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In Reply to: RE: Did you ever see them live? posted by LWR on May 03, 2009 at 18:50:13
Sadly, I never saw them live. Saw most of 'em (minus RR) at the SNACK concert backing up Neil Young and Dylan in 1975.
Saw Danko and Helm when they were doing shows in the mid 80's and they were fantastic.
I completely fucked up not going to The Last Waltz - tickets were available for quite a while (maybe a couple weeks?) but I didn't get any (unlike today where shows sell out in 39.75 seconds). Ended up seeing the Scorsese film three times during its nearly year long run at the Vogue Theatre.
I love their recordings, and all the various video footage I've seen of them. Dylan has had some mighty fine bands through the years (hell, the cats on "Together Through Life" are great - by the way I keep waiting for a bone chilling Little Walter harp solo during "My Wife's Home Town") but he never had another Band. But that's OK.
They were and still are just incredible (magicians indeed!), and they are one of the very few bands I regret (and one of the very, very few regrets I have in general) never having seen live.
Thank goodness for all the great recordings they gave us!
Thank YOU for your words... and the pix!
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
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