Procession was the hipest Weather Report Record they made!! it Was my first , and it totaly blew me away. Omar Hakim was my great inspiration as a drummer , boy his drumming here is so alive and kickin´ , and full of idears and invention. And the record is great recorded also. Great compositions too. Love this tune too!! Long Live Weather Report.
Sadly, what I feel now is that I would have been worthier on earth if I could have give my years of living to randomly : Schubert, Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker. I don't feel depressed though, but... Isn't that the crual truth ?
This is not my favorite Weather Report Song. It's just one of my favorites that I listen to sparingly. That way each time I hear it, is like seeing an old friend. By the way my number one and number two Weather Report songs are, 1) NUBIAN SUNDANCE 2) BROWN STREET. After these two I have some that I like more than others, with this one being a special treat.
Clicked on this because it was on the history of this browser. Pretentious mulch frankly. Better to listen to some form of classical music, at least that's written properly, instead of pretending to be something. This sounds like sub rosa porno soundtrack.
Not true - Stanley Clarke's first album, which was much bigger (and better) than Jaco's first, came out the same year (1976). So, to say "no Jaco, no Stanley" is not correct. However, I am personally a huge fan of both musicians. Let's keep it positive and keep supporting this wonderful music! :)
@aspirenow I bought that lp when it came out, if its the one with Vulcan Princess, remember me and others being pretty unimpressed by the levels of techno-funk in it, the contributions of Tony Williams notwithstanding. Jaco was practicing, from 1976 through about '82, a more innovative sound creation with the fretless bass while Clarke was fading, offering little new or interesting, yeah?
@aspirenow good grief. you are correct, this person doesn't know what he's talking about. Clarke was around playing the Pharaoh Sanders even before he landed in Corea's band. Clarke can also play the big bass too, not just the electric. Jaco was great but he's also a pop personality and people who aren't in the know can write some silly things about pop personalities.
Vic Bailey han never played any better than this record. I assume he had the biggest pressure to be in Jaco's shoes, not to mention Joe and Wayne reportedly wanted Marcus Miller to be on this album, so Vic had no tohe choice than kicking ass at 110%. However, IMAO anything he did after "Procession" isn't much worth it.
@RufusT9 Yeah man, I know the Domino Theory album, but I like Procession more. Just a matter of taste, I guess. IMHO Bailey is very good on the latter, and he's just ok on DT. Well maybe it's just me, who knows...
Sorry for the mistake in my first comment, I meant " Vic had no OTHER choice than kicking ass". Which he did.
@RufusT9 D flat Waltz is one of my favorite Weather Report songs because it has some of the lowest bass notes of any song I've heard on a recording, How low? Most systems don't go low enough to play the notes that Zawinul drops near the beginning. Back in the day I used to take the grills of my Infinity Q3's and turn up the volume so that the woofer excursion would prove that something was actually being played. Definitely a song to test any subwoofer with.
It's funny reading the "Remarks you made" out here. I met Doug Wimbush once, Bassist (Living Colour) and he asked me to name a few of my favorite Bass Players. I mentioned Jaco he said "Man I can get his stuff". I simply replied yeah you might but can you create that! "Silence". Jaco was literally a genius who created a style but that was revolutionary in that you have schools around the world teaching his methods. Like the other dude said if Miles calls him Mr. then that's saying something!
I'm not going to lie and say I'm a big aficionado (I wanted to show off; that's "fan" for the uneducated), but I grew up listening to these cats; to disrespect Pastorius is just flat and round wrong, IMO...
Victor and Jaco were huge talents jaco just was able to show his off in songs with a band without people getting mad about it. I'll always love Jaco's tone so much better though. Just because of his fretless
I'm a fan. I have listened many many times ALL of their albums. I own most of them... and I DISAGREE ...You should listen this Procession many more times to be able to understand it's genuity! For example the bass line. First you could think he plays somewhat random notes... But when you get the idea, you'll notice that it couldn't be any different. I only have Procession LP. When I find this CD on some store some day, I'll buy it immediately!
I still want to add that I have listened to WR's music already for 25 years. You (PrZemek44) of course have right for your opinion to dislike this piece, thought it's hard to understand. You can't listen to this piece while reading or doing something. You should close your eyes and consentrate to listen to it.
