Mr. Gone
(Zawinul)
For the 1991 CD liner notes, Zawinul told Bill
Milkowski, "That funny bass line I came up with on
'Mr. Gone' is something that came to me at home
while I was fooling around with different ideas on an
8-track recorder. Actually, that's how most of the
material for this album was developed, by
improvising on the 8-track and then going back over
the tape to find out what worked, writing down note-
for-note those parts that interested me and editing
them into some kind of coherent song form."
Jaco told Williamson: "Yeah, that's the Oberheim
bass. That's down to Joe: it's really the main sound.
In fact, I don't even play on 'Mr. Gone' until much
later in the tune. I just come in as a cushion to the
Oberheim bass at the end, it just gives it a little bit of
roundness, you know, coming in with the fretless an
octave higher, but almost the whole tune is
Oberheim bass."
Did Zawinul consider Tony Williams a possible
drummer for Weather Report? Years later Zawinul
remarked, "He would not have been the drummer
[for Weather Report]. He was too busy."
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