are from Jaco. I can't imagine actually experiencing him live.
I seen him Herbie Hancock and he did a 20 minute solo. I've seen some of the best bassist and never have a I seen anyone solo that long what treat :-) Peace
What exactly do you mean by "with 2 basses"? As in he used a loop pedal?
@@billepperson2662Yes, he recorded on an echoplex the first part he'
s doing here i8n the video, the he put that bass down on the floor and got another bass and then started playing along. Sorry I just saw this.
Imagine if Jaco and Hendrix had a show together
What?
@@firstofdecember9247 lol
@@windogendoors7566 Ohhh, I understand your comment now. I read it as “Imagine if Jimi and Hendrix had a show together” because I was drunk. Sorry, lmaooo
Just my thought! It wouldn't have worked out as a band because their leadership drives would have clashed, but one gig would have been priceless!
Imagine if they had it in both their musical primes. Would’ve been a show for the ages
Nobody could save him from himself. Love and miss you, Jaco.
I met Jaco in Washington Square Park and spent the afternoon with him, summer 1985. Troubled soul.
most pro musicians are, not an easy life, very strange reality they are in....
That is a really amazing thing to have done. Makes me appreciate my days walking around that park more somehow.
@@cryptohalloffame for real, for every Pat Metheny, there's a thousand (maybe hundreds of thousands) of guys just playin
for their supper. It's a tuff way to go and it can drive to person indulge
how so?
that is a very cool story to be able to tell. I’ll bet he had some interesting things to say. I hear he liked to play basketball in that park also.
The strangest thing is seeing Jaco playing with frets
He lost his bass of doom so he had to borrow one of his friend's bass so he could play so he could buy a bass later
@@mazyarkh282 he sold it for drugs
@@sethunderwood5525 oh ... Now that makes it worst
@@mazyarkh282 yes it's really unfortunate that it happened like that, and I hope no one ends up like he did because his final years were pretty sad
mazyar kh, Seth Underwood That’s not actually true, it was stolen shortly after a gig with Mike Stern
He’s amazing. Hard to think he could’ve been one of the many homeless around I saw daily but I never would’ve recognized him anyway. It’s hard to know who, if anyone tried to help him, but it wasn’t like today. You didn’t just call someone’s cell phone back then. Most people in town didn’t know who he was, now we have a park named after him here with a nice mural of him.
in my old hood;
beautifully insightful.
Guys, this was Jaco when his mental health was declining. He doesn't look great here and it breaks my heart.
Well, he looks unusually proper here, given his situation at the time. (He ofter looked much more sloppy and degenerate during the Weather Report years.)
Mine too ... around this time was when he made the tutorial vid with Jerry Jemmot . The Chicken with John Scofield and Kenwood Dennard is ŕeally cool though .
Not sure how you think he’s supposed to look, but he sounds great.
Proves that out of turmoil and darkness, a bright light can still shine.
Hope your heart gets better
This bass line live forever!
What a little gold nugget. I often notice even what he did in his declined state is beyond what I'll ever do on a bass.
The interesting thing about Jaco's bass is that it didn't have a pickguard he removed it for whatever reason but now basses are sold without one for this exact reason
Looks better without it, at least the sunburst colored basses
Beautiful harmonics!
This just blew my mind off wtf how can people say it's fake, the technique is unbelievable, thank you for the upload
He’s such a freakin monster on that bass.
Insuperabile. Si studia nei conservatori e ho detto tutto! P.S. Grazie per averlo pubblicato.
I lived in Ft Lauderdale in the 80's and I saw Jaco at the Dania Band Dome, he played this , and 1986 sounds right, he announced that this was a free gig, because he had got in some trouble and was doing this for community service
I was there, and I sure remember that concert. That was the week i moved to Fort Lauderdale.
This is really a historical record. Jaco was living at Brian Melvin's house where he had a chance to recover some of his his health. They did a local gig but I cant recall the details of that.
He did a gig at the Stone on Broadway opening for Bob Wier he came out at the end and did third Stone from the sun this was after he cut his hair
take it easy dude, he's just saying that their creative imput to the instrument is comparable. Deep RUclips thinkers
like myself picked it up immediately
This was a year before he died. He was all fucked up at this point. But God, he could still play!!
Thank you for posting!!
What a gem 💎!!! Thanks for posting this!! Amazing shit
I guess this is after his fretless got stolen
I wish I had stole it..🙁
@@joycesanders4898 Really?
@@joycesanders4898 How could you say that!
Jaco occasionally played fretted basses. He did an instructional video where he plays a fretted neck on his bass for most of it. In the beginning of the video it looks like he was filing the string slots on the nut, so he wasn't afraid to swap things out and work on his gear.
