Old friends...
Posted on 08/11/2023 10:08:29 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
“This is shocking news. Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
Also old Robertson(s) night on Free Republic.
What a great photo!
Yeah.. I thought so. Robertson looks so young in it...
yep.
He was from up in Canadia...
It’s like a whole ‘nother country up there.
Indeed.
its funny...when Dylan and Robertson first hooked up and then went on tour, they were booed every where they went...literally booed off the stage. A few years later, they were “critically acclaimed” and played to standing ovations every night. Dylan was ahead of his time...
Hawks.
That was the small-minded “folkies” who were booing, they believed Dylan was a sellout because he switched to the electric guitar.
Sure like to know how it’s shocking news. The unfortunate Mr. Robertson was 80 and had prostate cancer for about a year.
An example of his work.
American Roulette
Robbie Robertson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlxD5GGZTeA
Old friends, old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes of the old friends
Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends
Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be 70
Old friends, memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears
Simon & Garfunkel
That was on the first album I bought, so many years ago.
That sound on Blonde on Blonde was Bob Johnston hiring the Nashville “A Team” and pretty much staying out of Dylan’s and their way.
I remember the first Bobby Dylan song I heard. I was an expat 11 year old and I played guitar. There was a high school senior that lived behind us and he was trying to learn guitar and I was a Strummer who played a pretty good guitar for an 11 year old. So I would show him stuff.
He put this album on one day it was Blonde on Blonde I guess, with Maggie’s Farm and that was the first Bob Dylan song that I heard and actually knew who was playing it I might have heard one or two before that and the folk catalog but I didn’t recognize that it’s Bobby Dylan.
Later on I realize that not only heard Bobby Dylan but I heard the band because they were back in Bobby Dylan up on that particular album. I never really got into the folky Bob Dylan but I definitely liked his early electric stuff.
In retrospect.... although Robbie Robinson was the front man, Garth Hudson was the driving force behind the musicianship.
Dylans’
Ya Got to Serve Somebody——
Aces !
I love that song.
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