Records like his first solo album, Heavy Weather, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and half of Hejira (Joni Mitchell, check out Refuge of the Roads for an example of his ability to switch back and forth between more standard bass playing and the melodic counterpoint he did so well), and others were revelations about what bass could be. How is this guy such a "legend"? Perhaps some learned Gearslutz can enlighten me where to look for his magical playing.I'm guessing that you might be too young to know what the state of bass playing was like when Jaco came on the scene. In fairness, he could shred a mean solo but when it was time to play bass, it's uneven at best. The "I Shot The Sheriff" thing I heard was horrible. I did find a lot of sloppy playing and missed notes but hey he looked like he was having a good time. I've been on YouTube trying to find this stellar, groundbreaking, awe-inspiring playing Jaco did and I can't find anything better than average/competent. And then the associated body of language it's connected with - the jazz lineage or the instrumental rock, R&B, pop lineage. It takes time to understand the language. What some people hear is a bunch of meandering, noodling. So I think a lot of the great instrumentalists also play and write "what we all feel," - it's just few people take the time to GET what it is they're saying. Not a pop songwriter, but he's the topic of the thread. But I didn't know this conversation was limited to modern pop songwriters? I thought we were talking about music? Jaco actually. They're interested in dancing, listening to music as wallpaper while they purchase items, pick up members of the opposite sex, feeling music as a sensation or being moved by lyrics as romantic feminine adolescent pop fantasy, etc.īTW Bach and Beethoven certainly DID write songs. The more you try and second guess what might be saleable, profitable, or fashionable, you begin removing yourself from the sublime to the wider margins of humanity, which are necessarily not artists or people interested in artistic things. I think art, the kind of art I value, is created by people who indulge in their own vision, believing that if they are true to themselves, that truth is also true for others, great or small. Let me know your thoughts, I'm interested to know what you think.
You'll have to be a bit more clear - I didn't realise Bach or Mozart wrote songs? Anyway I think we would do well to perhaps create a new term? To me all the great musicians & songwriters are socially-indulgant.they express & write to what we all feel, not their own little world.this is kind of the jist of what I'm getting at.a lot of people are simply not interested in Jaco 'cos he's not very socially-indulgant, if you like.hence why he is only revered in circles of 'skilled' people who can appreciate, at least a little, what he was getting at.
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