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Stage Fright (50Th Anniversary)
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- Product Dimensions : 31.19 x 31.5 x 0.79 cm; 303.91 Grams
- Manufacturer : CAPITOL
- Original Release Date : 2021
- Label : CAPITOL
- ASIN : B08JB7GDXT
- Number of discs : 1
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Stage Fright est le 3ème album du groupe, enregistré par Todd Rundgren et Glyn Johns il sort en 1970, il contient The Shape I’m In et Stage Fright, 2 des plus grands hits du groupe. À l’occasion du 50ème anniversaire de la sortie de l’album, Bob Clearmountain a produit un nouveau mix qui donne une nouvelle luminosité à ce chef d’œuvre.
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel et Rick Danko ont créé The Band à la fin des années cinquante. Le groupe s’appelait alors The Hawks. Réputé pour avoir fondé le style 'Americana', The Band a accompagné Bob Dylan de nombreuses fois de 1965 à 1974.
Contenu de l'Edition Super Deluxe (Coffret - Tirage Limité) :
. CD 1 : Album remixé par Bob Clearmountain
. CD 2 : Live At The Royal Albert Hall
. Blu-Ray : Mix de l’album et du Live At The Royal Albert Hall en 5.1
. LP : Album remixé par Bob Clearmountain
. 45T : reproduction à l’identique de l’édition espagnole du single Time To Kill /The Shape I’m In
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The new remaster is very fine and whilst the reordering of the track list has been controversial in that it allegedly mirrors the demands of Robbie Robertson's ego I don't really have any problem with it as it puts the two best tracks (see above) on the first side and pushes "Time To Kill" to the latter half. More to the point the 2nd disc providing 20 tracks from a 1971 Royal Albert Hall concert is absolutely stellar (!) and I would say the best live Band performance on disc to date without any of the self-important portentousness of the "Rock Of Ages" live set from the same year. It just provides ample evidence of what incredible road warriors they were with almost flawless performances of a selection of tracks selected from their 1st three LPs and two Motown covers with even "Time To Kill" sounding energised and on the money! Incredible stuff and well worth the price even without the (excellent) original album on Disc #1.
Finally there are 18-minutes of "Calgary Hotel room rehearsals" tagged onto the end of the 1st disc. They are..... "interesting" and remind of the scene on the 'Festival Express' DVD of Rick Danko having a high old time singing and laughing with Janis Joplin with a bunch of hangers on (he really was quite a character and such a great, great singer!) but nowhere near as memorable as that priceless 5-minutes of film. Furthermore the rehearsals are in rather middling sound so nice to hear once but not much more I suspect but still I rather have them than not so I much appreciate the consideration of the compilers in including them.

But there was always something naggingly not-quite-right with Stage Fright. Where Music From Big Pink and The Band had opening tracks that felt like the first chapters of a great story, their third album opened with Strawberry Wine - an accordion-driven rocker that was slight at best and certainly the album’s weakest track. The rest of the album did not flow either. While there were standout tracks, the story they told was submerged.
So my ears pricked at hearing of a revised song order. While this album was not the stone classic its two predecessors were, I’ve always listened to this one more - as someone who came of age in the 90s, the sense of darkness in these songs and their more personal tone is perhaps more in touch with our times.
I’m happy to say that this wonderful re-jig is one of the most interesting reissues by any major rock group. While some fans might balk, this album is much improved by the update. There is a clarity in the narrative these songs now tell - one that clearly states the trouble which only peeked out of the original.
Now starting with The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, listeners are welcomed into the circus of fame in which the group found themselves following the release of their genre-defining second album. Though fun on the surface, there is already something double-edged, a hint of menace, in its image of dancing girls with diamonds in their teeth, and who are pure gold down underneath.
The Shape I’m In brings this undertone out into the open and gets more personal with its story of the consequences of fame and success. Daniel And The Sacred Harp takes an allegorical view of the same theme - of someone having lost something essential by quest’s end.
Trouble continues with Stage Fright in which even the one place The Band always excelled - onstage - becomes a place of fear. There is also a nice echo of Daniel with its line - “..they gave this ploughboy his fortune and fame, since that day he ain't been the same.”
Completing Side 1, The Rumor - always and still the best track on the album - sees poison entering the bucolic haven the group had found in Woodstock.
While Side 2 takes a breather and adds a bit more shade with Time To Kill and All La Glory - both stories of domestic contentment - the dark smoke is coiling along with a suggestion that the life of ease and peace they’d earned might be just as bad as the roads they’d travelled to get there. History would reveal the tragic result.
Strawberry Wine (with its coded heroin allusions and the sloppy playing that underscores the real story here) works better in this order. Where it was inconsequential in its original position, it now leads thematically into Sleeping, the last original song a failing Richard Manuel would contribute to a Band album. Balanced between the pretty, quiet melody and the darker undercurrents of its lyric, it makes for a sublimely ambiguous final note - a precariousness that is so appropriate given what we now know about the poisons working at this revered group’s foundations.
I’ll leave it to the audiophiles to go into the improved mix. I’ll limit myself to saying that it is a wonderful new experience - each member is clearer in the layering. And while you might suppose the wizard-work of Garth Hudson would be the icing on the cake, it is Rick Danko’s bass that proves a standout here. What’s more, the improved clarity in the rhythm section further highlights the compressed bite and scratch of Robbie Robertson’s guitar.
There is also a remixed concert from the subsequent tour but I’ll save that for later. The news here is the bold decision to re-tell the story of this album, the group’s last studio masterpiece - one that will surely lead to some reassessment of its position in the trio of aces this influential group delivered

They were past their best by this stage of course owing to their ingestion of substances, but they did manage to pull off a decent concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1971, which makes up CD2.


The bonus tracks are enjoyable too, but for me the standout is the 1971 concert at the Royal Albert Hall - absolutely brilliant!
And all for £10.99!