Our parents said the same thing when bands like Zeppelin, The Band & Hendrix came out. Why can’t the music sound more like Bing Crosby or Sinatra. We all think our music was the best
A few days ago Robbie joined his brothers in Rock n Roll heaven where there are no differences just love and some great music! RIP boys and thank you for the great music you left us! My mother and Robbie were good friends back in the early 60’s, then with Ronnie when they lived on The Six Nations on the Grand River in “Caledonia” Ontario, Canada, otherwise known as the Reserve in “Caledonia”, then with the Hawks when their lives were just beginning in Rock n Roll! I hope she’s up there rocking with them! I go to the Reserve in “Caledonia” once a month and always think of the Band when I go. The song “Caledonia” is definitely a tribute to their beginning! What I love most about The Band is their concerts were all about the music, no flashy stage or gimmicks, just the guys their instruments and voices, they were that great! They will always be my favourite band! Not many bands can make you “feel” their music to your very core! Say what you want about Robbie, he held The Band together for as long as he could but you can’t compete with drugs and drugs are what destroyed The Band not Robbie! And his ego so many speak of was well earned, just look at his catalog of music!
i was at this show - just 16 at the time. they were opening for the grateful dead, and I got a ride to San Francisco from l.a. i only had a vague notion who the Band was at the time, but this started my long road of fandom. so amazing to revisit the show 40 years later. I would see them again a few months later at the Palamino club in l.a. at that gig, I saw Rick Danko at the bar, sat right next to him and ordered a beer. my fake id worked, and I got to hang with Danko for about a half hour and pepper him with dumb questions. he was nice and funny, and told stories of hanging with Garcia this very evening.
Yeah, I heard of the Palomino..... an old friend of mine played there------- I was jamming in Tampa at the time......... so I missed that part...... oh well, so much great music-------- so little time!!!!!
One of the Greatest Bands of all times. Rick Danko, Robbie, Levon Helm , Richard Manuel...had the smoothest sound. I watched the Last Waltz on big screen 28 times in a row!!!
1 Rag Mama Rag 2 Long Black Veil 3 Shape I'm In 4 It Makes No Difference 5 Milk Cow Blues 6 Mystery Train 7 King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 8 Stage Fright 9 The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 10 You Don't Know Me 11 Caldonia 12 Chest Fever 13 Java Blues 14 Willie And The Hand Jive
Thanks so much for the set list, I think it makes it easier to promote The Band, I'm often trying to turn young and old onto their unique sonic energy which was not only influential trailblazing, but an evolving concept of musical collaboration and love, through several linups. A setlist and dates make it easier to cross reference different renderings of songs over time, as with the Byrds, the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and many others from James Taylor to Chuck berry, to the Cure and the Stones.
One of the greatest bands of all time, if not the greatest!!! Miss you Richard, Rick & Levon. Hope you are rocking up a storm, where ever you are! XOXO
Especially on Mystery Train! Richard and Terry are banging on those drums; Levon and that harp; Garth and Ernie on the keys; Earl and Rick bending strings and Ron providing the funk on bass! I Love it!
1. Rag mama rag 0:24 2. Long black veil 4:53 3. Shape I’m in 11:14 4. It makes no difference 16:00 5. Milk cow blues 22:58 6. Mystery train 27:10 7. King harvest ( has surely come) 33:35 8. Stage fright 37:30 9. Ws walcott medicine show 41:50 10. You don’t know me 45:45 11. Caldonia 49:10 12. Chest fever 56:37 13. Java blues 1:03:35 14. Willy and the hand jive 1:08:53 I hope the times are correct if not lmk
It’s why The Last Waltz happened…Danko…Helm we’re junkies and Richard a alcoholic…..Robbie Robertson pulled the plug…..he knew it was just a matter of time…and man….that’s a heavy load…one junkie in a band sucks….but 2 and a alcoholic depressive…..that is what destroyed the band.
@@petersokol1603 You can throw Richard into the junkie list as well, according to Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon. I love The Band...but I completely understand Robbie’s decision. Plus, he stated in Once Were Brothers that they were going to take a hiatus and work on individual projects...perhaps reforming after a couple of years. One thing that I never quite understood about Levon’s anger about The Last Waltz is his assertion that Robbie was shutting The Band down without an avenue of recourse for the others. Ok...then what are we doing watching this video? Don’t get me wrong: I love Levon, and I don’t take “sides” on the feud. All I know is that they DID reform, and if Levon was truly that angry at RR about The Last Waltz, why did he join Robbie onstage at a Rick Danko concert roughly a year after TLW?
@@robertbruce6865 I suspect what bothered Levon was that he was essentially the voice......And he was great..........A friend of mine roomed with Richard Manuel up in Woodstock.......early 70's as I recall.........Subsequently my friend worked in Bill Graham's NYC office....Was there when Bill passed.......
I saw them in a show on this concert tour, and again their next tour too and in concert-going since 1971 all I can say is they were the best concerts I've ever seen, even without J.R.R. and to answer an earlier question, yes, the Cate brothers filled in very, very nicely.
Saw this with a brother of mine, Sammy RIP he loved The Band and he got me to love The Band too, I miss my brother Sammy every day, and it's funny because I dream of him just about every night, he's there, I wake up laughing out loud and my wife says what are you dreaming about? And I just smile with a tear in my eye...
And now Robbie has sadly gone...they certainly were an amazing band...my all time favourite band ever. Thank goodness we have The Last Waltz to remind us of their brilliance.
I'm thankful I saw Rick play a smaller club in Toronto a year or 2 before he passed. Tough to see him high-inebriated and not at his best. But hearing him sing "It Makes No Diff" one last time will stay with me forever.. 😥
@@lornestein7248 I also saw Danko at a small club, but much earlier (I'd say around 1985). He did a duo acoustic set with Paul Butterfield in Fort Lauderdale. They were great that night.
The blend ever of telling historic event through rock and roll.I only seen them once at Watkins Glen.I was 14 and my sister and ex bro in law took me and told my folk we were camping in Letchworh St park.Of the Dead,Alman Bros. and the Band,the Band got me going the best. Never heard of them before but the wow factor was real,plus I seen things a catholic school boy could not even imagine that weekend. Bigger than Woodstock!
