I pulled into Nazareth,

**** another dang ear worm!!!! Anybody know why Levon refused to do "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" after 1976?
 
You guys remember the 60's?
You weren't doing it right!
I'm okay with the 60's up until 1969. The 70's that's a different story. There's six weeks of my life one summer that I just can't recall where I was living, or what I was doing....
 
The first time I heard the song The Weight when I was about 12 or so, it creeped me out. I have disliked The Band immensely ever since, with the exception of the work they did with Dylan.
 
Thanks for posting, Especially today as I am now 75 today...Great memories, again thanks for posting...Levon Helm and the Band,,,,Made me smile......Lynn Groom( great keybordist) from Texas had played with Levon later in his career, and any band with soul covered at least one of the Bands songs...Damn I am getting old...."The Last Waltz" Great album great memories.......Still smiling!!!
 
STRONG DISLIKE?

REGO, You have my sympathies for not being able to enjoy an awful lot of very good music. I could understand any band not being your cup of tea, but "STRONG DISLIKE"? If you dislike the BAND, what could you possibly like, Rap, Heavy Metal, The Captain & Tenile, Ozzie? If the weight creaped you out, Pink Floyd must have made you hide under your bed. J.K. to each his own.
 
I break out my "The Last Waltz" about once a year and watch it. I remember when that concert happened and I didn't go across the bay to see it because it was pretty expensive, $25 I think(!!!!!!!!!!). I think about four songs found on Best Of The Band makes Robbie Robertson, or whichever of them wrote them, some of the the best songwriters ever. Too bad that one guy hung himself and Danko died. Garth Hudson was in the newss last year or so and was losing his house or something.
 
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Levon Helm certainly had the right stuff...

"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier...

The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffey when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. 22 complete orbits around the world. He was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief, shining moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."

(Warner Brothers)
 
WILD TIMES

Being alive during those decades kinda dates us "golden oldies", but IMO the 70's made the 60's look like the 50's. then the 80's with crack, aids, gangs & related violence it all went downhill from there. Back in the day Hippies, (JIMMY BUFFET & ARLO "FLYING INTO LOS ANGELES" smuggled a few bales of weed in on their sailboats, now it's cargo containers full, submarines, tunnels and heavily armed cartels more than willing to kill police, judges & whole families. working in hospitals prior to the crack explosion, (no not that kind) we rarely saw gunshots, then app 83-85 there would be multiple gsw's (drive by's, whatev) often in the same day. I'll take a hippie over a gangsta anyday.
 
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I was born in '57 and in the late 60s we would all go to my uncle's cabin at Russian River north of S.F. Man, was it exciting for a ten year old like me! The town of Guerneville was always packed with S.F. hippies and the place was vibrant and colorful. But I liked being a teenager in the 70's after my big brother cut a trail for me taking all the arrows so that I could get away with anything later as my parents became more lenient.
 
Thanks for posting, Especially today as I am now 75 today...Great memories, again thanks for posting...Levon Helm and the Band,,,,Made me smile......Lynn Groom( great keybordist) from Texas had played with Levon later in his career, and any band with soul covered at least one of the Bands songs...Damn I am getting old...."The Last Waltz" Great album great memories.......Still smiling!!!

Happy birthday, George! Some of us 75-year-olds have pretty damn good musical taste (though I'll be 76 in a month and a half). For your birthday, treat yourself to Helm's "Dirt Farmer" album, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's "Raising Sand". That duo doesn't sound as if it would work, but it does, extremely well.
 

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