Ry Cooder performing Going Back To Okinawa with Shoukichi Kina & Champloose, Jim Keltner and The Chieftains at The Great Music Experience, Todai Ji, Japan 1994. www.rycooderstuff.co.uk
@Flametamer9 True, Richard Manuel was a big part of that band. Personally I think bigger than Robbie, but it's something to wonder about. Would Richard still be here if Ry filled in the roll for Robertson?
@SwampDaddy7 Well, Ry is a great musician, singer and arranger, but Robbie was a musician, arranger, and super songwriter, but a mediochre singer, so... The Band did okay without Ry, but maybe after Robbie left, Ry could have helped them keep on going...Withour Richard Manuel, the Band could not last long.
@MrJohntube12 Where to begin? I'm a Floyd/Zep/Neil Young freak, but no one does it like Ry Cooder! I'd say if you dig his work w the Stones start w the record that turned them on to him... Boomer's Story!! Amazing album. If you want a master class in slide guitar get either the sound track to 'Paris, Texas' or the masterpiece 'A Meeting by The River' w M.V. Bhatt. Those 2 records taught me to play slide. Then venture into 'Chicken Skin Music' and 'Paradise and Lunch'. Check the song One Meatball
@Flametamer9 There'd still be The Band, they'd probably just be better interpreters of others' songs.
SwampDaddy7 2 months ago
@SwampDaddy7 Well, back then, Ry was not a lyracist, and without Robbie's lyrics, there would have been no, "The Band", would there?
Flametamer9 2 months ago
@Flametamer9 True, Richard Manuel was a big part of that band. Personally I think bigger than Robbie, but it's something to wonder about. Would Richard still be here if Ry filled in the roll for Robertson?
SwampDaddy7 2 months ago
@SwampDaddy7 Well, Ry is a great musician, singer and arranger, but Robbie was a musician, arranger, and super songwriter, but a mediochre singer, so... The Band did okay without Ry, but maybe after Robbie left, Ry could have helped them keep on going...Withour Richard Manuel, the Band could not last long.
Flametamer9 2 months ago
...super...
paulpellicci 3 months ago
@MrJohntube12 Where to begin? I'm a Floyd/Zep/Neil Young freak, but no one does it like Ry Cooder! I'd say if you dig his work w the Stones start w the record that turned them on to him... Boomer's Story!! Amazing album. If you want a master class in slide guitar get either the sound track to 'Paris, Texas' or the masterpiece 'A Meeting by The River' w M.V. Bhatt. Those 2 records taught me to play slide. Then venture into 'Chicken Skin Music' and 'Paradise and Lunch'. Check the song One Meatball
mojohand10 4 months ago
this is so good it brought tears to my eyes.
blackbeard1991 4 months ago
Großartige Musik. Anscheinend gibt es hier nur native English speakers außer mir.
Kevin3307 4 months ago
@harvey1954 I know, right? I always wondered what it would have been like if Ry joined the Band instead of Robbie Robertson.
SwampDaddy7 4 months ago
@SwampDaddy7 Agreed. Be nice if Ry and the Band did it together.
harvey1954 4 months ago