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We got a couple of friends.
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Walk forty-seven miles about wild.
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Got a brand new house on the roof side.
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Made for rattlesne.
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Got a brand new chimney made on top.
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Made from a human school.
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Come on, Robin, let's take a little wall, Timmy.
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We got a tombstone hair and a graveyard mind.
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I turned forty-one, I don't mind that.
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I write a line of counter usually whip.
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Take an easy car, don't you give me no lip?
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And then that was blue.
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Now on the corner set an ice wagon boot.
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Bombers in low somebody'll scream.
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You should have heard this what I see.
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The band were of course five great artists.
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Richard and Cole, Levon Hall and Cardison Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson.
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The program Steven Eagle in trouble as always, and you can contact me grateful.
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And that is for X.
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From music from the Big Pink.
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Now, the Big Pink is something you're gonna be hearing a lot of today.
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It's on the program, quite a few tracks coming from the album.
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The album was their first album released in 1968.
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Big Pink refers to a house that a few members of the band shared in New York.
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The album itself was recorded in New York and Los Angeles.
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And uh prior to them releasing it, as I said, the first album was uh using the name of the album.
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Interesting enough, we didn't know it was very recently today.
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Is it hanging by Bob Dylan himself?
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We'll tell you more about their relationship with Bob and how they supported him for a few years and so forth.
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This is the next one that's coming from their second album called Simply the Band.
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Rag Mama Ragh Rag Mama Rag I can't believe it's true.
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What did you do?
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I'm over the rear of the track like a 490, scratch my back, mama, shake, watch the mobile.
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Back, mama, I'm pulling out your game.
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When I turn you a loose like an open goose, gotta kill I need the bank.
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I ask about your turtle, and you ask about the weather.
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We could be relaxing in my sleeping bay.
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But all you wanna do for me, mama is Bay Mama Ray, and no winner.
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Bang mama ray, come on, rising up the boat.
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Bang mama ray, where do you wrong?
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Ray, Mama Ray, no skinny little bunny body.
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It's no eating, kitty mouse and ray, mama ray.
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Where do you go?
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I was gonna say wag.
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That's uh from their second album, just eponymously titled, released a year later in nineteen uh sixty-nine.
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The bands, their music danced across a number of genres.
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A very kind of unique sound.
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Not a very unique sound, a unique sound.
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Um distinctive land of country rock, folk, classical rhythm and blues, blues, and soul.
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It's like a unusual sound.
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It's something that you feel has always been there, but it just kind of came from nowhere at the same time.
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It's kind of timeless soundwork.
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Robbie Robertson was the main songwriter.
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We'll talk a little bit about that later.
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Let's move on now to their sixth album.
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This is 1975, and this is one called Ophelia.
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May I by the door?
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Why would anybody leave so quickly for fear?
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Where have you gone?
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The old neighborhood just ain't the same.
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Nobody knows just what became of Ophelia.
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Tell me what went wrong.
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Was it something that somebody said?
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Mama, I know we broke the room.
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Was somebody up against a law?
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How do you know I died for you?
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Ashes of laughter, the ghost is clear.
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Why do the best that always disappear?
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Michael Filipes got the Michael.
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How do you know we broke the room?
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Was somebody up against the law?
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How do you know?
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I died for you.
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Scared and running, but I'm still waiting for the second coming of a feeling.
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Let's play possibly two of their best known tracks now.
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This one's on Big Pink.
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It's to wait.
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I just need some place where I can lay my head.
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Ambasta, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?
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He just grinned and shook my head.
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No was all he said.
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Take a load off Petty.
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Take a load for free.
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Take a load off Patty.
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I picked up my bag.
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I went looking for a place to hide.
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When I saw Carmen and the devil walking side by side.
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I said, hey Carmen, come on, let's go downtown.
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She said, I gotta go, but my friend can stick around.
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Take a load off fatty.
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Take a load for free.
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Take a load off petty.
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Go down, Miss Moses.
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There's nothing you can say.
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It's just old Luke and Luke's waiting on a judgment day.
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Well, Luke, my friend.
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What about young Ann Lee?
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He said to me, a favorite son won't just stay and keep Anna Lee company.
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Take a load off Patty.
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Take a load for free.
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Take a load off Patty.
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And you put the load right on me Crazy Chester followed me Andy cut me in a fall He said I will fix your rap if you take Jack my dog I said wait a minute Chester You know I'm a beautiful man He said that's okay boy Won't you feed him when you can Yeah take a load off Annie Take a load to free Take a load off Annie you put the load right on Manny Get a cannonball now to take me down the line My bag is drinking low and I do believe it's time to get back on his petty You know she the only one Who sent me here with the regard for pickable Take a load off Petty Take a load free for free Take a load off Petty And you put the loan right on Red on me For Joe Cain is a name and I served on the Danville train till Stallman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again in the winter of 65 We were hungry just barely alive by May the 10th enrichment had fell it's a time I remember oh so well they drove on Dixie now in the melting throwbone Dixie now people were saying La la Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called on me Virtue quick come see back on the property lead I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need and you leave the rest but they should never have to take on the very land Like my father before me I will walk the man like my brother before me Who took on Bramble Span He was just 18 Proud and brain But a yank laid him in his breeze I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a cane back up when it's in the beat The night they draw it up the Crawl Moon breaks it down and all the bells were rain the Crawl Bone breaks it down and the people must be able to night they drove out Dixie down kind of a timeless song hasn't a timeless sound to it before that it was uh the wait Alright now we're nearly thirty minutes uh into the program so you've all settled down, relaxed a bit, you've been listening to the music, and you have a fair idea of what it's all about.
