vaike Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 The Band - The Last Waltz (4CD Box Set) (2002) Label: Warner Bros. Records / Rhino Entertainment Company | Catalog Box: 8122-79899-3 4CD | Year: 2002 | FLAC / Level 8 (img + * cue + log, AccurateRip) | Covers Genre: Rock / Folk Rock / Country Rock / Classic Rock Amazon.com Review by Bill Holdship Even taking into account inflation, it's ironic in this era of $ 250 concert tickets that critics harped when the Band charged $ 25 for their legendary November 1976 farewell show at San Francisco's Winterland. That price not only included Thanksgiving dinner, but also numerous guest superstars who'd influenced, worked with, and / or shared the Canadian roots of Robbie Robertson and crew. What transpired was a grand celebration of North American musical forms. There are numerous definitive performances here - from Van Morrison's goose-bump-inducing "Caravan" and solo rendition of the beautiful Irish standard "Tura Lura Lural" (Celtic music inspired those Appalachians in the first place) to Bob Dylan and "the Hawks "delivering a pop-metallic" Baby, Let Me Follow You Down, "first captured on the Royal Albert Hall Concert tapes. But because this new fleshed-out version - produced and compiled by Robertson - includes surprises (late blues legend Muddy Waters's endearing take on Louis Jordan's "Caledonia"; current blues legend Dylan's "Hazel"), treasures ("This Wheels on Fire, "Neil Young's" Four Strong Winds "), and two jam sessions that just don't add much, the new box set simply matches and enhances - but doesn't top - the original three-LP version of this wonderful slice of rock & roll history. Product Description More than twice the content of the original soundtrack release! Over four hours of music (on 4 CDs), featuring performances by The Band, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Ringo Starr, Paul Butterfield, Stephen Stills and Ron Wood. Includes the complete original 1978 album plus 24 previously unreleased tracks (in 1923 exclusively available here!). Contains an 8o-page book with a forward by Robbie Robertson, new liner notes by famed rock journalist David Frike and rare photos. Digitally remixed and remastered by Robbie Robertson. Housed in a cloth-bound digi-book. en.wikipedia.org History The Band were an acclaimed and influential rock group. The original group consisted of Canadians Rick Danko (bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet), Richard Manuel (piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar , vocals), and American Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals). All five members were notable musicians in their own right. The members of the Band first came together as they joined rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' backing group, The Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. Upon leaving Hawkins in 1964, they were briefly known as The Levon Helm Sextet with sax player Jerry Penfound being the sixth member, then Levon and the Hawks after Penfound's departure. In 1965, they released a single on Ware Records under the name Canadian Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for his US tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966. They also joined him on the informal recordings that later became The Basement Tapes. Because they were always "the band" to various frontmen, Helm said the name "The Band" worked well when the group came into its own and left Saugerties, New York, to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s: their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single "The Weight") and 1969's The Band. In 2004, "The Weight" was ranked the 41st best song of all time in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. The Band broke up in 1976, but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist Robbie Robertson. Although the Band was always more popular with music journalists and fellow musicians than with the general public, they have remained an admired and influential group. The group was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989 [5] and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them # 50 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in 2008, they received the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Box Set The box set The Last Waltz is a 2002 four-disc re-release of the 1978 album The Last Waltz documenting the concert The Last Waltz, the last concert by The Band with its classic line up. A full forty tracks are taken from the show in addition to rehearsal outtakes. Twenty-four tracks are previously unreleased. Among the tracks added are a version of Louis Jordan's "Caldonia" featuring Muddy Waters and Pinetop Perkins trading off the vocal, a radically reworked version of the live