The Band Guestbook, July 2014

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Kevin J

LINKED: Murray Mclauchlan for Bonk - loved that story!

BEG's link on Ronnie Hawkins.........Perhaps not quite as inspired as Wayne Clarkson's description of the rock n roll debauchery he witnessed back in 1978 but Ronnie's comparison of Yoko's voice to that of "de-nutting" of a hog does kind of stick with you - yes?

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Jeff A.

Subject: Accordion story

See the link

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jh

"Put the weight on it: Hurley bridge could be named for Levon Helm"

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brown eyed girl

A Legend in the Making

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brown eyed girl

The Hawk with Rick Mercer

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Peter V

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Bill M

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BONK

Wallsend. Good video. Someone's already posted it here I believe.

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BONK

Subject: Kevin J

Kevin. I remember that Holy Grail with Murray and Levon. I think in one part of it they made Levon get in some kind of boat for a tune. Like you I would love to see it again. In the early 70's Murray lived above a 'fix it yourself' garage on Parliament Street just above Queen Street in Cabbagetown and my kid brother used to go up and jam with him over many beers. One time I went with him and I remember the smell from the downstairs garage was brutal. 30 years later Murray was here on Saltspring doing a gig at the Fulford Hall and I waited until a break in sets and came up behind him and said "long way from Queen and Parliament eh Murray" He spun around and said fuck, do you remember the odor in that place?

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JT

Subject: Message in a Bottle

A toast to this discussion (only the good bottles, if you please). To your health! Shakespeare maybe had it right when he commented "Much Ado About Nothing". Let it flow.

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Peter V

It had struck me that Dom Perignon would not be stocked in large quantities. Two bottles would hardly sustain three days. You'd be likely to suffer from thirst in fact. Still, I had thought Robbie might have been more of a connoisseur of champagne. Something more economical but more interesting.

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Wallsend

Peter, not to worry. I have found another website that reports that, on the night in question, the hotel only had two bottles in stock so that the phrase 'entire stash' is somewhat misleading. According to the same site, when director Wayne Clarlson arrived to investigate, he found Robbie sitting quietly with friends playing bridge so it seems the whole story has been blown out of proportion.

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Wallsend

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Jed

Appreciate Richard's drumming and,uh,dancing! Interesting clip.

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Bill M

Another Canuckistani capable of filling a boudoir on a moments notice, and without the added attraction of Dom Perignon, is Leonard Cohen. Until I saw the linked article in the paper the other day, I had no idea that the standing-but-soon-to-be-demolished Club Matador is referred to in Cohen's "Closing Time". Whatever, I certainly hope that Yonge and Dundas will be noted by the project discussed for its place in "Life Is A Carnival".

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Peter V

“ There’s nothing new or revolutionary here; just a bunch of simpatico musicians lovingly mining the motherlode of American music with Helm’s warm soulful presence providing the glue. Glorious.”

(Nigel Williamson)

I don’t think it was worth mentioning that Levon oversaw the artwork though (OK, yellow letters on a black background) as “artwork” hardly applies.

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brown eyed girl

Kevin J...Right now I'm reading Don Felder's story. I want to read all about the diamonds and rust in his story. It would be a one-sided story if he only wrote about the good old days with the Eagles....

I was happy to find that link of Richard because he was playing drums.....and he was performing with other musicians....some I really like......and because of the time he passed.....not as many links to be found. Yes it was....cheesy? Yes, he should have had better opportunities....Yes, yes...I still like to watch him as he's the only Band member I"ve never seen in person...Although I've never hid the fact that I'm drawn to certain Band members more than others; I've posted on all of them.

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Peter V

The Dom disappointed me deeply in fact. It's the brand that everyone in the World knows is very expensive, and is the sort of thing merchant bankers in red braces (US suspenders) order in very loud voices when they get their disgustingly inflated bonuses. I would have hoped for some lesser known but quality "boutique" champagne house. Still, if you're drinking it from someone's shoe or navel or whatever, I don't suppose it matters.

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Kevin J

* Very funny Bill M…………as an aside to Peter….Wayne Clarkson actually uses words like that so I would think more him rather than the writer Brian Johnson….by the way the film critic Brian D. Johnson has a contribution to this site with an interview/profile on Garth some years back.

* Walk of Fame: If this is true that The Band will be so honoured then I will be pleased. Some years back, Carol Caffin had been asking for support to help Rick be honoured……others were pushing for Garth ( Robbie is already on the Walk of Fame )……I had argued that that the group should be honoured and that all five members of The Band should have their faces on display…..anyhow, I wrote to the Walk of Fame Board explaining all this……..Long overdue……….For Fred…..Jacques Villeneuve is in – deservedly as Indy Car Champ, Indy 500 winner and F1 World Champion – but Gilles should also be there. I’ll keep writing.

* BEG: The Holy Grail for me in terms of video finds? Two……..1. Murray McLauchlin’s “Floating Over Canada” tv special ( late 80's ) with Levon doing “Acadian Driftwood” – as far as I know, this has never been put up on YouTube……also, an early-mid 80’s doc on Ronnie Hawkins called “The Hawk” featured some quite good material on The Band as far as I remember.

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brown eyed girl

Jed....not Richard's finest performance but Richard is on drums. I was still very happy to find this one a long time ago because as I've said before, it's not easy to find as much material on Richard as with other Band members.

"This video was created in 1986 by a group of professional video makers, who believed that they could create a video for a fantastic song from the past. Songs that were released and were big hits, BEFORE videos were ever conceived. These videos were aired on TV back in 1986, on a show called DEJA VIEW, hosted by John Sebastian. Never at anytime, was this song, or video, used to make money, sold, or transferred for profit by me." I have posted this video, out of love for the music and respect for all the people involved.

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Bill M

Kevin J: I can't help but think of Wayne Clarkson as Basil Fawlty showing up at the Piltdown Ponce's door in the "Psychiatrists" episode. Except that there was no Mrs Robertson and the girl was still on view, along with several others. "Ah, this calls for champagne!"

Obviously it wasn't going to be more Dom Perignon, but no doubt other brands were still available.

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brown eyed girl

Rockers In Recovery Radio/Video- Robbie Robertson and John Willard

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brown eyed girl

Roy Orbison - The Making of King of Hearts - ABC In Concert Clip

"ABC In Concert clip on The Making of Roy Orbison's King of Hearts Album has interviews with Jeff Lynne, Clarence Clemons, ROBBIE ROBERTSON, Don Was, kd lang and Barbara Orbison. I had to cut out a video of Heartbreak Radio because it was blocked worldwide due to copyright issues."

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brown eyed girl

Pam: "Hello Everyone. I am a producer with Canada's Walk of Fame and this October we are inducting The Band. I am trying to get in touch with Rick and Richard's families as we would like to ask for photographs and video to use on the broadcast. Does anyone know who I might get in touch wtih the families? Thanks! (6:04pm MET, 64.179.221.66)"

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Fred

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Peter V

I had thought this an inspired invention by the writer. It’s not in the Shorter Oxford. Websters has fornicatory, giving the example ‘fornicatory literature’ which is a posh word for porn, but not fornicatorium. My spell checker defninitely dislikes it. But there are on-line references. There is a place called The Fornicatorium in Toronto, someone has built a fornicatorium over their garage with a water bed, and a fish hatchery in Edmonton is a “fish fornicatorium.” All this suggests it might have been invented in Canada, and it may be inspired by all those hotels in Viagra Falls, sorry, Niagara Falls, advertising heart-shaped beds and mirrored ceilings. I recall my kids asking why anyone would want a mirror on the ceiling. I pointed out that you didn’t have to get out of bed to shave or apply make-up.

It is not a house of ill-repute, but a room set aside and decorated for fornication. Do they still have “love hotels” in Japan? I was told they were used by married couples living at home with parents who wanted space and privacy for R&R.

Hmm. Might be a good Realtor / Estate Agent word to describe houses: “Master fornicatorium w. radiator, two power points, built in closet.”

I had been rather shocked at the idea of ordering all the champagne in a large hotel. But this was gross exaggeration. It was only all the Dom Perignon according to the article.

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Jed

Would love to see a video compilation of Richard on drums.

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Jeff A.

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Kevin J

......and my good pal Bill M will never doubt me again! The Park Plaza hotel was quite a place in its day.

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Wallsend

The link is to a brief reference to Robbie at the Toronto film festival including a word I have never seen before. I was impressed by the Japanese translation of the words to The Weight in the documentary just posted. Translating poems or song lyrics from one language to another is really difficult.

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Lee G

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Lee G

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Peter V

Subject: Stevie Wonder

I've been remiss … link to my Stevie Wonder piece on Toppermost. Please comment there rather than here.

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Kevin J

Subject: Half Man Half Biscuit

Thanks to Rick J Leach & Rob Morgan for a recent profile at the Toppermost site - LINKED - on an 80's English band that I had never heard of before.........with lines like "and a goalkeeper with no arms and face like his" and an album titled "Achtung Bono"......what's not to love?

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Peter V

Another little point that Simon Napier-Bell makes it that neither Atlantic nor Tamla-Motown have a representative number of silver or gold discs, because they declined to let the awarding body see their sales figures.

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Bill M

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Kevin J

Jukebox Sales: Simon Napier-Bell’s discussion of record companies back in the day controlling Jukebox’s is something I had never really thought about…….unlike shipping large quantities to record stores where the albums or singles may or may not have been sold – the Jukebox shipments were automatic straight sales………For an Elvis or Beatles, 200,000 units moved in a day might have been expected but for some of the less flashy artists, imagine arriving to the office to see a print-out that 100,000 singles had been sold in a day…..or maybe such print-outs were never distributed! What about the nickels or quarters that were dropped in hundreds and thousands of times each week across NA to actually play those plastic pieces of magic.

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Peter V

Agree, John. It's so much a VHS copy than you can actually see the white tape lines streaking at the bottom … it's off a tape showing signs of wear. It's unwatchable full screen on a big Mac but it is acceptable at a smaller screen size. Take it down to iPad size.

So it is a bootleg. The sound however is very good, I thought. It was always a well-filmed concert … I bought a VHS tape in Japan when it came out. I would think they filmed it on something like U-Matic in the first place … and that always had great sound if fed properly.

I think of it as "well, I was worried the tape was printing through. At least this should last a bit longer." So I see it as someone having done the transfer for me. I haven't tried it but I doubt it's any worse than the VHS tape was, they might even have enhanced it a bit. I haven;t tried running the VHS to compare. We tend to forget what VHS was like … even U-Matic. I've had U-Matic masters professionally transferred to digital, and you can see they're not up to what a modest camera can do now. But of course no one had HD 50" or 60" TV screens in the era when it was released, and the base signal just isn't up to that. A U-Matic master might look better, but I reckon it would be pretty marginal and still look soft. A lot of fuzziness is due to poor lighting … for example in Cripple Creek. Levon looks pretty good when the camera is close in from his left where the light was, but pretty fuzzy when they switch to the camera from the right. Whenever they go to the wide shot, it's dreadful.

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John D

Subject THE BAND LIVE IN TOKYO DVD

Comments:

The good news. The DVD was delivered right on time. The bad news.......where do I start? The Band toured all over the world that year; including The Queen Elizabeth Theater in Vancouver. I own that copy on VHS. It was very good quality for VHS at the time. This concert is done in Tokyo; from the same period.

The music is 5 stars. That's why I bought the CD some time back. This DVD is less than bootleg quality and I have seen better boots. It's both fuzzy and blurred. Especially a full shot of the players. It comes alive from time to time on close ups. I'm guessing this was taken from a VHS copy and burned to DVD. I don't know. I am so disappointed.

If your a completist like me than you may want it. My son is coming over Saturday and I'm going to have to warn him.

Sorry. I really wanted to love this. Couldn't they have found Master Video Tapes for this?

So I will close my eyes and listen to the great sound track. It is 5.1 and 16x9. That's the good part.

Watching Richard play the drums almost makes it worth it.

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Bill M

Watching the follow-on link from the Japanese documentary to Ronnie Hawkins performing at an awards ceremony in 2010 (linked) was somehow good for the soul. Within a relatively short while at least three of the participants - Domenic Troiano, Zal Yanofsky and Denny Doherty - were gone. Troiano is brought up front by Hawkins right at the end and does some really nice guitar work (especially for a man as ill as he was).

