The Band - AUDIOPHILE OUT OF PRINT MFSL numbered HYBRID SACD SET  

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ALL MFSL SACDS ARE – Super Audio CD is re-mastered by Mobile Fidelity featuring liner notes. The greatest advancement since the introduction of stereo, Super Audio CDs employ the innovative single-bit encoding system, Direct Stream Digital. Every SACD player performs superbly with Compact Discs. And Hybrid SACDs will play back beautifully on CD players

Mastered from the original master tapes, this Hybrid SACD overflows with information, textures, and colors. The result: Spacious, airy, and you-are-there sonics. In addition to correcting the imaging, Mobile Fidelity’s collectable version captures the full tonal range of Santana's guitar and nuances of his distinctive touch. It all brings you closer to the music and enhances your emotional connection to this stellar work.

Features:

Super Audio CD

SACD Stereo SACD Layer

This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!

Numbered, Limited Edition with gatefold jacket.

Mastered From Original Master Tapes

 The Band Rock Of Ages MFSL Numbered Limited Edition Hybrid Stereo SACD

This legendary live set features horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint. Incredible sound and virtuosic performances!

The Last Waltz gets bigger billing, but The Band’s 1972 live album Rock of Ages is equally fine. Recorded at the tail end of the group’s Cahoots tour and over the course of four nights at New York’s Academy of Music at the end of December 1971, the incendiary concert set bookmarks the close of the first phase of the collective’s career.

Rather than follow the lead of most other live records made at the time (and many since), The Band resist any temptation to improvise or extend its material. Instead, they play with an intensity, chemistry, and spirit that’s nearly unrivaled by any other live album. The quintet also draws on a secret weapon: One Allen Toussaint, who tailors expert horn arrangements for multiple songs, a move that spices renditions of classics such as "Don’t Do It" and "Chest Fever." To top it all off, the horn charts are performed by the Rock of Ages Horn Section - a five-piece ensemble that includes legendary trumpeter Snooky Young (Count Basie, Lionel Hampton) and saxophonist Joe Farrell (Charles Mingus, Elvin Jones).

"I felt very much at home with The Band. You could tell in their music they know where they’re coming from and they know where they’re going. Each one had an extremely special interest in what they were doing."; - Toussaint, as told to Rob Bowman

Do they ever. Unencumbered by the myriad of guests and grandiose sense that define The Last Waltz, and energized by Toussaint’s invaluable work, Rock of Ages is the sound of a great band pulling out all the stops. Robbie Robertson’s guitar solos take "Unfaithful Servant" to a higher ground; "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" kicks with raunchy R&B abandon; Garth Hudson delivers a show-stealing performance on "The Genetic Method," a thrilling organ piece that incorporates elements of Anglican church music, folk, classical, and pop - as well as "Auld Lang Syne," due to its being recorded on New Year’s Eve.

After various inferior editions and reissues, Rock of Ages is finally presented on an immaculate-sounding hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity that lets Toussaint’s contributions, horn section’s energy, and the Band’s feverish interplay shine like never before. Mastered from the original tapes, the open, airy, natural, and balanced sound will have you returning to Rock of Ages again and again.

Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastered From Original Master Tapes

Selections:
1. Don't Do It
2. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
3. Caledonia Mission
4. Get Up Jake
5. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
6. Stage Fright
7. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
8. Across The Great Divide
9. This Wheel's On Fire
10. Rag Mama Rag
11. The Weight
12. The Shape
13. Unfaithful Servant
14. Life Is A Carnival
15. The Genetic Method
16. Chest Fever
17. (I Don't Want To) Hang Up / My Rock And Roll Shoes

The Band The Last Waltz MFSL LIMITED EDITION Numbered Limited Edition Hybrid Stereo 2 SACD BOX SET

 Numbered INSIDE THE SEALED BOX. NO ONE KNOWS THE NUMBER THEY RECEIVED UNTIL THEY OPEN THE ITEM AND FIND OUT WHAT THEIR LIMITED EDITION NUMBER IS, Limited Edition Hybrid 2 SACD! Mastered from the Original Master Tapes! 


 1976 Farewell Concert Doubles as a Get-Together of Many of Rock's Greatest Talents and Spawned Once-in-a-Lifetime Collaborations

Live Album Contains Several Songs Not Seen or Heard in Famous Film: The Band Plays as if Each Note is its Last

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity Gives Music Listeners 10th Row Access to Definitive Live Performances By The Band, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and Many Other Luminaries

"It started as a concert--it became a celebration." Unprecedented in scope and unrivaled in spirit, The Last Waltz transcends both the group it honors and every A-list star that appears. Indeed, The Band's farewell event captures the zeitgeist of a creative period like none other and raises a glass to the communal ethos and artistic electricity that emerged from a time during which foreign wars, political assassinations, and equality inspired an exceptional outburst of originality and innovation. Overflowing with once-in-a-lifetime collaborations and contagious performances, The Last Waltz is here afforded by Mobile Fidelity a version that makes the 1975 shindig come alive with tremendous realism, vigorous energy, and visceral body.

Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's double hybrid SACD set gives listeners a seat mere feet away from the Winterland Ballroom stage. Enhancing overall transparency, this collector's edition boasts supreme separation and full dynamic range, allowing each of the many musicians to occupy their own space in the mix. Details emerge unscathed, tonalities soar, and the soundstage stretches far beyond (and behind) speaker boundaries. You get the sense that you're a VIP guest watching the ceremony as it unfolds, with everything from Garth Hudson's tube-warm organ lines to Robbie Robertson's rounded solos delineated in balanced, rich, and lifelike fashion. The enthusiasm of the performances practically jumps off the proverbial page.

