I was working the next day, and I’ve never been out of work since.” I had exactly four hundred dollars from paper route earnings, and I went out and bought a brand new Fender jazz bass. So, the other guys called me up and said, ‘Jaco, you think you can play bass?’ I said, ‘Yeah, sure.’ I never played bass in my life. A week later the bass player quit the band. There was a really good drummer in town who took my place. It was a good band and I was a good drummer, but I wasn’t strong enough to lay down a heavy backbeat. I was playing the drums in a local band at the time. My hand was almost severed from my left arm. “This is why I play bass, because I got really beat up in one of those red-neck football rumbles when I was thirteen. When Jaco was thirteen he was really into sports and while playing football Jaco suffered a serious wrist accident that required surgery and he could no longer continue playing drums, so he took up bass guitar. As a kid he messed around on drums, saxophone, and guitar. John Francis Anthony Pastorius III also known as Jaco Pastorius was born on Decemin Norristown, Pennsylvania. Jaco Pastorius (Decem– September 21, 1987) One of the All Time Greatest Bassists!
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