You can all stop singing now.

RIP All of you. Each and every one.

i`m back again....Life is just one sad story after another.....

Most bands are lucky to have one decent lead vocalist. The Band were blessed with three outstanding vocalists. There will never be another group like them again.

43 too too early I hope he’s is at rest now Thank you for the music Beware of demons

Love his voice. Rest in peace Mr Manuel. God bless you 🙏 ❤️

I have great memories of seeing this band in Japan back in 1988 or 89. One thing though -- I don't see Garth Hudson anywhere here. That's Billy Preston on organ and Dr John on piano.

Richard Manuel was such a talented person...such a voice...in the "shape I'm in" shines...such a loss...could have done a giant work if remained on this side....great musician, rest in peace

There's so much to love about this. You can tell he really enjoyed this one.

I imagine what things for The Band could have been if Richard had survived that day! Would Robbie still have released his solo album?

Talk about an underrated vocalist.

Version si triste et si belle. Pleurez braves.

I started to listen to a rendition of The Weight put out by the folks at 'Playing For Change' whose work I normally really admire and enjoy, interestingly enough, I couldn't listen to their rendition of The Weight as recorded on the Bands album, Big Pink. It is just one of those tunes that the only way one can enjoy it is if it's the original, very telling, perhaps that's what makes a masterpiece.

this shit bangs

This is so hard to listen to. You can hear how close Rick is to crying. And as the bassist of one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time, I think him struggling to keep the rhythm says a lot about how crushed he was about Richard's death. This was such a beautiful tribute to a lovely man and musician who left this earth way too early.

Same here, girl

I was mad at you Robbie. For a long time. I understand and believe everything you said. Thanx for keeping them alive longer even though it meant ending The Band. It had to be done and you were the adult in the room. You done good from fellow Canadian Indian. The winds if the high prairie may not reach your home but, hell you're probably out there riding a horse anyway.

Discovering this on 12.29.23 - Rick would have turned 80 today. His, Levon, Garth. Richard, Robbie, and Bob's music have been so important to my life for 55 years.

Ultimately there are the three parts to The Band Story. The beginning with the Hawks and onto Dylan. The breakthrough to Big Pink and so on and the End and afterward. Scorsese and the Last Waltz which has since become the biggest of The Band lore. Ultimately the Prime Years were marred by drugs and alcohol and that became a huge issue with Rick, Levon and Richard in the afterward. Robbie kept them alive by disbanding.

I cannot watch or listen to this without tearing up......

Garth is the only one left! What a great band!!

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I always thought Rick and Richards voice sounded a lot a like , this does not make me think I was hearing things

I'm 66 years old, I grew up with The Band, & all the amazing music from back then, I am so thankful to have been brought up with all the important, beautiful music I was surrounded by. RIP, thank you for all the joy you brought to all of us with your music!!!

a very very sad story.....the Band did Canada proud in particular s/w Ontario from whence Rick and Richard and Robbie and Garth were from and fate intervened somehow and Ronnie Hawkins along with Levon completed the puzzle....music from the 60`s and 70`s and 80`s will never rise up again the way it once did.....

RIP Richard Thanks Rick - All of you and the other members of the Band (almost all together again) helped me through some very dark times. Thanks for everything.

Hey Kameraden, man sieht sich. Tribut für eure Musik.

Who's playing organ on this? Sounds like it could be Garth.

🙏❤🌹 Richard Rick Levon Robbie 🌹❤🙏

What a wonderful tribute! It had to be so hard. See you guys in Paradise! 😎✌️♥️

Such a great talent such a shame how he suffered with with depression great loss rest in peace Richard

Wait, this was Richard's song, but this is Rick singing? He nailed the voice

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Fallen angel, indeed.

Richard...loved music. Loved writing with the Band. Great piano player & vocalist. Too young to have left us. Yet his extensive musical contributions to the band's sound will live on. Rest in peace.

Amen

I used to see "the old timers" drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes out front of the General Store in Woodstock.. Had no idea "the old timers" were Levon and members of "the band". Think it was Levon would hold the door for me as i humped the hand truck up the stairs delivering "Big IndianWater".. I saw what seemed like a funeral precession. It was the memorial servise that day for Richard. Sad day it was...

I was there that day & Rick’s rendition was absolutely Heartbreaking! That’s Garth on the organ. Packed house, including Levon, with very few dry eyes in the house.

The Band holds such a special place in my heart and I loved the playfulness and humility with which they came across. They were great to see live and I will .sure miss them all. Garth Hudson is the only one left living. In the early years Garth, who was classically trained, actually tutored his band mates

Rick Danko said to me that Richard would pull pranks and that he thought his passing was a prank gone bad....Blessings

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What a voice!!

wow....just beautiful.

Lovely.

❤

I was at the memorial for RICK at Bearsville Theater, and a lot of people got up and sang. Robbie even showed up to eulogize his friend, and it was a celebration of a life, rather than a sad day. Now we ve lost Robbie....

very sad 2 very talented men are dead because of addiction problems may your souls live and enlighten others

Now only Garth remains and he is looking very frail. :(

As I hold back my tears, I wish Richard had gotten to live much longer. He could’ve done so much more. I hope he has a special mission in heaven! Rip to Robbie also as this is a few days after his passing so that’s why I thought I’d play it. Rip to Rick and Levon and other Richard as well!

This song became a silent partner to me from when I first heard it on 'Music from Big Pink' in 1968, Richard's plaintive voice tugging at my heart, like some forgotten child at its parent's clothes. Then during my incarceration in Brixton prison for stowing away from South Africa to England, merely 4 days before my 21st birthday, 15 November, 1969 while awaiting repatriation, it became a form of salvation for my sanity. Now here I sit, shortly before my 75th birthday, in my home in Durban SA, with the sad comfort of this masterpiece transporting me to a thousand memories, all held together by the strains of a tribute by a brother to the man who steeped us in its comfort while trying to dispel his own loss & sadness ❤