Weather Report: "Veterans of Jazz"
Wayne Shorter- sax
Josef Zawinul- keyboards
Jaco Pastorious- bass
Peter Erskine- drums
Orpheum Theater
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
November 11, 1978 (Veteran's Day)
recording quality: B (recorded with a fairly cheap deck and mikes)
performance quality: A (a very good performance)
source: 1st generation audience tape
total runtime: 174 minutes!
(it's almost complete, except a few tape flip interruptions)
setlist:
  1: black market
  2: scarlet woman
  3: young and fine
  4: a remark you made
  5: the persuit of the woman with the feathered hat
  6: continuum
  7: river people
  8: Shorter solo
  9: Pastorious solo
  10: mr. gone (spliced)
  11: in a silent way (spliced)
  12: waterfall
  13: teen town
  14: Zawinul solo (end cuts)
  15: birdland (missing 1st second or two)
  16: Erskine solo
  17: badia
  18: boogie woogie waltz
comments:
  I have seen Weather Report 4 times, and partipated in recording
2 of those. I liked all 4 shows very much (Boston 76,77, 78 and 80)
and consider this my favorite Weather Report concert. My recording
of this show was what I had planned to upload but the CD's of it are
garbage (glitchy as heck-useless, made when I was still using a very
flaky computer to make CD's) and now I find out my reel copy of
it was erased, much to my dismay- However... I did have 2 different
sources of this concert, both 1st generation copies. The other still
survives, and was recorded with a cheaper recorder, but probably from
a much closer-up seat, since my reel copy was recorded in almost the
back row of the floor. There's not much high end on this copy, that's
the biggest deficiency compared to the lost copy I had. But there's
less echoeyness on this one, and less crowd noise, so maybe some will
be glad this is the surviving copy. It does have a few cuts, not
quite complete but close, maybe a minute or 2 missing at the most in
4 different parts (tape flips). This was a long concert, even for a
Weather Report concert, and a fine performance.
The 77 is also a 1st gen. (I presume different source than an earlier
dime torrent of this show) and the 1980 is from my master. This one
sounds pretty good, the 77 is better than this, and the 1980 may be
the best recording I've ever made (6th row center!).  I'm still
looking for the 76 one, even though I've found 3 sources for the
opening Shakti show, none for that yet) which would probably be
very early Jaco era.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
weather is an inevitable reality,
not a commodity.

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    10:06.10      106922028 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5766  03 young and fine.flac
     7:31.65       79709740 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5565  04 a remark you made end cuts.flac
     9:48.10      103747624 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5691  05 the persuit of the woman with the feathered hat.flac
    12:21.50      130830380 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5767  06 continuum.flac
     4:14.73       44978220 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5696  07 Shorter solo.flac
    11:53.38      125861932 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5431  08 Pastorious solo.flac
    12:52.67      136339500 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5465  09 mr. gone spliced.flac
    20:02.66      212189228 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5124  10 in a silent way spliced.flac
     9:41.52      102610348 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.4915  11 waterfall.flac
    11:36.73      122945580 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5229  12 teen town.flac
     1:49.30       19299244 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.4868  13  Zawinul's solo end cuts.flac
     6:54.22       73080876 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5174  14 birdland cuts in.flac
     1:34.15       16616236 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5419  15 band introductions and encore break.flac
     7:40.30       81215532 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.4963  16 encore Erskine solo.flac
    16:03.68      170033192 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.4976  17 badia into boogie woogie waltz.flac
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    10:06.10      106921964 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5753  03 young and fine-FIXED.flac
     7:31.65       79709324 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5550  04 a remark you made end cuts-FIXED.flac
     9:48.10      103746764 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5663  05 the persuit of the woman with the feathered hat-FIXED.flac
    12:21.50      130830044 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5740  06 continuum-FIXED.flac
     4:14.74       44979692 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5686  07 Shorter solo-FIXED.flac
    11:53.38      125862620 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5393  08 Pastorious solo-FIXED.flac
    12:52.67      136338428 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5432  09 mr. gone spliced-FIXED.flac
    20:02.66      212188076 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5092  10 in a silent way spliced-FIXED.flac
     9:41.52      102610748 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4867  11 waterfall-FIXED.flac
    11:36.73      122946140 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5194  12 teen town-FIXED.flac
     1:49.30       19298204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4817  13  Zawinul's solo end cuts-FIXED.flac
     6:54.22       73081388 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5132  14 birdland cuts in-FIXED.flac
     1:34.15       16616924 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5387  15 band introductions and encore break-FIXED.flac
     7:40.30       81214604 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4925  16 encore Erskine solo-FIXED.flac
    16:03.69      170035532 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4935  17 badia into boogie woogie waltz-FIXED.flac
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