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sadavid

"The Band.
Topic difficult and attractive so do not give some Oh yeah.
Aloof. Profound. Rigor and chaos. Mystery. Fate.
Impressed come blur from the sound, chest as Kakimushira."

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Bill M

Kevin J: Thanks for that idea that Robbie would have been in Toronto for the film fest. If September, it would have been '79 or, more likely, '80. I've gotta say that extremity of some of the details suggest that they came to you fifth or six hand; I doubt that Robbie really soaked up the champagne supply or really didn't rouse himself to see a single film. You didn't hear this from Ronnie hisself did you?

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sadavid

Peter V - Napier-Bell's point about the jukebox are confirmed on the page Fred linked (translation courtesy Google):

"Rivu~on gave us in response to an interview after playing. When I was a child, "I did not hear the record.
Juke box was the source of the music most.
It was really beautiful, the sound was also great
When it comes to town with his father, I sat near the jukebox got a coin,
you had listened all the way to sound like you've never heard. ""

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Fred

Subject: Song to Soul Episode 33 The Weight

I've been able to locate the TV program on youtube. The person who uploaded the show split it in 4 parts....part 1 is missing though.

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uCUtqlKaFU

PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_od3r1E5Mk

PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fefr7W2lw

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Fred

Subject: What I missed on TV last night...

Actually it was on at midnight. Silly me for wanting to get some sleep. It was a repeat showing, which means it'll be on again. I wonder if there's anything on youtube?

It's a decent TV show especially due to the fact that the interviews aren't overdubbed by some bad Japanese voice actor.

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Peter V

I also noticed how astute Dolly Parton must have been. The Blue Smoke CD has a bonus "Best of" CD with her greatest hits. All this is on Sony Masterworks, though her last album was on A&M and the one before on MCA. The sub-label is "Dolly" on all of them, so I assume she retains all rights to her catalogue and chooses who to lease it to on a "what's best this year" basis.

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Peter V

Thanks, the reviews all single out Neil young as the main reason to buy, and that Graham Nash was good. As I say, I recall Neil being way out of it at Wembley, and Nash fine.

The price difference ($38 USA v $91 UK) might be explained by some facts about the markets which surprised me. Because the HMV chain has survived, though much reduced, we still have "record shops" in most towns. So they believe they can sell a few. This was illustrated by sales of “Blue Smoke” by Dolly Parton, which is the last week’s current listening. I Googled yesterday, and it has sold 57,000 physical copies in the USA, against 110,000 physical copies in Britain, where it is also right at the top of the supermarket “Top Twenty” (20 is all the CDs they sell). She was helped here by headlining at Glastonbury, but it seems the physical market per capita is much larger in the UK. Thus CSNY have a chance of selling box sets here and don’t need the heavy discount … $38 is after all cheap for 3 CDs and a DVD in an elaborate package.

I’ve been reading Simon Napier-Bell’s erudite history of the music business, Ta-Ra-Ra-BOOM-De-Ay (highly recommended, especially on the pre-rock era), and it was similar through the late 1920s and 1930s where Europe generally had higher per capita record sales than the USA, and indeed EMI was the world’s biggest record company. The explanation is that radio was far better and more important in America, where in Europe it was generally tightly-controlled and restricted, and also that a more concentrated population basis gave easier access to record stores. No one wanted to buy shellac records mail order from the Sears catalogue. Thus music publishers in the USA were more focussed on radio play. Another little fact … juke boxes were hugely more mportant in the USA. American Decca controlled 100,000 out of 250,000 juke boxes in the early days, which gave them a guaranteed sale of any record they wanted to push hard. Even by 1960, juke boxes were so important that record labels produced those “33 rpm singles” for juke boxes, which never turned up in Europe.

Comments welcome! .

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Kevin J

Bill M: I liked that story......thinking that it was probably a September evening as Robbie was often in town for the Toronto film festival back in those days - the early years of the festival. In fact, in Brian D. Johnson's book on the history of the Toronto festival, he tells the story of how the festival's organizers were provided a lesson of sorts in how rock n roll decadence far surpassed that of the film school boys and girls..........as the story goes, the organizers had named The Band's Robbie Robertson as a member of the Jury to evaluate films and this position came with a promise of all expenses to be covered while in town..........RR arrived at the hotel and immediatley called down to order all available champagne in stock be delivered to his room (that one order alone blowing the entire expenses budget!)........the party had started and according to legend continued for the duration of the festival.....the kicker was that RR apparantly never attended a single film screening.

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Bill M

JT: The rest of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings is also very well represented on the "Borrowed Tunes" comp from 1994. Colin Linden and the other instrumentalists (Richard Bell, John Dymond, Gary Craig) cover "Tonight's The Night" (with Rick Danko on background vocals), and Tom Wilson, fronting his old band, Junkhouse, does a killer version of "Fucked Up". Linden also appears on Lori Yates' version of "Helpless", which he also produced and which also has Rick Danko on BG vocals. (Rick had also appeared on Yates' Linden-produced CD.)

Thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that the full BARK also appears on "Borrowed Tunes II", performing "Unknown Legend".

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Jed

Been listening to this Boxset since receiving it a few weeks ago.Neil Young iis the highlight of this album.His creativity,freshness and energy are noteworthy.Nash is excellent,Stills is hoarse and off key at times and Crosby has sounded better.Overall,a good Boxset,but if you're not a hard core fan,4 Way Street is a much better choice.The overall sound quality on this release is fair.Despite these criticisms I'm enjoying listening.Neil's On The Beach is tremendous!

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JT

Subject: Stephen Fearing

Bill M: Thanks for mentioning Stephen Fearing. We should cherish his talent and all that he does. He continues to thrive and is among the best of what Canada still offers. He is doing well and continues to create on his own and with BARK. I always look forward to his performances and expect he will be on stage again soon. He deserves international recognition and is among the best.

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Bill M

Subject: Motel California

Peter V: I couldn't help thinking of CSN when I listened to Stephen Fearing's wonderful cover of "Thrasher" on "Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young" (which has Rick Danko singing background on a couple songs by a couple different people): "The motel of lost companions / Waits with heated pool and bar".

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Peter V

In a bold move, CSNY have put five audio tracks and one video from “Live 1974” as the MOJO covermount disc this month.

An explanation is that they’re not shifting any box sets in the UK. Amazon.com have the 3CD + DVD set at $39.88, while amazon.co.uk have the same box set at £53.99, which at today’s rate of exchange comes out as $91. People have been complaining and saying “wait till HMV’s Christmas sale, they’ll be giving them away." I've been thinking, I'll wait till my son comes over in the autumn and get him to bring one. After all, we've waited forty years for it. A few months won't make a difference.

Much as I enjoyed the video of Our House, it’s fuzzy and largely out of focus.

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Bill M

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Fred

Kevin J: Yes I did! Sadly I think this may be a one-off, the way things have been going lately, but as a fan I can only hope there'll be a few more like this. For a bit there, when Alonso was holding on to his lead I was transported back to Spain 1981.

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Kevin J

I believe that Danko, Fjeld, Andersen reached number 1 in Norway back in the early 1990's which did mark a milestone as no The Band album, The Band single or any recording by any other individual member ever achieved number 1 success on any other chart anywhere - ever..........but happy to see that Legends, Icons & Rebels has reached number 1 on the vaunted Amazon.com sales chart - category of "children's music books" may not be "Billboard Hot 100" but it is a nice accomplishment for Robbie, Sebastion and colleagues.......what makes this book so great is that it did not play down to the target audience........News networks across the globe could take a lesson from this.

Fred: I hope that you were able to catch the race today.....an absolute beauty.

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Wallsend

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Dennis

Like Peter, took me a while to put the initials together:

LG! He walks, he talks, I still have a couple of Day In The Garden stickers I've saved for fifteen years for you!

Glad to hear of you again.

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brown eyed girl

Check out the pages of Sebastian Robertson's Rock & Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story from Henry Holt and Company Books for Young Readers

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brown eyed girl

Rick Danko at Good Old Days Picnic at Kennedy Park Highbanks Somers Point (circa late 90s)...scroll down.

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brown eyed girl

Rick Danko Recognition - "Walk in the Footsteps of Rock Music Legends"

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brown eyed girl

Portrait in Rock...Garth

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Wallsend

If Bob ever loses his voice completely we can just replace him with Jimmy Fallon. BTW, the Jimmy Fallon version of The Weight on YouTube has almost 2.5 million hits!

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Kevin J

Subject: John Prine and a band JT, Bill M and BEG will remember

LINKED: a rock n roll "Angel From Montgomery"

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JT

Subject: Dylan's voice

I read on this site about Dylan's voice being 'shot'. I then am amazed at the recording of 'Full Moon" that was on line recently (the old Sinatra song). Dylan's voice was in fine form. I understand that there is 'magic' in the studio and that maybe even my voice might measure up to some standard, but this recording by Dylan (assuming it was done recently) is in my view up to his best vocals and cannot in any sense be classified as 'shot'. If this is a sample of what we are to get on the new album next month, then we are in for a treat - at least those of us who value new Dylan albums and are not mired in the 60s and 70s. (Opening myself to criticism but thats the game we play when we opine).

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Bill M

As for Troiano, he would have been in the Disciples by '63, as were his east-end buddies, Sonny Milne and Bert Hermiston. He was on the first few records on Ronnie Hawkins' Hawk label, which started up in '64: "Fannie Mae" by Robbie Lane and the Disciples; "Let The Good Times Roll" by Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks [i.e., the Disciples] and "Betty Jo" by the Strato-tones [who in this case were singer / pianist / producer Scott Cushnie, Troiano and unidentified others - likely Disciples]. Troiano also wrote two of the six sides. He left Hawkins shortly afterwards, and was hired to the new guitarist and arranger for Whitey [Glan] and the Roulettes, replacing Mike McKenna and Steve Kennedy respectively. The Roulettes changed their name to the Five Rogues, who changed their name to Mandala.

As you know, McKenna went on, by way of Luke and the Apostles, to co-found McKenna Mendelson Mainline, whose first LP, "Stink", I was pleased to pick up in England two weeks ago. It's nice for the Mainline completist to have the first, i.e., British pressing because it includes maybe five bits of studio banter that were cut from US and Canadian pressings. McKenna was another of those teenagers who sat in the chips-'n'-coke section at the Hawkins / Hawks matinees at the Concord, trying hard to learn Robbie's 'secrets'; his playing on "Stink" shows he succeeded.

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Kevin J

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Bill M

Subject: Robbie Lane and the Disciples

In the photo of the Hawks and the Disciples (and Freddy McNulty) at one of BEG's links, the correct spellings are Cudmore, Trach, Hermiston and McNulty. Robbie Lane and the Disciples still play regularly, though Robbie's the only original left in the group. Sonny Milne, though, still plays regularly with Little Caesar on the Consuls, who are led now by saxman Norm Sherrat, who was the saxman 55 years ago when Robbie Robertson was in the band! Of the other Disciples, Troiano and Hermiston are gone and Trach and Cudmore have retired from music.

That reminds me: A week or so ago Bonk mentioned having seen somebody play at the Clubhouse on Merton Street in Toronto at the end of the '70s. I remember going there just once, and that was to meet up with a British Hawkins fanatic, Wild Willie Jeffrey, at a Hawkins show. Willie introduced me to Ronnie, who told me about his first, African-American group of Hawks - totally new news to me at the time. I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if the same Merton Street building had housed the CHUM HiFi Club, the site of the little 1959 photo (see link) of Ronnie Hawkins guesting with Robbie Robertson and other members of the Suedes, the 'house' band at the time.

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brown eyed girl

Richard Manuel The Band original stencil art on vinyl LP record...as well as others from The Band, Dylan, George Harrison and Woody Guthrie.

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brown eyed girl

Richard Manuel Discography On Video

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brown eyed girl

Taken at the "Summer Gardens" in Port Dover Circa 61-62...This is sort of a jam with "The Hawks" and Robbie Lane & "The Diciples"..just before they joined the Hawk....

