Scorsese and Robbie Robertson had been close pals for years, and when Robbie told him The Band were going to do this Scorsese knew immediately that he had to film it. He actually put a current project on hold to do it! It's a miracle for music lovers that he decided to do it. It deserves to be watched in one sitting.
Actually Robbie and Scorsese didn't become friends until after The Last Waltz. Robbie was a movie buff, and Scorsese had worked on Woodstock, and so he approached him about the Last Waltz.
When Neil shuffles over to the other mic to sing with Robbie and Rick...so emotional, you can see why Clapton calls it one of the great live performances.
I agree, it’s the definitive version of the song. The incredible thing about The Band is how they seem to fit absolutely perfectly with any artist they play with, as if they were the band that recorded with the artist. And at the same time, they always sound like The Band. And Lee noticed t in all the last Waltz videos: Garth Hudson on keys is the secret weapon that bring magic to music. All the guys in the band recognized how important he was. One of the greatest keyboard players in rock. And a good sack player too. ow it’s time to look at more Band songs from the concert: The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, It Makes No Difference, Don’t Do It, Up on Cripple Creek, the Weight!
A Canadian band, The Band (4/5), with a guest Canadian singer, Neil Young, singing a song about growing up in Canada, with a Canadian gal, Joni Mitchell, singing background vocals. Cool 😎
A beautiful energy. The Band helping Neil sing Helpless with Joni’s support (such a songbird…)! Thank you, Lee! It was a beautiful reaction. Thank you, CeeCee! It was so good. I wondered… Did Neil intend for Helpless to sound like Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door…?
Joni sang from offstage because her featured slot in the show was scheduled later and they didn't want to take the focus away from the featured artist and it would have also detracted from her appearance later. Nice shots of her in silouette tbough, Lol!!
Perhaps the harmonica is the instrument whose sound most evokes in me the feeling of the human voice. I love its sound, especially when Neil plays it :)
Someone came into the record store where I was workin' 'n offered me a free ticket 'n a ride to see this concert. Because it happened on Thanksgivin' 'n I already had Thanksgivin' plans I passed on the opportunity. I've regretted that decision ever since. Apparently the entire audience was treated to a Thanksgivin' meal followin' the show.
Hey Lee, 30 is the tits! You'll have years and years to enjoy this music and whatever else comes after. I fought it when they wanted to give me the birthday with the black balloons, but became 73 last week and I'm very happy that there are some young adults like you I feel I can still relate to. Keep up the good work.
The Band's influence on so many other bands at the time is immense. That's why so many showed up. One-of-a-kind artists, they were. Also after hearing you talk "Helpless" not necessarily "hopeless."
Great reaction. Other nearly perfect Neil Young songs: "Like a Hurricane," "Pocahontas," "Powder Finger," "After the Gold Rush," "A Man Needs a Maid." I could list dozens of great ones. Neil is such an original in every way, the genuine article. Enjoy the journey. I turn 59 this week -- my fellow Gemini. Your 30s are going to be so much better than your 20s. Everything settles down and begins to become what they are meant to be. (The 40s are even better). Enjoy that journey too, my fellow traveler.
Joni was in the background because the performers were not known before the concert and she was supposed to perform later in the concert. Another thing, it is said that there was some editing in the video before release, because Neil had a big trail of cocaine hanging from his nose. All these people showed up, because the Band had a huge influence on rock music at the end of the Sixties, they played for Bob Dylan during the time he went electric, were part of the legendary Basement Tapes - the first bootleg - and their first solo records were huge. Eric Clapton ended Cream, because he was so impressed with their "simpler" style, he wanted to move away from "virtuosity" to real music and he had even the hope to maybe be able to join The Band, which did not happen, but led to one of his albums, where he had them and Bob Dylan as musicians with him.
I watch a lot of music reactions on UA-cam and not even a competition who does the best and obviously I'm talking about you. I absolutely love the fact that you spend time after every listening to mention every other person in the band that so many of us that love music aren't aware of or even if we are aware, it is noted that you are the only one in UA-cam land that actually does it. And I love giving credit where credit is due. Beautiful jobly absolutely beautiful. It's so nice to relive my youth and do it through somebody as young as you in these modern times
Eric Clapton's "Further On Up The Road" is another amazing guest performance at The Last Waltz. Watch carefully during the opening solo, where Clapton's guitar strap comes loose. Robbie suddenly has to take over for Clapton's solo, and you can see Robbie's eyes bugging out, talk about unexpected pressure LIVE!.
