Jimmy Page & Jaco Pastorius -[4.30.85] - Fannie Mae (Part 1) 

I'm curious to know how many of you folks putting down Jimmy Page can tear it up on a guitar, as well as him? Somehow, I doubt all of you, but then again, who knows? Jimmy can't play like Jimi, and vice versa. He doesn't play jazz, but he did write "Ramble On", and countless other great rock tunes! So what's the use in criticizing??? Thank you for posting this amazing (In my unprofessional opinion), and historic recording- Enjoy Y'All☺

As an adorer/studier of Jimmy Page's playing, listening to this at the start I was skeptical, but then after the first minute. I knew it was him. The solos and his sloppiness was actually him. Whoa.

This wasn't Page's night for sure but for those who talk bad about him I'd say try being a successful session player for 10 years and then after that make your own band and sell more than 300 million albums when you have done that then I can say you can talk bad about Jimmy, if you can't do it well then shut up !! Jimmy Rules !!!

Much respect to you Mr. Page for granting Jaco’s wishes and jamming with him !!!!!

i've been hearing about this for years, it's so nice to actually be able to hear it. jaco's got such a badass voice

Two of my all-time favorite musicians, and I had no idea they ever jammed together! Cool!

I've never imagined to hear such a precious gig of genius two. The genre of music is nonsense. There are the finest grooves and vibes there. Jaco and Jimmy are respect each other that's beautiful. Thank you Thomas!

this was jacos show jimmy was there to watch him..he asked jimmy to come up for a jam. and as a guitar player myself it drives me crazy when you know it alls call him sloppy. his solos are off the cuff he is allways reaching that's why when he nails it he is the best. and this song is more jazzy than rock. so give him a break. also jaco called him to come up and play that's all the reason you need to know that he likes jimmys playing.

The best guitarist to ever exist - Jimmy Page. The best bassist to ever exist - Jaco Pastorius. Both of them are extraordinary men, and the best at what they do.

well worth a listen, obviously. thanks for posting

f0r the loose jam this is, it is absolutely amazing. thanks for posting

Jaco you were a blessing !!

Too cool I saw Jimmy Page with the Firm the day after this on my 18th Birthday..

@PrZemek44 It's not "littering". A musician who re-defines the concept of electric bass, writes amazing compositions and arrangements in a wide variety og genres while at the same time being spoken of on a first-name basis at music-conservatories all over the world is not "overrated". Pat Metheny even stated that Jaco was the last jazz-musician of th 20th century who made a major impact on the music-world at large. Truer words can't be said...

Thank you very much Mark ! As far as I am concerned, Jimmy is the one that had that vision, inspiration and creativity years ahaed of anyone. When Led Zeppelin was born the stage was set for us

The post here who say Jimmy was "not on his game" must be deaf or listening to another recording...his playing here is mean, clean and fluent and very very blusey....NOT sloppy at all or drug induced.....

That was a cool jam!!! Greasy and gut bucket if you know what i mean. Jaco sounds like Clark Terry singing. lol. 5stars!!!!!

all about the SOUND - lovve this life and thnx for excellent vid all new for me

Coming from somebody who does improv jams like this all the time, nobody is always on fire. just like in sports or any other improv type of art, there are times when u got ur mojo working, and times when you don't. there were times even Jaco sounded terrible. everybody is human and as soon you quit putting people and their achievements on pedestals, all of it is achievable. ever seen Michael Jordan airball? it happened... alot

Even Jaco says Jimmy Page is number 1 and that he likes to hear 'em play! Jaco knew more than just being the best bassist that's for sure!

THANX A MILLION FOR THIS.

Great performance aside, The Lone Star should get a mention here. What a fantastic venue. You could sit at the bar, and be quite literally within 15 feet of the stage. I remember seeing Roy Buchanan there, and I was so close I could read the serial number on his headstock, I'm talking inches away, not feet. So many incredible performers played there after their main gigs. SRV would pop over after his arena shows and gig for hours. He played with Buddy Guy there once. What a joint that was.