Just watched this today and oh my goodness!!!! This band had so much talent it is ridiculous!!! I too am a Levon lover!!! But you can't a damn thing away from Rick Danko!!! His vocals were awesome and his playing speaks for itself!!! They ALL had their own way to shine for sure!!! As far as Robbie Robertson people don't realize that's who put this band in motion!!! This is actually his band!!!! I loved it when they were Dylan's band way back when!!! The Last Waltz is a must see concert!!!! First time I saw this it was in the movie theater and IT JUST DONT GET BETTER THAN THIS!!!! One of my favorite bands of all time!!!! Love and miss these guys!!!!! Love for Levon and The Last Waltz are absolute must See's!!!! Danko singing It Makes No Difference is by far my very favorite song by The Band!!!!
Actually Hawkins was at the base. He started with Levon and brought a 16 year old R.R. to ARK where Levon gave the thumps up (per RR). Eric Clapton said he originally believed RR was leader until he saw Levon led the band.
@@larryhecksher7175 Yes. Levon was the first of the five to join Ronnie Hawkins. The others followed later as replacements. Robbie got the gig by overhearing Ronnie Hawkins complaining that he needed some new material for an album and going home and writing two songs for him.
Boy, are you misinformed. I believe that he was the last one brought into the fold. Levon Helm is the main reason these five people were brought together. They were called 'Levon and the Hawk's, after they left Ronnie Hawkins.
@@patrickdevine1883 I am very aware of how it goes!!! Do your homework before you diss someone!!! My comment is absolute Fact!!!! Have a good day!!!! ✌️
@@patrickdevine1883 It was Robbie who called the shots right up to the Last Waltz.... Levon and Robbie never spoke after that farewell performance because they wanted to keep playing.... until Levon was on his death bed... Robbie came to his room and held his hand but they never spoke again!!! The four went on to make music together without Robbie, until Richard took his life!!!! I LOVE THE BAND!!!! ❤️✌️🎶🎶
Right on!!!! 62 here, but aging quickly....... maybe it was the acid..... maybe it was the pot..... maybe it was the beer...... but I played music professionally and wrote great songs and spent most of my life in the recording studio------ I am poor, but I LIVED my life!!!!! (surfed a lot too!!!) the heck with greed and corporations------ ain't nobody got time for that!!!
It's always 'The Band' to me...Rest in Peace Levon, Richard, Rick...God Bless You Motherfuckers!!! God Bless Robbie Robertson, Garth and everyone else...I don't care who gets credit for what. As far as I'm concerned God always was the leader of this Band. Peace
what a great sow, so Grateful to have been there with the Dead,, couldn't get any better... Miss You Richard, Rick and Levon!!!!! Oh to be 24 on sugar mountain, on more time!
My first and only New Years shows in SF. Coudn't have had anyone better than the Band openning up for the Dead that night, They were superb, the band. So great to see and hear again.
Peter Harris Same here. Also the only time I saw the Band. It doesn't get any better than this and I still get chills thinking about it. Great to see and hear it again all these years later.
Thanks for sharing this. Wish I could have seen The Band and I only saw Levon one time in 2011 but SO blessed Ive been able to see bands such as Widespread Panic carry the torch into the multiverses. The magic is still out there🙏🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
@@madsjuul1350 The other side to that is Robbie holding The Band together while 3 of the others were whacked out on various chemicals (a view that none other than Ronnie Hawkins holds: his commentary about the drugging is that chemicals ruined what could have been the best band in the world). I don’t deny that Robbie has an incredible ego, but I suppose that writing some of the most classic songs of the Rock and Roll era might give it some validity. I highly recommend reading Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon for clarification of the legalities of assigning songwriting credits. It’s an impartial take, and one worth reading. I love ALL the guys, but facts are facts.
Thank you for posting! 🙏🙂 When this concert was held in 1983, I was only 15 years old ... and had not yet discovered "The Band". Lucky me, that You tube does excist!
The path taken by members of "The Band" has such an adventurous element to it! Each band member made it a priority to play music! From anywhere and everywhere to "Big Pink" their commitment to Writing,rehearsing, arranging payed off ! Their time together honing their craft became something that will never be duplicated!
Interesting how Robbie Robertson has been demonized and minimized from the Band in the dispute with Levon Helm. Let me state that I love Levon Helm, and that I saw him many times in concert, I met him personally and saw his 70th birthday party concert shortly before he died. He was a wonderful person. But, let's go back. In the Big Pink days with Bob Dylan, Levon Helm had left the Band and was touring without them. If you look at the Basement Tapes, you will not see Levon Helm. This was the Band's most fruitful time, as well as Dylan's. The groundbreaking "Music From Big Pink" album had eleven songs .Four were written by Robertson, four were written by Manuel. None was written by Helm. Manuel sang six songs, Danko sang four. Helm sang only one song, although it was "The Weight." Otherwise he acted as drummer, and nothing else. On the second album, "The Band" all twelve songs were written by Robertson. with help on two songs by Danko and Manuel. Manuel was considered the principal singer for the Band and sang on more songs than either Danko or Helm. Even on his grammy award winning album from 2008, "Dirt Farmer" Levon Helm wrote no songs. Why is Robertson demonized, why is Manuel diminished, and why is Levon Helm canonized. I thought this was ....'The Band'....
Have you ever been in a band? Robbie Robertson lip synced most of richard manuels parts live. He planned their "break-up", edited the last waltz with his buddy scorsese to give the final word as Robertson the maestro, and did nothing to help his old friends when they needed it most. He fancied himself the genius and them his "band" who played "his" music. I dont care who wrote the chords or the words to "the weight" or "the night they drove old dixie down", but I can tell you that those songs are what they are because of Levon Helm. And everytime that shit is played, Robbie Robertson collects a check. The band loved music. They just wanted to play. They didnt care about the business end and they should have, but Robbie Robertson is a terrrible human being. Levon cared about the music more than the money, which is why he left during the dylan era. He didnt like the vibes. He went to earn less money on an oil rig.
