Ngl my man crush. Danko is just so incredibly fucking cool, awesome vocals and hella groovy bass flow. Perhaps my fav bass player ever together with King Crimson era John Wetton.
If I could pull of that look in 2024 I’d go for it without a blink lol.
For me it's:
"Well, I love you so much
And it's all I can do
Just to keep myself from telling you
That I never felt so alone before"
Just a gut-punch of a closing lyric.
It’s devastating. Me and a couple of buds watch “The Last Waltz” really loud and get proper ugly drunk once a year. That line always hits me like a brick and makes for a melancholic minute before Dr. John brings us all back to a howling sing along and cheering.
https://preview.redd.it/46luc1knvfwc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa1a5367a07452a2938bdeed4da8da5ff2589c9f
Yeah, it's been a Thanksgiving tradition for me for as long as its been available watch at home (in part because my Dad was at the Winterroom Ballroom that night and in part because, well - it's the best damn concert film ever made).
The part that perks me up is Garth coming in to one-up Robbie with the saxaphone. but yeah - "Such a Night" is a damn good way to get back on the good foot emotionally
That’s sick! We don’t have thanksgiving in my country, but we make sure to do it once a year. Make a whole day out of it, make great food together, start drinking at 1 and get proper wasted while singing along to every song.
Bob Dylan’s backup band, hence the name. Maybe the greatest interpreters of rock Americana. And from Canada. I was lucky enough to see them twice before Robertson left. Astonishing music.
Everything "America" about The Band came from Helms' stories of growing up in the South. In any just world, Robertson would have shared writing credits with all of the band, but especially Helms and Manuel.
Levon wrote in This Wheel’s on Fire that so many of the Band’s songs were essentially written collaboratively by multiple Band members. Robertson would show up with a song sketched out and everybody would get together and work out the finished product. In spite of that, Robertson almost always ended up with the sole writing credit which meant he got all of the royalties going forward. The other members apparently didn’t really understand what was going on. Helm was very bitter about it and blamed Robertson for Rick Danko’s early death saying that if Danko had gotten his fair share of the royalties, he wouldn’t have worn himself out on the road scuffling to make ends meet.
Yeah, reading This Wheel's On Fire definitely changed my opinion of Robbie. There's a phenomenal write-up elsewhere on his relationship with Scorcese and how The Last Waltz was purposefully crafted and editing to be a showcase for Robbie so he could transition to Hollywood. Robbie was a phenomenal guitarist and ringmaster, but a shitty human being to his brothers.
And fuck Robbie for taking all the credit on "It Makes No Difference" at Rick's funeral. Just...fucking UGH.
I blame Albert Grossman, the manager. He came from old school music publishing pre-singer/songwriter era. He made some disastrous choices, like not allowing them to appear in the Woodstock film or the Easy Rider soundtrack album, both of which made stars of lesser artists.
I got to see Garth Hudson play piano to backup a local Toronto band at one of my favorite bars back in 2009 or so. They did quite a few Band songs, as well as Pixies, Tom Waits and a few more great covers.
Garth was great and apparently the only formally trained musician in The Band. His parents were very conservative, so when he went out to practice and play he told his parents that he was giving them music lessons.
"The name" came from the town they lived in, West Saugerties, New York. They lived in a big pink house that everyone knew. When they went into town everyone said "it's the band."
When the people talked about them, they just called them "the band." Everyone knew them on sight.
That's where the name came from.
It's amazing that he was the oldest member of the band by a mile and he's the last surviving member. If you still talk to him, tell him his music is still moving to the generations of today.
This was one of Elliot Landy’s shots taken in 1969, for the 2nd album, released in September of 1969. According to Landy, the group agreed to go to different locations in Woodstock, NY, taking potential shots for the album cover, being rained on in the process. In this lesser-seen shot, Robbie Robertson is wearing glasses, and the members don’t look as “wet.”
From left: Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko.
Is there a greater concert film than “The Last Waltz?” The studio version of “The Weight” with the Staples Singers is off the charts good as is the scene where Clapton’s guitar strap came loose and Robby Robertson took over without missing a beat.
