10 Things You Didn't Know About the Last Waltz
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- Baxter and Jonathan Talk about 10 Things you didn't Know about the Last Waltz and why you need to watch it!
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I went to my local theater with friends to see The Last Waltz when I was 17, and was always sad that I was never able to see them live. Since 2012 when Levon passed away, I've found a renewed connection to their music, along with Levon's solo work. Thanks to the internet, this ol' 62 year old can watch interviews and documentaries at a push of a button! Thanks for the memories!
You should check out Chest Fever! They celebrate The Band's music and are currently on tour.
@@hollywhite995 I actually follow them on Facebook! Waiting for them to come to my area ;)
I also love the way Levon describes their first trip to New York: "It was an adult portion."
I’m sure it was if you’re from rural Arkansas!
I love The Last Waltz. Seen it so many times, but still can’t turn it off when I bump into it.
Coke had become so pervasive by that time, and popular music was taking a hard and final turn to disco, the Bee Gees and the commercialized Fleetwood Mac (RIP Christine McVie) had taken over the airways. It was a weird time and about to get weirder. I’m not sure The Band’s music would have managed the short term success to survive into the 80s. Only a few years before came Court and Spark and Songs in the Key of Life, kind of the pinnacles of their sub genres. So I think The Last Waltz was a fitting title on a far larger scale than just The Band.
best music doc. ever and just one of the best concerts ever.....wish I was there. My wife and I watch it almost every New Years Eve.......party movie. RIP all you lovely musicians that have left us.......we'll see you down the road.
The Last Waltz has a special place in my heart. When I was 15 years old (now 57) my father was in our living room watching HBO and he says to me "Come check this out". This was my introduction to The Band and The Last Waltz with my fathers narration of all the other people playing on stage. It is a great memory.
Same!
I have a very similar story. I was just thinking I wish I could tell my Dad how right he was about the significance of The Band and this concert The Last Waltz. These guys are many of my favorite musical heroes.
My physics teacher gave me his CD to borrow and told me I should watch this. Been in love ever since.
I love the ticket prices and you are correct that was a lot. In 1973 I got tickets to see Clapton inside at our local outdoor concert arena, SPAC. It was$2 to sit on the lawn and I had never sat inside but I wanted to for Clapton. It was $15 to sit in the very back and I couldn't believe I spent that much.
This was a Bill Graham produced concert. It was Bill's house. Bill knew what the capabilities of Winterland were. Fans knew what Bill could produce and trusted him to put on a great show even if tickets were twice as much as normal and they didn't know who would be there. Say what you want to about Uncle Bobo, but he knew how to throw a party.
I miss Bill to this day, he could be a real tough guy when he needed to be but was a gentle soul. One hell of a promoter, he had the respect of the musical community and made a lot of careers for young up and coming musicians
Also for that price for the ticket the fans got a nice thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. If you count that in the price I think it was a good deal!
right on✊🏽
Loved Bill
Loved Winterland
Loved The Band
💕🌸💕🌸💕
A masterpiece - one of many from Marty.
I was 18 when "Music from Big Pink" was released. Love for the band was tribal. The "Last Waltz" was seminal. Garth is the last man standing.
I was about that age, too. Was it ‘68? I saw them 4 times if you count Woodstock and once in the 80’s.
@@Sarah113ify yep, 1968
Me, too. Didn't know what prompted me to.pick out that LP in JC Penney that day. Now I know it was Devine intervention.
"You'll get more than Sinatra" became a favorite tag line of mine after this movie. I love Neil Diamond but always chuckle when he comes out on stage and somebody from the audience shouts out "Engelbert Humperdinck!". Google if you must...
So funny!
One of the best shows I ever saw was the Band at the Academy of Music in NYC . It is a shame they ended up like they did . I am sure you read "Wheels on fire " It's funny how Levon left out the fact that Robbie put his own money up for the movie . I had never heard that . Any way big fan videos are great
I’ve never understood why the movie was never later recut to show the entire concert. Presumably the footage exists or did for some time.
They weren’t able to film everything because those particular cameras are used for film work, and unlike television cameras would get too hot with prolonged use, plus having to constantly reload with film meant downtime at least for some portions.
LOVE THE BAND !!
