Weather Report
Veteran's Memorial Auditorium
Providence, RI, USA
12 November 1978

Master audience recording taped by Dan Lampinski
Speed/Pitch-adjusted Remaster by Goody

Disc 1
01 - Black Market (12:25)
02 - Scarlet Woman (11:23)
03 - Young And Fine (7:25)
04 - A Remark You Made (7:24)
05 - The Pursuit Of The Woman With The Feathered Hat (8:42)
06 - //Continuum (1:56)
07 - River People (9:15)
08 - Thanks For The Memories > Dolores (Shorter solo) (4:49)
09 - Slang (Pastorius solo) (9:57)
Runtime: 73:16

Disc 2
10 - Mr. Gone (10:54)
11 - In A Silent Way (4:14)
12 - Waterfall (4:03)
13 - Teen Town (spliced) (10:06)
14 - E1: I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Zawinul solo) (4:25)
15 - Birdland (7:55)
16 - E2: Erskine solo (6:33)
17 - Badia / Boogie Woogie Waltz (14:36)
Runtime: 62:47

Total Runtime: 2:16:03


Personnel:
Wayne Shorter - sax
Josef Zawinul - keyboards
Jaco Pastorius - bass
Peter Erskine - drums

Nakamichi 550 Tape Recorder
Two Nakamichi CM-300 Microphones
Maxell cassettes

Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)

Master Cassette ->
Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction ->
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 ->
CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files ->
Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) ->
CDWAV (track breaks) ->
FLAC Front End (FLAC 8)
FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger >

Goody's additional lineage:
dBpoweramp (WAV) > Audition (Tracking updated; Pitch Bender - 30 cents; loud claps, etc. reduced; DC Offset corrected) >
r8brain (Resample to 16-bit/44.1 kHz) > TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries; .ffp) > foobar2000, Tag&Rename (Tags)

No EQ'ing.

A 24-bit/96-KHz flac24 version of this recording is also available.

Dan Lampinski recorded over 100 concerts in the Providence/Boston area, mostly between 1974 and 1978. His earliest recordings were made with an internal microphone deck, and though they are somewhat lo-fi compared to his later work, some very great moments in rock history were captured for posterity. In late 1974 he bought a Sony TC-152SD tape recorder, a Sony ECM-99 stereo microphone, and began using Maxell cassettes. He was also fortunate enough to have a friend who provided excellent taping seats for many shows, resulting in high quality recordings. In 1977, he switched over to a Nakamichi 550 tape recorder, two Nakamichi CM-300 microphones, and continued using Maxell cassettes.

He recorded many of the major 70's bands: Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, ELP, Kiss, Black Sabbath, The Who, Al Stewart, Alice Cooper, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen, Supertramp, Jean-Luc Ponty, Moody Blues, Neil Young, The Faces, Rush, Rick Wakeman, Kansas, as well as several "under the radar" acts.

Since Dan never traded copies of his recordings, they are all essentially uncirculated. Some copies were made for friends, but these releases are the first time most of these recordings have ever seen the light of day, and are direct from his master cassettes. No EQ'ing has been done to any of the transfers. Feel free to EQ, matrix, patch, etc and re-post if you like, just give Dan credit for the original recording.

Dan was very meticulous about taking good care of his tapes and is very pleased that these recordings will now circulate among the trading community. Please honour his kindness and generosity by sharing these recordings freely.

The transfers are available as 16bit/44.1KHz flac files suitable for CD burning, and also as 24bit/96KHz flac files for those who prefer the higher resolution.

Always remember - the more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you.

Kev & Carl
June 2009

Text updated for this remastered edition - January 13, 2019 (Goody)

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    11:23.12      120509468 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5414  02 - Weather Report -  Scarlet Woman.flac
     7:24.38       78411020 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6354  03 - Weather Report -  Young And Fine.flac
     7:24.27       78385148 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5724  04 - Weather Report -  A Remark You Made.flac
     8:41.48       92017340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6256  05 - Weather Report -  The Pursuit Of The Woman With The Feathered Hat.flac
     1:55.59       20424812 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5573  06 - Weather Report -  Continuum_.flac
     9:15.05       97913804 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6672  07 - Weather Report -  River People.flac
     4:49.36       51064316 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5564  08 - Weather Report -  Thanks For The Memories - Dolores (Shorter solo).flac
     9:57.04      105320252 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5367  09 - Weather Report -  Slang (Pastorius solo).flac
    10:54.35      115447964 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6034  10 - Weather Report -  Mr. Gone.flac
     4:13.47       44739788 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5068  11 - Weather Report -  In A Silent Way.flac
     4:03.34       42945212 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5851  12 - Weather Report -  Waterfall.flac
    10:06.27      106961948 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6555  13 - Weather Report -  Teen Town.flac
     4:24.56       46701356 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5072  14 - Weather Report -  E1 - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Zawinul solo).flac
     7:55.35       83872364 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6385  15 - Weather Report -  Birdland.flac
     6:33.23       69379340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5720  16 - Weather Report -  E2 - Erskine solo.flac
    14:36.05      154538204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5849  17 - Weather Report -  Badia_Boogie Woogie Waltz.flac
   136:03.29     1440022156 B                            0.5952  (17 files)


