Full Show Friday | The Band In Asbury Park 1976

Just about four months before The Band retired from the road with the unforgettable Last Waltz concert in San Francisco, the group played The Casino Arena in Asbury Park, NJ on July 20, 1976. Back in April, black-and-white professionally-shot footage of The Band’s performance from Asbury Park popped up on YouTube. For the penultimate edition of Full Show Friday in 2014, we wanted to re-share this incredible footage as it’s one of the best Full Shows to surface this year.

The 18-song setlist from the show reads like a list of The Band’s greatest hits as they work through some of the most-beloved tunes in rock history such as “Up On Cripple Creek,” “The Shape I’m In,” “The Weight,” “Ophelia” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” We’re also particularly fond of keyboardist Garth Hudson’s outrageous “Genetic Method” intro for “Chest Fever.” So block out about 80 minutes of your day and watch this classic Band performance.

This show and thousands of others have been posted on YouTube by Music Vault.

Setlist:

0:00:00 -Don’t Do It
0:04:52 -The Shape I’m In
0:09:03 -It Makes No Difference
0:16:06 -The Weight
0:20:51 -King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
0:24:26 -Twilight
0:28:12 -Ophelia
0:31:53 -Tears of Rage
0:37:34 -Forbidden Fruit
0:43:47 -This Wheels On Fire
0:47:41 -The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down
0:51:43 -Genetic Method
0:56:01 -Chest Fever
1:00:41 -Up On Cripple Creek
1:06:19 -The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
1:09:55 -Life Is A Carnival