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Limited Edition Japanese "Mini Vinyl" CD, faithfully reproduced using original LP artwork including the inner sleeve. Features most recently mastered audio including bonus tracks where applicable.

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 1.96 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Caroline
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 4, 2008
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Caroline
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0013FSV48
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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I did not know if the reshuffle of songs by Robbie Robertson would make sense, but it does. And the Live Concert extra Cd finds The Band at it’s incredible best ..... no horns like the Rock of Ages show but who needs them when you have Garth Hudson with a variety of solos and Robertson’s distinctive licks on guitar and 3 of the finest vocalists taking turns and adding harmonies... Just a great and wonderful performance...
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Rick
5.0 out of 5 stars Just a bunch of memories.
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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Living in the past.
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Hagfan71
5.0 out of 5 stars A more clear release for an oft overlooked album
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2021
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I've been a fan of The Band since high school, when I heard a friend of my playing "The Weight" on his old stereo. Now admittedly, I did not grow up in the 70's, so I was quite a few years too late to see the original band live before they split after the Last Waltz. However, I kept the brown album rolling all through my senior year of high school, and for the most part, the Band has been a soundtrack to my young adult life. They mixed sounds that where equal parts soul-country-rock for some downhome concoction that has only been imitated by other musicians.

Now for my perception of the album. I have owned the 2001 remaster of Stage Fright for about 4 years now. I played it quite often, and was therefore pretty familiar with the running order and the way the mix was. If anything, and I believe Levon Helm even complained of this, it was too muddy at times, which The Band was always known for bottom heavy records. However, with the new recording technology that we have developed, I was excited to hear that this album would be re-released and remixed. The mix is very clear, much like the first two album re-releases that Robbie and Bob Clearmountain put out, and if anything give a new and renewed presence to a very strong third release by the Band. I have always felt that this album gets shafted because it doesn't have the myth behind it that Big Pink had, or the strong, portrait of Americana that the Brown album laid forth. Barring those two, if this had been released first, it would have presented the Band as a strong, adult rock band with meaningful songs and downhome influences.

The extras on disc one are nice, if nothing more than hotel room recordings that gave us a peak into the more personal side of music for Robbie, Rick, and Richard. The live disc, on the other hand, is a great addition to any Band fan's collection. Here we see the band still in prime form, before the road and personal strife really began to take a toll. Best of all, it is a full concert, and one unencumbered by special guests or a horn section. Don't get me wrong, I think the Last Waltz and Rock of Ages are great, but before this release, we only really had bootlegs and YouTube clips to see the band as just an organic, five piece, North American Rock'n'Roll band. Now, we have a pretty good sounding full concert from the Royal Albert Hall taken from a tour that was by most accounts a good run for the Band.

My conclusion is that this release is worth the twenty or so dollars you will pay for it. Like the last two remasters, I believe that this is not some money grab by Robbie, but a way of him keeping the Band's charm and appeal alive for new generations by remixing an already great album and including a very good live show in tow; not to mention the great liner notes and the album review by Mr. Robert Hillburn. If you are a fan, or want to be a fan, this is worth it.
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Bob B
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, This Is A Great Album!
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2021
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I come to this album with the very specific perspective of a fifty-plus-year fan of The Band, considering them to this day to be the best rock-era band to ever come out of North America. I've even rolled up my sleeves and waded into the brawl between Robbie and Levon, then crawled off to lick my wounds at Levon's Rambles (sorry, Robbie, no disrespect intended). And the first time I saw The Band up close was around the time this album came out, so I've always had a bit of a sentimental attachment to it.

So, let's get one thing out of the way here. Yes, Big Pink and the Brown Album are superior. They are, in fact, cornerstones of modern popular music, and this follow-up isn't up to that standard. But, hey, The Tempest wasn't Hamlet, either. But it's still brilliant, and so is Stage Fright.

Like most veteran fans who listen to this for the first time, it's the reordered track list that jumped out at me first, and it makes a lot of sense. As Robbie points out, W.S. Walcott frames the rest of the album much like Sgt. Pepper did in its day. Beyond that, the mastering here seems a bit more generous in stereo imaging, with a warm, fully detailed soundstage that really highlights the masterful musicianship.

