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I really do hope for your sake that the boat doesn't end up spending most of its life on a trailer on your front lawn. You're absolutely sure you want to do this?

Let's all hope that their landing was cushioned (Hyacinth Bucket, where are you when we need you most?) by all of those veils that were thrust aside as they fell through the noise floor.

I have this: Negotiable on price. Great amp.

I saw them in Perth. They had Phillipe Catherine as the support act.

Most definitely. Weather Report were basically Joe Zawinul (keyboards) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone) with an ever evolving cast of supporting players. I would begin with Sweetnighter, their third album, where they really began too find their own voice as opposed to being just another band of high quality sidemen starting out on their own. From there I would go to Mysterious Traveller (my personal favourite), Heavy Weather (their blockbuster, sales wise), Black Market and Procession. These span a decade of music making and can all be recommended. There are many more to choose from but these are, to me, a solid base from which to explore their work. Try them and let me know how you go. Here's their Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Report In the early '80's I attended a concert by Stanley Clarke and Miroslav Vitous, the original WR bassist. You don't get those sorts of tours these days.

@FNQ Outcast if you like the Mahavishnu Orchestra (which version in particular, if you have a preference) you might also like Return to Forever, Chick Corea's fusion outfit from the same era. I would also recommend that you give Stanley Clarke's eponymous first solo album a listen. One of my all time favourites.

I have seen a few lovely sunrises whilst waiting for an early coffee, during a traveling break, in Ulladulla. Once purchased some excellent locally made soap from a shop on the main drag, too. Enjoy SNA @Vol.73.

I've lost count of the number of times I have thought that, and I'm still alive!!!

Just got an email which included this link. https://www.analogplanet.com/content/new-wall-way-store-and-display-records-toneoptic

Lucky you, getting to wear pants. I can't wait to graduate to a bigger tutu.

That can't be a recent photo. Isn't Perth supposed to be baking in oven-like conditions under searing blue skies?

I am SO looking forward to seeing that.

As someone who once put a bookshelf above a daughter's bed, which a few months later came crashing down (during school hours), I do hope that top shelf was installed by a professional.

That's back in the day when there wasn't any Photoshop and Health and Safety was a magazine that was always sold wrapped in brown paper (or so I am told). The model probably was paid ten quid for the session and had to provide her own lighter fluid.

Well that was a major fail. A mate and I saw BBD at the (soon to be renamed?) Colston Hall in Bristol in early '76, and they put on a great show. We had seen Charlie Tumahi a few years previously playing bass in Leo DeCastro's band, Friends, on a holiday visit to Melbourne (I'm originally a Perth fellow, though I haven't lived there for almost 30 years). The support band that night was The Doctors of Madness. They were very odd, and they never made much of an impact overall. I think the quickly approaching Punk/New Wave tsunami saw them off.

I remember being in the audience at Earls Court in either '77 or '78 to see Genesis (the Seconds Out line-up). Collins began telling a story and was almost at the punchline when some spoilsport in the crowd yelled out "Supper's Ready", thus taking the dramatic tension out of the story for all of us (unless it was just me) who hadn't seen them live before. To his credit, Collins finished the story, we all went wild, and they absolutely nailed it. One of the best concerts that I have ever had the pleasure of attending. I can never remember if it was the week before, or the week after that I saw Bowie at the same venue, for the Heroes tour. Adrian Belew's playing, especially on the intro to Station to Station, was breathtaking. Oh yeah, Bowie could sing a bit too.

Doctor Who villains?

Looks like it's about to give birth.

The title track to King Crimson's third album, Lizard, is my "go to" test track, when there can only be one. Chock full of everything sonically (or as close as any single track can get) and as musically rewarding as anyone could ever ask for. Just re-read the original post and became cognizant with the 5-10 minute time restriction, which means that I have to change my choice, because Lizard is way longer, to Prefab Sprout's song, The Gunman. If you don't get the emotion from this track then the system you're listening to is Hi-Fi, not musical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_Shelley The Budgie man will sing no more. Never Turn Your Back on a Friend is a long time favourite of mine. Go with your god(s) Mr Shelley.