New Weather Report Compilation and DVD!

Larry99 · #1 09-22-2006, 11:37 AM

http://www.musictap.net/Reviews/Weat...tCDDVDBox.html

"This Box also adds a DVD that runs through 18 songs from an Offenbach, Germany concert on September 29, 1978. Weather Report was at their peak with the classic lineup of Shorter on Sax, Zawinul on Keys, the immensely talented and tragic Jaco Pastorius on Bass, and Peter Erskine on Drums. The DVD is over 2 hours in length and is presented in full-screen. There is a lot to enjoy while watching the DVD, itself a slice of history. Its inclusion into the Box underscores the importance of Weather Report as well as the period of time that it is taken from."

I sort of wish they just put out the DVD seperately since I already have most of the CD tracks. I think this video has been going around as a grainy, lousy bootleg for some time. I'm assuming the audio and video are top notch on this offical release which will be pretty cool to have.

Richard Lindsey · #2 09-22-2006, 12:54 PM

Just got this yesterday, but haven't had a chance to check out either the audio or the video yet. Yeah, I've got nearly all the tunes already too, but I'm hoping that this particular selection and sequencing of them may prove illuminating. Or if not, at least I get a DVD.

Bruce Lindfield · #3 09-22-2006, 12:55 PM

There was a DVD of a German WR concert out last year - is it the same one?

Bruce Lindfield · #4 09-22-2006, 01:00 PM

Jusat checked my copy - "Young and Fine" concert in Offenbach Germany |Sep 29th 1978 - so nothing new!!

markjazzbassist · #5 09-22-2006, 01:04 PM

how much was the set? im going to have to pick this up.

Richard Lindsey · #6 09-22-2006, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by markjazzbassist

how much was the set? im going to have to pick this up.

$49.99 at Borders, $44.99 (I think) at Amazon. I had a 30%-off-one-item coupon from Borders (I'm in their little rewards program), so I got it there for $34.99 + tax. Three CDs and a DVD.

zombywoof5050 · #7 09-22-2006, 02:03 PM

This DVD is much better quality than "Young & Fine", the 3 cd's are a great chronological retrospective, and the price is not bad at all for what you're getting. The box set lists the DVD performance date as 9-28-78, but it is the same show as "Young & Fine" (which is dated 9-29-78).

I highly recommend this "Forecast: Tomorrow" box set!

JimK · #8 09-22-2006, 04:17 PM

I picked this up at B&N online for about $35.

Richard Lindsey · #9 09-23-2006, 12:18 PM

Listening to the first CD, which starts with some Miles, Wayne, and Cannonball and then goes into stuff from the first two records. Liking it so far; I'd almost forgotten how good some of this early stuff was, yet how different from what they later morphed into. I don't buy the argument I've seen that the early stuff was the most "real" WR, because IMO the later, more electric stuff was just as groundbreaking in its way and just as strong and personal an expression of what Joe and Wayne at cohorts were about, though admittedly more accessible than the early stuff. (Some folks have a hard time forgiving accessibility, it seems.) I pretty much like the whole spectrum of what they did--I don't mean I like every single track they ever cut (they had duds too), but from every period there are some terrific things. (It's still a little hard for me to dig their last album, This Is This, though. I'd have wished for a stronger swan song, but I guess it showed why it was time to wrap it up.)

jk_bass · #10 09-23-2006, 12:42 PM

CD Universe has it for $35.

jerry · #11 09-23-2006, 03:56 PM

How's the unreleased stuff on there boys? I have every WR album and am debating if I should pick it up. Any unreleased Alphonso Johnson stuff?....the Alphonso years were my favorite Weather Report period.

side note/ the three Alphonso Johnson solo albums get re-released this week......CD Universe has them pretty cheap, especially next to the import price I paid for Moonshadows.

Richard Lindsey · #12 09-23-2006, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jerry

How's the unreleased stuff on there boys? I have every WR album and am debating if I should pick it up. Any unreleased Alphonso Johnson stuff?....the Alphonso years were my favorite Weather Report period.

side note/ the three Alphonso Johnson solo albums get re-released this week......CD Universe has them pretty cheap, especially next to the import price I paid for Moonshadows.

There's almost no unreleased stuff on there, so you won't get much you don't already have. There's a DJ Logic remix of 125th St Congress, an unedited version of Eurydice (from the first record), and a screaming live version of Nubian Sundance w/ Alphonso (not that well recorded, but smoking). That's pretty much it.

zillo · #13 09-24-2006, 08:40 AM

Picked it up at the local music shop for $40 yesterday. I've only gotten as far as the DVD.

Really an amazing band. Perter Erskine really is a monster. I wonder what it's like playing with a drummer like that. The energy level, musicality, and emotion in their music is really a bit overwhelming.

Back in the 70's, my ears just were not big enough for me to appreciate those guys the way I do now.

fraublugher · #14 09-24-2006, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by jerry

How's the unreleased stuff on there boys? I have every WR album and am debating if I should pick it up. Any unreleased Alphonso Johnson stuff?....the Alphonso years were my favorite Weather Report period.

side note/ the three Alphonso Johnson solo albums get re-released this week......CD Universe has them pretty cheap, especially next to the import price I paid for Moonshadows.

there's this
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/...Unreleased.htm

Bruce Lindfield · #15 09-25-2006, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard Lindsey

There's almost no unreleased stuff on there, so you won't get much you don't already have. There's a DJ Logic remix of 125th St Congress, an unedited version of Eurydice (from the first record), and a screaming live version of Nubian Sundance w/ Alphonso (not that well recorded, but smoking). That's pretty much it.

So in other words - for real WR fans there's absolutely no point in buying all the stuff you already have!!

Richard Lindsey · #16 09-25-2006, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

So in other words - for real WR fans there's absolutely no point in buying all the stuff you already have!!

I suppose not. I didn't have the concert video, so that was worth something to me. I do like the selection and sequencing on the boxed set, but I suppose I could have done much the same thing with my CDs and an iPod if I'd wanted to (i.e., built a playlist).