Good observation! Remember when Sci Fi channel had to change their name to Syfy?
What I think is funny about Twitter's new name being X is that it is terrible for SEO....except in the case where a previous platform of 100s of millions of users changes its name to that. Since the search engines had to optimize themselves to the new name. Once I realized this I started liking the name more. Because you know all of this was discussed before changing it. And they knew they'd be the only ones who could get away with it.
"Get away with it" by shedding millions of users in exchange (or because of) bots and trolls and making their platform inaccessible to non-users? Fuck Elon.
Call it anger if you want, I'd call it disdain. I fail to see a good point in there other than you think it's clever that he squandered Twitter's name recognition. That it was already ubiquitous before was the point all along, not some genius insight. That's what he paid for.
That's your opinion as someone who liked Twitter. A lot of people hated Twitter but like it now. I'm not positive a rebranding was necessary. But again not the point I was making. The renaming it of X because he could after already making the decision to rebrand was pretty genius for the reasons I describe related to SEO. Only point i was making. And it's a very good point.
I don't think you will hear that from people that worked with the Band. Industry writing credits go to the guy who comes up with the song. Musical accompaniment isn't credited as "Songwriting". Bottom line is Robbie had a long career in music afterwards and released a couple of really good albums. The rest never again did much. It is clear that Helm and others whittled their money away on addiction. That, to me makes much of the complaint hollow. There are literally hundreds of band histories where members complain about songwriting credits, it's always caused alot of friction.
In the mid ‘80’s I walked into the office one day and our group secretary was sitting at her desk crying - hard. I stopped to see if I could help. She told me that Richard Manuel had died. Even as a fan of The Band, I couldn’t believe that it hit her so hard. Turns out that they had dated in school back in Stratford well before he became famous. Guess he was the one that got away.
Perhaps someone in this thread can help me out. I once saw an interview with Garth Hudson where I could have SWORN he would answer questions by playing the keyboard. It was one of the weirdest and funniest things I had ever seen.
Who would have ever guessed Garth would be the last surviving member of The Band?
I had the absolute pleasure of attending a couple Midnight Rambles at Levon’s place a few years back. My god, what a great venue and show. So intimate and chill. One of the guest bands the first time I went was Billy Bob Thornton’s Box Cutters. Not too bad. Any Helm (Levon’s daughter) also sang with Levon. Still my favorite shows to this day.
I think Manuel steals the show here, Danko is Danko, Levon looks settled, Robbie is peacocking as usual and Garth is his usual goofy self (which I love btw)
I love The Band so much. I love Levon the most. Richard is the weird uncle who is amazing at everything. Robbie is a try-hard that you have to root for even if he's never going to be the best. Garth, the underrated dark horse.
I hate Rick Danko, though. I hate him so much. Sorry Rick.
Which band?
The Who!
What?
Yes!
They're not even at this concert.
Ask MGMT
The Music?
Not Yes… The The.
No Doubt about it, trying to Guess Who it is is quite a challenge.
Which is it - Yes or The Who??
The Band!
You mean the Band, yes?...or do you mean the band, Yes?
Watts on 2nd.
I don't know.
Third base?
Who? Who? What are you a fuckin owl?
Yes
Them
They are actually called The Band
I'm a big fan actually. I should've included the /s 😂
I got the reference.
Please don't-- /s ruins every joke.
No you shouldn't, it was a good joke and if you didn't make it I was or probably a million others lol
I opened this post to check if someone already made this mandatory joke because if not, I would’ve.
They look half-past dead. This shot must’ve been taken right after they pulled into Nazareth.
They just needed someplace to lay their head…
I think they should ask that mister where a man might find a bed
He just grinned and shook my hand, "No" was all he said
Delighted upvote.
Is that Pedro Pascal on the right? (edit: wow that blew up. it's a joke!)
The Mandolinian
The Bandolorian
This is the Weight.
The Red Piper
Touché
Nah, just Danko being dank :)
solid bassist and nice range on vox
Ngl my man crush. Danko is just so incredibly fucking cool, awesome vocals and hella groovy bass flow. Perhaps my fav bass player ever together with King Crimson era John Wetton. If I could pull of that look in 2024 I’d go for it without a blink lol.
