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Direct Link To This Post Topic: Jaco Pastorius vs. Cliff Burton
    Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:27
Two legendary bassists, both known for innovating the role if the bass in jazz and metal (respectively), and both lives cut short in the mid 80s. Who knows what these two musicians could have done if they had even 5 to 10 more years. Who do you prefer?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:43
Jaco Pastorius is a legend of bass playing. He's fantasitc.
I also love Cliff Burton. He's a fantastic metal bass player. Maybe Metallica would be good if he was alive. Wink
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Jaco is my choice.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:48
Jaco Pastorius, Burton's not even in the same league imo.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:53
Jaco's show offy cocainesnorting fusion style doesn't appeal to me and I don't care about different leagues. Cliff Burton
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2012 at 19:35
I gotta go with Jaco. Almost every jazz bassist who plays fusion owes their sound to what Jaco accomplished. Victor Wooten, Alain Caron, Steve Jenkins, Gary Willis, all of them. Even prog bassists like Jonas Reingold or the Haken bassist wouldn't be the same without Jaco's influence.

Cliff was great, and definitely did new things with metal bass, but he wasn't even around for nearly half the time that Jaco was.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2012 at 20:27
Jaco innovated a lot. He gets my vote even though I'm not a big fan of that flatulent middy Fender-Jazz-Bass-with-the-bridge-pickup-solo'ed tone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2012 at 20:29
Jaco.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2012 at 10:10
Hmmmm

Pastorius - not a bass player: that man was a bass guitarist, true virtuoso & one of the most influential musicians of the genre.

Burton - as a metal bass player, he was good, no doubt; listening to 'Ride The Lightning' & 'Master Of Puppets' recently though, I was more taken by how much he was himself influenced by Lemmy (sorry, but that's what I hear )

So, one influential virtuoso vs a good bass player?

I'll let you guess which way I voted

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2012 at 21:55
Jaco... Jaco, Jaco, Jaco. Bowdown
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2012 at 21:59
Jaco was a musical genius.

Cliff was musically gifted. 

Pretty obvious choice.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2012 at 22:31
I don't understand this poll. Stern Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2012 at 23:37
^ Which part of it?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2012 at 19:17
Jaco....if only for that self-titled solo album - classic.  Strange poll....apples and oranges.  Maybe Jaco vs. Laird, Carter or Clark or Burton vs. Harris, or Newstead....or even Geezer!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2012 at 19:50
It should have been Lars.

That being said, Jaco is still the superior musician here, and frankly I'm still a bit offended that Metallica's current bassist is also the current owner of Jaco's Bass of Doom.  That belongs in a museum or with his family, not on stage playing Master of Puppets.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2018 at 04:02
Not a good poll when one compares a jazz bassist with a metal one. 

As much as I like Burton, Jaco got my vote.

Fun fact - Jaco is Robert Trujillo's favorite bass player (or so I read)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2018 at 04:13
Cliff to me!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2018 at 04:42
I say Jaco. As usual, in true Metallica fashion, Cliff was, generally, undermixed. Kill ‘em All was his finest hour, but nothing on Jaco.
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