The Band - Don't Do It - 11/25/1976 - Winterland (Official) 

If someone granted me one wish to attend anything in sporting ,musical or political history ,I would have sold my soul to have been able to buy a ticket for The Last Waltz concert in 1976 ! Man , nothing else comes close .......... The Band ....leaving the best until last ......

My son died at 15 and he was a big fan and whenever he would play this song we all would sing the please don't brake my heart part he always played his guitar and when we buried him and I visited him one day I realized that the person that was buried next to him was a women named Ophelia like the song I felt goosebumps for some reason

How did Levon sing so hard and Hammer the Drum Kit, and never miss a beat? R I P brother..

You can see how much they sweetened it for the movie. Still doesn't compare to the Rock of Ages version.

What a pity. Of the Band the only survivor is Garth Hudson. If you would think of some sort of reunion live concert………..pls don’t

At 2:10, Levon gives Rick the go sign--a slight, quick tilt of the head.

Levon shining as usual

Definitely was changed for the movie. Sound isn't as muffled in the film, but they cut the patient beats of the intro we get here. And the first verse isn't in the movie. Horns are there but not here. This footage is raw, but it's excellent. Gives me a different impression of the movie.

I feel really lucky that I have access to this "original" version. I'm not sure what's up with the "concert" version - is it simply this, but mixed properly? Or does the "concert" version have overdubs as well? Either way, my favourite is the film version. It's such a brilliant move, to start the film with the encore, but then also to use overdubs to give the encore the energy of a lead-off song. It mixes so much all together into one, especially since the song is about heartbreak, and it's the last song they performed live before breaking up. And to my ears at least, the overdubs really improve the song, really lift it up, and the horns, it's just wonderful. This is great too, and I do love Robbie's guitar in the "open up your heart" part - that line is like something out of Black Sabbath. To me this song, specifically the movie version, it just encapsulates the whole situation and emotion relating to the end of The Band so perfectly.

My favorite live song from the band. Love it

"Never thought a going out of business concert was a good idea"- Levon Helm

This was simulcast live on the late great KFOG in SF I believe

recorded by Marvin Gaye 1964, written by Holland-Dozier-Holland.

It's hard to call the movie a concert if they overdubbed everything later.

love this song so much! there was a version from new York music Academy of music (I think). has been removed. it was the ultimate in music to me. hope to see it again. I'm computer illiterate. please help. Rob Porte: )

Great stuff, all of it!

WHY were they made to rerecord this?! (Good on Levon for holding out). I just get sick everytime I see Robbie "sing".

Robbie wrote the songs and played beautiful lead guitar, but band members always held it Against him that he just couldn’t sing a lick.

Who would dislike This?

i AM SO GLAD that there are posts from the Band still around.

If you listen to the Academy of Music shows, most of the over dubbing came from that material

What a hell of musicians as well as song writers they were!!!!

Excelente saludos grandes musicos

Parting is such sweet sorrow

. . yer still there, eh .? . .... o yes.

Thanks.

No horns???

Why would anyone dislike this?

No wonder they redid the bass parts anyway - those Gibson "Ripper" basses (or whatever they were called) sound like shithola. And Robbie was a song writer n ensemble player - his solos pretty much sucked. But as an historical artifact - and musically too, for live 1976 - this is fantastic, a real treat!