Music/Film: The Weight - The Band
From The Last Waltz, The Band doin' The Weight with The Staple Singers. The lead-in's a hoot with Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson talkin' about The Band's name.
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The Best of the Staple Singers [ CD - Amazon ]
The Last Waltz (1978) [ DVD - Amazon ]
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Music/Film: The Shape I’m In - The Band
From the best concert film of all time, Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz. The Band doin' "The Shape I'm In." In the lead-in they talk about playing in Jack Ruby's club in Dallas. Caught a great doc the other night on VH1 called "Classic Albums: The Band - The Band." Check out the New York Times review. Enjoy.
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The Last Waltz (Remastered / Expanded) (4CD) [BOX SET]
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Music/Film: The Last Waltz - The Band
The Band was a Canadian-American rock group, active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. It mainly consisted of Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano); Richard Manuel (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ); Garth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone); and Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar).
The members of the Band first worked together as The Hawks, the backing band of rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins from 1959 until 1963; they were also known as Levon and the Hawks. (In about 1966, they released a single on Ware Records under the name the Canadian Squires). Afterwards, Bob Dylan recruited the group for his 1965–1966 world tour. They also joined him on the informal recordings that later became The Basement Tapes. Dubbed "The Band" by their record company (a name derived from how they were referred to during their tenure with Dylan), the group left Woodstock, New York to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s; their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single "The Weight") and 1969's The Band. They broke up in 1976, but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist Robbie Robertson. Although the Band was always more popular with music journalists and fellow musicians than with the general public, they have remained an admired and influential group. They have been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them #50 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. (check out The Band biography on Rollingstone.com)
The Last Waltz was a concert by The Band, held on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Billed as a "farewell" concert after 16 years of touring, The Band was joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ron Wood and Neil Young. The event was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary, released in 1978. The film features concert performances, scenes shot on a studio soundstage and interviews by Scorsese with members of The Band. A triple-LP soundtrack recording was issued in 1978. The film was released on DVD in 2002 as was a four-CD box set of the concert and related studio recordings. The Last Waltz is hailed as one of the greatest concert films ever made.
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The Last Waltz CD [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [LIVE]
The Band - The Best of A Musical History (CD/DVD)
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