Weather Report - Rockpalast, Offenbach 1978

1978 : 2 hours 9 minutes

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Director: Christian Wagner

synopsis

By September of 1978 Weather Report's headlining status afforded them the opportunity to play a very long set amounting to two hours in length. In this concert, fans were treated to material from right across the bands career and solo spots by everybody. An explosive tenor and drum duet by Shorter and Erskine also forms part of this and must have surely put an end to the feeling in some quarters at the time that the saxophonist was no longer at his best. Also on board were flamboyant electric bassist Jaco Pastorius, a genuine innovator, and newly arrived drummer Peter Erskine a master technician brought into the group to add more of a jazz feel. Joe Zawinul was keen to stress that Weather Reports music was their music, a product of the group's identity, and not simply jazz-rock akin to that of many bands of the time. One night in Germany is clear proof of this.

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