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[quote name='Panamonte' timestamp='1374314874' post='2147449'] Knebworth 1979? [/quote] yayyyeesssss

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1374306312' post='2147328'] cos he played jazz maybe! [/quote] yes but he was also very precise in a lyrical sort of stylee

NIge when you were probably in short trousers i had the immense pleasure of seeing Todd Rundgren Kasim Sultan Roger Powell and John Wilcox at a very big live gig supporting a mahoosive band They were imho better than the main act

haha plenty of pics in interwebsland of jaco with his J wonder why he never played a P?

[quote name='booboo' timestamp='1374280131' post='2147256'] ....a fight probably. Jaco threads generally head the same way as p vs. j threads. [/quote] Marcus you could always try another beatles thread just to distract everybody from this one

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1374270905' post='2147186'] How far forward of the mics were the speakers? [/quote] not very - thats the singists territory i try not to get to involved only a couple of feet iirc

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1374245553' post='2146880'] It is unreasonable & wholly unrealistic to expect everyone's experience of Jaco to be the same. [/quote] im going to have a check and see what they saying on talkbass about jaco

personally i rather like his stuff - his solo album stuff is ok and his jazz big band arrangements are great but for me personally the Joni Mitchell and Weather Report stuff is imho the best of the Jaco catalogue and i would suggest that this was down to the chemistry between the individuals in those groups ( and PM's Bright Size Life too) In the JM band he was playing alongside Pat Metheny and Milke Brecker and backing the lyrics or arguably one of the finest songwriters in modern music. In Weather Report he was playing alongside the immense playing and compositional skills of Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Yet in both line-ups he manages to consistently produce bass lines which are so indescribably unique but they never seem to compete with the tune but always enhance it which is a major factor in why both of these bands the sum of the individual parts was far greater than the whole. It has already been mentioned on another Jaco thread several months ago and worth searching but check out the video interview of Joni Mitchell describing Jaco and his contribution to her music

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1374192104' post='2146411'] No I wasn't. Ask a cross section of joe public to name a bass player and I'm pretty sure he'd be way down the list after, for example, Paul McCartney, Sting, Phil Linnot, Chris Wolstenholme, and probably after John Entwhistle as well. Most people have never heard of him. [/quote] no mark king??? FTW

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1374147255' post='2145745'] Oh god, I'd forgotten about those whinging dullards...which kind of proves JTUK's point! [/quote] But to be fair Keane are good in that they make Coldsore sound interesting

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1374140873' post='2145653'] Went to see Retox last night at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. They were good (hardcore screamers playing at breakneck speed) but the 2 supports were pretty unusual. First Cattle - a bassist, 2 drummers and a singer. The bass was distorted as hell but sounded immense. Reeling from that, the next up were Zeus - 2 piece Italian bassist and drummer. Again, all sorts of effects and distortions but strangely compelling. Really tight and bloody loud. Who needs a guitarist eh? [/quote]\ not knowing much about what is exactly yhe best bass for metal and all that.... i do observe from all the threads i read here that metallurgists do seem to be very fond of this downtuning malarky does this herald the way for some not too distant utopia where all guitars will have big chunky strings and long scale lengths?

i do admire your optimism with your OP but alas i fear you would have better chance of an answer by asking what is the best bass metal to convert to gold

FFS friggin yuchube it wasnt even like he was flashing his man beaver about like the last video!

oh hai

then watch this instead [media]http://youtu.be/oGCPYqLsG4A[/media] edit ... for all BC noobs and guests please note this is not to ridicule HJ - we <3 HJ lots here

he'll have to get a deck chair ticket like everybody else!!

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1373821586' post='2141952'] That stuff seems almost too good to be true. Makes you wonder why it is not more widely known. [/quote] delightful [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][i][color=#0000CD]Leave it to Jimmy Johnson to come up with a magic potion for cleaning the skank off my basses. I'm one of those guys who sweats through at least four bass changes a night. I also insist on new strings nightly but you can imagine what's left underneath...... a ton of gunk on the frets. Every few songs I need a new horse. Now I play frets that are as smooth as an Orangutan's butt.[/color][/i][/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]sounds like regular micromesh cloth and snake oil to me ???[/font][/size]

is it time for another P/J thread already ??

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1373825106' post='2141988'] Do some of these people just write any old twaddle to appear 'contraversial'? [/quote] is it the same journo who compiled the list of the worlds best bass players and put john taylor at number one ?

my neighbour plays bass in a local band - and another neighbour five doors away plays bass in another local band - we are bass avenue bassville here !!

wasnt LK in the band after JP - LK was on chalk mark , wild things run fast and later iirc

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1373709761' post='2140776'] Ultimately we're all looking at this from a bass player's perspective. Ask any singer/songwriter about it and they will wax lyrical about Joni's brilliance, with maybe a nod towards the sax; I wouldn't expect them to even really notice the bass player, no matter who it was. It is our lot to appreciate/critique each other and for others not to notice/care about us, but it is our choice of instrument and we knew about the "Who's that body at the back with the big guitar?" going in. Big up to whoever got the JM gig, she's not exactly known for her inability to choose jaw dropping musos [/quote] who else has had the likes of jaco and pat metheny and michael brecker as their backing band? - few band leaders other than JM and zappa could assemble this sort of line up and as you say to get chosen would be just about the pinnacle of any musos career imo ergo ... PP is one of the chosen few