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The Band — Up On Cripple Creek
Album: The Band
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Released: 1969
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When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
Straight down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico
To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew
She told me just to come on by, if there's anything she could do

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go
She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show
The odds were in my favor, I had 'em five to one
When that nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half
She tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh
Now there's one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see
That's when that little love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Now me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk"
Now that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my feet
And I swore as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Now there's a flood out in California and up north it's freezing cold
And this living on the road is getting pretty old
So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in
But you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted to go and see my Bessie again

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
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 cosmicjoe54 wrote:

Listening to The Band and then The Dead I didn't realize how much they sound alike.


No they don't!   The Band is much better!  I was at Watkins Glen!  
Posted 2 weeks ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Good to hear a Band tune, and to answer the simplest of stooges... Curley24. How else could we acknowledge the common aspects of  existence as it relates to 🌎✌🏾
Posted 3 weeks ago by lwgambill48379    [ Reply ]
 Schmoovie wrote:

I wish I could yodel.




Me  too!  How about Hocus Pocus by Focus!  GREAT TUNE!  GREAT BAND!
Posted 6 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
So sad to hear about Robbie Robertson’s passing. Simply one of the greatest and most influential composers of the past 60 years. Thanks for the music Robbie. It lives on forever in our hearts and it will bring a smile to my face every time I play one of your songs.
Posted 8 months ago by B_Van    [ Reply ]
 Terilda wrote:

Northern? Levon was from Arkansas. Bonafide southern. I'm sure he showed those Canadian boys how it was done.




or visa versa ... 
Posted 1 year ago by cosmicjoe54    [ Reply ]
Listening to The Band and then The Dead I didn't realize how much they sound alike.
Posted 1 year ago by cosmicjoe54    [ Reply ]
Northern? Levon was from Arkansas. Bonafide southern. I'm sure he showed those Canadian boys how it was done.
Posted 1 year ago by Terilda    [ Reply ]
 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.



I think it's like, if you hear it now, you wonder what all the fuss is about "Love Me Do" or "I Want to Hold Your Hand" or "Do You Want to Know a Secret." Now, are those earth shattering tunes? That's not how to understand it. Back then, THEN they were landmarks. So important, so necessary to music as we know it now. This Band tune is like that.
Posted 1 year ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
 drewd wrote:
My favorite part is when it goes Wow Waa Wa Wow Waa Wa Woww Wa Wa Woww Woww!! 


Party on, Garth (Hudson)!
Posted 1 year ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
I love how old they look in the cover pic from 1969.  Fast forward 50 years and they pretty much look the same. Well, the ones who survive anyway...    Such an awesome song from one of the greatest albums ever.  Took me a while to figure out that it's keyboard not jaw harp in the background...
Posted 2 years ago by CWKeeney    [ Reply ]
GODLIKE!!! ICONIC!!! 
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
My favorite part is when it goes Wow Waa Wa Wow Waa Wa Woww Wa Wa Woww Woww!! 
Posted 2 years ago by drewd    [ Reply ]
IMOH any band song I listen too should be a nine or above
Posted 2 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 11 years ago by tkosh    [ Reply ]
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..."
 
Posted 11 years ago by tkelley    [ Reply ]
Have to break the run of 3 (!!!) negative comments on this gem! GREAT STUFF!
Posted 11 years ago by JHZ    [ Reply ]
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?
Posted 11 years ago by Curley24    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 11 years ago by james_of_tucson    [ Reply ]
Why ´The´ Band? All I hear is a band. And not a very good one.
Posted 11 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
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...
Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
the longer this plays the stupider I feel. blech. 2.
Posted 12 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
 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}
Posted 12 years ago by grungepuppy    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 12 years ago by lerxst    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:
A great song if I ever did see ooooonnnnnneeeee!{#Bananapiano}
 
Man, where did you buy that stuff?!


Posted 12 years ago by Bleyfusz    [ Reply ]
 Poacher wrote:
Shouldn't it be 'Physically Challenged Creek' nowadays?
 
....since even Handicapped Creek would be prone to be offending.

Posted 12 years ago by Bleyfusz    [ Reply ]
Oh yea, we be dancin!{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 12 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]

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.



Posted 12 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Shouldn't it be 'Physically Challenged Creek' nowadays?
Posted 12 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
 rdo wrote:
7 is as high as I can go for this
 
1 is as low as I can go for this.

