The Band - Rock of Ages
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Artist: The BandEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Extra tracks, 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)
Music reviews of Rock of Ages
Music Review: Band's best live album
Rating: 4 Stars
Although The Band is immortalized for its audio/visual production, The Last Waltz, this is really their finest live recording. While The Last Waltz dazzles with its eclectic mix of guest stars at the end of the group's history, this is a mix of almost all of their early hits as well as lesser-known tracks when The Band was in its prime. The result, while it's not as transcendent as some live releases (Dylan's The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert", for example, which had The Hawks as backup, or Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison), Rock of Ages is a solid effort packed with a ton music and some classic moments that belongs in the collection of any fan.
The album kicks off with the definitive version of perhaps The Band's most famous cover, "Don't Do It." It's funky, energetic and a classic reading of a tune first made famous by Marvin Gaye. Another live first on this album is the addition of a horn section (featured on Cahoots). They sound great on "Don't Do It," but although Allen Toussaint's horn arrangements have been the object of much fan praise, I could honestly do without them on most of The Band's classics. It sounded like the group (especially Robbie Robertson) was really looking to add something extra to their sound. I, on the other hand, love the boys just the way they already sounded! The horns don't get in the way, but they don't really add anything momentous either.
The Band is in fine form on this collection, with each member shining in alternate moments. Robbie's guitar is wicked--it cuts and lifts the energy of songs like an electric razor. Garth Hudson's "Genetic Method" organ improvisation is one bonus of hearing their music live--he truly is a virtuoso, ad libbing some sweet keys and quoting recognizable snippets from several genres of music. Richard Manuel shines on is classics, "King Harvest," "The Shape I'm In," and "I Shall Be Released." His voice has so much uniqueness that every different version of a song has its own idiosyncrasies. Another track you'll get with this album is "Get Up Jake," which was the only way to get it for years. Also included are a couple classic rock and rollers, "Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever" and "I Don't Wanna Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes." The Band sounds like they're enjoying themselves to death while playing, and it's hard not to get caught up in it.
This release also boasts quite a number of bonus tracks, some of which are essential and others a bit disappointing. It's awesome to hear such rare nuggets as "The Rumor," and "Time To Kill," as well as "Up On Cripple Creek," which wasn't originally included on the album. The tracks with Dylan at the end, though, are a little lackluster. Dylan, famous for not wanting to rehearse with his bands, sounds unprepared (he even fudges the lyrics on "Like A Rolling Stone" for goodness sake!), and the backing is a bit ragged.
Overall, this is a very worthwhile live album, and although few of the live takes make the studio versions obsolete (except maybe the gnarly "W.S. Walcott Medicine Show," in which the horn section cheers on Garth Hudson's all-out sax solo), it's a great supplement to the absolutely essential studio albums of The Band.
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