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So it's time now probably for us to stand back and just take stock a little bit to get a little bit of uh information, imparting information and to take stock a little bit.
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If you do a bit of homework and pay attention, because I've done a lot of work and researching this for you, and I don't think this comes all off the top of my head because it doesn't.
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I have to check things out and clarify things and just find things out very simply.
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But just in terms of the influences of the band, Robertson has cited uh Curtis Mayfield and the staple singers as major influences in the band's music.
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Robertson uh was, of course, the principled songwriter and also he's a guitarist.
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He did write a memoir, very, very good reading when he read it recently.
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So check it out.
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Robbie Robertson, I think it's called Testimony Butcher, no problem.
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Finding it also Levon Helen has written a book.
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So that's the second source of information for you.
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Levon was the drummer with the band.
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Levon was the only American in the band, all four other members were Canadian.
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Just so many members now.
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Richard Manuel, he was a penis, and singer and songwriter.
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Uh Rick Dranko was bass and sometimes fiddle player.
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They were all multi-instrumentalists.
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Also, uh Robbie Robertson has a sandwich didn't sing very much.
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Uh he only sang on a very small number of tracks.
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And Emmanuel were the three principal singers, and the often said Emmanuel was really the lead singer.
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Robbie Robertson was the principal songwriter, and not the Dickie Writer.
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From acrimony because he would have been getting the principal royalty.
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He was planning on a music career as a music teacher and was interested in playing rock music only as a hobby.
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But the hawks were in awe of his wild folk that you've heard some of already.
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And he basically begged him to join his mother and his parents were looking forward to having a nice middle class career in music and the money coming in, and maybe get married and audio.
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So uh yeah, it was a bit of a change of uh here for him.
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He might say joining this rock band.
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Anyway, he did relent, he joined the band, he joined the hockey, but on the unconditionally paying dollars a week to be their instructor.
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And all music theory questions were directed by the Hudson and uh so to mollify his parents and all their concerns and so forth.
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So he was more of a theorist brought that theory into the group.
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Maybe being a little simplistic here.
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But I think you get the find he had some wider theoretical knowledge that maybe had lived things and taken things in the biosmosis and got experience behind them and so forth.
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But sometimes that more analytical thing that Garth Hodson possibly brought can have benefits as well.
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Let's move on to the shape I'm in Go out yonder, peace in the valley.
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Come downtown at the rumble in the alley.
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Oh you don't know the shape fine Has anybody see my lady?
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Just live alone will drive me crazy.
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Oh you don't know the shit by gonna go down by the water I don't be gonna jump in, no, no.
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I'll just be looking for my name.
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I spent seven hours in the world, do you get the heaven?
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Oh you don't know the shit I did.
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I just spent sixty days on the jail house for the crime of heaven, no, no, no.
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For the crime of heaven, no, stay on it, stay on the other, you don't know the shape.
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I start a rocket in all the field, you're gonna know the shape.
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And that is from their third album called Stage Fright.
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It's also uh credited there as being with Todd Rungren.
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Now there's some disputes over this uh the production of the album and the mixing of the album.
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How Todd was involved, it seems pretty clearly when he we know he's involved, it's just the extent of the involvement.
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There was also Clinton Johns had some involved in those issues about what ended up on the final versions and all this kind of thing, but you can read up all about that on you know where.
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Now, next up we're gonna play one with Bob Dylan from the basement tapes.
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This is you ain't going nowhere.
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Rain won't lift, it won't close, rain's froze.
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Get your mind off winter time, you ain't gone nowhere.
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I don't care how many litters this in.
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Morning came and morning win.
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Pick up your money and pack up your tin.
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You ain't going nowhere, not the bone.
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Buy me a flute and gun at the shoes, tail games, so tree with roots.
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You need more time to be scalm, he could not keep all his keys supplied with sleep.
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When we come up to it, don't lie down this chat.
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Ubiquitous singer, songwriter, prophet, genius is in there, and that you ain't gone nowhere.
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And that's from The Basement Tapes released in 1970.
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In around 1965.
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The band came to the change of Bob Dylan.
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They had some connections.
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Robbie Robertson got some connections to somebody working for Albert Roseman.
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Robbie and even some upcoming concert.
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So they went ahead with quickly.
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They said, Look, we have to involve all the band.
