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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on April 19, 2012, 04:42:45 PM
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Another legend in the music world has passed.
RIP, Levon Helm.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/levon-helm-dead-the-band-cancer-battle_n_1434772.html
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One of the few that makes it onto my Ipod!
RIP Levon, safe journey...
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By David Browne
Rollingstone.com
Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died Thursday in New York of throat cancer. He was 71.
"He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates," Helm's longtime guitarist Larry Campbell tells Rolling Stone. "All his friends were there, and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them. Ten minutes after they left, we sat there and he just faded away. He did it with dignity. It was even two days ago they thought it would happen within hours, but he held on. It seems like he was Levon up to the end, doing it the way he wanted to do it. He loved us, we loved him."
RIP Levon....Thank you...They had to Drive Dixie Down, and you as well.....God Speed.
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Did some time on the big screen as well!
Coal Miners Daughter (Loreta's Daddy)
Shooter
Fire Down Below
The Right Stuff...
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Did some time on the big screen as well!
Coal Miners Daughter (Loreta's Daddy)
Shooter
Fire Down Below
The Right Stuff...
Paper Patchin......Still Got The Shovel....That's Exactly Right....Which role in the Right Stuff Timothy....Thanks for the reminder...
Awesome Scene.
Written by a man named Schofield.... ;)
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He was Yeagers sidekick Ridley as well as narrator for the film..
14:00 mark...always carried the Beemans!
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I don't recall if The Band ever won any industry awards but I don't think so, it's therefore ironic that he won 3 consecutive Grammy's after "career ending" bout with cancer.
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One of my few-and-far-between brushes with greatness was sitting next to Levon at a festival we did. He was the headliner and we were about 4 bands ahead of him. He was quiet and a lot smaller than I thought he would be, but he didn't act like a star. I'm a big fan. Bad week for my musical heros.
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I'm the other side of the coin, Jay. Although I was into music back when the Band was playing, I was never that into the music. I knew of the groups, and even knew some of the folks within the groups (Lani Hall in Sergio Mendes' Brasil '66 for one . . . . . :-*). Not being a professional musician, I just never got into it all that much. Until I grew up, kind of.
Most of the music I listen to is Western stuff. Not Country and Western, I rarely listen to anything out of Nashville. I'm talking Ian Tyson, Brenn Hill, Joni Harms, RW Hampton, and so on, real cowboy stuff. Oddly enough, as the Country industry (there's what used to be a real oxymoron for you) has moved to pop-rock void, the Western artists have stepped into (actually, never left) the folk field. Ian Tyson, for one, got his start in NYC with, of all people, Bob Dylan who started out in folk and went pop/rock. Ol' Ian met up with a cute young lady name of Sylvia Fricker, and thus Ian and Sylvia were born.
This is the music world I knew - as an observer only.With Levon's passing, I have looked more closely at The Band - I remembered The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - a group I had ignored cuz after all, they backed Bob Dylan. ::) The more I've looked recently, the more I see the genius in that group. Levon was one of a kind, no doubt, and he did things his way, right to the end, even the form of his cancer treatment, how it all but destroyed his vocal cords, and how he won 2 Grammies for his singing work after that treatment.
Levon, RIP. I wish I knew you better when you were still around.