from 2006; he looks pretty straight!
never forget:
I mean, years on the road.The numbers start to scare you.
I couldn't live with years on the road.
I don't think I could even discuss it.
― Euler, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to Moondog Matinee, pretty tight record! seems like no one gives it the time of day, since it's covers, but it is a lot of fun. not as straightforward as it might seem on the surface (is that a vocoder on helm's voice on "ain't got no home"?!) "Share Your Love" has a pretty classic Manuel vocal. anyhoo, if you see it for a buck on vinyl, totally worth it.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
also, this "mystery train" is as close to cosmic disco as the Band ever got. there should be a 12-minute Tom Moulton remix. Someone make it happen.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Band fans should really seek out the s/t LP by Bobby Charles. Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Dr. John, I think Danko too? and Richard Manuel? Great record, imo.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 4 October 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://theheatwarps.blogspot.com/2008/02/bobby-charles.html
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 4 October 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's a classic from start to finish.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yes on Bobby Charles---"Tennessee Blues" is a stone cold classic for sure. His album Wish You Were Here Right Now is pretty great too, with a smoking "The Jealous Kind" (which he wrote, despite the Joe Cocker version being the famous one) & with Neil Young guesting.
It's funny that I only know four songs off Moondog Matinee, off the box set A Musical History, &you mentioned three of them, Tyler. I like that "Mystery Train"!
― Euler, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that mystery train is great! some kinda sun records gone disco thing.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking the best
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yes!
― swvl, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
totally regret never going to see Rick Danko in the late 90s -- he played a bunch in upstate NY in random places. could never convince anyone at school with a car to drive me. curses!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
aw man. RIP, rick.
― swvl, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
say whaaaa http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/robert-pattinson-says-hell-be-starring-in-a-movie-about-seminal-rockers-the-band-20120524Pattinson also dropped this little bit of info: "I'm going to do a movie about The Band, the one that played with [Bob] Dylan. [It's] a beautiful script about the nature of songwriting." in other news, the classic albums doc about the making of The Band is on netflix streaming now. Watched it last night, recommended, if only for the scenes of Levon at the mixing desk.
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Making Of seconded, for same reason
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Thirded. Also love John Simon's perspective on Band arrangements as analogous to those of the Ellington orchestra.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, simon seems to be a big part of the band saga -- i think he actually asked them if he could be a member at some point and they turned him down!
― tylerw, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
RR told him "we already have two piano players"! Also never paid him any producer royalties until JS held him up when they asked him to do The Last Waltz. At which point RR's accountants wrote him a lump sum check and told him they would give it to him if he agreed never to ask for any more ever.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
ha, that blows. i guess he and levon had some commiserating to do when they filmed the doc, then.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
A decent part of Levon's book is "Let's let John Simon tell you how it was."
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
I would watch a biopic about The Band, even with Robert Pattinson. It sort of makes sense, his girlfriend was in a Runaways Biopic.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 25 May 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
Finally watching that VH1 Classic Albums making of --- Levon at the desk is awesome, where he's just laughing and air drumming along with Danko on Rag Mama Rag is just pure joy to watch
I am trying not to get super sad that so many of them have passed now but the music makes me so happy it balances out :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's a great one. Love when Garth Hudson is playing and says, "Ooh, how's he gonna get out of this one?" and smiles knowingly after executing some crazy-ass turnaround.
There was a VHS doc back in the late 80s/early 90s, when the Band were still active, has lots of great, charming Levon moments.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 18 January 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
love how they talk about recording in sammis' house in LA
― ramblin rose, Friday, 25 January 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
via Scott Seward: http://music.yahoo.com/news/garth-hudsons-belongings-sold-off-garage-sale-152544389-rolling-stone.html
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
eek what a weird story. i saw a post about it on facebook and didn't realy understand what was happening.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
among the goodies are uncashed checks, including one issued from EMI in 1979 for $26,000
dude!
― buzza, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
lol, right? that would've solved half of the problem there...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
"i don't go to the bank for less than $30,000"
― buzza, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
mentioned this on the reissue thread but this band-related stuff seems cool
http://therisingstorm.net/borderline-sweet-dreams-quiet-desires/
― buzza, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
nice, hadn't heard that before. sounds excellent.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Of course there is no download available to purchase, just in time for my no more CDs edict.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
i hear CDs are totally coming back #RememberCDs
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson both grace this class act recording credited respectively as “Dick Handle” and “Campo Malaqua"
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps he misplaced the check and then had them issue another.
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
This is one of my favorite live bands. If it weren't for their energy and great harmonies on Before The Flood, I don't know that I'd ever listen to much Dylan. And if you delete the Last Waltz guest appearances that aren't Muddy, Bobby Charles, or Emmylou Harris, I think it's a top 5 live album of all time. Every song on that crushes its respective studio version, except maybe The Weight. The sound, vocals, arrangements (esp. Toussaint on Dixie) are immaculate, and Levon was always in a different dimension as a live singer.
