Anyone here a fan? Personally, I consider them one of the most significant groups of the 60s & 70s. Their music is poetry.

Big fan of Levon Helm.

Love the song "The Weight" as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo

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I had a couple of their early albums. Then I kind of lost track of them. I heard the singer (what's his name?) interviewed on NPR last year. Seemed like a classy guy, in a very intentionally country way. I can't tell you how many guys I grew up with who are like that today. We all listened to KAAY Little Rock after 10PM. It makes no sense now, but that was like looking out of a manhole from the bottom of the sewer line.

Shame Neil Young and The Band did not make an album together when they were all in circulation.

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The Band.. great music! Matter of fact I'm trying to work out "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove 'Ol Dixie Down" on the banjo!

X2.

Ahhh yeah. Greet classic hit from 1968 (the Robbie robertson version.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_5JOEmFK0

,. One of the best ever !!

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.

(Chorus
Take a load off Annie, take a load for free;
Take a load off Annie, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.

I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide;
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side.
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on, let's go downtown."
She said, "I gotta go, but m'friend can stick around."

(Chorus)

Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke, and Luke's waitin' on the Judgement Day.
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, woncha stay an' keep Anna Lee company?"

(Chorus)

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.
He said, "I will fix your rags, if you'll take Jack, my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can."

(Chorus)

Catch a Cannonball, now, t'take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time.
To get back to Miss Annie, you know she's the only one.
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.

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They did some wonderful unique music. Colorful and with interesting words.

....and maybe the only pop group ever to use a Jew's harp in a popular song....(cripple creek).

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"a drunkards dream if I ever did see one"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnlU6rPfwY

I remember getting hammered on rye and Coke back in the early 60's watching the original incarnation of The Band playing with Ronnie Hawkins on the Yonge St strip in Toronto.

AND THEN THERE WAS ROBBIE…



From 1958-1965, Robbie Robertson played guitar in clubs along the Yonge Street strip, the bulk of that time spent with Ronnie Hawkins’ backing band, The Hawks (later to become The Band). Their regular gig was at Le Coq d’Or (at 333 Yonge Street, where HMV now stands). Robertson tells the Post about his experience of Yonge Street’s rock ‘n’ roll scene:

“Because I was playing with Ronnie Hawkins, although I was underage, somehow or another I never got caught. Ronnie was really good at that diplomacy with whoever could have gotten me in trouble. We would be playing at Le Coq d’Or, and next door at the Edison, Bo Diddley or Carl Perkins could be playing. The doormen would say, “Let me see your ID,” and I’d say, ‘Oh, I play with Ronnie Hawkins,’ and they’d say, ‘Oh, go ahead.’ It worked in other places too, so I thought, ‘Well, this is great!’ It would be between sets; you’d only have a few minutes. I’d go down to the Brown Derby and there’d be somebody funny playing there, and further down the street at the Colonial, there’d be some amazing jazz artist playing: Cannonball Adderley and his band, Joe Williams – on and on and on. It was never somebody not good. Then somebody like Ray Charles would be playing at Massey Hall, and you’d go in and hear a few minutes of that. And then there was all kinds of after-hours places up the street, and it was just fantastic. I thought that that’s the way things are and would be. I didn’t think that that would melt away.

“There should be more of an effort to preserve the centre. Yonge Street was this Mecca of talent, and it isn’t just about the music – it’s about the whole community, and the characters. It was the centre of Toronto’s nightlife and entertainment, so I feel somewhat nostalgic about it, because it probably meant more to me than it would have done to a lot of people today. Yonge Street shouldn’t become a discarded part of the history of the city.”

Yonge Street — Toronto Rock & Roll Stories runs from Monday to Wednesday on Bravo! at 10 p.m.
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Yeah, they're in my top five all time favorite bands. What a talented bunch of guys. It makes me sad that so many of them are gone now.

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I had that crankin' on my stereo speakers in the backyard last weekend. One of my neighbors who usually never says a word to me, came over and said, "The Last Waltz, right? YEAH! I LOVE The Band, man!"

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I have listend to many bands, This one--I 've got no complaints.

Big fan. My 17 year old likes them too.

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