Kannonim, unintentionslly, I'm sure, you make me feel lilke a kindergarten kid... LOL. I've been listening to WR since 1974 (not that it's a competition) and that's what I say (listen to the some tune over and over) all the time to those who don't get this amazing music or are Jaco whackos and dismiss the, arguably, best WR stuff from 1973-76. Sorry, brother I can listen to this a 100 times and... it would be OKaaay if it wasn't my favourite band.
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that those who love WR early stuff can even STAND this... My friend who 'introduced me' to WR stopped listening to them all along after Black Market, I'm not so "radical', still like quite many of their tunes from 1977 on but... sadly this is the time of this great band's decline. Not just my opinion, if you read (old!) reviews... All best to all WR fans! (except those who say that 'Jaco years' were the beginning of WR. Uuuugh...
Thanks for your reply. We are a little different here. It's not a problem. Perhaps your longer history gives an "explanation" why you don't like this. It has changed a lot from early 70ies WR's music. For me rock music was good in 70ies but then came new time and new bands which I don't listen..
Repetitive garbage???? I discovered this group in first part to Gentle Giant at a Montreal show in 1976. 5 years leather, the procession album was a revelation and I used the vynil on my Oracle turntable. I had all the WR albums and all the Zoe Zawinul sandicate and solo albums, are and where musicians pure genious. You should stick to Britney Spears products....
Excuses to PrZemek44, I had read quickly your conversations with kannonim and english is not my first language (am am french) and I am a huge fan off Zawinul carreer and I think it is very good music, more jazz/rock then jazz like previous albums. Sensibility to music are differents along people, I have bouth almost all is material, and some I dont like. I admid my reference to Britney Spears was innapropriate, she came in my head to refer a carreer that I dont respect , she's just bad.
Listen, Zawinul to me is the best jazzman ever! And it was so sad that about his death I learned in Youtube... I saw nothing in papers or on TV! I also love most of his stuff he'd done with his sindicate. What makes me angry is when people say that WR practically came to existence with the coming of 'godly Jaco'.
Pastorius was a great bass player but to me, you can't even put in the same league stuff like 'Procession' with what they had done before 1976.
In my opinion WR was always Zawinul+Shorter and bass player was only a musician in a band called Weather Report. Regardless the name of the bass player (Pastorius, Vitous etc.)
ditto! Lokakuunmaa, brother, finally someone with common sense. I usually don't write so much just... WR is my favourite band ever and all these Jaco crazies make me... mad.
I don't like the almight Jaco, never did. I'll tell people too. It took me a long time to like bright Size Life w/ Metheny (whose probably my favorite artist/composer of all time). I thought, "Great. There's a guitarist and a wannabe guitarist". Let's call a spade a spade. He should have just picked up the guitar. He cleary wanted too.
BRANNON MCKonk.. I think your comments are a bit simplistic and uninformed.... I don't think Jaco ever wished to be a guitar player. He is acknowledged by many writers to be a groundbreaking electric bassist... some say the finest of all time.I think you oughta
go back, listen to Heavy Weather, Jaco's
solo album... and tell me if you still have
the same viewpoint. Bottom line is , JP
was a GENIUS, and a complete musician- he played drums & piano really well, also.
Perhaps i'm extremely informed, and simply not predisposed to unwarranted Hero-worship or attachment to bandwagons. I've listened to plenty of Jaco, as well as innumerable artists (bassists), whom I find much more enjoyable and tasteful. He's got chops, but I listen for bass players to play bass, not dedicate their time to superfluous melody (some offshoot melody is ok, but not interminable mid-range noodling). Those are my feelings.
Okay, so what do you say about Victor wooten, or Stanley? they solo a lot. I think you and others like you don't will NEVER have any ability to play what Jaco did so that's why you hate what they did.
Stanley..meh. I love Vic. He plays guitar-type lines, but also plays BASS. I don't play bass, but I can play guitar better then Jacos wannabe guitar lines. I don't hate him, I just don't like his style...at all. Sounds like you're upset. Are you his mother?
I just watched your videos and you sound like a joke. That's with all seriousness, even if I didn't dislike you I would still have that opinion. All you do is corny improv, you can't even learn the simple guitar learn and play along.
Haha. Tired ass jealousy. You couldnt dream to play half as good as me. You're just another fuckin' wannabe joker posing around youtube. I have 84 and counting subscribers for my badass lessons, and no website backing me. You have nothing but conjecture and attitude. I win, you lose, get over it.