So sad Robbie is Gone Now 😢 everything he ever Touched Turned to Gold. My girlfriends God Mother use to Baby Sit for Rick & Liz Danko she's got the most incredible story's & memorabilia in her home on Waterfall Way in Woodstock. Every time we visit her I Stop & go the the Local Cemetery & Chill with Levon & Rick's Family.
Great Video Guys
Love it when Clapton's guitar strap slips off & Robbie just takes Over ❤ ✌️
I want to send a thank you shout out to the little art theater in yellow springs ohio for showing the last waltz many times. Just a small intimate theater with a great sound system for its time.
Great memories for me.
P.s. yellow springs is also the hometown of Ritchie Furay of poco.
Van the man! Greatest " one more time" of all time!
I feel like the bands that have survived have been the ones that focused more on touring than recording. Like the Stones put out albums but it's being out on the road that seems to keep them from completely imploding. The Dead...
My favorite part of the film is when Levon is lighting Robbie's cigarette. Levon had that match burn forever. Any other person would have put it out before a finger burn.
lol I always laugh at that too.
I think Neil Diamond was on the show was because Robbie had produced
Neil's album at the time. Robbie's no fool when it comes to bidness
He had produced two albums by the date of ‘The Last Waltz’. The concept album ‘Beautiful Noise’ - first time anyone had seen a ‘Produced By’ credit on the front cover and Neil’s return to ‘The Greek’ in L.A. for an 8- night stand after his 3 1/2 year break from the road . Both ‘Beautiful Noise’ and ‘Love at The Greek’ sold millions.
RIP Robbie Robertson
What I’d heard about the Muddy Waters segment was it was an accident that only one camera was running. The rest we’re getting film changes and hadn’t been for them to be down during Muddy’s segment.
I've been to Medieval times, not convinced it's chicken. However, I noticed there were no Seagulls for years. The Band members hated Robinson after the show and never forgave him for ending the band.
Except they kept performing as The Band for years. And everyone except Levon worked with Robbie after he left.
@@handle-schmandle are you sure, at the second Woodstock, they didn't allow him to play with them. He left the band. Took all the Seagulls as well.
Had tickets to see CSN at Poplar Creek in suburban Shitcago in the 80s. We found out The Band was opening. The Band put CSN to shame.
My Thanksgiving tradition is to listen to "Alice's Restaurant."
Levons drumming is so perfect.
Great show, thanks!
Reading the comments as ever you see the two factions emerge: Robbie ripped off the rest of them; and Robbie was the glue which held The Band together. If anything I'm in Robbie's camp (RIP) for this reason.
For most of the time leading up to the singer/songwriter era which was a novel concept in the 60s, the Brill Building / Tin Pan Alley model was just the way it worked. For example: The Animals (one of my favorite bands from this time) recorded "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" which was written by the Brill's Mann and Weil duo. The Animals changed quite a lot about the song; some of the words to make it a bit more Newcastle-ish and some of the bass riffs and more. But it was never anything but a Mann/Weil song. That's just the way it was.
Robbie wrote the songs and the other band members (especially Garth I think) said 'I can do this here' or 'Let's change this chord progression here' and made it better. But it was a Robbie song.
Yeah, I guess that’s the way royalties worked. But there’s no question that Levon, his background, and his stories were the inspiration for many of Robbie’s songs. They also gave the impression that they all worked together musically on the first two albums at least. It seems like Robbie could have acknowledged that when it came to royalties.
@@Sarah113ifyBut that’s not how it works.
Neil Diamond and Carole King were Brill Building writers who transitioned to singer/songwriters. Lots of things were possible at that time.
@@Sarah113ify They other got 20 percent of the publishing rights until they willingly sold their share to Robbie, except for Levon. According to Hoskyns they all made a lot of money, much was wasted on drugs and bad money management.
My favorite doc ever!
I'm not in Robbie or Levon's camp. But I will say that Levon seemed to have some weird bitterness about the whole thing after the fact. I've heard people who were close to him say that. Plus I've never heard Robbie say one unkind word about Levon. Plus I've never heard anyone else in the band badmouth Robbie. Now that Robbie's gone, hopefully they can get it all patched up in Heaven.
