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(film projector whirring)

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(amplifier buzzing)

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(strums a chord)

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This guitar was
the beginning of it all for me.

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(plays guitar)

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Robbie Robertson: <i>I don't have
much of a process of, like,</i>

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<i>"I'm thinking about this,</i>

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and now I'm gonna write a song,
and it's gonna be about that."

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A lot of times,

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the creative process is trying
to catch yourself off guard.

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♪ ("I Heard You Paint Houses"
by Robbie Robertson plays) ♪

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And you sit down,
and you've got a blank canvas,

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and you don't know
what you're gonna do,

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and you just see what happens.

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How you doin', man?

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<i>When you talk
about songs that are</i>

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<i>reflective of your past,</i>

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<i>It becomes a jigsaw puzzle,</i>

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<i>because... you write
about what you know.</i>

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You write
about where you've been.

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You write about who you know.

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♪ ("Once Were Brothers"
by Robbie Robertson plays) ♪

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When I stumbled onto this song,
"Once Were Brothers"...

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it really did, for me,

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zero in on The Band.

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♪ <i>Once were brothers</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Brothers no more</i> ♪

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♪ <i>We lost our connection</i> ♪

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♪ <i>After the war...</i> ♪

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<i>I don't know
of any other group of musicians</i>

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<i>with a story equivalent</i>

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<i>to the story of The Band.</i>

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<i>And it was a beautiful thing.</i>

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It was so beautiful,
it went up in flames.

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♪ <i>Brothers no more</i> ♪

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♪ ("Up on Cripple Creek"
by The Band plays) ♪

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<i>♪ When I get off
of this mountain ♪</i>

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♪ <i>You know where I want to go</i> ♪

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<i>♪ Straight down
the Mississippi River ♪</i>

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♪ <i>To the Gulf of Mexico</i> ♪

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♪ <i>To Lake George, Louisiana...</i> ♪

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Bruce Springsteen: <i>There is
no band that emphasizes</i>

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<i>coming together and becoming</i>

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<i>greater than the sum
of their parts than The Band.</i>

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Simply their name,
The Band, that was it.

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<i>♪ Up on Cripple Creek
She sends me</i>

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<i>♪ If I sprang a leak
She'd mend me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I don't have to speak
She defends me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ A drunkard's dream
If I ever did see one ♪</i>

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♪ <i>Good luck had just stung me</i> ♪

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<i>♪ And to the racetrack
I did go ♪</i>

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♪ <i>I bet on one horse to win</i> ♪

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<i>♪ And she bet
On another to show ♪</i>

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Eric Clapton: <i>I've never been
in a band that long.</i> (laughs)

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<i>I ran away, usually,
and would move on</i>

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to the next thing that was
attractive to me,

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or that was missing in the band
I was in. So I didn't

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<i>have a sense of brotherhood,</i>

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<i>so I was in great awe
of their brotherhood.</i>

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<i>It was the soul of The Band.</i>

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<i>♪ She mends me
I don't have to speak ♪</i>

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<i>♪ She defends me
A drunkard's dream ♪</i>

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♪ <i>If I ever did see one</i> ♪

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Springsteen: <i>Not only did they
have the incredible writing,</i>

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<i>you know, Robbie's writing,
but they had three</i>

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<i>of the greatest white singers
in rock history.</i>

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<i>To have any one of those guys
would be the foundation</i>

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<i>for a great band. To have three
of them in one group,</i>

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that was...
just loaded for bear.

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<i>♪ That's when
That little love of mine ♪</i>

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♪ <i>Dips her doughnut in my tea</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Up on Cripple Creek...</i> ♪

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Martin Scorsese: <i>This music
drew upon country music,</i>

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<i>English, Scotch, Irish,
the choral sounds</i>

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<i>of the Welsh. At the same time,</i>

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<i>Mississippi Delta, the blues.
And there was so much imagery.</i>

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This... just didn't
seem like anything else.

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Taj Mahal: <i>No one sounded
like those guys. You know,</i>

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they came in, and they played.
And I just loved

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that about them, you know,
they were about the music.

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<i>♪ She defends me
A drunkard's dream ♪</i>

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♪ <i>If I ever did see one</i> ♪

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(yodeling)

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Robbie: <i>I think about Levon,</i>

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<i>Richard, Rick, and Garth</i>

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<i>all the time. We went through
things together you could</i>

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<i>never replace. You can never
give enough credit</i>

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<i>to something that special.
I was an only child,</i>

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so this brotherhood was
so powerful.

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<i>♪ Oh, I could
get you with my yodel, I go ♪</i>

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(yodeling)

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♪ <i>No, no, no, no, no</i> ♪

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Levon Helm: <i>I think
we're warmed up.</i>

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(film projector whirring)

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(birds chirping)

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♪ ("Coyote Dance"
by Robbie Robertson plays) ♪

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Robbie: <i>Since I was a kid,
I see stories</i>

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<i>in a different way. I don't see
them like fairy tales.</i>

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<i>These stories are powerful,</i>

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<i>and some of them are
dangerous and big.</i>

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<i>Maybe that's
because my upbringing was</i>

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a little bit scattered
and not normal in some ways.