Dude ALL you do is make shit up when you play. This means you don't have a solid foundation. You don't use your ears or read notation, you are worthless, look up Berklee guitar players then tell me are you really as good as you think.
Better yet, maybe Brannon should go and read what Metheny, Wooten, Miller, Zawinul, Clarke, and just about any other serioud musician had to say about Jaco. He claims to be a fan of those folks, and they are all Jaco fans. When Miles Davis records a tribute to you, it means something.
I love Jaco with all my heart... as an instrumentalist, and as a composer, but NEVER as part of a band. Bailey and Vitous rocked my world with their groundedness much more than the hyperbolic, yet aloof mid-range of Jaco.
Thanx machinate. I never questioned Jaco's extraordinary skills, he just didn't do much good for WR. And all those 'angry Jacko wackos', who don't see the obvious, make me sick.
@machinate "Never in a band?" C'mon man. You may have a point to make, but that's way too far. The Joni record Shadows and Light? Jaco sounds great. On the title tune from Black Market? Hell, that track alone puts the whole band in the Hall of Fame. Let alone Teen Town and Palladium from Heavy Weather. Please man. Some of that stuff sounds dated 'cause of the obsolete keyboard sounds.
@LodoGrdzak I commented on that comment last year some time. Whoever wrote it was trying to sound intelligent, but just came out sounding like an ass.
@machinate sorry mac,but "JACO" pulled them over the the top,without him they would have been just another,broke azz jazz band.because of him,they became jazz's 1st super-group,not even "Miles" or "Coltrane" could do that.
@myleftnutts I don't think that's true. Mysterious Traveler was a million seller and Grammy winner wasn't it? I worked in a record store at the time and we sold a lot of copies of Mysterious Traveler and Sweetnighter for that matter - and that was little ol' Colorado Springs. Jaco was great and I agree that he did help open up the younger audience even more so but these cats were making a lot more money than your typical jazz musicians prior to Jaco. I know they did RedRocks in the early 70's.
Sometimes behind the beat, sometimes ahead. Sometimes on point, sometimes tangential. Sometimes call, sometimes response. And just when you think it's lost the plot...it sneaks back and hits you straight between the eyes. One of the great basslines. Thank you.
I think this is one of the best comments on tube. bravo :) And also to me 'Procession' and 'Domino Theory' are the best WR albums. I dont care what anybody says, thay are philosophical pieces!
One of Weather Reports all-time great tunes. Some of the post-70's albums weren't all that great, but they always had their moments. The band was too talented! There's a great short film/video that goes to this tune, but I've never seen it posted on You Tube.
I've been stocking up on WR since 2002 when I first heard shorters pinnochio. I've only started listening to the 80's stuff and heard this original for the 1st time last week. ITS F**KIN GREAT!! like a more mysterious version of night passage with even more space and a Hakim driving rhythm underneath. Domino Theory is in the post.....
mine too. i have a concert version of this on video (hey, maybe I should post it) that makes me weep like a fudge brownie being slowly digested over a period of thirteen decades in the humid, tangibly indifferent air of the ambiguous coastal waters wherein hungry sharks feed on bottom trollers for reasons unknown and unknowable- accept it dude.
in 83 i was in cover bands, police, rush, and someone gave me this on a whim and i stopped playing rock for a long time. jazz was sooo good in those days............
ive got some great weather report vids. only i am about as computer litterate as your typical 97 year old constipated arthritic mississippi livin' grand-mama. anyone want to come over and show me how to post vids? screw it, im going to read laurence sterne right now anyway- my new favorite author
laurence sterne. how wonderful. hey, whadya know, he wrote the greatest book in the entire english language...and it happens to be my handle. How convenient :)
JZ made us standing somewhere waiting for a procession which has to come by The crowd is getting bigger and louder until it is in front of you.The procession will leave you at a certain moment.Zawinul is a master in creating a visual vieuw of the music
Love Victor on this... had some big shoes to fill & boy did he step up to the plate! Strong version of this band.
Slamule 3 months ago
i can t stop tripping when listening to this song
KimFunkful 5 months ago
Procession was the hipest Weather Report Record they made!! it Was my first , and it totaly blew me away. Omar Hakim was my great inspiration as a drummer , boy his drumming here is so alive and kickin´ , and full of idears and invention. And the record is great recorded also. Great compositions too. Love this tune too!! Long Live Weather Report.