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Peter V

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Kevin J

Townes Van Zandt: I envy you on that one Lee.......I have never been brought to tears at a show but some strong emotions - especially looking back at some very special experiences shared. A very spur of the moment decision to go see Rick Danko at a small club just outside Montreal ( Pioneer club, Pointe-Claire ) in 1990 or 1991 with my late sister would be at the top of that list........What a night.

NWC: Just as Bob Dylan has mirrors positioned all over the stage to prevent good quality pictures and videos to be taken at his shows, so too has his team been known to have specialized distortion speakers set up just outside the gates at outdoor shows to tease the cheapskates.........trust me, it sounded great inside the gates!

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NorthWestCoaster

On a serious side... Dylan played only for a few miles away. At the same time there was a chamber music concert for only appr. 50 people in another fishing village nearby. Some people from Royal Philharmonics, Royal Opera and Royal Musical Academy have their summer residences there. Their goal is to arrange a miniature chamber music festival in the village and this was the way to gather people who are interested to be a part of this. We were there instead of Dylan concert.

On our way back home we stayed in the front of the gate and heard Dylan slaughter 'All along...'. He made it to a nursery rhyme... sort of. Song and dance men have been arrested for less!

Thanks for not showing this post to JT.

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NorthWestCoaster

Somehow I just posted in Swedish. This is an English (and Finnish) translation:

"I hope that DJ is using a Linux / Unix based equipment. Otherwise I'll take my car and drive to "Allsång på graensen" and whisper "Judas" ;-)"

"Toivottavasti tiskijukka käyttää joka tapauksessa Linux/Unix-pohjaista laitteistoa. Muussa tapauksessa menen "Allsång på graensen" -tapahtumaan ja kuiskaan "Judas" ;-)

Just for the gb historians!

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: jh / DJ

Hoppas att DJs utrustning är baserad i alla fall på Linux / Unix. Annars kommer jag till "Allsång på graensen" och viskar "Judas" ;-)

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brown eyed girl

Hey Leeee...."My copy of this record has traveled with me across three continents and through 30 litres of whiskey. There’s no knowing where we’ll go next. It’s worth noting here that I could also write a whole list based purely on songs sung by Richard Manuel."

Seven Songs That Make My Soul Sing
I also like on this list Elvis Costello's "Alison" and Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You"

Before I was at our Jazz Street Festival this evening I saw the film "Tammy" with Melissa McCarthy. Her rendition of Greg Allman's "Midnight Rider" was worth seeing the film. Apparently others didn't agree with me. Oh well....Loved how Susan Sarandon's character apparently slept with Duane once upon a time...Really enjoyed Gregg Allman and band at Eric Clapton's Guitar Festival. He also covered Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done".....

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LG

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LG

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Kevin J

Great quote that sure grabbed ones attention……but it did seem just that didn’t it…..anyway, a few days ago Earle corrected the record:

“Do I believe that? No. Did I ever believe it? Fuck no. Somebody asked me for a quote for a sticker…”

Al Edge: Good catch! There are so many damn songs on Exile and many that run into each other in a way that I forgot about “Tumbling Dice” – a special song indeed. “Shine a Light” is my favorite song on the album.

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Ben

Subject: Carter Baron CD

I'm listening to the Carter Baron CD that was recently released. The sound quality is very good. I haven't compared it to the other versions of this concert that I have. But, this is very acceptable sound quality and I recomend this for anyone who doesn't have a CD of this show already. Hopefully, the upcoming Palladium CD that was just announced a few days ago will have similar sound quality.

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jh

While we´re at it:

Our former house DJ is playing at the Museum of Modern Art PS1 in Queens, New York City, this Saturday! (link above)

The gig is part of MoMAs Warm Up 2014 concert series, "introducing audiences to the best in experimental live music, sound, and DJs -- both local and international -- across a range of genres." The concerts are "programmed by a curatorial committee selected by the museum to represent a wide spectrum of expertise and experience in music, sound, and the performing arts, resulting in a unique lineup of artists that explore, interpret, and combine genres".

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brown eyed girl

jh....Congrats with your son's collaboration with the very young and talented Ariana Grande. Did he actually meet her and her signature white boots? I hear a song there......"These boots are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do...and one of these days....these boots are gonna walk all over you."

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brown eyed girl

When I was asked to share some links on Richard Manuel I tried to link some newer ones.....I never saw the photo with Garland Jeffreys which of course brought me joy. I looked quickly through all of the links that jh had once complied under brown eyed girl's links for awhile.....and as I previously stated it's more challenging to find links for Richard period. I wasn't looking for performances by Richard. I like seeing my favourite musicians in other settings as well. So I posted once again the CASBY award show where Richard gave the Hawk an award.

Of course it was uncomfortable........The elephant in the room always is.....He had a dis....ease. There is no shame in that. I actually thought he did well considering. Now the Hawk....I also heard him use his humour again to remember and share about Richard....that was also uncomfortable on a radio show that I had also linked before.......

Bill M.....I hadn't looked at your other perspective about the Hawk......Thanks for sharing it as I'm sure he loved Richard and although it wasn't the best time to use his humour.......I'm sure he was like everyone else who probably was so frustrated that someone with huuuuge talent and who could connect with so many of us couldn't stay with us for a longer time. He was the soul of the Band......What really irks me is that hardly anyone knows that he is Stratford's real gem. Hoping finally in September to have a visit with Richard and hope he understood that when I find anything on Richard.....I just love to see him anywhere.....period.

Perhaps maybe now Band fans who slam Robbie for not showing more of Richard at TLW.....now understand as well. Anyone who has been with an alcoholic and/or drug addict knows and feels how painful for everyone concerned. Anyway, for me.....I love seeing Richard's performances from the early seventies.....and I would looooove to see some from the days of The Hawks!!! I can't tell you how happy I was to see the Festival Express performance for the first time at our Toronto Film Festival at the same Elgin Theatre where I saw TLW two times in one night in 1978! So I've linked that one once again. :-D

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Kerrin

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Bill M

BEG/Kevin J: I agree that it's uncomfortable and says more about Hawkins - but what exactly it says is not clear-cut. It could say that Hawkins was being a totally insensitive a-hole in treating Richard as a handy nail for his sledgehammer wit. Or it could say that Hawkins so deeply cared for Richard that he was willing to risk looking like a totally insensitive a-hole in an attempt to shock-shame Richard into changing his ways.

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Al Edge

Subject: Tumbling Dice

I do tend to agree in broad terms with Kev and Bill re Exile.

That said, whilst the definition of what constitutes a 'GREAT' song can be shrouded in subjectivity, boy oh boy is the opening 2 and half minutes of Tumbling Dice [linked] more than a bit special.

:-0)

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Al Edge

Subject: Richard

Just reflecting on kev's posts.

Got to say, it's possibly splitting hairs but much as I do love Richard's singing in that You Don't Know me vocal circa 'mid '80's as linked by Kev, I do think the sublime flawless quality of his vocal in the 1970 Rockin Chair which I've linked and the Hobo Jungle track linked by Kev to be more representative of the gift with which he was bequeathed from above.

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jh

Our site DJ is featured on Billboard #1 artist Ariana Grande's new album! (link above) And there is more to come -- feel free to guess which megastar is the next to benefit from his production skills.

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Jed

Thanks-that was a stunning rendition by Richard.Beautiful.

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brown eyed girl

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Kevin J

LINKED: Nick DeRiso - one of a series on NLSC. This one "Hobo Jungle"

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Kevin J

LINKED: The great Richard Manuel in fine form........for those that were disturbed by that CASBY clip. I love Ronnie Hawkins but to arm check someone on national TV in front of Richard's kids was a tough one to watch. I commented on this years ago, the last time this was shown ( on LP GB ) and it bothers me now as much now as it did then.

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Bill M

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Kevin J

NLSC: Very much underrated ......I tend to favour albums with great songs on them and understood Mick Jagger's dismissal of "Exile on Main Street" due to it not having any great songs...........NLSC with "Acadian Driftwood", "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference" contains 3 great songs and a number of other beauties.........Nick DeRiso has been doing a nice song by song look back at the album in recent months. Very enjoyable and worth checking out.

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brown eyed girl

"Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and me,
All died of a broken heart.
They left me here to sing their song
And act out the rest of the part."

Rick Danko, Richard Manuel And Me - Written and Read by Hank Beukema

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brown eyed girl

You might have missed Richard Manuel and Ronnie Hawkins on CASBY Award Show 1985...see 11:17.

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brown eyed girl

It's not as easy locating links on Richard Manuel. Check brown eyed girl's links on this site for some. However I just found.......Garland Jeffreys with.......

Paul Butterfield, Mike Finnegan, Stephen Stills, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Ellen Foley, Richard Manuel. Pasadena CA
Rock and Roll Tonight 4/27/83

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Fred

I've always thought that No Woman No Cry is one of those songs that sounds better in its live version rather than the original studio version. Same goes for Cheap Trick's I Want You to Want Me.

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Peter V

Lee, I used to get annoyed at seeing my initials (PSV) on every bus in Bournemouth (Public Service Vehicle). Time has passed.

I remember Lee phoning me nearly 20 years back, and saying "There's this thing on the internet about The Band." I didn't want to connect, though I'd worked on computer for ten years by then, because my publisher issued dire warnings about viruses and security and advised authors sending them any discs not to be connected to the internet. Ever. Yes, they were always at the cutting edge of technology. But Lee told me it was run from Norway and all sorts of people who actually knew The Band were posting there.

On Northern Lights, I agree on under-rated. Ophelia and It Makes No Difference must be equal to the most-performed pieces post TLW. Link is to the old "Jupiter Hollow" piece I did in 1998. Sixteen years ago. Phew!

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Jed

Perhaps because its my part time residence for years but there's something about hotel Bob that feels kind of tacky and too commercially absurd even for Woodstock.Maybe I'm too old school.

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Life's Good

I like your links. :) anything on the great Richard Manuel?

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LIfes Good

Incredibly underrated album in my opinion. A little short on tunes admittedly as they are fleshed out but some fantastic songs. I'm three songs in and Levon is sounding wonderful as always

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LG

Apologies my initials caused confusion, Peter, but as it's Lee Gabites it would be strange to change. Life's Good....would be good ;) What's the news on the next reissue from Capitol/Robbie Robertson?

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Wallsend

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Peter V

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sadavid

I was very taken with "I Can See For Miles" back in the day, and surprised to realize (we were starting to listen to lead guitar heroes) that the drums provided the lead line. (Very possibly a faute de mieux situation; the 'lead' guitar - including the solo - is limited to approximately one note.)

In "My Generation," both drums & bass seem to start and stop almost at random . . . how they manage to carry the beat is a mystery . . . .

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Bill M

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Kevin J

…wow! I went in thinking no more than a paragraph or two and couldn’t stop reading on. Wonderful take.

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sadavid

Subject: Keith Moon and Rock Drumming

From _The New Yorker_, a critical appreciation of The Loon -- (another case where you have to set aside judgments about the Person if you're going to appreciate the Artist).

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Kevin J

Carmen: Thank you for the thoughts on "'She's Not Mine". I agree but the album version only. I found the vocal on the Bonus version too detached and therefore lacking in the emotion that puts the song over for me. Like you, I can't help but think of Richard and Rick on many RR songs. I wonder what Rick thought when RR would play him songs over the years......I am sure there were some feelings of 'you know, I could really put these over the top for you".

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Carmen

Subject: Hotel In Woodstock

http://www.uncut.co.uk/hotel-named-after-bob-dylan-opens-in-woodstock-news. Favorite Marly is Natural Mystic

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brown eyed girl

....and there was also Bob Marley Concrete Jungle @ The Old Grey Whistle Test 1973

Looking forward to reading the Wailers' story by John Masouri.

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Peter V

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Peter V

Subject: Stir It Up

I'd say the Lyceum London one that got recorded in front of a mainly Jamaican audience was the key one. The "Old Grey Whistle Test" show where The Wailers did "Stir It Up" was the breakthrough TV appearance. (Snobbish sniff here) Of course I already had the album.

Trojan did a box set of 7" singles recently with the "first" version of Stir It Up, and there's also one on the reissue De Luxe edition of Catch-A-Fire. We played both at our monthly "vinyl club" here in a hifi shop on wildly expensive equipment. Both are wonderful, but in spite of the reggae purists, the Island overdubs really do make Catch-A-Fire. I linked the Old Grey Whistle Test 1973 performance a few months ago, but let's link it again. One of the greatest rock studio appearances.

