Weather Report - Hammersmith Odeon, London 1980-11-14, Soundboard Re-seed (Jazamo Tweek Version - includes 4 Samples)

In the gagle of Weather Report shows posted recently, I thought I'd re-post this soundboard recorded in 1980 in London, and which is probably only 2/3 of the nights set, alas Incomplete. Still with excellent sound quality it's well worth the bytes, and the band just smokes! I have made a few tweeks (listed below) to improve the overall experience.  All praise to the original seeder Mr Mags, and as always Your Comments are Appreciated!!!


Weather Report
Hammersmith Odeon,
London, England
November 14, 1980


Joe Zawinul - Keyboards
Wayne Shorter - Sax
Jaco Pastorius - Fretless Bass
Peter Erskine - Drums
Robert Thomas Jr. - Percussion


1) Fast City (8:11)
2) Madagascar (18:06)
3) Dream Clock (10:18)
4) Night Passage (10:19)
5) Three Views of a Secret (8:00)
6) Port of Entry (9:28)
7) Bass Solo (12:07)
8) Brown Street (17:06)


Total Time: 1:33:34


Original Mags Notes:
SBD>?>Cdr from Trade>EAC>FLAC


8/2/2013 Notes:
Original Flac > Tweeks > Re-align Sector Boundries > Flac > Check Decode > Traders little Helper


Jazamo Tweeks:
long silence before cut-in on track-1 and removed approx 7 seconds of dead air.  Pre-recorded Orchestral "Show Intro" cut-in on track-1 so I added Faded-in to smooth intro (listen to sample). On track-7 for unknown reasons the volume was very low for the first 6 minutes of Jaco's solo so I increased the volume (+12db), and then increased volume another +1.5 db overall. Removed 22 seconds of silence at the begining of track-7. Increased volume on track-5 (+2db) & track-8 (+3db). At the end of the song on track-8 removed mic bump and faded out deleting 9 seconds of the track length. Re-named all tracks.


Jazamo Notes:
Audience is not mic'd, and barely audible throughout which gives this set an In-Studio sound. Additionally there is no banter. Jaco performs one of his best solo's ever on track-7 including "Blackbird", "Purple Haze", & "Them Changes" vamps. There have been 3 uploads of this show in Dime each time adding 2 songs, the dates vary as either November 14th or 16th 1980. Hopefully the complete set will see the light of day someday soon. This is an excellent sounding show, and (get this) not one track appears on the commercially released "Live & Unreleased" CD. A compilation which cut into 3 Weather Report soundboard boots in circulation upon it's release.


"Jazz is Universal in Any Language"

All the best in Music!

Jazamo
August 2013

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     8:11.22       86664188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5333  1) Fast City.flac
    18:06.56      191702156 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4882  2) Madagascar.flac
    10:18.55      109144604 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4044  3) Dream Clock.flac
    10:19.47      109302188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5349  4) Night Passage.flac
     8:00.13       84702620 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4881  5) Three Views of a Secret.flac
     9:22.72       99306188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5135  6) Port of Entry.flac
    12:07.13      128273420 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4628  7) Bass Solo.flac
    17:06.18      181028780 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5099  8) Brown Street.flac
    93:32.71      990124144 B                            0.4913  (8 files)