Dionysosable 11 months ago
@Dionysosable I agree. Procession is bloody brilliant.
fidomusic 5 months ago
Sadly, what I feel now is that I would have been worthier on earth if I could have give my years of living to randomly : Schubert, Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker. I don't feel depressed though, but... Isn't that the crual truth ?
WAMEDJO 1 year ago
OooH! D+ comprei onde trabalhava o Discão em Vinil no dia que Chegou na discolándia anos 80's
Cascavel Pr. onde nasci e vivo ainda hoje curtindo o mesmo discão
entre outros mil.
videodatsch 1 year ago
This is not my favorite Weather Report Song. It's just one of my favorites that I listen to sparingly. That way each time I hear it, is like seeing an old friend. By the way my number one and number two Weather Report songs are, 1) NUBIAN SUNDANCE 2) BROWN STREET. After these two I have some that I like more than others, with this one being a special treat.
Bodletrille 1 year ago
Clicked on this because it was on the history of this browser. Pretentious mulch frankly. Better to listen to some form of classical music, at least that's written properly, instead of pretending to be something. This sounds like sub rosa porno soundtrack.
BobMonkfish 1 year ago
@BobMonkfish It's too bad that you don't get it. It's sublime.
SamHilland 1 year ago
Not true - Stanley Clarke's first album, which was much bigger (and better) than Jaco's first, came out the same year (1976). So, to say "no Jaco, no Stanley" is not correct. However, I am personally a huge fan of both musicians. Let's keep it positive and keep supporting this wonderful music! :)
aspirenow 1 year ago
@aspirenow I bought that lp when it came out, if its the one with Vulcan Princess, remember me and others being pretty unimpressed by the levels of techno-funk in it, the contributions of Tony Williams notwithstanding. Jaco was practicing, from 1976 through about '82, a more innovative sound creation with the fretless bass while Clarke was fading, offering little new or interesting, yeah?
hivicar 1 year ago
@aspirenow good grief. you are correct, this person doesn't know what he's talking about. Clarke was around playing the Pharaoh Sanders even before he landed in Corea's band. Clarke can also play the big bass too, not just the electric. Jaco was great but he's also a pop personality and people who aren't in the know can write some silly things about pop personalities.
talkingwall 1 year ago
Vic Bailey han never played any better than this record. I assume he had the biggest pressure to be in Jaco's shoes, not to mention Joe and Wayne reportedly wanted Marcus Miller to be on this album, so Vic had no tohe choice than kicking ass at 110%. However, IMAO anything he did after "Procession" isn't much worth it.
Just saying, hating is not my intention.
mirzamarco 1 year ago
@mirzamarco so you never heard him playing Dflat Waltz on the next album? He spins his wheels on this one
RufusT9 1 year ago
@RufusT9 Yeah man, I know the Domino Theory album, but I like Procession more. Just a matter of taste, I guess. IMHO Bailey is very good on the latter, and he's just ok on DT. Well maybe it's just me, who knows...
Sorry for the mistake in my first comment, I meant " Vic had no OTHER choice than kicking ass". Which he did.
mirzamarco 1 year ago
@RufusT9 D flat Waltz is one of my favorite Weather Report songs because it has some of the lowest bass notes of any song I've heard on a recording, How low? Most systems don't go low enough to play the notes that Zawinul drops near the beginning. Back in the day I used to take the grills of my Infinity Q3's and turn up the volume so that the woofer excursion would prove that something was actually being played. Definitely a song to test any subwoofer with.
Bodletrille 1 year ago
It's funny reading the "Remarks you made" out here. I met Doug Wimbush once, Bassist (Living Colour) and he asked me to name a few of my favorite Bass Players. I mentioned Jaco he said "Man I can get his stuff". I simply replied yeah you might but can you create that! "Silence". Jaco was literally a genius who created a style but that was revolutionary in that you have schools around the world teaching his methods. Like the other dude said if Miles calls him Mr. then that's saying something!
BlackIceTheory 1 year ago
I'm not going to lie and say I'm a big aficionado (I wanted to show off; that's "fan" for the uneducated), but I grew up listening to these cats; to disrespect Pastorius is just flat and round wrong, IMO...