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We just can't uh divorce them and Bob agreed to that and the band joined them and didn't be the jury and so forth.
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And then in 1966, Bob had a famous motorcycle accident.
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And he ended up uh in the course of that period of convalescence, which I think lasted at least a year.
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They did some recordings of demos and messing around with music, if one would be a better way of putting it.
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And uh, out of that messing around with music, uh they ended up recording the basement tapes, which were subsequently released, albeit a couple of years later, uh in 1975.
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The band, by the way, I should have mentioned where the first two albums were produced by John Simon, the record producer, and even he even played on some of the instruments.
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Uh the horn sound on some of those on those first two albums, by the way.
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Well Garrett Hudson, I should have mentioned, is a saxophonist, and he contributed to that kind of sound as well.
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Um so that's where Bob came in.
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We'll have something else involving Bob later in the programme.
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We'll also pretend something from the last walls I mentioned earlier, which was their farewell concert in 1976, November 76, to be precise.
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Let's continue now with the second album, and this is one from it called King Harvest.
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King Harvest is surely come.
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I work for the union, cause she's so good to me, and I'm bound to come on top.
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That's where she said I should be.
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Looks like this time I'm gonna get the stake.
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Oh your trees in the red okay harvest is surely come.
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A dry summer letting come before.
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Which I depend on most of all.
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Hey, Rainmaker, can you hear the call?
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Please let these crops grow Long enough, I've been a parts get row.
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And it's plain to see I've nothing to show.
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I'm planning to pay those union dues.
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Just don't judge me by my shoes.
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Scarecrow in a yellow moon.
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Pretty soon, a carnival on the edge of town.
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King Harvest is surely come.
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Last year, this time was no joke.
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My whole barn went up in smoke.
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A horse jet through, well, he went mad.
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I can't ever remember things being that bad.
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And here come a man with a paper in hand, telling us our hard times are about to hear.
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And then that they don't give us what we like.
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He said, Man, that's when you gotta go on strike.
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Listen to the rise when the wind blows, cross a water.
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In harvest is surely come out of the way.
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And uh if you get into reading Robin's book, you'll understand together better than I can ever explain it.
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But the first album which was pretty claimed, which very, very highly critically claimed.
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And it was really it is really a brilliant album.
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But it was able to come from nowhere because we all had so much individually.
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And developed incrementally rather than exponentially.
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Don't do it.
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This is from them in concert at Rock of Ages.
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Joni Mitchell up next.
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Also from a concert album.
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Oh baby, don't you do it?
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Don't do it.
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Don't you break my heart?
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Oh baby, don't do it, don't you break my heart?
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I sacrifice to make me happy.
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You're not there, but so you won't believe me.
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All the love you bring my heart.
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Don't do it.
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Don't you break my heart?
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Don't do it.
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Don't you break my heart?
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I go down to the river.
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And then I'll be I'm on with your big.
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And uh three live albums.
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They were also then on the basement.
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And they were on the waves of Dylan.
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Okay.
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I've already told you about the 1976 farewell concert called The Last World.
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Featuring quite a range of words.
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I'll tell you more about them in a few minutes.
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But first let's play the track from that.
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This is with the band and Johnny Mitchell.
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We just come from such different sets of circumstances, and up all night in the studios and early on your ray.
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You'll be brushing out every stable.
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When the sun is ascender, and I would just be getting home with my realtor.
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There's no comfort in the Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes and the lips you can get.
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I still feel so alone.
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I still feel really stationed since I'm really laying on.
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You just pick up a picture.
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In the middle of the night, I rolled right past that tragedy.
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:04.960
Then we pulled into some road hours like a local band was playing.
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The locals were kicking and shaking on the floor.
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The next thing I know, that coyote's at my door.
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:17.039
He pins me in a corner and it won't take no.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:22.559
He drags me out on the dance floor and dancing close and slow.
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Now he's got a woman at home.
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He's got another woman down the hall.
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:29.599
He seems to want me anyway.
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Why Jeff, you're so drunk.
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Leave me on that way.
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You just picked up a picture.
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Prisoner of the white line, some free wheel.
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.199
I looked up Coyote right in the face.
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On the road to Belgium in my old hometown, we went on and through the whiskey.
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:03.920
Jason surprised now.
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.480
Coyote was jumping straight up and making glasses.
00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:13.519
You don't see my eyes just like yours.
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.000
Under your dark glasses.
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Privately probing the public brooders.
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Big poopy holes in the middle.
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:26.880
Where the players like their wounds and pack their chamber and others.
00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:31.840
And there are pills and others to get them booting fashionplay.
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No regrets, I wouldn't.
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:36.719
I just get off of the words.
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You just ripped up a huge joke.
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:56.639
Coyotes in the coffee shop.
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Stare in a hole in his scrambled eggs.
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While he's watching the way it princes like this, too far from the bay of thunder.
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An apple loops and the wheels and ties.
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I'm spelling it out so clear.
