To hear robbie at the end say "we gotta pack, we gotta go" is touching. This was robbie and Martin's song, they played it each time they said goodbye to one another. Martin says that he doesn't need to play that one anymore.
I was a nanny for a young family and the dad fought cancer for almost a year. He passed and he had selected two Van Morrison songs for his memorial: Quiet Here and Days Like This. He was only 39. RIP Michael and to anyone facing hardship and loss, I send my love. Van Morrison is a treasure.
The most beautiful song called Piper at the Gates of Dawn from the album The Healing game I had previously chosen to be played at my memorial service but when my sister-in-law passed away far too young after a huge battle with cancer I had to give it to her and it was played just before we all sat down at the table to say a prayer after the burial I hope van the man knows how much his art means to all of us
Omg I know that song is art in the highest. I've loved Van since I was in middle school. My Dear cousin reminds me all the time how much I loved Brown eyed girl after first hearing it. All my brothers love Van. I remember watching a VHS tape I made of Van of A&E. My brother Rick said "look at that guy he's in a trance when he sings" Rick loved him. I don't think they get any better, the Great Irish Rover. My Dad liked Van Morrison a lot.
I came back to this because it really captures so much tenderness when we have lost Robbie! Thank you so much again Wools you really know how to bring it! 🙌🤍🕊
Yes, the world is a lonelier place tonight...It's going to be hard when all the 60's and 70's musicians are gone...Some of mankinds greatest works in thos people...Sad Night...
Robbie and all of us share a rocking heart. That's why we will always be together, no matter what. Rest in peace, Robbie. I have always loved you and I always will. 🙏❤
Christopher Sliter....Yes, there is a special bonding between a father and his daughter...at least in a 'normal' family, meaning a father is not a drug addict or an abusive alcoholic or some other destructive life, but where love and compassion is the normal condition. I have two kids, a daughter and a son. My daughter was born first and I well remember when she was just a few weeks old that one night she slept on my chest. In fact, I bonded with my daughter at the hospital when she was born. My wife caught a staph infection after giving birth and couldn't hold her so I would come there at feeding time and go into the nursery, gown up, and hold my daughter and feed her. From then on, and even though my wife was a good mother and took excellent care of our daughter, my daughter preferred being with me. I now have a 15 year "young" ( I hate using the term 'old' ) granddaughter, and we also have a very strong bond. So...fathers & daughters tend to have a special bond, and mothers & sons also seem to have a special bond. It is interesting how that is.
I’ve had that very look on my face many a time listening to “Tupelo Honey” for the last 50 years. It is one of the songs that make you wish you had been blessed with the talent to write it yourself. Van Morrison is an absolute treasure whose catalogue is comparable to any songwriter of the past half century. I wish I’d gotten to see him live during the 70s, but missed the few opportunities to catch his show. One of the great musical regrets of my life.
I don't know the song but instantly recognized it as something our great-granny always had on at some point when we would stay with her as kids. Visited her in the convalescent home yesterday and played this clip for her then read a few of the top comments... she said Van Morrison's c**k was her favorite instrument!
When Van was with THEM he did a song that forecast Astral Weeks or that more complex work was coming soon. The song is called My Lonely Sad Eyes ua-cam.com/video/XHPRCaXEd5M/v-deo.html
@@ryanm776 Joe C select songs I don't like and then I don't really like his vocals. Van is so much more of a genius, has a much better voice, and writes songs , something outside the capabilities of Joe C. Van is top 20 all time. I don't like the originals of with a little help from my friends? or She came in through the bathroom window, so i guess that Joe is losing before he starts. Maybe Up where we Belong was a nice duet. The first two songs must come out of Paul McC as I think his later Beatle work is atrocious. Songs like Let it Be, Hey Jude, do nothing for me and I dislike them. Abbey Road is just an OK album. George Martin disliked it a lot. See I admit what will never get me a Heart like you got. :) Good luck.
The first song by him I ever heard. I was driving and actually pulled over stopped the car and listend eagerly to see who was singing this beautiful beautiful song. That was around 4 decades ago. He has been and remains to be such a big influence in my life. He creates something different to anyone out there. Unique in every way.
Robbie & Van ... True "Enlightenment" for many longtime avid Vans... Like me. My most listened to songs last year & the year before on Spotify were 1) Tupelo Honey 2) The Weight :((
I love Van Morrison, and I love The Band, however Robbie back then was so good looking and so much charisma, I feel like you do. Watch him in The Last Waltz, and he was in a movie with Gary Busey and Jodie Foster, he have never looked better, it is available for free here on UTube, Carny.