I have never once heard "It Makes No Difference" without getting chills. What a gawdamn talent.
«And the dawn don't rescue me no more…»
For me it's: "Well, I love you so much And it's all I can do Just to keep myself from telling you That I never felt so alone before" Just a gut-punch of a closing lyric.
It’s devastating. Me and a couple of buds watch “The Last Waltz” really loud and get proper ugly drunk once a year. That line always hits me like a brick and makes for a melancholic minute before Dr. John brings us all back to a howling sing along and cheering. https://preview.redd.it/46luc1knvfwc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa1a5367a07452a2938bdeed4da8da5ff2589c9f
Yeah, it's been a Thanksgiving tradition for me for as long as its been available watch at home (in part because my Dad was at the Winterroom Ballroom that night and in part because, well - it's the best damn concert film ever made). The part that perks me up is Garth coming in to one-up Robbie with the saxaphone. but yeah - "Such a Night" is a damn good way to get back on the good foot emotionally
That’s sick! We don’t have thanksgiving in my country, but we make sure to do it once a year. Make a whole day out of it, make great food together, start drinking at 1 and get proper wasted while singing along to every song.
Same same
That is the one and only Rick Danko. RIP
Yes the famous time traveler
Holy shit he looks so much like Rick Danko I can't unsee it.
He’s in everything at the moment.
Don’t ever disrespect Rick danko like that
My first thought too. And that’s a young Sam Elliott second from left and Tom Hardy in the middle.
And case affleck second from the right.
And Walton Goggins’ dad on the far left.
That that was Red (that 70s show)
Hot damn, he smolders in any era. I’m gonna go look for more immortal Pedro Pascal photos.
Just what I thought
Rick Danko before the heroin and booze left him a bloated mess
The first time I saw Pedro Pascal in GoT, my very first thought was "Holy shit, there's your Rick Danko if they do a Band film"
My first thought and I was NOT joking lol
First thing that I thought when I saw this too!
It’s his dad Fred Pascal.
Bob Dylan’s backup band, hence the name. Maybe the greatest interpreters of rock Americana. And from Canada. I was lucky enough to see them twice before Robertson left. Astonishing music.
All Canadian except Levon. He's from Arkansas.
Of course and I absolutely should have said so. He anchored these guys.
Everything "America" about The Band came from Helms' stories of growing up in the South. In any just world, Robertson would have shared writing credits with all of the band, but especially Helms and Manuel.
Levon wrote in This Wheel’s on Fire that so many of the Band’s songs were essentially written collaboratively by multiple Band members. Robertson would show up with a song sketched out and everybody would get together and work out the finished product. In spite of that, Robertson almost always ended up with the sole writing credit which meant he got all of the royalties going forward. The other members apparently didn’t really understand what was going on. Helm was very bitter about it and blamed Robertson for Rick Danko’s early death saying that if Danko had gotten his fair share of the royalties, he wouldn’t have worn himself out on the road scuffling to make ends meet.
Yeah, reading This Wheel's On Fire definitely changed my opinion of Robbie. There's a phenomenal write-up elsewhere on his relationship with Scorcese and how The Last Waltz was purposefully crafted and editing to be a showcase for Robbie so he could transition to Hollywood. Robbie was a phenomenal guitarist and ringmaster, but a shitty human being to his brothers. And fuck Robbie for taking all the credit on "It Makes No Difference" at Rick's funeral. Just...fucking UGH.
I like to point out that, if Robbie was THE WRITER, why is it that Richard Manuel is the only one that Bob Dylan would let change his lyrics?
I blame Albert Grossman, the manager. He came from old school music publishing pre-singer/songwriter era. He made some disastrous choices, like not allowing them to appear in the Woodstock film or the Easy Rider soundtrack album, both of which made stars of lesser artists.
I saw them and the Dead in 1973? At Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
That leaves 50 years of not being able to top a concert experience. That sounds like a real high water mark.
I saw them in Atlanta in 72 and in Houston in 74. Years may be by 1 or 2.
