The Band: The Authorized Video Biography 3/5

1995 documentary about The Band featuring interviews with Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson, Eric Clapton, John Hammond, Emmylou Harris, George Harrison, Al Kooper, Carl Perkins, Phil Ramone, Todd Rundgren, Ringo Starr, and Bob Weir

[@old13cfrwjock]

I can only imagine, Hendrix, Clapton and George Harrison together sitting around marveling at an advance copy of The Band's first album...what a sight that would have been

[@btuesday]

Levon sang the way he talked. That's a rare gift these days.

[@derrellthomas239]

Got to meet him. You are 100% right.

[@richardpicarelli2450]

You will notice that its all "we" with Levon, no "I" or "me", a very humble person for having all that talent, musical knowledge, and fame.

[@foreverwild9298]

And with Robbie it's all "me" or "I"..no "we'..quite the opposite

[@derrellthomas239]

Had the pleasure to meet Levon shortly before he past. He's the real deal. RIP

[@Lakridza67]

@@foreverwild9298well,he was an only child🤷🏼‍♀️

[@waterfordrs22]

@@foreverwild9298that’s nonsense. There isn’t even any commentary from him in this cup. He routinely talked about the band as an ensemble along a deep admiration and appreciation for the other four throughout the course of his life.

[@milesey01]

Ok...leave your Robbie hatred at your keyboard....your poisoning the air.....

[@johncook7281]

I I like the Eick Clapton interview on this video. He nailed what the band was about

[@davidsmith385]

Eric has said he wanted to join the Band.

[@traceyswanberg9340]

The brilliance of The Band still blows my mind

[@MrThedonhead]

They are the only ones that came close to the Beatles and the rolling stones

[@deeceea9488]

God bless Richard. The heart of the group. Troubled, but immensely talented.

[@ammo6057]

That King Harvest performance, is remarkable. They are so tight musically. Their breathing and heart beats are synchronized

[@frankdevries6962]

The music of my youth, first time I heard it I just laid on the floor with my head between speakers and just kept flipping the album. Ain't nothin like like vinyl

[@janechapman6448]

I love looking at and listening to the boys in the beauty of their youth, all smiles, in great voice and fellowship of just doing what they loved

[@jameskennedy721]

The film of them recording the second album is the best film of the Band . Ive never seen it just play . Some suit and tie hack always blathers over it , saying its great .

[@bjroth]

One of my all time favorite bands!!

[@mickkollins]

4:57. Emmy Lou..OMG...stunning...but I digress . I got the Big Pink album in 68 and as Eric so eloquently said, "It changed my life"...now 54 years later here in the Virgin Islands with my own band, we still do "The Weight" in our set list...Classics are timeless. Thanks for posting this series.

[@waynefouche2929]

Wayne Fouche' I fell in love with The Band the night I first heard The Weight on radio. They have been my favourite group since then and I play their music regularly. . My cellphone ringtone is The Weight.

[@user-bm9ug7cx3i]

Levon what a sound

[@aaronmatulevich454]

Wow thanks for posting. I have been listening to The Bank nonstop for a few weeks. Perfect timing!

[@majones7004]

THE Band.

[@jameskohn5855]

levon turned those canadians into some some southern boys with lotsa help from ronnie.

[@putzengiler]

Looks like Robbie is playing an Epiphone Casino. like the Beatles played , but with mini humbucker pickups , interesting ,never saw one like that before...cool... some guitar geek stuff ..

[@FOXLIES]

The greatest American Rock Band was 4/5th Canadian!!!!!

[@imanomad1]

Must be that Lake Erie water….LOL

[@McMurphyKirby]

The mistake by the band was leaving Weirdstock for Hollyweird....and then on to Atlantic City.

[@eromedYT]

The Weight might possibly be the best song ever written !!!!!!!!!!!

[@johncook30284]

I go for "It Makes No Difference." Robbie Robertson never got tired of praising Rick Danko's vocals. I also agree with you on "The Weight"

[@joemadden4160]

Sad part is there are no "neighbouring" rights in the U.S., the only country that only pays musicians for the work on a specific project and that's it. ALL the members of the Band(songwriters excluded) would have received some extra scratch for what they contributed to that overall success.

[@spb7883]

8:20: I love both of these groups, but in seeing this image from the ‘Next of Kin’ photo session, one can’t help but compare it to Sgt. Pepper’s cover. The differences between those images speaks volumes about how each group saw itself at that time.

