Re: The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:36 pm

Instrumentation sounds far too jaunty.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:36 pm

It's all like dance

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by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:36 pm

Is that keyboard a Clavinet?

If so, I don't think anyone else ever played it like that ever.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:37 pm

But the vocals are like disappoint

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by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:37 pm

Burt Kwouk in Danger Man! Excited

by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:38 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:38 pm

Final track - I Shall Be Released.

by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:38 pm

Full on Bob Dylon ending.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:38 pm

I know this one too.

by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:39 pm

Moog?

by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:39 pm

by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:41 pm

This is Bob Dylan's rip-off of Fairport Convention's "Meet on teh Ledge". yes

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:42 pm

It is over.

It was an accomplished album but they weren't the liveliest band in the world and the songs were of varying levels of interest.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:43 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:46 pm

Well, it's better than The Band.

However, despite their wall-to-wall critical acclaim and adoration I've always found them always falling a fair way short of greatness.

I believe that the greatness is in fact there, but that there's a lack of a leader in the band to make executive decisions about what works and doesn't and who should be taking the lead when it's right.

Ultimately, too much faffing about with tempo and structural changes and smoke-and-mirrors nonsense that doesn't play to the various band m*mbers' ultimate strengths.

For example, Richard Manuel's strained, pained vocals are used way too much (on this album) whereas they work better on the occasional track, yet Levon Helm - with his instantly likeable, rich and soulful timbres - is grievously under-utilised on this album as a singer.

Anyway, what do I know...

The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968) - Page 5 CMxyc71

The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968) - Page 5 CMxyc71

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