Mark wrote: I once saw Jaco Pastorius, sadly towards the end of his life when mental illness was overcoming him completely. He was so incoherent that the club ended up refunding everyone who came to both his shows that night. :(
Same here. He knew my old bass teacher up in Boston and showed up at one of his gigs at a local club and I got to shake his hand. He got up and sat in for 1 song (blues band), played way too loud with no cohesion to what was being played. I don't think I've had a musical idol since. His early work was great with Weather Report and I think that his work with Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, and Randy Brecker on Joni Mitchell's Shadow and Light was brilliant, especially on the few up tempo songs on the album. I especially liked Coyote and the interplay between Jaco's bass and Pat's guitar. Memories....... Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
