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  • Can I still be Garth?

  • this organ reminds me of when we used to sneak in the church, from the reception hall, and turn on the electric organ and play rock-n-roll! The elders used to get so pissed and would lock the doors to keep us out. Didn't work for long, though! Great tune, by the way:)

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  • @2hamboigahs You are an Anti-Semitic hick. WFT does Roberton's faith have to do with the demise of the Band, clown?

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  • @2hamboigahs It may be a fact that he stole credit and screwed over the other guys, but saying it is because he is Jewish is absurd, small-minded and offensive... not sure you are getting that point, and that is the point that makes you anti-Semitic. I have a feeling you are either a young child who has anti-Semitic parents, or you live in some backwoods Neo-Nazi town and have never met a Jew in your life.... maybe both.

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  • @2hamboigahs He's not Jewish. His father was jewish, it needs to come from the mother's side. Furthermore his father died before he was born so he was not raised Jewish in any shape or form.

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  • His solos were always the highlight of the bands sets in my opinion ESPECIALLY the Watkins Glen summer jam in 73 where the stage spot lights shined in 3 beams to a triple conjunction of the moon Jupiter & Saturn...it appeared to be shing down to the stage very magical after the clouds cleared

  • Terrible audio, but what a great performance!!!

    No one else could have gotten away with calling themselves "The Band!"

  • God bless the Band. A shout out to Rick and Richard!

  • Okay maybe it's just the video or something but it sure sounds like the guitarist has a string out of tune...

  • I would find it awesome to see this back again so many years later but I doubt most of them are alive except for Robbie who I like right now

  • @TheSegacampGamer

    Levon Helm is very much alive and still rocking

  • @faribell he is awesome.

  • I wish I would havebeen able to seen these guys in there prime. With Richard and Rick!!! what a group.

  • when I die and go to heaven, Garth is going to be backing up the choir of angels.

  • What a day. Jesse Colin Young, The Band, Joni Mitchell and Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Unlikely to see a bill like that ever again. I've still got the T shirt but it doesn't fit me anymore!

  • Can anyone find the exact audio of When You Awake Played at the begining?

  • @HalfBornUnicornFetus It's on Before The Flood

  • Garth Hudson is like Bach.

  • Anyone notice the type "Wembly Stadum"

  • @LocalRailfan ha! not until you pointed it out

  • nice chest fever

  • Hi I am Chris the nephew of Rick Danko. I am totally appreciative of this clip. I was living in Malibu in the mid 70's and around The Band and many others at the studio Shangrila. It brings me back some fond memories. thanx. I continued the torch of the Danko family but became estranged of the music biz. You can check out my old video and others on my channel SuperSeraphim777 PacifyVFish.

  • @SuperSeraphim777 Hey Chris, awesome to have another member of the Danko family (save Terry) going on with music! Rick was a legend, it's just a shame I never had the chance to see him perform.

  • @SuperSeraphim777 Thats too kewl to be Rick's nephew!! SOrry he is gone as he, too, was a Musical genius. They all played there part in the BAND. Some played a little too much. (R.R.)

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  • what i love about this band is they jam thir songs live

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  • wish the audio and video was better but still this is a great tune !

  • Garth isn't wierd. More like Hendrix for the organ. His experimental techniques were used by others in the decades to follow, especially the synthesizer players.

  • I'm responding to the song I'm trying to get her to give it up!she's stone said the swede and the mooncalf agreed now i'm a viper in shock with my eyes in the clock she was just there somewhere and here i am again and and as my mind unweaves i feel the freeze down in my knee's/chest fever.Robbie R. can be a jerk to his former band alum but he wrote most of the bands song's.Bottom line they were great.their music will live on 4ever R.I.P. Rick and Richard-we all shall be released someday!!!

  • @danviola47 The sad thing is, Robbie TOOK credit for most the songs and dissed his brothers.

  • @danviola47

    Guess that depends on who you ask. Levon Helm by all accounts is about as honest a man as you'll find. If he says Garth deserved more credit for his contributions, then he did. If he says the lyrics to CF and others were more a collaboration than RR all by himself, take it to the bank. Well, kinda like what RR did, he took it to the bank.... and left behind a legacy of being a dirtbag. I'd rather be broke.

  • @jerrygarcia099 right on with your comment! RR took more credit for the band's success than he deserved to. i'm glad to see a lot of the people here are aware of that.

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  • garth is formidable 

  • shit i thought this was ELP until it morphed into kick-arse rock/boogie with soaring vocals so then i realised ,,,,,,it couldnt be ELPEEEEEEE

  • Garth is kinda weird

  • @scottyb43 Weird and AWESOME

  • Burf69 - I disagree. If you were there in front of Garth's speakers I bet you'd change your mind. I saw Garth with the Sadies less than 1 month ago. He, and his wife, absolutely blew me away with this song.

