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8:30 is a live (with occasional studio overdub) album by the jazz fusion group Weather Report. It features a version of the group's signature piece "Teen Town"
The album takes its name from the band's habit of starting their performance at 8:30pm. At the time of the tour, the band were a five piece who would take the stage continuously for around two and a half hours, each of the members taking a solo spot to give not just a virtuoso performance, but to give the others a well earned break.
The 8:30 tour saw Weather Report at the height of their commercial success, and the playlist leant heavily on the recent successes, Black Market, Birdland and Teen Town.
Jaco Pastorius played a notable solo "Slang" which melded a multi-part bass solo using tape loops, merging into "Portrait of Tracy" from his solo work, then onto "(The Hills are Alive With) The Sound of Music". He finished off flaying his bass within an inch of its life with its own strap.
The album was originally a double gatefold album but the reissue on CD dropped a track and was released as a single CD.