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<i>My mother was born and raised</i>

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<i>in the Six Nation
Indian reserve.</i>

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<i>Her name was Dolly.</i>

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<i>When she was
around 16 years old,</i>

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<i>she was sent to live
with an aunt in Toronto.</i>

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- (streetcar clanking)
- (vehicles honking)

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<i>When we would go back to visit</i>

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<i>the relatives
in the Indian reserve,</i>

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<i>I thought this was
a magical place.</i>

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<i>It seemed like every day,</i>

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<i>when the sun
started to go down,</i>

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<i>the instruments would come out.</i>

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<i>And I could sit
in the middle of this,</i>

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<i>and hear the fingers
on the strings,</i>

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<i>and the hands rubbing
on the skins of the drum.</i>

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<i>My parents got me
a little guitar</i>

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<i>with a cowboy painted on it.</i>

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<i>I already know</i>

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<i>a couple of chords
on the guitar</i>

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<i>that my relatives at
Six Nations have taught me.</i>

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<i>I would practice</i>

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<i>and practice.</i>

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This is where I belong.

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<i>This is calling me.</i>

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<i>I don't know for sure</i>

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<i>whether I would ever have found
my way to music</i>

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<i>without this experience,</i>

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<i>and that's why I have</i>

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<i>such a deep appreciation</i>

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for that place.

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♪ ("Coyote Dance" continues) ♪

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And then we crossed
into a time zone

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when I was 13 years old.

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♪ ("Johnny B. Goode"
by Chuck Berry plays) ♪

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<i>Overnight, out of nowhere,</i>

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this new music came pouring out.

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<i>♪ Deep down in Louisiana
Close to New Orleans ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Way back up in the woods
Among the evergreens ♪</i>

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<i>♪ There stood a log cabin made
Of earth and wood ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Where lived a country boy
Named Johnny B. Goode ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Who never ever learned
To read or write so well ♪</i>

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<i>♪ But he could play a guitar
Just like a-ringin' a bell ♪</i>

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<i>For guys my age,
it was a life-altering moment.</i>

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<i>Like, it just cut
against the grain</i>

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<i>of the mundaneness of
entertainment at that time.</i>

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Jann Wenner: <i>You know,
it's raw, it's loud,</i>

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<i>it's raucous, it's tough.</i>

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You know, the guitar sound is
loud and thrilling.

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Springsteen: <i>It immediately</i>

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<i>imparted to you
this entire new way</i>

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<i>of living, of looking,</i>

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<i>of walking,
of talking, of being,</i>

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<i>of the possibility
of what you might be able to do</i>

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with your life. It was a
revolutionary moment, you know.

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Robbie: <i>I thought of it</i>

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as my own personal big bang.

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Little Richard: ♪ <i>Lucille</i> ♪

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<i>♪ You won't do
Your sister's will ♪</i>

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♪ <i>Lucille</i> ♪

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<i>♪ You won't do
Your sister's will ♪</i>

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I thought,
"That's it. I don't know

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what all you people
are gonna do,

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but I know what I'm gonna do."

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(Little Richard screams)

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<i>Within weeks,</i>

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<i>I was in my first band.</i>

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<i>We were off and running.</i>

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Fats Domino:
♪ <i>I'm walkin', yes indeed</i> ♪

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<i>♪ And I'm talkin'
About you and me, I'm hopin' ♪</i>

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♪ <i>That you come back to me...</i> ♪

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Robbie: <i>My schoolmates,
they're like,</i>

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"One of these days, I wanna have
my own bowling alley."

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I'd be like, "Oh, my God,
your own bowling...

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You could bowl for free
all you wanted, right?"

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I don't have that vision.

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<i>I saw something else,
and the lights</i>

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<i>were really bright.</i>

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<i>Within a couple years,
we were getting somewhere,</i>

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<i>booking different shows
around Toronto.</i>

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<i>A local DJ booked us to open</i>

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for Ronnie Hawkins
and the Hawks.

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♪ ("Baby Jean" by Ronnie Hawkins
and the Hawks plays) ♪

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♪ <i>Well, I had a little woman</i> ♪

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♪ <i>And her name was Baby Jean</i> ♪

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Robbie: <i>Ronnie Hawkins
and the Hawks had</i>

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<i>a reputation to be the best</i>

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rockabilly band around.

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- ♪ <i>Baby Jean, Baby Jean</i> ♪
- ♪ <i>Baby Jean</i> ♪

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- ♪ <i>Baby Jean</i> ♪
- ♪ <i>Don't be mean</i> ♪

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These guys were up there

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<i>with Jerry Lee Lewis,
Conway Twitty,</i>

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<i>Carl Perkins,
they were in that league.</i>

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♪ <i>My baby</i> ♪

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<i>♪ Well, I learned
To lose my mind ♪</i>

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Ronnie Hawkins: <i>We didn't
know anything about Canada.</i>

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<i>We figured, Canada is the
wilderness, they've still got</i>

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<i>mountain men, you know,
eating each other,</i>

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<i>stuff like that.</i> (laughs)

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We didn't know nothing
about Canada. Boy, and Canada is

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the promised land compared
to where we came from.

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Robbie: <i>We played
our hearts out.</i>

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Then Ronnie Hawkins
and the Hawks take

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the stage. Oh, my God.
They took flight.

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♪ <i>...back home</i> ♪

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<i>♪ I'm gonna call up
A gypsy woman ♪</i>

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♪ <i>On the telephone</i> ♪

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<i>♪ I'm gonna send out
A worldwide hoo-doo ♪</i>

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<i>♪ That'd be the very thing
That'd suit you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I'm gonna see to it
She will be back home ♪</i>

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♪ <i>In 40 days</i> ♪

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- ♪ <i>Oh, 40 days</i> ♪
- ♪ <i>40 days</i> ♪

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Robbie: <i>Ronnie Hawkins was</i>

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over here. Boom,
he was over there.

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He was singing just in time.