  • Danko is sick.......

  • GENIUS!

  • these guys were extremely talented in their own right. That's why it worked so well for them..

  • if you watch the video of the guy from three dog night trying to play this and then watch this guy youll appreciate garth a lot more

  • I love the Band. And I love this song. But this version smacks of boring, self-indulgent 70s stadium pomp. And Garth (who could run circles around me a billion times as a musician) even makes his this song's classic riff sound like crap here.

  • If only Garth would have played a B3...

  • Love the Band and I'm glad to see "The Beak" get some face time - unlike in The Last Waltz :-)

  • Ran into Garth at Yale Eletronics on Sunset Boulevard in '77 and asked him about CF. If his eyelids were any indication, he was pretty blitzed at the moment and said, "Well, I can never remember how I played it the last time, so I just do whatever comes to mind. I think [Jimmy] Greenspoon [in Three Dog Night] gets it right more often than I do."

  • awesome!!

  • By Far My Favorite Band Tune,Garth Hudson Makes a Hammond Sound Epical!!!

  • It's actually a Lowrey organ and you can find one like this for a good price on ebay.

  • That is no Hammond, that is the tin can called a Lowrey, Garth hated Hammonds. Although his organs through the years created some very unique sounds, they cannot come close the warmth and airyness of a B3 with a Lesie.

  • @boonetrc hah....funny..thats what garth's wife said

  • Actually this is after "Tour 74, With Dylan" The Band was a opening act for people like CNSY and Clapton, This was from the last 4 or 5 months of 1974, No Dylan.

    hope this helped, it always confused me.

  • This performance is included on The Band's box set DVD. I do not think this is from Dylan '74 tour.Great song.

  • Is there MORE of this show?? Was this form the Dylan tour???

  • Can somebody tell me from what number te first line is, it starts with "wash my hands in....".

  • "wash my hands in lye water, i got a date with the captains daughter. You can go and tell your brother. We sure gonna love one another"

    from When You Awake

  • what album is the live version on? sounded totally cool.

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  • When You Awake

    The Band (the brown album, The Band's second)

    1970

  • lol sweet, and organ.

  • and ur a jizz muncher! :P

  • This clip is all about the use of the Lowery organ by someone who refused to see it as limited. It was a unique palette for Hudson's creativity, and done at a time when polyphonic synths didn't exist. At times the sounds remind of Jon Lord playing his Hammond B3 through Marshalls....but this is much cooler.

    Yeah...cooler than Jon Lord. If you don't think so, someone

    go ask Jon Lord. Bet he'd say so, too!

    Cheers,all...peace.

  • @Spiccatoarco

    Yes, thanks for the analogy of Jon Lord and Garth... it's very rare to see how he played the Lowrey.

    gJones

  • I have to say I mostly get angry with people they just constantly argue and complain about modern music and praise oldies. Hell I hate when people argue about music in general. Yes what people like in music is based on their opinion, but to say nothing good has ever come out since 50's and 60's is straight up ignorant. Live for the music the way the musicians wanted and when people quit putting their favorite musicians on a pedestal to be compared against they find out there are other greats.

  • Are you saying that people shouldn't post their opinions on youtube? Because that's all i meant. I didn't like how magnummg told taylor to keep his opinions to himself. I have nothing against new bands, i listen to a lot of them, but come on. Do you really think Soul coughing will write the next stairway to heaven? Or will cloud cult be able to play any instrument as well as jimi hendrix played guitar? I guess its ok to dream but i don't think im a douche for thinking they wont

  • no, i said lazy post not don't post. i also said you have no idea what they will do. its awful hard for a band to prove your theory wrong when all new music gets is crapped on and devalued immediately by rednecks who live in the past. probably why magnum told him the truth.

  • the problem with classic rock is today everyone regards them as the greatest music. What about back then when they were actually new? People grew into the music and probably argued the same stupid crap everyone still does today and that is: They sound like blah blah blah, they are not as good as blah blah blah, they sound like everything else. When will people get over themselves about music. I feel music old and new have their own things they can add to the world of inspiring music for people.

  • disagree with you magnummg. first of all taylor1129611 can write whatever he wants (check out the first amendment). especially on youtube comment threads. thats why these discussions exist. so people can express their opinions.

    Secondly, I hope you realize that Vampire Weekend, Soul Coughing, and all of the other bands (they are bands, right?) you named will never be as popular as the 60s and 70s rock, like the band, that taylor1129611 speaks of.

