Rick Danko blowtorchin' some dude... movie or not, I've never seen the like.... Not sure I like mixing my knowledge of him w/ the dude in the movie. Mianly b/c he's one of those souls I cherish as I know them. But, I acted before, & I'm not like the evil character I played either. Just weird to see. But I also don't want anyone to be confined to being either musicion or an actor & not this or that. They can be both of those & anything else as well. I despise people who hate the music of actors, when they were musicians long & before they ever got a part. Stuff like that.
I love RIck Danko, however as he got older and gaining weight he lost some of his good looks, he is still cute and his personality shines through, here he plays a mechanic or something like that, wearing overalls. I just watched Carny the 1980 movie with Robbie Robertson, Robbie like Rick were so good looking in the Last Waltz, however, he was even better looking in Carny couldn't take me eyes off him.
These guys were the -go too guys...for the best artists of their time! I too would have loved Robbies input.,but the facts suggest the split was ..for him, irrevocable. Damn! So much shared history but after it finished l recall the guys backing Van Halen for his berlin wall concert...4 originals present...made me hopeful that good things from them might be forthcoming
If you can make people forget their trouble for just a little while, and remember you, you've done your job. The essense of The Band. Somehow, music, pro sports, acting, politics... It's all gone the wrong way. I lived and performed during the best period of music. Period. God bless these musical heroes.
I read Levon's book This wheels on fire ,when it first was published . He quite clearly states in it that the ' fued ' between him and Robbie was overblown to suit ' the book boys ?' We will never know the exact truth to the financial side of The Band ...will we ?
The music of my youth, first time I heard it I just laid on the floor with my head between speakers and just kept flipping the album. Ain't nothin like like vinyl
LEVON'S GREAT COMEBACK about "The last waltz" and that being the "End of the Road" I Could NOT understaND < aT THE Top of our game, WE WERE HAVING a "going out of BIZ show" !! The BAND? Not so much of a BAND> Meanwhile the idea of "being part of the heartbreakers" Literally +KILLED Tom Petty.. The last tour, TP KNEW he had a crack in his hip, BUT WOULD NOT STOP" needing Pain killers, and at the end, the Hip was fully fractured. I've had two, and cannot imagine THE PAIN HE WENT THROUGH "For the Fans". AS ANY WEIGHT OF THAT FRACTURE IS A KNIFE OF PAIN.
YOUNGINS- YOU HAVE SEEN AN ENTIRE BAND , CALLED "THE BAND" WIPED OUT (my guess) from CIGARETTES- twenty years short. If any was a BOOZER THAT WOULD NOT HELP> Twenty XTRA years CUT OFF!! You cheat youRSELF< FANS AND LOVEONES>
Such a sad story for this beautiful band . I think that doing the last waltz was a pretty big mistake overall because after that it became just " boring ", like they were booked to play the same tune over and over with nothing new or few new song which were mainly covers and so they just became an old band surviving. Even if i think the problem due to the publishing and song writting credit was real, robbertson pointed a good point tellin that none of them were writing anything significant except him, because they did not do anything after he left and god damn how talented they were ... Such a waste! Alcohol and drugs are a pain . sad stuff
Hard for me to swallow how the other members of The Band supposedly wrote as many songs as Robertson did, yet they never sued Robertson when they had ample opportunity to.
They'd been displaying their top western world pop talent since the 1950s in Canada with Ronnie Hawkins as The Hawks, but most of us didn't even know they existed didn't until their last concert, The Last Waltz. Tragic. Every Band member should have been a multi millionaire.
They probably could have been if not for spending it on drugs and not knowing how to invest. Not unusual for musicians or other high profile people athletes, actors ect.
It is well documented, Robbie write about it in his book "Testimony" as does Barney Hoskyns who wrote the biograhpy of The Band. They all did drugs, but Levon, Richard and Rick got into heroin. @@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL
I had the pleasure of meeting Jim weider and attending many of his concerts. He trusted le to hold his 52 telecaster while he took naps. As great as a guitarist as he is nothing is better than the weight with the original band members.
Robbie wrote the songs, played great guitar, great storyteller, and to this female of that generation incredible good looking and full of charisma. So what if he couldn't sing.
What I find so bizarre about this documentary was not just the complete lack of participation by Robbie Robertson, but how his lack of participation was completely ignored by the people making the film.
Was he asked? None of us know the conversations that were had by all involved. Only they know. Another funny thing about the documentary is none of the members talked about drugs and drug addiction which was the real culprit to the dismantling of the Band in the first place. I’d drop to my knees in reverence to all of them for respect to their supreme musical talent, skill, artistry and abilities. Collectively they were all the best of the best and I’m sad we never got to see more of the magic they coulda created. I’m not taking sides one way or the other, I loved them all for their contributions to the musical world and still marvel at their exceptional and exquisite musical talents both as individuals and as a band.
Kinda tells ya what they thought about RR taking all the money and running! It’s no secret! And RR was never welcome again. He was not the talent anyway. He just wrote some lyrics inspired by Levon, Richard and Rick.
@@jeffmitchell9863 Really do you know how many lyrics Robbie wrote, he was up writing in the morning, when the others, except Garth, was sleeping in because they had partied the night before. They all did drugs including Robbie, but Robbie and Garth stayed away from heroin. It is ridiculous to say Robbie had no talent, don't think you have done too much research. Robbie did the research, went to the library to read of on the Civil War and the expulsion of the Arcadian's, for Arcadian Driftwood. Your comment is very ignorant.
Sad part is there are no "neighbouring" rights in the U.S., the only country that only pays musicians for the work on a specific project and that's it. ALL the members of the Band(songwriters excluded) would have received some extra scratch for what they contributed to that overall success.