Pity that.

Posted 12 years ago by aelfheld    [ Reply ]
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?  
Posted 12 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 pinto wrote:

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

 

Loved it then—love it now.
Posted 13 years ago by QueenLucia    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 13 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
1969 - Another gem released that year 
Posted 13 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
 jjbix wrote:


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

Posted 13 years ago by pinto    [ Reply ]

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


Posted 13 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
i always felt that Little Feat took this song and turned it into their 'style'...
Posted 13 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Still a ten! {#Music}
Posted 13 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
A great song if I ever did see ooooonnnnnneeeee!{#Bananapiano}
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
RP, you are knocking me out this morning!  Love it.
Posted 13 years ago by 2cats    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 13 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
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.

Posted 13 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
This song has always annoyed me...The Last Waltz be damned! {#Evil}
Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
7 is as high as I can go for this
Posted 14 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
 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.


Posted 14 years ago by flatpicker    [ Reply ]
I really miss these guys. So much talent. See ya all in the next life...
Posted 14 years ago by That_SOB    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of The Last Waltz - one of the single greatest rock n roll movies ever made.
Posted 14 years ago by Bosami    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 14 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
 Papernapkin wrote:
Too hillbilly for me.
 

didn't like it then, don't like it now. 
Posted 14 years ago by jjbix    [ Reply ]
Too hillbilly for me.
Posted 14 years ago by Papernapkin    [ Reply ]
I'm gonna make love to you wo-man, gonna lay ya down by the fi-yah, caress you womanly bah-day...  
  

Posted 14 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 15 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]

Click to view at NetFlix!

Rick Danko = certified loon
Posted 15 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
 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.


Posted 15 years ago by oldman    [ Reply ]
Ahh, the perfect anecdote for a Friday afternoon.  Next step:  Let eyes glaze over until 5.
Posted 15 years ago by BKardon    [ Reply ]
If you stare at the covert art, they appear to blink their eyes...Weird.  I swear I'm not altered.
Posted 15 years ago by LuvsMusic    [ Reply ]
Levon Helm's accent for the win.
Posted 15 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
 TexasAggies wrote:

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

This is your brain on drugs . . .
Posted 15 years ago by DeeCee1109    [ Reply ]
 trekhead wrote:
{#Arrowu} Anyone know if Robbie is on that cover? Which one?
 

