PERCY JONES

[@digitaldesigner5284]

Percy Jones is a bass legend.

[@Deebz270]

Most of us that have played bass and love the fusion fretless sound, might consider Jaco Pastorius as the eminant leader of that sound... However, for me the Welshman Percy Jones has always been my favourite and most listened to fretless player. A genius in electronics and a 'radio ham' - Jones was responsible for desgining most of his signal processing equipment. He never fails to continually push the sonic envelope. Renowned for bringing Electric Wood's - WAL basses to the fore, Percy now uses this custom Ibanez five-string fretless. But Jones could probably get the same amazing sounds on a broom-handle strung with rubber bands! Brand-X - where most of us were first introduced to his amazing playing techniques, would never had made it so big, without his considerable input. The chemistry between Jones and the rest of the band was sublime. I would thus categorise Percy as a 'Lead Bass Player', perfectly matched to John Goodsall's (RIP) equally advernturous guitar forays.

[@Bricklinsv1970]

I just discovered Percy recently and am just blown away!

[@mikedown1250]

I was 15 (i'm now 61) when i discovered Percy.. The greatest bass player i've ever heard.

[@steveradogna9564]

Percy does not get the recognition he deserves! IMHO, he's in the same class as Jaco

[@IchBinAuchHier43]

I have this VHS for ages. Amazing!

[@ReggiePostlethwaite]

Sci-fi bass player. He continues to play the bass of the future since 70s

[@mybassguitarpwnsyou]

This is a GREAT video. 27 years of playing bass and I accidentally found about Percy today because of a Brand X video and all I can say is WOW!!

[@cool4jazz]

I bought Unorthodox Behavior the week it hit the stores, and started playing bass about 2 years later.

[@williamweiss6128]

Yep, still have all those early Brand X lp's.

[@Deebz270]

Well you've got a lot of enjoybale catching-up to do then.

[@СергейРешетников-з9ц]

Мне показалось, может я ошибаюсь, это музыкано будущего, супер.

[@TheVeryBlondeOne]

10:00 actual title should be "Maxwell's Demon", from Tunnels 29:01 Stellarator, from Brand X's Manifest Destiny album 44:44 Barrio, from Tunnels

[@ard6565]

I've listened to Brand X since about 1982 via Phil Collins and loved Percy's playing. Also a big fan of Japan who had the wonderful Mick Khan

[@plakat_mx]

Mick Karn* - Eberhard Weber is also a fantastic bass player in a similar vein to these two

[@Eyelashviper]

Lovin' that three-finger right hand technique. Sweet

[@MikenGloria55]

Brand X blew me away because of Percy...

[@jshutcherson]

Fabulous that this has been put up. Someone mentioned that he perhaps is in the league of Jaco. IMHO he’s actually a level above. This from someone who’s been following Brand X since their inception. And by the way, go back and listen to those first two Brand X records. The ones with Morris Pert, Phil Collins. I grew up in sort of a music hipsterville, Athens, Georgia. I remember when the REM guys were working as things like dishwasher and so forth. So going way way back. But it’s interesting that even amongst the folks that were heading into this misnamed thing called the new wave, there was overall admiration for Brand X versus the other fusion acts. They were doing something completely different. All the cool guys at the record stores were into it in addition to being in awe of new releases from bands no one had ever heard of like the Police or Elvis Costello or Ultravox or Magazine. All fabulous acts. But Brand X really did kind of bump into all of this new way of thinking about music. No wonder that in those truly breakthrough first four Brian Eno albums, that Percy Jones and Phil Collins figured in heavily. Re Brand X, Virtuosos to a person. Jones was so central to that. Such a unique sound as a band. Such a unique sound as a player. I still regularly go back and listen to those first two records, maybe also including the third and fourth. I’m still amazed at the ways they were pushing boundaries. Not at all linear like so many of the “progressive” or fusion acts at the time. Great great stuff. With a great great bass player!

