RIP Robbie Robertson

[Queequeg]

Oh, this one really hurts.
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson, a Canadian musician best known for his work as lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, as guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and for his career as a solo recording artist.
Robbie Robertson, Guitarist and Songwriter With the Band, Dies at 80
The music he and his bandmates made stood out by inverting the increasing volume and mania of psychedelic rock. "We just went completely left when everyone else went right," he once said.
Garth Hudson, now the only living member of The Band original group.

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Slowly the makers of the soundtrack of my life are dropping like flies.

Ed

[teh]

I agree with Ed.

In the recent past we lost John Prine, Ian Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot and now Robbie Robertson to name a few.

Since I retired last spring, I have been going to see some great shows including iron and Wine, The Punch Brothers, Mac MacAnnally, Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn. Heading to see Steve Earle this month and Leo Kottke, Lyle Lovett, Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon in October. So many shows, so little time.

[ducktrapper]

I agree with Ed.

In the recent past we lost John Prine, Ian Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot and now Robbie Robertson to name a few.

Since I retired last spring, I have been going to see some great shows including iron and Wine, The Punch Brothers, Mac MacAnnally, Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn. Heading to see Steve Earle this month and Leo Kottke, Lyle Lovett, Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon in October. So many shows, so little time.

Oh man! I love The Band and Robbie's songs and guitar playing. Sadly, we're only going to see more of this. My goal now is survive all my heroes. Wow! Three out of those four were Canadians! I'd better be careful. RIP Robbie.   

[unclrob]

Oddly enough he was one of the guitarist that made me a tele lover.use to stare at the pix in the brown alblum.

RIP

keep smilin and keep dancin   

[ducktrapper]

Oddly enough he was one of the guitarist that made me a tele lover.use to stare at the pix in the brown alblum.

RIP

keep smilin and keep dancin   

He later changed to a strat. The Last Waltz has him playing a strat exclusively.

[unclrob]

Fender built a guitar kinda for him as he would remove the middle pu they were called Leads but I don't think he liked them.


keep smilin and keep dancin   

[Rockysdad]

Was saddened to read about Robbie's passing. A friend of mine did guitar for him on Contact From The Underworld of Redboy.
He started out as a member of the Hawks with Ronnie Hawkins in Toronto.

[ducktrapper]

Was saddened to read about Robbie's passing. A friend of mine did guitar for him on Contact From The Underworld of Redboy.
He started out as a member of the Hawks with Ronnie Hawkins in Toronto.

Actually, started with Little Caesar and the Consuls briefly before that. They had hits in Canada. More so than Hawkins who was basically unknown outside Toronto.   

[Rockysdad]

Actually, started with Little Caesar and the Consuls briefly before that. They had hits in Canada. More so than Hawkins who was basically unknown outside Toronto.   

VERY briefly.

[ducktrapper]

VERY briefly.

Briefly, very briefly or extremely briefly ... still a start that went beyond garage bands and high school dances. Virtually, no one outside of Toronto knew of Hawkins until much later. I certainly didn't. LC and the Consuls had country wide hits. Then again, how about The Suedes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Caesar_and_the_Consuls

[Queequeg]

I believe I posted here a while back about a podcast entitled "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" by Andrew Hickey.
In a recent episode (#167; THE WEIGHT) he discusses The Band.
It's nearly 2 hours but for anyone who followed them or loved their music you may wish to check it out.
(There's also a transcript if you prefer to read it.)

https://500songs.com/
Recorded on August 14, 2023

[ducktrapper]

I believe I posted here a while back about a podcast entitled "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" by Andrew Hickey.
In a recent episode (#167; THE WEIGHT) he discusses The Band.
It's nearly 2 hours but for anyone who followed them or loved their music you may wish to check it out.
(There's also a transcript if you prefer to read it.)

https://500songs.com/
Recorded on August 14, 2023

Thanks, I'll check it out. The Weight is usually my last song of the night. I don't allow the harmonies on the chorus, however. Almost no one knows how to do it properly. I just go "And" and right to "she put the load right on me". LOL 

[Queequeg]

Thanks, I'll check it out. The Weight is usually my last song of the night. I don't allow the harmonies on the chorus, however. Almost no one knows how to do it properly. I just go "And" and right to "she put the load right on me". LOL 

Good point.
Levon did most of the arrangements in the early days.
According to this podcast and as Helm stated in his autobiography, the Hawks thought both the Beatles and The Beach Boys ' harmonies were "a blend of pale, homogenised, voices". He said "We felt we were better than the Beatles and the Beach Boys. We considered them our rivals, even though they'd never heard of us", and they decided to make their own harmonies sound as different as possible as a result. Where those groups emphasised a vocal blend, the Hawks were going to emphasise the *difference* in their voices in their own harmonies.

[ducktrapper]

Good point.
Levon did most of the arrangements in the early days.
According to this podcast and as Helm stated in his autobiography, the Hawks thought both the Beatles and The Beach Boys ' harmonies were "a blend of pale, homogenised, voices". He said "We felt we were better than the Beatles and the Beach Boys. We considered them our rivals, even though they'd never heard of us", and they decided to make their own harmonies sound as different as possible as a result. Where those groups emphasised a vocal blend, the Hawks were going to emphasise the *difference* in their voices in their own harmonies.

I'd describe the Beach Boys as psychedelic barbershop music (other than the early hits I'm not fond of a lot of it), The Beatles as sublime genius and The Band as inspirationally organic. 

I'm always a little astounded that anyone ranks Pet Sounds as high as they do. Above anything The Beatles or The Band accomplished. I mean there may be four good songs on it and the music is played mostly by session players. I always thought McCartney was being excessively polite in his assessment.