Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To
While technically not a band of Americans (except Levon, and Levon wasn’t from America so much as he was from the South), The Band was one of the more American bands that ever took a stage. Nothing better for a Presidents’ Day–and a rainy one, at that–than Garth’s band. (Rock Nerd Fight: Garth Hudson was secretly the leader of The Band. Fight!)
Just a few months before The Boys, The Band at the Academy of Music.
God, please take care of Rick and Levon. They made people very happy when they were here.
Look in on Richard Manuel if You have a moment, God. The world was too much for him, and he had such soft hands. He deserved better than us; he deserved better than himself. Get him to eat: he was always too skinny.
Call Garth back, God. It’s been weeks. Very rude.
And forgive Robbie, and all his trespasses. He is as You made him.
It’s a small, crappy pic: that’s Bo Diddley, so it must be from 3/28/72, one of the stellar Academy of Music shows they did right before Europe. It was released as Dick’s Pick 31; you should go and listen to it now, if you haven’t the previous 18 times I’ve recommended this run
Cool to see visual evidence of a particular show that you love, to know it all happened, that it wasn’t a hoax like 5/8/77.
Stop that.
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