The Band: how 2nd album was made 5/5

[danieljh]

The Band was and always will be AMERICANA. They should have a place in the smithsonian music archives. It truly is historic American Music.

[StanKindly]

@danieljh Actually they ARE - in some government archival listing as " relative to the historical experience of life in The United States... etc" I can't remember the details but a search would probably find it :)

[BBQFanNo1]

The best group ever along with CCR that never had a Number 1 hit song. Both groups in my personal opinion were the worst underrated groups in the history of music. The Billboard and Music ranking people blackballed and shafted these groups rottenly. A disgrace crime against the history of the Music Ranking Industry they underranked these two groups.

[StanKindly]

@BBQFanNo1 Really? Blackballed?? I thought CCR was the biggest selling band in the world for one or two years running and The Band (2nd album) was gold or maybe platinum and certainly critically acclaimed ... little more research maybe :)

[rad311]

The Band is everything that ever was and ever will be.

[dangerbirdzuma]

King Harvest Has Surely Come- CRASH-BABOOM

[HiddenFormula]

thanks for uploading this gem! The Band epitomize what it means (or should mean) to be in a band.

[The60sMusicman]

help the neighbourhood, well rick i bet the community of woodstock thanks you for that but i believe you and you bandmates/friends did change the world, you sure changed mine.

Peace 'n Love to you all.

[RamrodtotheMax]

Nice when Robbie plays that sour guitar note at the end of "King Harvest" and says "Obviously we didn't hear THAT part on the finished project!"

[DinnerBells]

What better way to finish the documentary than with Garth playing two keyboards at once. And with a trucker hat.

[jonasjar]

@DinnerBells unfortunately I had to cut that clip since I was already beyond the 10 min limit

[DinnerBells]

@jonasjar No worries, good sir. A hint is better than none at all.

[yobhsiFehT]

@jonasjar

You couldn't slap up another minute-long clip or something? :(

(Thanks very much for posting, at any rate!)

[twinoak170]

Whispering Pines, there it is again. I get the chills every time.

[scranchdip]

... pretty much every band in L.A. right now wishes they were these guys.

[AstorreHerrera]

@scranchdip Then I'm moving to L.A.!

[gomudhen]

9:36 Right on Rick Danko!

[searcherboy]

I didn't know this was out there, so this was a particular treat.

Thanks for posting it, jonasjar. I appreciate The Band all the more now. What peerless musicians they were.

[jonasjar]

@searcherboy you're welcome, yes they were great and original. I dont listen to them so often today but I dont need to, they're always with me, you cant shake off music like that once it's under your skin.

[DantheMan28821]

@searcherboy 

[1954telecaster]

who the fuck is that crackhead rambling on @3:30?

[dunskie]

Righteous indeed.

[elquimicofarmacobiol]

I watched it for the first time 3 years ago in the history channel... been looking for it since then... thanks jonasjar

[LocalRailfan]

What a poor soul, I hope Richard Manuel is Heaven right now playing a golden piano and making the angels happy.

[keddw]

I can hear the ghost of harvest in some of Talking Head's stuff

[killbot6767]

when i first heard the brown album, i was totally shaken by songs like Dixie, the power of it, and i didnt think much of Whispering Pines. Now i think its one of the most beautiful songs.....you just have to listen

[zthetha]

markgr122 - I am grateful for your erudition - were the others Canadian? I guess I was using the term in its broadest sense. I suppose if we trace their geneology they were all originally European.

[habsti]

Thanks a lot for uploading this, it was great to hear them comment on their own music.

[jonasjar]

Youre welcome!

[The60sMusicman]

@jonasjar i also want to thank you, this was truly amazing.

[jonasjar]

Glad to keep the customer satisfied :) This Classic albums program is definitely among the better ones.

[mexicansmell]

@jonasjar

Yea the documentary is pretty sweet, even though half of the album isn't even discussed.

[zthetha]

Tryin to decide who the greatest American musician of the late 20th century was - it's a toss up between Brian Wilson and these guys. Sorry Brian - the Band moved ,and continue to move me, at a level of what I can only describe as goodness, truth and beauty.

[Markgr122]

Interesting,Im a huge Brian Wilson/Beach Boys fan and huge Band fan as well.But,only one member of the Band was an American,Levon.

[mondavanhaver]

I still love you guy's I've been listening to you since 1975 that 's when I discoverd you I was 18 then the first album I bout was Islands and I was smitten with it.And then I bout The Last Walz and man I was really hookt on you guy's I even got the DVD,and I enyoy It every time I watch It . You are the real musicians in this world you know along with Neil Young whom I love too,gosh I love you Canadians your so very Belgiën down to earth!!! keep on going guy's as long as you can thanks!!!

[oriskany]

All I know is way back in 70 thru 72 on a coral atoll, we would have this album on every night while playing poker.

We "went with it" as you say.

In hindsight, The Band was not some vinyl disc on the turntable, they were part of the night, live and in person.

[oriskany]

Oh, and the speakers? Six Bose 901s powered by a Pioneer SX9000 receiver.

You know, the system that pulses candle flames.

[jonasjar]

@oriskany That sounds "righteous" somehow, those nights on the coral atoll, you did the the right thing, no doubt :-)

[GuffNubbin]

Robbie Robertsons looked like a cross between a younger Robert Fripp and Howard Moon. ha..... esp in that guitar solo.

[VengeanceIsMineBitch]

I hate that you have to make Mighty Boosh comparisons, it cheapens the whole thing, these guys seem like grounded, real, talented, un-pretentious people - unlike Noel Fielding and Julian barratt. This documentary merely highlights how shit most music mainstream or otherwise is nowadays.

[SalmonChateaubriand]

Whispering Pines must be one of the most beautiful songs written in modern times.

[ukemanchris]

can you do me a very big favor and just post the final part with garth hudson on the keyboards, i think its one of the funniest moments ever recorded

[JoopFCG]

Thanks. This was really nice to watch.

[kaltsul]

Thanks for posting! I've been searching for that part where Robertson demonstrates the greatness of the drum and bass co-operation. Simply great music!

[Theyrun]

R.I.P. Richard Manuel

[murderousbastard83]

@Theyrun R.I.P. Rick Danko as well.