Levon had some major financial problems later in life, I believe due to his cancer diagnosis, which seemed sad to me. I know that he and other Band members had some serious drug issues in the 70’s, which may have affected their finances. But it seemed to me that Robbie wasn’t really fair to the others. In any case, it’s too bad the Levon carried his resentment to the grave.
the bitterness likely stems from Robbie negotiating them out of their publishing rights in exchange for a recording studio that never materialized. Once Robertson had all the publish rights and the rest of the members realized later that was where the future money was, all but Levon felt compelled to kiss Robertson’s butt to avoid being cut-off. Levon could go out and make money on his own talent.
Also, Scorsese is/was some Robertson fanatic and there was quite a favoring of Robertson in the editing.
Overall, the veterans of the Band were taken to the cleaners but the young-gun Robertson, who was arguably treated poorly when he first joined. It is similar in some respects to CCR in that you should have attorney represent you-not your drug filled stupid-self.
@@CJinsooSome of the people that I’ve seen argue on the side that Robbie screwed over everybody else make it sound like they didn’t earn a dime and practically lived in poverty. I can almost guarantee you that over the course of their careers they all earned many multiples of what a normal middle class American could ever hope to earn in spite of this royalties issue. Maybe the business dealings weren’t fair, but maybe they were - none of us were there. With that said it should be noted that multiple members of the Band were hardcore heroin / cocaine addicts and as such probably didn’t exercise good judgement when spending / investing their money over the years. 🤷🏼♂️
@@JRRob3wn Good point about them living decent lives despite the business deal with Robertson. The Band members exercised poor judgement and if they are unhappy with the outcome then they have only themselves to blame. If they had consulted with a decent attorney they would have achieved a better outcome. one thing where this is different from CCR, is that with CCR Fogerty was EVERYTHING, writing, arrangements, and singing. Whereas Robertson was only one part of the Band. If Robertson did not live up to his end of the deal, or took advantage of the other members, then that pretty low. But, non of them ever sued Robertson, unlike CCR. Still, you can take advantage of your friends and everything still be legal. If Levon later realized that the publishing rights were worth more than anything else, welll, that’s why you get an attorney to start with.
@@CJinsoo I’m new to learning about The Band, but I read somewhere that Robbie wrote almost every single song. Apparently, Levon felt that since the songs didn’t come together in their final form until the entire band had worked on it together in sessions that he should have gotten an equal share in the royalties. Apparently that’s not how royalties work - the songwriter gets a higher percentage of the payout. I’m not sure of how accurate the above is as I am not an expert in the situation, but if it is true, if he wanted credit for helping write songs he should have demanded proper attribution at the time. Once again it sounds like he and the others just never really cared enough until they started running out of money after their popularity waned.
Neil Diamond? R.R. had just produced his new album. Levon commented "We are bumping Muddy Waters for him?"
I live near and service Woodstock and surrounding areas. I’m not going name check the many luminaries, but I wil declare that the fragrance of their society is delightful should one be fortunate enough to visit with one of these artists, intellectuals, and so on. I grew up listening to my elder siblings music. And they were cool and had good taste. I was born in 1959, a year that was a hinge, a semicolon between the ancients and the moderns in the western world.
I was eight, nine and really getting the popular music with the same deep appreciation for all of its nuance, newness, humor, and righteous indignation as I do as an adult. I’d lay on m older yippee sister’s fleece rug, burn her strawberry incense, and be transported by The Band. I was a curious kid that was familiar with The Civil War, American roots music and so on. The Band tied it all together and made a new stew, a new dish that we all savor and had never in our dreams tasted any creation as good.
The hight of my memories of The Midnight Rambles at his barn was one particular night that Donald Fagen sat in with band. They did Shakedown Steet! It served Donald well. He sang really well. He is the closest thing to a mortal that I put on a pedestal. And Levon is similar to me as well. I am overflowing with gratitude that of all towns to get
lpugged into, it would Woodsock and neighboring hamlets.
Oh, and I found Waits shopping in our nearby College Town. I saw him him across the street and we looked at each other and I gave him a low wave from my hip. He responded in kind. When my friend came out of art store, I told him Tom went into the bookstore. He bagged me to follow him to meet Tom, but I was afraid he’d cut me for sicking my friend on him.
Old Band lover fan here.... seen live many times and boy they would sound amazingly just like the recordings.... a testament to their virtuosity. Regarding the Neil Diamond story at TLW... he was all Robbies idea just a Muddy was all Levon's and I agree.... Neil had no right to be on that stage with all the others on that night! Damn good thing they didn't cut Muddy as that woulda sent some fur flyin!