The first two Bob Marley Desert Island selections for me are Stir It Up from Catch-A-Fire, and No Woman No Cry from Live at the Lyceum.

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Kevin J

LINKED: Robert Hilburn's original review of one of the most important concerts in rock history. Check out the guest list for a The Band reference. I would imagine that there were some photos of that evening floating around.

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joe j

Subject: Holly Williams

For those not acquainted.

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Wallsend

A one minute forty three second video clip from the Maple Leaf Garden show.

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brown eyed girl

Great moments in Rock and Roll.
Meeting Rick Danko as told by Russ Pettinger.

Kevin J...You're usually so funny. Thanks!

LG...Peter V's got it now. ;-D

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brown eyed girl

Thank you JH! Was Rick Danko the only Band member to have taken a photo with Bob Marley?
PSB....Do you have one with Marley?
Garland Jeffreys has a photo with Marley. :-D

Audio: 40 Years Ago (January 8, 2014) Bob Dylan & The Band Play Toronto

"Here’s a recording of “As I Went Out One Morning,” from the second night at the Maple Leaf Gardens.

It’s from a bootleg of the show, As I Went Out One Evening.

According to www.bjorner.com this is the only time Bob Dylan has ever performed “As I Went Out One Morning” live. (I’ve included the setlist for the January 9, 1974 show below the video clips.)"

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Al Edge

Cheers Si.

It's only taken me a few hundred listens for the penny to drop.

:-0)

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jh

Ricky and Bob Marley!

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Kevin J

Bill M: Tale of Two Cities – perhaps – Montreal and Toronto: “Say it Ain’t So” was a huge FM radio song in Montreal probably a year or so before the Daltrey cover. Funny how it worked that way between the cities with some artists……and in some cases neither city really seems to remember what was what…….Toronto folks like to think many of the English prog rock groups broke first in TO while those in the Montreal rock scene are adamant that many such bands broke first in NA from Montreal and the mighty CHOM FM……….anyhow, all that is a thing of the past now with local FM radio no longer having any influence over the kids choices of music.

LINKED: Is one of the few prog tunes that would seep up from my brother's room that I liked back in the day.......do check out the link as some stunning images of a young Peter Gabriel and excellent sound quality.

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Bill M

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Kevin J

I prefer the original but interesting to see Roger Daltrey sing Murray Head.....the drummer seems - ahhh - confused!

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Peter V

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Bill M

Ian W: Why not May 13? A group that could play Cardiff and Birmingham on successive nights could probably manage to get to Liverpool after a night of ghost-busting.

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LG

Dig Robbie Robertsons solo in Time To Kill & Garths impro before Chest Fever. Very cool

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LG

Absolutely, I sat in Levon's kitchen with Garth & Levon while Garth was discussing me doing a book on Levon & The Hawks in 2001. I had already made many contacts from those days but unfortunately due to various circumstances on my part....

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Mike Nomad

Now THERE would be an interesting book, doncha think?

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LG

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Peter V

Put out an official one and stop the cash ins,

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LG

Ragtime, I interviewed Marty in 2000/2001 and that's how the info about The Pencils originated. I would have to go through my tapes but you could probably contact Marty through the net

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LG

Garth has an amazing memory for things and lots of old photographs but not sure whether he kept a diary in those days. Of course, Maud would know

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Ragtime

Subject: Any Way to Say Goodbye (Marty Grebb / Terry Danko / Richard Manuel)

Hello old friends...

A question from a Dutch pensionado...

Does anyone know where I can find the wonderful song Any Way to Say Goodbye by Terry Danko and his band (The Pencils?), written by Marty Grebb?

It used to be on YouTube since 2009 and I'd listen to it occasionally, but now it seems to have disappeared... vanished... been pulled away... thrown out...

And it's missing from Terry's own uploads as well...

And since Richard sings the lead in the first half of the song (and Terry does a great Rick imitation), it cannot be missed...

So please... if anyone can help...??!!

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brown eyed girl

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Peter V

I thought I'd stopped reviewing blockbuster movies, but in honor of the appearance of "The Weight" I did Dawn of The Planet of The Apes, linked.

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JT

Subject: Dylan and ghosts in 1966

Ian: I agree. Based upon what we see of Dylan repeatedly in the 1966 photos, Dylan could not possibly have appeared as he does in the photo suggestion at the top of this article. Moreover, I doubt very much if he would be wearing the togs of the early 60s during those dates. You are very considerate. The inaccuracy irks me a great deal and it is one of the sad parts (there are many 'happy' parts) of internet 'documentation'.

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Ian W

The story in the link provided by Roger is a bit fanciful, I suspect.

It was in 1966 when Dylan was certainly not wearing a cap and sheepskin jacket. Dylan played the Capitol Theatre in Cardiff on 11 May 1966, the Odeon in Birmingham on 12 May 1966 and the Odeon in Liverpool on 14 May 1966. The most likely date for this trip to Witley Court was therefore 12 May 1966, either in the afternoon before the concert that evening in Birmingham or immediately after the show. He went with Steve and Muff Winwood from the Spencer Davis Group.

At least one Dylan biographer has said it was the afternoon of 12 May 1966 but it seems more likely that ghost-hunting would take place when it is dark. I guess Dylan was accompanied by other members of the touring party (perhaps including memebers of The Hawks) but I'm not sure. When Kevyn Gammond says that they "all" went to Witley Court, I have to say that I don't recall Jim Capaldi or Dave Mason (or Kevyn Gammond himself for that matter) being mentioned previously as a member of the party.

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brown eyed girl

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brown eyed girl

Never the last Last Waltz
by Noel Murray

"My shifting relationship with Martin Scorsese’s 1978 concert film The Last Waltz is a case in point. I first saw The Last Waltz when I was a freshman in college, while still under the influence of an ex-hippie high-school English teacher who helped shape my appreciation for Woodstock-era rock ’n’ roll. That teacher didn’t just make me a tape of the first two albums by The Band; he also loaned me a copy of Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train to read while I listened, so I could appreciate the music more. By the time I watched The Last Waltz, at age 18, I’d developed a reverence for the musicians in the movie. Plus, I’d begun reading the major film critics, most of whom had declared The Last Waltz the best concert film ever made. I was primed to be awed. And I was awed.

The Last Waltz was on cable recently, and I watched it for a third time. Unexpectedly, I fell in love with the movie all over again, but from a different perspective. For the first time, I noticed how young everybody in The Last Waltz is. Most of these guys were in their 30s when they were talking to Scorsese about how wizened and road-weary they’d become, and today—to the 43-year-old me—they all look like kids. As for those much-maligned interviews with Robertson, they don’t seem so egregious any more. They seem revealing. Robertson, by all accounts, was a prick back then. Scorsese, by all accounts, bought what Robertson was selling. The Last Waltz is an honest document of both its subject and its director. This is Scorsese’s film, and its flaws and biases are personal ones.

When it comes to The Last Waltz, a lot of my souring toward the film in my 30s was due to critics like Dave Marsh, who in his essay collection Fortunate Son calls Robbie Robertson “the perfect object of the pop intellectual’s star-struck gaze,” and of the movie says, “We see the Outsider as a blustering Aristocrat… The interviews in The Last Waltz, where Robertson interrupts Rick Danko and Richard Manuel at almost every turn, are gross self-promotion, indulged with aplomb if little subtlety.” I read Marsh’s comments now, and think he makes some good points, but his take also seems unduly affected by the great claims made for The Band and The Last Waltz by other critics, and his desire to push back against colleagues like Greil Marcus by skewering Robertson’s pretensions and noting The Band’s relative lack of success at hitting the charts.

Then again, just as The Last Waltz is a valuable record of The Band, Robbie Robertson, and Martin Scorsese, so Marsh’s writing about the movie is a valuable record of what critics and rock fans were talking about circa 1978. It’s not like movie buffs and critics should hold their tongues for 20 years and then go on record with what we think. The best any of us can do is to stay as open as we can, and then be as honest as we can—even if that means writing or saying something we’ll regret later on. But we should also stay open to the changes."

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Roger

Subject: Witley Court nr Birmingham

There was a jam Bill - at a famous venue in Birmingham - The Elbow Room. The link explains that Bob didn't jam however, with Dave Mason et al.

They went down to Witley Court about 30 miles away. An amazing place - if there were ghosts, they'd collect here.

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Rod

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Re: "The Last Waltz/Evangeline/Last Waltz Refrain" from TLW

Simon, thanks and great find. So interesting that The Last Waltz (song) and Evangeline had DNA in common. Fascinating because you can really see Robbie's thinking in progress. Seems like he had a number of interesting musical ideas he was playing around with in the suite, not quite fleshed out yet presumably because time was so tight, that could have resolved in any number of ways besides the ones we know today.

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bBill M

Speaking of Steve Winwood, there's a little vignette in Dylan's first big "Rolling Stone" interview ('68?) where he tells of Muff Winwood taking brother Steve and "all of us" (Dylan and the Hawks, presumably) to visit a haunted house outside Birmingham in early '66. I like to think they at least jammed a bit afterwards as well.

"The last of November / Leaves on the ground" finds its echo in the opening lines of "Sweet Baby James": "the first of December was covered in snow / and so was the turnpike from Stockport to Boston".

Jersey Girl: So good to see you posting!

JT: Whisky Howl had a pretty long run actually, though with an ever-shifting lineup - '68 to '76ish. They did an LP in '71 or '72 (since released on CD by Pacemaker) with Johnny Sandlin in Alabama with other Allman buddies Paul Hornsby and Chuck Leavell helping out. Five or six years ago I saw long-time drummer Wayne Wilson nip home from a coffeeshop in the James Bay area of Victoria to get his hand drum so he could play along with a very enjoyable folk duo. Sadly, he died a few years later, still in your adopted town.

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Kevin J

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Simon

Subject: "The Last Waltz/Evangeline/Last Waltz Refrain" from TLW

Al - Robbie sings the "go down ol' Hannah" verse in Ain't No More Cane.

I've linked to "The Last Waltz/Evangeline/Last Waltz Refrain" from TLW. If you go to about 1hr 26 mins you can see and hear this little overlooked nugget that was "put together kinda for the occasion". "Cane" might be the only song where all four sing a verse but this mini suite features Rick, Levon, Richard and Robbie singing.

"The last of November
Leaves on the ground
It's hard to remember
What city, what town
So many roads
Covered in stone
Surrounded by people
Yet feel so alone"

Although it sounds a bit tentative this section has a certain something ... plus it's nice to see Richard standing up and singing soul man style.

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Kevin J

....I have answers for whether Robbie caught the fly, Jimmy Hoffa's final resting pace, the location of Malaysian flight 370, L. Suarez's next bite, and the type of hand grenade Rod Stewart uses to comb his hair each day........but not the 2nd verse of "Ain't No More Cane" .......sorry Al.

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brown eyed girl

MARK SELIGER photo of Robbie Robertson

Special shout out to Jersey Girl again who was one of the first to share Youtube videos with all of us and who inspired me to carry on.

Special shout out to Claire who showed me how to shrink loooong links which allowed me to share even more links.

:-D

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brown eyed girl

AIN’T NO MORE ‘CANE: Levon Helm, The Basement Tapes and American Roots Music.

Btw, as far as confirming The Hawks/ The Band tour dates we still have Robbie and Garth, don't we? Many times Sebastian has posted and Maud as well. Can they not be asked to ask the remaining Band members??

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brown eyed girl

Jersey Girl!!!!!!

"Nothin' else matters in this whole wide world,
When you're in love with a Jersey girl,
Sing sha la la la la la la.

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Al Edge

I presume nobody picked up on the question I asked down below so I'll ask it again - is it Robbie singing the second verse of Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos?

If so, does that make it the only song where all four have taken a verse each? There's a few with three including The Rumour but I can't bring to mind another with all four

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JT

Subject: Whiskey Howl

As for Whiskey Howl, they were a short-lived blues band local from Toronto area at a time when a musical explosion of talent was occurring in Toronto. (Bill M knows a lot more about this than I do). That band included a number of very talented musicians, including a great bass player from my high school (who played in The Dimensions (who became A Passing Fancy) - Rick Fruchtman (Mann). I can still remember the Dimensions at my high school covering early Rolling Stones. I was floored by people my age playing that music like that. Those were special times.