He was at times exhausted, had young children, trying to keep The Band together, not easy Rick and Levon doing heroin, and RIchard doing heroin, cocaine and drinking.
Robbie Robertson & Martin Scorsese had/have the greatest taste in music, Listening to many songs by Van the Man Morrison is like listening or saying a prayer, it is true clean and as pure as Tupelo Honey
This song & this album were a critical & memorable point in my life. I became an instant Van fan, bought his back catalogue and every other album, Video, DVD and book since.
I always thought "Astral Weeks" was a true masterpiece of music. It's like magical to the point you can't even classify it as a genre, nothing else really sounds like that....
For me, astral weeks and veedon fleece are like bookends on van Morrison’s work. I like everything he has ever done and some of it takes me places little else does. But those two albums are both Masterpieces and, as you so well said, defy classification or labelling in a genre
The songs are still coming... you just need to look around, go out in your community and find the many fine musicians around who are producing some great material. A lot to sift through but its there!
There is listening to music and there is getting lost in music...Robbie was getting lost, absorbing every word and every note. I am now 60 years old and I wouldn't trade the time I grew up in for ANYTHING. Back the 1970s, we all got lost in the music we loved whether it was Van Morrison, The Band, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Dylan or anyone else. The world is a colder place now, a divided place and yes, even sometimes an evil place. We all need to put on some old music once in a while, close our eyes and remember what a much gentler world felt like when music was made for the heart and for the soul. I have my own Tupelo Honey in the next room, my very own Angel of the first degree. I think I'll go wrap my arms around her and tell her how much I love her. She's the best damn thing that's ever happened to me... You can't stop us on the road to freedom. You can't keep us 'cause our eyes can see... Remember something folks, freedom is the most important thing we have. If you feel it slipping away, fight for it like it's your last day on earth because someday it will be. Live free or die. They can't keep us because our eyes can see... Peace
There's music like this being written now, probably more than ever, you just gotta dig. Streaming gave everybody a voice, but that means that the gentler voices get drowned out in all the noise.
I thought exactly the same John! These great artists completely enthralled. Martin Scorsese close to tears, such pure music it hurts, but in a good way
It’s a shame that Robertson morphed into an old lady from the Upper West Side. Even back then he was an over the top ego. The Band wanted to go on, Robertson wanted to go Hollywood.
I did get to see him back in the 80's at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. A birthday gift from my cousin Jeffrey Sullivan who passed away last month. Me and my wife Trish witnessed an unbelievable performance. The thing is, Van Morrison rarely tours, let alone performs live. I will never forget it. Thank you again Jeff! By the way, Tupelo Honey was our wedding song!
But they didn't always get their hands on it. Ronnie Hawkins said that at the Last Waltz, The Band blew (so to speak) $35,000 on powder cut with so much flour that he told them "they'll be sneezing biscuits."
Thanks for sharing. I got to see The Band on the *Big Pink Tour. That period was so beautiful, then, before I knew it was over, forty years had passed. Seeing this footage took me right back to 1975. Thanks for sharing. *(Aerosmith opened.)
I saw their first shows at Winterland. The first show Robbie Robertson was so sick that he had to be hypnotized to go on stage. I went the next night and he was better. They encored with Little Richard’s “Slippin’ and a Slidden’.
@@SuanLuang Do you mean ill, or drug sick? I saw Garcia smacked on Heroin in DC once, and the organ player for Roy Buchanon totalled on Qualuudes in 1974? I envy and admire all you people who went to the Winterland shows, and the Avalon BallRoom, the Fillmore East and West. That kept our culture growing. Thank you! My first show was in 1973 at RFK in DC. NRPS opening for Leon Russel. But Roby and the Band were tear jerkingly excellent, but the booking agency that had Aerosmith open for them was ridiculous, ridiculously bad, and someone told me that it was Bill Grahams company, and I cried! What year was the Winterland show that you saw? And were there anyother acts opening or playing with them? I love this stuff!
@@stefanschleps8758 He was sick with a high fever influenza. My first show was in September ‘66. The first time the Dead headlined the Fillmore, with Country Joe and the Fish and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Before that Jerry Garcia was our garbage band’s guitar teacher at Dana Morgan’s in Palo. Taught a lot early Stones’ licks.
