Why Jaco went Fretless 🐐🔥

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  • @iaial0
    @iaial0 ปีที่แล้ว +4110

    Florida man absolutely wrecks his electric bass and knives his way into music history

    • @SecondaryHomunculus
      @SecondaryHomunculus ปีที่แล้ว +21

      😂😂😂 That's beautiful! 😂😂😂

    • @TheDinkybird92
      @TheDinkybird92 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      he didn't wreck an electric bass though. he wrecked an upright bass. did you even comprehend the video?

    • @SecondaryHomunculus
      @SecondaryHomunculus ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @@TheDinkybird92 The electric bass that he ripped the frets out of. I know it's difficult, but try to keep up.

    • @iaial0
      @iaial0 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@TheDinkybird92 according to the video the upright wrecked itself due to humid weather

    • @TheDinkybird92
      @TheDinkybird92 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@SecondaryHomunculus that bass wasn't *destroyed* tho. It was made into a new, working order. May need to crack open a dictionary for the word "destroyed"

  • @chadwicks_guitar
    @chadwicks_guitar ปีที่แล้ว +2355

    Another great story that starts with “A man from Florida….”😂

    • @Emanresuadeen
      @Emanresuadeen ปีที่แล้ว +45

      And ends with “so, I got a knife…”

    • @chadwicks_guitar
      @chadwicks_guitar ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Emanresuadeen 🤣🤣🤣

    • @joepollockbass
      @joepollockbass ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Florida man removes frets from his bass guitar "because jazz."

    • @anthonyfesta7010
      @anthonyfesta7010 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Another great man gets murdered in Florida.

    • @numanuma20
      @numanuma20 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joepollockbass 😂

  • @YogsenForfoth
    @YogsenForfoth ปีที่แล้ว +538

    His life was so damn tragic, man. He never reached the level of success that he deserved, and he subsequently allowed his demons to take him down a bad path. A path that eventually led to him getting beat to death for starting a fight with a bouncer while he was blackout drunk. It’s such a sad example of what can happen if you let your addiction get the best of you. I’ve been in recovery for 4 years now, and I am grateful every single day to still be alive. I hope peace finds you all. ❤

    • @ezrac704
      @ezrac704 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Its always surprising how many great jazz musicians died from drugs, OD or otherwise.
      Chet Baker, Bill Evans, etc. Miles Davis kicked heroin somehow.

    • @davidpeters44
      @davidpeters44 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@ezrac704 It was bipolar disorder in Jaco's case.

    • @mv3772
      @mv3772 ปีที่แล้ว

      A lot of words, here...

    • @YogsenForfoth
      @YogsenForfoth ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@davidpeters44
      Bipolar disorder, mixed with drug and alcohol addiction, yes.

    • @Taeodoestech
      @Taeodoestech ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dual Diagnosis ❤️‍🩹

  • @derrickharmon7980
    @derrickharmon7980 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Still hurts how this man went out just saddens me when I see his interviews but his music makes me smile

    • @wilhelmvg9978
      @wilhelmvg9978 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dude I knew he died young but had no idea he was beaten to death. That’s really tragic.
      Edit: forgot to mention I looked up his biography after reading your comment

    • @MaryBywaters
      @MaryBywaters หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wilhelmvg9978 I'd like to read that.

    • @MaryBywaters
      @MaryBywaters หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wilhelmvg9978 I'd like to read that.

  • @chrisbauman2562
    @chrisbauman2562 ปีที่แล้ว +988

    Like Eddie van Halen said "you ruin a lot of shit getting there"

  • @TheAlmightyBassist
    @TheAlmightyBassist ปีที่แล้ว +492

    Jaco really was a textbook Florida man at his core.

    • @AshtrayAnnie
      @AshtrayAnnie ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Meh he’s more New York vibe really

    • @ChronicMetamorphosis
      @ChronicMetamorphosis ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@@AshtrayAnnie As someone from Florida who also grew up in New York, they're pretty compatible.
      Miami is basically the missing burrough.