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JT

Subject: JDWIII

I saw Johnny Winter not in 1970 but on Oct. 3, 1969 at Massey Hall. Opening act: Whiskey Howl. He had played every pop festival from Varsity to Atlanta to Woodstock for months before. To say he was on fire would be to understate the case.

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LG

Loved the sounds you made 08/99 Bethel, NY

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LG

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Wallsend

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Peter V

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Jersey Girl

Subject: Hotel Dylan

Oh, lord, what's next? Link is to yesterday's NY Times: "All you need is love and $189". Doesn't exactly sound like the Chelsea.

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Carmen

Subject: RR / She's Not Mine

Listened to this song again. I think it is one of RR's best. He and Winwood should consider working together again. Boy this song has Rick's voice written all over it.

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brown eyed girl

....and one more by Sly's band in 1968.
Btw who was the funky violinist who played on previous extended cut of Thank You on Soul Train video?

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brown eyed girl

....or the teacher could have played by Sly and the Family Stone "Thank You (For Letting Me Be Myself)

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brown eyed girl

A former co-worker told me that when she graduated from highschool her teacher played Sly and the Family Stone's "Every Day People" as they were approaching the stage to receive their diplomas. She always felt that it was his way to remind everyone to accept every one as he happened to be gay.

I always appreciated that Sly's band was progressive in that it was one of the first to have women in a band with men who played instruments and his band was multi-racial. Robbie had said in an interview that he always couldn't wait to hear the next recording of this band. I remember on tv he had his outrageous wedding filmed. I only have their greatest hits and they don't disappoint ever.

Sly and the Family Stone at the Harlem Cultural Festival Sunday June 29, 1969

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Peter V

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Peter V

Macy Gray … kept the audience waiting 90 minutes after the support act and was then extremely stoned and incoherent. Good band though.

Santana, circa 1976, as I've often said. Full stadium amplification full on in a smallish classical concert hall. Awful. Hot Chocolate a few days away (before or after?) were way, way better.

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Wallsend

I always thought Sly was strange even by the standards of rock musicians!

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Kerrin

'On August 16, 2011, the album I'm Back! Family & Friends was released. The album features re-recorded versions of Sly and the Family Stone's greatest hits with guest appearances from Jeff Beck, Ray Manzarek, Bootsy Collins, Ann Wilson, Carmine Appice, and Johnny Winter, as well as three previously unreleased songs. One month later, on September 25, 2011, the New York Post reported that Sly Stone was now homeless and living out of a white camper-van in Los Angeles: "The van is parked on a residential street in Crenshaw, the rough Los Angeles neighborhood where 'Boyz n the Hood' was set. A retired couple makes sure he eats once a day, and Stone showers at their house.'

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BONK

1978-79. The Clubhouse on Merton Street in Toronto, Joe Cocker. First set, first song. Falls off the freaking stage drunk as a skunk. End of show.

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Peter V

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Kevin J

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Peter V

Subject: Hall & Oates

This is probably the worst review I've given anyone. it starts out nice because I'm talking about 1974. Unfortunately, forty years have passed,

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Pete

Just got a copy of The Midnight Ramble Vol. 3, sounds great. Understand that Levon helped pick out the tracks, truly well done. Congrats to the whole team. Levon, miss ya "brother".. "She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh"....

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brown eyed girl

Photos © John Gellman. All rights reserved.

"These photos of Bob Dylan were taken in January 1974 at a performance in Hollywood, Florida. Dylan hadn’t toured in eight years, so this tour with the Band was a really big deal at the time. It was a great show. Looking back, I don’t know what was wrong with me. I should have taken more pics of the Band, who were outstanding and very tight. Maybe I was conserving film. I can’t explain why I couldn’t seem to point my lens away from Bob. He was such a compelling presence."

DIANA - "These are great photos of Bob.

Yes, a compelling presence. I saw him Sunday night and every once in a while I’d remind myself there IS a band there too and take a quick glance. Inevitably in less than 30 seconds I’d be riveted on Bob again."

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brown eyed girl

"I’ve posted eleven new shots since I last highlighted one of my old black and whites, so it’s time. Here’s an oldie of Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson performing with the Band in July 1974 at the Orange Bowl in Miami. This was the same day that began with the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd. I’ve already posted shots of both those bands taken earlier in the day. Leon Russell followed the Band, but I don’t have a single shot from his set. Maybe I ran out of film. I just don’t remember. Regardless, it was a good day in Miami." (John Gellman)

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brown eyed girl

The Band 1973...Marty Wolf

Kevin J...I'm off next month to visit one of Duf's former co-workers from back in the days of radio. He has a large farm house. We will be discussing the good old days...ha, ha....He never liked him as he was just as pompous then....and discussing sunshine tea (green rooibos, lemon myrtle, lemon vebena)....My favourite ice tea during the hot summer.

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Al Edge

...Kev's got the Blueberry Shakes

Made me howl that Kev

Ta

And a special ta for being so warm and enthusiastic about that extract I'd written. I kind of knew the fan and ELO bit would strike a chord with your goodself. Thing is when you create something, anything, whatever it happens to be you'd be lying to yourself if you didn't admit to enjoying reading or hearing someone saying they enjoyed it.

On a different tack, the points you and Jerry make about rock guitar dinosaurs and their impending extinction are sobering to the point of being completely demoralising. The significance hadn't registered till reading your posts. Reality invariably sucks.

And on another different tack, believe it or not, after god knows how many times and how many years of savouring every note of it, it only just dawned on me for some reason which I cannot begin to explain that it's Robbie singing the second verse of Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos.

Does that make it the only song where all four have taken a verse each? There's a few with three but I can't bring to mind another with all four.

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sadavid

Kevin J: my logic processor also returned a "does not compute" on that one. "Your tax dollars at work," probably . . . .

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Kevin J

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JT

Subject: Enigma

Kevin: I agree with you but I think the day of the 'new' rock star is already gone. If you define the rock star as a performer with a long record of persisting success who is 'front and centre' for decades or even years, I think that is already largely gone. The icons remain from the 60's and 70's (those who are still alive) and continue on with stage performances and new recordings. All the power to them! But, the new young talented individual performers have a more reserved approach. I think some of that relates to the technology around how music is given to the listener and a maturation of the entire process of popular music. If you look at the current guitar wizards who have achieved prominence (and they are every bit as good or better than those identified in the past), they would not be classified as 'rock stars' but rather as excellent artists. There are so many now who can write and play and do it so well. Moreover, I think that young people keep looking for 'the next new thing' in a way that we (over 60s) never did. I don't know if its a continuous unsatisfied desire for 'the next new thing' or a limited attention span or if boredom sets in more quickly. And while I'm at it and opining, commitment and loyalty to any artist is often short lived. Speaking personally, I have stayed committed to most who I have admired since the 60s, while adding artists to my cultural repertoire as the decades have passed. My impression (correct me if I'm wrong. I'm often wrong!) is that the younger crowd throws away what they loved recently. It is all part of a society that quickly tosses out the old (whether its a TV or a computer or a cell phone or a person with talent) in favour of the 'new'. To finish on a high note in the midst of this negativity, paradoxically, the artists who continue to emerge and create are superb. How both of these states of affairs continue to live side by side in tandem is one of the enigmas that perplexes and fascinates me.

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Kevin J

I enjoyed that RR-Clapton performance at the RRHOF..........nice to see that nod to TLW as well.............a bit of trivia ...when Eric Clapton introduced Robbie at the 2007 Crossroads guitar festival, he simply said "Play Some Guitar"..........some time last year while watching The Lost Waltz, I heard for the first time that Robbie had introduced Eric at The Last Waltz with simply "Play Some Guitar"..............I guess Eric wasn't as blasted that night as we had thought.

Sorry to hear about Johnny Winter............in 15 years or so, the "Rock Star" as we once knew and loved it will be gone for ever.

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JT

Subject: John Dawson Winter

I saw Johnny Winter play in the early 70s? at Massey Hall and then again in downtown Toronto some years later. He was a master of the slide and we will not see the likes of him too often again.

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brown eyed girl

The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: The Band

"Sandwiching The Band between Ten Years After and Johnny Winter on Woodstock’s closing night seems like an odd choice. Robertson, Helm, Danko, Hudson, and Manuel were brilliant players, but The Band’s music was far from the blistering, bluesy rock that preceded and followed their set.

But The Band was as big as they come in August 1969, near legends after the release of 1968′s Music From Big Pink. Their steeped-in-Americana vibe might not have had the energy of Alvin Lee’s “I’m Going Home,” but they undoubtedly deserved a plum spot in the billing.

For ten years they created achingly beautiful tone poems, blurry tintypes of a romanticized, lost America, and then they split for all of the reasons that every brilliant group of musicians eventually splits. Those same problems created a rift between Robertson and the rest of the group that couldn’t be bridged for The Band’s eighties reunion.

Time has a way of righting injustices, though. The majority of their set can be found on a bootleg named The Band: At Woodstock. The only song missing is “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever,” and you’ll see below where to find that one.

Here’s The Band’s complete Woodstock set list and where to find official recordings:

1. Chest Fever
2. Don’t Do It
3. Tears Of Rage
4. We Can Talk About It Now
5. Long Black Veil (Woodstock: 25th Anniversary (CD))
6. Don’t Ya Tell Henry
7. Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos (Across the Great Divide (CD))
8. Wheels On Fire
9. I Shall Be Released
10. The Weight (Woodstock: 25th Anniversary (CD))
11. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Woodstock: 25th Anniversary (CD))

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brown eyed girl

Thanks sadavid.....My older brother had one 8-track of Johnny Winter's....Johnny Winter And which was recorded in 1970 with Rick Derringer and the McCoys.
I would especially listen to "Guess I'll Go Away" and "Prodigal Son". His most popular was Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo. I forgot about Not Time To Live by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood. Johnny Winter was 70 and was to play Picton next week.....home of my favourite consignment store.

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sadavid

Subject: RIP Johnny Winter

Johnny is the boss man . . . .

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Ian W

Subject: Robbie McIntosh etc

A year or two back, we caught a (sort-of pick-up) band called "Blues Club" at a smallish hotel down near Selsey Bill:

http://bluesclubband.com/

As you can see from the link, Robbie McIntosh was on guitar. Danny Cummins and Guy Fletcher have both played with Dire Straits, Alan Rogan is best known as a guitar tech for people like the Stones and The Who, Peter Hope-Evans was with Medicine Head and William Topley (perhaps less well-known) has been on the music scene for 20 or so years and is a powerful frontman. The CD does not do justice to their live performance.

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Peter V

Subject: The Bleeding Noses

Another review … Alt.country band The Bleeding Noses from South Wales, who were at the Larmer Tree as winners of the Breakthrough Band 2014 award. Very promising band indeed.

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Wallsend

Robbie playing with Clapton when Clapton was inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Somehow I managed to miss seeing this video until today.

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JQ

Thanks Peter, a great review and I'm fully green with wholesome envy -

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Peter V

Subject: Tom Jones review

My review of Tom Jones at the Larmer Tree Festival, 16th July 2014 is linked.

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Ian W

Thanks, Kerrin, for the answerrs regarding the shows in and around St Louis. I knew about "Slippin' and Slidin'" but wondered whether the attribution was well-founded, since I knew they'd done the song at the Mississippiu River Festival in 1969.

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Bill M

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Jed

Saw the movie.Excellent.Fun.Good story.Started singing along in the movie theater!

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Ari

Subject: Planet of The Apes

I haven't seen it yet but apparently (according to my brother) there is only one song (not including score) in the new Planet of the Apes blockbuster.

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Kevin J

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Kevin J

If this place ever did close, I would miss a lot……..where on earth could you ever go again and have the pleasure of reading someone who admits to having purchased "fluffy dice" and in the same post cut right to the bone of emotion with a story of a friend that helped reveal how wonderful life could be beyond the neighbourhood block and the next win of a favourite sports team…………Great stuff Al…… I too was fortunate to have a friend in our neighbourhood who was almost 2 years older than the rest of our gang and… oh how we sat on every word of his adventures with neighbourhood dances (way before we were allowed near them ), with girls ( just a bit before we even knew we should be with them! ) and all sorts of other adventures he always seemed to get involved with before we did……….wonderful memories.

