[Steely Tom]

I never got "The Weight," and even though I must have heard it a thousand times on the radio growing up, I never knew its name until I read Levon Helm's obit.

I do remember reading a story about Robbie Robertson in Newsweek as a teenager. They were doing one of their "next big thing" treatments on him, built him up like he was some big rock superstar.

That was a couple years before they (along with Time) put Bruce Springsteen on their cover.

[mairdie]

There’s a number of videos I’ve ended up making for songs with incredibly obscure lyrics. Part of it is just taking the challenge and seeing if you can bash your way into forcing meaning where it isn’t obvious. Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is another one of those for me that I did for the Star Trek remake. And American Pie for Uhura driving the Enterprise. Sometimes I do them because I REALLY want the song in a set to play in the background because the song really gets to me. I never read about Robertson. Now you’re making me want to!