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| | Rock of Ages | | | Music Artist : | | The Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Capitol | | Release Date : | | 2001-05-08 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Introduction
2. Don't Do It
3. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
4. Caledonia Mission
5. Get Up Jake
6. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
7. Stage Fright
8. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
9. Across The Great Divide
10. This Wheel's On Fire
11. Rag Mama Rag
12. The Weight
13. The Shape I'm In
14. Unfaithful Servant
15. Life Is A Carnival
16. The Genetic Method
17. Chest Fever
18. (I Don't Want To) Hand Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
Disc 21. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Previously Unreleased)
2. I Shall Be Released (Previously Unreleased)
3. Up On Cripple Creek (Previously Unreleased)
4. The Rumor (Previously Unreleased)
5. Rockin' Chair (Previously Unreleased)
6. Time To Kill (Previously Unreleased)
7. Down In the Flood (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
8. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
9. Don't Ya Tell Henry (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
10. Like a Rolling Stone (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
11. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever [#][*]
12. I Shall Be Released [#][*]
13. Up on Cripple Creek [#][*]
14. Rumor [#][*]
15. Rockin' Chair [#][*]
16. Time to Kill [#][*]
17. Down in the Flood [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
18. When I Paint My Masterpiece [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
19. Don't Ya Tell Henry [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
20. Like a Rolling Stone [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Muddy, Muddy, Muddy
Submitted on: 2009-02-04 |
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| This might've been a great concert to experience live, and I have no complaints about the performances, but man, the production, or the mixing, leaves a lot to be desired. The sound is just plain muddy. It sounds like a very well-recorded audience recording, like some guy was standing in the back of the hall holding a circa 1972 tape-recorder. You woulda thought that for this deluxe CD reissue, Capitol Records would have taken the original multi-track recordings and re-mixed them to sound as bright as possible for the CD release. But no, it sounds like they took the original 1972 master tapes, probably mixed by some second-rate engineer in 1972 after too many bong-hits, and transferred them to digital. What a shame. So it's probably a five-star performance, played by a five-star band, playing their five-star songs; but it's a one-star recording and one-star mix, resulting in a three-star CD. A damn shame. |
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 Great Music
Submitted on: 2009-01-16 |
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| This is a great live album. The liner notes are interesting but they are mostly about Robbie Robertson. I don't think Levon Helm is mentioned more than once... |
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Like a Rolling Stone
Submitted on: 2009-01-02 |
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This is a wonderful live album by perhaps the greatest ensemble of artists in the history of rock and roll, right up until the last four tracks on the second disc, "Down In the Flood," "When I Paint My Masterpiece," "Don't Ya Tell Henry," and " Like a Rolling Stone," all with The Band backing their former front man, Bob Dylan. At that point, the record becomes transcendant. This live version of "Rolling Stone" is the one track I want on a my desert island -- it alone is worth the price of the double CD. Even the most ardent Dylan-disputer or hater will never be able to resist this one. One earlier review complains about mumbled lyrics or bad sound on RS, which may be true -- But who cares?? The fierce beat layed down by Danko and Helms, Manuel's gut busting piano, Robertson's searing guitar, and Hudson's magical organ will tear what is left of your heart out and, by the end, kick the living daylights out of it.
Rock and roll can never be better than this.
The first disc has great live versions of most of the Band standards from the brown cover and Big Pink albums, with the addition of Allen Toussaint's horn arrangements for a marvelous set of brass. Once or twice the horns intrude on one's memories of what these songs are supposed to sound like from the studio versions, but they leave you wondering which version is better. It all works. CD 1 finishes up with a breathtaking rip through Chuck Willis's "Rock and Roll Shoes," which goes on and on, and never sounded better.
Since I love great, restored, live rock and roll records, I'm tempted to say if you buy this you don't need The Band's first two albums at all, not brown nor Pink. But, of course, everyone makes mistakes. |
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A Great Inspiration for Aspiration
Submitted on: 2008-02-25 |
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| I was about 16 years old when I first heard this recording. A friend had an awesome sound system and it reproduced their live performance so well that I felt I could have been there. The Band played so well and sounded so good that night that it became one of the bands in the early 70's which inspired me to to become a professional musician and not go to college. My sister who followed in my musical footsteps backed them up with her band at Colby College in Maine in the early 90's. After listening to them that night, I felt that this recording was and is their best live recording to date. |
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Underrated Live Album
Submitted on: 2007-12-28 |
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This album gets overshadowed by "The Last Waltz," and that's too bad. There's some excellent material on here, and I like the horn section. Many live albums don't sound much different than the studio material, and the horn section gives the songs on here a unique feel.
"Rock of Ages" should be on the Top 10 list of live rock albums of the '70s. Lots of solid material on here. If you want to get into The Band, I would not start here - I bought "Greatest Hits" first, and ended up getting most of the studio albums. But a great album nonetheless. |
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