Playing bass, when I was in a country band they said this was too rock, when I would be in a rock band they said this was too country. Very few musicians are smart enough to understand and play THE BAND.
I've been listening to them for 40 plus years. I never tire of them. Even now, in these crazy times we live in, as I drive home from a long day at work I listen to them and remember days when this kind of music was appreciated and made one feel happier and freer. Even my 34 year old son likes this music. We listen to it by the fire at our campsite. I loved Levon Helm's voice and his talented drumming..
I think Levon is one of the grooviest drummers ever. So much of the character of how the band sounds is from there. Just listen to the starting beats . . . extraordinary . . .
It just never gets old... I remember I ran into Garth in Georgetown DC back in 1970. I was a 17 year old long-hair and I struck up a conversation with him. We talked for 15 min or so.. Forget what we said but he humored me, a 17 year old hipster!
I think so many of the bands and music from that era was a divine occurrence. The way folks came together and what they produced, SO much heart , soul, wisdom and passion from such young people. I feel fortunate AF to have had the best music in history as the background of my younger years, and now embedded in my soul. Breathe and VOTE!
As a boomer coming of age, just learning the wonders of music... The Band was my Beatles... I've heard this song thousands of times, wore that brown album out. As a musician, this is such a precious video... I always wondered what that twangy bass sound was... Garth! Levon is playing drums with wooden rims, even the snare.... mind blown...
Camera seems to capture them really nailing it, going from Robbie looking a little nervously at everybody for cues, then when he realizes everyone’s got it, he starts to smile, and the rest smile too. Garth clearly having a good time as well with this really fun tune.
September 15, 2019 Classic Rock Fans CLASSIC WATER: “Up On Cripple Creek” - The Band - (1969) - Reached #25 on Billboard charts. This film was taken during rehearsals in Woodstock, New York. The song appeared on the group’s second album. Written by Robbie Robertson with Levon Helm on lead vocals and drums. It was one of the first instances of a Hohner Clavinet ever being played with a wah-way pedal. I love how keyboardist Garth Hudson smiles at 2:05 after he plays one of these unique licks on the Clavinet. #theband #cripplecreek #classicrockfans
My goodness they need very little room to create, assemble and play, a song as large as this song turned out to be. They can swing by my garage to play anytime they want. This song will live forever. Anyone disagree?
Watched We Were Brothers and it's a very open look into the relationships of The Band and the sad ending that The Last Waltz was supposed to be a break and then they'd get back together and make new music but never happened this video shows how happy the brothers are ♥️🎶✌🏾
Stuart W Ross don’t ya just luv some canadians and a Mohawk coming together as one of the top bands in history...they tore up everything they sent us.so sad it had to end...but the memories live on...❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦
Just a country music garage band......Southern version of The Greatful Dead, but I like these guys better than the Dead......always thought the Dead were WAY overrated.
The band exemplified the times that they lived in.... a little crazy, a little serious, a movement with a sense of levity...... Anyone out there remember when if you saw someone broke down on the side of the road you stopped and helped!
Listening more and more to a band (Band) I was familiar with 40 years ago but never really appreciated back then, and digging now more every time I hear it, the one thing missing from most comments is recognition of how critical Rick Danko was to their sound. Go back and listen! RD defined everything they did. So sorry I was out to lunch when they were all alive
God bless you for uploading this. This is the first Band song I heard, in 1971, on my parent's old tv/record player/radio. I was 14. The rest of my love for their music is history.
yes, to everything you just said. I giggle about Robbie being Canadian often. Its kinda like how the man who wrote "Dixie" was born in the North. Everybody wants to be a Southern boy. Look what Gram Parsons did to Los Angeles!
@@CJinsoo Please deal with reality, Robbie wrote the songs it is well documented. If you like Levon more than Robbie or the others that is fine, but stay with the truth. Robbie got most of the song writing credits because he wrote the songs,the others got 20 percent, on top of touring and record sales. They ALL made a lot of money, some wasted it. I love all of the Band members they were all great, however Rick and Robbie are my favorites.
they are definitely up there, for those first two albums alone both two of the greatest albums of all time imo. After that it got patchy with odd moments of greatness probably down to some members falling into the traps of the rock star lifestyle, Danko and Helm into heroin addiction (Helm kicked it, sadly Danko never did) and Manuel into Alcoholism. But they were always a great live act, just listen to Rock Of Ages and The last Waltz. You just wish they kept that group bond of the early years in Woodstock, that Manuel kept on writing songs and they didn't fall into the trappings of addiction.