Lee, since you’ve been thinking so much about the passage of time, you need to listen to Joni Mitchell’s “The Circle Game”. It will really give you all the feels.
One of my all time favorite songs, as a well as a favorite Band song. All the 3 singers from The Band are great, but Rick is my favorite. He puts so much feeling and emotion into his singing.
What a magnificent night of music 🥰 This is a go to film for me a couple times of years. The Band is was is beloved in a way that’s hard to describe. They were always so tight .
Good to be back in that town in North Ontario again... and nothing but Canadians on stage, far as the eye can see (sorry, Levon). Yeah, it brings a tear to my eye too.
The end of the movie are The Band with Bob Dylan. The Band fit Dylan like a glove. But, as they show on this movie, they can fill in behind most anyone. Great musicians. The last song features Dylan singing I shall be released, and every guest from the film joins them on stage.
If you weren't there it is hard to appreciate the feeling of the draft scraping out you and your friends to force them out to kill and die in an unwinnable war. This Memorial day, pay respect
Among Last Waltz greatest performances by The Band, check out "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "It Makes No Difference". Both are really powerful songs, filled with intense emotion. Robbie (a Canadian) wrote "Dixie" as a tribute to the South's sense of loss from the US Civil War. He was inspired from conversations with Levon and Levon's Dad. And "No Difference" is about heartbreak, sung beautifully by Bass Player Rick Danko. I don't think you have to first listen to the studio versions of these two, which are good, but the Live versions are amazing!
4/5 of The Band was Canadian. A.k.a. all except Levon who wound up in Ontario with fellow Arkansan Ronnie Hawkins and formed the Hawks who later became The Band. Ronnie Hawkins wound up with a solo career living in Southern Ontario near the GTA.
@@midnightrambler7716 Yes, I didn't mention that, to save space in my comment. But them Canadian's always have an interesting take on being North American. A good balance for those of us from the US. And Levon is also an amazing talent. And "Midnight Rambler" LIVE is my favorite Rolling Stones song.
@@jraben1065LOL yeah that’s my namesake. The fav version for most people is the audio on Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out which of course is great. I really like the Marquee Club 1971 version as well as the Ladies and Gentlemen version from Texas. As far as The Band, we equally loved Levon and Ronnie up in Canada! I saw the Band (without Robbie) in the 80’s in Toronto and they were great. Saw Levon Helm Band open up for the Black Crowes in Boston in 2010 and that was great too! But my favorite days were back in the ‘80’s. I can’t count how many times I saw Ronnie Hawkins in bars and taverns in and around Toronto. Long John Baldry also lived in the area in Hamilton and played them a lot at the same time. Great time for live music from all those guys back then!!
@@jraben1065Oh and to come full circle with the Stones…Long John Baldry also had an incredible female singer in his band Kathi McDonald. She could really belt it out! She most notably sang backup on the songs All Down the Line and Tumbling Dice off Exile on Main Street, which is one of my favorite albums of all time. Sadly she is very low in the mixes. Great vocalist nonetheless though!
The Band is one of those rare bands able to surpass in live format the already fabulous studio recordings they made. The live versions of It Mkaes No Difference and Dixie are really special.
hey Lee, I'm not sure how to articulate my feelings but a Thought came to me when you were speaking at the opening of this video. It was saying ~ this channel you started was meant for you. You have grown a lot since you started. It somehow seems that this music, all of it, is like a "guide on the side" of you creating a "whole" new ~ as in, who you are Becoming, as a human being on this planet. I have a really good feeling about your future, Lee ~ and for those who surround you. ☮☯❤ Oh, another thing, I heard you say your birthday is in a week. FYI ~ whether you are a follower of astrology or not ~ The planet Jupiter, the giver of luck and good things, entered the sign of Gemini, yesterday. It will be there for a full year! Perhaps The Universe sent me that feeling about you ~ and I was supposed to pass it along to you. lol.
Oh Canada! This still hits like a ton of bricks all these years later. The Band could do anything and turn on a dime. I know you don't do movies on the channel but you'd probably enjoy "Once were brothers", a band history streaming on amazon... Meanwhile, I'm sure you're going to keep hitting the Last Waltz, the Dr. John and Muddy Waters spots are both great. BTW, there's no reason to think your 30's aren't going to be great.
