Author Topic: Weather Report! (Read 435 times)

David Houck · « **on:** June 10, 2006, 10:23:18 PM »

David Houck · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2006, 10:29:50 PM »

David Houck · « **Reply #2 on:** June 10, 2006, 10:36:07 PM »

2400wattman · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2006, 12:52:09 AM »

Ohhhh yeeeaaahhh!

hankster · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2006, 07:33:26 AM »

Ok, do my eyes (or ears) deceive me, or is Zawinul's synth keyboard in the Black Market video reversed (that is, pitch from high to low going left to right, instead of the usual way)?

Rick

keith_h · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2006, 07:44:49 AM »

Rick,
Your eyes do not deceive you the keyboard is inverted. According to interviews he did it for the challenge and exercising his mind.

Keith

hankster · « **Reply #6 on:** June 11, 2006, 07:58:48 AM »

Incredible! Thanks Keith.

Rick

rami · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2006, 05:14:31 PM »

Just awesome! The maestro himself at work. This is what turned me on to playing fretless from the beginning.

88persuader · « **Reply #8 on:** June 12, 2006, 02:37:10 AM »

I'm at work and can't check the link but is this Weather report back in the actual Black Market days? I SAW them on the black Market tour in Boston with Jaco on bass. It was a religious experience!

rami · « **Reply #9 on:** June 12, 2006, 04:50:11 PM »

Something else I always loved about Jaco was how incredibly growly his live sound was. I always noticed a sharp contrast between his studio sound and his live sound. I'm just amazed at the sounds he could coax out of an early 60's Jazz Bass with minimal effects and an Acoustic 360 amp.

Rami

2400wattman · « **Reply #10 on:** June 12, 2006, 09:23:00 PM »

Finally had the time to sit through
Black Market and Scarlet Woman and this stuff live was and is just phenominal. Does anybody here know how Ican get my hands on more of this? Rami, I had bought a used Jazz fretless w/Bartolini 9W-4's(my favorite p/up) a couple of months ago from a Gtr. Ctr. I tried it out through an Ampeg combo amp which had a 15 speaker in it. The bass has that type of growl to it which is what sold me on it. So when I played it through my rig(Aguilar pre, Crown amp, Ampeg 8x10)that growly punch was'nt there. It still sounded great but I realised that 15's are key to that tone and that's what those 360 cabs had. Yes, what an awesome tone!

bigredbass · « **Reply #11 on:** June 12, 2006, 10:22:57 PM »

I'm old enough to have played though 360s, but am I old enough I'm losing memory: Weren't the 360s folded-horn 18's??

Amazing to consider his Weather Report stage rig, the pair of 360s, stereo thru the original blue-faced MXR rack delay. And yet the ultimate case of the sound is in your fingers.

I always go back to 'Byrdland' from Weather Report's '8:15' live album. The first time I heard the head of the tune he was playing in those thumb-side harmonics, it was like an aural UFO sighting: I heard it, but couldn't tell you what it was!

J o e y

2400wattman · « **Reply #12 on:** June 12, 2006, 10:53:33 PM »

Joey, I was 17 when I worked in a little
mom & pop store. We had a 360 in there and the manager of the store told me it was a folded 15 inside the cab. That's where I got my info. but if it is not correct I was misinformed. 18's or 15's, his tone was killer and that jazz I bought sounded so close through that little combo I just had to get it. You older guys are truly lucky. You all got to see some amazing musicians in their beginnings and follow them through their careers, evolving, experimenting, getting better at their craft and getting it to a point that the music just flowed over you like a flood. Dig it man!

keith_h · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2006, 04:12:25 AM »

The 360 was a preamp. It would drive one or two 361 18 W style folded horns. The 361's had integrated power amps.

In my younger years I used two of the follow on 370 heads and 301 bottoms. Great low end but every gig was a workout.

Keith

adriaan · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2006, 05:26:05 AM »

What about the short-range sound out of those folded horns? I seem to remember you couldn't hear much if you were standing too close in front, and they sounded much louder at the back of the room.