Best ‘cut’ of the whole show was ‘N.D.’s & R.R.’s song ‘Dry Your Eyes’ And , almost everyone was playing ‘Ovations’ through that decade - and the next. Best in-concert sound .
Muddy Waters & The Band, brilliant!
I’ve seen The Waltz numerous times. I love the movie. When I think of Thanksgiving though I always think of Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant, (the song not the movie). You didn’t need to see Neil Young’s cocaine booger to realize he had probably stayed backstage of little too long. 😬
Robbie wrote in his book, "when Neil walked out on the stage I knew no one at Winterland, was feeling better than Neil".
Ya know, I'm 64 now and I've never seen "The Last Waltz" like, ever. What the hell is wrong with me?!!
It is available for free on TubiTV
It is available for free on Tubi TV.
A friend asked me to go to a show she won tickets for on Thanksgiving day, that came with dinner: The Last Waltz... WOW!!!!
I watch the film every Thanksgiving morning.
This is my favorite video you've made so far...
Robbie had just produced a Neil Diamond record.
Hey, I was at that Connells show at Walnut Creek. Probably the first show at Walnut Creek. My son was there and my daughters was in her mommy's tummy. So the whole family was technically there. :)
Sometimes when my son and daughter are around we do round robins with music and we (my wife, me and whoever else) play music videos. My daughter (@malloryhawk) who is currently living in NYC playing in her bands (Customer, Slight Of and sometimes How Says) was down here in OCT and played The Weight as one of her songs. I was shocked.
I always loved the Band. Levon was my favorite!
I think o read somewhere that att some point, maybe in the 90s(?), Bob Dylan frequented a boxing gym. It was a workout trend.
I read that around that same time he had an assistant named Jim who would frequently clean up and put his stuff in boxes for him.
The band was one of the great ones. Love there music
Unfortunately, the heavy use of drugs and other substance abuse handicapped The Band, along with so many other artists of the era. It was difficult to tour when it was impossible to predict who would be reliable on the night, and who wouldn't be. Garth Hudson was the only Band member who kinda steered away from all that, and-ironically-although he was the oldest member by several years-he's the only one still alive. I don't know if his more moderate lifestyle contributed to his longevity or not, but it's interesting to speculate.
Good comment, but it would only be ironic if the person who did the most drugs lived the longest, like Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Irony is a somewhat difficult concept to grasp and spot though, so I'm not knocking you for using the word incorrectly.
I love The Band.I love The Last Waltz.You know when Bob Dylan sold his music The Weight went with it.
😢 R I. P Robbie Robertson
Neil Diamond was in the movie, I believe, because Robertson was producing Diamond's next album.
Also, I remember one New Year's Eve on TCM they played a Elvis concert movie, The Song Remains the Same, and the Last Waltz...I thought that would become a tradition, but alas, too good to come to pass.
they do musicals now
I watched the movie once and own it on dvd or blue ray. The tune " Chest fever " has only about 3 seconds? Did see camera over heat , I thick that tune has one the best keyboard intros of all time.
Neal Diamond was there for the very early Dylan group at the beginning. He met them around the same time they met Dylan.
I just enjoyed the show I dont pay attention to the politics or inner struggles that happen in all bands.
I like other concert footage of The Band, I don't really like this film because it focuses way too much on Robbie, you can even see the camera keeps going to him rather than the other players. And no I"m not one of those people hating on Robbie for stealing money and that crazy crap, its just sad knowing how it all turned out.
THe most 'symbolic' thing ever is Ronnie Hawkins performing, and of course he was the 'beginning' of 'the band', well when you watch the last number, Robbie is singing up front with all his famous friends, and you hardly even see 'the band', and there's a shot of even Ronnie Hawkins in the back with the band not singing with them. And sadly we know what became of 'the band' and Robbie Robertson. Again, I don't blame HIM for their lives, that would be crazy, its just sad seeing how that foreshadowed how the future would be.
So I like those movies of them doing the basement tapes and other shows. Had all the other guys gone on to the same success as Robbie then it would maybe be a little more joyful, but I find it just depressing.
I can't help being a bit angry with them for throwing all their talent down the drain with their addictions. So many bands and artistes then were preaching against the older generation as if they had found something way better and so many either fried their brains or became showbiz. The music was so good from that era but some of the people less so.
