Jaco Pastorius

creating a timeless holiday classic duet between David Bowie and Bing Crosby, which still gets played on radio stations to this very day.

In 1987, the virtuoso fusion jazz bassist, former member of Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, tried to sneak into the Midnight Bottle Club in Wilton Manors, Florida, after being kicked out of a Santana concert.

He got into a violent altercation with the club's bouncers, sustaining severe head injuries that left him in a coma.

He unfortunately passed away 10 days later.

Jaco Pastorius is considered to be, by many, the greatest bassist to ever live.

In 1987, legendary co-founder of the Wailers and solo pioneer reggae icon Peter Tosh was shot and killed at the age of 42 during an armed home invasion at his villa in Kingston, Jamaica.

A three-man gang led by Dennis Lepo Loban attempted to extort and rob Tosh, Resulting in a senseless tragedy that also claimed the lives of herbalist Wilton Doc Brown and disc jockey Jeff Free Eye Mason.

Hi-hat.

This is Jaco Pastorius on the bass.

[upbeat music][upbeat music] [singing] Joseph Zawinul on the keyboards, leader of the band.

So Ralph, when you're listening to this, I'll just bring it down a bit here.

But, uh, like tell me what you... what, what are you feeling? Like, what are you feeling when you hear Teen Town?

All right.

So I'm hear- I'm feeling Jaco Pastorius.

Okay.

So people would write reviews of concerts they had attended at some point in their life.

So my friend Laura Scalzo wrote about going to a secret Jaco Pastorius gig at the Lone Star Cafe in New York City right before Christmas in 1984 or 85, I think.

The gig started at 2 o'clock in the morning.

I mean... it's sort of, I've got this theory that everybody has at least one great story in them.

Yes.

After Jaco Pastorius.

Big shoes to fill.

Huge, huge shoes to

And then on bass, John Entwistle.

Did he die? Who? Jaco Pastorius on bass.

I don't know who

that is.

So I know, I don't know if I mentioned this on pod.

I know we've talked about this before, but I think the thing that kind of made David Lee Roth click for me was hearing like some of the like R and B soul vocalists of the sixties and seventies or even the fifties, like guys like Sam and Dave, ironically, um, the the the sam and dave vocal group like right you listen to like uh i don't know like check out uh come on come over by jaco pastorius which features sam and dave on vocals and there are so many like little rothisms or listen to like like louis prima who uh roth would cover later on in his uh uh Crazy from the Heat EP, but hearing Louis Prima doing Just a Gigolo, which Roth covered, all of the little vocalisms, like the...

All of those are in the original Louis Prima version.

So like...

We heard the tune here, Refuge of the Road.

She's joined here by Jaco Pastorius on the bass.

Refuge of the Road.

Joni Mitchell there.

age.

And he did a documentary on the famous bass player, Jaco Pastorius.

Okay.

And so they did a screening at the Hollywood Bowl and had a celebrity performance with all of these musicians who played with Jaco Pastorius.

Incredible.

Incredible.

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one of the things that appeals to humans and about someone exceptional michael jackson john bonham jaco pastorius joni mitchell is there differences from everybody else joni mitchell will never do opera she could never out sing freddie mercury for example but her qualities are unique to her And yet people have done it where they take John Bonham's amazing drum track that we all revere and they've straightened it out and it sounds like everybody else.

Your individual choices of pitch may be a limitation of a singer.

We were listening to one the other day that was always flat.