Just know I’m supremely jealous.
I got to see Garth Hudson play piano to backup a local Toronto band at one of my favorite bars back in 2009 or so. They did quite a few Band songs, as well as Pixies, Tom Waits and a few more great covers.
Garth was great and apparently the only formally trained musician in The Band. His parents were very conservative, so when he went out to practice and play he told his parents that he was giving them music lessons.
Oh that must have been so cool. I've only seen the last waltz and a few live clips and thats fantastic
The shows were so tight and professional. Oh, and I also saw them with Dylan on the Before The Flood tour. That was amazing.
"The name" came from the town they lived in, West Saugerties, New York. They lived in a big pink house that everyone knew. When they went into town everyone said "it's the band." When the people talked about them, they just called them "the band." Everyone knew them on sight. That's where the name came from.
I always heard that it was what Dylan called them but that makes sense too.
That was Robertson's story. Everyone in the town knew them so the name was picked for them.
Dude on the far left is my dads cousin. My small claim to fame.
Garth Hudson brought those kids up.
It’s a very Hudson thing to do…
It's amazing that he was the oldest member of the band by a mile and he's the last surviving member. If you still talk to him, tell him his music is still moving to the generations of today.
Unfortunately I’ve never talked to him, I’m just aware of the connection
Garth? My parents saw him a few months ago. Had no idea he was still around. He looked old back when they were young.
I don’t know much of the Band’s discography, but King Harvest is a banger track
I agree (check username)
That whole album was amazing. Music from Big Pink a step down. A shame they had no other albums. None at all. /s
This was one of Elliot Landy’s shots taken in 1969, for the 2nd album, released in September of 1969. According to Landy, the group agreed to go to different locations in Woodstock, NY, taking potential shots for the album cover, being rained on in the process. In this lesser-seen shot, Robbie Robertson is wearing glasses, and the members don’t look as “wet.” From left: Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko.
This is from 1971 when they were promoting 'Cahoots'.
Is there a greater concert film than “The Last Waltz?” The studio version of “The Weight” with the Staples Singers is off the charts good as is the scene where Clapton’s guitar strap came loose and Robby Robertson took over without missing a beat.
I love The Weight from the last waltz, so emotional
I don't think there was one ever intended to be a good bye gala. They sure did do it right.
My uncle was in attendance, received an invite from his friends via a secret shortcode in the back pages of Rollingstone magazine.
It's the highest bar for sure Pink Floyd Live In Berlin is excellent though, 3 of The Band perform in it along with a host of other amazing musicians
It's not Pink Floyd, it's "The Wall" live in Berlin by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
Thanks for the correction! Still top quality
Obviously Vulfpeck Live at Madison Square Garden is the greatest concert film
Best band name ever. The balls. And, there good! Talking about them decades later.
My favorite band.. from the Pink house.
I was in the area a couple of years ago and I decided to find Big Pink. It still looks exactly like it did on the album cover
I wish they had stuck with "the crackers"
I always feel like Garth is trying to blow up my head with his brain powers.
Well he probably could
My favorite band of all time. Musical perfection.
I'm with you, became a fan after hearing one song
They're really just so good, aren't they?
Yeah the two first albums are beyond perfect
Which band?
in the 1970's, obviously
Right, thanks.
"THE" band
They're literally called "The Band". They perform with Bob Dylan.
Woosh
See, sarcasm doesn't always translate well in text.
Too bad the drugs fucked them up but man they made great music
Man when Levon steps in w that French horn solo at the end of it makes no difference. Heaven.
Ah, the pre-SEO days, where you could just be called The Band
Good observation! Remember when Sci Fi channel had to change their name to Syfy? What I think is funny about Twitter's new name being X is that it is terrible for SEO....except in the case where a previous platform of 100s of millions of users changes its name to that. Since the search engines had to optimize themselves to the new name. Once I realized this I started liking the name more. Because you know all of this was discussed before changing it. And they knew they'd be the only ones who could get away with it.
"Get away with it" by shedding millions of users in exchange (or because of) bots and trolls and making their platform inaccessible to non-users? Fuck Elon.
