THE BAND The Last Waltz VG++ 1978 3LP 1st Press! OST Booklet Clapton Dylan Ringo

Sold Date: August 12, 2019
Start Date: April 1, 2019
Final Price: $34.99 (USD)
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Vinyl:  VG++ Play Tested. Sounds Great!  Labels are Clean.   This is the 1978 Warner Brothers 1st Pressing!   This is one of the Greatest Documents/Performances/Movies in Rock 'N Roll History!  No hype!  If this doesn't turn you on, you should be looking to some other genre...Having owned the record as well as owning the movie, I must say that the record seems to have a richer mix--more sounds/flavors/essences in the mix!  If this is your first turn-on, take a look at the guests on this record:  a who's who of 60s and 70s heroes and heroines.  all music gives it 4 stars! Crucial!
Cover: VG+ (see photos; some shelf and ring wear)
Goldmine Standards.   I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.
See Review Below!

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AllMusic Review by Mark Deming 

As a film, The Last Waltz was a triumph -- one of the first (and still one of the few) rock concert documentaries that was directed by a filmmaker who understood both the look and the sound of rock & roll, and executed with enough technical craft to capture all the nooks and crannies of a great live show. But as an album,  soundtrack had to compete with 's earlier live album, , with which it bears a certain superficial resemblance -- both found the group trying to create something grander than the standard-issue live double, and both featured the group beefed up by additional musicians. While  found  swinging along with the help of a horn section arranged by ,  boasts a horn section (using 's earlier arrangements on a few cuts) and more than a baker's dozen guest stars, ranging from old cohorts  and  to contemporaries , , and . The Band are in fine if not exceptional form here; on most cuts, they don't sound quite as fiery as they did on , though their performances are never less than expert, and the high points are dazzling, especially an impassioned version of "It Makes No Difference" and blazing readings of "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" ( has made no secret that he felt breaking up  was a bad idea, and here it sounds if he was determined to prove how much they still had to offer). Ultimately, it's 's "special guests" who really make this set stand out -- ' ferocious version of "Mannish Boy" would have been a wonder from a man half his age,  sounds positively joyous on "Caravan,"  and  do well for their Canadian brethren, and 's closing set finds him in admirably loose and rollicking form. (One question remains -- what exactly is  doing here?) And while the closing studio-recorded "Last Waltz Suite" sounds like padding, the contributions from  and  are beautiful indeed. It could be argued that you're better off watching The Last Waltz on video than listening to it on CD, but either way it's a show well worth checking out