Clark Carmichael I met Levon. I love Levon.....and I love the Band....just think that Robbie Robertson has been isolated. I know that his solo music carries on the great song writing tradition of the Band.....I think that is the core of the Band's music....
and he is also a terrible, deceptive person. He lip synced dude. He wanted a mic that had no feed in front of him during live shows. Gimme a break. Its pretty obvious he did everything he could to inflate his own persona and diminish the others. He was living with scorsese when THEY edited richard manuel out of the last waltz. THEY made it look like Robbie was singing Richards parts. How terrible is that? Does it get any worse?
***** Robbie was a very skilled prolific writer, he had a system I learned too, but he was also a great lyricist, though the song that earned The Band the most money The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down the later 2/3rds of it were written by Levon, not Robbie though he never got any writing credits..for it as Robbie's version was to sympathetic to the North.. Robbie betrayed all the members of The Band with the Last Waltz Contract, as it was actually with the labels and studio and Last Waltz Productions and not the Band as they were lead to believe which was only Robbie and Martin Scorsese..the Band members signed where it said, "Wereas it pertains to you.." when I saw that, among other sections I knew what went down...who decides what pertains to Them... Also remember Rick Danko and Richard Manuel were also great writers and both had written with Dylan, Robbie learned song writing from Dylan but also if you are really familiar with his genius John Simon.. I know all too much of all this to go into great detail, they were my friends but also I handled a lot of intricate personal details for a number of them as did a very few trusted others...but with any one of them all five The Bad would not have been the same they were a true unique ensemble that's one of the things that made them so great..any one of them could have been a band leader on their own it was like having five generals or in Garth's case 4 Generals and a High Admiral...who they all paid attention and respect too..!
I've never watched a post "The Last Waltz" show. It's great to see Danko getting some six string time, and who doesn't love Levin on Mandolin with Richard on drums? A great showcase for talents which maybe in earlier shows were less obvious.
that last trac doing the hand jive as they start to last stanza all in sync and just having a ball. Warms the heart and we dont see that joy anymore - mores the pity. What a grouse band - love them to bits and the music connects to your bones
@@reneaellis9466 My initial reaction was going to have been a snarky response regarding the plethora of great classics that the others wrote after they reformed, and what did Robbie ever write? However, my response is actually to implore you (and others with that “what did Robbie ever do” or “Robbie screwed the others” mentality) to read Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon. She touches on the feud over songwriting credits and provides an excellent explanation regarding the legalities of assigning songwriting credits. It’s very well done and, most important, she does it as impartially as possible. There’s a difference between songwriting credits and performance/arrangement credits. And the fact that the others...with the exception of Levon...sold their performance credits back to Robbie is not Robbie’s fault. I used to take Levon’s side on all this, after reading his autobiography, but something just didn’t sit right about it. Turns out that the slightest bit of research turns up commentary from insiders like Ronnie Hawkins, John Simon, and Johnathan Taplin, who all agree that Robbie wrote the songs that he was credited for and, most important, that Richard/Rick/Levon were too whacked out to be helpful in this regard. Robbie, correctly, pointed out that it was the others’ JOBS to be helping with arrangements...which they were properly credited for. Now, I will say that I think that Jim Weider is every bit as good of a guitarist as Robbie. But that’s not criticism of RR. That’s praise.
@@robertbruce6865 You are correct about the songwriting credits. Besides just because they didn't get royalties from the songs, they all did make a lot of money, from record sales and touing. Barneey Hoskyns biograhy of The Band, provided a more balanced view of all of them, none of them were perfect or angels, but Robbie does not deserve all the hate he gets on the internet.
@@hannejeppesen1809 Performance Royalties netted all of them an estimated $100,000 each annually. In the 70’s. Invested correctly, they all could’ve been set for life. Instead, it largely was injected, snorted, smoked, or drank away. I love those guys. But I love truth as well.
@@robertbruce6865 RIck himself said in an interview "did you every make a million dollars real fast, it can ruin your life'. However, he also said several years after The Band broke up, he was supporting a few charities, and it was nice to be able to give back. I feel like you do, I love them I especially love Rick and Robbie. I have made mistakes with money (although I did not waste in on drugs) so I'm not being judgemental. Hoskyns in his book, although plenty critical of Robbie, also call him the adult in the room and smart about business.
those years were 'sex, drugs, rock 'n roll'...but ya gotta admit, they did some fantastic music! so, who cares...they left us with some great music, to last us til we drop! i could listen to these guys all nite long!
Art would not exist without recreational chemistry. Blessed are those who pulled up and didn’t crash and RIP to those who couldn’t pull up to avoid that crash🙏.
Rick's It Makes No Difference is my favorite song by him. Also there is a video of Levon & Rick singing 22:12 backup on a Sinead O'Connor appearance with Roger Waters. The song is MOTHER. Garth Hudson plays accordion.
seen the band a few times at the ontario place forum in toronto in the mid 80's great shows! didn't give a flying f**k if robbie wasn't there.. that was his choice to take off.. plenty guitarists as good if not better than robbie out there to choose from I first discovered rick and levon in a tiny coffeehouse doing an awesome acoustic show! that was first time i seen those 2 and had no idea who or what group they were from. i reasearched around and discovered they were from The Band and after listening to several songs on the 1st dvd I bought (it was a box set of their best work) after picking my jaw off the floor I bought more cd's and collected almost all their albums and got so hooked on these guys.. so sad and disheaartened they are not around anymore.. rest in peace Richard Rick and Levon.. may god carry your souls to a better place where you guys can rock it out in the heavens ;-)
Robbie wrote most of the songs but was by far the least important musically to the group. The songs he wrote would have never been as well known without the 3 incredible voices that sang them and the musical genius of Garth Hudson.
I came home from high school one day, and my dad had left his copy of the Brown Album out. I took a look at the songs...I’d never listened to them before...and recognized “Dixie” (probably from Joan Baez’s crappy remake) from my early childhood. So...I gave Dixie a listen, then decided to start the album from the beginning. My dad got home from work, and I...blown away by what I had just listened to...asked him if that was their Greatest Hits album (being simply named “The Band”). He laughed and said “No”; it was merely their second album and that he wore out 4 vinyl copies when it first came out. It’s been a 40 year love affair between myself and their music since. I have bought every book written about them, and I HIGHLY recommend Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon. Once Were Brothers is a GREAT watch as well. I got to see them in Chicago in April of 96. One of the greatest nights of my life.
