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Bob Dylan The Band Before The Flood 2LP 180 Gram Vinyl Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL RTI USA

Bob Dylan The Band Before The Flood 2LP 180 Gram Vinyl Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL RTI USA Maximize
Artist: Bob Dylan
Title: Before The Flood
Catalog Number: MFSL 2-426
Label: Asylum Records
Reissued by: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Barcode: 821797242615
Edition: MFSL Bob Dylan Restoration Series
Original release year: 1974
Reissue year: 2014
Number of discs: 2
Revolutions per minute: 33⅓ rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Limited Edition: Yes
Numbered Edition: Yes
Total Item Weight: 671gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: February 9, 2020
Last modified / Restocked on: December 31, 2023
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: No


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Unit Price: 73,24 €

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The live reunion of Bob Dylan and The Band in 1973-74 yielded one of the decade's most celebrated, dynamic, and astonishing tours. Captured on Before the Flood, the results portray the artists' shared chemistry as well as Dylan's instinctive ability to challenge audiences, his group, and himself via inventive rearrangements of classics that simultaneously ward off nostalgia and renew with meaning.

 

 

Bob Dylan Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

 

 


Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Bob Dylan Catalog Audiophile Restoration Series


Ultimate sound quality for some of the best music ever recorded!

 

  • Limited Edition
  • Numbered Edition
  • 2LP 180 Gram High Definition Vinyl pressed at RTI USA
  • Mastering on MFSL Gain 2 Ultra Analog System
  • Mastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
  • Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
  • Cut by Krieg Wunderlich
  • Special Static Free & Dust Free Inner Sleeves
  • Deluxe Gatefold Cover

 

 

Live 1974 Set Documents Acclaimed Reunion of Bob Dylan and The Band: Mobile Fidelity's Vinyl 2LP Reissue Gives You a Prime Seat for the Historic Performances.


Dylan's Radical Rearrangements of Classics Give Songs Renewed Meaning and Relevance.


1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A analog copy to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe.


The live reunion of Bob Dylan and The Band during 1973-74 yielded one of the decade's most celebrated, dynamic, and astonishing tours. Captured on Before the Flood, the results portray the two artists' shared chemistry as well as Dylan's instinctive ability to challenge audiences, his group, and himself via inventive rearrangements of classics that simultaneously ward off nostalgia and renew with meaning. Said by noted critic Robert Christgau to be "at its best, [the] craziest and strongest rock and roll ever recorded," Before the Flood crackles with intensity, relevance, and unhinged performances.


Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this restored version cracks wide open the ceiling previously obscuring many of the tonal details, revealing microdynamics, and vocal nuances on the recording. Distinguished with an immediately recognizable sound, The Band comes across in three-dimensional form, while Dylan takes center stage, feet from your listening chair. They play like two souls in communion, a facet displayed here courtesy of the increased airiness, enhanced soundstage depth, and lifelike imaging.


There's so much new information here, this already-iconic album only gains in stature. As experienced on Mobile Fidelity, Before the Flood now unquestionably takes its place as one of the ten-best concert releases ever made. Notes are rounded, Garth Hudson's organ claims a tube-like glow, Levon Helm's drumming possesses its own space, voices are perceptible all the way down the singers' throats, and Dylan's awe-inspiring phrasing resonates with palpable urgency. Audiophiles and Dylan fans, prepare to be astonished.


Arriving at a crucial time for both Dylan and The Band, Before the Flood is the furthest thing possible from a nostalgia trip. It's where Dylan begins his now-trademark feat of turning songs upside-down, taking risks, challenging expectations, and leaving audiences riveted to the edge of their seats in anticipation of what might come next. He sings with unabated passion, the moods spanning bitterness to jubilation. And his willingness to play fast and loose with the music gives way to compelling shifts, under-the-surface textures, complementary intricacies, and a sense of newness and discovery on par with that of an adventurer embracing total freedom.


Before the Flood buries any notion of limits, safeguards, or borders. It is an open map, each song a route begging for exploration without need or concern for exactness or an appointed leader. Collaborative in every sense, it's a portrait of six inimitable musicians feeding off one another, trusting in their past history as they hurdle towards uncharted territory, using soulfulness as a compass and opportunity as their vehicle.


Wholly different than the live episodes heard on Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, Before the Flood is equally seminal and, from the perspective of witnessing an artist dare not only his audience but himself to break through to a new plane, even better.

 

 

Track Listing:

 

Side A


1. Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. Rainy Day Women #12 & #35
4. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
5. It Ain't Me Babe
6. Ballad of a Thin Man


Side B


1. Up on Cripple Creek
2. I Shall Be Released
3. Endless Highway
4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
5. Stage Fright


Side C


1. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
2. Just Like a Woman
3. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
4. The Shape I'm In
5. When You Awake
6. The Weight


Side D


1. All Along the Watchtower
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Like a Rolling Stone
4. Blowin' in the Wind

 

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