Everyone on the stage (except Levon) is Canadian, and all had spent part of their early years working the Toronto club scene. I like to post this video on Facebook every July 1 (Canada Day). It's an example of the Canadian musical brain drain to the US that happened prior to the Canadian content legislation brought in during 1970 - it helped kickstart the Canadian music industry by requiring 30% of music played on the radio to be Canadian.
Double edged sword there though too. There wound up being a lot of crap on Canadian radio due to that legislation that wouldn’t have been good enough for radio airplay otherwise.
@@midnightrambler7716 Gordon Lightfoot was against CanCon for that reason, although I think we would have missed out on some good stuff if it hadn't been in effect. Also, without CanCon, you could argue that we would have had American and British crap taking up the airwaves instead of our own homegrown crap. ;-)
@@russallert Oh, I totally agree. There’s been some benefits with it. Gordon Lightfoot, for instance, as well as the Guess Who, BTO, Rush, Lighthouse, Ann Murray etc. Hence my comment about it being a double edged sword. And of course taste is purely subjective. But I could’ve done without…The Spoons, Honeymoon Suite, Triumph, Platinum Blonde, Loverboy, Chilliwack, Trooper, Saga, Toronto, The Bells, Prism, Nick Gilder, Rough Trade, Teenage Head, the Diodes, Patsy Gallant, Claudja Barry, Snow, Martha and the Muffins, Tegan and Sarah etc. etc. etc….and of course…Nickelback…to name a few “polluting” the Canadian airwaves over the decades. Thankfully, there’s XM now, plus I’ve ripped my entire CD collection to iTunes so I have approximately 16,000 songs of my own choosing and taste (from quality not quota unlike our government cabinet) available on my phone wherever I go. Portable jukebox basically! So as Saul Goodman said in Breaking Bad…’s’all good man as far as I’m concerned these days! 😂 … oh, and the difference between the Canadian crap and American and/or British crap (and granted, there’s lots of that too) is that the American and British crap would sink or swim on its own merits. We would not be forced to listen to stuff via legislation which is what occurs with the 30% CanCon rule. The American, or British music, if crappy would disappear because nobody likes it. Doesn’t work the same with the crappy Canadian music because of quotas. We get it rammed down our throats, whether we like it or not. That lowers the standard for everybody.
You can see Robbie and Rick mistakenly come in on backgrounds after the first verse. They muted that in the sound track. Of course they were playing a lot of other people's songs that night, and probably were more than a little stoned. But this performance just reeks of atmosphere. And the tempo is just right. Often in a live situation like that it might end up being too fast and lose the melancholia and heaviness. Check out Daniel Lanois' "Here it What Is" documentary. It's absolutely amazing in and of itself, but Garth (much later in life) plays in a couple of pieces and he is still just a monster. He does an improvised piano piece that is stunning. Also, The Band album is one of the ones covered in the Classic Albums series, and it's one of the better ones.
This is the first time I ever liked this song. I don't care for Neil Young, too depressing. What Joni Mitchell did for this is what The Staple Singers did for "The Weight". Because you are a drummer, check out Levon Helm on "Up On Cripple Creek". To get all these people to work with The Band tells you what other musicians thought of them. Getting Dylan to perform was almost a miracle. The tribute to George Harrison is also great, a must for any music lover.
It's hard to understand the influence The Band has on music at the time. They were revered. Clapton wanted to join them. Their music is amazing and is still so relevant. So many songs to recommend but you have to hear The Band's Chest Fever. it's amazing!
Much like Bob Dylan, its actually unfair to judge Neil Young’s harmonica by the way it sounds. You really need to judge it by the way the air smells when it comes out of the little holes.
@@L33Reacts You may or may not have heard that Neil had been up for two days on a coke binge prior to the gig, and he took the stage with a coke booger in his nose. When this was spotted during the editing process, Neil's manager said take that out by whatever means possible, or else Neil won't be in the finished film. This was very pre-digital era, so Scorsese had to use an expensive process (don't know exactly what it was) to black out the coke booger, frame by frame. Several years ago, I was watching The Last Waltz on DVD on my friend's big screen TV, and the black spot hiding the coke was definitely visible.