Far right.
Posted 15 years ago by ICHawk    [ Reply ]
{#Arrowu} Anyone know if Robbie is on that cover? Which one?
Posted 15 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
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...
Posted 15 years ago by TexasAggies    [ Reply ]
Anything from the "Last Waltz"?
Posted 16 years ago by otto63    [ Reply ]
Aww, Now I want to listen to Dr Hook!
Posted 16 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
Just missed it! Darn.
Posted 16 years ago by BluEyes    [ Reply ]
etwilson wrote:
They look pretty pissed off in that picture. Like they're about to smack the photographer.
which was the style at the time
Posted 16 years ago by cayenne    [ Reply ]
Great photo..would you answer the door to these guys..at night if they asked to use your bathroom?
Posted 16 years ago by EssexTex    [ Reply ]
NeilBlanchard wrote:
Hello, This song in particular shows Levon Helm's drums as the polar opposite of Keith Moon, who is another one of my favorites. Each one is wonderful, and each one fits their context. Mmmmm. I've had the honor of meeting Levon a while back -- he is a really great guy. I do hope that he has been able to quit smoking... Neil
I think he did--as part of his cancer treatment. I'll be headin' down to Levon's farm for a Midnight Ramble session soon. Highly recommended.
Posted 16 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
this song especially annoys me right now....not sure why. Middle of a cold snap in the north country?
Posted 16 years ago by FluorideFreeMN    [ Reply ]
This song just doesn't do it for me. It really never has, but now it's worse as every dive bar packed with unemployed mulleteers in this area plays it as a theme song.
Posted 16 years ago by CafeRacer    [ Reply ]
Hello, This song in particular shows Levon Helm's drums as the polar opposite of Keith Moon, who is another one of my favorites. Each one is wonderful, and each one fits their context. Mmmmm. I've had the honor of meeting Levon a while back -- he is a really great guy. I do hope that he has been able to quit smoking... Neil
Posted 16 years ago by NeilBlanchard    [ Reply ]
Honestly, never got it.
Posted 16 years ago by blades    [ Reply ]
diazo wrote:
When the hippies started yodeling, it was the beginning of the end for the whole movement.
Except, The Band were not hippies by any stretch of the imagination...
Posted 16 years ago by thenoizzbox    [ Reply ]
When the hippies started yodeling, it was the beginning of the end for the whole movement.
Posted 16 years ago by diazo    [ Reply ]
Play some Robbie!
Posted 16 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]
Awesome track, awesome Band.
Posted 16 years ago by Krow_Pie    [ Reply ]
Uh, no, its not the song that's embarrassing here jnhashmi wrote:
This song is embarrassing.
Posted 16 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
redeyespy wrote:
Uh huh. Only one of the finest concert films ever. Scorsese, The Band, and a host of other artists. Yep, great movie.
It IS a great movie, and I'm not even a big "Band" fan!
Posted 16 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
I read an amusing interview with Levon Helm not long ago (sadly, his health has not been good recently) in which he points out that in many of the scenes of "The Last Waltz" Robbie Robertson's guitar is not plugged in, and he's no where close to a mic. Sure enough, the next time the movie made it onto the dish I watched to confirm. Yep, Robbie is mugging like an old vaudeville ham.
Posted 16 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
papaman wrote:
11:05 am - The Band - Up On Cripple Creek 11:02 am - Paul & Linda McCartney - Heart Of The Country 10:59 am - Toots & The Maytals - Take Me Home, Country Roads I have this sense that we've got a 'country' theme going on here - I don't know how I know just trust me!
1:31 pm - The Band - Up On Cripple Creek 1:28 pm - Toots & The Maytals - Take Me Home, Country Roads 1:25 pm - Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song I really enjoyed the merge from Toots to Levon on this one!
Posted 16 years ago by ppak    [ Reply ]
I wish I could yodel.
Posted 16 years ago by Schmoovie    [ Reply ]
i just find it boring
Posted 16 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
This song is embarrassing.
Posted 16 years ago by jnhashmi    [ Reply ]
blades wrote:
these guys were good? good enough to make a movie?
Uh huh. Only one of the finest concert films ever. Scorsese, The Band, and a host of other artists. Yep, great movie.
Posted 16 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
It just don't get much better than thiS!!!
Posted 16 years ago by sircharles    [ Reply ]
ekeyte wrote:
Oh, I think this song is much better. "The Weight" is overplayed now!
Surprisingly,this song gets an incredible amount of play on my local rock station. Happily (and unusually), this one deserves it!
Posted 16 years ago by Xeric    [ Reply ]
Down to Lake Charles and Little Bessy Lou .. oh yes .... She may have been a drunkard's dream but I love her anyway. And The Band too! They get a 10 without even a Hesitation Waltz...
Posted 16 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
Even the album cover is one of my all-time favorites.
They look pretty pissed off in that picture. Like they're about to smack the photographer.
Posted 16 years ago by etwilson    [ Reply ]
rKokon wrote:
One of the shameful blots on an otherwise mostly exemplary musical and social era . . .
Your kidding, right? The Band and this song may not be your cup of tea (and good for you), but was 1969 really an "exemplary musical and social era"? Didn't 1968 kill the '60s?
