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Played The Band's Academy of Music performance [0] last night when I got the news. It's right up there with The Last Waltz. Great and timeless music. Hell some of my favorite Grateful Dead performances were covers of his music. RIP Robbie. Enjoy your weekends fellow heady folks (~);) [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtcW2LqveU&list=OLAK5uy_khf...
Sad. If I had to choose the greatest song ever written, I would not hesitate to go with The Weight. The version [0] from The Waltz is especially brilliant. [0] - https://youtu.be/q-w9OclUnns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSzL5-SPHM (better resolution)
my fav era with him was with Bob Dylan, 1966 - here’s a pretty niche video with both of them playing a Dylan song that never made an official album release On A Rainy Afternoon https://youtu.be/qE3owtjQmSc awesome guitarist / RIP
Bob Dylan talked about how he loved working with him because he’s the rare guitarist that had all the chops but didn’t need to show them off. As an example, here’s a clip of him playing with Clapton. He takes over right when Clapton’s strap slips off his guitar and they go back and forth shredding. https://youtu.be/1WDmMWF83x4 However, if you listen to him with Dylan or The Band, the guitar parts are always simple an…
You can actually SEE that the strap was in a precarious position in the clip (it's clear at like 45s). Straps in that era didn't have strap locks. It'd just be a chunky post in the guitar, and a leather tab at the end of your strap you'd force over it. In a normal orientation, it'd be secure ENOUGH, but as shown it's been flipped over, which means the weight of the guitar itself is pushing on it in a way that will absolutely cause the guitar to slip out of it.
> his biological father was a Jewish professional gambler named Alexander David Klegerman, who had been killed in a hit-and-run accident before she met James Robertson Killing someone and fleeing the scene isn't something that happens by accident.
‘Up on Cripple Creek’ was my first explicit introduction to them. After buying their 1969 self titled album on a whim, my jaw dropped from hearing the original sample from GangStarr’s “Beyond Comprehension” off their 1990 ‘Step in the Arena’. That isolated drum roll and guitar lick is so mystical. I could listen to those brief 3 seconds on loop for hours.
It would be nice if the post title would include the article title, I didn't know who was Robbie Robertson, what they did, and why it might be relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"
It feels a bit tasteless to expand further on this, especially in this thread, so I typically just flag and move on.
He was an extremely influential artist and his time with The Band was legendary of course - but his solo work is also certainly worth investigating especially "Contact from the Underworld of Redboy".