$45,000 bass.....i don't think so!

[serialnumber12]

http://www.gbase.com/gear/jaco-pastorius-personal-63-fender-jazz-bass-1#

[basicvoo]

I met Jaco shortly before he died.
 
Man! I'm sad.
 
Thomas

[sonicus]

It is sad indeed, I met him as well but when he was on the west coast  in the early 1980's. No one else will sound like Jaco with this
Bass because his sound was in his soul and his hands . Who loves you Jaco ? We do ! You will continue to inspire Musicians and Music Lovers for eternity.  I ran across this website with Jaco's FOR SALE  Bass a while back my self and I got a tear in my eye.________

[toma_hawk01]

What an insult to sale such a bass. I am mad as hell!!!
 
This bass should be donated to the Smithsonian in Washington DC where it should be available for all to see, or it should go to the Music Project in Seattle Washington.  
 
Either places, would make an excellent home for future musicians and novices.

[pauldo]

That is not the Bass of Doom, it is claimed that he played the pictured bass on an instructional video and maybe he did..... even the Bass of Doom wouldn't (shouldn't) fetch that much.
 
The Bass of Doom holds all the history of the man the myth and the legend known simply as Jaco.

[afrobeat_fool]

Yeah, this bass was the one on the instructional vid. I saw it at Gruhn. Asked to play it and was turned down. It was in better shape on the vid. It looks to have different tuners than the cover of the vid too.

[toma_hawk01]

I am getting to old to tell a lies... But I believe Jaco was the greatest electric bass player I ever heard in my life.  
 
I miss him so much... He was the only one who had the guts to play Hendrix Third Stone From The Sun. I remember his concert so well at the Berkeley Greek Theater when I was just a very young teenager. I couldn't close my mouth from the first note, to the last note of the concert.  
 
My music buddies and I would just slap each others hands each time Jaco did something that was exciting and musically extraordinary. After the concert was over, we were exhausted, and my arms were numb from our countless hi-fives and soul-full bonds of kick ass rhythms, and flurries popping off with blends of multiple harmonics echoing through the night Bay Area Sky's.    
 
It was about the music.
 
Jaco never sold out and went Hollywood. He was Jaco everywhere he played. Jaco didn't mind sharing his techniques either...

[sonicus]

AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigredbass]

Of course, you really never would sound like JP with this bass . . . frets!

[sonicus]

I have pics of Jaco playing that Bass with a fretless neck .

[jacko]

Joey 'Bigredbass'. jaco played as much on fretted as he did on fretless. Try to get hold of his live in Montreal DVD and you'll see he favours his fretted bass for much of the gig.
 
Graeme

[keith_h]

Joey,
Nice to see you around. I hope things are going well for you.  
 
Keith

[mario_farufyno]

I will ever remember that sad day. I was in high school and a friend came to me asking:
 
- Don't you play Bass? Do you know this guy?
 
And showed me the newspaper... Man, it was like missing a brother or parent. I couldn't believe it. I even wasn't aware that he was in coma at hospital and then he had passed away. That was before internet and they were telling all that depressing stories about him near the end we didn't know in Brazil. I was totaly shocked, like loosing a friend you've didn't know was sick...
 
Oh, sad remembering.  
 
Hail, Jaco, you'll live forever!
 
(Message edited by Mario Farufyno on September 09, 2009)

[gyonnii]

I love Jaco but  someone is trying to make the big buck off a legends name,  and as far as the bass of Doom, it  belongs in the Smith museum . I don't believe that A private collector should buy things to sit on them for years and then turn them for profit but maybe they should be auctioned with  money going to build a new Music school somewhere for the next generation

[georgie_boy]

Greg
 
Unfortunately......money always speaks loudest in the Western world!
 
George