  • lazy post! what do you need to throw the first amendment thing in there for? also you have no idea how popular any of those bands might get. to presume that makes you a douche. taylor1129611 also seems like kind of a douche just to throw out such a stupid idea. even though its fine to have that opinion, i prefer to listen to new and old music like magnummg and enjoy it all rather than being a big douchey complainer. if you disagree thats fine, the first amendment is on my side though.

  • @magnummg put it to ya like this magnum: Listen closely here, both hard and soft passages...today's shit is all of one or the other...either all out , or wimp stuff like green day....theres no range anymore

  • @ioriorioriorio Today's music is all cheap fakery.

  • taylor1129611 keep your opinions to yourself. there are tons of new bands and songs out with in the last year that rival any music back then, and no i am not referring to the mainstream crap you hear on the radio. Seriously look the bands up: The Black Keys, Black Mountain, Office of Strategic Influence, He Is Legend, Mastodon's Crack the Skye, Soul Coughing, Cloud Cult, Explosions in the Sky, Muse, Vampire Weekend, Legendary Pink Dots, That Handsome Devil. I could go on forever.

  • 60's and 70's Rock will always be better than anything made now....period!

  • This song is coming to Rock Band next week.

    The 11th to be exact.

  • anyone else hear a bit of  ELP?

  • It's nice not to be musician (like me), b/c then you can just enjoy the music and have idea about the technical side to it.

  • goddamn I love that song. The Band.

  • Anyone besides me know that Grath was trained in the classics? He had to tell his parents he was joining a band as a teacher, and actually charged everyone $5 a week! Hey, what made The Band one of the really great musical groups was they all really fit together, be it vocals, or the music.

  • everyone that watched the last waltz knows that about Garth, i'm assuming. unless they weren't listening.

  • this organ solo is outer space! i love it. total mindfuck. the audience is like...wha?

    about the song credits. just finished levon's book. levon's cool, and rr coulda been less stingy with the credits, but i think levon wants arrangers to get song credit. even if its a totally badass arrangement/sound, you dont usually get credit for that as a songwriter. nowadays pop music is made by producers, not musicians. make a beat. lay on some chords. some sweetner. a few raps, a hook, badda bing.

  • Great footage of one day in the sun-- should be in the dictionary under "the year 1974"... who cares about Band psychodramas? Rock starts are not our Greek Gods, they are finger puppets! 

    Gossiping about them is funny and absurd, like discussions about angels that live on the heads of a pins! "Don't stop believing" folks! Hahahahaah

  • Yeah, I thought the keyboard stuff was kind of crazy fun for a bit..  But the song doesn't seem to gel here. On the other hand, there's an AWESOME version of Don't Do It! and also Cripple Creek here on YouTube. And The Weight is just a great song without saying.

  • Regarding earlier post that Lennon and McCartney are the only Beatles that receive song royalties, I present this quote from the Global Oneness site, from the article entitled The Beatles - Song catalogue: Encyclopedia II, "Since 1995 Jackson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have jointly owned most of The Beatles' songs...Meanwhile Lennon's estate and McCartney still receive their standard songwriter shares of the royalties". Seems writers get a percentage of the royalties regardless of ownership.

  • Wow. What an astoundingly ignorant comment, even by internet standards. Amazing.

    And a two-fer at that! Garth Hudson just hits random keys. And some philistine cover by Three Dog Night is much better than the Band.

    I'm floored.

  • You can't deny he's very desonant. Besides, how can I win here. It's like someone going to a Beatles Video and running them down. I used to always complained about 'Rock' radio stations playing the band because their most popular songs (outside of 'The Weight' are not rock.

  • Yesss...it sure looks like he's playing random keys. (Im being sarcastic)

    I can't beleive you would post a ridiculous comment ...He wants it to sound insane. And he does an excellent job.

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  • First of all, I'm not insulting him by saying he can't play keyboards. From the 15 second mark to about the 50 second mark he's sounds like people I used to know who played nonsense lead guitar runs (which were random) and then called it "Free Jazz", LOL. Even some of other comments reflect my opinion. "He wants to sound insane."

    "It's outer space".

    "Keyboard stuff was kind of crazy fun for a bit."

  • Immature insulting comments?? You are making rediclious accusations. Yes I was sarcastic...but not demeaning. You also assume that I am not a musician, which I am.

    Socond: YES THEIR voices don't sound great. But ANY REAL MUSICIAN would know that it dosent matter because it is ROCK AND ROLL.

    They are not trying to sound like anything...they are just a bunch of guys from all over North America who got together and played for Willie Nelson.

