A Classic: The Band - the Last Waltz - “The Weight” (Feat. The Staples Singers)
Rediscovering amazing performances like this one. I should note that the live tracks may have been extensively overdubbed and re-done in the studio (that’s how it looks to me now). I think there are still some bits of the original tracks in there somewhere, even if it’s only the tempo, but this is a reconstruction of the concert we all heard in our minds.
And yet… they produced a great piece of recorded music regardless of how much work it took to revise, replace and enhance it. A great album, even if it shouldn’t really be considered “live.”
Mavis killed it, re-recorded or not. And so did everyone else on that stage.
And somebody has to make reality resemble fantasy, sometimes, anyway.