    • @TheAlmightyBassist
      @TheAlmightyBassist ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ChronicMetamorphosis gets even more fun when you learn that jaco also grew up right outside of Philly, which is another example of the ‘sixth borough’.

    • @zakkziegler111
      @zakkziegler111 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lmao. for the longest time I for whatever reason thought he was french until I actually heard him speak.

    • @RiveBassCovers
      @RiveBassCovers ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zakkziegler111 maybe because Jaco was a misspelling from Alex Darqui who was French

  • @watermelone_man
    @watermelone_man ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Third stone from the sun... a banger

  • @mauricepowers8079
    @mauricepowers8079 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I was lucky enough to see him do that tune live when he was still with Weather Report back in 78'...best Bassist EVER.

    • @MaryBywaters
      @MaryBywaters หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I saw Weather Report round about then

    • @mauricepowers8079
      @mauricepowers8079 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MaryBywaters Woolsey Hall Yale Campus New Haven CT. GREAT SHOW.

  • @Chuckles..
    @Chuckles.. ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Jaco is my favorite American musician.

  • @MB-zj3er
    @MB-zj3er ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Always impressed with people that can play fretless stringed instruments.

    • @moustachio334
      @moustachio334 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Upright bass blows my mind

    • @Brad5161
      @Brad5161 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fretless actually isn't hard to play. People believing it must be makes it harder for them.
      Practice.

    • @BCam-m4w
      @BCam-m4w 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@Brad5161shh let them believe it so they keep hiring us

    • @shelfsu97
      @shelfsu97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      But you got to have a good ear to play it correctly

    • @ericbrewer2409
      @ericbrewer2409 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      its when the dots are missing that makes it hard to know where you're at on the fretboard

  • @Shred_The_Weapon
    @Shred_The_Weapon ปีที่แล้ว +126

    That’s one of my favorite stories from the inside track of what helped various musicians I admire to establish their formulae. Supposedly, Bill Wyman did the same thing with one of his bass guitars, defretting it himself early in the Rolling Stones timeline. In his case, though, I think it was because he didn’t have the money for a full-blown upright.

    • @debomb721
      @debomb721 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was cuz the frets buzzed a lot, so he decided to rip them off and replace, but he ended up liking the fretless sound

    • @doctordoggo9464
      @doctordoggo9464 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If I'm not mistaken it was because he used super light strings that kept breaking because of the frets, and after he removed them they stopped breaking.

  • @makkitozea4245
    @makkitozea4245 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    WE LOVE JACO FOR EVER 😢

  • @manuelernestoacebedo
    @manuelernestoacebedo ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Thanks for this interview, man.

    • @TheChuckFina
      @TheChuckFina ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I have the whole thing on VHS. It was one of the last interviews he ever did.

  • @nathanwalsh3028
    @nathanwalsh3028 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As a drummer he's my 1 of favorites... His drum groove and teen town still gets me...Yes he played the drums on that. Plus his bass playing with weather report or joni mitchell/ Pat Methany or anyone else was just outstanding... You knew it was him after two notes.

    • @markbowles2382
      @markbowles2382 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was great with Ian Hunter - well he was a great bass player - first I had heard him was when he was with Ian.... sure was sorry to hear he got sick and had issues....

    • @localbod
      @localbod หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      His name is Pat Metheny.
      Methany is the name of a female who lives in a trailer-park and who does crystal.
      😉👍😎

  • @bushcamper4529
    @bushcamper4529 ปีที่แล้ว +593

    man imagine how different the scene would be these days if he didnt pass so early

    • @manuelernestoacebedo
      @manuelernestoacebedo ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Imagine a 2023 reality with Miles, Zappa and Jaco alive...

    • @bAgRiMoIrEsS.4
      @bAgRiMoIrEsS.4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      ​@@manuelernestoacebedo Yes! Yes! I can imagine it. Jaco & Miles! then throw Zappa in the mix? That would be the hottest thing to strike the face of the Earth. Imagine if Jaco played on "Sketches of Spain" with Miles blowing that horn like he did.
      Booyah baby! Bell ringer! Those two type A personalities, working together? damn bra, atrocious..