Icedrunk1 1 year ago
Yes
johndrum1 1 year ago
Omar Hakim has never played better ever since this record!
snorhyveln 1 year ago
Brannon's a wanker!
johndrum1 2 years ago
Pure ecstasy !!!!
God bless Joe Zawinul, if it ever existed anyway... (talkin' 'bout god obiviously, not Joe...)
AF117 2 years ago
Victor and Jaco were huge talents jaco just was able to show his off in songs with a band without people getting mad about it. I'll always love Jaco's tone so much better though. Just because of his fretless
reedorius 2 years ago
I Love the album cover
th1nk21 2 years ago 3
This is like some lame Weather Report cover. Really sad...
PS WR is my No 1 band EVER. But this is a repetitive garbage. Sorry "WR fans".
PrZemek44 2 years ago
I'm a fan. I have listened many many times ALL of their albums. I own most of them... and I DISAGREE ...You should listen this Procession many more times to be able to understand it's genuity! For example the bass line. First you could think he plays somewhat random notes... But when you get the idea, you'll notice that it couldn't be any different. I only have Procession LP. When I find this CD on some store some day, I'll buy it immediately!
kannonim 2 years ago
I still want to add that I have listened to WR's music already for 25 years. You (PrZemek44) of course have right for your opinion to dislike this piece, thought it's hard to understand. You can't listen to this piece while reading or doing something. You should close your eyes and consentrate to listen to it.
kannonim 2 years ago
Kannonim, unintentionslly, I'm sure, you make me feel lilke a kindergarten kid... LOL. I've been listening to WR since 1974 (not that it's a competition) and that's what I say (listen to the some tune over and over) all the time to those who don't get this amazing music or are Jaco whackos and dismiss the, arguably, best WR stuff from 1973-76. Sorry, brother I can listen to this a 100 times and... it would be OKaaay if it wasn't my favourite band.
PrZemek44 2 years ago
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that those who love WR early stuff can even STAND this... My friend who 'introduced me' to WR stopped listening to them all along after Black Market, I'm not so "radical', still like quite many of their tunes from 1977 on but... sadly this is the time of this great band's decline. Not just my opinion, if you read (old!) reviews... All best to all WR fans! (except those who say that 'Jaco years' were the beginning of WR. Uuuugh...
Cheers
PrZemek44 2 years ago
Thanks for your reply. We are a little different here. It's not a problem. Perhaps your longer history gives an "explanation" why you don't like this. It has changed a lot from early 70ies WR's music. For me rock music was good in 70ies but then came new time and new bands which I don't listen..
Cheers!
kannonim 2 years ago
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guitarap 2 years ago
Oh... thanx, I wouldn't know...
Sorry, if I took up too much of your precious time, normally spent on watching other videos.
Cheers.
PrZemek44 2 years ago
Repetitive garbage???? I discovered this group in first part to Gentle Giant at a Montreal show in 1976. 5 years leather, the procession album was a revelation and I used the vynil on my Oracle turntable. I had all the WR albums and all the Zoe Zawinul sandicate and solo albums, are and where musicians pure genious. You should stick to Britney Spears products....
rob7830 2 years ago
First read our CIVIL conversation with kannonim, rob7830 before you make an ass of yourself.
PS. What's wrong with Britney? Wanna talk about that?
PrZemek44 2 years ago
Excuses to PrZemek44, I had read quickly your conversations with kannonim and english is not my first language (am am french) and I am a huge fan off Zawinul carreer and I think it is very good music, more jazz/rock then jazz like previous albums. Sensibility to music are differents along people, I have bouth almost all is material, and some I dont like. I admid my reference to Britney Spears was innapropriate, she came in my head to refer a carreer that I dont respect , she's just bad.
rob7830 2 years ago
Listen, Zawinul to me is the best jazzman ever! And it was so sad that about his death I learned in Youtube... I saw nothing in papers or on TV! I also love most of his stuff he'd done with his sindicate. What makes me angry is when people say that WR practically came to existence with the coming of 'godly Jaco'.
Pastorius was a great bass player but to me, you can't even put in the same league stuff like 'Procession' with what they had done before 1976.
PrZemek44 2 years ago
Still, I like quite a bit of what WR had done at that time. Just this track to me is really lame...