Neil Young had a huge rock of cocaine lodged in one of his nostrils for this! 😂 Being an analogue film (no digital at the time), Scorsese’s special effects team had to go to work to black it out of view frame by frame of the film!
Lol yep! "Robertson has admitted to spending a fair amount of money in post-production editing it out, as per Young's manager's request. "The most expensive cocaine I ever bought," he once said. As he recalls in his memoir, "as soon as Neil Young took the stage, I could tell no one at Winterland was feeling better than he was.""
Well, be in 76 years old. I can tell you this when you do reach the ages of 59 and 69. You are not going to look back on today's music. The way we look back on our music from the late 60s early 70s. Not that there isn't good music out there. Because absolutely truthfully, there is a lot of good music out there. But that doesn't change what I just said. You cannot look back on it with the same love the way we do. Actually knowing you as much as I possibly can through UA-cam's only, My bet is that when you do reach those latter ages in your life? That you're gonna end up looking back on our music from the late 60s early 70s. I supposed to looking back at today's music.
Something you might have an interest in and that has to do with Neil's personal life. When you dealt into that life off the stage, he will learn that he has had a lot of tragedy personally in his life. And from watching and listening to you. I'm well aware that you've had a level of tragedy that affected your life.
Neil was coked to the fullest for two days. Grinding his teeth like a rabid dog... Scorsese said their were shots taken of Neil and the white powder can be seen.
They courteously asked Joni Mitchell to sing background vocals behind the curtain as they did not want to spoil her own introduction . It worked a treat !
Love this movie so much. Check out 'Chest Fever/Stage Fright.' I think the coke booger you were anticipating was airbrushed out at some expense. Also love the acoustic number at the very end
Watch the film, mate. You will not regret it. The music is timeless.
Neil sings ".... can you hear me now.?" And then Joni starts singing... Man that's powerful and a wonderful piece of staging.
Scorsese and Robbie Robertson had been close pals for years, and when Robbie told him The Band were going to do this Scorsese knew immediately that he had to film it. He actually put a current project on hold to do it! It's a miracle for music lovers that he decided to do it. It deserves to be watched in one sitting.
Actually Robbie and Scorsese didn't become friends until after The Last Waltz. Robbie was a movie buff, and Scorsese had worked on Woodstock, and so he approached him about the Last Waltz.
"It makes no difference" from the same show.
Not sure there will ever be a better concert
I doubt it.
That moment, when Neil sings 'Can you hear me now?', and silhouette Joni answers 'I can hear you now'... Pure magic.
Nope
Robbie wrote in his book, when Neil waling unto the stage "I knew no one at Winterland was feeling better than Neil'.
When Neil shuffles over to the other mic to sing with Robbie and Rick...so emotional, you can see why Clapton calls it one of the great live performances.
Always love that Neil has his braided roach clip hanging from his shoulder. LOL
Great reaction again bro..
Yes yes. THE LAST WALTZ..is a MUST see...
I agree, it’s the definitive version of the song. The incredible thing about The Band is how they seem to fit absolutely perfectly with any artist they play with, as if they were the band that recorded with the artist. And at the same time, they always sound like The Band. And Lee noticed t in all the last Waltz videos: Garth Hudson on keys is the secret weapon that bring magic to music. All the guys in the band recognized how important he was. One of the greatest keyboard players in rock. And a good sack player too. ow it’s time to look at more Band songs from the concert: The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, It Makes No Difference, Don’t Do It, Up on Cripple Creek, the Weight!
A Canadian band, The Band (4/5), with a guest Canadian singer, Neil Young, singing a song about growing up in Canada, with a Canadian gal, Joni Mitchell, singing background vocals. Cool 😎
The mutual admiration shown on that stage is priceless
A beautiful energy. The Band helping Neil sing Helpless with Joni’s support (such a songbird…)!
Thank you, Lee! It was a beautiful reaction.
Thank you, CeeCee! It was so good.
I wondered… Did Neil intend for Helpless to sound like Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door…?
Joni sang from offstage because her featured slot in the show was scheduled later and they didn't want to take the focus away from the featured artist and it would have also detracted from her appearance later. Nice shots of her in silouette tbough, Lol!!
My first road trip driving legally. Three of my buddy's headed to a theater to see The Last Waltz.