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Either it's on our mouth or standing.
00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:28.559
I try to run away myself.
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Run away my wrestler with my eyes.
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And with this flame.
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Put him in his ass.
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In the sweet swim.
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In his prisoner.
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:53.679
And the band were joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Captain, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Emma Lou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr.
00:56:53.920 --> 00:57:02.159
John Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles William, and lots more under stable singers.
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:04.559
And it was a good idea.
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The musical record for the comments was the band original record.
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:30.480
I need to get it.
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:16.239
Stop on me.
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I just mentioned that uh you know Robbie Robertson and Dylan got pretty close around the 60s or so in the mid-sixties.
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I think we managed them for a while as well.
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The big music from the big thing.
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This is Tears of Rage.
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:26.079
Always tell if you know.
01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:36.719
All that was instruction HP never could be.
01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:02.960
Scotch John in itself.
01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:14.159
So you just thought it was enough anymore.
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:20.239
That is for you to stay.
01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:36.480
I want you to know that while we won't be able to discover no one would be true.
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:53.280
That I myself was a mother of the world who thought it was just a shadow to do.
01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.760
We're going to meet again and wait.
01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:54.000
So I'm going to unpack all my things and say before it gets too late.
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No matter what, we'll come to you with another tale to tell.
01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:45.520
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot.
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I knew for sure that it was yours.
01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:57.199
But it was also hard to tell.
01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:44.159
That called on them to call on me to get you your favors done.
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And if you went failed, and there was nothing going to tell.
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And guess what?
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:44.960
Is there anything better than playing two from the pink?
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The big pink?
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Well, shortly.
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This is I shall be released.
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So I remember everything.
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Okay, you can hear you.
01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:23.359
Of every man who can believe.
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I see my light command.
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From the worst down to the easy day now.
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I shall be released.
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:08.640
They say that everything must fall.
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I see my light consume from the west down to the east.
01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:54.239
I shall be released.
01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:08.880
A man who swears it not to blame.
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:24.560
All day long I knew showing so that he was free.
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:45.680
From the west don't you leave me in a day now?
01:15:47.680 --> 01:16:13.520
In a day now, I shall be really When I get off of this America, you know where I wanna go.
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:22.800
I straight down in mids and sip it over to the bottom makes it go to this.
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:28.159
I did the bestial that I want to do.
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If that's everything, a cheat fell, the boss friend of me, a cheat fair I know how to speak, a cheat fellow to be a drunkard free, if I gotta get I put the back to stomach, took to the race back on the go I bet on one water, bet on another to show up Behold in my favor You know I had on five one And then to win around the fact in a tweet and one and the ball for you stand the boss free A cheap I don't have the state A cheat fan be a drunkard stream If I gotta pick the ball of my women And I gave my hood up and pay She tore it up and threw it in my face I just for a bad gesture in my heart With the Bible my finger And I told And I took another floor My best we get it off I don't have the speech I did fair I don't Wait out the fate What I can't say We had to fight Don't for me far She did I can't take the way he's fine But I wanted to hear him talk I bet fight with the whole life I showed you the street That's how that felt like my mind What's a go on in my teeth I do it my four friend The cheese finger five Butch fake I don't have the street But she defeated And up and off the free And it's a bit of a rope It's gonna be home So I guess I'll be fine I'll be full But you don't need to I've done it for the From the Last Waltz up on Crickle Cripple Creek.
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So we just have uh one song to go, and some of you may be on the edge of your seats wondering what that song is, and then some of you I think will probably be pretty sure what it is, and alright.
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:34.079
But uh first I just want to say I hope you've enjoyed this fan special.
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It's difficult to do a special on a group compared to individual artists because in this case there's five members and there's lots of things you can say about it.
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Here we have five great guys that started off in nineteen sixty-four.
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Led by Robbie Robertson.
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And if you read it for the thing, thankfully it's been gonna leave you with the obvious one.
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Sometimes the obvious is the best.
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We got a couple of friends.
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Walk forty-seven miles about wild.
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Got a brand new house on the roof side.
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Made for rattlesne.
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Got a brand new chimney made on top.
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Made from a human school.
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Come on, Robin, let's take a little wall, Timmy.
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We got a tombstone hair and a graveyard mind.
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I turned forty-one, I don't mind that.
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I write a line of counter usually whip.
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Take an easy car, don't you give me no lip?
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And then that was blue.
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Now on the corner set an ice wagon boot.
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Bombers in low somebody'll scream.
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You should have heard this what I see.
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The band were of course five great artists.
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Richard and Cole, Levon Hall and Cardison Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson.
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The program Steven Eagle in trouble as always, and you can contact me grateful.
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And that is for X.
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From music from the Big Pink.
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Now, the Big Pink is something you're gonna be hearing a lot of today.
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It's on the program, quite a few tracks coming from the album.
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The album was their first album released in 1968.
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Big Pink refers to a house that a few members of the band shared in New York.
