The Band: S/T and/or Music from the Big Pink

Mmm- maybe I will try the MFSL. Then to make this even harder, there are variations, in the same actual pressing label. I believe Fremer said The BAND S/T ORIGINAL is a Green label, but then only some are R. Ludwig.
Big Pink I believe is a Rainbow though. Like I said, my Big Pink dark red/ purple
label is pretty darned good. I'm certainly looking for better though.

Yeah I just bought the mfsl copy of Big Pink and tell The Band too. The Band is my favorite album by them.Jericho is a fantastic recording by them too but I'm not sure if it is available on vinyl. The cd sounds fantastic.

I my be hallucinating, I often do, but to my ears Nat King Cole never got recorded anywhere near as well as Sinatra on Capitol, which to me was a Class A Felony .

When Big Pink came out I never warmed up to it maybe because I bought it after I bought their second album which blew me away.In High school there were a few people who dug The Band,I think we considered us a cult.
But now Big Pink is one of two albums I listen to when writing sketch comedy. It moves move but it doesn't distract my creative thought if that makes any sense. The other recording I listen to is Echo by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The Big Pink and The Band albums were bad news for musicians in the 60s (like me) because you realized how lame they made everything else seem (Clapton was supposedly rendered morose and depressed and tried to join the Band)…if you got to see these guys live you felt even worse. I think I actually destroyed a Band LP from playing it too much, and I knew at least one person who listened to only those 2 LPs. I liked all of their stuff, and my old the Band (or Brown Album as we called it) LP that survived and I listen to often must be from the early 70s although not likely the original run. In any case, that album still kicks utter ass on every level both musically and as an amazing sounding thing. I think I'm gonna go put it on now.