At the first show The Band did at Winterland Robbie was not stoned. He got off the plane and got very sick, he describes it in his book. He said his immune system shot down, he might also have had a bad case of stage freight.@@stefanschleps8758
Last thing that Mr Robertson seems to say, “it’s dawn, we gotta pack, we gotta go”… It’d be nice to have the transcription of the text of this footage. In any case, it’s such a great momentum, I’d say that Martin Scorsese knew the tune that Mr Robbie Robertson was about to play as this was something he’d done before, a kind of ritual to express his admiration for Van the man at certain moments. The whole scene shows the brightness and creativity, the energy of those times and the strength of youth.
This clip is like a time machine to a forgotten past where Robbie and Van wrote the soundtrack for an entire generation. It was more than just the music that shaped the 70s, it was a completely different energy that lay above the earth. Imagine the influences that influenced Martin's cinematic vision, with music that speaks peace and soul.
Watching the awe creeping over Robbie & Martin, as it always does to me when I 'drink this honey from the honey bee' was like being in some Holy Brotherhood where one knows what real music is & how a master delivers it. ❤
seeing this makes me emotional. like i was born on the tail end of the end of western civilization and the beginning of something new. Stuff from before I was born feels so familiar but distant at the same time.
Tupelo Honey came out in '71. Given how transfixed they were listening to the song, I thought at first they were listening to an advance release of the album, but this looks like it was filmed sometime after The Last Waltz was recorded and filmed at Winterland, Thanksgiving 1976. My guess is that the footage is from a break in post production work on The Las Waltz at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu. At about this time it dawned on Scorsese that apart from his extraordinary talents as a writer and musician, Robertson also had movie star good looks. Soon thereafter Carney was made as a vehicle for Robertson. Although the film is now largely forgotten, it really wasn't bad. I believe it was Robbie's last attempt at an acting gig. By contrast The Last Waltz, as a document of a time and of a Band that we'll never see again, will live forever. Hanging out at Shangri-La, getting high and sailing into the mystic with Van the Man had to be near the top of cool things to do in California circa 1977, although you wouldn't find it in a brochure or with an App. With a beautiful blonde no less.
Scorsese and Robertson Lived together for a couple of years in LA around this time. This is def mid 70's. I can imagine Scorsese not being familiar with the song. Robertson would have been quite familiar with it as well as most of Van Morrisons work. Robertson always had a flair for the dramatic when a camera was present so he may have been overacting a bit but then again its such a great song that anyone would have that reaction no matter how many times they heard it. Coke and booze also can put one in the mood.
Oh yeah you are definitively right! i think it is 1978 yeah, i'm not sure where it is located, its 100% california but i dont think it is shan gri la studio
The Last Waltz album is sitting on the window in the background here so that might suggest it's a little later than 1977 - a check on Wiki says it was released in April, 1978...
@@jakewalsh7220 I missed that completely lol but just found this...its a clip from a 1978 Doc called Movies Are My Life apparently ua-cam.com/video/wjE2hj6312Y/v-deo.html
What about a biopic of the Replacements "Trouble Boys". Much more interesting but they might not fill many movie theaters. But they are the best band that ever was. Neil Yung, Bob Dylan, Replacements are the 3 "definites" on mt rushmore of rock and I would put van there too . OK to be PC how about Michael Jackson. Maybe the Smiths? The Band didn't do many albums and their last one sucked. Neil, Dylan, have done hundreds - well too many sure. 50 great songs by Neil, 45 by Dylan, 40 by the Replacements, 35 by van Morrison.
Robbie Robertson was one of a kind, Robbie Robertson saw it all, worked with Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Joni Michell and of course The Band...the list is endless, a fantastic solo career...he will always be there playing guitar for all of us to hear forever.
The song was released in October 1971, so when they listened to it it was already 6 1/2 years old. I have to think there was some "acting" going on here.
To hear robbie at the end say "we gotta pack, we gotta go" is touching. This was robbie and Martin's song, they played it each time they said goodbye to one another. Martin says that he doesn't need to play that one anymore.
I love seeing Robbie light up as Van's beautiful song washes over him!
Look at that beautiful face, I mean Robbie. RIP .
Love how Robbie just closes his eyes and is living in that moment
I was a nanny for a young family and the dad fought cancer for almost a year. He passed and he had selected two Van Morrison songs for his memorial: Quiet Here and Days Like This. He was only 39. RIP Michael and to anyone facing hardship and loss, I send my love. Van Morrison is a treasure.