There's a lot of Great Bands, Great Ones at that !!! Great Names and Music through the ages. To be able to name your BAND the BAND with Blessing of The INDUSTRY ? SHOWS the Respect they... " THE BAND HAS EARNED over the YEARS FROM THEIR PEERS...BLESS THEIR HEARTS !!!
Robbie Robertson was supposed to be such a major part of the Band, and yet this tour was done without him, and The Band was still great! This tour used The Cate Brothers Band as a backing band. The Cates were twins Earl (lead guitar), Ernie Cate (keyboard), Ron Eoff (bass) and Terry Cagle (drums) who was Levon's nephew.
@@reneaellis9466 Robertson. You know: the guy who tried to hold The Band together while three of them were too Smacked out to function. The guy who wrote almost all of their greatest songs (exactly how many Levon songs popped up on their post-Robbie records...you know, the same Robbie that “stole credits?). Enough. It’s just stupidity at this point.
Richard is on point, so much better than his mid 70s performances. I think The Band in the late 70s early 80s produced some of the best performances in their careers. They just ooze music. I miss them.
As good as Robbie Robertson was at guitar, and as good as he was at writing songs (and he was REALLY good at that), he was the one guy you could take out of the live lineup and have the minimal least impact. All of these guys were so talented... all of them could have started, led, and starred in their own bands. It was like a supergroup.
Started, led their own band. Perhaps, but they didn't, they didn't have the ambition. Richard had major alocohol and drug abuse problem from his teen years. Levon and Rick also had drug problems, mainly heroin, it tends to get in the way of being creative and productive. Robbie did drugs as well, but not heroin, and music always came first with Robbie. I love all of them, especially Robbie and Rick, so I'm not being judgemental.
@@hannejeppesen1809 Well, of course... those guys weren't going to go out and start their own bands at that point. I'm just talking about talent, musical ability.
@@grant5603 Richard had a very soulful voice, but so did Rick. I have a problem when someone points out that Levon, Richard etc. was the soul of The Band. They were ALL the soul of The Band. Without Robbie songwriting there would not be all the wonderful songs, and without Rick, Richard and Levon singing those lyrics, it would not be the same, and it would not be the same without Garth's musical genius.
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Richard and Levon have 2 of the most soulful voices I’ve ever heard, my gosh why can’t music be like this anymore, our world needs it so bad
Danko had his own amazing vocals as well!!! The Band had no shortage on vocal talent or any other talent!!! My favorite of them all!!! ❤️✌️🎶🎶
And don't forget Rick
Both were such artful men, we can't know these things today.
Our parents said the same thing when bands like Zeppelin, The Band & Hendrix came out. Why can’t the music sound more like Bing Crosby or Sinatra. We all think our music was the best
@@HamiltonRb shoot I’m 30 lol
A few days ago Robbie joined his brothers in Rock n Roll heaven where there are no differences just love and some great music! RIP boys and thank you for the great music you left us!
My mother and Robbie were good friends back in the early 60’s, then with Ronnie when they lived on The Six Nations on the Grand River in “Caledonia” Ontario, Canada, otherwise known as the Reserve in “Caledonia”, then with the Hawks when their lives were just beginning in Rock n Roll! I hope she’s up there rocking with them!
I go to the Reserve in “Caledonia” once a month and always think of the Band when I go.
The song “Caledonia” is definitely a tribute to their beginning!
What I love most about The Band is their concerts were all about the music, no flashy stage or gimmicks, just the guys their instruments and voices, they were that great!
They will always be my favourite band! Not many bands can make you “feel” their music to your very core!
Say what you want about Robbie, he held The Band together for as long as he could but you can’t compete with drugs and drugs are what destroyed The Band not Robbie! And his ego so many speak of was well earned, just look at his catalog of music!
goose bumples on that one...... God bless your mom's soul!!!!
Levon Helm is a national treasure.....
The heart and soul of... The Band ✌😎
i was at this show - just 16 at the time. they were opening for the grateful dead, and I got a ride to San Francisco from l.a. i only had a vague notion who the Band was at the time, but this started my long road of fandom. so amazing to revisit the show 40 years later. I would see them again a few months later at the Palamino club in l.a. at that gig, I saw Rick Danko at the bar, sat right next to him and ordered a beer. my fake id worked, and I got to hang with Danko for about a half hour and pepper him with dumb questions. he was nice and funny, and told stories of hanging with Garcia this very evening.
very very cool!!
Yeah, I heard of the Palomino..... an old friend of mine played there------- I was jamming in Tampa at the time......... so I missed that part...... oh well, so much great music-------- so little time!!!!!
Saw this show in Philly '83. Have a cap from the tour. The greatest band of all!
One of the Greatest Bands of all times. Rick Danko, Robbie, Levon Helm , Richard Manuel...had the smoothest sound. I watched the Last Waltz on big screen 28 times in a row!!!
Garth Hudson on keyboards .
Awesome
You forgot Garth Hudson!
The actual concert can be found on UA-cam. Check it out. You'll never watch the movie again.
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Danko! Danko! Danko!
1 Rag Mama Rag
2 Long Black Veil
3 Shape I'm In
4 It Makes No Difference
5 Milk Cow Blues
6 Mystery Train
7 King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
8 Stage Fright
9 The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
10 You Don't Know Me
11 Caldonia
12 Chest Fever
13 Java Blues
14 Willie And The Hand Jive
Right, but he did, so go all the way instead the halfass route he did. Now, go fuck yourself.
Thanks so much for the set list, I think it makes it easier to promote The Band, I'm often trying to turn young and old onto their unique sonic energy which was not only influential trailblazing, but an evolving concept of musical collaboration and love, through several linups. A setlist and dates make it easier to cross reference different renderings of songs over time, as with the Byrds, the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and many others from James Taylor to Chuck berry, to the Cure and the Stones.
@@karlbaake4140 well said.
Thanks for song list
One of the greatest bands ever no matter where they came from!!!