    They just kept playing together.

  • makattak88 (1 hour ago) Socond: YES THEIR voices don't sound great.

    They sound terrible (maybe monitors weren't working?

    But ANY REAL MUSICIAN would know that it dosent matter because it is ROCK AND ROLL

    Now, that's an ignorant statement if I ever heard one.

  • @makattak88 You mean Bob dylan, not Willie Nelson

  • These great men have more musical talent and knowledge then you will ever have in your entire life. They have changed the course of Music history and you should give them the respect they deserve.

  • Why all the controversy over songwriting credits with Robertson and The Band? I've done some research regarding the Beatles; only Lennon (his estate) and McCartney recieve royalties for the songs they wrote -- which is most of the Beatle's catalogue. I don't see anyone calling them "evil" or "assholes"; it just seems to be accepted as normal business procedure. Certainly, all Beatle's song productions were "collaborations" as well between all members -- but writing credits go to the writers.

  • Actually Lennon and McCartney receive no royalties for their songs. They Northern Songs catalog is 100% owned by Michael Jackson

  • Was Robbie such an ego , in addition to his greed, did he think he was doing others a "favour" allowing them to contribute creatively to "his" songs- then thinking ":how dare they think they deserve writing credits!"?

    Dylan apparently ceased friendships with Band members years ago. Aside from the fact Bob does drop people, maybe he didn't need the stress of being in the middle of bad blood, especially between RR & the rest.The 4 shoulda sued RR. LP producer witnesses could vouch for them

  • Bobjb999 Please tell me where your sources are for this. Not that I don't believe you- I was told that early on, R.Manuel wrote an equal amount of songs though as his drinking and depression took hold of him he wrote less, though after Last Waltz Levon Helm had some scathing remarks about RR- saying the coverage of the Last Waltz was manipulated by him, among other things. Helm projects a more trustworthy image of things I think..

  • Levon's autobiog. made the charges.I didn't read the book,only interviews from the time.Baddest blood is reportedly between LH & RR, & writing credits is at its core.If the issue's serious enough to alienate LH for decades from RR, with so much smoke, surely there must be fire! I don't know how vocal the others were,but I never heard them rush to RR's defence.Todd Rundgren's & RR's quotes in articles (from memory-can't cite specifics) on The Band's creating through jamming, hint Levon's right.

  • Yeah, and it makes sense that Levon's right if anyone takes the time to listen to the songs from "Poor Dirt Farmer", that Levon and his current band put together-- it's wonderful, and won a Grammy when it came out two years ago. However, if you check, the songs are not written by the band members at all.  Levon is nothing if not a smart and wary old pilgrim, with one helluva lot of style. Damn shame that Danko and Manuel can't enjoy this period in time.

  • Sad irony in The Last Waltz Robbie says how unfair it was in early days of popular music the songwriter was low man on the totem pole,not treated fairly .Yet HE's reportedly guilty of ripping off fellow Band mates for writing credits!As Ronnie Hawkins said, Levon & others should have met with the lawyers & co. types too and asserted their rights, instead of leaving it to RR. Robbie must take after his small-time Jewish gangster Dad! RR's greed + the others' early passivity killed The Band.

  • Robbie's been quoted saying on songs credited to him he wrote all the parts., but in unguarded moments called the Band the greatest jam band.

    Producer of 3rd LP, Todd Rundgren said he marveled at Garth's effortless ability to improvise on organ. You think Robbie worked out all the organ parts on Chest Fever for Garth? Not likely! Garth deserved a co-writing credit too. It would have been 4 against 1 if the rest of the guys had stood up to Robertson early on...They let him get away with it.

  • what exactly did he do to break the band up

  • Garth Hudson! And they called Eric Clapton "God"?

  • also, "the band" is canadian...their roots are from toronto canada. Levon Helm came from the south....

  • robbie robertson wrote chest fever...it was created as a response to "the weight". its was released on the "music from big pink" album in 1968...

  • dank ass organ solo

  • I seen him play something very similar at Watkins Glem Speedway in the 70's was drizzling though. we was all soggy but Garth kept hamering on those keys! I was waiting for the acid to kick in but it was bunk...good thing or we would have never made it out of that swarm! Thanks for the memories.

  • Aha...Was this "Too Wet to Work" by chance? Fitting...

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  • Called "The Genetic Method" on the Last Waltz, I think the Band generally used to let Garth cut loose on an organ improv before a segue into "Chest Fever". Classical guys always had to flex their talents... see all Prog Rock bands in the 70's for what Hudson was anticipating.

  • the song on start was when you awake on the album before the flood with bob dylan

  • The partial song at the very start is "When You Awake" from the album "The Band" (the brown album).