God bless you ❤
The most beautiful song called Piper at the Gates of Dawn from the album The Healing game I had previously chosen to be played at my memorial service but when my sister-in-law passed away far too young after a huge battle with cancer I had to give it to her and it was played just before we all sat down at the table to say a prayer after the burial I hope van the man knows how much his art means to all of us
Very moving message; there are still people like you in this world
That look when you know you have just listened to a masterpiece, it never gets old and i think (hopefully!) we have all experienced it 👍🙌
Omg I know that song is art in the highest. I've loved Van since I was in middle school. My Dear cousin reminds me all the time how much I loved Brown eyed girl after first hearing it. All my brothers love Van. I remember watching a VHS tape I made of Van of A&E. My brother Rick said "look at that guy he's in a trance when he sings" Rick loved him. I don't think they get any better, the Great Irish Rover. My Dad liked Van Morrison a lot.
As a major Van and Scorsese fan, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
I agree 100%....more of this kinda stuff , please. Saw the Doc on the movie ,don't recall this in it ? great stuff.
💯
@David Ortiz I have seen it a few times.
This is when they were filming for the last waltz !
@David Ortiz The best concert I saw in my life.
...& it stoned him to his very soul. I 'll have what Robbie's having!
If you want to get down
Down on the ground
Its no lie
I know it sure looked enticing huh?!
If Marty was around then it would have been a mountain of high-grade cocaine
“RR” is absolutely gorgeous
Escobar powder and a lot of alcohol.
I came back to this because it really captures so much tenderness when we have lost Robbie! Thank you so much again Wools you really know how to bring it! 🙌🤍🕊
Yes, the world is a lonelier place tonight...It's going to be hard when all the 60's and 70's musicians are gone...Some of mankinds greatest works in thos people...Sad Night...
Rest in peace Robbie🙏 it is magical watching you feeling Van's music exactly as I do and always have hope you heard it when you went into the light🙏
Robbie and all of us share a rocking heart. That's why we will always be together, no matter what. Rest in peace, Robbie. I have always loved you and I always will. 🙏❤
What on earth is this video? I can't stop the tears from flowing!
R.I.P Robert thank you for introducing Marty and me to this masterpiece ❤❤❤
Van the Man was the standout for me in The Last Waltz. I just loved that performance of Caravan.
One more time! 🙋♂️
Yes!
Bestest part of T.L.W.....
Especially the high kicks at the end love it
He had the best performance and the worst outfit.
I used to rock my baby dughter to sleep in my arms to this song, one of the most influential, magical moments in a father's lfe.
Christopher Sliter....Yes, there is a special bonding between a father and his daughter...at least in a 'normal' family, meaning a father is not a drug addict or an abusive alcoholic or some other destructive life, but where love and compassion is the normal condition. I have two kids, a daughter and a son. My daughter was born first and I well remember when she was just a few weeks old that one night she slept on my chest. In fact, I bonded with my daughter at the hospital when she was born. My wife caught a staph infection after giving birth and couldn't hold her so I would come there at feeding time and go into the nursery, gown up, and hold my daughter and feed her. From then on, and even though my wife was a good mother and took excellent care of our daughter, my daughter preferred being with me.
I now have a 15 year "young" ( I hate using the term 'old' ) granddaughter, and we also have a very strong bond.
So...fathers & daughters tend to have a special bond, and mothers & sons also seem to have a special bond. It is interesting how that is.
@@marbleman52 Good man. I love being a father.
@@mma1st105 ....Bravo...I love hearing that..!!
I’ve had that very look on my face many a time listening to “Tupelo Honey” for the last 50 years. It is one of the songs that make you wish you had been blessed with the talent to write it yourself. Van Morrison is an absolute treasure whose catalogue is comparable to any songwriter of the past half century. I wish I’d gotten to see him live during the 70s, but missed the few opportunities to catch his show. One of the great musical regrets of my life.
He can still "do it" - fear not
One of the most intimate
'Van The Man' concerts was small venue in university auditorium 1976
He does play an annoying amount of jazz these days. But when he breaks into the old songs, it's amazing.
The lyrics are lifted by the melody. With some basic chords they would fall on the dime store rack.
I saw him in the 90’s, he spent most of the show with his back to the audience.
He was still great.
