The Band.

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.

Reminds me--there was a movie of this,Festival Express, released in early 70s (they were on a train, going across Canada and maybe some of US, stopping at festivals, or every stop made a festival maybe)--Good??

#OnThisDay The Festival Express kicked off. Here's a video of @JanisJoplin, @jerrygarcia #BobbyWeir, #Marmaduke and #RickDanko having a little jam session and some drinks.

Stream music from The Band: ▶️ https://t.co/ddaeAev6G6 pic.twitter.com/fbIHlUg6WK

— The Band (@thelastwaltz78) June 27, 2022

yeah it's great — that's a scene from it. the footage actually wasn't pieced together until the early 2000s.

XP!

The footage was shelved for a long time, with the movie finally coming out in the mid-'00s. It's a fine film, worth checking out on disc for the bonus performances. Some audio from the shows turned up much sooner as part of the Janis Joplin In Concert album and other Janis archival releases.

A funny thing about it is that for somebody who loves to talk about himself on camera, for some reason Robbie Robertson <wasn't> interviewed for this film. In fact, none of the then-surviving Band members pop up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-82YZFfBE

I'm not like a huge Band guy or anything, but when this scene came up I cried a little in the theater.

Not sure these outtake clips made it to the BluRay (definitely not on my DVD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_zjPqMZb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWEVNnPS4M

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

^Chest Fever, Great Divide, and Dixie

Oh yeah--from that Soundstage set I mentioned way upthread, where they def. held own on same bill w peak --Graham Parker & The Rumour: drinking lots of java, it seems:
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ttp://twitter.com/TheBandPodcast/status/1543960068462465025

Rick Danko performed "Java Blues" on Soundstage, 1978.

The energetic performance is one of his finest. #RickDanko #TheBand pic.twitter.com/If0iN4u2Qk

— The Band: A History (@TheBandPodcast) July 4, 2022

You can watch the full performance of Java Blues here: https://t.co/EkR0Le3rSK

— The Band: A History (@TheBandPodcast) July 4, 2022

(each band did a nearly hour-long set for Chicago PBS Soundstage: no breaks, no interviews, nothing but the music, as I recall).

These three bands, thee whole festival, that's all required on such a summer's day

#OnThisDay in 1973, The Band played the #SummerJam at Watkins Glen with The @GratefulDead and The @allmanbrothers.

Stream music from #TheBand: ▶️ https://t.co/ddaeAev6G6 pic.twitter.com/rzbCWcOLgq

— The Band (@thelastwaltz78) July 28, 2022

Better visuals, more data:

#OnThisDay in 1973, Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, New York, reunited #TheBand, The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers. With a crowd of 600 000 people, it was the largest gathering for a rock festival, even bigger than Woodstock. pic.twitter.com/gRpeXbo06z

— Lonesome Suzie (@NathalieO5) July 28, 2022

Jay Babcock, who I believe is an ilxor, also has generated a remarkable wordpress around San Francisco's Diggers. In the midst of an epochal interview with a couple who were in thee flow x churn of those 60s, I came across a clip from The Last Walz featuring their colleague Freewheelin Frank, poet, painter, psychic, and ex-Hell's Angel ("he dropped out, which was hard to do")---the connection w Band may have been Digger Emmett Grogan, also co-writer of Danko's "Java Blues":

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

interview:https://diggersdocs.home.blog/2022/03/05/we-had-a-far-more-profound-effect/

(Thanx again to Andy The Grasshopper for linking this interview on ILE thread re HBO's The Anarchists.)

There were also 600,000 at the 1970 Isle Of Wight festival. Sure, that one had many more bands, but it could only be reached by boat. A bit more difficult than driving 25 miles outside of Ithaca.

xp

I was a few days ago old when I learned Johnny Cash covered "The Night They..."...in 1975!

