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In Reply to: RE: The Band posted by LWR on May 03, 2009 at 17:26:41
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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