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Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) Lay Lady Lay Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 It Ain't Me Babe Ballad Of A Thin Man Stage Fright The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down King Harvest (Has Surely Come) When You Awake Up On Cripple Creek All Along The Watchtower Ballad Of Hollis Brown Knockin' On Heaven's Door The Times They Are A-Changin' Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Gates Of Eden Just Like A Woman It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Rag Mama Rag This Wheel's On Fire The Shape I'm In (cut) |
| This is an excellent PA tape from about midway through the 1974 tour with The Band. Unfortunately it's not complete and only has the first 90 minutes of the show, but the good news is that The Band's songs are presented here and they're great! Garth Hudson gets plenty of opportunities to show why he's the greatest musician who ever lived and Robbie Robertson plays the nastiest licks I've ever heard him play. The interplay between these two great musicians is astounding, especially on "The Shape I'm In" which cuts off just as the two are really getting into it. Dylan's acoustic songs are unbearable. I would rather have heard more Band and had the solo acoustic songs left off, but that's just my opinion. I'm sure others will come up with great reasons why the acoustic set is so wonderful, but I find it to be one of the few times that I have to fast-forward a Dylan tape. The electric Dylan/Band songs are much better, but still a long way down from the early days of the tour. Musically the songs are much tighter from the middle of the tour on, but Dylan sings the songs with a distinct lack of conviction. That's not to say that there aren't great moments nonetheless. |
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The sound of the tape is fantastic, even better than the official live
album. While obviously taken from the PA and unmixed, the stereo separation
is very good and the fidelity clean and pure. All instruments can be
clearly heard and Hudson manages to come up in the mix as he should.
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