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Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band).

 

News of Richard’s suicide in 1986 is the only music-related death that brought me to tears. As does this video. It also makes me laugh.

 

Levon Helm stated The Band considered Richard their lead singer, and hearing him in this video reinforces my opinion that he is the white Ray Charles, head and shoulders above all his contemporaries. If you consider that dissing them, I can live with that. For a special treat, listen to Richard and Van Morrison (the best of the British singers) dueting on "4% Pantomime" (on The Band’s Cahoots album).

 

Just a little over a half hour in length, this video is well worth your time to watch. It may give some of you a better understanding of why The Band are held in such high regard by the best musicians, singers, and songwriters in Rock ’n’ Roll.

 

https://youtu.be/7r2w5ioGgqE?si=nuyCwE0qUFd6kAb-

 

 

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jc4659
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Funny, I watched The Last Waltz just last week...out of the blue.  I have it on DVD and had to wake my DVD player up to watch it which it didn't like at first but then settled in and played flawlessly- just like The Band :)

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wharfy
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@bdp24 

"But he no longer has to do the manual labour."

Someone else puts his wrestling mask on his face?

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bdp24 OP
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@wharfy: Ha! I tried on his spare, and damn I don't know how they can play with those things on. I started feeling pretty claustrophobic.

 

bassbuyer
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All of The Band members are gone RIP.   Richard was the 1st to go unfortunately.  They made Great music and the Last Waltz is one of the all-time great music movies.  Make that great movies period.  

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