    • @justjarvis106
      @justjarvis106 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@manuelernestoacebedo miles and Zappa would be loosing their shit over all the mumble rap and insta guitarists miming

    • @glueball9511
      @glueball9511 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@justjarvis106 zappa wouldnt have a leg to stand on criticizing the mumblings of others, brother mumbled and auto-wrote himself into history. its hilarious people dont acknowledge that zappa made a shit ton of not-good music all gauzed over with ill thought out mumbles and nonsequitors. if anything zappa godfathered the process of improvisation for improv's sake, and acceptance of whatever the process yields

    • @calliopeshif7581
      @calliopeshif7581 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@justjarvis106 you sound real bitter 🤨

  • @natemickens88
    @natemickens88 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Solid justification for doing so!

  • @darrienglass4058
    @darrienglass4058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I did the same thing with my late 70's Fernades Jazz Bass following Jaco's technique of removing the frets and filling the slots, it's one the best basses i have.

  • @humanbeing5300
    @humanbeing5300 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I grew up in Florida and lived right next to Jacos memorial Park in Ft Lauderdale

  • @NA-xr1di
    @NA-xr1di ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thought it was because the frets were like “speed bumps” for him :O

    • @SecondaryHomunculus
      @SecondaryHomunculus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah, that's for less talented fretless players like me. 😂 He was just as good with frets -- it was all about the sound difference.

  • @barrytalks3531
    @barrytalks3531 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sweet Bassline!!

  • @MichaelBrewick
    @MichaelBrewick ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy smarts that's a great story
    Thanks much! and Long Live Jaco

  • @daBEAGLE1017
    @daBEAGLE1017 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the greatest Jaco performances right here.

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  ปีที่แล้ว

      🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

  • @LacoSinfonia
    @LacoSinfonia ปีที่แล้ว +41

    One of the most talented bassists of all time, dead at 36 because he got drunk and fucked with the wrong guy. Stay smart, stay safe

    • @gerardoitaliano8046
      @gerardoitaliano8046 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      One of the most talented: wrong.
      "The" most talented...
      Dead at 36 because he got drunk: wrong.
      He suffered from mental illness...

    • @nicolemiles663
      @nicolemiles663 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@gerardoitaliano8046Thank You! He was bipolar and I believe had depression, my grandma is his cousin and I've heard only slight stories about him growing up as a kid because he passed away when I was 3 months old

    • @Zaul2410
      @Zaul2410 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      its a bit more complicated than that, check the Documentary

  • @minnaroseahlers2758
    @minnaroseahlers2758 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I miss his talent every day.

  • @davidedge6512
    @davidedge6512 ปีที่แล้ว

    I once saw him live, and the gig started with him playing the drums, and he was GOOD. Hammersmith Odeon, Weather Report.

  • @christyherron_
    @christyherron_ ปีที่แล้ว +46

    He said later that he’d actually purchased his Jazz bass with the frets already removed. A previous owner removed them - not Jaco. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story though 🐐 🙏🏻 ✌🏻

    • @mjblakemusic
      @mjblakemusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's not true at all. He later in his career bought a different bass that was fretless. But barely used it.

    • @JosePineda-jn8jk
      @JosePineda-jn8jk ปีที่แล้ว

      Idk what to trust anymore! 😭

    • @christyherron_
      @christyherron_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mjblakemusic I’m talking about the famous ‘Bass of Doom’ which he played his whole career. He bought it for $90 in the early 70s. He initially claimed he had removed the frets, but later admitted that’s how it was when he bought it

    • @GPOS1623
      @GPOS1623 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@christyherron_on ALL of his interviews, I've never Heard that. I've been a Jaco admirer for years and never heard such a story. I'm not saying that you are fabricating your story, but, you are the ONLY person that made such a statement. 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

  • @rubensmoraes7185
    @rubensmoraes7185 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    O cara era muito bom mesmo,o melhor do mundo

  • @elamfreelance7217
    @elamfreelance7217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Im new to bass. I have frets. Ive only read a article or two on 5 and 6 strings and then the fretless bass. Never played one, just seen a few knowns in R&R, Funk, Jazz express their dislike for fretless bass guitars. Seems there is more dislike than like for fretless. Guess i am gonna have to make a trip to the music store and grab one from the shelf and give one a try. I keep telling myself i dont want to become a collector. 😂

  • @schanescott2253
    @schanescott2253 ปีที่แล้ว

    The man of the hour ✊️✊️

  • @raymondchollet3199
    @raymondchollet3199 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My fave bass player. Genious

  • @AMPATL
    @AMPATL ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Legend.

