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The Band — Up On Cripple Creek
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tkosh
(Minnesota)
Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 06:10
 
 Curley24 wrote:
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?
 
Probably because of one very important word (remember it!):   "SOUL"
"The Band" was awesome, and is another reason we listen to RP.


tkelley
Posted: Mar 16, 2013 - 06:08
 
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..."
 

JHZ
(between Clark and Hilldale)
Posted: Jan 12, 2013 - 12:50
 
Have to break the run of 3 (!!!) negative comments on this gem! GREAT STUFF!

Curley24
(Orcutt, California)
Posted: Nov 10, 2012 - 18:59
 
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?

james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: Jul 07, 2012 - 23:40
 
 cayenne wrote:
which was the style at the time
 
The person who took the photo commented on it here :-)  Apparently not too far off the mark.

justin4kick
(The Netherlands)
Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 05:12
 
Why ´The´ Band? All I hear is a band. And not a very good one.

coloradojohn
(Mile High and then some; Rock Medicine Lair)
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 09:46
 
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...

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 09:45
 
the longer this plays the stupider I feel. blech. 2.

grungepuppy
(Flagstaff, AZ)
Posted: Dec 30, 2011 - 15:08
 
 lerxst wrote:
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.
 
Well said! {#Yes}

lerxst
(A Planet in the Solar Federation)
Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 14:36
 
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.

Bleyfusz
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 05:31
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
A great song if I ever did see ooooonnnnnneeeee!{#Bananapiano}
 
Man, where did you buy that stuff?!



Bleyfusz
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 05:27
 
 Poacher wrote:
Shouldn't it be 'Physically Challenged Creek' nowadays?
 
....since even Handicapped Creek would be prone to be offending.


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 05:23
 
Oh yea, we be dancin!{#Dancingbanana}

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 20:12
 

Watched 2 Hillbillies play 7 songs close to this yesterday, or perhaps between this and jugband (since one was playing suitcase percussion) and both had fanciful beads. Good stuff.




Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 08:11
 
Shouldn't it be 'Physically Challenged Creek' nowadays?

aelfheld
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 08:07
 
 rdo wrote:
7 is as high as I can go for this
 
1 is as low as I can go for this.

Pity that.


kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: May 23, 2011 - 16:19
 
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?  

QueenLucia
(On the edge and ready to jump)
Posted: Mar 21, 2011 - 14:13
 
 pinto wrote:

Didn't like it then, REALLY like it now.

 

Loved it then—love it now.

Dave_Mack
(5.7 miles from a better place)
Posted: Mar 21, 2011 - 14:13
 
 scrubbrush wrote:
i always felt that Little Feat took this song and turned it into their 'style'...
 
Ooh, I don't think I've heard that version.  That would be great.  Though this is great tooooooo.


martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Mar 21, 2011 - 14:13
 
1969 - Another gem released that year 

pinto
(west meade)
Posted: Mar 21, 2011 - 14:12
 
 jjbix wrote:


didn't like it then, don't like it now. 
 
Didn't like it then, REALLY like it now.


linden
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 13:30
 

"An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him."



scrubbrush
Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 13:27
 
i always felt that Little Feat took this song and turned it into their 'style'...

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 09:04
 
Still a ten! {#Music}

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 09:03
 
A great song if I ever did see ooooonnnnnneeeee!{#Bananapiano}

2cats
(Oklahoma)
Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 09:01
 
RP, you are knocking me out this morning!  Love it.

algrif
(Slightly west of Zero)
Posted: Aug 12, 2010 - 08:27
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
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.

 
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.


On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: May 08, 2010 - 20:42
 
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.


crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Mar 06, 2010 - 12:33
 
This song has always annoyed me...The Last Waltz be damned! {#Evil}

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Mar 06, 2010 - 12:33
 
7 is as high as I can go for this

flatpicker
(Toronto, Canada)
Posted: Jan 02, 2010 - 14:07
 
 Bosami wrote:
Reminds me of The Last Waltz - one of the single greatest rock n roll movies ever made.
 
