I pulled into Nazareth,

[Walter Rego]

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.

Hangnoose, for the record, I hate Rap more than anything I have ever heard and do not even consider it to be music. No Capt. & Tennile, thank you. I'm a rock and roller. But there is something in my brain that hears certain music in such a way that I have a visceral reaction to it. I would run across the room to change the station when bands like Boston, Aerosmith, AC/DC and certain others came on the radio. The Band was just one of those groups that had a sound or style that vibrated the cells in my brain in a negative way and I have disliked them from the moment I first heard them. I can't explain other than that.

 

[Biginge]

Man, those were the days. I played and I paid.

 

[Hillbilly77]

FREE BIRD!!




Sorry.

Thread drift.

 

[Hillbilly77]

...run across the room to change the station when bands like Boston, Aerosmith, AC/DC and certain others came on the radio.

^^^^^^^^
Yes, this. (With the exception of maybe AC/DC's Thunderstruck)

I would add Van Halen to that list.

 

[george minze]

HECK i'M STILL SMILLING........I still remember Cliffy Stones "Old time Jamberee The Collins kids. Later wrote with Sandy Pinkard all the music for the Any which' way you can stuff for Clint Eastwood......The Tucker girls. Tanya and Latoya....Heck you could still understand the leric's...imagine that........O' well time is passing and this thread made a old guy smile for that I'm thankful..

 

[loeman]

Covers

Undoubtedly one of the top R/R songs EVER. Like all great songs they get covered over and over again. None will surpass the Band/Helm versions but there are a few that I enjoy. One in particular is by Cassandra Wilson. It's a slow, dark, jazzy version and very soulful too.

I had the good fortune to see the Band once. It was in 1973 at the old Chicago Stadium where they were backing up Dylan for his first live concert since his motorcycle accident. Needless to say, it was a night to remember.

 

[hangnoose]

NO ACDC / AEROSMITH

No classics like back in black or fat bottomed girls, not to mention the 1,000? some odd songs by Aero. you have my sympathies.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

the movie was "Easy Rider" and a very good one

A while back I talked to an old hippy gal up at Embudo Station up near Taos, NM. She was selling her picture book and she claimed to be the the historian for the Taos hippy movement including the Hog Farm and Easy Rider. I asked her if the hippy commune scenes were filmed at Taos. She said no, they were supposed to be but when the caterer started setting up big pans of meat the entire film crew were asked to leave. The Taos hippies were mostly vegans. The hippy commune scenes were filmed later in Calif.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Levon made a couple of great albums not long before he died. "Dirt Farmer", the one I have, is very good stuff. The voice was a little different by that time, but still strong and distinctive.

I loved "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

He did some acting, too, including a fine portrayal of Loretta Lynn's father in "Coalminer's Daughter".

I hate that we lost him and Doc Watson, two unique talents.

Levon Helm also played Jack Ridley in the great film 'The Right Stuff'...

His best scene in the movie: Ridley and an airman are speeding out to the area where Chuck Yeager's F-104 has crashed, and in the distance they see a burned and bruised Yeager (played by Sam Sheppard) walking toward them, still chewing the stick of Beaman's gum his friend Jack had given him.

"Sir," says the airman, "look, off in the distance...is that a man out there?"

Levon Helm, in that wonderful drawl of his, replies "You're damned right it is!"

I could listen to The Band all day long, especially with Levon Helm singing...

 

[Beemerguy53]

Music From Big Pink

Clapton says it changed his direction in music.

One of my favorite albums to this day!

Look at this thread! Who woulda thunk a bunch of gun people would be such fans of a 1960s Hippie band?

 

[williamlayton]

The real end of an era came when the Hippies took over Cut-N-Shoot.
I still like Frizell better.
HUMMMM ! I think I just fractured this one real good.
Blessings