@@MrZORROish Addiction is a mental health DISEASE. Go listen to Robbie, he admits he did as many drugs as they were doing, he simply didn't get addicted.
We really don't know why some people get addicted and others don't. Its understandable to want to hear more music from them, but thats like blaming Robbie for getting cancer before his next album.
People don't choose to get cancer, they do chose to pop pills, sniff coke and shoot up. We have got to the stupid situation that telling people not to do drugs is scoffed and sneered at, clever dicks demand we legalise drugs, then when they have their predictable effects in most people we bleat that the poor things unavoidably caught a disease. @@mikearchibald744
" when you watch the last number, Robbie is singing up front with all his famous friends, and you hardly even see 'the band', "
This comment has been bugging me. i just rewatched the "I Shall Be Released" segment for the 47,000th time in my life, and yes Robbie is shown more...because he is sharing the mic with Dylan (and Van) who is singing lead on the song!
You know who else gets shown a fair amount during the finale? Danko, who is sharing a mic with Neil and Joni (and Neil Diamond early on in the song, before Diamond moves to a mic with Dr. John). So there's Rick hanging in a pod singing with his famous friends too.
The other 3 are behind their instruments, not up front in the pods with famous guests during the finale.
Sheesh, it makes perfect sense that the cameras during the finale focus primarily on the assortment of famous singers spread across the front of the stage, and especially close ups of the pod with the great Bob Dylan leading the entire sing along.
Forgive Robbie for smiling happily as he is standing on stage with some of his favorite musician friends, who happen to be famous, in front of an enthusiastic audience of fans, at the end of a marathon of a show. I think I spotted Rick smiling a bit too.
@@scott8xxx532 LOL, dude, if comments about films and bands made forty years ago bug you, you need to relax.
That was the finale, what I said was that it was symbolic of what occured, even if that shot was only two seconds, Robbie then went off on a successful career with his 'famous friends' and the rest of the band tried touring without him to make some money with Richard killing himself in a Motel room.
Thats all I said. I'm not one of those who hate on Robbie Robertson, the guys were junkies who weren't pulling their weight, I'd last about two days with such people if they were Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, let alone years of 'carrying them''. Any studio musician or other musician would love to work with Robbie, as his first album showed.
I didn't like The Last Waltz, it was too ' produced', but there are lots of people who go into even more detail just how much Robbie gets shown and interviewed at the expense of the others, and some have even said that the other members in interviews didn't share Robbbie's optimism about the future, and no wonder. But I don't refer to that as I only watched it once thirty years ago and didn't like it, more power to Robbie, I've spent likely FAR more time than you defending him against the levon lovers, but what I said was that that scene was just symbolic of how things worked out, great for Robbie, not so great for the others. But their addictions are hardly his fault. Peace out.
I heard they overdubbed most of the instruments and vocals, in the studio.
More B.S. from the Robbie haters. Watch the concert: they are playing what you’re hearing.
Last line of the credits: Thank you to Paul Allen. What an amazing guy
Somewhere along the line I read or heard they turned Robbie's mic down during the filming of The Band's performance. True? Does anyone know?
The rumor is that it was OFF, which is false. It was always on at their shows, but turned down, because of the other three being such strong vocalists.
Beautiful
Robbie turned out to be a dick and a scam / hollywood dude, unfortunately, because he was so talented. Levon is the REAL deal and always has been as was the rest of the Band. I am old, and old school, but in my opinion The Last Waltz, as screwed up as the background issues were, is still one of the very best rock and roll movies of all time. I was maybe 19 or 25 when it came out and I was totally blown away. Good shit !
There is 2 sides to every story. Robbie has his fans (I'm one of them). Robbie wrote all the songs, the other members agreed to sell their royalties to Robbie. They were all talented in their own way, but Robbie did a lot more work than the rest, partly because he was good at it, partly because no one else was interested in dealing with the press, promotions etc.
Robbie too all the credit for writing the songs, right or wrong. That left the remaining members paupers essentially from a group effort. I still love the group regardless
That's not true !
Well they wouldn't have been 'paupers' if they hadn't spent a fortune on drugs. Robbie had enough because he became the only responsable human in a 'freakshow' (his words). Levon was just jealous and bitter in the end.
That’s a crock. Other than Garth, the others would have remained talented but useless junkies. Robbie had enough, he wanted to move on.