I'll go one step further and say The Last Waltz is the best rock'n roll movie ever made.



That_SOB
(The Dark Side of the Tune)
Posted: Oct 31, 2009 - 21:34
 
I really miss these guys. So much talent. See ya all in the next life...

Bosami
(Deep in the heart of nowhere)
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 - 06:46
 
Reminds me of The Last Waltz - one of the single greatest rock n roll movies ever made.

peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Jul 29, 2009 - 05:43
 
 Krow_Pie wrote:
Awesome track, awesome Band.
 
{#High-five} Yep! They spend many years honing their skills as the backing band behind Ronnie Hawkins, at that time they were called The Hawks. They played constantly, and the more you play the better you get - Read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - One of his contentions is that the ability to practice a skill for 10,000 hours is a key indicator of success - so for example all the live gigs and touring the Beatles did before they made records was of tremendous benefit to them - the same applies to The Band.


jjbix
(san diego)
Posted: Jun 27, 2009 - 11:03
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Too hillbilly for me.
 

didn't like it then, don't like it now. 

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Jun 27, 2009 - 11:02
 
Too hillbilly for me.

MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: Jun 27, 2009 - 11:01
 
I'm gonna make love to you wo-man, gonna lay ya down by the fi-yah, caress you womanly bah-day...  
  


ThePoose
Posted: Mar 24, 2009 - 11:02
 
 dmax wrote:


Instead, it's Garth Hudson. The best musician in the bunch, most likely. Genius.
You want to click that link and watch that video...
 
Correct. Robbie once said that Garth was the best musician that any of the other guys in the group had ever heard.
Any those others were/are world-class muscians. They actually paid Garth a fee for music lessons at the beginning.
But that was becuase Garth was mortified to tell his family that he was in a struggling band, so he instead told them that he was their music teacher.


jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Mar 24, 2009 - 10:57
 
 <- Click to instantly view at NetFlix!

Rick Danko = certified loon


(former member)
(Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated)
Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 13:58
 
 TexasAggies wrote:

That guy second from the right just looks downright confused...
 

Instead, it's Garth Hudson. The best musician in the bunch, most likely. Genius.
You want to click that link and watch that video...

oldman
(Lost in Northern Virginia)
Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 13:56
 
 LuvsMusic wrote:
If you stare at the covert art, they appear to blink their eyes...Weird.  I swear I'm not altered.
 
{#Stupid} For those of us who came of age in the 60's and 70's, those are called flashbacks.



BKardon
(Boulder, CO by way of State and Madison)
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 11:49
 
Ahh, the perfect anecdote for a Friday afternoon.  Next step:  Let eyes glaze over until 5.

LuvsMusic
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 11:47
 
If you stare at the covert art, they appear to blink their eyes...Weird.  I swear I'm not altered.

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 11:47
 
Levon Helm's accent for the win.

DeeCee1109
(People's Republic of A2)
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 11:46
 
 TexasAggies wrote:

That guy second from the right just looks downright confused...
 

This is your brain on drugs . . .

ICHawk
Posted: Aug 15, 2008 - 09:04
 
 trekhead wrote:
{#Arrowu} Anyone know if Robbie is on that cover? Which one?
 

Far right.

trekhead
(Bumping BACK!!!)
Posted: Aug 15, 2008 - 06:45
 
{#Arrowu} Anyone know if Robbie is on that cover? Which one?

TexasAggies
(Houston, Texas y'all)
Posted: May 12, 2008 - 16:37
 
etwilson wrote:

They look pretty pissed off in that picture. Like they're about to smack the photographer.

That guy second from the right just looks downright confused...
otto63
(Kastoria, Greece)
Posted: Apr 11, 2008 - 04:27
 
Anything from the "Last Waltz"?
Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 05:30
 
Aww, Now I want to listen to Dr Hook!