They’re all together now. Give this one a listen. Beautiful performance by The Band from The Last Waltz, prominently featuring Garth Hudson’s saxophone.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1cHofK-RWA

Organ on Chest Fever

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S7qqnK0Q5hk

It’s kind of wild how this was one of the most famous and influential bands of their era for decades after, enough to get all the accolades immediately, but fizzled out to relative irrelevance that their deaths aren’t really reacted to at all
Seems to be roots rock just fell out of style that no one who is younger can get into it

>>125221330
You’re right, but I figured /mu/ might be a place where people would really know their stuff. Especially since people here seem to spend so much time complaining about current music. My hope is that somebody will now find out about The Band and will come to appreciate how great they were.

Garth was pure soul. His sax solos on the studio version of It Makes No Difference are sublime. My favorite though is his organ solo on Bessie Smith
https://youtu.be/3ozaFzDrTwU?si=K5tW1cv2iB6lzonA

>>125221330
Might just be too obscure for now. But this song has left too much of a legacy for zoomers to ignore them forever. They'll find them eventually. RIP Garth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFAQuWFcTo

Come to think of it, part of the reason young people haven't heard them much is because there hasn't really been a 60s revival recently. Last time that was cool was when Austin Powers was in theatres. Hippie culture hasn't really been introduced to them yet.

RIP Garth. A legend among legends.

I believe The Band’s music is timeless. It will sound just as good 100 years from now as it did in the late 60s. Such beautiful, soulful art can never die.

Cahoots [Capitol, 1971]
Whew, these fellows can really play. They cook on "Smoke Signal," and you should hear the guitar solo on "Last of the Blacksmiths." Seem overly worried about the passing of the world as they know it, though--not just blacksmiths, but eagles, rivers, trains, the works. B-

>>125220406
RIP. He had a great and original style. His live saxophone solo on "It Makes No Difference" is among my favorites

https://youtu.be/ZfBqWNFOVo8?si=dqd56-fudK2kpUaA&t=271

sucks he died in a nursing home

Let's not forget the wah-wah clavinet on "Up On Cripple Creek"

https://youtu.be/kBGSf9kViEY?si=tWbUFxQ0FnEKp0t_

They were The Band, and they are The Band.
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>>125221330
None of the individual members were really celebrities. Robbie wrote a book that did well but I don't know that he was famous.

this is him on Camper Van Beethoven's Key Lime Pie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZlnoDvH_o

he is credited with "pump organ" for the whole album, but not sure where else specifically he played. great album in any event.

>>125222028
Such a groovy tune

>>125220406
>all of the Band is dead now
>Dylan and half the beatles and beach boys outlived them
Holy shit

>>125220406
https://youtu.be/kjy_F3RvCFQ?si=B2WJRcZGyLPLdL3C
Their later albums are underrated because their first two were so significant it overshadowed them

Have to post one of my favourites. I love this band so much.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y76oGXhEgKI

>>125222479
Amazing song. The horns sound like moaning voices

>>125220406
Any day now
Any day now
I shall be released

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One more favourite of mine from The Band. This one always gets me. Garth on accordion and pipes.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GoV52WsmDG4

>>125223860
its one of the most emotional songs i've ever heard. garth really made their songs magic with his keyboards and wind instruments, the magic sprinkle on top so to speak

>>125220406
RiP
>>125221330
agree, strange not a sticky. The Weight is one of the greatest songs of all time
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>>125224085
>sticky
I’m pretty sure Robbie Robertson didn’t even get one. Jannies/mods likely have no idea who Garth Hudson is sadly.

So, The Band reunion is now complete?

>the organ on When You Awake
so good
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>>125221706
Nah, boomers are fucked. Zoomers and every generation since revile them for fucking up the world as we know it. It's gonna be a very long time until they and their culture are looked upon favorably again.

>>125224745
im a zoomer and the band is one of my favorite bands thoughalbeit

Time to watch The Last Waltz again :(

>>125225734
Never a bad time to do that. Just remember to play it loud!

>>125224310
And the guitar is incredible too

>>125224259
Yup and a lot of the guests from The Last Waltz are there too. Hopefully the rest don’t get taken soon as well.

>>125221300
That’s such a gnarly organ sound
>>125223860
I think of this song any time I get homesick ;_;

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM

>>125221330
Yeah, shit seems too fucked up right now for a band like The Band

They will return when AI overdrive wants people to return to traditional and organic music

>>125222028
Was gonna post this

>>125222219
I suspect it's a joke but if it's him there must be a good story behind it

Big Pink, S/T, and NL-SC are the only albums that really grab me. I love these albums and think The Band are top tier but their other material doesn't seem to grab me as much. I've tried Stagefright as that's the classic contrarian's choice Band album... It just doesn't really click for me. Feels too "diluted" for lack of a better word (and i usually like albums produced by Todd R like the sparks debut). What am i missing here? Do i just need to spam it more?

I always reckoned that Cahoots was the one with the strongest material outside of the big 3, but that hasn't clicked yet either save for a few tracks. Are any of their other albums better than these 2 and more deserving of my time?

Also the basement tapes are kino and Garth was tied with Rick Manuel as my favorite member. RIP to the wizard. Sad he died in a nursing home. Imagine your shitty kids put you in a nursing home and your neighbor is the literal musical hand of God. Crazy notion.

>>125220406
Which band?