Indeed, as The Band's going-away party, The Last Waltz is one of the few albums in any genre where each instrumentalist plays as if every note will be their last. In this case, such circumstances were believed to be true. From the rustic Southern charm of the invigorating opener "Up on Cripple Creek" through a joyous circus-themed run through "Ophelia" to a stellar version of "The Weight" filled with palatable gravitas, The Band gives its all and more, cementing once and for all its permanent mark in the annals of rock's greatest artists.

Containing several songs not seen in the companion film, the soundtrack to The Last Waltz unspools as both a journey through one of the greatest catalogs of a single artist as well as a survey of fundamental American music styles and blends. The Band receives assists in the form of horn charts and a full-on brass section via New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint and ace instrumentalists. But, as we all now know, that was only the beginning of what amounts to a blowout affair graced with friends, cohorts, and admirers alike.

A Hall of Fame cast helps make The Last Waltz the first and last concert of its kind. Paul Butterfield, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Eric Clapton, and Dr. John are among the virtuosos lending a hand on bluesier material. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, and Ronnie Wood all take turns in assisting the hosts. The Band closes out the party with its own encore set. It is a truly magical affair, one further bettered by the selfless presence of Emmylou Harris, who contributes angelic backing vocals to numerous songs.

Recognizing it symbolized the culmination of a special era, The Last Waltz organizers and performers took every precaution to ensure the concert would be an event for the ages. Mobile Fidelity has done the same with this hybrid SACD set. 

Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastered From Original Master Tapes
• Comes in slipcase box

Selections:
SACD 1: 
1. Theme From The Last Waltz
2. Up On Cripple Creek
3. Who Do You Love (with Ronnie Hawkins)
4. Helpless (with Neil Young)
5. Stagefright 
6. Coyote (with Joni Mitchell)
7. Dry Your Eyes (with Neil Diamond)
8. It Makes No Difference
9. Such A Night (with Dr. John)
10. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
11. Mystery Train (with Paul Butterfield)
12. Mannish Boy (with Muddy Waters)
13. Further On Up The Road (with Eric Clapton)

SACD 2:
1. Shape I'm In
2. Down South In New Orleans (with Bobby Charles)
3. Ophelia
4. Tura Lura Lural (That's An Irish Lullaby) (with Van Morrison)
5. Caravan (with Van Morrison)
6. Life Is A Carnival
7. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (with Bob Dylan)
8. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (with Bob Dylan)
9. Forever Young (with Bob Dylan)
10. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Reprise) (with Bob Dylan)
11. I Shall Be Released
12. The Last Waltz Suite:
    i. The Well
    ii. Evangeline (with Emmylou Harris)
    iii. Out Of The Blue
    iv. The Weight (with The Staples)
    v. The Last Waltz Refrain
    vi. Theme From The Last Waltz (with Orchestra)

PLUS STAGE FRIGHT MFSL SACD NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION WITH GATFOLD JACKET - First released on Capitol in 1970, this Top 5 Album was one of the landmark releases of the rock era. Featuring The Shape I’m In, Stage Fright, Strawberry Wine and Daniel And The Sacred Harp and much more. Engineered by Todd Rudgren; 

Features:

• Super Audio CD WITH GATEFOLD REPLICA JACKET
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastered From Original Master Tapes

Track Listings

1. Strawberry Wine
2. Sleeping
3. Time to Kill
4. Just Another Whistle Stop
5. All la Glory
6. Shape I'm In
7. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
8. Daniel and the Sacred Harp
9. Stage Fright
10. The Rumor

PLUS The Band Music from Big Pink on Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity 

Take a Load Off with the Very Best-Sounding Big Pink Ever

This Collectible Hybrid SACD Bests All Previous Disc Pressings of this Woodstock Classic

You’ve likely heard the story. Now hear the results of one of the most famous sessions in history with a clarity and warmth never thought possible.

In late 1965 and early 1966, Bob Dylan shattered the boundaries between folk and rock music on a controversial tour that found the generation spokesman plugging in and shocking purist audiences that reviled in horror at the sight of their hero playing electric with a bunch of ragtag Canadian mates. Then known as the Hawks, the Band was that backing group, serving Dylan not only on the road but, playing with him after his motorcycle accident, on his seminal Basement Tapes collection.

Recorded in 1968 and ranked #34 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, The Band’s Music From Big Pink stems from the same locale—a pink farmhouse in upstate Woodstock, New York—as the Basement Tapes and is just as rustic, timeless, and mysterious as Dylan’s celebrated work. A debut for the ages, the album features two songs co-written with Dylan—“This Wheel’s on Fire,” “Tears of Rage”—as well as what’s universally recognized as the definitive version of Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released.” More famously, it also includes “The Weight,” a standard covered by everyone from the Grateful Dead to Weezer to Aretha Franklin. But the power of this set doesn’t lie in one song but the entire album.

A groundbreaking statement, Music From Big Pink lays bare the magnetism of the American South, Appalachian traditions, and country-rock innovations. That guitarist Robbie Robertson, pianist Garth Hudson, bassist Rick Danko, drummer/vocalist Levon Helm, and organist Richard Manuel are all household names only adds to the proof of this must-have record’s everlasting appeal. This is the majesty of what Greil Marcus called “the old, weird America.”

The Band Music From Big Pink Track Listing:

1. Tears Of Rage

2. To Kingdom Come

3. In A Station

4. Caledonia Mission

5. The Weight

6. We Can Talk

7. Long Black Veil

8. Chest Fever

9. Lonesome Suzie

10. This Wheel's On Fire

11. I Shall Be Released

 

  

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