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The Band Rock Of Ages MFSL AUDIOPHILE Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM 2 LP SET NOW OUT OF PRINT

 Detailed Description 2013 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For! 

Michael Fremer Rated 10/10 Music, 8/10 Sonics!
Numbered, Limited Edition! Half-Speed Mastered From Original Master Tapes! 

The Band's Ultimate Live Album Recorded at Its Career Peak! 

Legendary Live Set Features Horn Arrangements by Allen Toussaint

Incredible Sound and Virtuosic Performances

The Last Waltz gets bigger billing, but The Band’s 1972 live album Rock of Ages is actually the better representation of a live Band album. Recorded at the tail end of the group’s Cahoots tour and over the course of four nights at New York’s Academy of Music at the end of December 1971, the incendiary concert set bookmarks the close of the first phase of the collective’s career.

Rather than follow the lead of most other live records made at the time (and many since), The Band resists any temptation to improvise or extend its material. Instead, the group plays with an intensity, chemistry, and spirit that’s nearly unrivaled by any other live album. The quintet also draws on a secret weapon: One Allen Toussaint, who tailors expert horn arrangements for multiple songs, a move that spices renditions of classics such as “Don’t Do It” and “Chest Fever.” To top it all off, the horn charts are performed by the Rock of Ages Horn Section—a five-piece ensemble that includes legendary trumpeter Snooky Young (Count Basie, Lionel Hampton) and saxophonist Joe Farrell (Charles Mingus, Elvin Jones).

“I felt very much at home with The Band. You could tell in their music they know where they’re coming from and they know where they’re going. Each one had an extremely special interest in what they were doing.” –Toussaint, as told to Rob Bowman

Do they ever. Unencumbered by the myriad guests and grandiose sense that define The Last Waltz, and energized by Toussaint’s invaluable work, Rock of Ages is the sound of a great band pulling out all the stops. Robbie Robertson’s guitar solos take “Unfaithful Servant” to a higher ground; “The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show” kicks with raunchy R&B abandon; Garth Hudson delivers a show-stealing performance on “The Genetic Method,” a thrilling organ piece that incorporates elements of Anglican church music, folk, classical, and pop—as well as “Auld Lang Syne,” due to its being recorded on New Year’s Eve.

After various inferior editions and reissues, Rock of Ages is finally presented on an immaculate-sounding 180g 2LP set from Mobile Fidelity that lets Toussaint’s contributions, horn section’s energy, and the Band’s feverish interplay shine like never before. Mastered from the original tapes, the open, airy, natural, and balanced sound will have you returning to Rock of Ages again and again.

"Live albums tend to gloss over the depth, mystery and emotional intensity found on studio versions of the same songs, particularly when the group speeds things up to cover its inability to produce the desired results live. Here, The Band slows everything down, producing even more intense, deliberate and emotionally satisfying versions of familiar songs. Each play reveals more gems hidden within the musical folds. Be sure to crank it up! " - Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, Music 10/10, Sound 8/10! 

"Allen Toussaint's sympathetic horn arrangements, performed by top jazz musicians, propel this 'greatest hits live' recital taken at breathtakingly deliberate tempos before an adoring, raucous crowd at the Academy of Music in New York City, on New Year's Eve 1971... some of the best vocalizing this or any rock group has ever achieved on stage. MoFi's mastering beats Bob Ludwig's original, and that's saying a lot; plus, the vinyl is dead quiet." - Michael Fremer, Stereophile Magazine, February 2013, p. 66 

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 1/2 Speed Mastered from the Original Master Tapes!
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 Grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Double LP
• Special Static Free/Dust Free Inner Sleeves
• Gatefold Jacket

Selections: 
1. Introduction / Don't Do It
2. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
3. Caledonia Mission
4. Get Up Jake
5. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
6. Stage Fright
7. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
8. Across The Great Divide
9. This Wheel's On Fire
10. Rag Mama Rag
11. The Weight
12. The Shape I'm In
13. Unfaithful Servant
14. Life Is A Carnival
15. The Genetic Method
16. Chest Fever
17. (I Don't Want To) Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes

 The Band The Last Waltz 3 LP BONUS USA PRESSED NOW OUT OF PRINT PRESSING

High Quality Vinyl 3LP Reissue!
Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios From Original Analog Tapes! Pressed at RTI! 

Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, The Band (Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson) got their start in Canada as The Hawks backing blues-rocker Ronnie Hawkins. In 1965, they connected with Bob Dylan and became his first and most famous electric backing unit. In 1967, The Band embarked on a solo course that spanned 11 albums over the next decade. Five went gold and their second release, The Band, earned platinum. By 1976, though, as the world suffered disco fever and punk's onset, The Band was ready to call it a career after 16 years together. That Thanksgiving night, they staged a historic final performance dubbed The Last Waltz that celebrated their many musical milestones in a near-formal concert-hall setting at Winterland. Augmented by a 7-piece horn section and an orchestra, The Band played all their favorite songs and welcomed guest performers more than a dozen musical mentors and peers who had all contributed to or participated in their success along the way. 