Was it Canada?
the shape i'm in ! this is rock n' roll like never before or again. hey. i'm 75 and still listening and will always go to the band after shirley horn.
One of my favorite songs ✌😎
Along with.....
Ophelia
They Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down
Up On Cripple Creek
Lots more............... 😉
Thanks Keith for keeping The Band alive and showing the world pure talent......One of my fav videos of all time.....
Rip ..Rick Levon Richard
Keith who ?, jűs sāyīn 😎✌😎!
Watching this August 18, 2023 just few days after Robbie passed away, age 80
One of the greatest bands of all time, if not the greatest!!! Miss you Richard, Rick & Levon. Hope you are rocking up a storm, where ever you are! XOXO
I just love to watch how much fun they're actually having together. Just makes you smile the entire time!
Especially on Mystery Train! Richard and Terry are banging on those drums; Levon and that harp; Garth and Ernie on the keys; Earl and Rick bending strings and Ron providing the funk on bass! I Love it!
1. Rag mama rag 0:24
2. Long black veil 4:53
3. Shape I’m in 11:14
4. It makes no difference 16:00
5. Milk cow blues 22:58
6. Mystery train 27:10
7. King harvest ( has surely come) 33:35
8. Stage fright 37:30
9. Ws walcott medicine show 41:50
10. You don’t know me 45:45
11. Caldonia 49:10
12. Chest fever 56:37
13. Java blues 1:03:35
14. Willy and the hand jive 1:08:53
I hope the times are correct if not lmk
Thank you.
Thnx!
Thank u ❤
Much appreciated for the folks who track it out for us! We ❤ you!
@@factotumted thank you. I always love those who do it too.
bill graham's voice at the beginning of shows still takes me back...
Agree!
Bill Graham, he always gave us a good show.
To hear Richard sing, The Shape I'm in" and knowing what happens to him in a couple years is heartbreaking.
yea its brutal
My favorite interviews from The Last Waltz were when he was on screen..
It’s why The Last Waltz happened…Danko…Helm we’re junkies and Richard a alcoholic…..Robbie Robertson pulled the plug…..he knew it was just a matter of time…and man….that’s a heavy load…one junkie in a band sucks….but 2 and a alcoholic depressive…..that is what destroyed the band.
@@petersokol1603 You can throw Richard into the junkie list as well, according to Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon.
I love The Band...but I completely understand Robbie’s decision. Plus, he stated in Once Were Brothers that they were going to take a hiatus and work on individual projects...perhaps reforming after a couple of years.
One thing that I never quite understood about Levon’s anger about The Last Waltz is his assertion that Robbie was shutting The Band down without an avenue of recourse for the others. Ok...then what are we doing watching this video? Don’t get me wrong: I love Levon, and I don’t take “sides” on the feud. All I know is that they DID reform, and if Levon was truly that angry at RR about The Last Waltz, why did he join Robbie onstage at a Rick Danko concert roughly a year after TLW?
@@robertbruce6865 I suspect what bothered Levon was that he was essentially the voice......And he was great..........A friend of mine roomed with Richard Manuel up in Woodstock.......early 70's as I recall.........Subsequently my friend worked in Bill Graham's NYC office....Was there when Bill passed.......
I saw them in a show on this concert tour, and again their next tour too and in concert-going since 1971 all I can say is they were the best concerts I've ever seen, even without J.R.R. and to answer an earlier question, yes, the Cate brothers filled in very, very nicely.
They remain a marvel both on record and live! Thank goodness we have these videos!
Yes. This show is a treasure. I watch it often. The energy is amazing!
Love how Levon sticks in that " Right Stuff " Line before Caledonia !
The heart & soul of The Band ( R.I.P Levon )
RIP to Loretta Lynn.
Saw this with a brother of mine, Sammy RIP he loved The Band and he got me to love The Band too, I miss my brother Sammy every day, and it's funny because I dream of him just about every night, he's there, I wake up laughing out loud and my wife says what are you dreaming about? And I just smile with a tear in my eye...
And now Robbie has sadly gone...they certainly were an amazing band...my all time favourite band ever. Thank goodness we have The Last Waltz to remind us of their brilliance.
Garth is the only one left. they were one of a kind.
Best live act I'd ever seen since the beginning! Danko on "It Makes No Difference"!!! Good lord how can you not feel it!!?
Amen.
@@susanrobertsen3667 I second that emotion
Couldn't agree more. They were the best I ever saw.
I'm thankful I saw Rick play a smaller club in Toronto a year or 2 before he passed. Tough to see him high-inebriated and not at his best. But hearing him sing "It Makes No Diff" one last time will stay with me forever.. 😥
@@lornestein7248 I also saw Danko at a small club, but much earlier (I'd say around 1985). He did a duo acoustic set with Paul Butterfield in Fort Lauderdale. They were great that night.
The blend ever of telling historic event through rock and roll.I only seen them once at Watkins Glen.I was 14 and my sister and ex bro in law took me and told my folk we were camping in Letchworh St park.Of the Dead,Alman Bros. and the Band,the Band got me going the best. Never heard of them before but the wow factor was real,plus I seen things a catholic school boy could not even imagine that weekend. Bigger than Woodstock!
Everyone dies and that's a fact, but the music left behind informs us all. Thank you for your contribution.
God Bless Garth.
Just watched this today and oh my goodness!!!! This band had so much talent it is ridiculous!!! I too am a Levon lover!!! But you can't a damn thing away from Rick Danko!!! His vocals were awesome and his playing speaks for itself!!! They ALL had their own way to shine for sure!!! As far as Robbie Robertson people don't realize that's who put this band in motion!!! This is actually his band!!!! I loved it when they were Dylan's band way back when!!! The Last Waltz is a must see concert!!!! First time I saw this it was in the movie theater and IT JUST DONT GET BETTER THAN THIS!!!! One of my favorite bands of all time!!!! Love and miss these guys!!!!! Love for Levon and The Last Waltz are absolute must See's!!!! Danko singing It Makes No Difference is by far my very favorite song by The Band!!!!
