Bob Dylan/The Band - Before The Flood - MINT 1974 UK First Pressing Double LP

	£		101
	$		134

Artist & Title: Bob Dylan/The Band – Before The Flood

Genuine original MINT 1974 UK FIRST PRESSING 21-track Island pink rimmed 'palm tree' label double live vinyl LP, housed in the original gatefold picture sleeve. The records are in ‘as new’ Mint condition and sound as wonderful as ever, while the cover and inner sleeves fully merit an Excellent grading. See pics. A very nice collector’s copy of one of the greatest live concert albums of all time.
Highly desirable for its first pressing matrices and Mint condition vinyl, and increasingly difficult to find in this kind of condition, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Island Records ?– IDBD 1

Release date: 20 June 1974

Overall Grade: Mint/EX (LPs/Cover)

Matrix (Runout): Side 1: ?-DBD-1-A-SON  K-6779  Side 2: DBD-1-B-SON  K-6780  Side 3: DBD-1-C-SON  K-6781  Side 4: DBD-1-D SON  K-6782
All runouts are also stamped with KENDUN

Notes:
Recorded live in concert.
Mastered at Kendun Recorders. Mixed at Village Recorders.
Cat No. on rear sleeve and spine is IDBD 1
Cat No. on labels is IDBD-1
On rear cover: "licensed by asylum records inc. / Printed in U.S.A."
On labels: "? 1974 Island Records Limited".

This is a UK pressing but the cover was printed in the USA.

This double LP from Bob Dylan and The Band is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“Some of the best live versions of Dylan's folk songs like Don't Think Twice, It's Allright, appear on this album. Also some of the best versions of Band chestnuts like Stage Fright and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine MINT 1974 UK first pressing. The records are in mint condition and the cover and inner sleeves are in excellent condition. All items are free from any major defects. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1974, not reprints or replacements. The LPs are the original 1974 UK stereo LPs, which were only played once or twice on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“Before the Flood is nothing short of a brilliant live album, featuring an energized and passionate Dylan, putting into his songs a vitality that a studio cannot hold.”

Before the Flood is a live album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in June 1974 on Asylum Records in America and Island Records in Great Britain. It is the seventeenth album by Dylan and the seventh by The Band, and documents their joint 1974 American tour. It peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, reached number eight on the popular album chart in the United Kingdom, and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Reviews for Before the Flood were positive. AllMusic has described it as "one of the best live albums of its time. Ever, maybe." Robert Christgau wrote, "At its best, this is the craziest and strongest rock and roll ever recorded. All analogous live albums fall flat." Greil Marcus commented, "Roaring with resentment and happiness, the music touched rock and roll at its limits”.

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of music history in this condition.

 “This is one of the greatest live albums ever... Also, the definitive version of 'Up on Cripple Creek' can be found on this disc as well”

Bob Dylan and the Band both needed the celebrated reunion tour of 1974, since Dylan's fortunes had been floundering since Self Portrait and the Band stumbled with 1971's Cahoots. The tour, with its attendant publicity, definitely returned both artists to centre stage, and it definitely succeeded, breaking box office records and earning great reviews. Before the Flood, a double-album souvenir of the tour, suggests that these were generally dynamic shows, but not because they were revelling in the past, but because Dylan was fighting the nostalgia of his audience -- nostalgia, it must be noted, that was promoted as the very reason behind these shows. Yet that's what gives this music such kick -- Dylan reworks, rearranges, and reinterprets these songs in ways that are still disarming, years after its initial release. He could only have performed interpretations this radical with a group as sympathetic, knowing of his traits as the band, whose own recordings here are respites from the storm. And this is a storm -- the sound of a great rocker, surprising his band and audience by tearing through his greatest songs in a manner that might not be comforting, but it guarantees it to be one of the best live albums of its time. Ever, maybe.

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album, Bob Dylan and The Band all over the web.

I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

Postage discounts for multiple orders are available: £1 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the UK.
£4 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the Rest of the World.

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