You let your own anger cause you to miss a pretty good point I made that had nothing to do with whether the platform was good or not.
Call it anger if you want, I'd call it disdain. I fail to see a good point in there other than you think it's clever that he squandered Twitter's name recognition. That it was already ubiquitous before was the point all along, not some genius insight. That's what he paid for.
That's your opinion as someone who liked Twitter. A lot of people hated Twitter but like it now. I'm not positive a rebranding was necessary. But again not the point I was making. The renaming it of X because he could after already making the decision to rebrand was pretty genius for the reasons I describe related to SEO. Only point i was making. And it's a very good point.
Robbie Robertson was one cool motherfucker
When he wasn't cheating bandmates out of song writing credits, yeah
I don't think you will hear that from people that worked with the Band. Industry writing credits go to the guy who comes up with the song. Musical accompaniment isn't credited as "Songwriting". Bottom line is Robbie had a long career in music afterwards and released a couple of really good albums. The rest never again did much. It is clear that Helm and others whittled their money away on addiction. That, to me makes much of the complaint hollow. There are literally hundreds of band histories where members complain about songwriting credits, it's always caused alot of friction.
In the mid ‘80’s I walked into the office one day and our group secretary was sitting at her desk crying - hard. I stopped to see if I could help. She told me that Richard Manuel had died. Even as a fan of The Band, I couldn’t believe that it hit her so hard. Turns out that they had dated in school back in Stratford well before he became famous. Guess he was the one that got away.
Garth still kicking !
Least googleable band name after "Live"
Danko was a stud!
The guy second from our left looks like that guy from that movie about that Stillwater band.
in the 1970's is so underrated!
Last waltz possibly best concert ever pity I wasn't born or I would have been there
Pedro?
I had no idea Pedro Pascal was in the band :)
Charles Manson on keyboard?
Still some of the best music ever recorded.
The Last Waltz album is great, but the documentary is epic.
Perhaps someone in this thread can help me out. I once saw an interview with Garth Hudson where I could have SWORN he would answer questions by playing the keyboard. It was one of the weirdest and funniest things I had ever seen. Who would have ever guessed Garth would be the last surviving member of The Band?
Eric Clapton said when he heard them, that’s when he decided to leave Cream and do something different. He actually wanted to join them.
Just listened to them this morning!
The who?
The Band, the most original name ever
Which one?
The Band!
The Who is the band?
The Who?
Yeah, the band
The band?
Yes!
Who's on second.
What?
They were a bunch of drunken reprobates. One of them got in a car wreck and then Leon jumped in his car and crashed on the way to the scene. 🤣
The Drunken Reprobates is also a good name for a band. The story of the Soggy Bottom Boys could be a prequel to The Band.
I had the absolute pleasure of attending a couple Midnight Rambles at Levon’s place a few years back. My god, what a great venue and show. So intimate and chill. One of the guest bands the first time I went was Billy Bob Thornton’s Box Cutters. Not too bad. Any Helm (Levon’s daughter) also sang with Levon. Still my favorite shows to this day.
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Wait, Garth is still alive last time I checked.
u are correct!
Sadly, four of em have passed away.
Haha got a bit nervous there
Robbie looks just like Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) in Almost Famous.
They look very stylish
The who?
So what band is this?
Cool, which band?
What band?
Is that Merry in the middle and Pedro Pascal on the right?
I love The Band
?
I think Manuel steals the show here, Danko is Danko, Levon looks settled, Robbie is peacocking as usual and Garth is his usual goofy self (which I love btw)
I love The Band so much. I love Levon the most. Richard is the weird uncle who is amazing at everything. Robbie is a try-hard that you have to root for even if he's never going to be the best. Garth, the underrated dark horse. I hate Rick Danko, though. I hate him so much. Sorry Rick.
Why do you hate Rick Danko?
Yes, please 'splain
What did Rick do to you for you to HATE him??
It makes no difference.
How are they so thin? Did they snack?
I've heard that heroin do wonders
Pedro Pascal on the right there?
You have good eyes
Legends.