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The album itself was recorded in New York and Los Angeles.
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And uh prior to them releasing it, as I said, the first album was uh using the name of the album.
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Interesting enough, we didn't know it was very recently today.
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Is it hanging by Bob Dylan himself?
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We'll tell you more about their relationship with Bob and how they supported him for a few years and so forth.
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This is the next one that's coming from their second album called Simply the Band.
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Rag Mama Ragh Rag Mama Rag I can't believe it's true.
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What did you do?
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I'm over the rear of the track like a 490, scratch my back, mama, shake, watch the mobile.
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Back, mama, I'm pulling out your game.
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When I turn you a loose like an open goose, gotta kill I need the bank.
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I ask about your turtle, and you ask about the weather.
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We could be relaxing in my sleeping bay.
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But all you wanna do for me, mama is Bay Mama Ray, and no winner.
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Bang mama ray, come on, rising up the boat.
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Bang mama ray, where do you wrong?
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Ray, Mama Ray, no skinny little bunny body.
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It's no eating, kitty mouse and ray, mama ray.
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Where do you go?
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I was gonna say wag.
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That's uh from their second album, just eponymously titled, released a year later in nineteen uh sixty-nine.
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The bands, their music danced across a number of genres.
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A very kind of unique sound.
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Not a very unique sound, a unique sound.
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Um distinctive land of country rock, folk, classical rhythm and blues, blues, and soul.
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It's like a unusual sound.
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It's something that you feel has always been there, but it just kind of came from nowhere at the same time.
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It's kind of timeless soundwork.
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Robbie Robertson was the main songwriter.
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We'll talk a little bit about that later.
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Let's move on now to their sixth album.
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This is 1975, and this is one called Ophelia.
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May I by the door?
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Why would anybody leave so quickly for fear?
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Where have you gone?
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The old neighborhood just ain't the same.
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Nobody knows just what became of Ophelia.
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Tell me what went wrong.
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Was it something that somebody said?
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Mama, I know we broke the room.
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Was somebody up against a law?
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How do you know I died for you?
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Ashes of laughter, the ghost is clear.
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Why do the best that always disappear?
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Michael Filipes got the Michael.
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How do you know we broke the room?
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Was somebody up against the law?
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How do you know?
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I died for you.
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Scared and running, but I'm still waiting for the second coming of a feeling.
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Let's play possibly two of their best known tracks now.
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This one's on Big Pink.
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It's to wait.
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I just need some place where I can lay my head.
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Ambasta, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?
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He just grinned and shook my head.
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No was all he said.
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Take a load off Petty.
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Take a load for free.
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Take a load off Patty.
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I picked up my bag.
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I went looking for a place to hide.
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When I saw Carmen and the devil walking side by side.
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I said, hey Carmen, come on, let's go downtown.
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She said, I gotta go, but my friend can stick around.
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Take a load off fatty.
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Take a load for free.
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Take a load off petty.
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Go down, Miss Moses.
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There's nothing you can say.
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It's just old Luke and Luke's waiting on a judgment day.
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Well, Luke, my friend.
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What about young Ann Lee?
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He said to me, a favorite son won't just stay and keep Anna Lee company.
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Take a load off Patty.
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Take a load for free.
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Take a load off Patty.
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And you put the load right on me Crazy Chester followed me Andy cut me in a fall He said I will fix your rap if you take Jack my dog I said wait a minute Chester You know I'm a beautiful man He said that's okay boy Won't you feed him when you can Yeah take a load off Annie Take a load to free Take a load off Annie you put the load right on Manny Get a cannonball now to take me down the line My bag is drinking low and I do believe it's time to get back on his petty You know she the only one Who sent me here with the regard for pickable Take a load off Petty Take a load free for free Take a load off Petty And you put the loan right on Red on me For Joe Cain is a name and I served on the Danville train till Stallman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again in the winter of 65 We were hungry just barely alive by May the 10th enrichment had fell it's a time I remember oh so well they drove on Dixie now in the melting throwbone Dixie now people were saying La la Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called on me Virtue quick come see back on the property lead I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need and you leave the rest but they should never have to take on the very land Like my father before me I will walk the man like my brother before me Who took on Bramble Span He was just 18 Proud and brain But a yank laid him in his breeze I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a cane back up when it's in the beat The night they draw it up the Crawl Moon breaks it down and all the bells were rain the Crawl Bone breaks it down and the people must be able to night they drove out Dixie down kind of a timeless song hasn't a timeless sound to it before that it was uh the wait Alright now we're nearly thirty minutes uh into the program so you've all settled down, relaxed a bit, you've been listening to the music, and you have a fair idea of what it's all about.
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So it's time now probably for us to stand back and just take stock a little bit to get a little bit of uh information, imparting information and to take stock a little bit.
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If you do a bit of homework and pay attention, because I've done a lot of work and researching this for you, and I don't think this comes all off the top of my head because it doesn't.
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I have to check things out and clarify things and just find things out very simply.
