Awesome! He’s probably my favorite member of The Band.

In bad shape, an addict

U dont have any Rock&Roll knowledge

@aorcloud3199 nah, he’d given up the hard drugs for years by this time.

@@lewstone5430unfortunately that’s not true. He was arrested for heroin possession in Japan in 1997 because his wife sent him heroin in the mail. I’m not judging him at all, he struggled with addiction for much of his adult life. Just pointing out that it’s unfortunately false that he had fully gotten through his opiate addiction by this time.

@@aorcloud3199…actually, he looks in quite good shape here.

Oh God,ANOTHER one who doesn't understand the word ' underrated ' and thinks it's cool to say...so and so ( insert name of extremely famous and talented musician) is underrated. NO,NO,NO,NO,NO! It's become the standard line about everyone who's basically a music legend. I'm going to be really controversial and cool and say they're underrated. No,you don't sound ' cool' you just look stupid, as he's clearly not underrated ,just the opposite in fact. He was a member of one of the best bands ever,a band who influenced countless others,he was highly rated and respected by everyone. He makes all the lists of top bassists. Nobody's ever thought of him as underrated, he's extremely rated by fans,critics and fellow musicians.

Robbie has re-joined them now.

@@elgenetiamzon1062 RIP Robbie

Thomas Pick he smoked a lot more then cigarettes

Oh, Thomas; may you live to be 120...

Well it s known smoking s not great for the heart. Shame 💔

Rick had a longtime addiction to anything that would ease the pain resulting from his 1969 car crash in Woodstock. He was arrested in Japan while on tour with Danko/Fjeld/Andersen; supposedly, he cleaned up while awaiting trial, but...according to Jim Weider...relapsed not long before his death. He and Elizabeth Danko had been evicted from their home and were living in a motel when he died...less than a week after his last show in Ann Arbor (the Video is on KZfaq...it’s a hard watch if you love Danko).

It's not a revelation, it's what's said in the movie.

@@triptoyourheart It had been implied that they had all grown tired of touring. In truth it was really just Robbie.

@@aarfeld you said it's a "revelation". Watch the movie again: Robbie talks about being tired of touring, Rick says he's going to keep doing what he's doing. And both did exactly like they said they would. The only revelation is that you thought they said more than they really did.

@@triptoyourheart Many people assumed that they all wanted to retire, including the interviewer on this clip. The Band's 16 year reunion set the record straight.

@@aarfeld Robbie would have been in in a second in 1983 had the other guys been in for a creative process. Meaning Robbie would have brought a set of new songs. But they decided to take the nostalgia act route, sadly, if I may say so. Lot of things could have gone differently than they eventually did.

Quase

HERE AGAIN NOT TO BE SACRELIGEOUS---- BUT""""" AMEN"""""

Leigh Foulkes frustrating?

And Ukrainian.

A Drive By Truckers' lyric!

Yep

And

That's Ricky Medlocke from Skynyrd

Wow, I too thought it was TR

Alex McGillivray he’s not wasted.

@@scottreed8985 ya he is so yakked out it makes me jittery

Bindair Dundat not as much as Mick Fleetwood.

Or Ozzy Osbourne

Who cares

Still nowhere near as big of an asshole you are

No, Robbie wrote amazing songs and even when he stopped playing with them, the others still played his songs. Levon never wrote more than few songs in his entire life, as great as he was as a musician. But Robbie was the creative force and the man with a vision. All of them were still equally needed to make The Band happen.

He was the song writer from the age of fifteen

Truth

@@triptoyourheart Then they should have split the revenue. Oh well. By the way, why did Robertson's well dry up after The Band?

Absolutely