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I intend to do it =) as soon as I find them!

@ contemplation
I haven't read Shorter's biography, and your comment has opened up another perspective on the matter. Having read Jaco's biography written by Bill Milkowski (which some consider beautiful and others an insult), I can say that until Heavy Weather, the relationship between Joe and Jaco was still healthy, even if soon it would turn into a competition of who could outdo the other. I admit I know little about the Weather period pre-Jaco (as well as post-Jaco, to be honest), but while it may be inferior to Black Market, Heavy Weather is a great album and not the start of a decline, which I believe began with Mr. Gone. I think it’s a matter of sound... Jaco's mental illness was starting to take its toll, and his way of playing was no longer the same (Night Passage is proof: Jaco is still fantastic, but his music was no longer fresh, as Zawinul said), not to mention the mental struggle with Joe...

Like all the albums with Johnson, it’s light years away from the Bon Scott era. But this is, along with Back in Black, the best album of the Johnson era that I’ve listened to (I still need to check out Who Made Who, Ballbreaker, and Stiff Upper Lip).

The essential albums are the debut "Weather Report," "Heavy Weather," "Black Market," "Mysterious Traveller," and the live "8:30." "Night Passage" is also very nice, but a notch below.

The essential albums are the debut "Weather Report," "Heavy Weather," "Black Market," "Mysterious Traveller," and the live "8:30." "Night Passage" is also very nice, but a notch below.

Beautiful album, it amazed me!

Very beautiful record, perfect disc. The rivalry between the Beatles and the Stones is senseless, as it is now well known that there was no rivalry between the two (it was invented by the press); at most, one could talk about the Beach Boys and the Beatles (the back-and-forth like Rubber Soul-Pet Sounds-Sgt. Pepper made history). Moreover, to say that the Stones and the Beatles are overrated is quite a blasphemy. The Rolling Stones forged a sound that you can recognize immediately and they are absolutely the best rock band along with The Who. For their part, the Beatles changed the world. It’s not an exaggeration. In the 60s, music began to matter a lot thanks to the Beatles; of course, there was Elvis and Chuck Berry before them, but they never had the same devastating impact on youth that the Beatles had. Sure, without Elvis’s hips kicking off the dance, the Beatles wouldn’t have been able to make the revolution they did, but no artist is born from nothing. The Beatles initiated various genres that characterized the late 60s and the 70s (psychedelic rock, progressive/symphonic rock, hard rock, and they were among the first to grasp Bob Dylan's message and blend folk and rock). Moreover, the Beatles were the ones who marked the transition from singles to albums. Okay, the economic boom played an important role in this transition, but without Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper, artists would still be sticking to singles and albums would be nothing but mere collections of them with idiotic titles like "The Sound of Ozzy Osbourne" or "The World of Max Gazzè." Good? Everyone has their own opinion, but it can't be denied that the Beatles changed the music industry and with it (in a certain sense) the world.

I propose to open a Gianluca fan club to morally compensate him.

Stunning! Much more complex than it may seem after seeing it for the first time! It deserves to be watched more more more times! At first, it may seem almost like a comedy (although with a strange feeling of unease that you only understand by the end of the first part of the film), but then it becomes brutally real, without indulging too much in spectacle and gratuitous blood scenes.

I only listened to the title track and it's really beautiful. The music is fantastic, the lyrics are a bit rhetorical, but certainly better than those of people like Ligabue or Laura Pausini. This guy can say something.