As for the music itself, it is probably familiar to most who would consider purchasing this, but a couple of things on this release really jumped out at me. First, there's Garth's organ. The mad genius is very prominent in the mix, with his mind-bending work on The Shape I'm In being a standout. And then there's Levon. whose voice is at peak maturity and strength here, and whose drumming is, well...you know, he's Levon! And the Danko showcase, Stage Fight, still thrills. Finally, while Daniel And The Sacred Harp never really connected with me fifty years ago, here it's one of the outstanding performances. Oh, and isn't Time To Kill just a kickass pop-rock song?

Then there's the obligatory extras. On cursory first listening, there are some things to delve into among the outtakes and alternates, and I'm looking forward to that. Then the second disc in this package is a full performance from Royal Albert Hall from early '71, and it's one of their best. I believe I read that this is an audience recording, and if it is, though it's not quite of the quality of, say, the audience tape from the Dead Cornell show, it's not far behind. Very listenable, if not perfect.

This reissue brought a sustained warm glow, not to mention a few thrills, to the heart of this old, longtime Band fan, but, more than that, it is brilliant music that anybody old enough to reach the stereo controls, fan or not, should hear.
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W.Lunde
5.0 out of 5 stars Verschenkt
Reviewed in Germany on January 8, 2024
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Das Geschenk hat viel Freude bereitet.
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Paulo Costa
5.0 out of 5 stars Precio accesible
Reviewed in Spain on December 6, 2023
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Además de estar a un precio aceptable, es una edición extendida con un CD en directo.
Cuanto al contenido musical, THE BAND solo hace música excelente
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JMB
5.0 out of 5 stars Un Groupe et un Album incontournable
Reviewed in France on September 29, 2023
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Indispensable à qui s'intéresse à ce groupe marquant (Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan) de la fin des 60's et début 70's ne serait-ce que pour le live au Royal Albert Hall!
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Federico Bonelli
5.0 out of 5 stars Arrivato nei tempi stabiliti. Molto soddisfatto del prodotto!
Reviewed in Italy on September 2, 2023
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Arrivato nei tempi stabiliti. Molto soddisfatto del prodotto!
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Deryk Barker
5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest live show they ever recorded - plus Stage Fright.
Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2021
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Firstly, the good stuff: I was in the Royal Albert Hall in June 1971 for (I believe) the second of their two concerts. It was one of the musical highlights of my life and was the reason I have always been disappointed by Rock of Ages, which I bought as soon as it was released.

Hearing this live recording now (alas, they don't say which track comes from which night) simply confirms that nearly 50-year-old impression. Nice though Alan Toussaint's brass arrangements were, they do take the edge of the music IMHO. Compare the verson of Don't Do It here and the one on RoA. This one rocks so much harder. This concert recording is better than RoA, better than The Last Waltz and better than any of the various soundcheck and other boots (even the very murkily recorded Royal Albert Hall Rags) I have of The Band.

OK, that's why I bought this. How about Stage Fright itself?

Well, the remastering/remixing has been done reasonably well, it doesn't change anything outrageously (unlike the 1990s remaster Yellow Submarine, for example, which I returned as it no longer sounded 1960s).

But Robertson has resequenced the songs into what he claims was the original order. He is, he writes, confident that his "Brothers in The Band" would approve.

Which is easy to say when three of them are safely six feet under and Garth has never exactly been outspoken.

What the resequencing does, for me, is underline the fact that the quality of the songwriting had begun its long decline; while there would be flashes of brilliance in the future (Life is a Carnival and Acadian Driftwood spring immediately to mind) they would never again reach the heights of Music from Big Pink or The Band and produce a 100% consistently satisfying record.

If this is, as has been suggested, a reflection of the fact that other members of the Band - especially Danko, Helm and Manuel - had become a little too fond of recreational substances and less engaged with the writing, that simply reinforces the notion that Robertson didn't do it all by himself - and does anyone really believe that he could have written The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and King Harvest without serious assistance from Levon? I don't. Odd how I'm still regularly listening to Big Pink and The Band half a century later, but can't remember the last time I felt like playing any of Robertson's solo stuff.

I also confess I have yet to listen to the Calgary hotel recordings. I'll update this when I have.

Meanwhile if you appreciate The Band, buy this for the live CD, which is absolutely spectacular.
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