Actually Hawkins was at the base. He started with Levon and brought a 16 year old R.R. to ARK where Levon gave the thumps up (per RR). Eric Clapton said he originally believed RR was leader until he saw Levon led the band.
@@larryhecksher7175 Yes. Levon was the first of the five to join Ronnie Hawkins. The others followed later as replacements. Robbie got the gig by overhearing Ronnie Hawkins complaining that he needed some new material for an album and going home and writing two songs for him.
Boy, are you misinformed. I believe that he was the last one brought into the fold. Levon Helm is the main reason these five people were brought together. They were called 'Levon and the Hawk's, after they left Ronnie Hawkins.
@@patrickdevine1883 I am very aware of how it goes!!! Do your homework before you diss someone!!! My comment is absolute Fact!!!! Have a good day!!!! ✌️
@@patrickdevine1883 It was Robbie who called the shots right up to the Last Waltz.... Levon and Robbie never spoke after that farewell performance because they wanted to keep playing.... until Levon was on his death bed... Robbie came to his room and held his hand but they never spoke again!!! The four went on to make music together without Robbie, until Richard took his life!!!! I LOVE THE BAND!!!!
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I met Levon at a ramble dec3 2011, gave him an Army jacket with Helm name plate, , he passed 5 months later, I loved that guy!
love love love rock us.....73 and still rocking here.....get up shake the sillies out...
Shake yer ya yas out!
Right on!!!! 62 here, but aging quickly....... maybe it was the acid..... maybe it was the pot..... maybe it was the beer...... but I played music professionally and wrote great songs and spent most of my life in the recording studio------ I am poor, but I LIVED my life!!!!! (surfed a lot too!!!) the heck with greed and corporations------ ain't nobody got time for that!!!
just love those twangy traditional instruments combined w the lovely smooth hammond -beautifully 'understated'. Grouse! (and yep I'm an Aussie) :)
It's always 'The Band' to me...Rest in Peace Levon, Richard, Rick...God Bless You Motherfuckers!!! God Bless Robbie Robertson, Garth and everyone else...I don't care who gets credit for what. As far as I'm concerned God always was the leader of this Band. Peace
what a great sow, so Grateful to have been there with the Dead,, couldn't get any better...
Miss You Richard, Rick and Levon!!!!! Oh to be 24 on sugar mountain, on more time!
Neil young sang sugar mountain also.
Wazz, up good1
@@rickdomke6791 all good! you
My first and only New Years shows in SF. Coudn't have had anyone better than the Band openning up for the Dead that night, They were superb, the band. So great to see and hear again.
Peter Harris Same here. Also the only time I saw the Band. It doesn't get any better than this and I still get chills thinking about it. Great to see and hear it again all these years later.
I’m so in love with Rick Danko even though he is long gone . They’re all fantastic! So real !
Thanks for the upload!
Thank you for this treasure!🙏❤🎶
Yes! Still with all 3 singers! That is the recipe.
Thanks for sharing this. Wish I could have seen The Band and I only saw Levon one time in 2011 but SO blessed Ive been able to see bands such as Widespread Panic carry the torch into the multiverses. The magic is still out there🙏🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
So beautiful to see Manuel in such fine form. So sad that he was gone just 3 years later.
Don't know all the details, but I love Robbie and Levon and Iove the Band.... Life goes on!
Robbie is to The Band what john Fogerty is to CCR.... the guy that shit on the group and screwed their bandmates
@@madsjuul1350 The other side to that is Robbie holding The Band together while 3 of the others were whacked out on various chemicals (a view that none other than Ronnie Hawkins holds: his commentary about the drugging is that chemicals ruined what could have been the best band in the world).
I don’t deny that Robbie has an incredible ego, but I suppose that writing some of the most classic songs of the Rock and Roll era might give it some validity.
I highly recommend reading Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon for clarification of the legalities of assigning songwriting credits. It’s an impartial take, and one worth reading.
I love ALL the guys, but facts are facts.
Thank you for posting! 🙏🙂 When this concert was held in 1983, I was only 15 years old ... and had not yet discovered "The Band". Lucky me, that You tube does excist!
These guys are amazing, hard to believe it ever existed now.
Most replayed part of the show : Danko starting to sing it makes no difference. Not surprise about it ^^
The path taken by members of "The Band" has such an adventurous element to it! Each band member made it a priority to play music! From anywhere and everywhere to "Big Pink" their commitment to Writing,rehearsing, arranging payed off !
Their time together honing their craft became something that will never be duplicated!
Well said.
@@danm3213 Thanks Dan!
I miss them so much, thanks for the music and love...
Interesting how Robbie Robertson has been demonized and minimized from the Band in the dispute with Levon Helm. Let me state that I love Levon Helm, and that I saw him many times in concert, I met him personally and saw his 70th birthday party concert shortly before he died. He was a wonderful person. But, let's go back. In the Big Pink days with Bob Dylan, Levon Helm had left the Band and was touring without them. If you look at the Basement Tapes, you will not see Levon Helm. This was the Band's most fruitful time, as well as Dylan's. The groundbreaking "Music From Big Pink" album had eleven songs .Four were written by Robertson, four were written by Manuel. None was written by Helm. Manuel sang six songs, Danko sang four. Helm sang only one song, although it was "The Weight." Otherwise he acted as drummer, and nothing else. On the second album, "The Band" all twelve songs were written by Robertson. with help on two songs by Danko and Manuel. Manuel was considered the principal singer for the Band and sang on more songs than either Danko or Helm. Even on his grammy award winning album from 2008, "Dirt Farmer" Levon Helm wrote no songs. Why is Robertson demonized, why is Manuel diminished, and why is Levon Helm canonized. I thought this was ....'The Band'....
Have you ever been in a band? Robbie Robertson lip synced most of richard manuels parts live. He planned their "break-up", edited the last waltz with his buddy scorsese to give the final word as Robertson the maestro, and did nothing to help his old friends when they needed it most. He fancied himself the genius and them his "band" who played "his" music. I dont care who wrote the chords or the words to "the weight" or "the night they drove old dixie down", but I can tell you that those songs are what they are because of Levon Helm. And everytime that shit is played, Robbie Robertson collects a check. The band loved music. They just wanted to play. They didnt care about the business end and they should have, but Robbie Robertson is a terrrible human being. Levon cared about the music more than the money, which is why he left during the dylan era. He didnt like the vibes. He went to earn less money on an oil rig.