Perhaps the harmonica is the instrument whose sound most evokes in me the feeling of the human voice. I love its sound, especially when Neil plays it :)
Someone came into the record store where I was workin' 'n offered me a free ticket 'n a ride to see this concert. Because it happened on Thanksgivin' 'n I already had Thanksgivin' plans I passed on the opportunity. I've regretted that decision ever since. Apparently the entire audience was treated to a Thanksgivin' meal followin' the show.
Meal was before the concert .
I don't know how that stage supported the weight of all that talent.
This performance makes me cry every time...and I don't even know why..
Yes, I always get misty eyed, I cannot help it.
Hey Lee, 30 is the tits! You'll have years and years to enjoy this music and whatever else comes after. I fought it when they wanted to give me the birthday with the black balloons, but became 73 last week and I'm very happy that there are some young adults like you I feel I can still relate to. Keep up the good work.
The Band's influence on so many other bands at the time is immense. That's why so many showed up. One-of-a-kind artists, they were. Also after hearing you talk "Helpless" not necessarily "hopeless."
Perfection, they are all 1000 percent into the music. Love Rick's harmony and his expression, as well as Robbie, looking up when Neil starts singing.
Back when Neil's voice was still pure and melodic. Definitely one of a kind.
I highly recommend you check out more from The Last Waltz, particularly The Weight (with the great Staples Singers) and Joni’s Coyote.
Great reaction. Other nearly perfect Neil Young songs: "Like a Hurricane," "Pocahontas," "Powder Finger," "After the Gold Rush," "A Man Needs a Maid." I could list dozens of great ones. Neil is such an original in every way, the genuine article. Enjoy the journey.
I turn 59 this week -- my fellow Gemini. Your 30s are going to be so much better than your 20s. Everything settles down and begins to become what they are meant to be. (The 40s are even better). Enjoy that journey too, my fellow traveler.
That's five amazing songs/tracks.
You must must must do the song “The Weight” with the Staple Singers from the Last Waltz
It's coming tomorrow or the next day :)
Just an absolutely incredible song, with lyrics that just hit the soul. "In my mind, I still need a place to go."
Joni was in the background because the performers were not known before the concert and she was supposed to perform later in the concert.
Another thing, it is said that there was some editing in the video before release, because Neil had a big trail of cocaine hanging from his nose. All these people showed up, because the Band had a huge influence on rock music at the end of the Sixties, they played for Bob Dylan during the time he went electric, were part of the legendary Basement Tapes - the first bootleg - and their first solo records were huge.
Eric Clapton ended Cream, because he was so impressed with their "simpler" style, he wanted to move away from "virtuosity" to real music and he had even the hope to maybe be able to join The Band, which did not happen, but led to one of his albums, where he had them and Bob Dylan as musicians with him.
I watch a lot of music reactions on UA-cam and not even a competition who does the best and obviously I'm talking about you. I absolutely love the fact that you spend time after every listening to mention every other person in the band that so many of us that love music aren't aware of or even if we are aware, it is noted that you are the only one in UA-cam land that actually does it. And I love giving credit where credit is due. Beautiful jobly absolutely beautiful. It's so nice to relive my youth and do it through somebody as young as you in these modern times
Very nicely said!
Eric Clapton's "Further On Up The Road" is another amazing guest performance at The Last Waltz. Watch carefully during the opening solo, where Clapton's guitar strap comes loose. Robbie suddenly has to take over for Clapton's solo, and you can see Robbie's eyes bugging out, talk about unexpected pressure LIVE!.
Magic.
Incomparable.
Love The Band!
Saw Neil 3 times. 1986 Dallas 1986 1987 Austin farm aids.
More Last Waltz please.
Lee, since you’ve been thinking so much about the passage of time, you need to listen to Joni Mitchell’s “The Circle Game”. It will really give you all the feels.
The guests were kept secret at the Last Waltz and Joni hadn't been announced yet.
No one had ever filmed a concert the right way. Scorsese taught everyone how it's done.
Neil and Joni have been friends since their folk days in Toronto…well before they moved to LA
And Robbie Joni in LA through David Geffen who was close to Joni. I think it was in the late sixties.
Thank you again for another great reaction. From this concert could you please check out The Band and the Staples " The Weight"
….you’d definitely like “It Makes No Difference” RIP Rick.
