Playing bass, when I was in a country band they said this was too rock, when I would be in a rock band they said this was too country. Very few musicians are smart enough to understand and play THE BAND.
I remember the JFK funeral and Beatles on Ed Sullivan 3 months later, but I was too young to understand the significance of either event. I remember the Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations in 1968 and being more aware. But the early 70’s were when my mind opened to everything that was going on in the world. One of the first 20-or-so albums I bought (or shop-lifted) was Before The Flood. I saw The Last Waltz in its original theatrical release. I know these men went through a lot, in part due to the revolution that was happening around them. Regardless of the sad ending to their brotherhood, their legacy is cast in stone.
What's that keyboard (organ?) sound, they should have used it more, maybe I'm unaware of it "Up on Cripple Creek" is notable as it is one of the first instances of a Hohner clavinet being played with a wah-wah pedal.[2] The riff can be heard after each chorus of the song. The clavinet, especially in tandem with a wah-wah pedal, was a sound that became famous in the early to mid-1970s, especially in funk music. There you go
Camera seems to capture them really nailing it, going from Robbie looking a little nervously at everybody for cues, then when he realizes everyone’s got it, he starts to smile, and the rest smile too. Garth clearly having a good time as well with this really fun tune.
Listening more and more to a band (Band) I was familiar with 40 years ago but never really appreciated back then, and digging now more every time I hear it, the one thing missing from most comments is recognition of how critical Rick Danko was to their sound. Go back and listen! RD defined everything they did. So sorry I was out to lunch when they were all alive
It just never gets old... I remember I ran into Garth in Georgetown DC back in 1970. I was a 17 year old long-hair and I struck up a conversation with him. We talked for 15 min or so.. Forget what we said but he humored me, a 17 year old hipster!
My goodness they need very little room to create, assemble and play, a song as large as this song turned out to be. They can swing by my garage to play anytime they want. This song will live forever. Anyone disagree?
Watched We Were Brothers and it's a very open look into the relationships of The Band and the sad ending that The Last Waltz was supposed to be a break and then they'd get back together and make new music but never happened this video shows how happy the brothers are ♥️🎶✌🏾
I've been listening to them for 40 plus years. I never tire of them. Even now, in these crazy times we live in, as I drive home from a long day at work I listen to them and remember days when this kind of music was appreciated and made one feel happier and freer. Even my 34 year old son likes this music. We listen to it by the fire at our campsite. I loved Levon Helm's voice and his talented drumming..
September 15, 2019 Classic Rock Fans CLASSIC WATER: “Up On Cripple Creek” - The Band - (1969) - Reached #25 on Billboard charts. This film was taken during rehearsals in Woodstock, New York. The song appeared on the group’s second album. Written by Robbie Robertson with Levon Helm on lead vocals and drums. It was one of the first instances of a Hohner Clavinet ever being played with a wah-way pedal. I love how keyboardist Garth Hudson smiles at 2:05 after he plays one of these unique licks on the Clavinet. #theband #cripplecreek #classicrockfans
I think Levon is one of the grooviest drummers ever. So much of the character of how the band sounds is from there. Just listen to the starting beats . . . extraordinary . . .
The band exemplified the times that they lived in.... a little crazy, a little serious, a movement with a sense of levity...... Anyone out there remember when if you saw someone broke down on the side of the road you stopped and helped!
I think so many of the bands and music from that era was a divine occurrence. The way folks came together and what they produced, SO much heart , soul, wisdom and passion from such young people. I feel fortunate AF to have had the best music in history as the background of my younger years, and now embedded in my soul. Breathe and VOTE!
God bless you for uploading this. This is the first Band song I heard, in 1971, on my parent's old tv/record player/radio. I was 14. The rest of my love for their music is history.
As a boomer coming of age, just learning the wonders of music... The Band was my Beatles... I've heard this song thousands of times, wore that brown album out. As a musician, this is such a precious video... I always wondered what that twangy bass sound was... Garth! Levon is playing drums with wooden rims, even the snare.... mind blown...
yes, to everything you just said. I giggle about Robbie being Canadian often. Its kinda like how the man who wrote "Dixie" was born in the North. Everybody wants to be a Southern boy. Look what Gram Parsons did to Los Angeles!