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Wallsend

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Kevin J

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Kevin J

Ginger working with Robbie........EC thought it had gone splendidly......

RS: Over the years, the idea of a Cream re-union keeps popping up.

EC "Well, it’s still a possibility, as long as we’re all alive. But it hinges on how much people change, and how much they don’t change. If we got back together, how far back would it go into the misery of what we experience? Would that come back with it? It scares the living daylights out of me, because there was a lot of hostility, a lot of aggression and a lot of unpleasant personality clashes. But I was speaking to Robbie Robertson recently about Ginger [Baker], and Robbie’s had some great experiences working with Ginger. But we’d have to do it for love and out of the desire to have a good time. Not for money."

Some other EC thoughts on RR and The Band from the same interview.....

RS Are there any other people you feel that way about?

EC "Yeah, the same with Robbie Robertson. If I sat down and thought for ten minutes about what he’s given me, I wouldn’t even be able to have coffee with him. I’d be awe-struck. I was devoted to the Band, and every song that he ever wrote for the Band had a profound effect on me. The story of the relationship in the song “The Moon Struck One” is so profound. It brings backs o many memories of my own childhood that is seems like Robbie must have been there. And when I see him, I just have to throw all that out the window and be who I am."

RS After “Music From Big Pink” cam out, you went to Woodstock and visited the Band.

EC "Yeah, I bumped into Robbie L.A., and he invited me to meet the guys in Woodstock. These guys looked like characters from the Hole in the Wall Gang. It was like Jesse James or something, Rock Danko showed up covered in plaster from his waist to the top of his head, as he’d just driven his car into a tree. These guys were the real thing, and I was touring with this band of psychedelic loonies. And it made me re-evaluate everything I stood for."

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Peter V

Midnight Rambles Volume 3 has been playing since it arrived three hours ago, so there's not much debate on "Greatest drummer".

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Peter V

Ginger Baker is credited with "Skip snare" on Shake This Town. The drummer is John Robinson, and percussion is The Rebirth Brass Band. Mainly on the album, the percussion is added by Alex Acuna who was in Weather Report.

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Todd

Subject: Amy Helm - 'Heat Lightning'

Link above to a recent Amy Helm performance of 'Heat Lightning' in Pleasantville, NY.....Steamy!

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sadavid

Subject: Da Di De Day . . . .

. . . . is the ostensible title of a song (Rick vocal, as they say) from the "jam" portion of the Watkins Glen bootleg.

Whose song? Where does it come from?

It has a Louisiana vibe; could almost be a "New Mexicoe" prototype . . . Bobby Charles?

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Kerrin

Peter: Ginger is still credited with "percussion", so they kept at least bits of his tracks. I don't have Storyville handy, but maybe the credits specify what tracks Ginger appeared on, from that we may know who the drummer was who was asked to redo Ginger's parts.

I like Ginger's playing with Cream, but can't quite accept all that "greatest drummer ever" stuff that he likes to remind people of.

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Peter V

I’ll have to say what I’m sure Eric Clapton thought when he scrapped Cream … Robbie Robertson was used to a different class of drummer. Levon Helm. And also Manu Katche.

On Storyville there are four or five different drummers, most often Jerry Marrota, so it seems likely they were casting around. I do like some Ginger things (though not that much), but it’s really not Robbie Robertson’s style. I saw Airforce back in the day and remember them as awful.

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Kerrin

Subject: Kevin J/Ginger Baker

Thanks for recommending the Ginger material, I had no idea that doco existed. The Chad Smith interview (see link) is painful to endure, interestingly at 37:44 there is a Robbie reference. I quote:

Ginger Baker: I banged into Robbie Robertson yesterday, he comes up and he's all sweet and nice and I said "oh"… Y'know they called me to do some sessions in LA with this fuckin' producer who's an absolute idiot, he's like putting bits of rubber between my hi-hat cos he didn't want the hi-hat, and…ahh…it was ridiculous. Anyway I did these tracks. The next I hear from another drummer, I forget his name, that they asked him to do the tracks because they didn't like what I did! And that point in my career was a pretty low point, it didn't do me a lot of good.

Presumably the sessions were for Storyville, and the idiot producer was Gary Gersh.

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Peter V

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Kerrin

I'm all for working together to create a reasonably accurate document, but I did email many corrections to JT when the project was new. The additions got added but the cancelled shows, rumours and red herrings I had mentioned weren't removed. Including everything until it is disproved is one way to do the job, but I went about it the opposite way; not listing shows until I was fairly certain they actually took place.

My other reason for not tackling the existing list is that I feel obliged to justify my changes, and I rarely kept records of information that led to my corrections, may not even remember why I know what I know. That is a problem. But happy to make comments, and maybe this public forum is the way to do it, then others with knowledge can contribute.

I personally would limit my sphere of attention to the 1969-1978 period. The later lineups don't hold the same historic attraction to me, and The Hawks era, while certainly historic, is unlikely to ever be anywhere near complete. So I'll just give up on that at the outset!

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Calvin

dbetree.org lists a "Band" show in Oklahoma City from 1965, which supposedly I have in my collection. And considering the Dallas show from June of 1965 is historically collaborated a couple dates in that part of the world would make sense.

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Peter V

Building up the concert database means people need to pass over information whenever they spot one.

The one I never found has been mentioned. In the 80s I was in NYC and chatting to a guy from my publisher. He said his brother had taped Levon & The Hawks in Kansas City in the 60s and still had the open reel and it was very good… there is no mention in any of the accounts of them having ever got to Kansas City, or even nearby, but it isn't illogical between Ontario and Oklahoma. Anyway, i diligently sent him copies of some rare British stuff he wanted and never heard again. At this remove, I'll file it mentally under "bullshit."

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JT

Subject: Flawed

Kerrin: Flawed with purpose, so that discussion will occur and corrections will be made and additions will be sent and ultimately, it will get closer to the truth. Many of the entries were made from innuendos and clues and hints without proof. You are correct. Lets all work to make it right.

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Kerrin

Ian, The Band played St Louis in October 1970, although I don't know the date. Sources for this were the Across The Great Divide box, which had one song - 'Slipping and Sliding' - from the show, and the Hoskyns book. It seems they began their fall tour with October shows in:

Alabama (Univ of Alabama)

Memphis (Ellis Auditorium)

St Louis (Keil Auditorium)

before moving into the better-documented November run beginning with a great show in Pittsburg on the 1st.

Mississippi River Festival was July 14, 1969, and August 11, 1970. I thought it suspect that they would be guests at the same festival two years running but there is evidence to show that this is correct.

The concert history on this site is flawed, not for what is missing, but for the number of events listed that almost certainly didn't happen. However, I certainly don't claim to have all the answers...!

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Bill M

The outstanding Toronto B&E charge is something that had come back to bite him in '67, after he'd gotten out of the naval brig and the navy, returned to put together a new Mynah Birds, returned to Motown to record with them and returned to Toronto to find someone to replace the guitarist. At that point the police came calling, Rick was temporarily unavailable, the other Mynah Birds found a guitarist they liked - Bruce Cockburn - and they decided to leave Rick en masse.

As for the Clinton episode, that seems likely to have taken place in '71 / '72, when both were in Toronto and Rick's Heaven and Earth, the proto-Great White Cane, couldn't get beyond a two-45 licensing deal with RCA Canada. Clinton had moved his team up from Detroit to get away from the drug scene, had taken on a Toronto bassist, Prakash John, had absorbed a Toronto-based US band called United Star (Gary Shider, Bernie Worrell et al) into Funkadelic and was about to record the brilliant "America Eats its Young" with Toronto singers and musicians in backing roles - notably Dianne Brooks and Steve Kennedy, both of whom had worked with various of our guys.

To change topics entirely, a listen to Handsome Ned's cover of "Long Black Veil" (on his posthumous album issued by Other People's Music - Band connection) made me realise (belatedly to an embarrassing degree) that it's built an awful lot like "The Weight".

Pat B: That reminds me to thank you for supplying the like to Tributosaurus (?) doing the "Abbey Road" thing. Did you work any Weighty vestiges into "Carry That Weight" / "And In The End"?

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Wallsend

I thought The Corrs were a terrific band and this was one of their best songs. Sad that they stopped recording together. Band connection: combining old and new things together to make great music.

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Al Edge

After reading back over the past few weeks on the GB with the footy and stuff, I simply couldn't NOT stick this snatch from the book I was writing some years back. Never did get round to finishing it....

“Girl there’s a better life for me and you…”

Whether the football fixation that seemed to afflict us was as all-consuming an affair as it might on the face of it have appeared is a moot point. Our adulation may well have been unconditional and our glory indeed dependent on what our hero did on the pitch. However, the celebration was hardly a wholesale vicarious experience.

On the contrary, we were heavily involved in what was taking place. What we partook in was very real.

A fan may never actually kick a ball in anger for his or her team. However, the fact that they have invariably “lived” that team for infinitely longer than most of the players who actually don the jersey provides all the entitlement such a fan needs to enjoy such occasions every bit as rapturously as any player. In fact it could be argued that in many ways the players themselves are merely a conduit for the fans’ pleasure or displeasure. A means to an end with the fans the real incumbents; happy or unhappy, satisfied or dissatisfied as the case may be.

Daft as it may seem, perhaps the players count only in as far as they represent that lifeblood of the club they play for.

Namely us. The fans.

True, they may actually be living out what many of us dream. That, however, is as far as the vicarious element of such fandom extends.

All that said, none of this could ever make the likes of myself any less of a hopeless case. Whether involuntarily or not I was steeped in adoration of my own blessed hero.

And there was one I followed like some besotted blind disciple. Fact was I was up to my red neck in Kenny Dalglishness. I was a complete and utter Dalglish nut if ever there was one.

The adoration I felt went back to the day he signed. I can recall dancing an impromptu jig of joy with my faithful hound Albie on hearing the news of his arrival. The prospect of possessing a player like him had stimulated me like no other up to then. His capture really did seem to carry a special significance. For me there seemed to be personal ramifications too. Kenny was my age almost to the day. In itself that possibly caused me to reflect on where we both fitted into the overall scheme of things. Indeed, the fact that I identified with him so much may well have said as much about my aspirations still to make it as a footballer as it did about my hero-worshipping of him.

Who knows, perhaps there was even a tinge of envy.

Like many other lads reared on a daily diet of footy - morn, noon and night - I was not exactly devoid of talent. Clearly nowhere near so much as Kenny possessed in a single clipping from one of his golden toenails. Yet given the amount of games I had under my belt it would have meant something was inherently wrong if I had not been at least a teeny weeny bit proficient. The thing is, as utterly ridiculous as it may sound, many of us do secretly harbour delusions that with the right coaching, training and breaks the opportunity of making it as a footballer could still arise. Psychoanalysts term it the Napoleon Bonaparte syndrome if I’m not mistaken. Good night Josephine!

Still, by the late seventies with a growing family - and with other more daunting commitments about to hit me firmly between the eyes - I was finally beginning to acquire some sense of reality. Scoring the winner every night at Wembley was no longer on the agenda. My football sorties now tended to be restricted to watching my beloved Reds and playing five-a-sides. Indeed if the truth be known I suppose I had begun to believe there was not much more to life per se.

That was until I chanced to befriend a character called Stevie Redmond.

Stevie played five-a-side with us around this time. He was a hefty defender who wore sunglasses when he played and sported a curly perm big enough to insulate a loft. Stevie used to give us a lift to the games in his massive Ford Zephyr - a car so spacious you felt as if you’d actually landed in America when you climbed in. It was kitted out like one of those hippy love wagons, lined throughout with oceans of kitsch leopard skin, huge fluffy dice seemingly everywhere. And smack in the middle of the dashboard sat a massive 8 track cartridge player the size of a microwave oven. You would hear Stevie’s car approaching from half a dozen streets away as it bleared out the love of his musical life - The Electric Light Orchestra. They say dog owners get to resemble their faithful hounds. Well, in Stevie’s case, it was Jeff Lynne of ELO.

Neither was outlandish taste in car interiors Stevie’s only idiosyncrasy. Quite simply, Stevie was not your bog standard sort of guy. He had other strings to his bow. An entire orchestra of them.