One of my all time favorite songs, as a well as a favorite Band song. All the 3 singers from The Band are great, but Rick is my favorite. He puts so much feeling and emotion into his singing.
What a magnificent night of music 🥰 This is a go to film for me a couple times of years. The Band is was is beloved in a way that’s hard to describe. They were always so tight .
Such a beautiful song.
Good to be back in that town in North Ontario again... and nothing but Canadians on stage, far as the eye can see (sorry, Levon). Yeah, it brings a tear to my eye too.
Awesome music my man!!❤😂😂🎉😢😢😮😅😅😊😊😊😅😅😮😮😢🎉🎉😂❤❤
Such feelings this song releases. A great performance from an epic piece of music & film.
Van the Man's performance of Caravan from this show is a much watch. As, to be fair, is the full show.
The end of the movie are The Band with Bob Dylan. The Band fit Dylan like a glove. But, as they show on this movie, they can fill in behind most anyone. Great musicians. The last song features Dylan singing I shall be released, and every guest from the film joins them on stage.
Better is the last Waltz jam but wimps never listen to
(Oh, to live on) Sugar Mountain by Neil Young - give a listen for your 30th.
@@jeffmartin1026 he did a good job of it at Live Aid...heck nearly 40 years ago
More of The Band please!!!!!!! The Weight, Don't Do It, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and It Makes No Difference!!!
The weight is coming soon!
DONNY AND MARIE
If you weren't there it is hard to appreciate the feeling of the draft scraping out you and your friends to force them out to kill and die in an unwinnable war. This Memorial day, pay respect
Always 🙏 thank you to those who lost their lives and minds to fight a war no one wanted to fight except big business and our dumb ass government 😢
You don’t see Joni but she is so powerful on this. Why in the shadows !!!!!
All that Canadian talent. The only thing they’re missing is Gordon Lightfoot and Ian and Sylvia.
Among Last Waltz greatest performances by The Band, check out "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "It Makes No Difference". Both are really powerful songs, filled with intense emotion. Robbie (a Canadian) wrote "Dixie" as a tribute to the South's sense of loss from the US Civil War. He was inspired from conversations with Levon and Levon's Dad. And "No Difference" is about heartbreak, sung beautifully by Bass Player Rick Danko. I don't think you have to first listen to the studio versions of these two, which are good, but the Live versions are amazing!
4/5 of The Band was Canadian. A.k.a. all except Levon who wound up in Ontario with fellow Arkansan Ronnie Hawkins and formed the Hawks who later became The Band. Ronnie Hawkins wound up with a solo career living in Southern Ontario near the GTA.
@@midnightrambler7716 Yes, I didn't mention that, to save space in my comment. But them Canadian's always have an interesting take on being North American. A good balance for those of us from the US. And Levon is also an amazing talent.
And "Midnight Rambler" LIVE is my favorite Rolling Stones song.
@@jraben1065LOL yeah that’s my namesake. The fav version for most people is the audio on Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out which of course is great. I really like the Marquee Club 1971 version as well as the Ladies and Gentlemen version from Texas.
As far as The Band, we equally loved Levon and Ronnie up in Canada! I saw the Band (without Robbie) in the 80’s in Toronto and they were great. Saw Levon Helm Band open up for the Black Crowes in Boston in 2010 and that was great too! But my favorite days were back in the ‘80’s. I can’t count how many times I saw Ronnie Hawkins in bars and taverns in and around Toronto. Long John Baldry also lived in the area in Hamilton and played them a lot at the same time. Great time for live music from all those guys back then!!
@@jraben1065Oh and to come full circle with the Stones…Long John Baldry also had an incredible female singer in his band Kathi McDonald. She could really belt it out! She most notably sang backup on the songs All Down the Line and Tumbling Dice off Exile on Main Street, which is one of my favorite albums of all time. Sadly she is very low in the mixes. Great vocalist nonetheless though!
