The Band: Friends & Other Strangers

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Front cover: Friends & Other Strangers

             Bob Dylan
             Neil Young
             Van Morrison
             Eric Clapton
             Joni Mitchell

Back cover: The Band
            Friends & Other Strangers

            The essential guest list from The Last Waltz

            Recordings from the rough-mix master.
            Unedited, Unabridged & Undibbed.

            ... it became a celebration

            These recordings icensed from...
            The Razor's Edge.
            p 1995 Moontunes, Luxembourg.

            MOON 016
            Moontunes

Disc: THE BAND
      FRIENDS AND OTHER STRANGERS

      OSA/ACD
      (P) 1996 Czech Republic

      Moontunes
      MOON 016

Matrix: MOON 016

Track list:

1.  Down South In New Orleans

      lead vocal: Bobby Charles

2.  All Our Past Times
3.  Further On Up The Road

      lead vocal: Eric Clapton

4.  Helpless
5.  Four Strong Winds

      lead vocal: Neil Young

6.  Furry Sings The Blues

      lead vocal: Joni Mitchell

7.  Tura Lura Lura
8.  Caravan

      lead vocal: Van Morrison

9.  Arcadian Driftwood

      lead vocals: Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Richard Manuel

10. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
11. Hazel
12. I Don't Believe You
13. Forever Young
14. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

      lead vocal: Bob Dylan

15. I Shall Be Released

      lead vocals: Bob Dylan, Richard Manuel

Tracks 1 - 15: "The Last Waltz", 25 November 1976, Winterland, San
  Francisco, California, U.S.A. Performed by The Band and guest
  performers. Mono soundboard, rough mix without overdubs.

Total playing time: 77:34

This CD contains the complete set of Bob Dylan at "The Last Waltz", the
1976 farewell concert of The Band, so also "Hazel", the one song from
his set that was not included on the official album of this concert.
Beside Dylan's set this CD includes a selection of the songs sung by
other guest vocalists. Note that there exists a unofficial CD set of the
complete concert, "The Complete Last
Waltz"; I haven't heard it, but it is reported to be excellent, so
when you rather have the whole concert instead of a selection, then it's
probably better to get that set.

"Friends & Other Strangers" I own, but I haven't heard the official
"The Last Waltz" album yet, but I assume that the sound quality of
"Friends & Ohter Strangers" is considerably lower. For bootleg
standards, however, it is quite good and very listenable. It's a rough
mix of a mono soundboard and doesn't have the overdubs the official
album is reported to have.

Crazy Joe rated this CD 4 out of 5, meaning excellent.

Eric Schoneveld wrote about it: "Reasonable quality."