@@jimfritz9503 I dont need to listen to any album....I know what kind of music The Band used to make and it wasn't Rock & Roll. They were a Country/Pop band.
@@stevecheevers7337 Richard Manuel in addition to his drinking also did heroin and cocaine. Helm did kick after several years, but in reading Joe Forno Jr's book "Levon's Man" he had a few relapse, not necessarily heroin, but he did go to a recovery center, and did well. However, again according to Forno by 1994 he was most likely hooked on some narcotic that a doctor administered nasally. Rick near fatal car accident left him in lifelong pain, which might explain his addiction to heroin. too bad, he along with Robbie is my favorite Band member, although they all were so talented.
I was just trying to remember how many times I've seen them in concert myself must have been at least three times I would think those days were a little convoluted sometimes
He lived 6 mi. From where I grew up in holly grove. Sadly only saw him once at a mall club outside of clarendon. I didn't know who he was at the time. Shadrens bbq. Is now closed but he did give david Letterman some bbq sauce before he died. Just a great drummer boy from Turkey scratch arkansas.
Robbie Robertson wrote this song. He also sang it and played all the instruments. He even printed the records, distributed them to stores and sold them to fans. Just ask him.
I remember the JFK funeral and Beatles on Ed Sullivan 3 months later, but I was too young to understand the significance of either event. I remember the Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations in 1968 and being more aware. But the early 70’s were when my mind opened to everything that was going on in the world. One of the first 20-or-so albums I bought (or shop-lifted) was Before The Flood. I saw The Last Waltz in its original theatrical release. I know these men went through a lot, in part due to the revolution that was happening around them. Regardless of the sad ending to their brotherhood, their legacy is cast in stone.
Yeah folding to Saugerties with some time to kill and I remember driving down a bunch of roads I mean Saugerties isn't that big of a town so I drove around and I'm pretty sure I found it
LONG STORY BUT WORTH THE READ! I went searching for the house after reading Levon's amazing book. This was when the place's location was still hush hush. It may have had a private owner at that time too, but I had to try. It was around 1994 or '95. I was at Ramapo College and had one class that day which, turns out, was cancelled. Loving The Band's music I decided to find Big Pink that day! Spur of the moment type deal. And this was pre-internet folks! I had never been to Woodstock or East Saugerties in my life! Looked up the area on a map, sailed up the Thruway, took the exit for Rt. 28 towards Woodstock, then looked for landmarks. Remembered Levon wrote about Stoll Rd and some cafe he and the fellas used to frequent. Thinking I found the cafe, I remembered "Pine Lane" as well. Went way up that road and found Stoll Rd on my left! I was close. Driving up the mountain, I actually passed the road! I asked a guy in his driveway if he knew where Big Pink was. Man I had some nerve! He said he had never seen it either and to let him know when I found it! Going back down Stoll Road in disappointment, I suddenly noticed a single lane, dirt road on the right with a lot of "No Trespassing" signs by it. Hmmm. I came that far. Had to try! Driving on the road was risky, not only for the warning signs but also that to my right was forest and to my left, a steep drop of a forest hill! All worries were washed away when I saw some pink through the trees on the right. A clearing appeared with a house on the left and on the right - BIG PINK itself! Quickly turning around, I lowered my window and just looked at it. I smiled. I felt so good being next to a place where a great amount of The Band's best material was written and conceived. Where Dylan and them worked those tunes in that damn basement! And where many musicians like me have sought inspiration from. I had a camera but I never took a shot. I wanted to just savor the moment in case I never saw it again. Also, the owner of the house across was kind of eyeing me (rightly so). Time to go! Swung by the driveway guy's place but he wasn't there anymore. Oh well! Driving back down Stoll Rd., I realized this was the same road The Band drove on, and had car accidents on! I slowed down a bit. About 6 months ago, I was in Woodstock with a friend who is also a Band fan. After visiting Levon and Rick's resting places I decided to surprise him. He had no idea. But it's so weird how I remembered where to turn after some 25 years. Funny enough, I missed the turn AGAIN! But this time, I found it myself. Driving on that dirt road, I saw that pink again through the trees. And then - there it was. My buddy couldn't believe his eyes! Right in front of him was Rock history. This time, I made a U-Turn in Big Pink's driveway. Again, no pictures! No need now with the internet. Besides, I didn't want to rock the boat or look touristy. Back down Stoll Rd., I came to the stop sign and just yelled out, startling my friend, "WE JUST SAW BIG PINK!!!" like some 60's female Beatle fan. Even now at my age of 48 I still feel the musical energy of that house, and love it!