Clark Carmichael I met Levon. I love Levon.....and I love the Band....just think that Robbie Robertson has been isolated. I know that his solo music carries on the great song writing tradition of the Band.....I think that is the core of the Band's music....
and he is also a terrible, deceptive person. He lip synced dude. He wanted a mic that had no feed in front of him during live shows. Gimme a break. Its pretty obvious he did everything he could to inflate his own persona and diminish the others. He was living with scorsese when THEY edited richard manuel out of the last waltz. THEY made it look like Robbie was singing Richards parts. How terrible is that? Does it get any worse?
You'd have to have read the 70 page Contract for The Last Waltz as I have, to realize how Robbie and Scorsese ripped off the other Band members..
***** Robbie was a very skilled prolific writer, he had a system I learned too, but he was also a great lyricist, though the song that earned The Band the most money The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down the later 2/3rds of it were written by Levon, not Robbie though he never got any writing credits..for it as Robbie's version was to sympathetic to the North.. Robbie betrayed all the members of The Band with the Last Waltz Contract, as it was actually with the labels and studio and Last Waltz Productions and not the Band as they were lead to believe which was only Robbie and Martin Scorsese..the Band members signed where it said, "Wereas it pertains to you.." when I saw that, among other sections I knew what went down...who decides what pertains to Them... Also remember Rick Danko and Richard Manuel were also great writers and both had written with Dylan, Robbie learned song writing from Dylan but also if you are really familiar with his genius John Simon.. I know all too much of all this to go into great detail, they were my friends but also I handled a lot of intricate personal details for a number of them as did a very few trusted others...but with any one of them all five The Bad would not have been the same they were a true unique ensemble that's one of the things that made them so great..any one of them could have been a band leader on their own it was like having five generals or in Garth's case 4 Generals and a High Admiral...who they all paid attention and respect too..!
never gets old,forever young
Such an awesome upload. They all look and sound great.
THANK YOU!!! B
I've never watched a post "The Last Waltz" show. It's great to see Danko getting some six string time, and who doesn't love Levin on Mandolin with Richard on drums? A great showcase for talents which maybe in earlier shows were less obvious.
Rick Danko singing can't be replaced..
Him and Levon's voice together was such a sweet combo.
Danko, Manuel and Helm were something else
So glad they continued after Robby. I share all the love of the previous comments.
San Francisco Civic. I was there to see the Dead. we were ecstatic at this surprise. Unforgettable.
Одна из самых любимых мною банд.
that last trac doing the hand jive as they start to last stanza all in sync and just having a ball. Warms the heart and we dont see that joy anymore - mores the pity. What a grouse band - love them to bits and the music connects to your bones
I would have loved to see this incarnation. Robbyless or not it's fucking awesome.
It's much better Robbyless. His absence says a lot about the way he screwed them over.
@@reneaellis9466 My initial reaction was going to have been a snarky response regarding the plethora of great classics that the others wrote after they reformed, and what did Robbie ever write?
However, my response is actually to implore you (and others with that “what did Robbie ever do” or “Robbie screwed the others” mentality) to read Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon. She touches on the feud over songwriting credits and provides an excellent explanation regarding the legalities of assigning songwriting credits. It’s very well done and, most important, she does it as impartially as possible.
There’s a difference between songwriting credits and performance/arrangement credits. And the fact that the others...with the exception of Levon...sold their performance credits back to Robbie is not Robbie’s fault.
I used to take Levon’s side on all this, after reading his autobiography, but something just didn’t sit right about it. Turns out that the slightest bit of research turns up commentary from insiders like Ronnie Hawkins, John Simon, and Johnathan Taplin, who all agree that Robbie wrote the songs that he was credited for and, most important, that Richard/Rick/Levon were too whacked out to be helpful in this regard. Robbie, correctly, pointed out that it was the others’ JOBS to be helping with arrangements...which they were properly credited for.
Now, I will say that I think that Jim Weider is every bit as good of a guitarist as Robbie. But that’s not criticism of RR. That’s praise.
@@robertbruce6865 You are correct about the songwriting credits. Besides just because they didn't get royalties from the songs, they all did make a lot of money, from record sales and touing. Barneey Hoskyns biograhy of The Band, provided a more balanced view of all of them, none of them were perfect or angels, but Robbie does not deserve all the hate he gets on the internet.
@@hannejeppesen1809 Performance Royalties netted all of them an estimated $100,000 each annually. In the 70’s. Invested correctly, they all could’ve been set for life. Instead, it largely was injected, snorted, smoked, or drank away.
I love those guys. But I love truth as well.
@@robertbruce6865 RIck himself said in an interview "did you every make a million dollars real fast, it can ruin your life'. However, he also said several years after The Band broke up, he was supporting a few charities, and it was nice to be able to give back. I feel like you do, I love them I especially love Rick and Robbie. I have made mistakes with money (although I did not waste in on drugs) so I'm not being judgemental. Hoskyns in his book, although plenty critical of Robbie, also call him the adult in the room and smart about business.
If you havent seen it, you must watch Once Were Brothers.
Great version of It Makes No Difference, the very reason Rick Danko edges Levon as my favorite Band member.
those years were 'sex, drugs, rock 'n roll'...but ya gotta admit, they did some fantastic music! so, who cares...they left us with some great music, to last us til we drop! i could listen to these guys all nite long!
Art would not exist without recreational chemistry. Blessed are those who pulled up and didn’t crash and RIP to those who couldn’t pull up to avoid that crash🙏.
What talent they all had. Really dont make them like anymore and thats a damn shame. Rest in peace guys. Long live garth hudson
Man o' Man........great stuff.........plus Bill Graham! WOW!!!
These guys left it all on the stage
This footage has been hiding really well all these years. Amazing to have it. What else is out there hiding?
great set!
THE BAND!! Great Music!!🎹🎸🎵🍄🍄🍄🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺😀💨💨💨The BEST!!!
It’s great to see the guys. It’s not the same without Robbie. Just like it would not be the same without any other member.