Would have totally thought that would have been on the Rubin menu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba3P0aH1Hxs

All The King's Men:Ree-markable album, some of it like nothing else (in a good way)

"Keith Richards, Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana -plus Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko of the Band- all got together at Helm’s Woodstock, New York barn studio to record a track. The occasion was All the Kings Men, an LP honoring Presley" #theband #levonhelm #KeithRichards pic.twitter.com/iDhcKVuSa8

— Levon And The Hawks (@LevonTheHawk) September 8, 2022

as xgau sez (dunno what first sentence means, but rest seems right:

Scotty Moore/D.J. Fontana: All the King's Men [Sweetfish, 1997]
There's no rationalizing the success ratio of this tribute comp--I mean, gosh, Elvis Presley's original sidemen collaborate with artists who like them. I'd like to credit Scotty and D.J.'s groove, but with second drummers powering the two rockingest cuts and extra guitarists everywhere, let's just call it serendipity. Plus maybe--since Joe Ely, Steve Earle, and Raul Malo all benefit from not trying too hard--the kind of affable discretion that stays out of talent's way. The knockout rockouts are Cheap Trick's "Bad Little Girl," which sounds like great John Lennon, and Keith Richards and the Band's "Deuce and a Quarter," which sounds like great old roots-rock and also like nothing I've ever heard. And then there's Ronnie McDowell with that essential soupcon of Memphis-to-Vegas schmaltz. A-

Never noticed this before but on "Rags & Bones," when we get to the cat lyric, Garth does a pretty awesome impression of a cat shreik on the synths. It may not have been noticeable on headphones while on-the-go but on a good stereo system with at least bookshelf speakers it's pretty clear. Not as good but still cute, when Garth does his own version of an ice cream truck jingle during the lyric about the "ice cream man."

Anyway, kind of representative of the album, where the song is actually not that good, but it's played well and Garth really shines. The three cuts that always get anthologized are definitely the three highlights, but Garth's other big number is "Jupiter Hollow" - again not a great song, but it's wonderful just to hear Garth layer things together.

Yeah i feel the same about Garth on Cahoots.

It's a shame they didn't come up with more great original material past Stage Fright, but I guess in fairness there was a lot of excellent stuff that didn't make the albums proper. (The best of the bonus cuts from the 2000/2001 reissues add up to a great lost album - Robbie slipped a lot of those into The Basement Tapes in 1975.)

Someone posted that Georgia on My Mind from SNL on Vimeo - enjoy!🕸

“Hosted Flower Hill House Concert No. 6 last night!” Perrotta wrote on Instagram. “What a gift to not only have Cindy Cashdollar, Jerry Marotta and Happy Traum play with SuperFolk but also a surprise set from Garth Hudson of The Band who has not played a concert in years! Making rock and roll history in my living room.”

love garth

One of my many terrible ideas is a Halloween costume with black helmet, luxurious beard, and a chest=mounted keyboard = Garth Vader

Literally no one would get it and I would slink home in richly deserved shame

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lol everyone that would get the joke is right here

Yep. Which is why I don't leave.

yet another band member in the galaxy far far away

It's #NationalLookAlikeDay! 🎉 Many of you have mentioned the striking resemblance between #PedroPascal and our very own Rick Danko – we couldn't agree more! 😄 Who's your celebrity doppelgänger?

Photo of Rick by @ElliottLandy pic.twitter.com/g6dubn1V23

— The Band (@TheBandOfficial) April 20, 2023

Listened to big pink like 5 times so far this week

Crazy Pedro followed me
And he caught me in the hay
I am not a fungal zombie
But he shot me anyway

totally in love with the garth synth sound on a couple of '76 shows i've been checking out lately. been so long since i've seen it that i can't remember if he was playing synthesizer on the last waltz as well?

Seems like xpost Garth Vader, as described, could look so cool that few would feel like they needed the origin story to enjoy thee vision before them.

xps Slightly off-topic, but I always thought Chris Kattan of all people was a dead ringer for Jaco Pastorius.

Some early indications that Robbie Robertson may have gone on to the Last Waltz in the sky ...

Or maybe not?

Just found this - is he playing the bronzed guitar from the Last Waltz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2SfFQQ81cs

wait what Josh??

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/

Tributes rolling in

RIP Robbie Robertson - you were easily the worst member of The Band. You were lucky enough to springboard off the backs of 4 other gentleman who each possessed the grace, talent and artistry that you lacked.

— JEHawks (@jehawks) August 9, 2023

Shit, was hoping it was a false alarm.

rip robbie, this sucks

RIP

Even if he never wrote a single song he'd be an all-timer for some of the weird guitar he provided on Dylan's material in 65-67.

Worst member of the Band is a subjective call, but no-one has ever denied that he wrote those songs. Helm just wanted the royalties to be shared around.

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I mean, JRR did write some unbelievably classic songs, so I'm not 100% sure I agree with that assessment. But he was easily the most grating of the 5 and had a frequently embarrassing solo career.

RIP.

my jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7KW4K-00E

Oldest guy in the band is the only one left