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But just in terms of the influences of the band, Robertson has cited uh Curtis Mayfield and the staple singers as major influences in the band's music.
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Robertson uh was, of course, the principled songwriter and also he's a guitarist.
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He did write a memoir, very, very good reading when he read it recently.
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So check it out.
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Robbie Robertson, I think it's called Testimony Butcher, no problem.
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Finding it also Levon Helen has written a book.
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So that's the second source of information for you.
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Levon was the drummer with the band.
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Levon was the only American in the band, all four other members were Canadian.
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Just so many members now.
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Richard Manuel, he was a penis, and singer and songwriter.
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Uh Rick Dranko was bass and sometimes fiddle player.
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They were all multi-instrumentalists.
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Also, uh Robbie Robertson has a sandwich didn't sing very much.
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Uh he only sang on a very small number of tracks.
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And Emmanuel were the three principal singers, and the often said Emmanuel was really the lead singer.
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Robbie Robertson was the principal songwriter, and not the Dickie Writer.
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From acrimony because he would have been getting the principal royalty.
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He was planning on a music career as a music teacher and was interested in playing rock music only as a hobby.
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But the hawks were in awe of his wild folk that you've heard some of already.
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And he basically begged him to join his mother and his parents were looking forward to having a nice middle class career in music and the money coming in, and maybe get married and audio.
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So uh yeah, it was a bit of a change of uh here for him.
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He might say joining this rock band.
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Anyway, he did relent, he joined the band, he joined the hockey, but on the unconditionally paying dollars a week to be their instructor.
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:30.880
And all music theory questions were directed by the Hudson and uh so to mollify his parents and all their concerns and so forth.
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So he was more of a theorist brought that theory into the group.
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Maybe being a little simplistic here.
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But I think you get the find he had some wider theoretical knowledge that maybe had lived things and taken things in the biosmosis and got experience behind them and so forth.
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But sometimes that more analytical thing that Garth Hodson possibly brought can have benefits as well.
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Let's move on to the shape I'm in Go out yonder, peace in the valley.
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Come downtown at the rumble in the alley.
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Oh you don't know the shape fine Has anybody see my lady?
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Just live alone will drive me crazy.
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Oh you don't know the shit by gonna go down by the water I don't be gonna jump in, no, no.
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I'll just be looking for my name.
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I spent seven hours in the world, do you get the heaven?
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Oh you don't know the shit I did.
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I just spent sixty days on the jail house for the crime of heaven, no, no, no.
00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:13.759
For the crime of heaven, no, stay on it, stay on the other, you don't know the shape.
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:28.720
I start a rocket in all the field, you're gonna know the shape.
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And that is from their third album called Stage Fright.
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It's also uh credited there as being with Todd Rungren.
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:10.639
Now there's some disputes over this uh the production of the album and the mixing of the album.
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:15.920
How Todd was involved, it seems pretty clearly when he we know he's involved, it's just the extent of the involvement.
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:27.280
There was also Clinton Johns had some involved in those issues about what ended up on the final versions and all this kind of thing, but you can read up all about that on you know where.
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:32.000
Now, next up we're gonna play one with Bob Dylan from the basement tapes.
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This is you ain't going nowhere.
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Rain won't lift, it won't close, rain's froze.
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Get your mind off winter time, you ain't gone nowhere.
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:18.000
I don't care how many litters this in.
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Morning came and morning win.
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:26.079
Pick up your money and pack up your tin.
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You ain't going nowhere, not the bone.
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:59.519
Buy me a flute and gun at the shoes, tail games, so tree with roots.
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:28.159
You need more time to be scalm, he could not keep all his keys supplied with sleep.
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:52.079
When we come up to it, don't lie down this chat.
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Ubiquitous singer, songwriter, prophet, genius is in there, and that you ain't gone nowhere.
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And that's from The Basement Tapes released in 1970.
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In around 1965.
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The band came to the change of Bob Dylan.
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:35.679
They had some connections.
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:40.960
Robbie Robertson got some connections to somebody working for Albert Roseman.
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:52.800
Robbie and even some upcoming concert.
00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:58.639
So they went ahead with quickly.
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:01.280
They said, Look, we have to involve all the band.
00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:11.599
We just can't uh divorce them and Bob agreed to that and the band joined them and didn't be the jury and so forth.
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:16.639
And then in 1966, Bob had a famous motorcycle accident.
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And he ended up uh in the course of that period of convalescence, which I think lasted at least a year.
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They did some recordings of demos and messing around with music, if one would be a better way of putting it.
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:40.480
And uh, out of that messing around with music, uh they ended up recording the basement tapes, which were subsequently released, albeit a couple of years later, uh in 1975.
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:49.519
The band, by the way, I should have mentioned where the first two albums were produced by John Simon, the record producer, and even he even played on some of the instruments.
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.440
Uh the horn sound on some of those on those first two albums, by the way.
00:39:54.000 --> 00:40:01.280
Well Garrett Hudson, I should have mentioned, is a saxophonist, and he contributed to that kind of sound as well.