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<i>The piano player would be</i>

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<i>playing a solo,
keys would be flying off</i>

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the piano,
he was hitting it so hard.

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<i>There was a guy playing drums</i>

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who looked like
he was 15 years old,

224
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<i>with white-blonde hair,</i>

225
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<i>and he was twirling sticks,
and he was laughing,</i>

226
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and smiling,

227
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and he just seemed
to glow in the dark,

228
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and his name was Levon Helm.

229
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Helm: <i>Well, I started with
Ronnie when I was trying</i>

230
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<i>to get out of high school
back in Arkansas.</i>

231
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Ronnie was putting
a band together.

232
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I got into it to play drums.

233
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We hit the road,
played around for years,

234
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and ended up
playing up in Canada.

235
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<i>♪ That'd be the very thing
That'd suit you... ♪</i>

236
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This is it.
This is the most amazing thing

237
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on the planet Earth.

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(audience applauds and cheers)

239
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<i>After they played,
I just stood around.</i>

240
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I wanted to help out
in any way I could,

241
00:14:52,521 --> 00:14:55,065
to have this rub off on me,

242
00:14:55,148 --> 00:14:58,151
<i>this music, this talent,</i>

243
00:14:58,443 --> 00:15:00,028
<i>this southern-ness.</i>

244
00:15:00,112 --> 00:15:02,280
<i>I stuck to them like glue.</i>

245
00:15:02,531 --> 00:15:04,699
♪ ("Boba Lou"
by Robbie Robertson plays) ♪

246
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Hawkins: <i>I knew
right off the bat</i>

247
00:15:06,618 --> 00:15:08,328
<i>Robbie had something special.
I don't know,</i>

248
00:15:08,412 --> 00:15:10,330
<i>he must've been
15 or 16 years old.</i>

249
00:15:10,789 --> 00:15:12,541
♪ <i>Boba Lou...</i> ♪

250
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Hawkins: <i>But he was hip.
Robbie was street hip.</i>

251
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<i>He was a hell of a young man.</i>

252
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Robbie: <i>One day,
I heard Ronnie Hawkins</i>

253
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<i>saying to the other guys,
"I gotta cut a new record.</i>

254
00:15:25,637 --> 00:15:27,264
<i>I need some songs."</i>

255
00:15:27,347 --> 00:15:30,725
<i>I scampered home,
went to my room,</i>

256
00:15:30,851 --> 00:15:34,396
and never came out
until I wrote two songs.

257
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<i>♪ I will love her
Till my dying day ♪</i>

258
00:15:40,861 --> 00:15:42,946
♪ <i>Don't know why she left</i> ♪

259
00:15:43,029 --> 00:15:44,573
♪ <i>Left me this way</i> ♪

260
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♪ <i>Left me here all alone</i> ♪

261
00:15:47,909 --> 00:15:51,079
♪ <i>To sit and cry on my own...</i> ♪

262
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Hawkins: <i>Robbie was writing
songs when he was 15 years old.</i>

263
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<i>I recorded two of said songs
on my album</i>

264
00:15:57,294 --> 00:15:59,963
before anybody ever thought
about Robbie Robertson.

265
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<i>At that time,
Robbie dropped out of school.</i>

266
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<i>His mother, Dolly,</i>

267
00:16:10,223 --> 00:16:11,766
<i>she was worried about him.</i>

268
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♪ <i>Boba Lou...</i> ♪

269
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Robbie: <i>There had been
quite a period</i>

270
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where my parents weren't
getting along.

271
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<i>My father, Jim Robertson,</i>

272
00:16:23,612 --> 00:16:26,823
<i>was being quite abusive
with my mother,</i>

273
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and with me.

274
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<i>And one day she said to me,</i>

275
00:16:32,829 --> 00:16:34,581
"Sit down, I... I need

276
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to tell you something.

277
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And maybe I should've
told you this before,

278
00:16:39,669 --> 00:16:42,380
but he's not your real father."

279
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"What?

280
00:16:48,678 --> 00:16:51,890
I... What do you mean,
he's not my real father?"

281
00:16:53,934 --> 00:16:56,478
Robbie's real daddy was
a Hebrew gangster.

282
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Yeah, they killed him,
they shot him on...

283
00:16:58,855 --> 00:17:00,065
Yonge Street, I think.

284
00:17:00,941 --> 00:17:03,401
♪ ("Robbie's Blues"
by Robbie Robertson plays) ♪

285
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Robbie: <i>My mother says,</i>

286
00:17:07,864 --> 00:17:10,283
<i>"Your blood father,
his name was</i>

287
00:17:10,450 --> 00:17:12,577
<i>Alexander Klegerman.</i>

288
00:17:13,578 --> 00:17:16,039
<i>He got killed
before you were born.</i>

289
00:17:17,123 --> 00:17:18,375
<i>He's Jewish."</i>

290
00:17:19,209 --> 00:17:21,503
<i>And she introduced me</i>

291
00:17:21,586 --> 00:17:24,756
<i>to the relatives
of my blood father,</i>

292
00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:27,926
<i>Natie Klegerman
and Morrie Klegerman.</i>

293
00:17:28,385 --> 00:17:31,137
<i>They bring me into their world</i>

294
00:17:31,221 --> 00:17:34,266
<i>with tremendous love
and affection.</i>

295
00:17:34,474 --> 00:17:36,351
I met his uncle who'd been
in the penitentiary

296
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ten years.
He was a gangster too.

297
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Robbie: <i>Through these
relatives of mine,</i>

298
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I'm understanding
what's been stirring

299
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inside of me all this time.

300
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They understand vision.

