Bob Dylan/PA,USA 1.6.1974

Our shop has released a rare recording from the 1974 tour for the first time in a long time! Speaking of the US tour with The Band, it's been a sold-out masterpiece since "HOLLYWOOD SPORTATORIUM 1974". While that was a superb recording that captured the state of the tour two weeks after the start of the tour, this time the earliest live recording from the third day of the tour will be released... that alone is sure to attract the attention of enthusiasts all over the world. Bob Dylan's 1974 tour was held while attracting great attention not only from the US but also from around the world because he was backed by The Band, after his motorcycle accident. The footage is included in the official live album "The Great Resurrection". Dylan's exaggerated singing and restless (lol) rushed performance. Both conveyed the sound and image unique to this tour, but were they really what Dylan and his group were aiming for? The answer is no. Dylan, in particular, does not have fond memories of the 1974 tour, as he later confessed that the 1974 tour was too exaggerated, and that he believed that singing with "full power" rather than "sensibility and power" was best. This led to his singing style being so brave and exaggerated. It is also true that The Band's unique, relaxed sound was strangely refined. It is true that the band went straight for the refined route after this and went all the way to the last waltz, but when you think of the band, you think of that warm sound that gives off the scent of wood. There was a sense of incongruity not only in Dylan's singing style, but also in the sound they produced. Isn't that the "great comeback" at the end of the tour? So we decided to make a splash by releasing "HOLLYWOOD SPORTATORIUM 1974", which became an unexpected big hit and sold out. This was a stereo audience recording of Dylan and the band rocking out just a month before the "Great Resurrection". This CD will bring you the image of Dylan and the band performing in their freshest form, just three days into the tour. The tour kicked off at Chicago Stadium on January 3rd and 4th, where the opening song was an unreleased 1962 song, "Hero Blues," which had never been released on an official album at the time (or even now). It was Dylan's true colors to suddenly play an unreleased song on the first day of the resurrection tour, which attracted the attention of fans all over the world, but it was said that this was too difficult, so the composition of the live performance was revised from the Philadelphia Spectrum on January 6th, the third day of the tour. However, the tour is still in the testing stage. The opening song of the first show of the two live shows that day was "Ballad Of Hollis Brown," which was as unexpected as ever. Both Dylan and the band started playing carefully enough that you could tell at a glance, but they must have felt the response when they played themselves, because although this was the only performance at the opening, the song itself moved to the middle of the show and was played regularly. The careful but careful performance is typical of the band and is very appealing. More than that, the most valuable song in the first half of the day was "Tough Mama". It was a new song from the album "PLANET WAVES", which was about to be released, but since the album had not yet been released, the audience's reaction was dull. It is a shame that this was the last live performance with The Band, but the performance with the same atmosphere as "PLANET WAVES" was moving. We had to wait until 1997 to play this song live again. Not only the performance of this song, but this show seems to be a breathless watch of Dylan's long-awaited stage, and except for the occasional sound of the taper tampering with the microphone between songs, the performance is captured surprisingly clearly. Combined with the previous situation, it boasts exceptional quality, even though it is a mono sound quality, as an audience recording at the beginning of the 1974 tour. Of course, this is not the first appearance, as it is a sound source that boasts such high sound quality. It was released on the "AT THE SPECTRUM 1974" CD released nearly 20 years ago. However... the quality is like a different dimension. While the CD (the track list on the jacket was also ridiculous) was recorded from a cassette source with the pitch out of sync, this was recorded from the master and the pitch was accurately adjusted. It is no longer comparable and overflowing with an upper feeling. What was even more unacceptable was that all of The Band's songs were cut. During the 1974 tour, when cassettes were traded, the band's parts were often at a disadvantage, and at worst, the pattern of not being recorded was rampant. It was a state where they were finally revived from a CD with outstanding recording time. This time, of course, the band's parts are also fully recorded, and this means that the first complete recording of the first show in Philadelphia on January 6th will be released as an undisputed upper version. It's surprising that the band's part, which is being heard for the first time this time, also plays a rare number that was only played at the beginning of the tour, "Long Black Veil"! I didn't know that the song included in the band's timeless masterpiece "MUSIC FROM BIG PINK" was also played on the 1974 tour. Moreover, the performance was really band-like. I wish they had continued this way until the end of the tour. The song selection for the Dylan solo acoustic corner, which has almost no solid structure, is also attractive. The selection of songs, "Mama, You Been On My Mind" and the unreleased song "Nobody 'Cept You", is completely different from "The Great Resurrection". At the beginning, they played so freely... In the second half of the show, Dylan plays "I Don't Believe You" and then shouts "Robbie!" during the interlude, which is a rare rock-like action. The finale is "Something There Is About You," which has not yet been released, and "Like A Rolling Stone," which starts off rather quietly, perhaps because the evening performance was coming up. Enjoy the fun that is unique to the early part of the tour, the rare performances, and the undeniably upper and clear sound quality. The bonus also includes a rare song from the evening performance! The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 6th January 1974 Afternoon Show TRULY AMAZING/PERFECT SOUND Disc 1 (69:38) 1. Intro 2. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 3. Lay Lady Lay 4. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 5. It Ain't Me, Babe 6. Tough Mama 7. Ballad Of A Thin Man 8. Stage Fright 9. The Night They Dr ove Old Dixie Down 10. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 11. Long Black Veil 12. I Shall Be Released 13. Up On Cripple Creek 14. All Along The Watchtower 15. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 16. Knockin' On Heaven's Door Disc 2 (74:04) 1. To Ramona 2. Mama, You Been On My Mind 3. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 4. Nobody 'Cept You 5. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 6. Rag Mama Rag 7. When You Awake 8. The Shape I'm In 9. The Weight 10. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 11. Forever Young 12. Something There Is About You 13. Like A Rolling Stone Bonus Tracks The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 6 th January 1974 Evening Show 14. Song To Woody 15. Mr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar, piano, harmonica), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Garth Hudson (organ, piano and clavinette), Richard Manual (keyboards), Rick Danko (bass), Levon Helm (drums)