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We couldn’t let Thanksgiving pass around these parts without our annual fluffage of the greatest rock movie of all-time -  The Last Waltz . Roughly 36 years ago, about 5,000 lucky fans were treated to a full Thanksgiving dinner, followed by a star-studded “farewell concert” from The Band at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, the site of their very first public performance. With each viewing I seem to come away with a new favorite performance from the film, and after last night’s annual viewing, which was particularly poignant since we lost the great Levon Helm earlier this [...]

Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band died yesterday. I've been obsessed with The Band since I lived in, surprisingly enough, New Zealand in college. Friends and I would sit around a fire or a heaping pile of marijuana and play mandolin and butcher "The Shape I'm In" or "The Night They Drove Old Dixie [...]

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...Watch The Last Waltz in tribute to Levon Helm who passed away yesterday. The Band's drummer and singer was 71. I don't have an intimate knowledge of the discography of the man but I will say this: Scorsese's The Last Waltz film of The Band's farewell gig is the greatest music concert I've ever seen committed to film. It has personal significance to me as I was introduced to it by Aoife when we started going out so it'll always remind me of that time, particularly 'The Weight' where you seen Helm leading [...]

Today, April 19, 2012, the world lost a legend of music and life: Levon Helm. The drummer/singer/songwriter of The Band has influenced me immensely in my own musical life. I’m now sitting in my living room watching The Last Waltz - a timeless piece of musical cinema directed by Martin Scorcese about The Band’s last performance together. Pouring a sip out for Levon Helm. A legend of music. Legends never die.