{"product_id":"bob-dylan-and-the-band-the-1974-live-recordings","title":"BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND - The 1974 Live Recordings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited Edition Deluxe 27 x CD Box Set. Features 417 Previously Unreleased Performances, Newly-Mixed Recordings And Liner Notes by Elizabeth Nelson. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 1974 Live Recordings\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the 50th anniversary of \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan\u003c\/strong\u003e’s return to touring that year. Featuring all professionally recorded shows from the artist’s 1974 performances backed by \u003cstrong\u003eThe Band\u003c\/strong\u003e, the collection will be available as a deluxe box set across 27 CDs. \u003cem\u003eThe 1974 Live Recordings\u003c\/em\u003e offers fans 417 previously-unreleased Bob Dylan live tracks – including 133 recordings newly mixed from 16-track tape, and every single surviving soundboard recording – along with new liner notes by journalist and critic \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Dylan’s 1974 Tour marked his first time touring live in eight years and reunited him with The Band who had become widely renowned in their own right since backing the artist nearly a decade earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooked into arenas for the first time ever, \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan and The Band\u003c\/strong\u003e performed 30 dates in 42 days (often playing two sets per day) before an average audience of 18,500 - helping set a new standard for what rock concerts could look and sound like. And in front of those crowds, they brought an energy that \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cstrong\u003eBen Fong-Torres\u003c\/strong\u003e described as “searing and soaring, unified and precise…excellent in itself.” Music critic \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Christgau\u003c\/strong\u003e compared the sound to Bob Dylan “running over his old songs like a truck.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTour ‘74 kicked off January 3, 1974, at Chicago Stadium - the largest indoor arena in the world at the time it was built - with a tense and combative rip through ultimate deep-cut “\u003cem\u003eHero Blues\u003c\/em\u003e,” an acoustic-gone-electric outtake from \u003cem\u003eThe Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan\u003c\/em\u003e sessions, that he had scarcely performed before or since. Additional rarities - like a wildly-reinvented “\u003cem\u003eBallad Of Hollis Brown\u003c\/em\u003e,” “\u003cem\u003eSong to Woody\u003c\/em\u003e” (not performed since 1962) and \u003cem\u003ePlanet Waves\u003c\/em\u003e outtake “\u003cem\u003eNobody ‘Cept You\u003c\/em\u003e” would be well received in the tour’s first nights. “We were booed off of every stage in Europe,” The Band’s \u003cstrong\u003eRobbie Robertson\u003c\/strong\u003e recalled to \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e of their previous run together. “What happened tonight in Chicago is so reassuring for us.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reception wasn’t the only thing that had changed since Bob Dylan and The Band last toured together in 1966. Since then, The Band had released six LPs, played Woodstock and other famous stages, and recorded a series of historic sessions with Bob Dylan - from \u003cem\u003eThe Basement Tapes\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003ePlanet Waves\u003c\/em\u003e. For his part, Bob Dylan had effectively retired from the road altogether following a 1966 motorcycle accident, yet was still “widely regarded as the most influential and significant star in the last 10 years of American popular music,” according to \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough they might not have known it at the time, Bob Dylan and The Band were at the vanguard of a new era. Tour ‘74 would help create the template for the major rock tour, and codify many of its shared experiences - from the sight of audiences holding up lighters en masse (as captured in the iconic cover image for \u003cem\u003eBefore The Flood\u003c\/em\u003e), to the bright flash of the house lights during a show’s signal moment, in this case their performance of “\u003cem\u003eLike A Rolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e.” Likewise many songs performed live for the first time on Tour ‘74 - “\u003cem\u003eAll Along The Watchtower\u003c\/em\u003e,” “\u003cem\u003eForever Young\u003c\/em\u003e” and the show’s eventual opener-and-closer “\u003cem\u003eMost Likely You Go Your Way\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eand I’ll Go Mine\u003c\/em\u003e)” - would take on a life of their own.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt the outset, the 1974 Tour was captured on a stereo soundboard mix, on both 1⁄4” tape and cassette. 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