[@Rowenband]

One of the most interesting bass players on this planet and only 121 views ?! This is a very interesting video. Percy we love you. And even if I never can catch what you explain (I'm just a poor amateur) here, it's great to see it done. I love to try to play Disco Suicide, one of my favorite pie ces from all time…

[@GianiGighen]

You're damn right!!!!

[@jimmygell234]

Gotta love Percy Jones amazing player I would love to be that good

[@lencampa9049]

Mind blower😅 to find this so glad that i did percy jones one of the BEST bassest he definitly has his own sound and style wow.this is unreal and the tunnels his band excellent to see them play. u need to check out tunels c.d.s and his solos c.d.s 😊

[@pobinr]

Jaco & Percy the best

[@HansJaussmann]

i could watch this 100 times, Percy is the Man.

[@johngleason9407]

The master. I was blissfully content bashing away on my fretted 4001 until I heard Percy, which I still do when appropriate, but I always pull out the Fretless first and see if I can possibly work some Percy-isms into the proceedings. A total genius

[@CorkDave1]

One incredible Bass player

[@MrGiandrum]

l'ho sempre amato quest'uomo

[@AntoineLawrenceLLC]

Gold!

[@toniogr8a]

Conocí a este bajista por un disco de Vic Stevens. Es de esos músicos raros pero que vale la pena escuchar.

[@bix.beiderbecke]

Ahhhh ! Percy Jones ! Il y a deux bassistes que j'ai écouté intensément à la fin des années '70 et début '80. Évidemment, le premier qui vient en tête, c'est Jaco Pastorius. Mais j'écoutais aussi beaucoup Brand X avec Percy Jones. Quand je mentionnais son nom à mes amis musiciens, on me répondait toujours : "Qui ?". C'est vraiment dommage que Percy Jones n'aie pas eu la reconnaissance qu'il méritait. Entre autres, écoutez l'album "Livestock' de Brand X...c'est avec "Nightmare Patrol" que je l'ai connu. Coup de foudre !

[@SwampEye1]

Jaco and Percy ... ils ont la meme sound et technique les deux plus grande ...

[@normanhacker3588]

Always original always over the top great!

[@trevorsanders5303]

He is the bass equivalent of John McLaughlin

[@stevendavis2122]

I’d put Percy above jaco all day.

[@АлексейРусских-ж1и]

what an amazing thing plays at the beginning?

[@walfod]

Gabriel Fauré's Pavane....

[@gloppy1289]

RIght, at 44:12 - this is a good piece of advice

[@tuxster123]

It's mad,,, I loved John murphy (Thomas lang),he loved mick karn, mick karn loved this man,,, ffs,,, back to the drawing board..... all boss bass men .....😃

[@piotrkaczmarczyk1792]

48:31 - Frippology?

[@MaliVinnyB]

"Jaco" THIS, "Jaco" That.THNX P!!

[@mybassguitarpwnsyou]

Jaco may only have needed 4. But Percy has 5, and I like him a LOT more than Jaco.

[@kuujjuaq58]

@@mybassguitarpwnsyou Percy, fer sure.

[@ReggiePostlethwaite]

Jaco has been the greatest in (then) present day earthly bass playing. Percy Jones work was, is, will be about future and aliens. He is the only SCI-FI BASS PLAYER around.

[@brettfoxtrot1858]

@@ReggiePostlethwaite check out Mick Karn. He’s the only other alien bass player I know

[@PjRjHj]

@@brettfoxtrot1858 and Mick never shied away from acknowledging Percy's influence on his playing.

[@marklishman9092]

Jaco held Percy in high regard

[@vbassone]

How do you know that? I’ve never heard or read of Jaco mentioning Percy.

[@luisacevedobarrenechea5822]

What's the name of the song?

[@XeonX__ASMR__METAL-experiments]

ASMR

[@mohomoho1]

Theme from Shaft bass riff.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Another Green World