  • @dav_yodha
    @dav_yodha ปีที่แล้ว +2

    damn that slap. wake me up

  • @markdaniels7174
    @markdaniels7174 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Jaco’s told a couple different stories about taking the frets out. I’m skeptical of this one, where humidity causes an upright bass to break into pieces.
    This is late in his life… you can see he’s not altogether there.

    • @Drivesfastlikescats
      @Drivesfastlikescats ปีที่แล้ว

      I was scrolling to see if anybody mentioned the humidity thing. I didn't understand that part but I've never owned an upright bass. Didn't know if they were made out of paper mache glue or something 😅

    • @JosePineda-jn8jk
      @JosePineda-jn8jk ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Drivesfastlikescats acoustic instruments are particularly vulnerable to humidity and drastic changes to humidity. So it is possibly that a bass could have self destructed because the strings carry a lot of tension and if the neck buckled then it would have been in pieces. (Maybe not 100 through 😂)

    • @Drivesfastlikescats
      @Drivesfastlikescats ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JosePineda-jn8jk hmm, makes me consider the plight of the bass players of the afro cuban jazz movement and the humidity they mightve faced during summer haha. The neck getting pulled down by the strings I get, it was the 100 pieces like you said lol. Thanks 👋

    • @Drivesfastlikescats
      @Drivesfastlikescats ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JosePineda-jn8jk Maybe he forgot about it in a storage shed somewhere near the coast for a year or so, that can be hell on furniture i know lol. That case I'd believe if he said it got turned to pudding knowing FL hah

    • @FreeBrunoPowroznik
      @FreeBrunoPowroznik ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Humidity wrecks non-lacquered instruments, but Jaco is clearly exaggerating about his upright exploding into 100 bits and essentially, that is from whence the humour arose.

  • @jamclutch1818
    @jamclutch1818 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    What an absolute legend!

  • @kevinmitchell8650
    @kevinmitchell8650 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great musician and luthier!!!

  • @frederickgolden6694
    @frederickgolden6694 ปีที่แล้ว

    The master has spoken, a shame he didn't live beyond his youth to evolve jazz to where we can never know....RIP Jacko, your footprint is still very deep!!!🛣👀👌

  • @giusepperomano3392
    @giusepperomano3392 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Numero 1 in assoluto.

  • @johnglanton5140
    @johnglanton5140 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The GOAT

  • @michaeltennen5775
    @michaeltennen5775 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a Florida bassist, I think this is the only attitude you can have in order to make the art you’ll be the happiest with🔥🔥🔥 DIY legend, him and Brian May

  • @williamhussey2529
    @williamhussey2529 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’m doing performance tonight of jacos tune “three views of a secret”. I open with a solo and then the band backs me up. I’m pretty nervous, but this video really helped build my confidence. Listening to Jaco and hearing his music makes me realize why I choose this piece to play. Thanks SBL!!

    • @bdlazarus
      @bdlazarus ปีที่แล้ว

      How'd it go?

    • @williamhussey2529
      @williamhussey2529 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bdlazarus it went very good! I felt very in touch with myself and I didn’t panic and play to fast. As my father would say “let them digest what they’re getting”.
      Lots of compliments from friends and parents. I try!

  • @jacoboreyes3160
    @jacoboreyes3160 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "Necessity is the Mother of invention" said Frank Zappa maybe

    • @FreeBrunoPowroznik
      @FreeBrunoPowroznik ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nah, Zappa said: "Out of necessity, we became The Mothers Of Invention."

    • @m.vonhollen6673
      @m.vonhollen6673 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FreeBrunoPowroznikZappa also said: “Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.”