The Band is one of those rare bands able to surpass in live format the already fabulous studio recordings they made. The live versions of It Mkaes No Difference and Dixie are really special.
hey Lee, I'm not sure how to articulate my feelings but a Thought came to me when you were speaking at the opening of this video. It was saying ~ this channel you started was meant for you. You have grown a lot since you started. It somehow seems that this music, all of it, is like a "guide on the side" of you creating a "whole" new ~ as in, who you are Becoming, as a human being on this planet. I have a really good feeling about your future, Lee ~ and for those who surround you. ☮☯❤ Oh, another thing, I heard you say your birthday is in a week. FYI ~ whether you are a follower of astrology or not ~ The planet Jupiter, the giver of luck and good things, entered the sign of Gemini, yesterday. It will be there for a full year! Perhaps The Universe sent me that feeling about you ~ and I was supposed to pass it along to you. lol.
Up on cripple creek...a must
Oh Canada! This still hits like a ton of bricks all these years later. The Band could do anything and turn on a dime. I know you don't do movies on the channel but you'd probably enjoy "Once were brothers", a band history streaming on amazon... Meanwhile, I'm sure you're going to keep hitting the Last Waltz, the Dr. John and Muddy Waters spots are both great. BTW, there's no reason to think your 30's aren't going to be great.
This made me very happy. Thank you, Ceecee! x
Freaking Joni Mitchell, silhouette, back stage....cmon man.❤
Amazing song and performance
The “Dirty Thirty’s “ Enjoy Lee!
Just wait until L33 hears "Cortez the Killer".
Everyone on the stage (except Levon) is Canadian, and all had spent part of their early years working the Toronto club scene. I like to post this video on Facebook every July 1 (Canada Day). It's an example of the Canadian musical brain drain to the US that happened prior to the Canadian content legislation brought in during 1970 - it helped kickstart the Canadian music industry by requiring 30% of music played on the radio to be Canadian.
Double edged sword there though too. There wound up being a lot of crap on Canadian radio due to that legislation that wouldn’t have been good enough for radio airplay otherwise.
@@midnightrambler7716 Gordon Lightfoot was against CanCon for that reason, although I think we would have missed out on some good stuff if it hadn't been in effect. Also, without CanCon, you could argue that we would have had American and British crap taking up the airwaves instead of our own homegrown crap. ;-)
@@russallert Oh, I totally agree. There’s been some benefits with it. Gordon Lightfoot, for instance, as well as the Guess Who, BTO, Rush, Lighthouse, Ann Murray etc. Hence my comment about it being a double edged sword. And of course taste is purely subjective. But I could’ve done without…The Spoons, Honeymoon Suite, Triumph, Platinum Blonde, Loverboy, Chilliwack, Trooper, Saga, Toronto, The Bells, Prism, Nick Gilder, Rough Trade, Teenage Head, the Diodes, Patsy Gallant, Claudja Barry, Snow, Martha and the Muffins, Tegan and Sarah etc. etc. etc….and of course…Nickelback…to name a few “polluting” the Canadian airwaves over the decades. Thankfully, there’s XM now, plus I’ve ripped my entire CD collection to iTunes so I have approximately 16,000 songs of my own choosing and taste (from quality not quota unlike our government cabinet) available on my phone wherever I go. Portable jukebox basically! So as Saul Goodman said in Breaking Bad…’s’all good man as far as I’m concerned these days! 😂
… oh, and the difference between the Canadian crap and American and/or British crap (and granted, there’s lots of that too) is that the American and British crap would sink or swim on its own merits. We would not be forced to listen to stuff via legislation which is what occurs with the 30% CanCon rule. The American, or British music, if crappy would disappear because nobody likes it. Doesn’t work the same with the crappy Canadian music because of quotas. We get it rammed down our throats, whether we like it or not. That lowers the standard for everybody.
Nope not Dr John not Van Morrison not the Staples etc etc
@@midnightrambler7716yup but US Radio top 40 is garbage short boring songs that sound the same and repeated every 10 mins
You can see Robbie and Rick mistakenly come in on backgrounds after the first verse. They muted that in the sound track. Of course they were playing a lot of other people's songs that night, and probably were more than a little stoned.
But this performance just reeks of atmosphere. And the tempo is just right. Often in a live situation like that it might end up being too fast and lose the melancholia and heaviness.
Check out Daniel Lanois' "Here it What Is" documentary. It's absolutely amazing in and of itself, but Garth (much later in life) plays in a couple of pieces and he is still just a monster. He does an improvised piano piece that is stunning.
Also, The Band album is one of the ones covered in the Classic Albums series, and it's one of the better ones.
Robbie's mike was not turned on. The Band did this in concert usually too. The only time he sang would be when he sings harmonies at another's mike.