  • Everybody sings, that's what I love about The Band.

  • this reaches locomotive proportions. so much tighter than the verion of "just another whistle stop" from this same show.

  • ...and this is why Garth Hudson is a God.

  • I met Garth at a tiny club here in Toronto in 2003. He was playing with a jazzy country band. You could tell it ws Garth on the piano as soon as he did a little octave run as in "The Weight".

    Really friendly guy, quiet, cool stories!

  • That sounds like a nursery rhyme played by your crazy uncle, who you just know will end up on America's most wanted. can't help but love it!

  • I read that the lyrics were just "placeholder lyrics" that they'd sing until Robbie came up with real words - except the fake words just kind of stuck so well.

    Either way, best - rock keyboardist - ever.

  • How does he make the bending sound? Does the Lowrey have a shifter?

  • Yeah, Lowrey organs had a little "portamento pedal," I think they called it.

  • Called a "glide". I have the HR25R1. Looking at the Owner's Manual. Earlier version of the one Garth played minus the synth.

  • oops. you were talking about 'When You Awake' off of the Brown Album.

  • it's 'the genetic method'.

  • what is the song at the beginning ?

  • I would like to know it also...

  • Wow, thanks for posting! Several minutes of the genetic method, *and* a great version sans horn arrangement. What a treat!

  • garth plays that H25 organ like he's flyin a fuckin spaceship...amazing!

  • I always laugh watching him perform, it looks like he isn't even thinking about what he's doing, it just happens, truly a one of a kind artist.

  • I'm always amazed at how much Richard could do with his voice. Truly a gifted singer. Soft, slow, gravelly, mellow, big chest voice or falsetto. Now that is talent. Not these singers of today who can only sing in one dimension then they have to take a hiatus because they have no voice.

  • I recently went to see this very same Lowrey H25-3 organ at the place where it's been stored, in Northern California.

    You can see a clip of it here on youtube, just search -- "H25-3".

    Garth and The Band simply had no equals, or ever will...

  • Almighty he is an awe inspiring player that's for sure. Powerful stuff. Make your hair stand on end.

  • Did Garth's head explode? I passed out during the intro from fear.

  • I believe the lyrics were temporary..just a placeholder that were meant to be replaced when real lyrics were done. They never got around to it for some reason!

  • omg

  • Can somebody, like, explain these lyrics to me? I bought Music From Big Pink when it first came out, and 40 year later I still don't understand these lyrics. Help!

  • If you type in theband on your address box that'll take you to their website.then click on library then lyrics,here you will find your goal !!

  • Thanks, Nobbler! I understand what the lyrics are, I just don't know what they mean, what the song is trying to say.

  • Oh right,I don't understand them either!! I'm not sure if you're supposed to.

  • I saw The Band in June 1988 when they toured Australia. Garth and Rick were the only original members on the tour. I had very good seats. I remember man coming out onto the stage to setup the keyboards. It took me a minute to realise it was Garth. In my mind there will never be another bass player like Rick Danko. May he rest in peace.

  • True say! I maintain that he got his bass powers form that crazy bounce he always had, elbows and knees always moving.

  • Thank you so much!! The Band are absolutely the most important musical event in the last 50 years.

  • i just saw garth hudson perform last night at el moccambo in toronto. what a legend.

  • possibly the most underated band of all time

    RIP Rick

  • and richard

  • Holy Shit! Man These Guys Were From Another F_____ World!

  • These guys really were THE Band

  • Thank you for posting this. I was at the show! Acts were: Jessie Collin Young > The Band >Tom Scott & the LA express > Joni Mitchell ( 1st set W/ TS & LAX)Crosby Stills Nash Young (who played 4ever) One of the best shows in my life!

    Band encored w/ Cripple Creak

    Thank you -thank you

  • where can one get a copy of this concert?

  • it is on the bands box set i got it and i think is worth the $112 when you get all there songs a book and a dvd

  • Well the genius of all members of this great band will be recognized when they receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievment Award in Feb 08!

  • Too bad that Richard Manuel and Rick Danko won't be there... BTW Levon Helm's new album is great and I sure hope he gets a Grammy for that.

  • he did but he wasnt there he decided to have a midnight ramble

  • I just listened to this in the car yesterday after I picked up Rock Of Ages from Amazon.This creative keyboard and saxophone genius from london, Ontario just accepted the Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award for the BAND in Hamilton ON a couple of weeks ago. I had the pleasure of meeting him and Maud again and renewed our 45 year old friendship.

  • garth was born in windsor were i live!!!!!!

  • you must of had a good time hanging out with them

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