Jaco Pastorius - solo albumet fra 1976
Q:The bass sound on "Continuum" is pretty special. Can you tell me how that one worked?
A:I played the whole tune twice, note for note—that's how I did it. Everybody thinks I've got all sorts of electronic gear, but I don't use any pedals, no electronics. It's all in my hands. But on that particular tune I played the whole tune note for note twice, solo and everything. That's just some unique stuff. I just wanted it to sound like a couple of guys singing.
Q:I must admit I thought you had a pedal or something on that.
A:Well, now that you know, listen to it again. When I did it, I didn't listen to the other track. Because there's no way to play something that close to the sound. If you play them both, you will cancel the other one out. Plus for intonation, I didn't listen to the first one, I just had to learn the whole thing. Every inflection of that piece of music, I learned back to front. Just went back and recorded the whole thing. I took the bass track off and just played with the rhythm section.
So when I put it together, it was just a surprise, because they were really close. See, there's no other way to do it. Well, there is, you can listen to them both, but they're so close, the intonation would definitely be out to lunch. That's the personality of the tune, because if it was a phase shifter, the vibrato would go [makes wild, erratic noise], whereas with this, the vibrato is going in waves. That's the magic of that tune. But seeing I'd played that tune so many times, there's parts when the vibrato's exact. Pure coincidence.
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-DC7nEBIR0&list=RDX-DC7nEBIR0&start_radio=1
Intervju:
https://reverb.com/news/jaco-pastorius-on-how-he-learned-bass-and-composition-bacons-archive