the way it switches to the waltz time in the verses and lets loose during the chorus, along with the switch in lyrical perspective...
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
Manuel had some great cowrites with Robertsonhe was something else, "Sleeping" is such a strange beauty
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
jawbone is so amazing
Jawbone has such a deep country funk. I respect the rest of the Band's canon, but I am and always have been deliriously in love with the s/t album. Fortune was smiling on them when they recorded that.
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link
Robertson had been reading books and thought the Civil War was just about slavery, so Helm had to sit him down and explain through a southern lens the political picture of the time.
Ah the danger of reading books.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
When Robbie went down to Arkansas from Canada he couldn't read. Levon made him woodshed with books until he had built up a basic literacy. After touring with Dylan, Robertson could really read, pretty much anything, but by then he was pretty sick of reading. That's why there's not a lot of reading on Band albums.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
The Danko album had some good tracks, but I was more impressed pverall by the band he brought to Soundstage, the old Chicago PBS show: 50-odd minute sets, back to back, no bathroom breaks (at least in the version televised, and his crew certainly had no prob being on the same bill w Graham Parker & The Rumour, who were at their peak (this was late 70s, maybe '80). Don't remember who was in the band, but saw him on another thing in that era w Butterfield, who was maybe here for this.
― dow, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
There was an interview where Robertson mentioned sitting crammed into the backseat, with Hawkins at the wheel in the boondocks, and R was reading a paperback of From Here To Eternity: purty cool and wonder if it gave him some ideas for songs.
― dow, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
but I was more impressed pverall by the band he brought to Soundstage, the old Chicago PBS show: 50-odd minute sets, back to back
― Pwn Goal Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
alfred otm but man
stampeding cattlethey rattle the walls
is dire
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 November 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
i can't get over this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKD1Vdarnw
― budo jeru, Sunday, 4 November 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
i usually feel like singing drummers look sort of awkward or even dumb but man is levon one cool motherfucker
― budo jeru, Sunday, 4 November 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
That version of "King Harvest" is amazing. The guitar solo is one of my favorites ever, by anyone.
― JRN, Sunday, 4 November 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
So weird to see RR pre-Telecaster. Also, is he wearing finger-picks?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 November 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
i also appreciate how much crisper the drums sound in this version
― budo jeru, Sunday, 4 November 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
great recording, Robbie looks like such a chilled hipster
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
I thought Robbie was wearing shorts for a minute, there. Eech.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
some days the band is my favorite band, i guess this is gonna be one of those days
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-ringo-starr-and-his-all-starr-band-play-the-weight-251846/
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
Or just:http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=187&v=bNpcms4UdMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNpcms4UdMA
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
^Features Levon, RIck and Garth, along with a cavalcade of RIngo's All-Stars.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
Seems like there are not one, not two but THREE drummers up there: Levon, Ringo and Jim Keltner.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
I'll let you figure out for yourself who is the surprise guest vocalist/pianist taking one of the verses.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
RIngo and Jim seem to do some fills along with Levon - it's almost like Antmusic.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
When I saw that opening guitar playing I thought, huh, that person knows what they are doing. And ... of course it's Nils.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 May 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
yup
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
Just rewatched video of him playing "Purple Rain" for the first time since it happened but was a little afraid to.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
xxxpost, Robertson's misgivings were justified to an extent: no doubt some Johnny Reb headz heard "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" as tons of sobs for the Lost Cause. When I play it on my radio show, I'll follow it with Isbell's "White Man's World" and "Danko and Manuel."
― dow, Monday, 13 May 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
Cool. Are you talking about something you read in Testimony?
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
No, a discussion upthread, but mis-remembered re Robertson's misgivings, sorry, should have re-read. Still, the proposed song sequence seems good, even though I don't have a radio show.
― dow, Monday, 13 May 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
actually went and looked for that radio show but all I could find was an on-air personality with your same last name.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
Timely revive, as I discovered today that the vinyl copy of the s/t I got on eBay was delivered to someone else at the wrong address way the hell across town.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
I'm usually put off by ensemble 'all star band' stuff, but damn you can't deny that above clip.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 13 May 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
Thought the revive would be for this:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8510996/robbie-robertson-the-band-documentary
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 May 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link
The 75-year-old Robertson, who was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame Thursday night (May 9) at Toronto's Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards, has an incredibly busy year, including finishing a new solo album, scoring the music for Scorsese's new film, The Irishman, remixing music for the 50th anniversary reissue of The Band album, and writing the follow-up memoir to 2016's Testimony.
uh-oh
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 13 May 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
he might just be remixing outtakes?
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 13 May 2019 09:05 (five years ago) link
Is there a good place to read about The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and if it is pro-Confederacy? Always just thought it was about how wars chew young people up into fodder regardless of the "cause", a Vietnam allegory, but as I've gotten older and learned what that war was actually about (I'm from the UK) I feel less comfortable about it.
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 13 May 2019 09:07 (five years ago) link
This article pretty much covers it:
http://theband.hiof.no/articles/dixie_viney.html
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 13 May 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link
The whole of Music From Big Pink got remixed by Bob Clearmountain last year though, which doesn't augur well
xxp
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 13 May 2019 10:19 (five years ago) link
thanks anagram - and oh yikes, that is not good news!
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 13 May 2019 10:38 (five years ago) link
Not quite as must see as the last clip- no Garth for one thing- but from the same tour, and still Levon and Rick. Like what Nils and Joe Walsh are doing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwb1ToTkpk
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 May 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
This looks great although.. yeah the comments making it very plain that it should not ave the name 'Robbie Robertson and.. '
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYTpMZjZxwI
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 January 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
Would watch despite the title.
― We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 January 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
For sure
― calstars, Sunday, 19 January 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
Shit, looks great. Though yeah, with Levon, Rick and Richard dead, that more or less leaves Robbie and Garth to tell the story. Yet the one (negative) review I read said that Garth is barely in it, and Robbie's over-rehearsed and apparently uncontested versions of his truth begin to grate.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 January 2020 05:56 (four years ago) link
isn't it based on his memoir? I cannot wait to see this, but given Robbie's long friendship with Scorsese I wouldn't be surprised if its entirely Robbie-centric
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 20 January 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
Robbie Robertson is entirely Robbie-centric.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link
What blows my mind about The Last Waltz is how few 'The Band' songs are in it!
― piscesx, Monday, 20 January 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
Funny this thread got revived. My pick of covers.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 January 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link