Van really was and is a special kind of talent
Is
@@justamusta Is h still cranking out albums the quality of "Astral Weeks" or "Moondance"? Doubt it....
Erin Go Braugh, my Friend.He is one on of the best things to come out of my Homeland.
Van Morrison's voice is my favorite instrument.
I don't know the song but instantly recognized it as something our great-granny always had on at some point when we would stay with her as kids. Visited her in the convalescent home yesterday and played this clip for her then read a few of the top comments... she said Van Morrison's c**k was her favorite instrument!
@@bigbenchinko why must you take something beautiful and make it trashy by a comment like that
This is one of the coolest clips i've ever seen!
A goshawk is sitting outside my window, the sun is rising, it's november! And I listen to this great piece of music! Thank you Van the Man!
This is when Robbie and Marty were hitting the slopes hard!!
Beautiful. RIP Robbie. Such beautiful times. 🙏❤
Van and Joe Cocker: both precious indescribable gifts to humanity. Magic of music.
How come I love Van (the miserable guy, or at least I like him until the 1980s) and hate everything Joe Cocker does?
When Van was with THEM he did a song that forecast Astral Weeks or that more complex work was coming soon. The song is called My Lonely Sad Eyes ua-cam.com/video/XHPRCaXEd5M/v-deo.html
Could not agree with you more.
@@oppothumbs1You know more about Joe C than I do then, because his music melts my heart! However, I'm a bigger fan of Van the Man!!
@@ryanm776 Joe C select songs I don't like and then I don't really like his vocals. Van is so much more of a genius, has a much better voice, and writes songs , something outside the capabilities of Joe C. Van is top 20 all time. I don't like the originals of with a little help from my friends? or She came in through the bathroom window, so i guess that Joe is losing before he starts. Maybe Up where we Belong was a nice duet. The first two songs must come out of Paul McC as I think his later Beatle work is atrocious. Songs like Let it Be, Hey Jude, do nothing for me and I dislike them. Abbey Road is just an OK album. George Martin disliked it a lot. See I admit what will never get me a Heart like you got. :) Good luck.
rip Robbie,beautiful guitarist
The first song by him I ever heard. I was driving and actually pulled over stopped the car and listend eagerly to see who was singing this beautiful beautiful song. That was around 4 decades ago. He has been and remains to be such a big influence in my life. He creates something different to anyone out there. Unique in every way.
Good old Robbie on another plain of existence LOL
Drugs are hell.
Robbie & Van ... True "Enlightenment" for many longtime avid Vans... Like me.
My most listened to songs last year & the year before on Spotify were
1) Tupelo Honey
2) The Weight :((
Some good coke and wine I guess
high as a 🪁
I am a huge Van Morrison fan.
Robbie makes my heart pound ❤
"Cocaine. It's a hell of a drug."
Rick James
I love Van Morrison, and I love The Band, however Robbie back then was so good looking and so much charisma, I feel like you do. Watch him in The Last Waltz, and he was in a movie with Gary Busey and Jodie Foster, he have never looked better, it is available for free here on UTube, Carny.
Robbie always looked absolutely exhausted in this period. Cramming seven lifetimes into one takes a toll.
I think he's just stoned & enjoying this fabulous song. Surely that's a joint in his hand ?
but still f'in gorgeous!
He was at times exhausted, had young children, trying to keep The Band together, not easy Rick and Levon doing heroin, and RIchard doing heroin, cocaine and drinking.
What a gorgeous song.
Robbie Robertson & Martin Scorsese had/have the greatest taste in music, Listening to many songs by Van the Man Morrison is like listening or saying a prayer, it is true clean and as pure as Tupelo Honey
Robbie was music.
This song & this album were a critical & memorable point in my life. I became an instant Van fan, bought his back catalogue and every other album, Video, DVD and book since.
Is that you gord?
I always thought "Astral Weeks" was a true masterpiece of music. It's like magical to the point you can't even classify it as a genre, nothing else really sounds like that....
Yes...I feel it's above any recording in my lifetime...and I'm old!!
Nothing else has that much flute either...
For me, astral weeks and veedon fleece are like bookends on van Morrison’s work. I like everything he has ever done and some of it takes me places little else does. But those two albums are both Masterpieces and, as you so well said, defy classification or labelling in a genre
Easily my favorite album of all time.
