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Nowhere Man
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I just saw "The Last Waltz" for the first time, I've always heard to The Band and a few songs by them but was blown away by the movie. It sparked my interest in them and how heavily respected they were by other well known musicians. Anyone have some other songs or album they might recommend, or just some other info on the Band.
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Music From Big Pink - their best known and most universally respected album
Before The Flood - it's Bob Dylan and The Band. Some of the songs are them together, some are The Band or Bob Dylan by themselves, and it's a mixture of both of their catalogs. So it's double awesome, and usually considered one of the best live albums ever.
EV
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Thanks for the info, I will check it out for sure.
the last waltz was how i got into the band as well. i was up late one night back in the dark ages... way past my bedtime and it came on the telly.
if youre willing to make the investment i would suggest getting ahold of the band: a musical history. it comes in a hard bound book with 5 CDs and 1 DVD. it starts with ronnie hawkins and the hawks, goes through the dylan stufff and finishes with some last waltz. theres unreleased stuff and a written history so you know where they came from and some awesome pics as well. def worth whatever you pay for it.
apart from that my preference is for the band over big pink. thats where rag mamma rag, dixie and cripple creek live. along with tears of rage and i shall be released theyre probably my fave band songs... but it changes depending on my mood and what year it is. though i also love love love the organ at the beginning of chest fever
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
respected album u wanna list
Yup, the second album (The Band) is their best. Followed by Big Pink, Northern Lights-Southern Cross, Stage Fright, Cahoots and Islands. If you can also, get Moondog Matinee, their record full of fabulous covers of lesser-known rock & roll hits.
For the live stuff, a MUST GET is Rock Of Ages, most of the versions here are superior to their studio counterparts, especially The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down!
And even though the Band hadn't formed for another couple years Robbie and Rick played a few songs on Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, some of you might know that one.
Robbie is pretty accomplished after the Band as well, he put out albums celebrating his Native roots, Contact From The Underworld of Redboy is an incredible album. He played a few songs at the opening ceremonies for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.
Some of those are good, some not so good. I've never seen The Band one, but I'll check it out. Some of them are almost entirely made up of footage of some dude (often a producer or engineer) farting around with a recording console, isolating various parts of songs. I guess some people find that interesting, but after a while I get bored with it. The one for The Doors debut album was fantastic though, and a few others I saw were really good.
Unfortunately Netflix doesn't have this one yet.
I haven't seen the Doors one and not a huge fan, but I'll have to check that one out. I thought The Band one was cool. DSOTM and Night At the Opera are my favorites. I wasn't impressed with Nevermind for the reason you listed. Bat Out of Hell was pretty well the same and I actually thought it could be cool b/c of how over the top the album is, but it was a bore.
I dig them b/c they help show the depth of musical knowledge most of these guys have.
I bet you'd find The Doors one interesting, even if you're not a huge fan. One of the best things about it is that unlike some of those where the band sort of bask in their own genius, The Doors are very open about their influences, admit to copying some things from them and giving credit where it is due, and most importantly they don't blow sunshine up Jim Morrison's ass. John Densmore gives a message to anybody watching that self-destruction and creativity don't go hand in hand, and points out that Picasso lived to be 90. And there isn't a whole lot of that recording console stuff (I think there is some though) and there is quite a bit of interesting information given.
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i find scorsese annnoying. fantastic director though.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
In an interview, the way he speaks, I can see that... he's incredibly fast paced, and seems to often have a hard time finishing a thought.
I attribute it to his heavy use of cocaine back in the day.
An interesting bit of info regarding The Last Waltz and the drug use related to it:
Scorsese has admitted that during this period, he was using cocaine heavily. Drugs were present in large quantities during the concert. Backstage, a room was painted white and decorated with noses from plastic masks while an audio tape of sniffing noises played in the background. A large blob of cocaine hanging from Neil Young's nose was edited out in post-production through rotoscoping.
But yes, he is a fantastic director. Raging Bull is one of the greatest movies ever made.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
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6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
If you don’t know how Hawkins ties in with the Band… his back up band was the Hawks. Five of those guys tapped out and became the Band, after backing up Bob Dylan before recording their own albums.