This is the first time I ever liked this song. I don't care for Neil Young, too depressing.
What Joni Mitchell did for this is what The Staple Singers did for "The Weight".
Because you are a drummer, check out Levon Helm on "Up On Cripple Creek".
To get all these people to work with The Band tells you what other musicians thought of
them. Getting Dylan to perform was almost a miracle.
The tribute to George Harrison is also great, a must for any music lover.
Love Rick's reaction, he is so into it, as is Robbie, but Robbie is a little more restrained.
Neil has been touring maybe he will come to a city near you.
Please add Ronnie Hawkins "Who Do You Love" from this concert. He started the Band (originally the Hawks). You will get a kick out of Ronnie.
It's hard to understand the influence The Band has on music at the time. They were revered. Clapton wanted to join them. Their music is amazing and is still so relevant. So many songs to recommend but you have to hear The Band's Chest Fever. it's amazing!
Great review pick! Let me know if you ever encounter anyone who hasn't felt helpless
Much like Bob Dylan, its actually unfair to judge Neil Young’s harmonica by the way it sounds. You really need to judge it by the way the air smells when it comes out of the little holes.
They are all Canadian except for Levon Helm their drummer who is from Arkansas.
Neil Young looks really high.
Lol he certainly did have that coke jaw going
@@L33Reacts You may or may not have heard that Neil had been up for two days on a coke binge prior to the gig, and he took the stage with a coke booger in his nose. When this was spotted during the editing process, Neil's manager said take that out by whatever means possible, or else Neil won't be in the finished film. This was very pre-digital era, so Scorsese had to use an expensive process (don't know exactly what it was) to black out the coke booger, frame by frame. Several years ago, I was watching The Last Waltz on DVD on my friend's big screen TV, and the black spot hiding the coke was definitely visible.
As Robbie wrote in his book,"when Neil came out I realized no one in Winterland was feeling better than Neil.
Joni Mitchell doing backing vocals from off stage......
Neil Young had a huge rock of cocaine lodged in one of his nostrils for this! 😂 Being an analogue film (no digital at the time), Scorsese’s special effects team had to go to work to black it out of view frame by frame of the film!
Lol yep!
"Robertson has admitted to spending a fair amount of money in post-production editing it out, as per Young's manager's request. "The most expensive cocaine I ever bought," he once said. As he recalls in his memoir, "as soon as Neil Young took the stage, I could tell no one at Winterland was feeling better than he was.""
Compare with "It Makes No Difference" by the Band, Rick Danko on lead vocal.
Well, be in 76 years old. I can tell you this when you do reach the ages of 59 and 69. You are not going to look back on today's music. The way we look back on our music from the late 60s early 70s. Not that there isn't good music out there. Because absolutely truthfully, there is a lot of good music out there. But that doesn't change what I just said. You cannot look back on it with the same love the way we do. Actually knowing you as much as I possibly can through UA-cam's only, My bet is that when you do reach those latter ages in your life? That you're gonna end up looking back on our music from the late 60s early 70s. I supposed to looking back at today's music.
Something you might have an interest in and that has to do with Neil's personal life. When you dealt into that life off the stage, he will learn that he has had a lot of tragedy personally in his life. And from watching and listening to you. I'm well aware that you've had a level of tragedy that affected your life.
Dude, cmon, you have to do the weight from this movie. If you dont you'll never graduate from reactor school.
That made me laugh. And yes, he must react to The Weight.
No, this one is better
Nope stop with the wimpy boy requests
Stupid
@dianedavies8291 no he must not ...top 40 garbage rock crap
Why is Joni in the shadows. She should be up front centre.
Martin Scorsese had to famously airbrush Neil’s coke drip out of the film.
Neil was coked to the fullest for two days. Grinding his teeth like a rabid dog... Scorsese said their were shots taken of Neil and the white powder can be seen.
They courteously asked Joni Mitchell to sing background vocals behind the curtain as they did not want to spoil her own introduction . It worked a treat !
No that wasn't the reason
Neil young and "humble" do not belong in the same sentence.
Please stop saying ScorsesEE.. it's Scorsese(h)
Love this movie so much. Check out 'Chest Fever/Stage Fright.'
I think the coke booger you were anticipating was airbrushed out at some expense. Also love the acoustic number at the very end