@@CJinsoo Please deal with reality, Robbie wrote the songs it is well documented. If you like Levon more than Robbie or the others that is fine, but stay with the truth. Robbie got most of the song writing credits because he wrote the songs,the others got 20 percent, on top of touring and record sales. They ALL made a lot of money, some wasted it. I love all of the Band members they were all great, however Rick and Robbie are my favorites.
He lived 6 mi. From where I grew up in holly grove. Sadly only saw him once at a mall club outside of clarendon. I didn't know who he was at the time. Shadrens bbq. Is now closed but he did give david Letterman some bbq sauce before he died. Just a great drummer boy from Turkey scratch arkansas.
The Band! Is the BEST!
The single, backward drumstick in Levon's left hand...! Perfect. 0:30
Playing bass, when I was in a country band they said this was too rock, when I would be in a rock band they said this was too country. Very few musicians are smart enough to understand and play THE BAND.
I play guitar & a lot of The Band - have run into the same situations
and on top of all that, of course, it's FUNK.
Ready for some whiskey now 🥃🤟🏽
I remember the JFK funeral and Beatles on Ed Sullivan 3 months later, but I was too young to understand the significance of either event. I remember the Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations in 1968 and being more aware. But the early 70’s were when my mind opened to everything that was going on in the world. One of the first 20-or-so albums I bought (or shop-lifted) was Before The Flood. I saw The Last Waltz in its original theatrical release. I know these men went through a lot, in part due to the revolution that was happening around them. Regardless of the sad ending to their brotherhood, their legacy is cast in stone.
Banging
Thank you!
Shout out to "VH1: My Generation" back in 1999 for showing this video.
I just keep coming back to this 😍
What's that keyboard (organ?) sound, they should have used it more, maybe I'm unaware of it
"Up on Cripple Creek" is notable as it is one of the first instances of a Hohner clavinet being played with a wah-wah pedal.[2] The riff can be heard after each chorus of the song. The clavinet, especially in tandem with a wah-wah pedal, was a sound that became famous in the early to mid-1970s, especially in funk music.
There you go
that bunch of Canadians needed a boy like Levon from Arkansas to South things up properly. What a perfect match.
It helped having Ronnie Hawkins (honorary Canadian but from Arkansas also wasn't he?) putting them through boot camp also.
This was filmed for RUclips back in 1969. How crazy is that?
this better than the album version
Hang in there Garth, we love you 👍👍👍
Yep!
The snare tone on this old audio is just fucking fantastic
Where or, how can I see this in better quality? I know, I saw it many years ago.
This is terrible.
Levon is a Arkansas native
❤❤❤
My big mama
I’ll take some of whatever Garth had, please.
This was not filmed at big pink. This is at the pool house they rented owned by Sammy Davis Jr in California
Love how Danko's vocal harmonies cut through and soar above the others.
my thoughts exactly
And killing it on bass!
He is my favorite singer from The Band, not to diminsh Levon or Richard, but there's something special about Rick.
The entire song is worth it just to see Garth Hudson smile at the 2 minute mark. Fabulous.
+Bruce Edwards almost looks like he made a mistake, but no one caught it....lol priceless
+Robert Boucher he missed a riff fer sure, then grinned
Not sure that was a smile. Kinda more like a smirk. Would love to know what he was thinkin.
+Sangu I think he was thinking that was the sexiest sound to ever come from the keys
Bruce Edwards I completely agree, Bro lol best part of the video
Lake Charles Looziana.
What lacks from contemporary music is yodeling
Slap my old ass back to the best times of my life!! Cripple Creek here I come!! ❤️☮️❤️
Fucking cigarettes...
or he'd still be singing this
RIP RR😢
How can you not want to lite up a doobie ? Love this music, never gets old like the rest of us.
Garth is the only one left alive now.
Where’s the rest of it?
Levon and Rick, peanut butter and jelly.
great
Happy 83rd birthday to Garth Hudson.
