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darkshade 
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 Topic: Jaco Pastorius vs. Cliff Burton
Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:27 |
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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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geneyesontle
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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.  But... Jaco is my choice.
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dwill123
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Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:48 |
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Jaco Pastorius, Burton's not even in the same league imo.
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Posted: October 17 2012 at 17:53 |
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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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darkshade
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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.
Edited by darkshade - October 17 2012 at 19:37
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: October 17 2012 at 20:27 |
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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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Man With Hat
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Posted: October 17 2012 at 20:29 |
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Jaco.
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Jim Garten
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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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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: October 21 2012 at 21:55 |
Jaco... Jaco, Jaco, Jaco. 
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Posted: October 21 2012 at 21:59 |
Jaco was a musical genius.
Cliff was musically gifted.
Pretty obvious choice.
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Sagichim
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Posted: October 21 2012 at 22:31 |
I don't understand this poll. 
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: October 21 2012 at 23:37 |
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^ Which part of it?
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Intruder
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Posted: October 22 2012 at 19:17 |
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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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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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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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Posted: March 18 2018 at 04:13 |
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Cliff to me!
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: March 18 2018 at 04:42 |
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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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Jaco Pastorius vs. Cliff Burton
