Tag: Weather Report Suite
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From Wake of the Flood to the Wall of Sound: Weather Report Suite Live
Read more: From Wake of the Flood to the Wall of Sound: Weather Report Suite LiveFor a little over a year, Weather Report Suite entered the regular rotation. As the Dead played the suite regularly, they transformed it from Bobby’s original orchestral vision to a monstrous jamming vehicle. And then it was gone; “summers fade, roses die.”
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Orchestrating Weather Report Suite: Recording for Wake of the Flood
Read more: Orchestrating Weather Report Suite: Recording for Wake of the FloodBobby had long imagined Weather Report Suite as a multi-movement ensemble piece that would push the band in a new direction. But even as the Dead entered the studio to record Wake of the Flood, he still had not completed the composition. Read more about how it all came together…
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Completing Weather Report Suite: Lyrics, Collaboration, and Creation
Read more: Completing Weather Report Suite: Lyrics, Collaboration, and CreationBob Weir had already written Sugar Magnolia, Playin’ in the Band, and Cassidy, among other great Dead tunes. But Weather Report Suite would be Bobby’s most ambitious compositional project to date…
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Becoming Weather Report Suite: The Evolution of the Prelude in 1972-73
Read more: Becoming Weather Report Suite: The Evolution of the Prelude in 1972-73Before Weather Report Suite became a fully formed composition, Bobby spent months shaping the Prelude live onstage, fragment by fragment. From tentative 1972 sketches to luminous spring 1973 jams, the Prelude evolved publicly into a brilliant transition piece and one of the Dead’s most evocative musical landscapes. Read more about the development of the Prelude…
