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Thank you for posting those, a litte sad looking at them though, that Manny and Denko are not longer with us. What an eclectic assemblage of talent.
I have since enjoyed all of Robbie's solo works, he has sure managed to stay out of the spotlight after his days with the Band. His sound definitely went in a different musical direction, "Music for the Native Americans" and "Storyville" are still two of my favorite albums.
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I just love seeing your pictures. They make me wish I was born at a different time. Well, sometimes.
Sometimes? Just wait until he posts the "free love" collection!
the one of an animated Robbie and Levon. Thanks for posting these.
that they are appreciated.
The Band just... was...
I loved the sound Danko got with that fretless, and his bass lines were always sublime.
'Course he could sing a tune or two too, not to mention find his way around a few other stringed instruments.
Thanks for posting those!
"...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
Just sheer magic in the interplay and telepathy levels going on. If ever 5 musicians (magicians) played with one mind it was these guys.They hand off leads, vocals, instruments, like they were a man with one mind and 10 hands. In the top 2 or 3 concerts that I have seen, The Last Waltz was maybe the most musically perfect and the guests were all so happy to have been invited and so honored to stand and deliver on a stage with The Band.
Backstage the various artists were exchanging stories about Band songs and shows they had seen and how Dylan surely stood on the shoulders of giants when they backed him and they barricaded themselves in the belly of Big Pink.
There is no one band in the world today who effects me to the extent that these fellows do to this moment. Thanks for the words.....
Three times; after the release of Big Pink at Woodstock, in the mid/late 80s when they were really loaded and got the Paul DeLay band so loaded those guys were close to blind, and again a couple of years ago. The first and the last shows were great. I consider the first four Band albums some of the best music of the 20th century.
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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
... was at Wembley Stadium probably about 1974 on a bill with Joni Mitchell and CSNY.
They immediately gave the impression of never playing a bad show.
Thanks for posting those pictures.
There is a specialness about The Band that is indescribable.
reelsmith's axiom : Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
and inspirational to any number of Alt. Country and Americana bands who we enjoy to this day. I'm happy that you enjoy the pix. They warm me to the bottom of my feet.
The most thrilling moment I've ever had at a concert was at The Nassau Coliseum on Long Island in 1974. The house went dark and Dylan's rhythm guitar opening for Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) filled the air then the stage lights came up as The Band exploded into the song. I swear I had goosebumps for days. A couple of nights later I saw them again at Madison Square Garden. Those concerts were the greatest I've ever experienced. I heard, but could not see, The Band at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in 1973. I was recovering under a tree in the woods after too much beer and sun. I also got to see the re-constituted Band without Robertson and Manuel a couple of times. They were good but as Dylan says, "you can always come back but you can't come back all the way." Saw Levon last summer at the Newport Folk Festival with his band including Larry Campbell, Amy, Jimmy Vivino, Little Sammy Davis, et al, and they were grand. There will never be a band like The Band again. The second album is, IMO, one of the very few perfect records ever made. Not a note wasted or out of place on it. Thanks for the pics!
was Levon at the Keystone in Palo Alto, I think with the RCO all-stars or it may have been with Albert Lee. His drum set was at stage center and out front and I was able to see his magic thwacks up close. He played his ass off, the whole time with a maniac grin on his face.
During a break at the bar I mentioned to him that I loved the White Mansions & Jesse James albums he did with Johnny Cash and Albert Lee and Emmy Lou, Waylon and the others. He said thanks and it was his pleasure to meet the person who actually bought those two albums!!
A righteous guy and a living National Treasure.
White Mansions did not have Levon on it but in spirit and feel it is as good as Jesse James. Both produced by Glyn Johns BTW. Levon performed as Jesse.....fitting somehow.
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