Just having some fun! Hell yeah!

someone got lucky and got a couple of pictures...I saw them in a magazine. Jaco was using an AMP(amplified misical products 400 BH...I had one.), and Hartke cabs. What a shame that there's no vid footage of this. To all the haters that don't think that this is ligit, if you know music, you should be able to recognize Page's playing.

When I read the title I almost shit my pants, never knew these two gods ever played together. This recording actually sounds very dull, idk what I was expecting but definitely something more exciting than this. To think what it could've been is just crazy

i love the way J.PAGE plays differently at this sit than he did in zep the firm etc..u can tell its him but he plays some J.page jazz here.for those who have knocked page over the yrs?if hes good enough to play with JACO and Co.hes good enough for me.....PRICELESS STUFF.THANX A MILLION.

I see nothing wrong with his playing at all. Raw, off the cuff and spontanoeus - how its supposed to be. And this is a Blues number people,.listen to it

dude the Two greatest Musicians Ever

Jimmy sounds great! Anyone who says otherwise is more drugged up than Jaco was. I saw one of the all-star Jaco tribute shows at the Lone Star after he died. Memorable.

yeah, jaco is the first great bassist and one of the best bassists ever!!

ha ha! If you don't think its Jaco, you've never heard the Live In New York series. This is his sound, and his band's horn arrangements, version of Fannie Mae, his voice, and all that. Go listen to some of the Live in New York Series. All the climbs at 5:16 are pure Jaco. It was an informal jam, it wasn't the best time of his life. This is Jaco. His last years were not kind to him.

@Tecumseh1812 "Page. like him or not is a genius. A composer of rock and folk music that is second to none". Amen, Tecumseh. And let's add producer, too. I put him up with Hendrix as a visionary of the possiblities of guitar as it relates to composition and the spectrum of sounds and colors and tones it can encompass.

THANX FOR THIS

what don't you get? Jimmy Page: Best Guitar Player Ever Jaco Pastorius: Greatest Jazz Bass Player Ever. whats not to get?

@ZebZachary YEA MAN.when i was a kid i heard the rain song,over the hills,thank u,southbound suarez before i heard black dog,whol lotta etc.......it was the first time i realized that i liked other music than just hardrock.queen to.love da 70s man

Unfuckingbelievable! Two of my heroes who I would've never have guessed in a million years that their paths would cross, much less jam together. Thank you so much for posting this! U are a saint. This is both of them, no question. Jaco's playing and southern floridian voice are unmistakable. I love Jimmy dearly, but his slightly sloppy, slightly out-of tune guitar is also obviously him. Cheers to you, mate!

Page played really well in this part of the show.

Never heard this one before. Sounds really loose and informal but good! Reminds me a bit of the jam Jaco has with John Schofield and Kenwood Dennard at the end of his famous instructional video, "Modern Electric Bass". Thanks for turning me on!

Probably not Jimmy's brightest moment, but interesting nevertheless. Ty for uploading.

cheers

@Kneehimiah "Mental illness isn't very well understood by the public." So true. I just finished reading the Milkowski book, about Jaco. What a tragedy.

but Jaco made a whole new sound to the bass with his fettles and his solo's, he was crazy! way better then any of the bass players today! giants only come very rarely and we just seem to have to monsters on the same stage:P

The only way Jaco ever played 10,000,000 shows was if he played 1,000 shows every day of his life starting the day he was born.

@coitershoiter - Jaco as a shadow of his former self was still miles ahead of 98% of the guys out there. You could hear it though those last years, the Modern Electric Bass video included, the chops were there, the riffs were there, but it sounded hollow. To quote Pat Metheny, "the fire and intensity" were no longer there. Still, what a great gift and blessing he was to music fans everywhere. Like you said, "For many of us his worst playing is as good as many can ever hope to achieve."

woah that's a dream team!

Wow!!!Awesome!!!Two Monsters!!!Now Jaco is jamming with another James... Hendrix.

A reminder that after Bonham died, Jimmy struggled, not touching the guitar, not leaving the house for a good long time. I can't even fathom criticizing him at this period of life. Even to this day, what the hell does he have to prove, to anyone?

