The Band.

There's a funny scene with Eric Andersen in Les Blank's documentary on Leon Russell, A Poem Is a Naked Person. Eric is visiting Leon's compound/studio and musing about music history: "we owe so much to older guys like you...what are you, forty? Forty-five?"
Leon, offended: "I ain't but turned thirty!"

yeah i saw that, Leon was pretty brutal

Eric's behaviour (in the scene) was pretty pompous in general.

yeah, i remember that as well

Wiki entry on Blue River led me to main article: didn't realize he'd done so much, looking pretty ambitious at times, tho might be pompous--albs w Danko aside, I'm most intrigued by this: You Can't Relive The Past, which included original blues numbers as well as a selection of songs co-written with Townes Van Zandt.. Cane out in 2001.

Don't know what to make of this:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/274935619_4615307798591608_7328288680451892607_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s1080x2048&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=2vKyixJbL6QAX_smFt8&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=00_AT_k68yLhFkyDEROfwGljdSXSpxTMRiibQe40HgDs7L55A&oe=6221F466

Also related, I guess Garth's wife died today.

i love garth, obviously an incredible keys player but i think my fav contribution of his might be his sax solo on "it makes no difference," which always brings a tear to my eye. idk if it would hurt to drop him a line

I honestly didn't know he was still alive.

Uh-oh, this says he doesn't want to be flooded by cards and letters, is "incredibly private person," certainly didn't want personal address shared online---also a lot of musical activities I didn't know about, incl. with his wife, whom I'd never heard of, and for inst that all-Canadian The Band tribute alb, with Neil Young etc.; have any of yall heard it??
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/garth-hudson-of-the-band-not-forgotten-during-difficult-time/

I hope he's being taken care of and not taken advantage of.

I hope so too. It's tough to say how he's doing because details that have leaked periodically about his personal life paint him as fairly eccentric. Nothing monstrous, but it'll be stuff like a landlord he hasn't paid in over a decade selling off his stuff from a storage unit he's apparently never bothered to visit either. And this was before he actively helped on that "Basement Tapes" box set where they even filmed him visiting Big Pink. I guess the guy who originally posted that plea would say something if Garth wasn't being cared for.

hope garth is ok

in more cheerful news, i watched the rick james documentary. after he flees the draft to toronto, one of the first nights he decided to go out on the town in the hippie district, this kid calls him the n-word, and they start to scrap. rick is really skinny and small and is taking the worst of it until a group of white kids come in and start beating the racist kid up and saving rick. said group of white boys was...the hawks.

Just got served an ad about The Weight Band, "featuring members of the Band and Levon Helm's band" or some such formulation.

They may be fine people and musicians but their branding, um, seems a trifle exploitative.

Looking forward to ads for the W.S. Walcott Medicine Show Band, "featuring members of The Weight Band."

Average Weight Band

LOL

Weightsnake

Guess we won't be seeing any of you guys at Camp Cripple Creek this summer.

They may be fine people and musicians but their branding, um, seems a trifle exploitative.

When Roger Daltrey does solo tours, he has musicians from the Who’s touring band in his group…and it’s billed as “ROGER DALTREY! With members of The Who band!”

When I saw him solo it was him and Simon Townshend from "the Who band," but I don't think anyone else from the Who.

Tonight:
Norman Hewson, Alistair Evans, Barry Mullen, and Seth Clayton

(God I’m ashamed to know their full names)

The Who Band

https://i.gifer.com/K1Eb.gif

Robbie Robertson tells the story of The Band's classic song The Weight
By Matt Frost published 1 day ago

"I said, ‘Well, it’ll just be a back-up song in case some other things don’t work out’”

Does he mention Buñuel in that interview?

No, he barely mentions the lyrics.

Thanks. For a while there it seemed like there was nothing else he could talk about.

He even discussed Buñuel with Andy and Edie! At least according to Testimony.

Whilst they were en route from dinner at El Quijote to Salvador Dalí's suite at the St. Regis.

Forgot to add #onethread

Take a load off discreet charm of the bourgeoisie,
and you put it
you put it
you put it
right on me-ee-ee.

Honorary Canadian, Ronnie Hawkins.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ronnie-hawkins-obituary-1.6470162

― clemenza, Sunday, May 29, 2022 1:32 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

His first single, his "Bo Diddley" cover, was 1958; he's not quite in that founding-fathers group, but pretty damn close.

― clemenza, Sunday, May 29, 2022 1:33 PM

Wow. Figured he would never die. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5mxNKI9rM

Didn't invent Psychobilly, but did alot to perfect it.

Always got a kick out of the cheerfully vulgar anecdote related by Jerry Wexler to Stanley Booth about Hawkins arriving in Muscle Shoals to record his 1970 Cotillion debut (paraphrased): "He arrived in his private plane with a suitcase full of drugs, a case of whiskey, and Miss Toronto...'I've got my pot, my pills, and my pussy... Let's get to work!'"

...and of course his promise recounted by Robbie in The Last Waltz.

RIP! His 1970 solo album is worth seeking out — no one from the Band on it, but a bunch of Muscle Shoals heavy hitters.

You can't beat a filmography where half of it is comprised of Heaven's Gate and Meatballs III.

xpost yeah man---here he is w Duane Allman, x King Biscuit Boy on harmonica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhyTaVKd9Xk

xpost filmography also getting Robbie's geetar all het up, and then fanning the flames (with his hat), in The Last Waltz.

(influence on Dylan's taste in hats?)

RIP he seemed so spry in Once We Were Bros

but 87. Nice fuckin run

fyi if you don’t fuck w UMS Spotify playlist of Manuel songs you definitely should

...and of course his promise recounted by Robbie in The Last Waltz.

#RIP Ronnie Hawkins
Brilliant musician, Ronnie Hawkins saw the exceptional talent of Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson, and brought all of them together. The Band wouldn't have existed without him. pic.twitter.com/3HBSqElPLB

— Rick Danko Page (@rickdankopage) May 29, 2022

which led me to

Welcome to the Richard Manuel Archive, a celebration of the life & music of vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Richard Manuel of The Band.

This is a continuing research project to define his legacy outside of his tragedy, looking at his life and who he truly was. pic.twitter.com/YkZfAZVYWX

— The Richard Manuel Archive (@manuelarchive) July 13, 2021

And

Lonesome Suzie
@NathalieO5
Account mostly dedicated to The Band and Bob Dylan. Love music. Fascinated by the 1960s-70s. Aspiring writer and compulsive reader. Curator of
@rickdankopage
Canadalonesomesuziecom.wordpress.com

That last one looks like a recent launch, will follow also, though.

HI DERE

Luvly cover (Jon Langford chimes in eventually):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAWPXVbcoE

Nice.