The Band - Rock of Ages
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Artist: The BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Introduction
- Don't Do It
- King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
- Caledonia Mission
- Get Up Jake
- The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
- Stage Fright
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Across The Great Divide
- This Wheel's On Fire
- Rag Mama Rag
- The Weight
- The Shape I'm In
- Unfaithful Servant
- Life Is A Carnival
- The Genetic Method
- Chest Fever
- (I Don't Want To) Hand Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Previously Unreleased)
- I Shall Be Released (Previously Unreleased)
- Up On Cripple Creek (Previously Unreleased)
- The Rumor (Previously Unreleased)
- Rockin' Chair (Previously Unreleased)
- Time To Kill (Previously Unreleased)
- Down In the Flood (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
- Don't Ya Tell Henry (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
- Like a Rolling Stone (Previously Unreleased) (The Band with Bob Dylan)
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever [#][*]
- I Shall Be Released [#][*]
- Up on Cripple Creek [#][*]
- Rumor [#][*]
- Rockin' Chair [#][*]
- Time to Kill [#][*]
- Down in the Flood [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
- When I Paint My Masterpiece [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Don't Ya Tell Henry [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Like a Rolling Stone [#][*] - The Band, Bob Dylan
Music reviews of Rock of Ages
Music Review: Muddy, Muddy, Muddy
Rating: 3 Stars
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.
Description of Rock of Ages
This 1972 live album is a watershed recording for the Band. Recorded the previous New Year's Eve, the two-disc concert recording presents the core quintet fortified by a five-man horn section overseen by New Orleans ace Allen Toussaint, and it is capped by a guest appearance by Bob Dylan. The brass and reed players incite the group to gut it out with more unrestrained fire than these road-hardened vets were accustomed to. The lion's share of the set selections are culled from the quintet's first four studio albums; only an ebullient cover of the Marvin Gaye hit "Don't Do It," the unremarkable original "Get Up Jake," Garth Hudson's mind-boggling organ improvisation "The Genetic Method," and an absolutely piercing version of Chuck Willis's "Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes" spice up the reliable album selections on disc one. But Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel sound like they're having so much fun singing the likes of "King Harvest," "Stage Fright," "Caledonia Mission," and "Chest Fever" that it matters not that Robbie Robertson's writing muse had already pretty much dried up. The 2001 digitally remastered reissue includes an entire second disc of previously unreleased tracks, including four with Dylan at the mic. More than four years would pass before the Robertson version of the Band would call it a day following its star-studded Last Waltz, but, as a live entity, here is where they crested. --Steven StolderGeneral CDs
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