The Last Waltz

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  • Posts: 2,261
    catefrances wrote:
    personally i consider the band to be the quintessential american band. for me they are the most complete band. not one of the five can be removed, imo, without screwing with the essence of the band.

    youve hit the nail on the head. totally. musicians, not rock stars. brilliant singers. timeless songs. and i do think "americana" when i think of them too!
  • Posts: 119
    Joni Mitchell kinda ruins Neil Young's Helpless for me, with her background whinning.

    Stage Freight is one of the best songs ever...
    coming up

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  • Posts: 3,749
    Quite simply the most important moment in music history! Awesome, amazing concert that I could watch every day of my life without a blink if I had to....and I am not even half joking
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    I ran across a nice used DVD of The Last Waltz in a thrift shop the other day and oh man, what a treat! So much better than the worn out VHS tape (and ancient information transmitting device that stores images and sound on a spool of thin film). The 2002 "Behind the Scenes Featurette" is a nice addition as well. A quintessentially amazing piece of music history!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Posts: 12,243
    brianlux said:

    I ran across a nice used DVD of The Last Waltz in a thrift shop the other day and oh man, what a treat! So much better than the worn out VHS tape (and ancient information transmitting device that stores images and sound on a spool of thin film). The 2002 "Behind the Scenes Featurette" is a nice addition as well. A quintessentially amazing piece of music history!

    Nice! I watch this around Thanksgiving every year. Always a treat!
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  • Boston Posts: 4,048
    Ironically most of "the band" hate that film as it falsely depicts Robbie as their leader (frequently filmed singing into a dead microphone according to Levon)
    I do love that DVD though!
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  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    locked said:

    Ironically most of "the band" hate that film as it falsely depicts Robbie as their leader (frequently filmed singing into a dead microphone according to Levon)
    I do love that DVD though!

    Yeah, that is rather ironic. I've read ab bit about the post-breakup disputes in the band including Levon Helm's assertion that it was Robertson's idea do do The Last Waltz project as a way to break up the Band.

    An amazing band, an incredible film and a difficult parting of ways. I guess you just have to figure that's all a part of rock and roll.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Posts: 2,874
    Best concert DVD ever. Can watch it over and over.

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