Jaco, electric bass, genius. What else is there to say? Actually, I think his music stands for itself but he was quite a mess off-stage. Apparently he was bipolar and had major issues with drugs and alcohol. Sadly, this legend was murdered in 1987 by a nightclub bouncer who brutally ejected him from the premises and beat him to death.
He was homeless and broke for much of his life. I read an interesting comment beneath a YouTube video from a guy whose dad was a dentist that Jaco visited once. Jaco had no money to get his teeth taken care of so he paid the dentist by giving him a box of unreleased recordings that were lying around in his basement!
This YouTube video is an excerpt from a DVD called Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius and it sounds like they had to more or less lock Jaco up in a hotel room for a week so that he could stay sober enough to play and be interviewed.
Jaco Pastorius - The Chicken (late 1970s?)
He was homeless and broke for much of his life. I read an interesting comment beneath a YouTube video from a guy whose dad was a dentist that Jaco visited once. Jaco had no money to get his teeth taken care of so he paid the dentist by giving him a box of unreleased recordings that were lying around in his basement!
This YouTube video is an excerpt from a DVD called Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius and it sounds like they had to more or less lock Jaco up in a hotel room for a week so that he could stay sober enough to play and be interviewed.
Jaco Pastorius - The Chicken (late 1970s?)