Words can't describe how good the Band were...thank for posting this one!
feel like am watching a piece o Americana musical art off Norman Rockwell painting...
A lifetime memory.
Seriously.
Well said.
Camera seems to capture them really nailing it, going from Robbie looking a little nervously at everybody for cues, then when he realizes everyone’s got it, he starts to smile, and the rest smile too. Garth clearly having a good time as well with this really fun tune.
The Band, Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, the Beatles no one can ever surpass these legends
those damn wood rim drums
Listening more and more to a band (Band) I was familiar with 40 years ago but never really appreciated back then, and digging now more every time I hear it, the one thing missing from most comments is recognition of how critical Rick Danko was to their sound. Go back and listen! RD defined everything they did. So sorry I was out to lunch when they were all alive
I’ve got to find the tape and get a better scan
It just never gets old... I remember I ran into Garth in Georgetown DC back in 1970. I was a 17 year old long-hair and I struck up a conversation with him. We talked for 15 min or so.. Forget what we said but he humored me, a 17 year old hipster!
It appears George you had inherentted his Beard !! 👌
Im 17 right now i hope i get to meet garth lol
I spent a day and half with him programming sounds for this DX-7 synthesizer. Great musician and technologist.
My goodness they need very little room to create, assemble and play, a song as large as this song turned out to be. They can swing by my garage to play anytime they want. This song will live forever. Anyone disagree?
One of the greatest band in rock'n roll history 😎
RIP Robbie Robertson
Let's say Country Funk as a genre was comprised of just one song, and that song was so good and so definitive that no other was ever necessary.
Preach it, brother.
I thought it was the oak ridge boys.. lol..
But Ken what about Alice's restaraunt?
AMEN!
Country Funk. Yeah Great!
Thank God for The BAND. Awesome. 😀❤👍
I want to be there, in that time, in that place, with those guys, enjoying that song, with other people, enjoying life.
This song has such a great groove
I will always stop what I'm doing to listen whenever I hear this song.👍
Watched We Were Brothers and it's a very open look into the relationships of The Band and the sad ending that The Last Waltz was supposed to be a break and then they'd get back together and make new music but never happened this video shows how happy the brothers are ♥️🎶✌🏾
arkansas+canada=The Band
This is IT!!!!! Bought all their albums on the day they came out. They've given me so much! Levon is The Man!!!!
Good old down to earth music. Where do you find that these days? Loved the album "Music from Big Pink"!!!! Every album was amazing..........
Damn levons drums sound amazing. Snare sounds like a branch snapping! So thunderous yet dry and funky.
Dude has such a swing. Amazing.
Yep... nothing like Levon on those wooden-shelled Ludwigs... the finest singing drummer ever!
Singing using both arms and feet what an absolute legend how he has room in his head to sing whilst playing drums...wow and being brilliant at both
You got it.
Well said.
Magic.
Yes absolutely all the above
1:44 Whoa whoa whoa, Pedro Pascal was in The Band?
I've been listening to them for 40 plus years. I never tire of them. Even now, in these crazy times we live in, as I drive home from a long day at work I listen to them and remember days when this kind of music was appreciated and made one feel happier and freer. Even my 34 year old son likes this music. We listen to it by the fire at our campsite. I loved Levon Helm's voice and his talented drumming..
what a musical gem. so thankfull for this video.
It doesn't get any better than this!
September 15, 2019 Classic Rock Fans
CLASSIC WATER: “Up On Cripple Creek” - The Band - (1969) - Reached #25 on Billboard charts.
This film was taken during rehearsals in Woodstock, New York. The song appeared on the group’s second album. Written by Robbie Robertson with Levon Helm on lead vocals and drums.
It was one of the first instances of a Hohner Clavinet ever being played with a wah-way pedal. I love how keyboardist Garth Hudson smiles at 2:05 after he plays one of these unique licks on the Clavinet.
#theband #cripplecreek #classicrockfans
R.I.P. Robbie Robertson 🥲
That one day...
Christ they were great. So innovative, so funky, so unique
What a great song!!!
