The Band – Rock Of Ages (2LP Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Capitol Records (1972)
$75.00
Very Rare Original Japanese Pressed 2LP Set! Tri-fold Cover Includes 20-Page Booklet With Photos, Lyrics In English & Japanese. A Top Quality Vinyl Of The Classic Double Live Album By The Band.
1 in stock
Product Description
Very Rare Original 1972 Japanese Pressed 2LP Set! Heavy Grade Tri-fold Cover Includes 20-Page Booklet With Photos, Lyrics In English & Japanese. A Top Quality Vinyl Of The Classic Double Live Album By The Band.
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. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Light shelf wear, some small creases.
Side 1:
Don’t Do It
King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Caledonia Mission
Get Up Jake
The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
Side 2:
Stage Fright
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Across the Great Divide
Wheels on Fire
Rag Mama Rag
Side 3:
The Weight
The Shape I’m In
Unfaithful Servant
Life is a Carnival
Side 4:
The Genetic Method
Chest Fever
(I Don’t Want To) Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes
Customers' review
1 review for The Band – Rock Of Ages (2LP Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Capitol Records (1972)
Add a review
Related Products
-
Details
Top Quality Actual 1980 Japanese First Pressing ~ Still In Great Condition! Gatefold Cover Includes Inner Sleeves, Insert & Lyric Sheet. Recordings Taken Fom The “Tusk Tour”, 1979/1980. Dates Listed, Including Two New Zealand Gigs!
-
Details
Top Quality Actual 1979 Japanese First Pressing Of Classic Eagles LP ~ Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Vinyl & Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover In Immaculate Condition! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics.
-
Details
Very Rare Japanese Pressing With Bonus 7″ Single!! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 6-Page Fold-Out Booklet With Lyrics & Family Tree. Also Includes 12-Page Booklet With Lyrics In Japanese. Inner Gatefold Has Great Notes & Photos Of Jimi.
AMG –
Rock of Ages captured the spirit of the Band at the time in a way none of their other albums do. Released on the heels of the stilted, static Cahoots, the double-album Rock of Ages occupies a curious yet important place in Band history. Recorded at a spectacular New Years Eve 1971 gig, the show and album were intended to be a farewell of sorts before the Band took an extended break in 1972, but it turned out to be a last hurrah in many different ways, closing the chapter on the first stage of their career, when they were among the biggest and most important rock & roll bands. That sense of importance had started to creep into their music, turning their studio albums after The Band into self-conscious affairs, and even the wildly acclaimed first two albums seemed to float out of time, existing in a sphere of their own and never having the kick of a rock & roll band. Rock of Ages has that kick in spades, and it captures that road warrior side of the band that was yet unheard on record. Since this band -- or more accurately its leader, Robbie Robertson -- was acutely aware of image and myth, this record didn't merely capture an everyday gig, it captured a spectacular, in retrospect almost a dry run for the legendary Last Waltz. New Orleans R&B legend Allen Toussaint was hired to write horn charts and conduct them, helping to open up the familiar tunes, which in turn helped turn this music into a warm, loose, big-hearted party. And that's what's so splendid about Rock of Ages: sure, the tightness of the Band as a performing unit is on display, but there's also a wild, rowdy heart pumping away in the backbeat of this music, something that the otherwise superb studio albums do not have. Simply put, this is a joy to hear, which may have been especially true after the dour, messy Cahoots, but even stripped of that context Rock of Ages has a spirit quite unlike any other Band album. Indeed, it could be argued that it captured the spirit of the Band at the time in a way none of their other albums do.