Jaco Pastorius: Bass

Jaco Pastorius was Musician, producer, educator. Explore interesting quotes on bass.
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“I was playing drums, and I had broken my wrist very bad playing football, and the bass player in the band… he wanted to split. So I just went to the bass; I went from Drums over to Bass. That was it. I was playing the bass within a week.”

Jaco Pastorius

On how he switched from drums to bass
Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius (1985)

Football

“I had an upright — it took me years and years to get enough bread to get it… I'm from Florida, so one morning I woke up, go in the corner and the bass is in a hundred pieces, cause the humidity is so bad, I mean, the upright just blew up. I said forget it, man, I can't afford this any more. So I went out, got a knife and took all the frets out of my Fender. That was it.”

Jaco Pastorius

Quoted in Michele Norris, "Jaco Pastorius: 20 Years Later," http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14578299&sc=nl&cc=mn-20071007 NPR: All Things Considered (2007-09-21)

Forgetting

“I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.”

Jaco Pastorius

On why he played a fretless bass
Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius (1985)