I think Levon is one of the grooviest drummers ever. So much of the character of how the band sounds is from there. Just listen to the starting beats . . . extraordinary . . .
Shit, yes.
this is for some of us the most valuable piece of film 🎞 ever recordet
From the first time I heard their music, it was always very evident to me that these guys had a lot of fun composing and performing these songs.
my favorite version of this song
Ill never take you or youtube for granted wow im just saying god bless
The band exemplified the times that they lived in.... a little crazy, a little serious, a movement with a sense of levity...... Anyone out there remember when if you saw someone broke down on the side of the road you stopped and helped!
This is such a dope song. Im stoked I just learned to play it on guitar. Flangy -wah effects and all
Just wish i was old enough to have seen them live! So much talent
Best song for Levon's voice. Good ole times!
That's a fact
Close run thing with The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down though. Two songs only a true Southerner could sing.
Love this song, but I marked it with a thumbs-down for sticking a commercial in the middle of the video.
I thoroughly enjoyed this song. It is just that good.
The genius of the instrumental is great enough but with the singing just makes it utterly amazing
Many years ago a Canadian reprobate introduced some hosers to an Arkanside musician king. And God smiled. RIP Levon.
I think so many of the bands and music from that era was a divine occurrence. The way folks came together and what they produced, SO much heart , soul, wisdom and passion from such young people. I feel fortunate AF to have had the best music in history as the background of my younger years, and now embedded in my soul. Breathe and VOTE!
ONE OF THE BEST "BAND'S" EVER!✌❤
def. one of the best Canadian 'bands'!
Music at its best and rawest form.
The Band, the group that all other groups loved!
Not many can play drums and sing at the same time. Levon was a true master. Could play any instrument you handed him.
Phil Collins
Terry Bozzio in Frank Zappa's Band
I can’t even walk and chew gum at the same time
@@christopherfletcher5384 No doubt bro, I was thinking the same thing!!
God bless you for uploading this. This is the first Band song I heard, in 1971, on my parent's old tv/record player/radio. I was 14. The rest of my love for their music is history.
As a boomer coming of age, just learning the wonders of music... The Band was my Beatles...
I've heard this song thousands of times, wore that brown album out.
As a musician, this is such a precious video... I always wondered what that twangy bass sound was... Garth!
Levon is playing drums with wooden rims, even the snare.... mind blown...
Honesttogod
Magic.
Best ensemble in rock history...almost like new Orleans jazz the way the sum is more than the parts...fn brilliant!
One of those very rare bands who were of one mind when they were playing together.
Levon, what an angel. Love!
great channel... I love the Band!!!
Perfect voice!
I'm gonna misquote Bob Dylan here. "There's a certain kinda music you play sitting down, but you lean forward a little."
Great footage! You can tell these guys enjoyed playing. Loved how Robbie Robertson smiles just after Garth... nice
Thanks so much for posting this!
Incredible band... THE BAND!!!
My favorite version.
The best
Love this great piece of Americana story telling written by Canadian Robbie Robertson. Levon Helm is perfect with his vocals here.
yes, to everything you just said. I giggle about Robbie being Canadian often. Its kinda like how the man who wrote "Dixie" was born in the North. Everybody wants to be a Southern boy. Look what Gram Parsons did to Los Angeles!
Really? Doubt he wrote this song or any of their others. But he did swindle them out of song credits.
@@CJinsoo Please deal with reality, Robbie wrote the songs it is well documented. If you like Levon more than Robbie or the others that is fine, but stay with the truth. Robbie got most of the song writing credits because he wrote the songs,the others got 20 percent, on top of touring and record sales. They ALL made a lot of money, some wasted it. I love all of the Band members they were all great, however Rick and Robbie are my favorites.
plasticlove
That bass is just groovin like mad.
Awesome!
Dow dow dowka waka waka dowka waka wak...
He lived 6 mi. From where I grew up in holly grove. Sadly only saw him once at a mall club outside of clarendon. I didn't know who he was at the time. Shadrens bbq. Is now closed but he did give david Letterman some bbq sauce before he died. Just a great drummer boy from Turkey scratch arkansas.