Early musical collaborator Glen Silverthorn remembers the moment Rick Danko began his journey toward membership in the Band, though first his friend had to make the switch from guitar to bass.
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Some magic was bound to surround this, as Jimmy Vivino reunited with long-time former collaborators for the first time in years.
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When the party cleared out and only Thornton was left, the actor raised the subject of the Band and the backlash they received from critics starting with their third album, Stage Fright.
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A documentary about Levon Helm is due to air in America later this month.
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There are a number of songs that serve as a musical roadmap in my life, and for every one of them, I can remember the exact moment when I heard the song - the exact moment that the song made me stop in my tracks, grab the record sleeve, look at the album photos and read the liner notes in a desperate attempt to learn everything I could about the music.
Read More"We have an announcement," says the drummer between songs.
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Garth Hudson, fresh off an emotional concert tribute to the fallen voices of the Band, has begun work on a new musical project — and this one promises to be even more personal.
Read MoreA rare talk with co-founding Band multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson, presented in two parts over the course of November, shot to the top of our November 2012 readers poll , with a live report on the Monkees' stop in Chicago finishing at No. 2.
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This week's "Songs of the Band" event at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania doesn't just pay tribute to Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Richard Manuel.
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Heartless Bastards come hurtling out of the tracks, all blues bluster and rattling drums.
Read MoreBob Dylan, both with and without his legendary collaborators the Band, roared to the top of Something Else!
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"It was as big a thing," Rolling Stone's Anthony De Curtis says, "as has ever happened in the history of rock 'n' roll, Dylan going electric."
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Marooned with only a handful of musical choices, which would you make?
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Busloads of friends and fans of Levon Helm traveled to his home Thursday to say goodbye to the influential singer and drummer for The Band , who died of cancer last week.
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Friends and fans of Levon Helm are gathering at his Woodstock home to pay homage and say farewell to the legendary singer and drummer for The Band, who died of cancer last week.
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Big Pink is of those middle-class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in a development row in the heart of suburbia rather than on an isolated mountaintop high above the barn architecture of New York State's rustic Woodstock.
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You know you may not be a kid anymore when rock 'n roll heroes from your youth start to die -- not in their '20s from too much, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll -- but in their '60s or even '70s from diseases of aging like stroke and cancer.
Read MoreBack in the early days of this blog, I wrote about the concert movie The Last Waltz , featuring the Band's final performance with an all-star lineup of guests.
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The Band's classic "Ophelia" got the rambunctious New Orleans brass band treatment, and they performed other old favorites such as "This Wheel's On Fire" (written by Rick Danko and Bob Dylan, on Music from Big Pink, 1968), "Long Black Veil" (also on Big Pink, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin), and "Tears of Rage" (written by Dylan and Richard Manual, which appeared on The Basement Tapes).
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"...a special appearance from John Fogerty, making his Coachella debut (he's already co-headlined a night at Stagecoach). The Creedence Clearwater Revival legend, who played Woodstock alongside the Band back in '69, joined Dan & Pat for the day's second touching tribute to the late Levon Helm, with a warm and appreciative handling of "The Weight." Fogerty handled the final verse, Rick Danko's bit about Crazy Chester and Jack his dog; Auerbach called Helm, a crucial figure for roots-rock, "amazing and inspiring."
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Tributes and obituaries to Levon Helm, former drummer with The Band who died this week from throat cancer at the age of 71, have been widespread and perceptive.
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A year before the song's appearance in mid-1968, The Beatles had seemed to point the way for their contemporaries with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an expansive psychedelic album that exploited production technology.
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Levon Helm was the man who left the infamous Bob Dylan 1966 tour early because he couldn't take the boos.
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Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band died yesterday.
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…Watch The Last Waltz in tribute to Levon Helm who passed away yesterday.
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The Band 's Levon Helm is said to be in the final stages of his "battle with cancer".
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The Band singer/drummer Levon Helm -- famous for hits like "The Weight" ("Take a load off Annie" ...) -- has died after a long battle with throat cancer.
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He grew up in a musical household where he learned to play multiple instruments.
Read MoreHe's the one who sang "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Up on Cripple Creek."
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News came on Tuesday that Levon Helm's cancer has returned , leading us to marvel all over again on his towering achievements in music.
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Axl Rose caused a media firestorm yesterday when he announced that he won't be attending this weekend's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with Guns N' Roses.
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Pink Floyd's The Wall is being released February 27 in an expanded Immersion Edition that charts the development of this landmark release.
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Bill Fay is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity culminating in a series of commendable reissues of the artist's work.
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Bill Fay's is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity which has culminated in a series of commendable reissues of the artist's work.
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The Band's classic "Ophelia" got the rambunctious New Orleans brass band treatment, and they performed other old favorites such as "This Wheel's On Fire" (written by Rick Danko and Bob Dylan, on Music from Big Pink, 1968), "Long Black Veil" (also on Big Pink, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin), and "Tears of Rage" (written by Dylan and Richard Manual, which appeared on The Basement Tapes).
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The Gourds have been making some of the most joyful sounds in music since they first began almost 20 years ago.
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For you drummers, that means five pieces: you, three musicians and an extra guitar player to drive the van. 10.
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