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 (eleven months ago) link
love garth
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:35 (eleven months 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
I have a lot of extremely bad ideas, if you want more, like & subscribe
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:25 (eleven months ago) link
lol everyone that would get the joke is right here
― that's not my post, Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:41 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months ago) link
Listened to big pink like 5 times so far this week
― ian, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:20 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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 (eleven months 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
Agh, I see what happened - I pasted in the wrong line. I meant to include this at the beginning of the quoted section:
Here’s the deal. If you were a musician in 1969, it would not be obvious to you that the only people who are going to make money in 2001 would be songwriters. If you look at the royalty account for the Band — how much per album was going to the Band, split evenly, and how much per album was going to the songwriters — the royalties for the Band were three and a half times as much as the songwriters’.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link
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.”
... because they were all nodding out on heroin.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:14 (eight months ago) link
during the trip hop era, this collab with howie b was a massive late night fave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUJ0kprtBmE
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:15 (eight months ago) link
The two songs Manuel co-wrote on Stage Fright are the best two on the record...but he never worked up another song for the next 16 years of his life.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:15 (eight months ago) link
listen i love the other guys in the band and robbie could be a dickhead but c'mon he was the main force behind their career it's not even a question
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:27 (eight months ago) link
"acadian driftwood" is so beautiful :(
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:27 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gR3Dlj7l0
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:30 (eight months ago) link
i love danko and manuel to death but those two guys were frequently basket cases that couldn't have done a thing on their own, garth was the best musician of them but would have probably been teaching piano lessons in canada without robbie's drive...levon definitely probably would have been in ace drummer in some band or another but robbie was the guy who made it happen
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:30 (eight months ago) link
just eats clapton's fuckin lunch on that i love it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:31 (eight months ago) link
robbie was the guy who made it happen
Sure, but as the other members checked out, even the songwriting suffered (to say nothing of the performances).
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
Ums otm.
I am a decently ardent fan of Levon Helm, but I tired of hearing him complain about Robbie Robertson.
They were both essential but in different ways, can we just embrace that?
I have similar feelz about Don Felder. Dude, if you could have done it all yourself, then you fucking should have. You had chances.
Maybe Robbie couldn't sing very well... by which I mean maybe he couldn't sing as well as several of the best singers in the world at that time, who happened to be in his own fucking band, and in their immediate circle.
You know what? I can't sing as well as Emmylou Harris either. Nor can I write a song on Robertson's level.
That said, I am glad I am not going out to play tonight.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:35 (eight months ago) link
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, August 9, 2023 3:34 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't think they get as far as doing the first two records without robbie
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link