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Title: Weather report.
Post by: serialnumber12 on August 04, 2012, 06:35:51 AM

http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/08/04/columbia-releases-weather-report-the-complete-columbia-albums-1971-1975/

Title: Weather report.
Post by: hieronymous on August 04, 2012, 07:22:36 AM

Cool! I love the early Weather Report albums. This live DVD from 1971 is awesome - Miroslav gets a great tone from his P-Bass!
 
http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2010/07/28/weather-report-live-in-hamburg-1971-dvd-released/ (http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2010/07/28/weather-report-live-in-hamburg-1971-dvd-released/ target=_blank)
 
It really opened up my eyes - this version of the band can be pretty aggressive! I've got the Japanese 2 CD release of the Live in Tokyo album, the live DVD gave me a greater appreciation of the CD.

Title: Weather report.
Post by: hammer on August 04, 2012, 06:00:34 PM

I agree that it was the early Weather report that was the best: Weather Report, I Sing the Body Electric, and Sweetnighter are my choices. I saw them in concert ages ago at Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut.  They played in an all purpose' room with seating on the floor to a crowd over only about 150 listeners.  My luck, between sets they mingled with the crowd and I got to talk with Miroslav, Wayne, and Joe Zawinul for about 20 minutes.
 
Unfortunately at school my room mates would always crack that their music sounded like a bunch of instruments tossed down a flight of stairs so for 4-years as an undergraduate I spent a lot of time listening to them through my headphones.

Title: Weather report.
Post by: terryc on August 05, 2012, 05:09:09 AM

I have them all and at the age of 15 when I began to move away from the 'rock scene'(Deep Purple, Sabbath, Yes etc) then my friends would also take the piss too..mind you Mahavishnu went down well, maybe because there was a guitarist in them!!