I’m sure he was not sober… I don’t blame him! Before anyone attacks me… he’s a relative. I’m sure I wouldn’t have been sober at my BFF’s funeral either!

No one is judging Rick, this was so beautiful and sad.@@scottyshomesteaduniversity7778

respect x

Beautiful. Was Levon there?

@@traceychrzanowski926 no, he had just gotten back from the funeral in Canada and didn’t attend the local service

I believe this was recorded by my father?

@@giaccobrazzi yes Josh, Andy recorded this. - Joe F.

All the band

In my opinion that's a fact and not simply an opinion

the whole tremendously talented group unfortunately selfish robbie was egotistical and clueless

Lovely men

It’s not just your opinion, friend. The Band were truly amazing

😢😢😢

This is about Richard Manuel

Garth has a facebook site

@@johnnynbk I understand that this was for Manuel. I simply said I was visiting this video after the loss of Robertson.

Garth I'm sure is feeling lost and so was everyone else . It's hard for me to say this since as close as I ever got to the band was their music so all I've ever read , listened , or heard someone who actually knew them which many of the people I honestly thought knew what they were talking about since the stage and light jobs I worked was with a few people that where their training rodies so yea I got some insights on the Band Members and it was taken very hard by all members of the tight knit group and it simply reverberated thru all and questioners didn't have much sympathy for any of their private lives . As I read these comments other than the original comment by johnnycardboard was a sincere comment which a lot of your replies where way outta line , I mean read the comment and dont reply with such negativity i mean come on guys damn use that thing above your shoulders for something else other than rin & stimpy's cartoons and take a break since I don't know of one negative comment that has ever been givin about The Band just simply try to be human every now & then . Peace be with you all and anyone who comes here for the music and may everyone you hold close have peace in their lives as well !!!

It seems like we're rat's trying to get through a maze. When we go younger rat's replace us. But the younger rats don't know who Richard and Rick and Levon were. There in lies the tragedy. Not that we're gone, but that the people who got us through this mess aren't remembered.

Agreed!

I feel what you mean I guess. Some say this was a too simple song from Dylan. But who on earth never felt the killing feeling of emprisonment and the longing for freedom. This applies to all of us & could be sung in any church mass, or in a mosque or a desert.

❤

Joe Forno’s book, Levon’s Man, discusses some of Richard’s self esteem issues. It’s a good, but sad, read.

Maybe the club was The Lone Star Cafe?

Good old Norfolk County

And that's gotta be Garth on organ...?

The song ‘It makes no difference’ Rick hits those notes.

@@jezebeljones659 yes it is Garth, I was told the only one that did not show up was Robbie. I am sensing nobody liked Robbie, might be the fact he took credit for everything including writing the songs. My own personal opinion after listening to interviews and the music, Robbie was the least talented singer and musician in the group.

Robbie did write most of the great songs.

@@inthegamepodcast6596 whatever else Robbie Robertson did, he is certainly not the least talented musician. He is the only one who had a succesful solo career. Who knows how the Band's songs were written, but Levon Helm barely wrote a song after leaving the Band. I suspect that Robertson wrote the songs and the rest of the guys worked on them and contributed here and there. Probably he should have given them more credit with the song writing. But we don't know.

It was a great line. I wrote a song inspired by that quote.

ha ha love it

I hung on every word in that film.. I'm sure, many still do. RIP those who've passed and Well Wishes to those still around.. "We just decided to call ourselves... The Band." -R.M

😂

Written by Bob Dylan.

Robbie wrote in this book, how they all reliazed Richard had a problem, but back then they were not a lot of talk about rehabs, besided like Robbie wrote we were no angels, we all chasing demons, and the race was on.

Sad that Rick was in poor health and was a long time heroin user

Saw The Band a few months before Rick passed. I was frightened by his appearance and voice. I just knew that he wasn’t long for the world. Rick and Richard deserved better.

@@lastnamefirst4035 what's your proof?

@@thomas-wj9kt look it up. Easy to find

Met him in 1989 with his son and wife,don't have to "look it up".

Robbie had the flu.

You made me cry.

And then some, read Robbie's book Testimony. I'm of that generation, we all tried to squeeze as much out of life as possible. I was not heavy into drugs, but did my share of partying, dating ect.

Pretty sure Dylan wrote it

@ThePizzageek There is no evidence of that. But its a nice story.

Yes Dylan wrote it. However, Rick sang the only way he could for his friend, haunting and full of feeling.@@charleshendrix232

Dylan wrote so what?@@charleshendrix232

Yes Dylan wrote is, it is well documented. When Rick sang it at Richard's memorial he made it his.@@charleshendrix232

On majority of the songs I listen to sung by Rick, he is so soulful and puts all his feelings into his singing. Especially when he sings this.

LOL?