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:03.440
Um so that's where Bob came in.
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:07.440
We'll have something else involving Bob later in the programme.
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:17.360
We'll also pretend something from the last walls I mentioned earlier, which was their farewell concert in 1976, November 76, to be precise.
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Let's continue now with the second album, and this is one from it called King Harvest.
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King Harvest is surely come.
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I work for the union, cause she's so good to me, and I'm bound to come on top.
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.199
That's where she said I should be.
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.239
Looks like this time I'm gonna get the stake.
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:31.039
Oh your trees in the red okay harvest is surely come.
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:35.599
A dry summer letting come before.
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:40.400
Which I depend on most of all.
00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:45.440
Hey, Rainmaker, can you hear the call?
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:54.320
Please let these crops grow Long enough, I've been a parts get row.
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:59.679
And it's plain to see I've nothing to show.
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.719
I'm planning to pay those union dues.
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.039
Just don't judge me by my shoes.
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.119
Scarecrow in a yellow moon.
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.679
Pretty soon, a carnival on the edge of town.
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:23.519
King Harvest is surely come.
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:28.159
Last year, this time was no joke.
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:32.960
My whole barn went up in smoke.
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.199
A horse jet through, well, he went mad.
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.000
I can't ever remember things being that bad.
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:52.000
And here come a man with a paper in hand, telling us our hard times are about to hear.
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:56.639
And then that they don't give us what we like.
00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:01.280
He said, Man, that's when you gotta go on strike.
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.880
Listen to the rise when the wind blows, cross a water.
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:30.880
In harvest is surely come out of the way.
00:44:53.280 --> 00:45:00.719
And uh if you get into reading Robin's book, you'll understand together better than I can ever explain it.
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:06.960
But the first album which was pretty claimed, which very, very highly critically claimed.
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.519
And it was really it is really a brilliant album.
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:20.400
But it was able to come from nowhere because we all had so much individually.
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.719
And developed incrementally rather than exponentially.
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:06.559
Don't do it.
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.840
This is from them in concert at Rock of Ages.
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:20.480
Joni Mitchell up next.
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:22.880
Also from a concert album.
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Oh baby, don't you do it?
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:35.039
Don't do it.
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.000
Don't you break my heart?
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:44.079
Oh baby, don't do it, don't you break my heart?
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:48.480
I sacrifice to make me happy.
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:54.320
You're not there, but so you won't believe me.
00:46:54.880 --> 00:47:25.920
All the love you bring my heart.
00:47:58.400 --> 00:47:59.199
Don't do it.
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:02.239
Don't you break my heart?
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:06.239
Don't do it.
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:08.480
Don't you break my heart?
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:13.119
I go down to the river.
00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:18.559
And then I'll be I'm on with your big.
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And uh three live albums.
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They were also then on the basement.
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:50.400
And they were on the waves of Dylan.
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:51.679
Okay.
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:57.199
I've already told you about the 1976 farewell concert called The Last World.
00:50:57.760 --> 00:50:59.199
Featuring quite a range of words.
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:02.000
I'll tell you more about them in a few minutes.
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But first let's play the track from that.
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This is with the band and Johnny Mitchell.
00:51:52.480 --> 00:52:00.239
We just come from such different sets of circumstances, and up all night in the studios and early on your ray.
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.079
You'll be brushing out every stable.
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:09.519
When the sun is ascender, and I would just be getting home with my realtor.
00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:18.320
There's no comfort in the Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes and the lips you can get.
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:21.360
I still feel so alone.
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:27.519
I still feel really stationed since I'm really laying on.
00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:35.519
You just pick up a picture.
00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:59.440
In the middle of the night, I rolled right past that tragedy.
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:04.960
Then we pulled into some road hours like a local band was playing.
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:09.360
The locals were kicking and shaking on the floor.
00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:14.239
The next thing I know, that coyote's at my door.
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:17.039
He pins me in a corner and it won't take no.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:22.559
He drags me out on the dance floor and dancing close and slow.
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.360
Now he's got a woman at home.
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:27.440
He's got another woman down the hall.
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:29.599
He seems to want me anyway.
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:31.679
Why Jeff, you're so drunk.
00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:34.639
Leave me on that way.
00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:37.039
You just picked up a picture.
00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:42.000
Prisoner of the white line, some free wheel.
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.199
I looked up Coyote right in the face.
00:53:55.679 --> 00:54:00.559
On the road to Belgium in my old hometown, we went on and through the whiskey.
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:03.920
Jason surprised now.
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.480
Coyote was jumping straight up and making glasses.
00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:13.519
You don't see my eyes just like yours.
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.000
Under your dark glasses.
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:18.559
Privately probing the public brooders.
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:21.360
Big poopy holes in the middle.
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:26.880
Where the players like their wounds and pack their chamber and others.
00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:31.840
And there are pills and others to get them booting fashionplay.
