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“Everything dies baby that’s a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back” – The Band, “Atlantic City” (written by Bruce Springsteen)

“Marty and I wanted to make something that had never been done before—a concert film that would be more than just performances. It would be a story.” – The Band’s Robbie Robertson on making The Last Waltz with Martin Scorsese

“Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.” – Garth Hudson, The Band

“There’s something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“Working on ‘The Last Waltz’ introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“Music should never be harmless.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“Record making is an extraordinary experience.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“I’ve always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That’s their life.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“Boy, do I got some stories to tell.” – Robbie Robertson, The Band

“If you can’t write your song in half an hour, you’re in trouble – which is always true.” – Garth Hudson, The Band

“Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night. And they blew up his house, too.” – The Band, “Atlantic City” (written by Bruce Springsteen)

“This is it. This is where music is supposed to have gone for a long time. The Band were clearly in the avant garde.” – Eric Clapton on The Band

“I’m just goin’ down the road t’ see Bessie Smith, when I get there I wonder what she’ll do” – Bob Dylan & The Band, “Bessie Smith”

“I used to listen to [Sonny Boy Williamson] a lot when I was a kid.” – Levon Helm, The Band

“If you pour some music on whatever’s wrong, it’ll sure help out.” – Levon Helm, The Band

The Beatles’ Paul McCartney stated on his website that his three favorite albums are “Music from Big Pink” by The Band, “Pet Sounds” by the Beach Boys, and “Harvest” by Neil Young.

Levon Helm’s first musical endeavor post-The Band was to form a short-lived musical group called The RCO All-Stars, which included Dr. John, Booker T Jones, Chuck Berry, Paul Butterfield, and the Stax / Blues Brothers’ members Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Tom Malone Lou Marini and Alan Rubin… among others.

Roger Waters and The Band (minus Robbie & Richard, who had died) performed Pink Floyd’s famous song “Mother” in 1990.

Guests on Muddy Waters’ Grammy-winning 1975 album “The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album” included Levon Helm and Garth Hudson, of The Band, Bob Margolin, Pinetop Perkins & Paul Butterfield.

Producer John Simon produced The Band’s first two albums — even playing the tuba on a couple tracks.

The Band was featured on the cover of the prestigious TIME Magazine on January 12th, 1970.

For The Last Waltz, The Band covered Dr. John’s “Such A Night”, which was immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s rockumentary.

On their 1993 album ‘Jericho’, The Band covered Bruce Springsteen’s song “Atlantic City”, off his 1982 solo album ‘Nebraska’.

The Band’s song “The Weight” was famously featured in the classic 1969 counter-culture movie “Easy Rider”, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

Derek Trucks Band covered Bob Dylan and The Band’s 1967 song “Down In The Flood” on their final album, “Already Free”.

On the 21st of July 1990, most of The Band — Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson, backed Sinead O’Connor on vocals & Roger Waters on guitar covering Pink Floyd’s “Mother” in The Wall Live in Berlin — commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Band’s Levon Helm narrated the Oscar-winning 1983 film The Right Stuff, playing an older version of real-life engineer & supersonic test pilot Jack Ridley.

The Band’s famous song “I Shall Be Released” was written by Bob Dylan.

Bo Diddley’s 1956 classic “Who Do You Love” was covered by Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks (soon to be The Band), George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Doors, Johnny Winter, Carlos Santana, and Tom Rush. Hawkins & The Band reunited to play this song at The Last Waltz.

The cover art of The Band’s The Basement Tapes was taken by photographer Reid Miles in the basement of an L.A. YMCA, with the band positioned among circus sideshow acts & colorful characters.

The Band recorded their self-titled album in the pool house of an L.A. home owned by Sammy Davis, Jr.

The Band’s Robbie Robertson said “I was noodling on a Martin guitar, and I looked inside,” the guitar was manufactured in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, which sparked the idea for “The Weight”, with the opening line “I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ ‘bout half-past dead.”

The Band played their final show at The Winterland Ballroom in 1976.

The Band rented Big Pink in Woodstock, NY for $125 a month.

The Band’s Levon Helm and Garth Hudson backed up Muddy Waters on “The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album”

Muddy Waters final album on Chess Records was “The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album”, with Paul Butterfield and The Band’s Levon Helm and Garth Hudson.

In 1976, Paul Butterfield played harmonica at The Band’s final concert, The Last Waltz.

In 1970, the Festival Express train rolled across Canada for several performances. Riders included Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, The Band and Grateful Dead…

On Thanksgiving Day In 1976, The Band had a farewell concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco called “The Last Waltz”. Martin Scorsese filmed it as a documentary.

Martin Scorsese filmed “The Last Waltz” documentary, The Band’s final performance, for free.

Producers overbooked The Band’s final performance, The Last Waltz, and tried to cut Muddy Waters. Levon Helm had none of that nonsense.

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