Robbie Robertson

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JCA2550 said:

I'll be playing Somewhere Down the Crazy River today. RIP

I've just played it for the first time in a while.  What a track - just dripping (literally) with atmosphere.

usedtobe

Crikey! Love The Band.. Great songs..

guitars4you

Somewhere down the crazy river is one of my all time fav songs - RIP to a legend 

guitars4you

Offset said:

JCA2550 said:

I'll be playing Somewhere Down the Crazy River today. RIP

I've just played it for the first time in a while.  What a track - just dripping (literally) with atmosphere.

If you like it now you'll learn to love it later - RIP Robbie

john_r

Sad news, one of my heroes, wrote some of my favourite songs.

mudslide73

RIP Robbie. Very much a part of my life musically - their first two albums are indispensable imo. 

randella

Whitecat said:

That little acoustic flourish that introduces 'The Weight' might be one of my favourite small riffs of all time...

Amazing to think that the genre we now know as 'Americana' was basically invented by Canadians.

RIP Robbie, what a legend.

I was just watching the Last Waltz the other day. If you could have laid claim to have written just one song, The Weight would surely be up there. Never mind having the skill to take over from Clapton should he fumble his guitar strap

I only found out recently that his friendship with Scorsese led to Robertson scoring his films - Raging Bull, Color of Money, Wolf of Wall Street.

Supremely talented man. Sad news.

HAL9000

Sad news indeed. Very influential and an absolute legend. RIP.

Nitefly

Woah, that is tragic news.  What a songwriter!

I had the double live album "Rock of Ages".  I know everyone raves about "The Weight", but my favourites were "Unfaithful Servant" and "The Shape I'm In", along with "Up On Cripple Creek" and "Across The Great Divide".

*edit*  And "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" has always been one of my favourites to play and sing on acoustic.

RIP and thoughts with his loved ones.

usedtobe

The last thing I was involved in, musically, we did the weight, it makes no difference, and I shall be released..

Jimbro66

Not Robbie?

One of those musos I wanted to be there forever in my life. Now gone. Such a loss. RIP and thanks for the music.

Funkfingers

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow?

The loud, edgy lead guitar on Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat from Blonde On Blonde is classic early JRR. Michael Bloomfield was a fairly straightahead Blues player. Robertson took it outside.

KDS

JerkMoans said:

Very sad day

Not seen this before. Brilliant song, great version

HAL9000

KDS said:

JerkMoans said:

Very sad day

Not seen this before. Brilliant song, great version

Sorry for the derailment - there’s a fair number of these ‘playing for change’ videos on YouTube. Some are better than others but most are well worth the watch.

Greatape

idiotwind said:

Garth Hudson has been quite frail for years now, hard to believe he's all that's left of The Band.

I love the first few Band albums, but for me it's his stuff with Bob Dylan. Blonde on Blonde, the Basement Tapes, 1974 tour, all of that. Top of the pile though - the 1966 tour. I must have listened to the electric half of the Manchester concert hundreds of times. Just a Telecaster and a big Fender amp playing "fucking loud".



Solo at around 3:45

I just picked this up. Holy shit. What a good example of a band working on the structures under a tune to bring deeper meaning. They're working hard to make Dylan sound great. The old iceberg analogy.