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THE BAND
with Howard Johnson Horns
New York 1976 [no label, 2CD]
Live at The Palladium, New York, NY; September 18, 1976 (opening night of The Palladium, formerly the ‘Academy of Music’). Very good WBCN-FM broadcast.
Just two months before their farewell concert The Last Waltz, The Band performed an electric show at the iconic New York venue, The Palladium… It may have been one of The Band’s last live performances, but the passion in their music showed no sign of wavering. Their more famous and high profile goodbye concert performed alongside the good and great of contemporary music a couple of months henceforth would become the group’s swansong thanks to the film of the event made by Martin Scorsese, but this more intimate affair provides an excellent opportunity to hear just how great The Band were sounding live in a more traditional setting at this juncture.
A silver disc bootleg version of this show, Palladium Circles (1CD), has just surfaced. According to the notes, this was a WNEW-FM broadcast. Compared to the WBCN-FM show (below), the sound on Palladium Circles appears to have been equalised (it’s slightly softer).
Thanks to Hezekiahx2 for sharing the show in 2006.
Original notes:
I’ve had a number of messages asking me if I Eq’d these tapes or wondering how I got them to sound this good. I never EQ anything nor did I use noise reduction. When I first began taping a friend showed me how to “Bias’ my reels. This ended up being a ‘pain in the neck’ but also allowed me to make excellent dubs on different manufactured tapes (though the bulk of my collection is on Maxell). Then there was the 10 1/2″ reels. I only knew one other person who had a deck capable of playing back large reels. So… most of my 10 1/2″ reels have only been played back 3-4 times. None of my large reels saw heavy usage. They have stood up well over 30 yrs… and there are more to come…
This is my ‘Off Air’ master of The Band Palladium New York 9-18-76.
This broadcast is a little funky… the audience levels are brought up between songs (the crowd is rowdy) and the vocals are a tad weak at times. The stereo separation expands and contracts in a few places…
The WBCN IDs were not broken out as they overlapped the audience… they also contain a plug for Ampex Tape and Lechmeres. I’ll leave it up to you as to what you want to do with them. Believe it or not I had to do a reel flip during this show… it is only during the 2nd encore when the announcers are talking and did not edit out any music. (Anybody out there ever do a 10 1/2″ reel flip… it can be a little tricky). Though this has been uploaded before, my reels do sound excellent… and I thought there would be a few folks that would enjoy this quality! Hezekiahx2
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Lineage:
Master ‘off air’ FM Reel [Maxell UD35-180 10 1/2″ reel (Revox B-77) 7 1/2ips 1/4 track] > Tascam CD-RW2000 > EAC > CDWAV > FLAC
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Disc 1
Track 101. Intro 0:16 (442k)
Track 102. Ophelia 4:03 (6.8MB)
Track 103. The Shape I’m In 4:26 (7.5MB)
Track 104. It Makes No Difference 7:31 (12.6MB)
Track 105. The Weight 5:34 (9.3MB)
Track 106. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 3:57 (6.6MB)
Track 107. Twilight 4:06 (6.9MB)
Track 108. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 4:11 (7.0MB)
Track 109. Across The Great Divide 3:49 (6.4MB)
Track 110. Stage Fright 5:00 (8.4MB)
43 mins
Disc 2
201. Forbidden Fruit - Omitted*
Track 202. Acadian Driftwood 6:27 (10.8MB)
Track 203. The Genetic Method 4:33 (7.7MB)
Track 204. Chest Fever 5:53 (9.9MB)
Track 205. This Wheel’s On Fire 4:34 (7.7MB)
Track 206. Don’t Do It 5:15 (8.8MB)
Track 207. Up On Cripple Creek 6:30 (10.9MB)
Track 208. Life Is A Carnival 4:54 (8.2MB)
Track 209. The WS Walcott Medicine Show 3:41 (6.2MB)
42 mins
* Available on the “A Musical History” boxset.
Lineup:
Robbie Robertson - guitar
Rick Danko - bass
Garth Hudson - organ
Richard Manuel - piano
Levon Helm - drums
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