This is Weather Report's complete June 1982 performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, included in the 1984 RCA VHS release of the festival.
Saturday June 19th, 1982
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, CA USA
1. Volcano For Hire
2. Black Market
3. Elegant People
4. Badia
5. A Remark You Made
6. Fast City
7. Birdland
8. Birdland with guest Manhattan Transfer
Josef Zawinul - Keyboards
Wayne Shorter - sax
Victor Bailey - bass
Omar Hakim - drums
Jose Rossy - percussion
Manhattan Transfer - Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel, Cheryl Bentyne, Alan Paul
MC - Bill Cosby
In reality, this was not the complete performance. I was there, and the set actually opened with "Procession". They also played "Speechless" from the '82 album. There was also a cool Zawinul-Shorter duet of "When It Was Now". And at some point during the set, the band walked off the stage, and the late comedian Brother Theodore appeared and delivered a wild but brief monologue. He started the monologue by stating, "I play the piano". There were probably a few other tunes they played that I don't remember. I would love to see all of that again; Playboy had the cameras rolling the whole time.
R.I.P. Russell Malone 1963-2024
Rohn Flores
8/25/24