@@andrewskillful 🎯🎯🎯
Quite fitting really ...he was the Jimi Hendrix of the electric bass
David Scott my thoughts exactly
Entwistle.
Seen Jaco once on Austin and he blew us away .
The greatest musician that walked the planet!
Yes, and very well covered here by Jaco
Earth is not a planet.
@@catpocalypsenow8090 yes the planet earth. He was and is the best.
@@catpocalypsenow8090what is it then?
this guy is such a god.
agree
Thank you, youtube algorithm! More of this, please.
Hell yeah this is rare. He still has frets on his bass !
Still? This was the year before he died. He would swap the fretted neck on at times (my guess is that since this was a show, he did it because the neck was out for a sand and epoxy recoat)
Actually by this time his only fretless bass, the bass of doom, had been stolen, this one may have possibly been one provided by the venue
@@Wrecklan13 Could be. Although, it's a jazz bass but looks like it has p-bass knobs, which is something he did to bass of doom.
Jaco for ever
I’ve always said the guys who are way ahead of their time die young so that the rest of us can catch up and have something to add. Jaco and Jimi are the embodiment of that.
Jaco era foda no harmônico.. sem comentários para esse monstro..
muito bom
DURING THIS PERIOD, HE WAS TAKING MEDICAL ( MENTAL ) SUPPORT IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL WHICH HE CALLED " THE BELLEVUE CASINO HOTEL " AFTER PERFORMING IN SOME LOCAL PUBS WITH LITTLE PUBLIC INTEREST, HE QUIT HIS TREATMENT AND BEGAN SLEEPING IN PARKS...HE EVEN TRIED SHOP LIFTING...AT THAT POINT, HE SAID TO HIS BROTHER " MAN, I AM REALLY BORED...I DON'T WANNA GET INTO THAT CRAP AGAIN....SHORTLY AFTER, YOU KNOW HIS SAD SAD STORY... HE WAS ONE OF A KIND, ONCE IN A LIFETIME TALENT...MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND HEAVEN....
Arkadaşımdı...Bi gün buluşup Jaco yu analım .... :))
Why shouting?
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WRITE EVERYTHING IN CAPITALS
If he even knew JESUS CHRIST...
@@nicosherlock9809 YEPS...YOU ARE RITE BUDDY...
Thank you for sharing this. Beautiful.
Jaco was the ultimate master of the bass. This video just makes me sad.
This is a rare video of Jaco. One year later in 1987 he was taken from the music world.We still miss you John Francis Pastorius III ,aka Jaco.
Great playing! Thanks for the upload :)
If this is fake, the bigger news is that someone else can play like that.
It's real, from one of his last tours with Brian melvin
He didn't do anything here that a lot of others couldn't, he was a sick man and he was having a lot of trouble then. He was playing for shit (compared to peak Jaco), it's sad.
Not a hard part to play. Just nailed it in ten minutes, but this isnt Jakos own stuff.
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney it's kinda coincidentally sad when you think about the song he's playing
Fake?!obviously you re not a musician.You can clearely see it
Great footage..God Bless you JACO R.I.P.
Amazing and great, i Nevers eard it. Thank you.
Good vid, but sad to see him on the decline. Playing here is sloppy for him and playing with frets after his fretless was stolen. Cheers
Hi Jako !!! Never forget
I love Jaco and this is good example of his bass chops, however this is also late Jaco, when he was in a poor mental state, and you can tell that his playing got sloppy close to the end
Gabemando Thank you for saying that. He was amazing at the height of his career, and he will rightfully always be considered one of the greats. I have nothing but respect for Jaco.
That being said, in all honesty, that was sloppy as hell, and from the middle to the end, it didn’t make any musical sense. I think it’s ok to honor his talent and his contributions to music, and still be able to admit that that was a particularly bad performance.
Natasha Nyxx I disagree with this. It made musical sense he’s just improvising
he was just riffing, no mistakes, just pure improv
@@bunbun154 nah...
Show me the part where he messes up....
Jaco Jaco Jaco
Eye was born in *86 and Jaco is my FAVORITE BASS LINE OF ALL TIME😮
That is Jacco on his downward spiral, unfortunately... Sad!
O melhor do baixo em homenagem ao melhor da guitarra! Um deus tocando outro! Um sonho!
God among mortals. RIP Jaco
Damn Jaco... Harmonics and all!!! Jimi say's "yeah man...I dig it!"
"Yeah man, why don't you learn all the tune instead of butchering it?'
Cant believe some people think this is fake haha.....yeah clearly not him......exact same hands....same look...same exact sound....same hand/finger positioning....fakeee!! lol...
