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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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 June 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 June 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 June 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
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
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 June 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
^Chest Fever, Great Divide, and Dixie
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 June 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
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:http://twitter.com/TheBandPodcast/status/1543960068462465025
― dow, Monday, 4 July 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
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
― dow, Monday, 4 July 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
(each band did a nearly hour-long set for Chicago PBS Soundstage: no breaks, no interviews, nothing but the music, as I recall).
― dow, Monday, 4 July 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
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
― dow, Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
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
― dow, Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
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.)
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
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
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 July 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
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
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
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
― dow, Friday, 9 September 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
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-
― dow, Friday, 9 September 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 16 September 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
Yeah i feel the same about Garth on Cahoots.
― visiting, Saturday, 17 September 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link
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.)
― birdistheword, Saturday, 17 September 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
Someone posted that Georgia on My Mind from SNL on Vimeo - enjoy!🕸
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
“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.”
― dow, Thursday, 20 April 2023 02:00 (one year ago) link
love garth
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
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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― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
lol everyone that would get the joke is right here
― that's not my post, Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
Yep. Which is why I don't leave.
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
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
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
Listened to big pink like 5 times so far this week
― ian, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
Crazy Pedro followed meAnd he caught me in the hayI am not a fungal zombieBut he shot me anyway
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
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?
― no lime tangier, Friday, 21 April 2023 07:53 (one year ago) link
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.
― dow, Friday, 21 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
xps Slightly off-topic, but I always thought Chris Kattan of all people was a dead ringer for Jaco Pastorius.
― birdistheword, Friday, 21 April 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
Some early indications that Robbie Robertson may have gone on to the Last Waltz in the sky ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:25 (eight months ago) link
Or maybe not?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:32 (eight months ago) link
Just found this - is he playing the bronzed guitar from the Last Waltz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2SfFQQ81cs
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:35 (eight months ago) link
wait what Josh??
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:40 (eight months ago) link
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:41 (eight months ago) link
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
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:44 (eight months ago) link
Shit, was hoping it was a false alarm.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:45 (eight months ago) link
rip robbie, this sucks
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 19:59 (eight months ago) link
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.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:02 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:03 (eight months ago) link
x -post
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:03 (eight months ago) link
my jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7KW4K-00E
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:04 (eight months ago) link
Oldest guy in the band is the only one left
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:06 (eight months ago) link
What a bummer, RIP Robbie.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:09 (eight months ago) link
Like Can and the Bee Gees.
Ringo will outlive Paul.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:09 (eight months ago) link
He played amazing guitar on that tour, but true.
Apparently they were per Jonathan Taplin, but it's a little complicated:
In his memoir, Levon was very critical of The Last Waltz, down to saying Robertson was singing into a dead mic. How do you respond to that?
Robbie listened to Dylan, who said songwriting is like a bond — it keeps paying you money. And by the third album, Stage Fright, Robbie was doing it all. He was getting up at 9 a.m. and going into his studio at the piano or the guitar and writing songs because he needed 11 or 12 songs to make an album. And nobody was saying, “I want some of that song.”
So this is all revisionist history for people to say, “Levon should have publishing rights on all that music because he helped make the songs in the studio.” Not true. Robbie brought in the songs fully baked. Did Levon change the beat? Fine. But that’s not a songwriting credit. So by 2001, 2002, when Levon got sick and Napster eliminated royalty income from the old catalog, Levon was pissed because Robbie had money and he didn’t. And he looked back and thought the whole thing was a big scam, including The Last Waltz.
Look, Levon got movie jobs off The Last Waltz too. Phil Kaufman told me he saw Levon telling those stories and thought he could be an actor, so Levon was in The Right Stuff. So I don’t have any tolerance for people who say Robbie’s a thief or something like that. It’s just not right.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:10 (eight months ago) link
*true on both counts.
(also accidentally pasted in another line, the one that says "in his memoir, Levon...")
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:12 (eight months ago) link
Who embarrassed themselves more, Robbie after the Band or the Band after Robbie?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link