    • @FreeBrunoPowroznik
      @FreeBrunoPowroznik ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@m.vonhollen6673 And also: “You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”

  • @walterhinojosa7390
    @walterhinojosa7390 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Jaco...THE Best bassman for ever,!!

  • @arturoacosta6583
    @arturoacosta6583 ปีที่แล้ว

    ICON AF

  • @richtraube2241
    @richtraube2241 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the Mothers of Invention!

  • @mikeg3439
    @mikeg3439 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jaco was a difficult, talented, interesting human being.

    • @NickWeissMusic
      @NickWeissMusic ปีที่แล้ว

      Seems to often be the way. James Brown, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Beethoven, every generation has difficult geniuses. Even the good guys can have trouble keeping their lives interesting, Glenn Campbell had massive drug issues while remaining mostly functional through his career, probably because being a pop singer is more boring than being the greatest session guitarist ever lol. Jaco was very likely bipolar, and it's a shame he didn't have modern meds to help.

  • @joeblankenship377
    @joeblankenship377 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is this common for upright basses in Florida?

  • @fartnugget47
    @fartnugget47 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I remember my dentist telling me about this guy, went home looked him up and was blown away.

  • @Houndzee
    @Houndzee ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What’s that song in the video????

  • @evanh.6097
    @evanh.6097 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My first time hearing seeing an interview with him, but he reminds me of EVH a bit. I feel like they would’ve made a really good pair as well

  • @macgyver8286
    @macgyver8286 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    스피디한 장르할려면 무조건 해야죠!!
    그나저나 천하무적 피킹실력에 감탄하고 갑니다!! 240에서 실용적이지 않다고 하셨는데 120템포에서 32분음표가 되는거니까 엄청 실용적일 거 같은데요~

  • @benlees9713
    @benlees9713 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pennsylvania Legend

  • @radiowaveguitarist1332
    @radiowaveguitarist1332 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    GREATEST BASS PLAYER OF ALL TIME!

    • @kswitz
      @kswitz ปีที่แล้ว

      Not close. Les clay pool by far

  • @mrreemann3739
    @mrreemann3739 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is a very good documentary called, 'Jaco'.
    A tragic end to the life of a great talent.

  • @turnupthesun81
    @turnupthesun81 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in West Texas. Our problem is it’s TOO DRY. I’ve had to have the frets filed down on my guitar because the neck shrunk a little. So if you have an upright bass, what’s the proper way to store it in Florida?

    • @redwillrise
      @redwillrise ปีที่แล้ว

      the most important first step is moving out of Florida

  • @Junkysnake
    @Junkysnake ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My Brother did this also. You would be suprised at how good it sounds. Ripping teeth from an instrument shouldn’t sound good but it does.

    • @SecondaryHomunculus
      @SecondaryHomunculus ปีที่แล้ว

      I did it with my 7-string bass because I found a used fretted that was $1000 cheaper than the fretless version.

    • @oliverpura9876
      @oliverpura9876 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Chronos from the band Venom. He removes half the frets.

    • @GPOS1623
      @GPOS1623 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I ripped the frets from a couple of my bass guitars, it took some effort to play in tune but, once you got you, you got it. It's all about positions. From years of playing you naturally know where each note is located. Like playing a fretted bass, you don't have to look at the neck of your axe because you know the position of the notes. Same with converting to fretless bass.

  • @bengaminpavezgalvez7082
    @bengaminpavezgalvez7082 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is there any risk to make my bass fretless by myself?

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Be careful that you don't end up taking chunks out of the fingerboard, and if the fingerboard is rosewood apply a hard epoxy finish to stop the strings chewing it up!

    • @bengaminpavezgalvez7082
      @bengaminpavezgalvez7082 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@devinebass Thanks a lot

  • @mitchhilton1669
    @mitchhilton1669 ปีที่แล้ว

    Talent!

  • @bubbaluvv
    @bubbaluvv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jaco is actually from a little town called Norristown right outside of Philly. I know because i lived right down the street from his childhood home.

