Just finished watching jaco on netflix and thought of this thread. It's about jaco pastorious a jazz player who played a fretless electric bass. Good documentary but I'm not sure I'll ever feel like an adequate musician again having seen it heh
i saw that a few weeks ago. it was amazing, and that guy who killed him sucks.
he was obviously a virtuoso, BUT, the one thing i noticed is like every song he played in (at least in the documentary) was in E. i'm not sure he could play in any other key. joni mitchell mentioned she was playing with him and he wasn't playing in the same key as her, and she implied it was because he was losing it mentally, but i wonder if it's because he only knew E!
after watching the documentary i listened to his albums on youtube and wasn't too impressed with the songs, either, and i like jazz so it wasn't that. the songs just didn't really do much other than bass noodling. i guess the albums were a platform to showcase his bass playing instead of good songs. a couple were good, though.
also, i notice that his live material was the best. when it was just him with bass or him with bass and drum. i almost wish they just recorded those live albums and released those as the final because those recordings were awesome.
easlern, did you see this girl? i felt so inferior after watching this, more than even Jaco because her song is good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNxO9MpQ2vA
(ps. i don't watch that awful show but i came across that)