Rhino/Warner Bros. presents this 3LP set celebrating the never-to-be repeated moment in music history.

"While Rock of Ages found the Band swinging along with the help of a horn section arranged by Allen Toussaint, The Last Waltz boasts a horn section (using Toussaint's earlier arrangements on a few cuts) and more than a baker's dozen guest stars, ranging from old cohorts Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan to contemporaries Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Van Morrison. The Band are in fine if not exceptional form here; on most cuts, they don't sound quite as fiery as they did on Rock of Ages, though their performances are never less than expert, and the high points are dazzling, especially an impassioned version of "It Makes No Difference" and blazing readings of "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Levon Helm has made no secret that he felt breaking up the Band was a bad idea, and here it sounds if he was determined to prove how much they still had to offer). Ultimately, it's the Band's "special guests" who really make this set stand out -- Muddy Waters' ferocious version of "Mannish Boy" would have been a wonder from a man half his age, Van Morrison sounds positively joyous on "Caravan," Neil Young and Joni Mitchell do well for their Canadian brethren, and Bob Dylan's closing set finds him in admirably loose and rollicking form." - allmusic.com

Features:
• High Quality Vinyl
• 3LP Set
• Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios
• Mastered from original analog tapes
• Pressed at RTI

Musicians:
Rick Danko, bass, fiddle, vocals
Levon Helm, drums, mandolin, vocals
Garth Hudson, organ, piano, accordion, synthesizers, soprano sax, clavinet
Richard Manuel, piano, organ, drums, clavinet, dobro, vocals
Robbie Robertson, guitar, piano, vocals

Paul Butterfield, harmonica, vocals
Eric Clapton, guitar, vocals
Neil Diamond, guitar, vocals
Bob Dylan, guitar, vocals
Emmylou Harris, acoustic guitar, vocals
Ronnie Hawkins, vocals
Dr. John, piano, guitar, congas, vocals
Joni Mitchell, acoustic guitar, vocals
Van Morrison, vocals
The Staples, guitar, vocals
Ringo Starr, drums
Muddy Waters, vocals
Ron Wood, guitar
Neil Young, guitars, harmonica, vocals

Selections:
LP 1 - Side A:
1. Theme From the Last Waltz
2. Up On Cripple Creek
3. Who Do You Love? (feat. Ronnie Hawkins)
4. Helpless (feat. Neal Young)
5. Stagefright
LP 1 - Side B:
6. Coyote (feat. Joni Mitchell)
7. Dry Your Eyes (feat. Neil Diamond)
8. It Makes No Difference 
9. Such A Night (feat. Dr. John)

LP 2 - Side C:
1. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
2. Mystery Train (feat. Paul Butterfield)
3. Mannish Boy (feat. Muddy Waters)
4. Further On Up the Road (feat. Eric Clapton)
LP 2 - Side D:
5. The Shape I'm In
6. Down South In New Orleans (feat. Bobby Charles)
7. Ophelia
8. Tura Lura Lural (That's An Irish Lullaby) (feat. Van Morrison)
9. Caravan (feat. Van Morrison)

LP 3 - Side E:
1. Life Is A Carnival
2. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (feat. Bob Dylan)
3. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Have never Met) (feat. Bob Dylan)
4. Forever Young (feat. Bob Dylan)
5. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (reprise) (feat. Bob Dylan)
6. I Shall Be Released
LP 3 - Side F - The Last Waltz Suite
7. The Well
8. Evangeline (feat. Emmylou Harris)
9. Out Of the Blue
10. The Weight (feat. The Staples)
11. The Last Waltz Refrain
12. Theme From the Last Waltz (feat. Orchestra)

The Band Carter Barron Amphitheater Washington DC, July 17th 1976 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION 2 LP SET

180g Double Vinyl! Classic Live Show Recorded Shortly Before "The Last Waltz!"

After more than 15 years together, by the summer of 1976 the Band was approaching its end. This superb concert, performed at a 4000-seat arena on a warm Saturday night, captures them on terrific form as they play a cross-section of their remarkable back catalog shortly before their final appearance at the legendary 'Last Waltz' on Thanksgiving Weekend the same year.

"This show runs through nearly every great song the Band ever wrote and recorded since their original inception...remarkably fresh and exciting." -concertvault.com

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• 2LP Set
• Superb Audio Fidelity
• Background Notes included
• First time on vinyl

Selections:
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Don't Do It
2. The Shape I'm In
3. It Makes No Difference
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. The Weight
2. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
3. Twilight
4. Ophelia

LP 2 - Side 3:
1. Tears of Rage
2. Forbidden Fruit
3. This Wheel's on Fire
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
2. The Genetic Method
3. Chest Fever
4. Up on Cripple Creek

5. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 

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