301
00:17:49,489 --> 00:17:51,908
They understand ambition.

302
00:17:52,659 --> 00:17:54,911
<i>When I told the Klegermans</i>

303
00:17:54,995 --> 00:17:57,914
<i>I had musical ambitions,
they were like,</i>

304
00:17:58,081 --> 00:18:00,083
"rock 'n' roll?
You don't wanna be

305
00:18:00,166 --> 00:18:02,460
in furs and diamonds,
you wanna be in that...?"

306
00:18:02,544 --> 00:18:06,172
And then they were like,
"Oh, you mean, show business."

307
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♪ ("Robbie's Blues" continues) ♪

308
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<i>I'm 16 years old now.</i>

309
00:18:12,929 --> 00:18:17,058
<i>Ronnie Hawkins says, "I want
you to come down to Arkansas</i>

310
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<i>and try out
to become one of the Hawks."</i>

311
00:18:21,479 --> 00:18:24,524
<i>If I didn't go down there
and try out for this,</i>

312
00:18:24,774 --> 00:18:27,569
<i>I would be sorry
the rest of my life.</i>

313
00:18:28,069 --> 00:18:32,157
<i>I sold my '56 Stratocaster,</i>

314
00:18:32,282 --> 00:18:35,619
<i>I got the money
to take a train from Toronto</i>

315
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to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

316
00:18:37,996 --> 00:18:40,040
♪ ("Help Me" by Sonny Boy
Williamson II plays) ♪

317
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<i>I'm going
to the Mississippi Delta,</i>

318
00:18:57,474 --> 00:18:59,934
<i>to the fountainhead
of rock 'n' roll.</i>

319
00:19:01,269 --> 00:19:04,564
<i>"This is it, this is it.
I've gotta make this work."</i>

320
00:19:04,981 --> 00:19:07,651
♪ <i>I can't do it all by myself ♪</i>

321
00:19:07,734 --> 00:19:10,570
Robbie: <i>So many amazing
music people came out of there.</i>

322
00:19:10,654 --> 00:19:12,572
♪ <i>You got to help me, baby</i> ♪

323
00:19:13,740 --> 00:19:15,992
♪ <i>I can't do it all by myself ♪</i>

324
00:19:18,953 --> 00:19:21,373
<i>♪ You know
If you don't help me, darling ♪</i>

325
00:19:22,457 --> 00:19:23,583
Robbie: <i>This music</i>

326
00:19:23,875 --> 00:19:25,543
is down and dirty.

327
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And it's heavy,

328
00:19:27,879 --> 00:19:29,005
just like the air.

329
00:19:38,306 --> 00:19:39,808
Helm: <i>Growin' up there
in the Delta,</i>

330
00:19:39,933 --> 00:19:42,852
<i>just in the Memphis,
West Memphis area there,</i>

331
00:19:42,936 --> 00:19:45,814
we had as good a radio
as you could find.

332
00:19:45,897 --> 00:19:47,649
Our jukeboxes and radios

333
00:19:47,732 --> 00:19:49,859
<i>weren't running short
of good songs.</i>

334
00:19:50,902 --> 00:19:53,113
<i>I consider
myself fortunate to have</i>

335
00:19:53,196 --> 00:19:56,533
grown up there and heard
the kind of music that I did.

336
00:20:03,707 --> 00:20:04,624
Hawkins: <i>Robbie was</i>

337
00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:06,376
<i>a hell of a gifted musician,
I can tell you that.</i>

338
00:20:06,459 --> 00:20:08,753
But what made him better
than anybody else is

339
00:20:08,837 --> 00:20:10,004
he worked twice as hard.

340
00:20:10,964 --> 00:20:13,216
Robbie: <i>Finally, Ronnie says,</i>

341
00:20:13,466 --> 00:20:15,635
<i>"I'm gonna offer you the job."</i>

342
00:20:16,094 --> 00:20:20,640
I say, "You'll never have
to tell me to work harder."

343
00:20:20,932 --> 00:20:24,269
He said, "I know."
So I say, "Great.

344
00:20:24,352 --> 00:20:27,188
How much will I get paid
working for you?"

345
00:20:27,272 --> 00:20:29,149
And I said, "Well, don't worry
about the money, kid.

346
00:20:29,232 --> 00:20:31,109
You ain't gonna make much money,

347
00:20:31,192 --> 00:20:33,570
but you'll be gettin' more pussy
than Frank Sinatra."

348
00:20:33,778 --> 00:20:34,779
And he did.

349
00:20:35,447 --> 00:20:37,365
♪ ("Bo Diddley" by
Ronnie Hawkins plays) ♪

350
00:20:37,449 --> 00:20:39,367
♪ <i>Hey, Bo Diddley</i> ♪

351
00:20:39,451 --> 00:20:41,077
♪ <i>Hey, Bo Diddley</i> ♪

352
00:20:41,161 --> 00:20:43,621
♪ <i>Hey, Bo Diddley</i> ♪

353
00:20:43,705 --> 00:20:45,832
♪ <i>Hey, Bo Diddley...</i> ♪

354
00:20:45,915 --> 00:20:49,002
Robbie: <i>I depended on Levon
to show me the road.</i>

355
00:20:49,544 --> 00:20:51,337
<i>He had grown,</i>

356
00:20:51,421 --> 00:20:52,672
<i>in my eyes,</i>

357
00:20:52,756 --> 00:20:55,550
<i>bigger than life.
When he laughed,</i>

358
00:20:56,092 --> 00:20:57,343
everybody laughed.