Your assement is a little harsh. However there's a certain grain of truth in it. I wouldn't call 3 other members useless. although their drug use was an issue. Especially Richard, and to a certain extend Levon, Rick was doing heroin as well, but according to Robbie's book he could still be counted on, not so with Richard, and Levon showed up, but often too stoned to be at the top of his game. According to the biographer of The Band Barney Hoskyns they all made a lot of money. Illegal drugs are expensive, perhaps that had something to do with their financial situation later on.@@bobcaygeon4533
@@bobcaygeon4533 The others were not paupers they made plenty of money, but much was wasted on drugs and bad money management.
Saw Cream for $4 in Chicago circa 1968….bottle of water now 😂😂
VAN the man was fantastic. Caravan
Robertson spent his royalties on that??
Regarding The Last Waltz and the Levon and Robbie dispute, whichever side you may take, watching the majority of the artists walk over to Levon after they perform speaks volumes about his musicianship and realness as a human being.
Everyone in the Band contributed to their succes. Levon, Richard and especially Rick (my favorite) were great singers. Robbie wrote most of the songs, he also were the kind of the leader, Garth was very introverted. Rick was always up for a good time (again love Rick), Richard was often drunk or strung out on cocaine or heroin, Levon was not interested in being the leader, he hated the interviews and photos, besides he too did heroin as did Rick. Robbie did drugs, but not heroin.
“Leon.” LOL.
I think it was Robertson who wanted to end with a bang. The rest wanted simply to continue. Yes, he thought of and organised a lot the project including the finance plus a production in which he featured quite a lot. All understandable. What wS not mentioned is that they had a lot of overdubs except Levon who did none. Maybe thats why it sounds so great. And Yes, Dylan was at his top. Desire and Rolling Thunder. His voice was powerful that time. Anyway, both Dylan and the Band sounded much better than on their other live album recorded in 1973, "before the flood".
They did remixing in post production, not overdubs. If you watch their hands, you can see they’re playing what we’re hearing.
If you bought.a.ticket to the Bands last scheduled show from that tour, before the decision to hang it up, those tickets for the show at.Frost.amphitheater were.honored Thanksgiving.Night.1976 at Winterland.
Boy you guys fizzled out at the end of this one
All but one of the cameras were inoperable during the Muddy Waters scene, that’s why it it just one extended shot.
If anyone was cut, it should've been Neil Diamond.
The Band did keep on touring after the Last Waltz, albeit without Robbie Robertson.Yes Levon Helm did express bitterness over Robertson's leaving the band. What can I say, no one should ever be forced to continue doing something he/she is finished with and Robertson was clear, he was finished with the travails of touring especially when most of his band partners were deeply into drug use,something Robertson said he never participated in.
Fact is,The Band, minus Robbie went on touring in various entities joining in well into the 2000s.Unfortunately The Band's real creator of most of it's music was no longer generating new The Band music, just the music Robbie had previously created.
They didn't take an oath to death do us part. Robbie's son wrote on Robbie's facebook page a few years back (I think when Robbie turned 75) how happy he was to have his dad back, as was his sisters. As Sebastian wrote "my dad would be up early in the morning, making me breakfast and taking me to little legue games. Robbie's first responsebility was to his family, not his band maters.
Actually Robbie was very open about his drug use in his book. However, he didn't do heroin, and music always came first for Robbie, and he credit's his wife for keeping him grounded. Like he said in an interview "I was willing to go to the edge, but not over it, some went over the edge".
25 dollars a ticket?! How did they think they were? The EAGLES??
The Last Waltz was a great concert doc (U2 tried to rip it off years later with Rattle and Hum) but it wasn't a good documentary on a band. By the end of it I knew nothing about this very fascinating and mysterious group. It was actually kinda boring, and I agree with Levon that it was a vanity project. Once Were Brothers is one of the best music documentaries out there right now.
I wonder if the fact that The Band was a Canadian band had a subtle influence on their popularity in the U.S. ...
Neil Diamond is a badass! He was just kidding with Dylan.
Levon did not like the idea of the Last Waltz at all. He called it the Bands "going out of business sale"...