Just because a person says it, doesn't mean it's UNTRUE. Take my father for example: He had dinner with Jimi Hendrix once. So what? My father surely wasn't the one Jimi was thinking of on his deathbed. Encountings do not matter, there's a million famous musicians andmore than that who have met them.

@sixsixxsixxxx I might have worded myself a little harsh,I see that now.....Look, I'm not trying to belittle JPJ's contributions to music history, but my point still stands. How could anyone in their right mind put him above Jaco in terms of skill, changing the face of bass-playing and influencing the bass-world?? Nothing JPJ did on a bass-guitar significantly changed the development of his instrument. As far as I see it, bass-playing would still be the same regardless of him existing or not

Imagine the party w/ Jimmy and Jaco... I'm surprised one is still alive.

Wow... Jimmy Page is EXTRA NICE!

Walking bass at his finest

Jaco was God on the bass and one of the most beautiful human beings in history... his playing peaked and declined like most people besides Coltrane but this is still an epic performance just because... normally all that matters is the sound(which I think is really great) but come on... this song jams! and to the guy who "can't hear bass"... all I have to say is 4:34

How lucky to be Jimmy Page and be able to play with two of my bass idols. Who was the rest of the band?

@vibroluxor I think the problem is that too many players focus entirely on technique and perfect execution . I think the great composer will always go farther than the great player . There are very few who can boast of being both .

carbonbodyworker: Yeah, I knew Jaco, met him at a mutual friend's house back in the early '70s down here in Ft. Lauderdale FL before he hit the national scene...nice guy..even though we just said hello..everybody was just sitting around and laying back...so conversation was not needed...just relaxing..he was a great innovative bass player but people forget he was human too and passed away too soon by getting too messed with drugs. Died after a bar fight down here..just a shame..

Jimmy's been quoted many times as saying that jazz is one of the styles he really doesn't care for. If it was, we would have heard tons of influence from it as he tends to channel any type of music he appreciates.

reap reap my friend.....

VERY!!!

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@Danman917 I hate it too ,we are forgeting politics ,lawyers,teachers,athletes,church & bussiness people & the list goes on and on....

I never knew of this clip..........Jaco's story reads like a hypomanic life moving into mania as he approached his thirties and then a descent into a horrific depression. he was apparently unwilling to accept help from friends which would be typical of a person with this particular disorder. i stole everything i ever knew from Jaco just listening to from the first record on and on............the greatest bass player in the world.........brilliance personified.........so sad! so so sad

Oh, and April 30 is my birthday.... If it has any significance. Anyway, cheers to all Led Zeppelin and Weather Report fans! Its just this, little, collaboration that stinks

i liked it.... still this is hard to believe

I think it's the other way around: jazz came from blues (and a bit from classic music and other...). All jazz music is greatly influenced by blues and you really hear that too. So i don't really understand how you can like jazz and not like blues. This really sounds good, it isn't easy to just come up and improvise. Jimmy does indeed maybe just plays blues scales (i don't know or he can jazz improvise or not), but that doesn't matter to me, he does it great and it's fucking cool jaco and jimmy!

where was Lord Sutch on vocals when we really needed him???..He could have saved this jam session!!!

Boy, if thats not Jimmy Page it sure as hell sounds a LOT like him.

I have all the Live in New York albums and this JACO this was either a track that was cut or a date that was not recorded, if you have heard the live in new york you know that everything is the same the only difference is Jimmy

Sounds like Page to me...issue is, Jaco's playing is lightyears beyond the blues musings of Jimmy Page. Clearly Jaco was holding back so he didnt play circles around a metal god. Even Jaco could hold back- you guys all think that he played Portrait of Tracy harmonics on everything. Sometimes its just appropriate to play the blues!

@DSamSebe1 It is Jaco....He didn't play complex bass-lines all the time. Sometimes he liked to play more basic blues-lines.

im telling you it is... 100%

que garron loco que nadie lo filmó...