But I find their studio work largely tedious. After listening to, for example, the Last Waltz version of Wheel's On Fire I find the studio version very trying to listen to. There's some good stuff, I know, but it never strikes me on any kind of gut level.
P.S. Their 90s albums aren't great either but they sure do sound good and they have a few real gems, e.g. Atlantic City, Blind Willie McTell, Shine A Light, Book Faded Brown.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
dunno if we ever went over this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsbTSUwgBfs&feature=youtu.be
― Cunga, Sunday, 28 April 2013 08:15 (eleven years ago) link
how do you embed youtubes on ILX? I went over this last week and I thought it was just keeping the www in the youtube link but not the http
you just take the 's' out of 'https'. that's all
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 April 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
That youtu.be messes things up too
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Nw_pKXl8U
― data halls and oate (stevie), Friday, 21 June 2013 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
streamed some of the "new" live at the academy" thing, and however you feel about the endless repackaging of their stuff, the band sounded fucking glorious.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Totally. I was holding off on that, but I never got the 2001 reissue with extra stuff, so I may end up springing for the box.
Fun fact: everyone in that amazing horn section (except for Snooky Young) played in the bands of Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon at one time or another.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
haha, is that right? danko's bass was sounding particularly good -- what a weird player!
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Yep, in fact, Howard Johnson's recording debut was on a Bill Dixon record.
OTM re: Danko. Played with a pick, yet was still a funk monster.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
http://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2012/04/how-to-danko-a-lesson-in-the-style-of-rick-danko-by-rob-collier/
― Disco Mystic Pizza (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Unless I'm totally wrong, the new box is a total rip. It's the same set as Rock of Ages, two discs remastered (again), two discs a board mix of the same set, and then a DVD with a 5.1 mix. When it was announced as a 4 CD/DVD package, I expected more.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
there are previously unreleased performances on there, from different nights during the Rock of Ages shows.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
The collection's first two discs feature performances of every song played over the course of the four concerts, and the New Year's Eve soundboard mix on discs 3 and 4 puts the listener in the room for that entire legendary night: Uncut, unedited, taken straight from the master recordings and presented in full for the first time. The set's DVD presents the tracks from discs 1 and 2 in 5.1 Surround, plus Alk and Lerner's filmed performances of 'King Harvest (Has Surely Come)' and 'The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show.'
From an Amazon review:
Disc 1 & 2 is the show sequenced from performances on 12/28/71 to 12/31/71 with one previously unreleased track. (So basically Rock of Ages)Disc 3 & 4 is the New Year's Eve show in its entirety and labeled the soundboard mix. It's very close to the same setlist as the first two discs. (with 7 repeat performances)Disc 5 is what originally prompted me to buy the set. It is a DVD in 5.1 sound of the NYE performance. I thought I was getting a video performance. I guess I didn't read the details well enough. It is indeed the show in 5.1 and it sounds spectacular but there is no video just a photo montage.
Disc 3 & 4 is the New Year's Eve show in its entirety and labeled the soundboard mix. It's very close to the same setlist as the first two discs. (with 7 repeat performances)
Disc 5 is what originally prompted me to buy the set. It is a DVD in 5.1 sound of the NYE performance. I thought I was getting a video performance. I guess I didn't read the details well enough. It is indeed the show in 5.1 and it sounds spectacular but there is no video just a photo montage.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
right, so the unreleased stuff is from the NYE show. Disc: 31. Up On Cripple Creek (Previously Unissued Performance)2. The Shape I'm In3. The Rumor (Previously Unissued Performance)4. Time To Kill (Previously Unissued Performance)5. Rockin' Chair (Previously Unissued Performance)6. This Wheel's On Fire (Previously Unissued Performance)7. Get Up Jake (Previously Unissued Performance)8. Smoke Signal (Previously Unissued Performance)9. I Shall Be Released (Previously Unissued Performance)10. The Weight (Previously Unissued Performance)11. Stage FrightDisc: 41. Life Is A Carnival (Previously Unissued Performance)2. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)3. Caledonia Mission (Previously Unissued Performance)4. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show5. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Previously Unissued Performance)6. Across The Great Divide (Previously Unissued Performance)7. Unfaithful Servant8. Don't Do It (Previously Unissued Performance)9. The Genetic Method10. Chest Fever (Previously Unissued Performance)11. Rag Mama Rag12. (I Don't Want To) Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes (Previously Unissued Performance)13. Down In The Flood (with Bob Dylan)14. When I Paint My Masterpiece (with Bob Dylan)15. Don't Ya Tell Henry (with Bob Dylan)16. Like A Rolling Stone (with Bob Dylan)
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
chest fever
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 18 May 2014 05:43 (ten years ago) link