I had to pay $20 for a huge auditorium "random" seat to see the Rolling Stones, in Tulsa Oklahoma, in 1965. and that $20 did NOT include supper! So to ME that $25 looks like the bargain of a lifetime, even in the 70s! Cocaine was obvious even to me, naive beyond belief, when Robbie Robertson was sniffing his way through the entire film. I always wished that Joni hadn't joined in, while standing behind the others -- she sounded "off key" because of the acoustics setup -- but I'm sure that that didn't matter at ALL to her good friend Neil Young. Levon Helm was fabulous all the way through -- he gave everything 120 percent, so maybe he didn't profit directly from the film but he scored in other ways -- we got to KNOW him and it sold things in his future -- we could see how important HE was to the Band. I always thought that it was strange that Neil Diamond showed up on this stage, much as I have always loved Neil Diamond. Love him, love the Band, but that was a bad fit. Wonder why he was there at all! The entire production was brilliant and I've happily watched it many times -- it was a real thrill to get to see these musicians "up close", see each band member featured, as well as so many superstars (Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, the Staple Singers, et c,) -- what a show, what a wonderful piece of work. "Thank you, Everyone involved!"
Today, that concert ticket would cost $134.00
Somebody else said $128.75...... I don't know who to believe.
10 things you didn't know about Baxter's grip strength. John is gonna find out at 50k.
When Muddy Waters was due to perform... all the camera batteries except one, had died and were being exchanged... There was only one working... That is why they may have wanted to cut Muddy´s performance...
25 dollars was 25 dollars, plus turkey?
Something wrong with me I think. I never did like The Band. Willing to give the movie a watch though if I ever come across it.
Do it double quickly ! It's better than magnificent......
@@johncopeland3826 gotta see if it’s on Prime then.
I like three of their songs..that's it.
@@gregmiell3037 purchase The Brown album you’ll change
Your mind
It was and still should be available for free on Tubi TV.
I consider "The Last Waltz" to mark the high point of Western Civilization.
I always thought the high point was when the castaways were rescued from Gilliigan's Island.
I have long been of that opinion as well.
I thought #1 was going to be that all the bass had to be re-recorded because Rick Danko played so badly and out of tune. Watch his hands in Further On Up The Road in particular. What we hear does not match what we see. Not even close!!
You are lookin at Diamond as a POP STAR when his earlier years were spent with these guys, Do your history homework
It goes without saying that these guys do not have a clue
Turkey and chicken are actually animals not food.
$25 in 1976 is equivalent to about $145 in 2023.
Robbie took all the publishing for writing the songs, when according to the rest of the guys the songs were written by them all. According to Helm.
Yes, but I don't believe a word of him. Robbie and no one else was the backbone of the group.
Robbie would write the basic song but then each member wrote the parts for their own instruments. RR acknowledged that it was a collaborating but felt the royalties were his alone as the publisher. Without the input of the entire group those songs would have been incomplete. That was the basis of the resentment and distrust
@@drdrew3 agreed
@@drdrew3 Robbie was more than the publisher. He wrote the lyrics and the basic melodies. The group collaborated on fleshing it out, but there was nothing to flesh out without Robbie first bringing it to them.
@drdrew3 Helm 'writing the parts for his drums'? Complete bullocks. He was just jealous of RR, never wrote a song in his life. I saw them after Robbie left. They had become a shadow of themselves in the eighties. Threw their money away on drugs while Robbie was the only one (except Garth) sober to steer the boat.
No mention of Van the Man? Best song performance.
It wasn't the Bands last show. It was the last performance with Robbie in the group, but the others did not want to break up, and they kept it going for a while. Also, parts were later dubbed over some of the performances since they weren't that good. Robertson did not sing on the songs (he just played guitar) but he made it look like he was singing, when in reality he was lip syncing. The three who did sing got little to no screen time. Why? Because Robertson helped edit the footage and made himself the star, while Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson got hardly any screen time. Robertson may have loved the film, but the rest of the Band hated it. Also, while he was the main songwriter, the others contributed to the writing, but Albert Grossman convinced Robertson to take all the songwriting credit. Also, all the money. Subsequently, he got rich and the others struggled. Richard Manuel got so depressed he hanged himself (Robertson was the only one not to go to the funeral), and Rick Danko died young and almost totally broke. Sorry, but this guy, Robbie, wasn't the saint he projected himself to be. But so what, right? As they say, control the media, and you own the message. After all, the movie, "Once We Were Brothers" is totally from Robinson's point of view! He wrote some great songs, but he didn't do it alone.