We would all listen open-mouthed as he used to regale us with extravagant tales of his lifestyle. Water skiing, sub-aqua diving, hang-gliding, parachute jumping, sky diving. The list seemed endless. Five-a-side footy may well have been the physical highlight of our week. To Stevie it was the equivalent of sharing a mug of cocoa with his granny.

The fact was his sense of adventure had alerted us to the very real possibility of ordinary working class lads enjoying a life beyond work, family and football. Following Stevie’s creed meant there would no longer be any need for Kenny Dalglish to represent the be-all and end-all of that life. Stevie was the living proof it could be lived in the fast lane, enjoyed by anybody prepared to give it a try.

Not surprisingly, given my predilection for having my head turned, within a few weeks of exposure to Stevie my cranium had indeed been twisted round some 360 degrees. I had made the decision to follow Stevie Redmond into the fast lane.

Casting caution to the wind I went for broke. I bought a copy of ELO’s Greatest Hits and immediately followed it up by investing in a pair of fluffy windscreen dice. “What the hell have you bought those for?”, asked Mag, my dear wife. “We haven’t even got a bloody car.” My illusions were shattered. Women just don’t get it do they?

At that precise moment I determined never again to question the ultimate significance in my life of Kenny Dalglish and his goals.

:-0)

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Kevin J

Subject: Do Ya

....one of my favourites from the cassette era..........also one of the better concerts remembered from my teenage years.

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Kevin J

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Ian W

The questions:

Did The Band actually play a concert in St Louis in 1970? The list on this website says "69 or 70". Does anyone know for sure?

And, since the Mississippi River Festival took place in Edwardsville, across the river in East St Louis, has there been some kind of confusion here?

Cassettes:

Though I have been junking a few of late, I still have 100s of cassettes :- a fair number of official releases; very few indeed that are dubs of official albums,; many, many radio shows recorded off-air (concerts and documentaries); some unofficial concert recordings from the days when this was they way one exchanged recordings with other collectors; a few offical promo cassettes, mostly Dylan but not all; ; 10 Columbia Radio Hour cassettes, if anyone remembers that (again official cassettes, not dubs). And, yes, I still play them from time to time - in all their mid-fi glory!

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Fred

I remember those days back in the 70s. I figured out quickly which djs & radio stations to listen to.

My favourite was taping off the Mary Turner show (this was on Armed Forces Radio back in the 70s when I lived in Europe) she kept the talking to a minimum and never spoke over a song. I got to tape off the King Biscuit Flour Hour, too.

I really liked listening to Wolfman Jack, but never taped off his show.

Also I remember there was one local Italian private radio station where the DJ would play an entire album once a week during his weekly show (I think it was on a Thursday afternoon), so he'd let the listeners in on what was coming up a few days before. Being Italian it was a lot of prog. I think he also took requests, too. I never phoned in.

I found in using normal cassettes (when taping LPs) that by putting the setting on my deck to metal I'd get a good clean sound upon playback of the cassette.

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Jon Lyness

Here's a nice review of the new Levon Ramble Vol 3 release.

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Peter V

Watching the final last night was interesting. My 9 year old grandson found the production difficult, and it annoyed me too. Yes, repeat a goal attempt from another angle, but just the once. They kept going back to it, so by the time they went "live" again you'd missed 30 seconds. It spoils the flow for me. However, I have found the next England manager. Mrs V is a natural. She found all passing to the wings irritating and urged both teams to kick it up the middle. This is a philosophy which will sit well with the Football Association's preferences.

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Peter V

A few years later I was visiting a TV station that put advertising soundtracks on leaderless audio cassettes and they had a bank of cheap £100 cassette decks. As they said, there were basically three levels of tape head, and the true virtue of expensive machines was speed accuracy. Cheap decks were accurate enough for about a year, then they threw them out … literally into the trash. As they said you could buy 15 cheap decks for one Nakamichi.

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Rod

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Wallsend

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Kevin J

*The death of Tommy Ramone this week...... Now all four are gone......"End of the Century - The Story of The Ramones" is a rock doc well worth watching.

*"Beware of Mr. Baker" - the finest rock documentary of the last 25 years.......no doubt in that statement .......but if anyone is in the mood to see one of the most pathetic - almost hilarious - interview/profiles in recent memory, do saunter over to Expecting Rain and click on the link "In conversation with Chad Smith and Ginger Baker".......to witness an example of sycophantic looniness that is ussually the reserve of that drooling fool Billy ( don't you dare call me an actor ) Bob Thorton.

*Cassettes: Thank you Kerrin for stirring up some fine memories.......exactly as it happenned.

*On the topic of Expecting Rain........also check out the link today on Rick James......connections abound to The Band, our own Bill M and other TLW folks.

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Peter V

… or the first few bars missing because you put in a new tape and forgot about the leader tape. I had a whole stack of "leaderless" cassettes we used for stage sound effects. They were designed for adverts on radio, so were about two minutes a side. I noticed Rough Trade in Brooklyn had a sole section of new cassettes and there's a magazine from San Francisco dedicated to cassettes with a cover mount cassette too. But of course they'll never be that collectible as most will have printed through.

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Kerrin

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Rod

I haven't heard that song in years. My Mum used to sing it when I was young.

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Rockin Chair

Subject: Peter M

Hey Peter! good to hear from you. I remember that, what I had in my mind was the old Nickelodeon song remember?

Put another nickel in - in the nickelodeon,

All I want is lovin you and music,music,music....

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: The Band gb

On a serious side... Wallsend saw that there was something unproportional in Mr. Dener's reaction on my post. He posted a link which showed this unproportionality. Furthermore he was interested in Mr. Helm's economical situation. Even Webmaster himself had a link attached in this site which pointed to 'Levon Helm Trust'. It was there for several weeks, wasn't it. - Nothing controversial in these posts so far, in my opinion. I am sure that webmaster - as an respected academic person - understands the controverse between owning a tribute site and a site which is documenting even unpleasant history.

Peter V would not go to the history of rock literature by writing a book of The Band. He would definitely go to the history of Internet with a book 'History of gb'. Even ROCKIN CHAIR can read in this (hopefully) coming drama why I call myself for 'NorthWestCoaster' (except the obvious: I live on northwestern coast) You'll get a good laugh :-)

...sorry gotta go now to a WW2 military airport where BOB DYLAN's private jet will land any minute.

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Roger

Good to hear from you Wallsend. I'll be in Sydney over xmas and will look out for this outfit.

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Wallsend

I came across this site the other day.

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Amy Helm @ Kate Wolf Festival

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: TUGS-TUGS-TUGS!

ROCKIN CHAIR may forgive my subject line but this is about tugs instead of music. - Swedish public service TV showed an old documentary on tugs. Actually, it was not old at all because it was from the early eighteens, something. These men were absolutely cool. They had time to salute girls on the beaches, notice new curtains in summer cottages and keep the ship clean. They had nerves to stay cool in autumn storms when they waited in some bay for a better weather for several days. Everything went really s-l-o-w!

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Peter M.

Subject: Hey Norm

As the big AM radio stations used to broadcast in the 60's, "More music, more music, more music..."

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Rockin Chair

Subject: MUSIC-MUSIC-MUSIC!!!!!!!

Down the road-down the road-down the road a piece....yer all a bunch a gawd damn crazies!

I just came home from working on the Rockin Chair, she's up in the yard under a shed getting a new aft deck skin fibre glassed on. It was old and leaked like hell. Mean while I got a couple of days at home, so I'm down there sanding the teak deck getting ready to varnish.

Just a stones throw from our shack is the big fair grounds where Bonnie Raite, the Mavericks and all will kick off this weekend. It is something to see the huge field that is now filling with 5th wheel trailers, campers and all. I had hoped to have time to stop over there, but I had to get my boat out while there was a spot available.

Got to be ready for a cruise in August after I get finished some jobs. Hope every one is having a happy summer.

Jan, keep the music keeping on as we fade into the sunset. If ever the need is to close up shop, and I'm not around, it's been a great ride. Meeting a lot of great people. Learning a lot, and not just about music. There has been a lot of fine minds expressing them selves here over the years.

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Jed

Am I the only one hyper interested in free agency moves and moves to come in the NBA? Probably!

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Peter V

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Kevin J

This sort of Football talk is likely to keep RTO further away but hope he returns as nobody can add musical energy the way he can…………anyone following the Dylan set-lists……interesting stuff in that he has been playing the exact same songs for months night in night out – but reverts to a ( sort-of ) greatest hits presentation in certain stops.

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Peter V

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Ian W

http://www.musicvault.com/bob-dylan/video/san-francisco-bay-blues_1010042.html

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Ian W

These videos may well be already available but, in case not, I thought I'd post them here:

http://www.musicvault.com/the-levon-helm-band/video/the-same-thing-incomplete_1005361.html

http://www.musicvault.com/the-band/video/dont-do-it_1010319.html

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Peter V

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Rod

I feel for Brazil as well. Having watched the All Blacks exiting a couple of Rugby World Cups early I can feel their pain. Like The South (and The All Blacks) they will rise again.

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Peter V

I woke up to the radio alarm and thought the Average White Band were back on top of the charts, as Soul Searching was mentioned six times in five minutes, in relation to the game last night. It is the new football cliche, which is better than 'they're sick as a parrot' from the 80s.

I sympathize, but Brazil are like England in the late 60s where we thought we had invented football so had a right to win. I remember that feeling, long gone (except at club level) now. There is more to life than football. Good lesson.

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Peter V

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Calvin

I have a regular Facebook Page, where Ive long held to a 250 limit rule that I recently broke because of the onslaught of family seeking information on My Dad's Health.

But I also have an Author Page, which Ive not really utilized much-but its there. And finally with the last book I created a Facebook Page for just the book. Much like yourself Ive had the experiences where publishers and other "Experts" act as if I'm insane if I dont cover the world with every sort of social media possible.

One interesting byproduct, as I write specifically history of a certain region, is my Facebook page for books generates stories I hadn't come across and occasionally some new ideas.

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Rambles Volume 3

Jed, great to hear you're enjoying. My copy is in the mail... looking forward!

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joe j

Subject: much music

Casino Arena 07/20/76. All time sing-a-long??

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Jed

Great music.Interesting choices.I could see why Levon might have had a particular history with and interest in these songs.Soulful sound.Like the Rambles.Levon is of strong voice-beautiful to hear him.Very moving.

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Kevin J

Jon L: I hope you are right.........so many times over the years landing in so many cities and invariably I would find myself tuning into this place and would ussually have a good 45 minutes or so of reading - especially true if a few days catch-up was at play.......Music always, comments on the news of the day ( usually more informed and entertaining than what could be found in a newspaper ) and in the glory days a provocative post or two or three from Steve describing how he had uncovered another right wing conspiracy.....now there was a guy that didn't mind being howled at!

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Peter V

As the poet says, "Some you lose, others you get completely fuc*ing stuffed."

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jh

Subject: Semi final

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: jh's sentiments

Can it be so harmless that webmaster's melancholic sentiments have been caused by a visit in Scandlines ferry shop on his way to Denmark?

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Peter V

“Over the years I received a broken nose, a fractured inner ear and hairline fractures of the skull. One night he smashed a chair over me and my arm was damaged when I put it up to protect my head from the force of the blow. John wouldn’t even let me call a doctor, let alone go to the hospital… ‘Get back into bed,’ he’d snarled, ‘or I’ll throw the baby out of the window.’”

It does affect your perception of the man! As an antidote, find "The Phoenix & The Turtle", Beverley Martyn's new album which I have been playing more than anything else the last two months. The voice sounds its age, but it's SO expressive. Lyrics are great.

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sadavid

Subject: rock stars' wives

Alexandra Molotkow article on the sorry lot of the muse - reflections on the lives and memoirs of Cynthia Lennon, Patti Boyd, Marianne Faithfull et al.

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Peter V

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Jed

Amazing how many people were duped into Facebook.Fake friendships,pictures that too often belong hidden away,illusory communities,and a chance to show the world that one hasn't progressed in maturity beyond high school.At least the minimal nature of the GB affords people not to humiliate themselves beyond their words and a chance to focus on real life.Technology has and will continue to create great human tragedies in the interest of assumed progress.

