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Bob Dylan & The Band - Before The Flood (1974) (2Lp) - €10,00

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Before the Flood is a live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and The Band, released on June 20, 1974, on Asylum Records in the United States and Island Records in the United Kingdom. 
It was Dylan's first live album, although live recordings of earlier performances would later be released. 
It is the 15th album by Dylan and the seventh by the Band, and documents their joint 1974 American tour. 
It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Dylan and his new record label Asylum had planned professional recordings before the tour began, ten separate sessions in total: three in New York at Madison Square Garden on January 30 and 31; two in Seattle, at the Seattle Center Coliseum on February 9; two in Oakland, California, at the Alameda County Coliseum on February 11; and three in Los Angeles on February 13 and 14. 
To compile the album, recordings were taken from the final three shows at the Los Angeles Forum in Inglewood, California, with only "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" from New York.
The title of the album is thought to derive from the novel Farn Mabul by Yiddish writer Sholem Asch; Dylan had a personal relationship with Moses Asch, son of Sholem and founder of Folkways Records, a record label hugely influential in the folk music revival.

Bob Dylan and the Band both needed the celebrated reunion tour of 1974, since Dylan’s fortunes had been floundering since Self Portrait and the Band stumbled with 1971’s Cahoots. 
The tour, with its attendant publicity, definitely returned both artists to center stage, and it definitely succeeded, breaking box office records and earning great reviews. 
Before the Flood, a double-album souvenir of the tour, suggests that these were generally dynamic shows, but not because they were reveling in the past, but because Dylan was fighting the nostalgia of his audience — nostalgia, it must be noted, that was promoted as the very reason behind these shows. Yet that’s what gives this music such kick — Dylan reworks, rearranges, reinterprets these songs in ways that are still disarming, years after its initial release. 
He could only have performed interpretations this radical with a group as sympathetic, knowing of his traits as the band, whose own recordings here are respites from the storm. 
And this is a storm — the sound of a great rocker, surprising his band and audience by tearing through his greatest songs in a manner that might not be comforting, but it guarantees it to be one of the best live albums of its time.

Sides one and four are performances by Bob Dylan backed by the Band; side two and tracks four through six on side three are by the Band; tracks one through three on side three by Dylan alone. "Blowin' in the Wind" is a splice of two separate performances. 


Side one
1.  Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) - 4:12
2.  Lay Lady Lay - 3:22
3.  Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - 3:25
4.  Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door - 3:46
5.  It Ain’t Me, Babe - 3:28
6.  Ballad Of A Thin Man - 4:04
 
Side two
1.  Up On Cripple Creek - 5:22
2.  I Shall Be Released - 3:33
3.  Endless Highway - 5:12
4.  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 4:37
5.  Stage Fright - 4:38
 
Side three
1.  Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right - 4:22
2.  Just Like A Woman - 5:13
3.  It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) - 5:35
4.  The Shape I’m In - 4:10
5.  When You Awake - 3:08
6.  The Weight - 4:47
 
Side four
1.  All Along The Watchtower - 3:21
2.  Highway 61 Revisited - 4:22
3.  Like A Rolling Stone - 6:22
4.  Blowin’ In The Wind - 5:11
 

Recordings:
January 30, 1974 - Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

February 13, 1974 - The Forum, Inglewood, CA: Lay, Lady, Lay; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Like A Rolling Stone; Blowin’ In The Wind (first two verses only)

February 14, 1974 (Afternoon) - The Forum, Inglewood, CA: Ballad Of A Thin Man; All Along The Watchtower; Blowin’ In The Wind (last verse only)

February 14, 1974 (Evening) - The Forum, Inglewood, CA: Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine); It Ain’t Me, Babe; Just Like A Woman; Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right; It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding); Highway 61 Revisited


By track:
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine): February 14, 1974 (Evening)
Lay Lady Lay: February 13, 1974
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35: February 13, 1974
Knockin' On Heaven's Door: January 30, 1974
It Ain't Me, Babe: February 14, 1974 (Evening)
Ballad Of A Thin Man: February 14, 1974 (Afternoon)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right: February 14, 1974 (Evening)
Just Like A Woman: February 14, 1974 (Evening)
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding): February 14, 1974 (Evening)
All Along The Watchtower: February 14, 1974 (Afternoon)
Highway 61 Revisited: February 14, 1974 (Evening)
Like A Rolling Stone: February 13, 1974
Blowin' In The Wind (first two verses only): February 13, 1974
Blowin’ In The Wind (last verse only): February 14, 1974 (Afternoon)


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Notes
Released: 1974
Format:  2 × Vinyl, LP
Genre:  Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Classic Rock
Label:  Asylum Records
Catalog#  AS 63 000

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Gebruikerssporen / zijkant (Gatefold)

Prijs: €10,00

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