00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:33.920
No regrets, I wouldn't.
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:36.719
I just get off of the words.
00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:39.199
You just ripped up a huge joke.
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:56.639
Coyotes in the coffee shop.
00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.760
Stare in a hole in his scrambled eggs.
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:08.079
While he's watching the way it princes like this, too far from the bay of thunder.
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:11.679
An apple loops and the wheels and ties.
00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:19.920
I'm spelling it out so clear.
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:22.159
Either it's on our mouth or standing.
00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:28.559
I try to run away myself.
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:33.119
Run away my wrestler with my eyes.
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:36.480
And with this flame.
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:39.039
Put him in his ass.
00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:42.079
In the sweet swim.
00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:45.280
In his prisoner.
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:53.679
And the band were joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Captain, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Emma Lou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr.
00:56:53.920 --> 00:57:02.159
John Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles William, and lots more under stable singers.
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:04.559
And it was a good idea.
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.519
The musical record for the comments was the band original record.
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:30.480
I need to get it.
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:16.239
Stop on me.
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:45.440
I just mentioned that uh you know Robbie Robertson and Dylan got pretty close around the 60s or so in the mid-sixties.
01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:00.800
I think we managed them for a while as well.
01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:13.119
The big music from the big thing.
01:02:13.360 --> 01:02:15.039
This is Tears of Rage.
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:26.079
Always tell if you know.
01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:36.719
All that was instruction HP never could be.
01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:02.960
Scotch John in itself.
01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:14.159
So you just thought it was enough anymore.
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:20.239
That is for you to stay.
01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:36.480
I want you to know that while we won't be able to discover no one would be true.
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:53.280
That I myself was a mother of the world who thought it was just a shadow to do.
01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.760
We're going to meet again and wait.
01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:54.000
So I'm going to unpack all my things and say before it gets too late.
01:07:55.360 --> 01:08:02.239
No matter what, we'll come to you with another tale to tell.
01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:45.520
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot.
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:53.840
I knew for sure that it was yours.
01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:57.199
But it was also hard to tell.
01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:44.159
That called on them to call on me to get you your favors done.
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:52.399
And if you went failed, and there was nothing going to tell.
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:42.399
And guess what?
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:44.960
Is there anything better than playing two from the pink?
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:45.840
The big pink?
01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:49.600
Well, shortly.
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:50.159
This is I shall be released.
01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:15.760
So I remember everything.
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:19.600
Okay, you can hear you.
01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:23.359
Of every man who can believe.
01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:30.720
I see my light command.
01:13:35.279 --> 01:13:44.640
From the worst down to the easy day now.
01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:53.840
I shall be released.
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:08.640
They say that everything must fall.
01:14:27.359 --> 01:14:38.640
I see my light consume from the west down to the east.
01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:54.239
I shall be released.
01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:08.880
A man who swears it not to blame.
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:24.560
All day long I knew showing so that he was free.
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:45.680
From the west don't you leave me in a day now?
01:15:47.680 --> 01:16:13.520
In a day now, I shall be really When I get off of this America, you know where I wanna go.
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:22.800
I straight down in mids and sip it over to the bottom makes it go to this.
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:28.159
I did the bestial that I want to do.
01:16:33.039 --> 01:21:11.520
If that's everything, a cheat fell, the boss friend of me, a cheat fair I know how to speak, a cheat fellow to be a drunkard free, if I gotta get I put the back to stomach, took to the race back on the go I bet on one water, bet on another to show up Behold in my favor You know I had on five one And then to win around the fact in a tweet and one and the ball for you stand the boss free A cheap I don't have the state A cheat fan be a drunkard stream If I gotta pick the ball of my women And I gave my hood up and pay She tore it up and threw it in my face I just for a bad gesture in my heart With the Bible my finger And I told And I took another floor My best we get it off I don't have the speech I did fair I don't Wait out the fate What I can't say We had to fight Don't for me far She did I can't take the way he's fine But I wanted to hear him talk I bet fight with the whole life I showed you the street That's how that felt like my mind What's a go on in my teeth I do it my four friend The cheese finger five Butch fake I don't have the street But she defeated And up and off the free And it's a bit of a rope It's gonna be home So I guess I'll be fine I'll be full But you don't need to I've done it for the From the Last Waltz up on Crickle Cripple Creek.
01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:30.159
So we just have uh one song to go, and some of you may be on the edge of your seats wondering what that song is, and then some of you I think will probably be pretty sure what it is, and alright.
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:34.079
But uh first I just want to say I hope you've enjoyed this fan special.
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:42.079
It's difficult to do a special on a group compared to individual artists because in this case there's five members and there's lots of things you can say about it.
01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:49.520
Here we have five great guys that started off in nineteen sixty-four.
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:20.079
Led by Robbie Robertson.
01:22:20.319 --> 01:22:29.680
And if you read it for the thing, thankfully it's been gonna leave you with the obvious one.
01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:32.239
Sometimes the obvious is the best.
