THE BAND - The Band Across The Endless Highway August 1, 1973 FLAC & MP3

The Band Across The Endless Highway August 1, 1973 Roosevelt Stadium, New Jersey

Stereo soundboard recording about a 9/10.



Tracklist:

01 - Back To Memphis

02 - Loving You (Has Made My Life Sweeter Than Ever)

03 - The Shape I'm In

04 - The Weight

05 - Stage Fright

06 - I Shall Be Released

07 - Don't Do It

08 - Endless Highway

09 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

10 - Across the Great Divide

11 - This Wheel's On Fire

12 - Life Is A Carnival

13 - Share Your Love

14 - Up In Cripple Creek

15 - Chest Fever

16 - W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

17 - Saved (from 7/31/73 show)



Total Time = 79:25



Robbie Robertson - guitar, vocals;

Rick Danko - bass, vocals;

Richard Manuel - piano, drums, vocals;

Garth Hudson - organ;

Levon Helm - drums, mandolin, vocals



Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ – August 1st, 1973

When The Band returned to live performance after their eighteen-month hiatus, they did so in a big way by playing at the legendary Watkins Glen festival in upstate New York on July 28th, 1973.



Along with the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers, they played a three-hour set in front of an estimated 600,000 attendees.



They followed that with two concerts at Roosevelt Stadium, a minor league baseball park in Jersey City again supporting the Grateful Dead.



The set list is fairly common for the time, but the way The Band play, jam, and stretch out the songs is a beautiful to hear. “Back To Memphis” has an extended instrumental in the middle. “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is tighter and is one of the definitive versions. Like the previous day, it segues with “Across The Great Divide.”



It hangs together differently to most Band shows, in that they did "Back to Memphis", "Loving You" and "Don't Do It" as well as "Share your Love", i.e. four cover versions. "Saved" is included from the 31 July show.



Some claim this is the definitive show from the middle period of the group.