Bob Dylan / The Band – Before The Flood (2LP Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Asylum Records (1974)
$50.00
Rare Actual 1974 Japanese First Pressing! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert, Lyrics.
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Rare Actual 1974 Japanese First Pressing! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English. Great Double Live Set From Bob Dylan, Backed By The Band. Several Of These Songs Would Be Revisited A Few Years Later On ‘The Last Waltz’.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD! Front cover has medium ring wear and some scratch marks. Inner gatefold is EXCELLENT!
Side 1:
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
Lay Lady Lay
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Side 2:
Up On Cripple Creek
I Shall Be Released
Endless Highway
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Stage Fright
Side 3:
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Just Like A Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
The Shape I’m In
When You Awake
The Weight
Side 4:
All Along The Watchtower
Highway 61 Revisited
Like A Rolling Stone
Blowin’ In The Wind
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Asylum Records (1974)
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One of the best live albums of its time. Ever, maybe. 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. Ever, maybe.