359
00:20:58,803 --> 00:21:00,638
Hawkins: <i>They were the best
friends you could ever be.</i>

360
00:21:00,764 --> 00:21:02,891
<i>They were like Huckleberry Finn
and Tom Sawyer.</i>

361
00:21:02,974 --> 00:21:04,934
It was a hell of a combination,
I thought,

362
00:21:05,059 --> 00:21:07,353
because Levon could put the
arrangements and stuff together

363
00:21:07,562 --> 00:21:09,731
and do all that, and Robbie
could write the songs.

364
00:21:12,066 --> 00:21:13,568
George Semkiw: <i>When I saw
Robbie play guitar,</i>

365
00:21:13,651 --> 00:21:14,944
<i>it just blew my mind.</i>

366
00:21:15,069 --> 00:21:17,739
Every guitar player in Toronto
learned from Robbie.

367
00:21:17,822 --> 00:21:19,783
Grant Smith: <i>He changed
the whole ballgame up here.</i>

368
00:21:19,866 --> 00:21:21,618
<i>I can remember
people discussing,</i>

369
00:21:21,701 --> 00:21:24,537
"How does Robbie make
that guitar sound?"

370
00:21:25,288 --> 00:21:26,706
Semkiw: <i>That was
the big mystery.</i>

371
00:21:26,831 --> 00:21:28,708
<i>There was, like,
stories going around</i>

372
00:21:28,833 --> 00:21:30,835
<i>that, oh,
he slashed his speakers,</i>

373
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,879
<i>broke a couple of tubes
in the amp.</i>

374
00:21:32,962 --> 00:21:36,716
<i>Every guitar player I met after
that was doing the same thing.</i>

375
00:21:36,925 --> 00:21:39,844
I watched them all change
from their old style of playing

376
00:21:39,928 --> 00:21:42,013
to the new Robbie style
of playing,

377
00:21:42,096 --> 00:21:43,973
and I was...
I was one of the pack.

378
00:21:58,738 --> 00:22:01,658
Robbie: <i>Ronnie depends
on Levon and I</i>

379
00:22:01,741 --> 00:22:04,828
<i>to help him choose musicians</i>

380
00:22:04,911 --> 00:22:07,080
that have potential.

381
00:22:07,163 --> 00:22:08,998
♪ ("You Know I Love You"
by Ronnie Hawkins plays) ♪

382
00:22:09,123 --> 00:22:13,086
<i>Ronnie wants to have
the best band in the land.</i>

383
00:22:13,378 --> 00:22:14,838
Hawkins:
<i>Have you ever heard me sing?</i>

384
00:22:14,963 --> 00:22:16,631
I'll better have a good band.

385
00:22:18,258 --> 00:22:19,634
The Arkansas boys would quit

386
00:22:19,717 --> 00:22:21,511
and Ronnie would replace

387
00:22:21,594 --> 00:22:23,304
<i>with a Canadian musician.</i>

388
00:22:23,930 --> 00:22:26,558
<i>Within a fairly short time,
we had</i>

389
00:22:26,641 --> 00:22:28,893
<i>Richard, Rick, and when Garth</i>

390
00:22:29,060 --> 00:22:31,938
finally joined the outfit,
I think that gave us a leg up.

391
00:22:33,857 --> 00:22:36,484
Robbie: <i>We didn't
know a musician</i>

392
00:22:36,693 --> 00:22:38,194
<i>that could do what he could do.</i>

393
00:22:38,486 --> 00:22:41,030
Garth understood Muddy Waters

394
00:22:41,322 --> 00:22:44,242
and Bach in the same sentence.

395
00:22:44,951 --> 00:22:48,788
<i>Richard was
an incredibly beautiful soul.</i>

396
00:22:48,872 --> 00:22:51,165
You couldn't help
but just love the guy.

397
00:22:51,708 --> 00:22:53,167
Richard Manuel: <i>It was
kind of like boot camp.</i>

398
00:22:53,251 --> 00:22:55,003
<i>I mean, we drove ourselves</i>

399
00:22:55,295 --> 00:22:57,589
to as near perfection
as we could get, you know?

400
00:22:57,672 --> 00:23:00,925
To the point where we'd
really thrill each other.

401
00:23:01,301 --> 00:23:03,636
Robbie: <i>Rick was one
of these people that was like,</i>

402
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,555
<i>"Trombone, bass, tuba,</i>

403
00:23:05,638 --> 00:23:09,309
violin, whatever it is,
I can do it."

404
00:23:09,767 --> 00:23:11,895
Rick Danko: <i>We were kids
playing in bars</i>

405
00:23:11,978 --> 00:23:13,938
<i>that you were supposed
to be 21 to play in.</i>

406
00:23:14,022 --> 00:23:16,190
<i>We were 17, 18, 19. It can</i>

407
00:23:16,274 --> 00:23:18,902
get pretty outrageous when
you're out there that young.

408
00:23:19,068 --> 00:23:21,613
♪ <i>Further on up the road</i> ♪

409
00:23:22,822 --> 00:23:25,241
<i>♪ Someone gonna hurt you
Like you hurt me ♪</i>

410
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,287
♪ <i>Further on up the road</i> ♪

411
00:23:30,038 --> 00:23:31,414
Hawkins: <i>Robbie's mom, Dolly,</i>

412
00:23:31,497 --> 00:23:33,541
<i>she helped The Band out
more than anybody.</i>

413
00:23:33,625 --> 00:23:35,752
She would give them
places to stay cheap,

414
00:23:35,835 --> 00:23:37,629
<i>fed 'em, cooked.
She did everything.</i>

415
00:23:37,712 --> 00:23:39,172
<i>She was somethin' else.</i>

416
00:23:39,505 --> 00:23:41,466
♪ <i>Baby, just you wait and see</i> ♪

417
00:23:43,134 --> 00:23:46,054
Hawkins: <i>We played six days
a week and we practiced five.</i>

418
00:23:46,304 --> 00:23:48,097
<i>That's how come they got good.</i>

419
00:23:48,181 --> 00:23:50,725
<i>They were probably the best
white rhythm and blues band</i>

420
00:23:50,808 --> 00:23:53,519
<i>in the world at that time.
When they were young,</i>

421
00:23:53,603 --> 00:23:55,313
they were absorbing
all that knowledge quick.