favorite "Rag Mama Rag", Neil Young and Joni Mitchell joining The Band on "Acadian Driftwood ", a blistering take on the Stage Fright classic" WS Walcott Medicine Show "and the concert closer," Don't Do It ". In addition, several edits made on the original 1978 set have been done away with. Certain songs (such as "Forever Young" with Bob Dylan) are presented in their unedited versions. Songs still missing are a version of "Georgia on My Mind", the full versions of the two jams presented, the full version of "Chest Fever", and the concert takes of "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and "Evangeline" . The album is still rife with overdubbing, re-sequencing and editing but it does paint a more complete picture of the event than the earlier album or film do. Bootleg recordings of the show have been made available by collectors, who say it presents a more accurate depiction of the concert. CD1 01 Theme From The Last Waltz - with Orchestra The Concert 02 Up On Cripple Creek 03 The Shape I'm In 04 It Makes No Difference 05 Who Do You Love - with Ronnie Hawkins 06 Life Is A Carnival 07 Such A Night - with Dr. John 08 The Weight * 09 Down South In New Orleans - with Bobby Charles 10 This Wheel's On Fire * 11 Mystery Train - with Paul Butterfield 12 Caldonia - with Muddy Waters * 13 Mannish Boy - with Muddy Waters 14 Stagefright CD2 01 Rag Mama Rag * 02 All Our Past Times - with Eric Clapton * 03 Further On Up The Road - with Eric Clapton 04 Ophelia 05 Helpless - with Neil Young 06 Four Strong Winds - with Neil Young * 07 Coyote - with Joni Mitchell 08 Shadows And Light - with Joni Mitchell * 09 Furry Sings The Blues - with Joni Mitchell * 1910 Acadian Driftwood * 11 Dry Your Eyes - with Neil Diamond 12 The WS Walcott Medicine Show * 13 Tura Lura Lural (That's An Irish Lullaby) - with Van Morrison 1914 Caravan - with Van Morrison CD3 01 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 02 The Genetic Method / Chest Fever (Excerpt From Movie Soundtrack) * 03 Baby Let Me Follow You Down - with Bob Dylan 04 Hazel - with Bob Dylan * May I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - with Bob Dylan 06 Forever Young - with Bob Dylan 07 Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Reprise) - with Bob Dylan 08 I Shall Be Released (Finale) 09 Jam # 1 * 10 Jam # 2 * 11 Don't Do It * 12 Greensleeves (From Movie Soundtrack) * CD4 The Last Waltz Suite 01 The Well 02 Evangeline - with Emmylou Harris 03 Out Of The Blue 04 The Weight - with The Staples 05 The Last Waltz Refrain 06 Theme From The Last Waltz Concert Rehearsal 07 King Harvest (Has Surely Come) * 08 Tura Lura Lural (That's An Irish Lullaby) - with Van Morrison * 2009 Caravan - with Van Morrison * 10 Such A Night - with Dr. John * 11 Rag Mama Rag * Studio Ideas 12 Mad Waltz (Sketch Track For 'The Well') * 13 The Last Waltz Refrain (Instrumental Version) * 14 The Last Waltz Theme (Sketch) * Download http://wupload.com/file/11552273/TheB TLW.part1.rarhttp://wupload.com/file/11553407/TheB TLW.part2.rarhttp://wupload.com/file/11552479/TheB TLW.part3.rarhttp://wupload.com/file/11552463/TheB TLW.part4.rarhttp://wupload.com/file/11552673/TheB TLW.part5.rarhttp://wupload.com/file/11552491/TheB TLW.part6.rar Download from filesonic.com http://www.filesonic.com/file/1157776814/TheB_TLW.part1.rarhttp://www.filesonic.com/file/1157809574/TheB_TLW.part2.rarhttp://www.filesonic.com/file/1157841414/TheB_TLW.part3.rarhttp://www.filesonic.com/file/1157841564/TheB_TLW.part4.rarhttp://www.filesonic.com/file/1157849044/TheB_TLW.part5.rarhttp://www.filesonic.com/file/1157785694/TheB_TLW.part6.rar Download from uploadstation.com http://www.uploadstation.com/file/sWq9msB/TheB_TLW.part1.rarhttp://www.uploadstation.com/file/7G56XbT/TheB_TLW.part2.rarhttp://www.uploadstation.com/file/GPqGu6F/TheB_TLW.part3.rarhttp://www.uploadstation.com/file/wbZ47kp/TheB_TLW.part4.rarhttp://www.uploadstation.com/file/c55JZcU/TheB_TLW.part5.rarhttp://www.uploadstation.com/file/98pUK2z/TheB_TLW.part6.rar Download from fileserve.com http://www.fileserve.com/file/Wwcmgmp/TheB_TLW.part1.rarhttp://www.fileserve.com/file/4Sq6Yyn/TheB_TLW.part2.rarhttp://www.fileserve.com/file/GWWy9j7/TheB_TLW.part3.rarhttp://www.fileserve.com/file/bhVTm6W/TheB_TLW.part4.rarhttp://www.fileserve.com/file/TbgSUxw/TheB_TLW.part5.rarhttp://www.fileserve.com/file/p9y2UsR/TheB_TLW.part6.rar Download from uploading.com http://uploading.com/files/b8ef6111/TheB_TLW.part1.rarhttp://uploading.com/files/6c88b214/TheB_TLW.part2.rarhttp://uploading.com/files/f287328m/TheB_TLW.part3.rarhttp://uploading.com/files/8ac17c68/TheB_TLW.part4.rarhttp://uploading.com/files/8d563m56/TheB_TLW.part5.rarhttp://uploading.com/files/m4cc8bc3/TheB_TLW.part6.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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