Posted 16 years ago by samrex    [ Reply ]
I saw "The Last Waltz" last week on VH1 with included commentary from Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese. What an awesome snapshot of history!
Posted 16 years ago by DrCyKosis    [ Reply ]
Levon is still playing: check out the ''midnight ramble'' sessions at his Catskills homestead on his website. I'm going soon.
Posted 16 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
11:05 am - The Band - Up On Cripple Creek 11:02 am - Paul & Linda McCartney - Heart Of The Country 10:59 am - Toots & The Maytals - Take Me Home, Country Roads I have this sense that we've got a 'country' theme going on here - I don't know how I know just trust me!
Posted 16 years ago by papaman    [ Reply ]
93vx800 wrote:
Yup, a great tune from an album and a group that sounded different from everything else coming out at the time. Too bad it's not as good as "The Weight" though!
Oh, I think this song is much better. "The Weight" is overplayed now!
Posted 16 years ago by ekeyte    [ Reply ]
Yup, a great tune from an album and a group that sounded different from everything else coming out at the time. Too bad it's not as good as "The Weight" though!
Posted 17 years ago by 93vx800    [ Reply ]
fretman thanks, you nailed it Let me get this straight- songs are REQUIRED to be about things that are uplifting, have positive social values, and be sung in properly trained "good" singing voices. Go listen to something else, then, becuase I don't think you'll find it here. Or on a classical opera station, either, because they sing of murders, cheating, lying, duplicity, tragedies and stealing, just as much as do country "singers", hip-hop artists, jazz singers, and about any other genre I can think of. I guess Irish music would be out of the question, too, come to think of it. If you'd rather just want to say something like "You know, this tune sucks, as do the performers", that would be cool. Suggesting that it doesn't belong here due to abysmal singing, inappropriate content or some other artistic (hence subjective) quality is absurd. By that same logic, I guess "Strange Fruit" wouldn't be appreciated, or "Skokian", or anything by the Pogues, or 90% of everything (PhysicsGenius' "crap") that is played here, or anywhere, for that matter. And being as that era could have been defined by "Hey Joe", a song about murdering some guy's old lady, or "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" which glorified getting stoned, or "Gimme Shelter", or "Ohio", or "Big Yellow Taxi"- see what I'm getting at? All those songs are about something that is inherently NOT GOOD, or sung by someone who can't carry a tune in a bucket. Come up with something more honest to trash The Band with. You don't like Garth's hair, or Robbie can't play guitar, or Levon is draft-dodging commie or something, but not "its not politically correct".
Posted 17 years ago by cdemon    [ Reply ]
rKokon wrote:
What redeeming social value exists in this song? It glorifies habitual drunkenness, denigrates women by sobriguet and function, and promotes codependency more than any other song I have ever heard. The "singing" is abysmal, sounds like little mastodonsstuck in a tarpit. I couldn't even begin to like any other songs by a group guilty of this one. One of the shameful blots on an otherwise mostly exemplary musical and social era . . .
Let me get this straight- songs are REQUIRED to be about things that are uplifting, have positive social values, and be sung in properly trained "good" singing voices. Go listen to something else, then, becuase I don't think you'll find it here. Or on a classical opera station, either, because they sing of murders, cheating, lying, duplicity, tragedies and stealing, just as much as do country "singers", hip-hop artists, jazz singers, and about any other genre I can think of. I guess Irish music would be out of the question, too, come to think of it. If you'd rather just want to say something like "You know, this tune sucks, as do the performers", that would be cool. Suggesting that it doesn't belong here due to abysmal singing, inappropriate content or some other artistic (hence subjective) quality is absurd. By that same logic, I guess "Strange Fruit" wouldn't be appreciated, or "Skokian", or anything by the Pogues, or 90% of everything (PhysicsGenius' "crap") that is played here, or anywhere, for that matter. And being as that era could have been defined by "Hey Joe", a song about murdering some guy's old lady, or "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" which glorified getting stoned, or "Gimme Shelter", or "Ohio", or "Big Yellow Taxi"- see what I'm getting at? All those songs are about something that is inherently NOT GOOD, or sung by someone who can't carry a tune in a bucket. Come up with something more honest to trash The Band with. You don't like Garth's hair, or Robbie can't play guitar, or Levon is draft-dodging commie or something, but not "its not politically correct".
Posted 17 years ago by fretman    [ Reply ]
The_Enemy wrote:
I think I read somewhere that the US Army court marshaled someone for playing this song to prisoners. I like other Band songs but that one is just so awful. Fortunately there was nothing sharp in my office or else I would have harmed myself during that song.
What redeeming social value exists in this song? It glorifies habitual drunkenness, denigrates women by sobriguet and function, and promotes codependency more than any other song I have ever heard. The "singing" is abysmal, sounds like little mastodonsstuck in a tarpit. I couldn't even begin to like any other songs by a group guilty of this one. One of the shameful blots on an otherwise mostly exemplary musical and social era . . .