@David Ortiz sorry, what? I never stopped anything. I continue to listen to each and every album he has released. Not sure why you think I don’t. Mmmm
Robbie is so beautiful. I watch this every night before I go to bad. Love it 💕😎❤️
I miss the old days with such beautiful songs and a soothing atmosphere.
I wonder what people will be nostalgic for about these days in 45 years time
ua-cam.com/video/PmRzT7HMS5k/v-deo.html
@@Smartychase the truth!
The songs are still coming... you just need to look around, go out in your community and find the many fine musicians around who are producing some great material. A lot to sift through but its there!
before everyone glued to their mobile phone w/ social anxiety bruh
Van The Man ....who else .." all the tea in Chini " ( as we said in Belfast ) wonderful . Rave on Mr. Morrison.
Had to come back to this clip, RIP Robbie. Huge loss in music :(
What a masterpiece of a song.... Terrific footage of Scorcese and Robertson.... Thank you for posting.
And damn she looks like Jessica Lange
There is listening to music and there is getting lost in music...Robbie was getting lost, absorbing every word and every note. I am now 60 years old and I wouldn't trade the time I grew up in for ANYTHING. Back the 1970s, we all got lost in the music we loved whether it was Van Morrison, The Band, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Dylan or anyone else. The world is a colder place now, a divided place and yes, even sometimes an evil place. We all need to put on some old music once in a while, close our eyes and remember what a much gentler world felt like when music was made for the heart and for the soul. I have my own Tupelo Honey in the next room, my very own Angel of the first degree. I think I'll go wrap my arms around her and tell her how much I love her. She's the best damn thing that's ever happened to me...
You can't stop us on the road to freedom.
You can't keep us 'cause our eyes can see...
Remember something folks, freedom is the most important thing we have. If you feel it slipping away, fight for it like it's your last day on earth because someday it will be. Live free or die. They can't keep us because our eyes can see...
Peace
Poser.
Well said, cheers Ed
@@jamesball5743 Ah, I don't know whether to laff or cry at this. I will choose to laff.
Ain't that the truth. Peace, my friend.
There's music like this being written now, probably more than ever, you just gotta dig. Streaming gave everybody a voice, but that means that the gentler voices get drowned out in all the noise.
Robbie is so gorgeous
AMAZING! Thank you for finding this and posting this. Two geniuses listening to a genius song. MAGIC!
I thought exactly the same John! These great artists completely enthralled. Martin Scorsese close to tears, such pure music it hurts, but in a good way
If I only I could write, compose and sing like the great Van Morrison.
We got so serious and passionate about our music in
this period. Well the look on robbies face says alot.
Always loved the song myself
Van Morrison uniquely one of a kind. 🌹miss those great movie songs. Need you back out here Mr. Morrison
It is very moving to see an artist like Robertson giving so much credit to the Big V.
It’s a shame that Robertson morphed into an old lady from the Upper West Side. Even back then he was an over the top ego. The Band wanted to go on, Robertson wanted to go Hollywood.
@@chrisconley8583 He didn't stop them
Of course he would,Robbie is a good singer but Van is a legend
@@MrRazorblade999 incorrect. They all did stuff together afterwards…except him.
@@chrisconley8583 So, did he stop them? No
I did get to see him back in the 80's at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. A birthday gift from my cousin Jeffrey Sullivan who passed away last month. Me and my wife Trish witnessed an unbelievable performance. The thing is, Van Morrison rarely tours, let alone performs live. I will never forget it. Thank you again Jeff! By the way, Tupelo Honey was our wedding song!
Rarely tours?? Are u kidding - the man never stops
The phrasing of Van Morrison and the voice of Roy Orbison. Rock and Roll heaven.
Two outstanding artists appreciating one of the best of all time. Doesn't get any better than that!
If there are 10 musical geniuses from Mozart to Beethoven Van is one of them
Dylan, Van, Lennon y Neil Young
This is awesome. Robbie Robertson is my favourite artist of all time.
Profound. Beautiful. Moving.
The coke was purer back in the day, pharmaceutical grade for these lads.
But they didn't always get their hands on it. Ronnie Hawkins said that at the Last Waltz, The Band blew (so to speak) $35,000 on powder cut with so much flour that he told them "they'll be sneezing biscuits."
@Gary D: Then in the late '70's Freebasing hit the scene.
Indeed sir. Indeed.
Coke’s the most boring drug imo
@@timb.2222 🤣🤣that’s a heck of a visual!
