The Band: The Authorized Video Biography 5/5 

The grace on display when Levon talks about Richard. Wow.

Man, Levon helm was one of a kind

THE Band. No one else could have pulled off that name.

The Last waltz was a great concert. Bitter sweet.

Nobody will ever forget The Band, the music or Richard. Loves!!

The BAND. Will never die. classic music. Hey I'm 60 and turned many young people on classic music. God bless you all for the wonderful music

They touched my soul then and still do. Unique is an understatement!

God I love Danko. God Bless that man. Levon too. What a group of talent they were. The Basement Tapes hit me like a ton of lead when I discovered it. I was an obsessive Dylan fan at the time, living among the banks of the Seine in Paris, when I picked up that album and was just floored. Sounded like a troupe of circus musicians or something. Never heard anything like it, even to this day.

Levon was perfect in Coal Miners Daughter. And let's not forget another perfect appearance in Shooter. He is a multi-talented man. I mean when they use your music in Easy Rider...and yeah, back then, they made me forget what was botherin me.

The day I heard of Richard was so very sad. I was but 18, the date happens to also be my Sisters' Birthday so I always am reminded of the tragedy which befell Richard and ALL whose life he touched with the music he and the rest of The Band played for us all. And THANK YOU ALL for ALL of the music you guys did play for us. It`s such a bloody shame the record companies are involved in the making of records. I mean talk of Thieves and how discouraging it must have been and still seems to be so at the very near root of the entire business. Too bad we don`t get a second chance to stop and look over all the people who will or would be hurt by such an extreme action. He and the rest of The Band touched me close to my heart when I was very young, I THANK THEM ALL FOR THAT GIFT IN WHICH THEY SHARED WITH THE WORLD!!!!! THANK YOU Robbie, Garth so much!!! Your BEAUTIFUL music will live on FOREVER!!!!! Brad Rodgers, a fellow Canadian.🙂

So glad I came across this upload today. I sat and watched all episodes, thank you to big pinkerton for making this available to view. Shame about the copyright issues, as a fan of The Band I know what's up, but still well worth watching. RIP Levon, RIP Richard, RIP Rick. To quote lyrics of a song by Marc Cohn, "...I was lost, I was gone, listening to Levon, in another world, in another place."

My life has been insanity lately. The Band is getting me through.

What can you say the band of all bands everybody in that band was a star and the strongest link whoever put this together thank you from the bottom of my heart God bless the band peace love feathers and music forever

Thanks a million for uploading this amazing documentary. I would love to find this gem on a laser-disc. I don't believe they ever reissued this on DVD (I could be wrong) so laser-disc might be the way to go. Without your uploads I wouldn't have known all of this existed...so thanks again.

Levon the legend

I’m glad somebody put this on RU-vid. Thanks, whoever you are 🙏

A most incredible VOICE that stands out in the universe..................

That closing song is awesome

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.

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.

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.

Richard singing (THe shape I'm in)how prophetic.

Thank you soooo much for sharing these videos with us. Greetings from over the big pond outa Germany. 👍🎶🥁☮🌍✌

Greatest band ever. Many of them succumbed to the cigarettes, alchohol and drugs. Plain truth. That's what killed them.

Great video 🤗🤗　Thank you for posting 🤗🤗

Authentically beautiful!

I love the opening theme to the last waltz. 😊

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

Fantastic

Thank you

Ricky Nelson's 'Garden Party' comes to mind. They don't want to hear your new stuff.

Noticed Levon never mentioned Robbie's name once.....

Sounds like they experienced their own "Garden Party" with their fans!

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.

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

Jericho was one of the best recorder by the Band great songs. but Ive been a fan since big pink and a dylan fan since 62 so Im alitttle biased. freat people too...

The band that made Jericho was not The Band, but what the hell.

Fantastic! Anyone know the title of the last (playout) song that Levon is jamming?

Yup‰

Donald Duck Dunn on Bass!!

What about Robbie?

Coal miners daughter.

Robbie pretended to sing but he sucked at it and his mic was never on, LOL!

One my all time favorite bands truly amazing, I truly fascinated by them , Robbie Roberson good musician but he killed the band any fan needs to Reed this wheels on fire Roberson wasn't the main song writer levon helm was , and levon lived the band the beak committed suicide over the band going to break up it was Robison who wanted to call it quits the record company's convinced the band let the cute guitar player be the front and everything you'll be successful, and it was over then , Jericho was the beginning of the end kinda Roberson sold out I love his solo work but the band was everyone Roberson ruined it , rip levon Rick and the beak (Richard) I was 13 years old I wanted to be levon helm Muhammad Ali George Harrison Eric Clapton, yea I ended up junkie nothing glamorous there happy new year all 2023 in a few hours , cheers 🥂 God bless thank you the 60s and 70s for the greatest decade I experienced! Music is phenomenal

never thought they were that good

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>

Was so blessed to live a cple hours north of woodstock. Miss those rambles