422
00:23:55,688 --> 00:23:58,691
They shot by me musically
like a bolt of lightning.

423
00:23:59,651 --> 00:24:02,570
Robbie: <i>We were
outgrowing the past</i>

424
00:24:03,446 --> 00:24:05,782
and the music that we were
playing with Ronnie.

425
00:24:14,165 --> 00:24:18,294
- (film projector whirring)
- (distant siren blaring)

426
00:24:18,503 --> 00:24:20,922
Robbie: <i>When we
left Ronnie, we ended up</i>

427
00:24:21,005 --> 00:24:23,049
<i>playing at a club in New York,</i>

428
00:24:23,508 --> 00:24:26,386
and one day my friend,
John Hammond,

429
00:24:26,469 --> 00:24:28,429
<i>a great musician, blues singer,</i>

430
00:24:28,513 --> 00:24:30,431
<i>he came and picked me up
at the hotel,</i>

431
00:24:30,515 --> 00:24:33,643
<i>and we're going to the Columbia
Records Building,</i>

432
00:24:33,851 --> 00:24:35,269
<i>to one of the studios.</i>

433
00:24:35,895 --> 00:24:38,731
<i>We go in.
I see over in the corner</i>

434
00:24:38,815 --> 00:24:42,276
<i>this guy with dark glasses on</i>

435
00:24:42,694 --> 00:24:45,113
<i>and frizzly hair,
and John says,</i>

436
00:24:45,363 --> 00:24:47,073
"This is Bob Dylan."

437
00:24:48,116 --> 00:24:50,910
♪ ("Like a Rolling Stone"
by Bob Dylan plays) ♪

438
00:24:57,750 --> 00:24:59,961
<i>♪ Once upon a time
You dressed so fine ♪</i>

439
00:25:00,086 --> 00:25:01,379
♪ <i>Threw the bums a dime</i> ♪

440
00:25:01,462 --> 00:25:04,757
♪ <i>In your prime, didn't you?</i> ♪

441
00:25:05,550 --> 00:25:08,886
Robbie: <i>Bob Dylan's
a really respected songwriter.</i>

442
00:25:08,970 --> 00:25:11,556
<i>He was best known
to me as a folk singer</i>

443
00:25:11,639 --> 00:25:14,517
<i>with a guitar
and he has a harmonica.</i>

444
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,562
<i>And he sings
his beautiful songs.</i>

445
00:25:17,645 --> 00:25:20,356
<i>Folk music, from what we knew,</i>

446
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,568
<i>was happening
over by a university somewhere,</i>

447
00:25:23,651 --> 00:25:25,987
<i>and people were
sipping cappuccinos,</i>

448
00:25:26,070 --> 00:25:27,864
<i>listening to folk music.</i>

449
00:25:27,947 --> 00:25:28,823
<i>Where we're playing,</i>

450
00:25:28,906 --> 00:25:30,366
<i>on the other side
of the tracks,</i>

451
00:25:30,533 --> 00:25:33,411
there ain't nobody sipping
cappuccinos over there.

452
00:25:34,328 --> 00:25:36,748
<i>I didn't know
a whole lot about Bob.</i>

453
00:25:36,831 --> 00:25:39,042
<i>We were more into R&B</i>

454
00:25:39,125 --> 00:25:41,669
<i>and blues music.</i>

455
00:25:44,881 --> 00:25:46,632
Robbie: <i>When we left Ronnie,</i>

456
00:25:47,175 --> 00:25:48,968
<i>I wanna be something original,</i>

457
00:25:49,093 --> 00:25:50,970
<i>I don't wanna be a bar band.</i>

458
00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:53,556
<i>I've gotta
come back to writing.</i>

459
00:25:53,639 --> 00:25:55,558
<i>I'm having dreams</i>

460
00:25:55,641 --> 00:25:58,436
<i>about finding a sanctuary,</i>

461
00:25:58,519 --> 00:26:00,438
<i>finding a place that we can go,</i>

462
00:26:00,521 --> 00:26:03,608
<i>and we can hone these skills,
and we're just not</i>

463
00:26:03,816 --> 00:26:06,444
on the road
driving to the next gig.

464
00:26:06,694 --> 00:26:08,821
John Hammond: <i>They were
playing these gigs,</i>

465
00:26:08,905 --> 00:26:11,616
<i>trying to get a recording deal.
I said, "Well, gee, you know,</i>

466
00:26:11,783 --> 00:26:13,493
how about we make
a record together?

467
00:26:13,576 --> 00:26:15,620
And I was signed
to Vanguard Records.

468
00:26:15,703 --> 00:26:19,415
<i>And they gave us, like,
a three-hour window to record.</i>

469
00:26:19,499 --> 00:26:22,460
<i>I invited my friend Bob Dylan
to the recording day.</i>

470
00:26:22,752 --> 00:26:24,253
<i>So I introduced them to Dylan.</i>

471
00:26:24,420 --> 00:26:26,839
<i>And... and Dylan flipped out,
I mean,</i>

472
00:26:27,006 --> 00:26:29,342
he thought
these guys were phenomenal.

