Curley24 wrote: 
Probably because of one very important word (remember it!):   "SOUL"
"The Band" was awesome, and is another reason we listen to RP.

Watch "the Last waltz" and see what you do not understand about these classics.  They were the band that backed up everyone else for that decade, and hence the name, The Band. "....I don't need to speak, she defends me..."
 

Have to break the run of 3 (!!!) negative comments on this gem! GREAT STUFF!

Yet another pile o'crap song from a crappy band. Overplayed, overhyped and no good at all. Yet all the rock music critics at the newspapers (when papers still had music critics) said we had to love them. Why?

 cayenne wrote: 
The person who took the photo commented on it here :-)  Apparently not too far off the mark.

Why ´The´ Band? All I hear is a band. And not a very good one.

Surely sounds mighty fine here looking up at these rocks under this blazing sun and smiled upon by cerulean heavens...and reminds me of earlier times with some of the same old mates while listening to this enigmatically talented yet off-kilter Band...

the longer this plays the stupider I feel. blech. 2.

 lerxst wrote: 
Well said!

I never understood what the fuss was about with this group. I guess you had to be there. Should be a decent 7, but I'm giving it a 5 because it's so overplayed and the lyrics are goofy.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Man, where did you buy that stuff?!

 Poacher wrote: 
....since even Handicapped Creek would be prone to be offending.

Oh yea, we be dancin!

Shouldn't it be 'Physically Challenged Creek' nowadays?

 rdo wrote: 
1 is as low as I can go for this.

Pity that.

Robbie R. has made some good music in far post-Band time. The Band never lit my fire all that much — I had a CD of their hits and sold it in a used shop — but they were a very memorable act of their time, cultish, very linked to the era with Big Pink and a lot of radio play, and of course immortalized in The Last Waltz. Did you know Garth Hudson did some of the music for the movie The Right Stuff? (like the evocative synthesizer for Yeager's flight?) I wonder if Levon had anything to do with that?  

 pinto wrote: 

Loved it then—love it now.

 scrubbrush wrote: 
Ooh, I don't think I've heard that version.  That would be great.  Though this is great tooooooo.

1969 - Another gem released that year 

 jjbix wrote: 
Didn't like it then, REALLY like it now.

i always felt that Little Feat took this song and turned it into their 'style'...

Still a ten!

A great song if I ever did see ooooonnnnnneeeee!

RP, you are knocking me out this morning!  Love it.

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
If I remember rightly, from an interview I heard a few years back, this foto was taken at a moment's notice. When the cameraman arrived it was pouring with rain, and Richard was in bed with a 40 degree fever (they took him to the hospital later, i think) . They all trouped down the dirt / mud track getting soaked, the man took the foto, and they all trouped back to the cabin. That's why they all look so bedraggled, and why he looks so out of it. It's because he was. Wonderful result, though. Serendipity.

Kinda eerie how Richard Manuel appears to be "outside looking in" in this photo, not really a part of the band (also the only one wearing light-coloured clothing). Sad story; R.I.P. Richard.

This song has always annoyed me...The Last Waltz be damned!

7 is as high as I can go for this