This is an amazing, beautiful long black veil rendition
Rick's It Makes No Difference is my favorite song by him.
Also there is a video of Levon & Rick singing 22:12 backup on a Sinead O'Connor appearance with Roger Waters. The song is MOTHER. Garth Hudson plays accordion.
seen the band a few times at the ontario place forum in toronto in the mid 80's great shows! didn't give a flying f**k if robbie wasn't there.. that was his choice to take off.. plenty guitarists as good if not better than robbie out there to choose from I first discovered rick and levon in a tiny coffeehouse doing an awesome acoustic show! that was first time i seen those 2 and had no idea who or what group they were from. i reasearched around and discovered they were from The Band and after listening to several songs on the 1st dvd I bought (it was a box set of their best work) after picking my jaw off the floor I bought more cd's and collected almost all their albums and got so hooked on these guys.. so sad and disheaartened they are not around anymore.. rest in peace Richard Rick and Levon.. may god carry your souls to a better place where you guys can rock it out in the heavens ;-)
No you saw them!!
Robbie wrote most of the songs but was by far the least important musically to the group. The songs he wrote would have never been as well known without the 3 incredible voices that sang them and the musical genius of Garth Hudson.
I came home from high school one day, and my dad had left his copy of the Brown Album out. I took a look at the songs...I’d never listened to them before...and recognized “Dixie” (probably from Joan Baez’s crappy remake) from my early childhood. So...I gave Dixie a listen, then decided to start the album from the beginning.
My dad got home from work, and I...blown away by what I had just listened to...asked him if that was their Greatest Hits album (being simply named “The Band”). He laughed and said “No”; it was merely their second album and that he wore out 4 vinyl copies when it first came out.
It’s been a 40 year love affair between myself and their music since. I have bought every book written about them, and I HIGHLY recommend Sandra Tooze’s excellent biography of Levon. Once Were Brothers is a GREAT watch as well.
I got to see them in Chicago in April of 96. One of the greatest nights of my life.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARTH !!!!!!
They will never die. Keep them in your hearts.
God bless the BAND
I was there
awesome!!!!
the band is at 40 jaar de beste band voor mij dit is geweldig afz marcel v.d.horst
Love Levon on the harmonica and Richard covering on drums--they were as good as it gets.
The band....... Tengo 55. Y siempre escuche este PEDAZO
De. "BAND"". SIEMPRE 🤠✨💫💥🎺🎸🪕🎻🪘🥁🪗🎷
Robertson was not only a visionary and wonderful musician, he was also a wonderful person.
Are you his mom?
God, Thank you for The Band- Garth will lead us now home-Rest peacefully...
Mystery Train. WOW! Dankos singing amazing.
Played in an R&B group in the late 60's; "Chest Fever" was the heart of the 3rd set!
Long Black Veil.......Beautiful.
Watch Manuel on drums during Mystery Train- awesome
WOW!!!!! Richard is there!!!! This is pure magic!!!!
There's a lot of Great Bands, Great Ones at that !!! Great Names and
Music through the ages.
To be able to name your
BAND the BAND with Blessing of The INDUSTRY ? SHOWS the
Respect they... " THE BAND HAS EARNED over the YEARS FROM THEIR
PEERS...BLESS THEIR HEARTS !!!
THIS BAND THE ALLMAN BROTHERS THE BEATELS THE DEAD.AS GOOD AS IT GETS.
Awesome band.
Best band ever!
Agreed!!👍😎
The silence between songs is worth the wait.
Long live the Band!!!!
Well, they always will with me
Robbie Robertson was supposed to be such a major part of the Band, and yet this tour was done without him, and The Band was still great! This tour used The Cate Brothers Band as a backing band. The Cates were twins Earl (lead guitar), Ernie Cate (keyboard), Ron Eoff (bass) and Terry Cagle (drums) who was Levon's nephew.
Robbie who?
@@reneaellis9466 Robertson. You know: the guy who tried to hold The Band together while three of them were too Smacked out to function. The guy who wrote almost all of their greatest songs (exactly how many Levon songs popped up on their post-Robbie records...you know, the same Robbie that “stole credits?).
Enough. It’s just stupidity at this point.
Richard is on point, so much better than his mid 70s performances. I think The Band in the late 70s early 80s produced some of the best performances in their careers. They just ooze music. I miss them.
As good as Robbie Robertson was at guitar, and as good as he was at writing songs (and he was REALLY good at that), he was the one guy you could take out of the live lineup and have the minimal least impact. All of these guys were so talented... all of them could have started, led, and starred in their own bands. It was like a supergroup.
Started, led their own band. Perhaps, but they didn't, they didn't have the ambition. Richard had major alocohol and drug abuse problem from his teen years. Levon and Rick also had drug problems, mainly heroin, it tends to get in the way of being creative and productive. Robbie did drugs as well, but not heroin, and music always came first with Robbie. I love all of them, especially Robbie and Rick, so I'm not being judgemental.
@@hannejeppesen1809 Well, of course... those guys weren't going to go out and start their own bands at that point. I'm just talking about talent, musical ability.
Gart's hands: two stunning musicians in themselves 👏
Pure talent
Great rendition of The Long Black Vail
Loved the Band , But Levon was My Pick....
Yeah something about Levon....
Named my daughter Annalee after seeing him sing The Weight at a festival in 2011🙏. Feel very blessed to have seen him at least one time🙏🤟🤘.
I get that. But Richard was truely the soul of The Band
@@grant5603 Richard had a very soulful voice, but so did Rick. I have a problem when someone points out that Levon, Richard etc. was the soul of The Band. They were ALL the soul of The Band. Without Robbie songwriting there would not be all the wonderful songs, and without Rick, Richard and Levon singing those lyrics, it would not be the same, and it would not be the same without Garth's musical genius.
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I saw them in Seattle at a small venue in the mid 80's
The drummer playing the mandolin, thats pretty amazing
As well as Richard filling in on the drums while Levon played the mandolin!
And Rick playing the fiddle, same.
YEAH THE BAND YOU ARE SIMPLY THE BEST BAND
Great kund of music dis band ,,Love it