The Band.

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

alfred otm but man

stampeding cattle
they rattle the walls

is dire

i can't get over this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKD1Vdarnw

i usually feel like singing drummers look sort of awkward or even dumb but man is levon one cool motherfucker

That version of "King Harvest" is amazing. The guitar solo is one of my favorites ever, by anyone.

So weird to see RR pre-Telecaster. Also, is he wearing finger-picks?

i also appreciate how much crisper the drums sound in this version

great recording, Robbie looks like such a chilled hipster

I thought Robbie was wearing shorts for a minute, there. Eech.

some days the band is my favorite band, i guess this is gonna be one of those days

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-ringo-starr-and-his-all-starr-band-play-the-weight-251846/

Or just:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=187&v=bNpcms4UdMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNpcms4UdMA

^Features Levon, RIck and Garth, along with a cavalcade of RIngo's All-Stars.

Seems like there are not one, not two but THREE drummers up there: Levon, Ringo and Jim Keltner.

I'll let you figure out for yourself who is the surprise guest vocalist/pianist taking one of the verses.

RIngo and Jim seem to do some fills along with Levon - it's almost like Antmusic.

When I saw that opening guitar playing I thought, huh, that person knows what they are doing. And ... of course it's Nils.

yup

Just rewatched video of him playing "Purple Rain" for the first time since it happened but was a little afraid to.

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."

Cool. Are you talking about something you read in Testimony?

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.

actually went and looked for that radio show but all I could find was an on-air personality with your same last name.

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.

I'm usually put off by ensemble 'all star band' stuff, but damn you can't deny that above clip.

Thought the revive would be for this:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8510996/robbie-robertson-the-band-documentary

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

he might just be remixing outtakes?

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.

This article pretty much covers it:

http://theband.hiof.no/articles/dixie_viney.html

The whole of Music From Big Pink got remixed by Bob Clearmountain last year though, which doesn't augur well

xxp

thanks anagram - and oh yikes, that is not good news!

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

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

Would watch despite the title.

For sure

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.

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

Robbie Robertson is entirely Robbie-centric.

What blows my mind about The Last Waltz is how few 'The Band' songs are in it!

Funny this thread got revived. My pick of covers.

Fuck Robbie Robertson.

no!

Like, what a dick. Maybe he and Scorsese will die of coke-induced heart attacks in the after party.

"Once we were brothers, but I have to get top billing."

we've discussed his songs enough -- let's discuss Robertson the man

Which songs, the ones he wrote or the ones he took credit for?

He tried to take most of the songwriting credits for the Band, but basically has written next to nothing of note in the decades since they broke up. Hmmm ...

(See also: dude from Soul Coughing)

There's good stuff on the first Robbie solo album. Too bad about the singing tho.