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THE BAND

RICHARD MANUEL, RICK DANKO, JAIME ROBBIE ROBERTSON,

LEVON HELM, GART HUDSON, plus ALLEN TOUSSAINT, BOB DYLAN, etc.

For roughly half a decade, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Their albums were analyzed and reviewed as intensely as any records by their one-time employer and sometime mentor Bob Dylan. Although the Band retired from touring after The Last Waltz and disbanded several years later, their legacy thrived for decades, perpetuated by the bandmates' respective solo careers as well as the enduring strength of the Band's catalog.

"LIVE AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC 1971" THE ROCK OF AGES CONCERTS
2013    4CD SET + DVD    CAPITOL RECORDS     B0018770-00
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.      ORIGINAL PRESSING STILL SEALED + HYPE STICKER     HARD COVER

NOTES: Packaged in a 9 3/4" square hardcover book. No outer box. With folded insert replicating the review of the show in the October 12, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

℗ © 2013 Capitol Records, LLC.

DVD features Stereo and 5.1 surround mix of Live At The Academy Of Music and two archival film clips.

The Band's "Rock Of Ages" Concerts Revealed. 19 Previously Unreleased Performances plus Unseen Photos.

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Catalog on box cover: (sticker on front) B0018770-00 ST01    (rear) B0018770-00

Catalog on CDs: sealed

On back cover: Tracklist

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Not so much an expansion of 1972's classic double-live album Rock of Ages, but an exhaustive tribute to its source material, the four-CD/one-DVD 2013 box set Live at the Academy of Music 1971 digs deep into the Band's year-end four-night stint at New York City's Academy of Music. The original 18-track sequence for the 1972 LP has been abandoned in favor of a double-concert construct, where the first two discs present one version of each of the 29 songs the Band played over the course of these four nights, while the final two discs present the entirety of the New Years Eve concert that capped off this residency; this CD is remixed from the soundboard tapes, and the DVD replicates this New Years Eve concert (note that there is no footage of the NYE concert, so the music is presented with a selection of stills; nevertheless, there are full clips of the Band performing "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" on December 30, which are welcome). This structure is an appealing one but invites perhaps more duplications than are necessary. The 29 songs on the first two disc contain 11 songs from the New Years Eve show -- including the four-song encore with Bob Dylan -- but the trade-off is the NYE concert is loaded with unheard versions of familiar songs: 16 of the 27 songs are previously unreleased (in contrast, the only unearthed song on the first two discs is a killer version of "Strawberry Wine"). Perhaps some of these performances are ever so slightly rougher than the accompanying ones on the first two discs, but that liveliness is part of the appeal (besides, this is hardly ragged; as enthusiastic as the Band is, they're also supplemented by Allen Toussaint's horn section, so they do need to hit their marks to ensure all the elements fit together). Rock of Ages and, in turn, Live at the Academy of Music 1971 do close out the early years of the Band. They'd tour again, supporting Bob Dylan in 1974, and they turned out a few more records before disbanding in 1976, but they never seemed as triumphant as they did at the end of 1971. Although this box is not perfect -- it's hard not to wish there were no duplications on the first two discs, or the last two -- it is nevertheless a mighty testament to the Band at the peak of their powers...(AllMusic)