Best wishes.
PrZemek44 2 years ago
In my opinion WR was always Zawinul+Shorter and bass player was only a musician in a band called Weather Report. Regardless the name of the bass player (Pastorius, Vitous etc.)
Lokakuunmaa 2 years ago
ditto! Lokakuunmaa, brother, finally someone with common sense. I usually don't write so much just... WR is my favourite band ever and all these Jaco crazies make me... mad.
I hope I can 'retire' now. LOL.
Best wishes to all fans!
PrZemek44 2 years ago 2
I don't like the almight Jaco, never did. I'll tell people too. It took me a long time to like bright Size Life w/ Metheny (whose probably my favorite artist/composer of all time). I thought, "Great. There's a guitarist and a wannabe guitarist". Let's call a spade a spade. He should have just picked up the guitar. He cleary wanted too.
BrannonMcConkey 2 years ago
BRANNON MCKonk.. I think your comments are a bit simplistic and uninformed.... I don't think Jaco ever wished to be a guitar player. He is acknowledged by many writers to be a groundbreaking electric bassist... some say the finest of all time.I think you oughta
go back, listen to Heavy Weather, Jaco's
solo album... and tell me if you still have
the same viewpoint. Bottom line is , JP
was a GENIUS, and a complete musician- he played drums & piano really well, also.
timjmoran 2 years ago
Perhaps i'm extremely informed, and simply not predisposed to unwarranted Hero-worship or attachment to bandwagons. I've listened to plenty of Jaco, as well as innumerable artists (bassists), whom I find much more enjoyable and tasteful. He's got chops, but I listen for bass players to play bass, not dedicate their time to superfluous melody (some offshoot melody is ok, but not interminable mid-range noodling). Those are my feelings.
BrannonMcConkey 2 years ago
Okay, so what do you say about Victor wooten, or Stanley? they solo a lot. I think you and others like you don't will NEVER have any ability to play what Jaco did so that's why you hate what they did.
arnbassbaritone 2 years ago
Stanley..meh. I love Vic. He plays guitar-type lines, but also plays BASS. I don't play bass, but I can play guitar better then Jacos wannabe guitar lines. I don't hate him, I just don't like his style...at all. Sounds like you're upset. Are you his mother?
BrannonMcConkey 2 years ago
Wait, did I just hear someone say that they can play better than Jaco? Really kid are you damn serious. Show me some videos
arnbassbaritone 2 years ago
I just watched your videos and you sound like a joke. That's with all seriousness, even if I didn't dislike you I would still have that opinion. All you do is corny improv, you can't even learn the simple guitar learn and play along.
arnbassbaritone 2 years ago
Haha. Tired ass jealousy. You couldnt dream to play half as good as me. You're just another fuckin' wannabe joker posing around youtube. I have 84 and counting subscribers for my badass lessons, and no website backing me. You have nothing but conjecture and attitude. I win, you lose, get over it.
BrannonMcConkey 2 years ago
Dude ALL you do is make shit up when you play. This means you don't have a solid foundation. You don't use your ears or read notation, you are worthless, look up Berklee guitar players then tell me are you really as good as you think.
arnbassbaritone 2 years ago
Watch out
There's a virtuoso in our midst ...
fenderbender92 2 years ago
Better yet, maybe Brannon should go and read what Metheny, Wooten, Miller, Zawinul, Clarke, and just about any other serioud musician had to say about Jaco. He claims to be a fan of those folks, and they are all Jaco fans. When Miles Davis records a tribute to you, it means something.
johnwiseman17 2 years ago
I love Jaco with all my heart... as an instrumentalist, and as a composer, but NEVER as part of a band. Bailey and Vitous rocked my world with their groundedness much more than the hyperbolic, yet aloof mid-range of Jaco.
machinate 2 years ago 7
Thanx machinate. I never questioned Jaco's extraordinary skills, he just didn't do much good for WR. And all those 'angry Jacko wackos', who don't see the obvious, make me sick.
PrZemek44 2 years ago
Well you do know that WR was biggest when Jaco was in it right?
arnbassbaritone 2 years ago
If by 'biggest' you mean popular, yeah. What's your point?