  • @rodeofrancisco6130
    @rodeofrancisco6130 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man.. the humidity is actually an insane factor... It killed my acoustic

  • @RebecaBrandaoactionmusic
    @RebecaBrandaoactionmusic ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing
    I wish I had known you , FL man
    Love u ❤

  • @AlphaMaleBuddhistPodcast-qs6tn
    @AlphaMaleBuddhistPodcast-qs6tn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jaco the Goat 👑👑👑

  • @natsix4857
    @natsix4857 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Pass the Jaco! 🎉

  • @xpicklepie
    @xpicklepie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Later, in this same video he says that the fretless neck would get too torn up by the strings, so he only played his fretless on gigs.

  • @brieziethirteen13
    @brieziethirteen13 ปีที่แล้ว

    His nephew,David is super talented,world class bassist too. And he lives in fla.

  • @rockun7579
    @rockun7579 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best guitare bass ❤

  • @ShelterCats1967
    @ShelterCats1967 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 1988 i was in hard rock band. I found Jaco and put frets out of Bass.

  • @SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
    @SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jack Bruce was incredible.

  • @RockStarOscarStern634
    @RockStarOscarStern634 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact the very 1st Electric Bass from 1935 was a Fretless Bass & Jaco Pastorius was the guy who "revived" it.

  • @2112CO
    @2112CO ปีที่แล้ว

    Genius...

  • @cacadordorio
    @cacadordorio 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Woooww florida what crazy place

  • @audibletapehiss3764
    @audibletapehiss3764 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I must be missing something... how is he looping in that clip?

  • @stueyduey5571
    @stueyduey5571 ปีที่แล้ว

    The mad genius

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  ปีที่แล้ว

      🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

  • @nunoharris
    @nunoharris ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi. Whats the pedal that Jaco was using ? Thanks

  • @DavidFlores-jn1yg
    @DavidFlores-jn1yg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Third stone from the sun baby

  • @shadowki1647
    @shadowki1647 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Because he was an absolute genius! 🤔🙂👍

  • @randomcrusader5632
    @randomcrusader5632 ปีที่แล้ว

    Link to the first vid?

  • @discipline-my5hi
    @discipline-my5hi 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What song is that at the beginning?

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Jaco's solo spot from the Weather Report Live In Offenbach show!

  • @franmartinez4258
    @franmartinez4258 ปีที่แล้ว

    My mentor

  • @KeegandavArchive7
    @KeegandavArchive7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That beat make me wanna crip walk

  • @milkpuddinggameplay7794
    @milkpuddinggameplay7794 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What song is that in the beginning

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's Jaco's solo spot from Weather Report - Live In Offenbach!

  • @davenova850
    @davenova850 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jaco took a Fender bass, stripped the frets and filled them-covered and sanded with epoxy mulitple times by a luthier. Swapped the pickups and bridge. Boom!

  • @anthonydawson8080
    @anthonydawson8080 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is from his instructional video. I believe he’s talking with Louis Johnson from Brothers Johnson. It’s worth watching though I don’t know how much it’ll help with your bass skills

    • @jgmiller804
      @jgmiller804 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Its not Louis its Jerry Jemmott but yes its from that video

    • @anthonydawson8080
      @anthonydawson8080 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jgmiller804 ooh my bad It’s been a while

    • @chrisbardolph
      @chrisbardolph ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unfortunately Jaco was in rather rough shape at that time. At one point in the video he says "gimme a gig," but he was actually having trouble getting along in the scene and it wasn't 100% a joke.

    • @anthonydawson8080
      @anthonydawson8080 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrisbardolph definitely. It can be sad watching it but damn it’s worth it. Are there many other videos with him like that? Maybe I’m just missing out

    • @chrisbardolph
      @chrisbardolph ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anthonydawson8080 Probably but I don't know specifically what to look for.

  • @drupy15
    @drupy15 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    whats the song that jaco is playin?

