The Band.

A shot of love'll make you goofy

at the time the tour was the most successful ever

i remember my biology teacher went. why didn't i go?

haha love this

This is my all-time favourite Robbie Robertson interview moment. Funny and also comforting in some kind of way pic.twitter.com/hIkiJby6SW

— HarryHew (@harryhew) August 11, 2023

i think ed ward ultimately soured on them.

https://waynerobins.substack.com/p/the-last-waltz-thanksgiving-day-1976-e33?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

probably the only time he got back to that level of mania was the trouble no more stuff but i guess that was jesus instead of coke (supposedly)

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--VbonElik--/a_0/f_auto,t_large/v1667659608/tpuqb3s6rdvnqg345lzd.jpg

That clip is great, thanks.

Thanks, bulb. That explains it. So Gretsch gave you spares as standard! I'm wondering what the business model was? It's hard to imagine archtop players regularly snapping their high strings with wild four-semitone bends.

Had been thinking we should have a poll about which string on our guitar tends to break. For me it’s the D string.

The Jesus of Coke.

^^Best Nick Lowe album.

Take the load off NME.

I love the sound of scraping glass.

Charlie Prevost

Jemima Surrender to the Rhythm

I shall be resneezed

Lol

Virgil ‘Caine is my name

they called it rock

I Love My Black Label

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzHRXx-O7Ys

just posted

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-167-the-weight-by-the-band/

Cool. I will listen while sitting here in the waiting room at the doctor’s office.

The Wait

Only two hours???? C’mon man.

It won't be the only Band episode, though.

20 minutes in. So far so good.

I am still dealing with the ramifications of realizing just last week that it's "Take a load off FANNY" and not "off ANNIE." All these years I thought it was about one person but it's about somebody totally different.

what?!

https://genius.com/The-band-the-weight-lyrics

it's in the grand tradition of the answer record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc1ZTXCBeOs

Work with me, Fanny.

There’s also a certain cartoon I wasn’t going to mention but…

"Well there was a stack of Playboys in the basement at Big Pink, and I was just paging through them one day ..."

^from the Robbie Robertson Achives at the University of Toronto library, as researched and reported by Andrew Hickey. For Patreon subscribers only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvzc20q8DY

OnlyFannys

https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780679720768

Apparently he knew he was dying and spent his last days just living in acceptance. Final photo in this post where he’s sitting at the table was taken the Sunday before he passed.

Wow, apparently they just got married a few months ago too.

Okay, it’s finally starting to seep in, finally starting to get to me.

I was looking at those photographs thinking, "Wow, his wife has certainly aged well", not realizing it's not the same woman he was married to in the Band documentary. Robbie himself aged very well mind you!

His first wife, Dominique, became a psychotherapist, I believe. She only ever said nice things about him after their divorce and it didn’t just seem like it was “for the sake of the kids.”

The internet is full of things describing her as a “Canadian journalist.” She may be Canadian now, but she grew up in France.

Truth be told I can’t for the life of me remember where I would have read about her at all apart from Testimony.

Maybe she is in Once Were Brothers?

No, I misread. They met in Paris, but she is in fact French Canadian.

Maybe she is in Once Were Brothers?

That's what I said, she was in the Band documentary and there was no indication they weren't still a couple, hence my confusion.

There’s very little info out there about her and their family. Wikipedia doesn’t give a date for their divorce. There seem to be pictures of him with other lady friends seemingly identified as her when it is clearly not her.

Back to the main topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s