PrZemek44 2 years ago
@machinate "Never in a band?" C'mon man. You may have a point to make, but that's way too far. The Joni record Shadows and Light? Jaco sounds great. On the title tune from Black Market? Hell, that track alone puts the whole band in the Hall of Fame. Let alone Teen Town and Palladium from Heavy Weather. Please man. Some of that stuff sounds dated 'cause of the obsolete keyboard sounds.
LodoGrdzak 1 year ago
@LodoGrdzak I commented on that comment last year some time. Whoever wrote it was trying to sound intelligent, but just came out sounding like an ass.
SamHilland 1 year ago
@machinate sorry mac,but "JACO" pulled them over the the top,without him they would have been just another,broke azz jazz band.because of him,they became jazz's 1st super-group,not even "Miles" or "Coltrane" could do that.
myleftnutts 1 year ago
@myleftnutts I don't think that's true. Mysterious Traveler was a million seller and Grammy winner wasn't it? I worked in a record store at the time and we sold a lot of copies of Mysterious Traveler and Sweetnighter for that matter - and that was little ol' Colorado Springs. Jaco was great and I agree that he did help open up the younger audience even more so but these cats were making a lot more money than your typical jazz musicians prior to Jaco. I know they did RedRocks in the early 70's.
talkingwall 1 year ago
@machinate i'm with you 100% . i top it all off with Alphonso Johnson with this Band .
spiderlockhart 11 months ago
@machinate i completely..... disagree
OrangutanNationz 4 months ago
I saw this tour to 18 and, believe me, it changed me the life.
You excuse for mine not good English
calpont 2 years ago
This is their most underrated album. Plaza Real still gives me goose bumps to this day.
FaaarLeft 3 years ago
i'm just starting with WR so i haven't liste the complete discography (soon i will) and till now this song is my favourite!
alitocapo 3 years ago
Sometimes behind the beat, sometimes ahead. Sometimes on point, sometimes tangential. Sometimes call, sometimes response. And just when you think it's lost the plot...it sneaks back and hits you straight between the eyes. One of the great basslines. Thank you.
SPTAH 3 years ago 11
I think this is one of the best comments on tube. bravo :) And also to me 'Procession' and 'Domino Theory' are the best WR albums. I dont care what anybody says, thay are philosophical pieces!
earthga 2 years ago
One of Weather Reports all-time great tunes. Some of the post-70's albums weren't all that great, but they always had their moments. The band was too talented! There's a great short film/video that goes to this tune, but I've never seen it posted on You Tube.
LodoGrdzak 3 years ago
I never really checked out this WR album. I kinda moved on after Heavy Weather. Glad to see this post.
bigslick45 3 years ago
I've been stocking up on WR since 2002 when I first heard shorters pinnochio. I've only started listening to the 80's stuff and heard this original for the 1st time last week. ITS F**KIN GREAT!! like a more mysterious version of night passage with even more space and a Hakim driving rhythm underneath. Domino Theory is in the post.....
Rembeece 3 years ago
This is my favourite Weather Report track! Thank you for posting it.
fidomusic 3 years ago
mine too. i have a concert version of this on video (hey, maybe I should post it) that makes me weep like a fudge brownie being slowly digested over a period of thirteen decades in the humid, tangibly indifferent air of the ambiguous coastal waters wherein hungry sharks feed on bottom trollers for reasons unknown and unknowable- accept it dude.
atvfreelife 3 years ago 4
in 83 i was in cover bands, police, rush, and someone gave me this on a whim and i stopped playing rock for a long time. jazz was sooo good in those days............
plumisland1964 3 years ago
ive got some great weather report vids. only i am about as computer litterate as your typical 97 year old constipated arthritic mississippi livin' grand-mama. anyone want to come over and show me how to post vids? screw it, im going to read laurence sterne right now anyway- my new favorite author
atvfreelife 3 years ago 3
laurence sterne. how wonderful. hey, whadya know, he wrote the greatest book in the entire english language...and it happens to be my handle. How convenient :)
tristramshandy3 3 years ago
JZ made us standing somewhere waiting for a procession which has to come by The crowd is getting bigger and louder until it is in front of you.The procession will leave you at a certain moment.Zawinul is a master in creating a visual vieuw of the music
zawi1956 3 years ago
One of JZ `s finest compositions!
futilityroom 4 years ago
genial...another galaxy!
BigBuddha3 4 years ago
victor bailey is fantastic on this entire album
432hertz 4 years ago