473
00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:31,469
Robbie: <i>What we didn't know</i>

474
00:26:31,552 --> 00:26:33,471
<i>is that Bob's already doing</i>

475
00:26:33,554 --> 00:26:35,264
the rock 'n' roll thing.

476
00:26:35,431 --> 00:26:37,517
♪ ("Maggie's Farm"
by Bob Dylan plays) ♪

477
00:26:45,817 --> 00:26:48,611
<i>He wanted to hire
an amazing band</i>

478
00:26:48,694 --> 00:26:51,739
<i>that he could take
on tour with him.</i>

479
00:26:51,823 --> 00:26:53,741
So he hired the guys.

480
00:26:53,866 --> 00:26:56,911
♪ ("Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
by Bob Dylan and The Band) ♪

481
00:27:03,292 --> 00:27:06,420
<i>♪ When you're lost
In the rain ♪</i>

482
00:27:06,504 --> 00:27:07,797
♪ <i>In Juarez</i> ♪

483
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,924
♪ <i>And it's Easter time too</i> ♪

484
00:27:12,510 --> 00:27:14,762
Robbie: <i>Bob Dylan's thing
was like a detour.</i>

485
00:27:15,096 --> 00:27:17,223
<i>We're hooking up with this guy,</i>

486
00:27:17,306 --> 00:27:19,892
and he's changing
the course of music.

487
00:27:20,518 --> 00:27:21,727
<i>He's like...</i>

488
00:27:21,811 --> 00:27:23,855
<i>the king of the folk movement</i>

489
00:27:23,938 --> 00:27:26,899
<i>who now wants
a rock 'n' roll band.</i>

490
00:27:27,024 --> 00:27:29,235
Huh! That's not a bad thing

491
00:27:29,402 --> 00:27:31,821
to experience along the way too.

492
00:27:31,904 --> 00:27:34,323
We thought,
"Let's take that detour."

493
00:27:35,116 --> 00:27:37,952
<i>♪ They got
Some hungry women there ♪</i>

494
00:27:38,035 --> 00:27:40,204
♪ <i>And they really make a mess</i> ♪

495
00:27:40,288 --> 00:27:42,206
♪ <i>Out of you</i> ♪

496
00:27:42,748 --> 00:27:46,085
<i>We hook up with him,
and have no idea</i>

497
00:27:46,210 --> 00:27:47,378
<i>that he's the only one</i>

498
00:27:47,461 --> 00:27:49,422
<i>that thinks
this is a good idea.</i>

499
00:27:49,505 --> 00:27:52,675
<i>The rest of the world
hates this idea.</i>

500
00:27:52,758 --> 00:27:56,137
<i>We play with him
and they boo us every night.</i>

501
00:27:56,220 --> 00:27:59,599
- (audience boos)
<i>- It is weird that people could</i>

502
00:27:59,807 --> 00:28:03,227
be this upset about this guy

503
00:28:03,311 --> 00:28:05,062
just wanting to expand

504
00:28:05,146 --> 00:28:06,856
his musical horizon

505
00:28:06,939 --> 00:28:08,983
and play with other musicians.

506
00:28:09,150 --> 00:28:12,195
♪ ("Tell Me, Momma" by
Bob Dylan and The Band plays) ♪

507
00:28:18,910 --> 00:28:22,997
<i>♪ Ol' black Bascom
Don't break no mirrors ♪</i>

508
00:28:23,372 --> 00:28:27,293
<i>♪ Cold black water dog
Make no tears ♪</i>

509
00:28:27,376 --> 00:28:30,129
<i>We'd go somewhere,
we set up our equipment,</i>

510
00:28:30,379 --> 00:28:31,380
<i>we play.</i>

511
00:28:32,506 --> 00:28:34,675
<i>People come, they boo us,</i>

512
00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:38,095
<i>sometimes throw things.
We'd pack up our equipment,</i>

513
00:28:38,304 --> 00:28:40,014
<i>go on to the next place,</i>

514
00:28:40,097 --> 00:28:42,725
<i>set up, play, they boo us.</i>

515
00:28:42,934 --> 00:28:45,770
I think, "What a strange way
to make a buck."

516
00:28:49,023 --> 00:28:50,816
Helm:
<i>Kids would break for the stage,</i>

517
00:28:51,025 --> 00:28:53,527
cops were making
open-field tackles...

518
00:28:54,278 --> 00:28:56,155
out in front of the stage.

519
00:28:56,239 --> 00:28:58,074
And Bob had told us, you know,

520
00:28:58,157 --> 00:29:00,117
whatever happens,
just don't stop playing.

521
00:29:00,326 --> 00:29:02,870
♪ <i>Tell me, Momma</i> ♪

522
00:29:05,373 --> 00:29:07,583
♪ <i>Tell me, Momma</i> ♪

523
00:29:09,710 --> 00:29:12,338
♪ <i>Tell me, Momma, what is it?</i> ♪

524
00:29:14,423 --> 00:29:16,384
♪ <i>What's wrong with you</i> ♪

525
00:29:16,467 --> 00:29:18,302
♪ <i>This time?</i> ♪

526
00:29:19,262 --> 00:29:20,513
Bob Dylan: Cool car!

527
00:29:20,846 --> 00:29:23,599
Get the bass in with Robbie.
Let's go.

528
00:29:24,058 --> 00:29:26,185
Let's go, we have to go now.
Hey, tell them we have to go.