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Peter V

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Peter V

Jan, relic / museum? No … "a classic" as in "Music from Big Pink, Blonde on Blonde and Revolver are classic albums." That design is a classic too. Every other website seems over-fussy to me. It does what it does perfectly.

I was about to post anyway on this … this place has always been remarkably freewheeling. The problem was the tendency of a dedicated bunch of posters to fall like a ton of bricks on people they disliked … and this is a bunch who otherwise don't post too. The administration has always been "only interfere when it gets out of hand".

In comparison, the Blogosphere is nowhere near as good. On my blog, once you've had a comment approved once, you go through for later ones. Blogs have to be "pre-moderated" because of the number of SPAM posts which start, 'I am loved yours great article. You are genius blogger! Keep for the good work" from "Hank in Chicago" though it turns out Hank is posting from Uzbekistan and his link goes to "20 Things to Do with a Cucumber and Other Photos". The theatre blogs I connect to are good about accepting adverse criticism in general, as I am. (For theatre fans, I have reviews of The Crucible, Bring Up The Bodies, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra all just up after a busy weekend in London).

Music sites tend much more to control freaks who accept comments like "That was brilliant" but will reject "That was brilliant, but in fact Sergeant Pepper was 1967, not 1971 as you said in your article."

I think the underlying architecture of this Guestbook has stood the test of time. Very little SPAM gets through, those Spellcasters keep trying. I have to say they're very good though. I have found five lost wives that I didn't know I had and now have $4 billion deposited in a bank in Nigeria (or so they tell me).

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jh

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PutEmUp(Friend0

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Bonk

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Jon Lyness

Kevin, the GB will rise again.

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Peter V

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Mike Nomad

Sorry man, mea typo, if you're looking in . . . .

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Mike Nomad

Ah, man, those were the times.

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Peter v

The CSNY 1974 box set is out today. Haven't ordered it as controversy rages because it's nearly twice the price on amazon uk as on amazon usa. It seems sense to wait until the uk price falls a bit.

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Kevin J

....So the battle is over, twitter and Facebook win......I wish Luis Suarez could bite everyone that prefers "likes" and all forms of abbreviated gobbledygook over what this place used to be.

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Jon L

Yes, happy birthday Robbie!

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JT

Subject: JRR happy birthday

Robbie Robertson: all the best on July 5, 2014. Looking forward to the bio of a class act who made a big difference. Happy birthday!

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Garth & Maud live in CA?

Did anyone attend Garth and Maud's set at the Kate Wolf Festival last week? Very interested in their setlist & any videos that might surface. Link is to Garth backing Los Lobos from the same festival.

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Joan

Any time

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Gber who is not Westcoaster

Subject: Typos / Joan

I have the same problem as Joan - but the other way round. Fingers know what to do but brain won't co'operate. Someday maybe we'll join us in collective posting with the handle 'Pearls Of Sound'. Intelligent gbers will certainly understand the double meaning in this handle.

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Jeff A.

Subject: "Only Hudson..................."

"Only Hudson..................." See the link

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Jeff A.

Subject: With the Bottle Rockets, LIVE

Crenshaw has been teaming up with The Bottle Rockets (the pride of Festus, Missouri) the last few years. Linked is a live version of Crying Time . The Bottle Rockets been going the other way as I. From St Louis To Brooklyn, and back and forth. Their first record, The Brooklyn Side, was recorded by Albert Caiti, at his now defunct Coyote Studio. Same place, same engineer i first recorded with.

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Jeff A.

Subject: Crying Time (Calling Out For Love At Crying Time)

The whole recording is a masterpiece. this video doesn't have great sound, but the recording is a masterpiece of production, songwriting, and playing. This is one i wore out a few times. Listened to endlessly in thse car. THe whole recording is great, but Crying time is one of thos e excpetional songs.

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Jeff A.

Subject: Closing Time

Video linked

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Peter V

Subject: Suzanne Vega

My review of tonight's Suzanne Vega concert in Poole. The tracks from her new album, all six of them, were outstandingly good.

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bill M

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Joan

Bill M The brain knows what to do but the fingers won't cooperate. :-)

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Pat B

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brown eyed girl

Yeah! Canadian Country Rock Musicians: Neil Young, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Charlie Angus, Jim Cuddy, Bob Wiseman

Ahhh.....Lol..... "Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online."

As for Harris' book on The Band...bought for around 20.00....I received it a few weeks ago and the first thing that bothered me was the quality of the paper used for photos in the book.....I can't seem to get into it as it's not for the seasoned The Band fan. Any thoughts from others?

Entered at Thu Jul 3 16:51:46 CEST 2014 from (24.114.70.174)

Kevin J

Ian W: Thank you for that context.........funny that per Internet - the sources of information were just the rock mags of the day and friends.......and the 1978 tour was not one I remember much of anything about........though I did love the Live album that came from it.

BEG: I remember writing at this GB ( in the LP years ) about 10 years ago about how out of place and unnecessary Blue Rodeo were that night......they almost tipped the song over actually and now it is confirmed that it was one of those silly industry decisions that put them up on stage........From Robbie's comments - clear that the boys were surprised to have a full band thrust on them as well !

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brown eyed girl

Sorry his name is Moe Burg....Pursuit of Happiness...."I'm An Adult Now"...our anthem at one time....from the CD "Love Junk".

"Moe Burg's "Pursuit of Happiness" hail from Toronto, Ontario. "Love Junk" was produced by Todd Rundgren. Look for Johnny Sinclair and Leslie Stanwyck in the video, who would later leave the band to start Universal Honey."

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brown eyed girl

"Yet despite Blue Rodeo's success, the band was still relegated to provide backing support for a live performance by the Band. And the members of the Band weren't sure they needed the help.

Jim Cuddy of the group Blue Rodeo poses by a Juno awards logo in Toronto on Tuesday October 25, 2010. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn) "That was a totally strange experience," Blue Rodeo frontman Jim Cuddy said during a recent interview in Toronto. "(Organizers) said, 'We've got something very special for you. The Band wants to play with you, and they're very keen on playing with you.'

"And we were like, wow, really? The Band? This was great. Imagine that! And then when we went to rehearsal, Robbie Robertson walked in. He had no idea that anybody else was going to be there. He said, 'There's a lot of Indians here. We just need a drummer."'

"It was a very entertainment-industry moment for us, where people say a lot of things that aren't true, and a lot of people are lavishing you with praise when they've never even heard of you."

It's an archival anecdote dug up by "Music From Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards," a new book (2010) on the venerable awards show that hits stores this week with a foreward from Cuddy."

Hi Kevin J....We need more posters here or it's closing time. Btw at one time I used to see Jim Cuddy at the central YMCA and singer-songwriter from "Im An Adult Now" at the west end Y.

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Ian W

I attended a couple of Dylan's 1978 shows and, each show, he did two songs in this manner (not the full band and with this open-throated singing style).

Most of the show was done with the full touring band that some said was based on some Elvis shows, though (a) Dylan had attended a Neil Diamond show in Las Vegas and (b) Dylan once made reference to Linda Ronstadt in this connection. I have no idea if either Diamond or Ronstadt adopted this approach in the course of their shows prior to 1978 (and would be interested to find out) but Dylan certainly made his own.

The other song I recall performed in this way was "I Want You".

Entered at Thu Jul 3 00:09:30 CEST 2014 from (24.114.70.174)

Kevin J

Subject: The Eagles

LINKED : Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo shares some thoughts on a recent interaction with The Eagles. Interesting and not surprising.....Maybe Don Felder is better off where he is.......

Entered at Wed Jul 2 23:14:30 CEST 2014 from (24.114.70.174)

Kevin J

Subject: Lyrics TNTDODD - ????????

A few thoughts:

* Robbie has complied lyrics to all Band songs as well as his solo songs - see Updates section on this website.......What caught my eye was the addition of the word "when" to TNTDODD.......I don't remember it ever being performed that way by The Band....and not by Robbie either in his "at the piano" take in the VH1 special......."By May the 10th, when Richmond had fell......" it reads.

*Josh George's may be the last remaining true man of honour in all of sports. God Bless him.

* Motley Crüe are heading out on a Last Waltz of sorts.........what is interesting is that they held a press conference where the highlight of it was the displaying a "Cessation of touring" agreement which all members signed which will prevent anyone from playing live using the Mötley Crüe name unless all four original members are on board.........who would have figured it would be this group to finally get things right on this front............I remember seeing the Guess Who at the Queen's pub in Kingston - only the drummer was on hand from the original group! Many such gruesome stories in Rock n Roll.

* World Cup thoughts: I have said from the start that I thought this was the month where Messi would finally catapult himself into the truely elite group of All-time greats with Pele and Maradona......must really lead his country to a major championship to earn this place.......not sure he will......but a good chance.....Cheering for Holland now that Uruguay is out.........Luis "wolverine" Suarez was framed! He and Liverpool made me so happy this year that I can't help still loving the crazy little devil !

* For JT and all the other folks who enjoy Bob Dylan, ABOVE LINKED is an encore of "Tangled Up In Blue" first posted by Pat B about a year ago.......from Paris 1978..............this will knock your socks off.....trust me on this one.

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Pat B

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Bill M

Joan!

Pat B: Gotta milk that pun for all it's worth, eh?

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Joan

Hope you have a great Birthday !

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Pat B

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Bill M

Subject: wading back to Saskatoon

Thanks to coverage of the flooding being experience in large swaths of the Prairies, I've finally seen the town of Moosomin mentioned outside the confines of the Guess Who's epic "Running Back To Saskatoon" (see link). Two Band links: Guess Who produced Jack Richardson played bass to Robbie Robertson's guitar on Dianne Brooks' "Orbiteer Twist" in the early '60s, and singer Burton Cummings appeared on "Tears Are Not Enough", as did Richard Manuel.

Pat B: I believe you acronymed Little Feat as LT the other day. A Freudian slit?

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Carmen

Subject: 149 Dylan Acetates found fropm 1969-70

Rare Dylan Find

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brown eyed girl

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER...England's biggest Band fan and music in general!

Hi Mark. Good to "see" you again. FYI Paul James will be at the Dominion again on July 12.

You're welcome Joan. Great to see that you're continuing to press on. :-D

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Peter V

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Jeff A.

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Jeff A.

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Mark in Toronto

The new Levon Helm Band album is available in Canada today. A perfect soundtrack for Canada Day. Levon always was a honorary Torontonian.

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Joan

BRG thank you the Canadian Ads. They were very funny,We have all been in those spots

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Pat B

I just finished a Dylan bio. In the section about his appearances in ads, the author asks, "What's more American than making money?" I have no doubt if any of us wrote and song and someone offered big money to use it to sell something, we'd move pretty quick to sign.

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brown eyed girl

I Am CANADIAN commercials.

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brown eyed girl

LOL. Partner says Hay Day commercial was sad to go to that level. I say it only offended me when the bacon came out as I don't eat pork. Props to the Band and Robbie for writing the song......everyone will know it now. ;-D

Happy 147th Birthday to Canada today!

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Peter V

But Rolf Harris? I really would have trusted him completely. The playlist of his songs has entertained two generations of kids in my car. When I ran through my most played on iTunes last year, he had three in the Top Ten due to constant plays on the school run. So what do I do? Delete the playlist? What do I say when my grandson asks for his favourite next time, Maximilian Mouse? It’s like Michael Jackson. Can you separate the music from the person? I manage with Chuck Berry easily, but less so with Jerry Lee Lewis.

Scanning the BBC news, I saw the Murdoch press is complaining, with justification, that if they hadn’t been tied up in the press standards enquiry over phone-hacking, they could have revealed a lot a few years ago.

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Peter V

The guy actually sings it well among those flabby animated creatures. It proves what a great tune it is.

It has had nearly 2 million hits. Seeking the App? Or is it just us guys here re-watching it?

BUT if the target audience is the age I assume, aren’t the lyrics of The Weight completely impossible for them to follow? If you want a rustic fellow singing and strumming, wouldn’t (say) the works of Burl Ives or even Pete Seeger be more worthy of attention?

Advertising doesn’t work on me.

I think I might download the App for the grandkids.

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Jeff A.

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BWNWITenn

Subject: Maybe Levon had a point

Anybody see the latest commercial featuring "The Weight"?

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