The group wouldn’t have happened without the songwriting and conceptual vision of its lead guitarist, who has died at 80
From the left: Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson of The Band in London in 1971.on a powerful sound system in a house owned by Peter Tork of the Monkees in Los Angeles. “I realized I was listening to something ground-breaking,” the Who guitarist later recalled.Music From the Big Pink“We knew we were musicians’ musicians,” he said. “We knew we were speaking to a lot of people who played music. We had been gathering, on the road.
“Those guys were the ones vocal about it. But there were tons of other musicians. They knew we were speaking a certain language. And if you got it, if you had been around the block, you would see it was touching a certain place in the soul.” Robertson, left, and Elvis Costello play at the end of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in New York, on March 13, 2006.The Band’s most enduring legacy, of course, are the songs, more often than not written by Mr. Robertson. The other group members sang beautifully, but the Band’s voice was Mr. Robertson’s, who with his lyrics mourned the lost American South , empathized with displaced people and told a quasi-biblical story that sounded like something from another century .
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