This might be the coolest video on UA-cam
I always said if I was stranded on an island, Van's Moondance would be my #1 album to have with me. Tupelo Honey is an amazing song...
That and a boat…..
Not a bad choice, but I probably would to with The Band's brown album. Love them all especially Robbie and Rick Danko.
Van the Man being recognized by his peers. Great video.
🥰 Robbie admires Van❣ Wow, such a great video Woolhall...Love❤
Beautiful song from "Van, the Man." Thank you
😍 Thank you!
Love this brings a tear to your eye. My grandma loved Van the Man.
Robbie feeling Van, as we so often do , with Marty the Master in the background .
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Marty ?
@@MrKlausbird he is often called that. At least by friends. I just say Scorsese.
Thanks for sharing. I got to see The Band on the *Big Pink Tour. That period was so beautiful, then, before I knew it was over, forty years had passed. Seeing this footage took me right back to 1975. Thanks for sharing.
*(Aerosmith opened.)
I saw their first shows at Winterland. The first show Robbie Robertson was so sick that he had to be hypnotized to go on stage. I went the next night and he was better. They encored with Little Richard’s “Slippin’ and a Slidden’.
@@SuanLuang Do you mean ill, or drug sick? I saw Garcia smacked on Heroin in DC once, and the organ player for Roy Buchanon totalled on Qualuudes in 1974? I envy and admire all you people who went to the Winterland shows, and the Avalon BallRoom, the Fillmore East and West. That kept our culture growing. Thank you!
My first show was in 1973 at RFK in DC. NRPS opening for Leon Russel. But Roby and the Band were tear jerkingly excellent, but the booking agency that had Aerosmith open for them was ridiculous, ridiculously bad, and someone told me that it was Bill Grahams company, and I cried! What year was the Winterland show that you saw? And were there anyother acts opening or playing with them? I love this stuff!
@@stefanschleps8758 He was sick with a high fever influenza.
My first show was in September ‘66. The first time the Dead headlined the Fillmore, with Country Joe and the Fish and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Before that Jerry Garcia was our garbage band’s guitar teacher at Dana Morgan’s in Palo. Taught a lot early Stones’ licks.
First saw the Band at Festival Express in Toronto, second time when they toured with Dylan. Man, where did the time go?
At the first show The Band did at Winterland Robbie was not stoned. He got off the plane and got very sick, he describes it in his book. He said his immune system shot down, he might also have had a bad case of stage freight.@@stefanschleps8758
those moments are difficult when someone obliges you to appreciate something in that instant....better to do it on your own time when you can..
Yep, but a few times I have had shared experiences where another has " gotten it" and it's pretty sweet.
R. Robertson even is leasing discretely.
Last thing that Mr Robertson seems to say, “it’s dawn, we gotta pack, we gotta go”…
It’d be nice to have the transcription of the text of this footage.
In any case, it’s such a great momentum, I’d say that Martin Scorsese knew the tune that Mr Robbie Robertson was about to play as this was something he’d done before, a kind of ritual to express his admiration for Van the man at certain moments.
The whole scene shows the brightness and creativity, the energy of those times and the strength of youth.
The blonde girlfriend thinking it would sound better in Dubly.
Hahahaha!!! It's Jeannine! I didn't see David or Nigel there though.
Great track from a superb album....bubbling up..... from the water....great memories of Jack Schroer.
a truly underrated album from van
@@Cubs1719 I couldn't agree more with you....
The perfect visual accompaniment for this song. We can all share Robbie’s 6 minutes and 55 seconds of ecstasy.
There’s an amazing sound coming from that little tape player 🧐
You can really see how this moves Robbie.
Loving me Our Robbie Robertson and Van the Man! Thank you
This is so cool! I loved the song forever but seeing this old footage is well unbelievable! XO Deb
Never gets old...🎸☮️.
Oh my Woolhall. Thank you. This is a true treasure. Much love! Much respect. Great post.
Love the looks on their face
Magic, just pure magic.
If one should value anyone's opinion about a musicians talent robbie would be the man. One of the greatest guitarists of all time
one of vans bests songs
Precious!
This clip is like a time machine to a forgotten past where Robbie and Van wrote the soundtrack for an entire generation. It was more than just the music that shaped the 70s, it was a completely different energy that lay above the earth. Imagine the influences that influenced Martin's cinematic vision, with music that speaks peace and soul.
