Rick Danko/The Band
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Listening to It Makes No Difference... This man could sing.
The Band: what a... um... band. The Last Waltz is just superlative-defying.
The Band: what a... um... band. The Last Waltz is just superlative-defying.
Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
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I also love the tribute album that was just released this year. The Last Waltz is probably the best music documentary ever made. I might be biased. I grew up listening to the Band. Just a lot of great music.
agreed but you should read interviews with the other band members about how much they hated Robbie... hated how he came off looking like the band leader / mistro when everyone ignored him...all the time singing into an unplugged microphone on the DVD becuase his voice wa soo bad!!
gives you a new perspective on the DVD once you know that..
Danko and the drummer were the true gems of the Band..
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
I read about that, yeah. It was weird, because that DVD was my introduction to the Band, and I did think Robbie was the band leader.:p Wasn't it pretty much his idea to break them up at that point too?
And yeah, I love Levon Helms' vocals on The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. That song is probably one of the most epic I've heard.
the drummer? LEVON HELM you mean.
i can not begin to tell you what this band means to me. i remember when i was much much much younger catching the last waltz on the television very late at night and thinking it was the best thing i'd ever seen. since then i have always been of the opinion that they were the quintessential american band. and i don't mean US band(considering 4/5 of them are canadians) i mean american band. i loved the multi instrumentalists they were. i loved that they had three singers. i loved the way they barely tolerated robbie. i loved richard manuel and i cried when he killed himself. when rick died it was another blow. i loved the way my heart literally tears when i hear richard sing tears of rage. i think garth hudson is the sweetest thing any band could ever add their band. his organ on "chest fever" is just great. THE BAND are quite simply, the epitome of what a band should be.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Saw Levon Helm a couple of months ago at the Beacon Theater in NYC
Awesome show
You can pay to go to Levon's ranch in upstate NY and watch him jam out with his friends, very cool
he didnt help.. he just wrote it. its about Dylan on the road in europe.. love that song. love the Band..
maybe most underrated band ever.
well i don't know. would any guitarist in their right mind and worth their salt, want to emulate a bass player?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
he was a guitarist at first actually. when joining the band/the hawks he had to play bass.
Levon Helms book "this wheels on fire" is an interesting read
i am well aware of the history of the hawks/the band. i know what a gifted musician rick danko is and i know that ronnie hawkins groomed him as a bass player. but i highly doubt that any influence he may have been on richie sambora was through him being a guitarist is all i'm saying.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Well, it wasn't so much as a musician, more just the kinda way he acts on stage. I dunno, I think I was drunk last night... Damn gin.