Posted 17 years ago by rKokon    [ Reply ]
The_Enemy wrote:
I think I read somewhere that the US Army court marshaled someone for playing this song to prisoners.
OK, I know you totally made that up, but on a related note the Gitmo detainees get to hear Metallica all day and night. Listen to the end of this interview with James Hetfield on Fresh Air.
Posted 17 years ago by meydele    [ Reply ]
OldFrenchie wrote:
God that "whacka whacka" guitar... the keyboard... it's torture!!
I think I read somewhere that the US Army court marshaled someone for playing this song to prisoners. I like other Band songs but that one is just so awful. Fortunately there was nothing sharp in my office or else I would have harmed myself during that song.
Posted 17 years ago by The_Enemy    [ Reply ]
dmax wrote:
No. These guys starred in the best rock and roll movie of all time. The movie was put together by Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. And it starred (among others) Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and a few other legends. It shares Best Rock Movie title with Kids Are Alright. This is a must see, must have.
I would add Stop Making Sense and The Grateful Dead Movie (the first one) and No Nukes.
Posted 17 years ago by buddy0407    [ Reply ]
give it to me, on a sunday morning! lovin' it!
Posted 17 years ago by Wisecrowe    [ Reply ]
these guys were good? good enough to make a movie?
Posted 17 years ago by blades    [ Reply ]
As your Attorney I advise you to turn your volume to the highest level now!
Posted 17 years ago by slowhand    [ Reply ]
jennywho wrote:
I guess I'm in the minority here. My reaction to this song is generally, "ugh."
You are not alone Jenny.... this song.... ick.... and why does it seem like the song is like twenty minutes long? God that "whacka whacka" guitar... the keyboard... it's torture!!
Posted 17 years ago by OldFrenchie    [ Reply ]
mojoman wrote:
Um, Spike Jones was a storyteller/comedian. Little music involved.
I'm not a Spike Jones expert, but I assure you, he most certainly WAS a musician. One google search would tell you that, if you would bother to look.
Posted 17 years ago by aekl    [ Reply ]
I guess I'm in the minority here. My reaction to this song is generally, "ugh."
Posted 17 years ago by jennywho    [ Reply ]
radiojunkie wrote:
The Band's "The Band" album, on which this originally appeared, is quite possibly the best album ever made. There isn't a bad cut on it. It flows like a river from beginning to end. And it sounds just as good today as it did when it first came out over 30 years ago. Incredible.
No doubt. None at all.
Posted 17 years ago by Xeric    [ Reply ]
dmax wrote:
Garth is a genius, unquestionably. Listen to Sea To The North and you can her him unrolling all these musical ideas... Beautiful. Unbelieveably, he's had to declare bankruptcy four times. Can you imagine? Toured with Dylan as he went electric, played on some of the greatest tunes of our lives, and...bankruptcy. He reminds me of Jonathan Winters: crazy, brilliant geezer. Maybe not long for this world, so I'm grabbing as many of his records as I can and singing his praises.
Robbie said that Garth was the best musician the rest of The Band had ever heard.
Posted 17 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
EXCELLENT diverse set; good to hear a break in what seemed to be a steady almost predictable rotation. AH, some Kirsty Mac...gotta boogie myself on down the hall and into the neck-deep lobster-pot bath...
Posted 17 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
LPCity wrote:
As much as I love this song..... The version off of "The Last Waltz" is way more powerful IMHO.
I agree, and the "carnival" on TLW is fantastic too!
Posted 17 years ago by meower    [ Reply ]
pleeeeeease more Band!
Posted 17 years ago by moneygrip    [ Reply ]
As much as I love this song..... The version off of "The Last Waltz" is way more powerful IMHO.
Posted 17 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
I seriously doubt I could ever get tired of this great tune!
Posted 17 years ago by SpaceCase    [ Reply ]
a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one...
Posted 17 years ago by ruthless    [ Reply ]
This song kicks !
Posted 17 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
Even the album cover is one of my all-time favourites.
Posted 17 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
jules44 wrote:
Hate it..................!
Do you also hate Andy Griffith?? Santa Claus??
Posted 17 years ago by Moak    [ Reply ]
Hate it..................!
Posted 17 years ago by jules44    [ Reply ]
radiojunkie wrote:
The Band's "The Band" album, on which this originally appeared, is quite possibly the best album ever made. There isn't a bad cut on it. It flows like a river from beginning to end. And it sounds just as good today as it did when it first came out over 30 years ago. Incredible.
Agree agree agree
Posted 17 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
Garth Hudson took a wah-wah box from Robbie's guitar rig and hooked it up to his electric piano for the funky keyboard sound in the song.
Posted 17 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
Little Feat's Dixie Chicken to this. Doesn't get much better.
Posted 17 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
Levon Helm is from Marvell, AR (where my mom's family lives) and I have to say it is the asshole of the state....
Posted 18 years ago by southern_duality    [ Reply ]