Fair enough, hectorleon, Sorry, sometimes I get a bit too sarcastic. And, obviously, what I said was so stupid... What I meant was that SOMETIMES jazz can ger tiring. I'm just not big on any kind of 'jamming', too much improvisations etc. That's why I love so much Weather Report before Jaco time b/c their ALL music was a precise composition! Except concerts, of course. I hope I don't have to say that I don't consider myself being some sophisticated... whatever. I hate phonies. Cheers!

@jaberwocky6669 It's Jerry Gonzalez on trumpet.

Scratch the last part about Page.Just heard them announce him lol But my comment before about Jaco applies.

What's going on with the rhythm section?

sounds good to me

If Jaco didn’t like Jimmy he would have let him enjoy the show. And left it at that .

oh no you blew my cover :(...yes im just like every one else i just have alot of time on my hands to download zeppelin and upload them here

I want a VIDEO of this !!!!!!!!!!

lol dude i live in Canada, never have ever been to London or the UK. the closest i have been to the UK is when i was in Germany when i was 2 years old...lol didn't get into Zeppelin in till 12 years later:P...i just have allot of time on my hands when I'm not writing music.

First of all, blues came from jazz. This is a classic blues song, with some jazz twist in the beginning. Second, Jimmy is very well known for his soloing ability. But again, he doesn't know all the theory that Jaco grew up learning. Jimmy is a great guitarist, especially during his time. I will agree that I like guitarists like Scofield or Metheny much better, but Jimmy is really good.

@vibroluxor i don't know what jams you go to but it sounds fine to me! Page is playing tasty as hell and Jaco is laying back in the groove...listen to 1:30-1:37-masterful phrasing...remember it's just improvised and it's really a jazz band playing straight blues...

@vibroluxor don't get me wrong man , I admit that becoming a rock star was the ultimate goal when I set out but after the band I was in started getting press , and the offers to play on records began coming in , I had to make a decision to leave the boys behind , as we had no original material. I cant say I don't wish I had stuck with it , for my own satisfaction , but I hadnot the patience or th e self confidence . I miss the stage alot more than I miss the studio for sure .

@jdsrazor66 Are YOU serious?? John Paul Jones functioned well in Led Zeppelin and is a good bassist, but Jaco's impact on the bass/music-world surpasses him by dimensions. Not to mention that Jaco was on another planet when it comes to skill.

Jimmy Page uses quite a few of the same riffs here that he used in Zep

dude its jaco for sure.. you can hear his voice

REAL! i swear on Jaco's Grave.

Wow, marcdecho... I like your fucking style. I never compared Miles Davis to Ozzy (love them both!). It's not my taste, it was a general opinion of the critics BACK THEN, before Jaco died and became some Jesus... The best, most interesting stuff WR had done was before Pastorius joined the band. Amen.

stop the blabber in case u dont read the description jaco invited page to play both of them holded mutual admiration

I think it might be Jaco singing!

That's Jaco, at least his voice, so I think the bass lines are Jaco too, maybe he was stoned or something, he wasmentally insane anyway. I saw him several times in a very bad shape. He couldn't play Donna Lee, though he tried. But nevertheless he is a genius and a musical (not only bass) revolution.

@coitershoiter I think what is meant is for what he had become at the end of his time was a far cry from where he was back in his prime,For many of us his worst playing is as good as many can ever hope to achieve,and too others his prime made his latter stuff seem horrific. Either way its not the way he should be spoken of but we cant change every single persons opinion of when if and how he is to be appreciated.

@vibroluxor the world is full of virtuoso players with perfect technique that have nothing to say musically . I can play alot of Hendrix and Pages music , but I never wrote a 'rain song ' or a 'machine gun " , so noone knows who I am ~~

i hope everyone knows that there are 3 parts to this song

its not. this band played about 8 concerts with the same group i have them all "Live In New York (vol 1 - 8) and the last night i think was the night Jimmy stepped in.

Any idea who's on trumpet?

Maybe he didn't go there expecting to play. Not everyone is on top of their game when they aren't prepared for it.

@Cincinnatus1869 ANd its equally full of virtuoso players who can say anything musically. Page's strong suite was not improvisation, as he has admitted himself, and as demonstrated by this clip. he was a brilliant composer though.

Jimmy shitting bricks next to Jaco