Fretless Road by frogdot
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Description
In the past few months, I sort of rediscovered the music of Joni Mitchell, especially the mid to late 70s. In the process, I had almost forgotten that bass legend Jaco Pastorius played with her. I've listened to his work with Weather Report, but the music he made with Joni Mitchell is just incredible. Never heard anyone get such melodic and acrobatic sounds from a fretless bass and never will again. Unfortunately, personal demons cut his life short in 1987.
This feeling of cruising real fast on a long winding highway popped into my head and the rest fell into place.
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Making the neck and strings was hard. Making it all fit to a terrain was harder. Not to mention the Bryce crash upon saving after a particularly long session.
Comments (24)
Dann-O
Jaco Pastorius drives down the fretless J-bass road all the time. (wow did not read the intro and Jaco was the first person I thought of.)
A_
this is.. for the lack of a better word - wonderful. i just love the concept, you sure have a way of seeing things so visually. and the execution fits perfectly, imo.
Naoo
This is ART! BRAVO!!!
lemonjim
the hard work paid off! reminds me of I-280 a little!
Mondwin
Fantastic and gorgeous piece...bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
LiviaCH
Wow! This is absolutely superb!! Wonderful piece of art!!
Osipenkov
Very COOL!!!! 5+ It's my favorite!
lwperkins
Wouldn't this make a wonderful foldout in a JM cd?
BecSchm
You rock! So does this image! I love it!
JNH
Wow! Incredible creative and execution on this Dave. (Best pop/folk around!)
ek-art
I want this for a poster! ....Wonderful, I love it :)
kjer_99
That's one way stretched out geet-box!
jsgknight
Wow, I think you and I are on the same wavelength or something.. I just finished modeling a bass guitar on Sunday and posted it. Mine is not as cool as yours though, this is awesome! As always, your work inspires me to new levels. Keep it up Dave.
vangogh
Very nicely done....wonderfully creative idea and execution.
MagikUnicorn
Rock N Roll ___
aliensprog
Simply superb in concept and execution!!!!! Rock on!!!
skiwillgee
You are a wizard. I'm not even going to try to figure out how you did it. Super job!
Lown
Amazing, you have a real talent for making what is in your mind a reality!
Dinhi
Astounding Dave!
Incarnadine
Brilliant image.
striving
A work of ART man. Really well done. I love this piece.
WeeLaddie
Could even be "The Long And Fretless Road" dah-dum da-da-dum .... A work of inspired genius.
krickerd
Uniquely surreal Dave! Sorry to hear about the crashes.
FunkyShaman
Would it be too punny if I said you rock? I can't even imagine trying to make those strings!!