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      His solo spot from the Weather Report "Live In Offenbach' video

  • @otnutnim
    @otnutnim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:36 😊

  • @clydebermingham121
    @clydebermingham121 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    NECESSITY …. PARENT OF INVENTIONS
    HE WAS DRIVEN BY WHATEVER INSPIRED HIM 🙏🏽
    HE WAS TRULY A GIFT TO THE WORLD 🌎 🙏🏽
    HIS HEART ❤️ WAS LARGE
    And out of the abundance of the heart ❤️ the soul will express itself 🙏🏽
    AMEN 🙏🏽

  • @illitero
    @illitero ปีที่แล้ว

    I did this exact thing with a decrepit, cheap classical guitar, making it into a tiny acoustic 5 string thing with an old bass d string at the top. I didn't want to overstress the glued on bridge, so it was tuned to whatever made a good sound without being too tight haha

  • @dane5624
    @dane5624 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish he was still alive. Listen to 8:30, Weather Reports live album, it's Jaco at his best!

    • @devinebass
      @devinebass  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🔥🔥🔥

  • @Back2Bass777
    @Back2Bass777 ปีที่แล้ว

    Greatest of all time

  • @jeremie3970
    @jeremie3970 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is this song?

  • @HermelJaworski
    @HermelJaworski ปีที่แล้ว +1

    didn't know Jaco played with a looper on stage !

    • @AlexGeek
      @AlexGeek ปีที่แล้ว +3

      those must have been very exepensive back then

    • @citizenbxtr883
      @citizenbxtr883 ปีที่แล้ว

      MXR rack delay

    • @JacoPastoriusArchive
      @JacoPastoriusArchive ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He did a bass solo with a MXR delay pedal ("Slang") during all of the tour dates on Joni Mitchell's 1979 tour and during most of the Weather Report from 1977 to 1981.

  • @joeaquilino19
    @joeaquilino19 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How much u wanna bet that thing broke bc he was freaking out with his bass sooo hard the vibrations popped that thing

  • @TheCameron4life
    @TheCameron4life ปีที่แล้ว

    Oakland Park represent!

  • @Dimitri-Jordania
    @Dimitri-Jordania ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually he got the idea from losing the audition for the Mahavishnu Orchestra to Ralphe Armstrong, who was using a fretless bass for the audition when he got the part.

    • @TheTylrBllmn
      @TheTylrBllmn ปีที่แล้ว

      I heard that too, is it true though?

    • @charlescoleman6896
      @charlescoleman6896 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheTylrBllmn I do not think so. For one thing, this trip to NYC, during which Jaco jammed with McLaughlin, was after he had played with Wayne Cochrane, and the drummer in Cochrane's band recalls seeing Jaco defret a bass.

  • @gianniconti69
    @gianniconti69 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always will be the GOAT 😎👌

  • @randallsnell5767
    @randallsnell5767 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Currently a fretless player, I had no desire to defret one of my basses until I began playing for Christ, over 20 years ago. Don't forget about Boz Burrell on the Bad Company albums.

    • @kane6529
      @kane6529 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What does playing for Christ have to do with the topic 🫠

    • @Emanresuadeen
      @Emanresuadeen ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kane6529 What does that matter to you? 😜

    • @kane6529
      @kane6529 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Emanresuadeen Christ has no influence over if I play fretless or not! To each is their own

    • @calliopeshif7581
      @calliopeshif7581 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Emanresuadeen because it feels very oddly unrelated, but the author of the comment wrote it as though that was the reason they switched to fretless. Regardless of thoughts on Christianity, and its relationship with music, that's a weird connection to make. I'm curious too.

    • @KyleS.1987
      @KyleS.1987 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@calliopeshif7581 Maybe the band's named Christ?

  • @22neohenry
    @22neohenry 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watched the doc and then cut my thumb taking the frets out of a Squier Bronco.

  • @johnnicholson8345
    @johnnicholson8345 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sad ending for him when he was heavy on H. He would hang around campus (Berklee) hustling for cash.

  • @guitarfox8316
    @guitarfox8316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He was incredible I wish I had the balls to remove the frets maybe someday

  • @KwetsieyBaloyi
    @KwetsieyBaloyi 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes man🫀🎸🔥❤️🥺🫶🏿🎧🫡🤞🏿😊

  • @shwar83
    @shwar83 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best, jaco pastorius... 👍