[@FoolishPrankster]

Helm died broke and angry at RR, Manuel hung himself, and Danko died of poor health due to an addiction to Heroin that Helm and Manuel also shared. The story did not have a happy ending (period) 😵

[@petersokol1603]

It’s why Robbie Robertson put a stop to the Band….he couldn’t stand being in a group of junkies…..knowing death was right around the corner….he loved them like brothers and did not want to be a part of what eventually happened….must of loved these men very much….to give up all that fame and money……that’s a brother in arms.

[@foreverwild9298]

@@petersokol1603 😄 🤣 😂 Silly little dude. Robbie didn't stop anything..except them getting credit. In the weight Anna Lee was a childhood friend of Levon's..but I guess Robbie had a friend with that name too huh? Moron They kicked Robbie out because he totally screwed them over.

[@foreverwild9298]

@@petersokol1603 he gave up the fame and money?,? What are you smoking??? He stole everything from them. They didn't even want his p*ssy *ss in the band.

[@TheFallenColumn]

@@petersokol1603 Robbie did not give up money. He had all the writing credits of the songs and producer royalties. He wrote the lyrics mainly, but he did not arrange or organize the entire songs, but that didn't matter to him. He took sole credit for nearly every song by The Band. And he also had film royalties from Last Waltz, which was solely his idea, Levon and Rick really didn't wanna do it. When Garth had to declare Bankruptcy in the 80s, he sold his remaining shares in The Band to Robbie. SOLD THEM TO ROBBIE. A true brother would've helped him out. Especially Garth, the only one to not get into drugs and alcohol. But no, he bought the shares. So yeah, Robbie is suuuuuuuuuccccccchhhh a great brother. No

[@missblondie2393]

@@TheFallenColumn Spot on. Robbie was no brother, he was all about himself. Shameful how he takes all the credit

[@dougleclaire9424]

If I could go back in time and take every one of those cigarettes out of Levon's hands.....and warn him what was to come if he kept smoking like he did. Killed him ultimately.

[@autumninthewoods4522]

If only someone would've removed the whiskey from Bon Scott's hands or given Freddie Mercury condoms...but it's too late for any of them.

[@davidsmith385]

Same with my Mother, smoked alot, finally caught up with her when she got diagnosed with a Brain tumor, after that she quit cold turkey and had 1 good year left. I still miss her.😢

[@wabankik]

Rock and roll had died 8 years prior, ppl were getting sick of acid rock, folk was struggling, and then "music from big pink was released" this was the 2nd wind that was needed and people found what was real...I'm sure Columbia's recording cathedral was right up Garth's alley of sound...

[@thirdbase6870]

"Rock and roll had died 8 years prior."??

[@wabankik]

@@thirdbase6870 alright maybe earlier, only cause I consider Link Wray, Surf music and mersey beat the tail end, the analog multitrack burried it all!!!

[@thirdbase6870]

@@wabankik Am curious - school me. Let me get this straight. You think that RnR consisted of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley and perhaps Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley?

[@lewisc215]

BULL

[@wabankik]

Hey- I've always understood "Rock & Roll" being the original brand and environment crafted during the nineteen fifties to early Sixties eventually opening a network of genres Rock, Pop, Soul etc. The term is used today culturally. Inquiring jukebox music is always under title "Rock & Roll"!!!...

[@Celticman197]

Levon was already showing the effects of his tabacco use.

[@hannejeppesen1809]

And perhaps heroin as well.

[@lindapowers115]

no sound no aptions wtf!!!

[@c.a.t.732]

Clapton saying "This is it, this is where music is supposed to have gone" is such a weird statement. "Supposed to" according to who or what? So many groups at the time were already pushing the envelope past old traditional roots music rehashes and doing something new and original. When prog rock came along a couple of years later it must have sent Eric into a tailspin.

[@susanprincell7225]

Hard for me to swallow how Robertson took the credit for their songs.

[@tuguybear930]

the

[@lewisc215]

RR turned into evil, a damn shame.

[@vgr112261]

How?

[@James-wp3zc]

Manual, Danko and Helm were Junkies and Robbie had enough.

[@clappzzz]

No way. Don't buy Levon's line about the songs. Helping to arrange is not authorship. ROBBIE wrote the songs and he also guided a band of 3 junkies and Garth for years--before he gave it up. Can't blame him! As for $$, the three junkies put a ton of it up their noses and into their veins. They were beyond reckless.

[@andyfrance1514]

way overrated

[@railwaycrossingexplorersir93]

Why are you even watching this so🤦‍♀️

[@caroldevitt1156]

I am so happy that I understand and appreciate good music. I feel bad for people who don’t get it. I just feel like that says so much about a person. I feel sorry for this guy, I really do😞

[@railwaycrossingexplorersir93]

@@caroldevitt1156 there are lots of bands I don't like and therefore I don't end up watching them on KZbin!😂