Notice no current interview with Garth Hudson (the only other surviving member of The Band) was included in "Once Were Brothers." His absence from the project seems a significant statement.
Looks like everyone here has read Levon’s fiction book?
Levon’s Book is not fiction , Levon did get writing credit on a few songs from The Band but I suspect he should have got much more along with the other members . I think Robbie a lot of times came in with song ideas or sketches so to speak and they collaborated and finished them , Robbie never wrote another song anywhere close to the caliber of his days with THE BAND. I notice on the last three albums by THE BAND sometime on the songwriting credits it was say THE BAND , maybe kind of a jab at the way things should have been all along
@@terryblankenship7828 The problem is, Levon's version is just not how it works. You don't get writing credit for showing up and playing your instrument. Otherwise add to your list Lennon, McCartney, Jagger, Richards, Townshend, Davies, etc. etc. Unless you think those guys wrote their drummer's drum parts?
Robbie worked with a lot of people over many years, and almost all of them have nothing but good things to say about him. Including the other three Band members NOT named "Levon". It's time for all of you to move on past that damn book, like the rest of us have.
I hate that girl on fire song because my first impression of it was knowing it would be used as a soundtrack to celebrate mediocrity and catastrophic nights at college bars.
Whos the dude on the left that thinks his bedhead is trendy or edgy?
Neil diamond ruled
It’s a pity your boogie man Eric was on the last waltz. You fuckin guys….
hairdon't comedy
Folkies with electric guitars is a waste of electricity and a insult to rock n roll
Especially that Neil young ,so un rock and roll ,and Dylan plugs in 🤭at the Newport folk festival,don’t get me started! ..🤘✌️just Glad to see we still have some sensible people around! Sir.
@@jeremiahallender1919 that's why Hendrix sounds better playing Dylan than Dylan does, thanks for the smile
If you think the Band were folkies ,you've been drinking the wrong Ayahuasca......
@@johncopeland3826 Laural Canyon hippie folkies
@@johncopeland3826 Laural canyon hippie folkies, playing cowboy chords
This event is so over fetishized at this point. As much as I loved watching it the first 50 times, I am kind of tired of it now! Also as a major BAND fan it was NOT their high point…I saw them live as far back as 1970 and they were better then.
I've got the soundtrack (I have a playlist on my iPhone with all the decent cuts, none of the rehearsals and that stuff) and I find Bob Dylan's contributions to be pretty mediocre. Shouted vocals, loud but not very melodic guitar playing, not his best songs. I've heard another Dylan/Band live recording and it's not much better; I can only conclude they weren't a great backing band for Dylan. The only one of Joni's I like is Coyote. I quite like a lot of the Band's own material on that recording. No idea they put on a meal as well as a show or that you get showings in all sorts of places.
..."i can only conclude they weren't a great backing band for Dylan..." Huh? Are you aware of the history that those people shared?
One night, one show. That nights sounds might not be your cup of tea. You might enjoy Live 1966 "The Royal Albert Hall Concert" or The Basement Tapes. If you are interested in the history, The Band became The Band because they were Dylan's backing band (at the time named the Hawks) particularly for his 1966 world tour. The crowd boo'd Dylan because they did not like Dylan playing electric music with a backing band. Their first album Big Pink was recorded in a big pink house a couple miles away from Dylan's in Woodstock, NY. Now, the LW performance is probably not the best version of Dylan and The Band, but you could not really end the concert any other way due to their shared history.
Levon and Rick turned off Robbie's microphone because his singing sucked so bad.
False. More bullsh*t from the Robbie haters.
I don't think they had the power to do that. Besides that Rick said in an interview, "I wish Robbie would sing more of the songs he wrote, but he is kind of shy about it, he brings the songs for us to figure out who can sing it best", meaning Levon, Richard and Rick.
I'm sure I am an outlier here. In all of rock music the one band I can't stand is The Band. And my least favorite song in history is The Weight. Thank you.
Outlier you are for sure
@@terryblankenship7828 Thanks for responding. I know, everyone loves this song.I feel like it’s the fakest song ever. I think those guys were pretending. I don’t know how to describe it but there you go.
Woodstock was about $7.00 per day. And wound up being a freebie. 😁 🗽
No matter what these two characters say - The Last Waltz remains Great!!