Daniel Madness102 his face doesnt look like jaco but he has the jaco thumb so im on the fence
That sound, who else but Jaco!
Those harmonics aswell could be no one else
NO WORDS APART FROM THESE
Jaco looked like different people on film etc.. he was Photogenic. ✌
If you can't tell by his playing just look at his right hand thumb 100% Jaco
Here I am after all these many years just now starting to learn the head to "Teen Town." I should sound as good now as Jaco does in this video. Even on my best days I can't remotely come up to this. But I agree with some he's not in top form here. From 1976 with Weather Report to 1986 ... I think Robert Trujillo's "Jaco" completely tells his tale right down to the bitter end. Jerry Jemmott said Jaco plain didn't have the support he should have. How things played out Jaco had no where else to go in life. Even Hendrix had more life ahead IMHO and he ran into a dead end musically. So, I work on "Teen Town" and maybe someday I'll play it without stuttering and stopping and choking. What a killer, man. What a complete killer for now and the ages.
This performace deserved a singer, Sure P could sing, he was a multiinstrumentalist,
Браво! Ай да Джако!
Эх, Жако, что ж ты так рано ушёл?
Но точно, спасибо за то, что был!!!
That harmonic on the rhythm,,
I saw him do this with a tape echo and 2 basses
That crowd tho. Into it in a whole new feelin.
Awesome footage!
I’m ashamed to say I knew Jaco Pastorius was about as great as Jimi Hendrix in 1976, loved his work till about 1980, then kind of got distracted. I’m catching up now. Poor, poor man, my heart breaks for him.
The Dude killed it on Bass Guitar. Played LEAD GUITAR on a Bass. TOTALLY.
Not some heavy metal mug thumper with a Meth Demon in his head playing machine notes.
An Angel with notes and rhythym and massive tone, melody and harmony in his SOUL.
RIP Jaco Pastorius. THank you for allowingme to see you live amd in your prime.
And, they need to find the guy who KILLED HIM and get some JUSTICE.
💯 💯💯
Very cool, ty. ✌️
The best music
una gran pérdida Jaco
Whoever says this isn't Jaco don't know Jaco as a bassist. He has a distinct sound that CAN NOT be replicated. There are those that sound like him,somewhat, but voicing, phasing and articulating is a gift only he had that was distinct of his style. Now, for the bass he's playing. That IS the BASS OF DOOM. He would often exchange the neck from his precision bass in exchange for the jazz bass neck which was the fretless one. If you ever watch any of his videos you'll see that the bass of Doom sometime is Fretted and other time it's not. This is from Greg Postell, and I approve of this message. 😂
The bass of doom was stolen before this, this was his fretted 1962 jazz, the same one that he used at the lone star cafe when jamming with jimmy page. This is not a p-bass neck either, you can see that by the neck thickness. There is film of him playing a jazz with a p-bass neck, like on the modern electric bass CD. I think he had to sell this bass at some point, not sure though.
How you found that Master piece?
A gift from the Heavens. Or possibly a planet undiscovered thus far. RIP Bass God
Why is it that the most creative and expressive souls are the most troubled souls?
Because their unequivical emotional openness to the world and it's meaning beats them up. Like the victims of abuse they can't run away. They are destroyed by their love.
Jimi and Jaco , The Twin Towers of Guitar and Bass.
The Mozart of the Bass Guitar!
Great!!
It's Jaco. He had a hitch-hiker thumb which you can see resting on the pickup.
WOW
yeah !!
De otro mundo, From another world.
Visto Roma! 1987!
Yeah.
grazie
Mega.
I can't believe Jaco is playing a stacked pot J bass
If in London, I was there ;)
For those of you who love fretless bass, check out Simon Steensland.
Bro his bass tone is ridiculous 🤯
The perfect rock band would've been Jimmy Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius, Keith Emerson and John Bonham.
too good to be alive
Harmonics at the end?...Wow!
See that shit in any music store.
He does have the right angle right thumb!!
0:40 the one guy going "scuze me" in the back lmao
O Jaco. So good.
Genius
Is Hendrix listened his playing
Playing like this would not have gotten him hired by Weather Report. He was playing the notes but that's about it.
I actually like this more then the original.
still love it!!!
If this were me on a good day, I'd be satisfied
Who goes to see the bass player? okay, maybe Primus but thats because Primus is a unique band built around the bass.
me
How about Tool or A Perfect Circle? Both pretty heavy in the bass department. Love em both.
@@Thedoug369 Tool and APC have great bass players that have made their music great, but Primus is a band that has their bass player doing all the work while the guitar player is doing accentual riffs that compliment the Bass and Drums.
That was epic
how could anyone give that q thumbs down?
There is a medly purple haze with his bass