Watching the awe creeping over Robbie & Martin, as it always does to me when I 'drink this honey from the honey bee' was like being in some Holy Brotherhood where one knows what real music is & how a master delivers it. ❤
Two greats enthralled by a great. Thanks for posting
seeing this makes me emotional. like i was born on the tail end of the end of western civilization and the beginning of something new. Stuff from before I was born feels so familiar but distant at the same time.
Oh I just died and went to Heaven😚I love You, Robbie❤
What an amazing piece of footage! Thank you
Today, a consert with Van Morrison, in Malmö, Sweden! One consert on the bucket-list!🙂
Oh , what a gorgeous man !!!! I have had a long distance love affair with this man for decades !!! Missing ya Robbie XXX
Just Classic. Humanity at it's finest! A picture, sorry (video) says a thousand words.
Robbie was feeling it.
Ironically, he couldn’t feel his entire face
schhhhnnneeeeeeee ;)
Extremely cool video,coming from Robbie makes it that much more specual
Robbie's Peyote Healing is haunting and beautiful.
Tupelo Honey came out in '71. Given how transfixed they were listening to the song, I thought at first they were listening to an advance release of the album, but this looks like it was filmed sometime after The Last Waltz was recorded and filmed at Winterland, Thanksgiving 1976. My guess is that the footage is from a break in post production work on The Las Waltz at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu. At about this time it dawned on Scorsese that apart from his extraordinary talents as a writer and musician, Robertson also had movie star good looks. Soon thereafter Carney was made as a vehicle for Robertson. Although the film is now largely forgotten, it really wasn't bad. I believe it was Robbie's last attempt at an acting gig. By contrast The Last Waltz, as a document of a time and of a Band that we'll never see again, will live forever. Hanging out at Shangri-La, getting high and sailing into the mystic with Van the Man had to be near the top of cool things to do in California circa 1977, although you wouldn't find it in a brochure or with an App. With a beautiful blonde no less.
Scorsese and Robertson Lived together for a couple of years in LA around this time. This is def mid 70's. I can imagine Scorsese not being familiar with the song. Robertson would have been quite familiar with it as well as most of Van Morrisons work. Robertson always had a flair for the dramatic when a camera was present so he may have been overacting a bit but then again its such a great song that anyone would have that reaction no matter how many times they heard it. Coke and booze also can put one in the mood.
Oh yeah you are definitively right! i think it is 1978 yeah, i'm not sure where it is located, its 100% california but i dont think it is shan gri la studio
The Last Waltz album is sitting on the window in the background here so that might suggest it's a little later than 1977 - a check on Wiki says it was released in April, 1978...
@@jakewalsh7220 I missed that completely lol but just found this...its a clip from a 1978 Doc called Movies Are My Life apparently
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@@gozorak Thank you for this - looks like they're testing Napoleon's 3 hour sleep theory to the limit and beyond!
Great talent listening to great music is... well, great!
Love Robbie Robertson. Joseph Gordon-Levitt could play him in a biopic
What about a biopic of the Replacements "Trouble Boys". Much more interesting but they might not fill many movie theaters. But they are the best band that ever was. Neil Yung, Bob Dylan, Replacements are the 3 "definites" on mt rushmore of rock and I would put van there too . OK to be PC how about Michael Jackson. Maybe the Smiths? The Band didn't do many albums and their last one sucked. Neil, Dylan, have done hundreds - well too many sure. 50 great songs by Neil, 45 by Dylan, 40 by the Replacements, 35 by van Morrison.
Robbie Robertson was one of a kind, Robbie Robertson saw it all, worked with Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Joni Michell and of course The Band...the list is endless, a fantastic solo career...he will always be there playing guitar for all of us to hear forever.
love that song
mucho appreciated
caro mr. woolhall
i like it when two of my fav uploaders join their forces🎺🎺
VAN THE MAN, THE BELFAST COWBOY!!!
Such a sweet video 🍯🐝💛🙂👍👏👏💯👌🤘
The song was released in October 1971, so when they listened to it it was already 6 1/2 years old. I have to think there was some "acting" going on here.
Love Robbie too,peace and love too all,and I mean all1😘😍☕😎😇
ALL sure need love and peace ATM🌟🌟
Sounds good outta that little olde boom box!
My favorite video on youtube
"Dawn!"
"We gotta pack. We gotta go!"
The best of nights.
People cite James Dean or Prince or Keanu Reeves as the coolest guy ever, they’ve clearly never heard of Robbie Robertson
Rest in peace, Robbie.