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And Here’s A Better Picture

Eagle-eyed Enthusiasts will note Matt Kelly is not being assaulted by any drummers whatsoever in this photo. Hawk-eyed Enthusiasts understand that the look on Jaco’s face might best be described as “currently deciding whether you’re a secret robot assassin.” Hippo-eyed Enthusiasts will take the photo as a threat, and charge and kill it. Aye-aye-eyed Enthusiasts won’t be taken seriously by anyone. Cock-eyed Enthusiasts won’t see dick.

Stop it.

Shan’t.

Shall.

Mustn’t.

MUST!

I haven’t the energy to fight. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it–

God, I hate you.

–but I’m riddled with disease.

You’ve brought it up once or twice.

I’m being inspiring. I’m an inspiration. I’m a hero.

Please just spit up a few more lines about the Dead and go back to sitting quietly and not bothering the nice people.

Fine, but once more: I’m only giving in because–

OHMIGOD I’M ROOTING FOR THE CANCER.

–I’ve lost my wind due to my many and various maladies.

No re–

Do whatever you want, man.

–sponse? Thank you for your support in this trying time. Keen-eyed Enthusiasts have spotted that Bobby’s fit during the Jaco gig includes a sling, and not the Hell In A Bucket video-type sling, either.

Bobby fell off his bike in September of ’86 and spent the next month or so plastered up and unable to play guitar, but still perfectly capable of wearing jean shorts. As usual, Corry over at Hooterollin’ has more info and some context to thereby heighten one’s understanding of the situation.

Also: John Cipollina. That’s it, that’s the whole tweet.

Now Playing At Fillmore South

Jaco started off crazy and then got hit on the head a lot, plus he was from Florida; poor bastard was doomed from the start.

ALWAYS A DEAD CONNECTION, TORTURED GENIUS EDITION: Bobby and Jaco were in a band together for 15, maybe 20 minutes. They called themselves Nightfood, and if you wanna know how they were, then listen to this:

Yeah. Don’t play Misty for me, please.

Not A Hoople

Jaco on bass.
Aynsley Dunbar on drums.
David Sanborn on sax.
Freddie, Brian, and Roger from Queen doing the backing vocals.

Billie Eilish has not heard of any of these people.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The lovely chaps at Omnibus Press have sent me copies of Ian Hunter’s Diary of a Rock Star and Ian Hunter’s biography Rock ‘n’ Roll Sweepstakes by Campbell Devine, so it’s gonna be both Mottesque and Hooplish around here for a while. You’re free to wander off and check back in a couple days; I wont hold it against you.)

Down The Rabbit Hole

One of the fun things about Enthusiasm is that no matter how defunct the Dead gets, there’s always new crazy bullshit to discover. An offhanded comment in this interview with Jeff Chimenti led to this run-on paragraph from a drummer named Brian Melvin, which led to this show from 9/21/86 from a band called Nightfood which apparently featured Bobby and Jaco Pastorius.