Posted on 08/09/2023 1:11:09 PM PDT by Chode
Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80.
According to an announcement from his management, Robertson died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a long illness.
In a statement, Robertson’s manager of 34 years, Jared Levine, said “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife, Dominique, her partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra, Sebastian, Delphine, and Delphine’s partner Kenny. He is also survived by his grandchildren Angelica, Donovan, Dominic, Gabriel and Seraphina. Robertson recently completed his fourteenth film music project with frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Six Nations of the Grand River to support a new Woodland Cultural Center.”
How cool that he morphed his rock career into movie music, worked with Scorsese, AND he “recently completed his fourteenth film music project” — at age 80. Wow. A life well lived.
Saw them with Dylan on the Rolling Thunder review.
RIP
Sad news. But no tragedy if you make it to 80.
RIP. Garth Hudson is 86. I think it’s a one-man Band now.
Freegards
I like the video of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
You just didn’t see too many tubas in the bands back then.
It has become a tradition to play The Last Waltz on Thanksgiving night every year. They were amongst the best ever.
Last Waltz is the best rock and roll movie ever.
L
“I like the video of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”
That was my introduction to The Band. I loved it. Sorry I missed them.
The title made me think of the Dan Fogelberg song.
Robbie and Eric trading solos on Thanksgiving in 1976 at Winterland: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91Eg95vF72k&pp=ygUjZnVydGhlciBvbiB1cCB0aGUgcm9hZCBlcmljIGNsYXB0b24%3D
I'm surprosed, given how good that movie is, that other 60's and 70's bands never did the same. The recent 4 or 5 part Beatles documentary recently on Disney + was rather boring, raw tape, not really produced well at all.
That one makes me cry. I miss my Dad.
Of course he wasn’t really the leader. He was the guy most comfortable talking to a camera. And got along great with Scorsese. There was a lot of bad blood after the movie. Had a great run of post Band albums too. This one stings.
Kind of a lightening in a bottle situation. Because they’d worked with so many people over the years and had so many industry friends, they could throw a heck of a party for a “final” concert. Add Scorsese into the mix to make it a movie and you get something really special. But I can’t think of another band that could even try that.
-PJ
Damn, I’m gonna have to play The Last Waltz tonight.
RIP, Robbie.
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