John Paul Jones tuning his bass guitar (photo credit: xillbill)He was the most underrated member of Led Zeppelin, yet he had a solid musical foundation, musical versatility and the desire to experiment.
After all, he was an arranger, song writer, keyboard player, guitar player, and above all, a helluva bass player.
John Paul Jones has mastered both the bass guitar and the keyboard, a unique combination of talents that earned him the reputation of being the most versatile member of Led Zeppelin.
In the studio, playing the keyboard and the bass guitar was easy, since he can always overdubb the bass parts later on. However, doing these arrangements onstage proved a difficult task, even for one as talented as John Paul Jones.
John would often, during these live performances, play the keyboard with both hands, and then play the bass parts simultaneously with his feet on the bass pedals.
One of John Paul Jones' most popular Keyboard pieces was "No Quarter." Sometimes, when he feels like it, he would introduce lines from classical pieces in the middle of the song.
Always the quiet one in the group, John Paul Jones' professionalism has always ensured that whatever exorbitance he encountered on the road would never interfere with his performance.
It's not like he wasn't having fun when the rest of Led Zeppelin were, let's just say that he was more discreet about it.
Truly, still waters run deep.
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