529
00:29:26,269 --> 00:29:28,020
Hey, don't pull my fingers!

530
00:29:28,104 --> 00:29:30,856
So long. So long,
don't boo me anymore!

531
00:29:31,607 --> 00:29:34,902
When they yell in this
weird nasal tone.

532
00:29:34,986 --> 00:29:37,488
Oh. Jesus, you know,
I don't understand why they...

533
00:29:37,571 --> 00:29:39,782
how can they buy
the tickets up so fast?

534
00:29:39,865 --> 00:29:41,284
Let's get that light off.

535
00:29:54,922 --> 00:29:58,050
Robbie: <i>Levon expressed
to me that there was</i>

536
00:29:58,134 --> 00:30:00,511
<i>something in this whole world</i>

537
00:30:00,594 --> 00:30:03,556
<i>that we had entered into that
just didn't feel right to him.</i>

538
00:30:04,557 --> 00:30:05,975
<i>And the idea that we would</i>

539
00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:10,146
<i>go out and play
and people would boo us,</i>

540
00:30:10,396 --> 00:30:12,815
he thought
that was just ridiculous.

541
00:30:13,524 --> 00:30:14,900
<i>And I... I was</i>

542
00:30:14,984 --> 00:30:16,861
<i>much closer to Bob</i>

543
00:30:16,944 --> 00:30:19,030
<i>than the other guys were.</i>

544
00:30:19,196 --> 00:30:21,824
I don't think Levon felt good
about that, either.

545
00:30:22,533 --> 00:30:24,327
♪ <i>I bet you might</i> ♪

546
00:30:24,410 --> 00:30:28,331
<i>♪ Think it's foolish
To be this way ♪</i>

547
00:30:28,414 --> 00:30:31,000
♪ <i>And am I sane? To who?</i> ♪

548
00:30:32,877 --> 00:30:35,296
<i>One night, Levon comes</i>

549
00:30:35,421 --> 00:30:38,090
<i>to my hotel room and he says,</i>

550
00:30:38,382 --> 00:30:41,469
"I don't like this music.
I don't like these people.

551
00:30:42,136 --> 00:30:43,721
I don't wanna be here.

552
00:30:43,971 --> 00:30:46,432
And I don't wanna be
in anybody's band.

553
00:30:48,059 --> 00:30:49,226
I wanna go."

554
00:30:51,437 --> 00:30:53,898
<i>He didn't go
anywhere without me.</i>

555
00:30:54,607 --> 00:30:57,068
<i>He said, "I'm gonna go
down to New Orleans</i>

556
00:30:57,443 --> 00:30:59,904
<i>and maybe work on an oil rig</i>

557
00:31:00,071 --> 00:31:03,324
<i>in the Gulf of Mexico. "
And I said,</i>

558
00:31:03,574 --> 00:31:05,451
"Have you told the other guys?"

559
00:31:05,785 --> 00:31:08,454
He said, "No, I haven't spoke
to the other guys.

560
00:31:08,537 --> 00:31:10,164
I'd like you to do that for me."

561
00:31:10,331 --> 00:31:12,458
♪ <i>Sometimes, you know</i> ♪

562
00:31:12,750 --> 00:31:14,835
<i>"Tell them I wish them well,</i>

563
00:31:14,919 --> 00:31:17,338
<i>and I'll see them
down the line."</i>

564
00:31:18,172 --> 00:31:21,008
<i>So I walked him
down the street,</i>

565
00:31:21,092 --> 00:31:23,719
and I put my arm
around his shoulders

566
00:31:23,803 --> 00:31:25,262
as we were walking along.

567
00:31:25,763 --> 00:31:27,681
He felt beat up to me.

568
00:31:28,974 --> 00:31:32,728
And I knew that he was
really in pain.

569
00:31:33,104 --> 00:31:34,897
<i>My heart was breaking.</i>

570
00:31:35,064 --> 00:31:38,025
<i>My partner, my brother...</i>

571
00:31:39,735 --> 00:31:42,029
has left, has gone.

572
00:31:42,154 --> 00:31:44,198
I don't know how to do this

573
00:31:44,281 --> 00:31:45,449
without Levon...

574
00:31:46,784 --> 00:31:48,536
but I'm gonna have
to figure it out.

575
00:31:48,744 --> 00:31:51,455
♪ <i>Well, she hit a wall</i> ♪

576
00:31:53,124 --> 00:31:55,543
♪ <i>Back when I was young</i> ♪

577
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,800
♪ <i>But you're headed out</i> ♪

578
00:32:04,051 --> 00:32:05,803
♪ <i>But I'll be here</i> ♪

579
00:32:06,178 --> 00:32:08,222
♪ <i>She knows she's the one</i> ♪

580
00:32:08,431 --> 00:32:09,890
<i>After Levon left,</i>

581
00:32:10,349 --> 00:32:12,435
<i>we had to get another drummer.</i>

582
00:32:13,102 --> 00:32:14,728
<i>Mickey Jones was his name</i>

583
00:32:14,812 --> 00:32:16,897
<i>and he was a terrific guy,</i>

584
00:32:17,022 --> 00:32:19,442
<i>but, boy, they were
tough shoes to fill.</i>

585
00:32:19,608 --> 00:32:21,318
Levon left a big hole.

586
00:32:21,569 --> 00:32:23,696
♪ ("Baby, Let Me Follow
You Down" by Bob Dylan plays) ♪

587
00:32:35,916 --> 00:32:38,085
<i>We play all over Europe,</i>

588
00:32:38,294 --> 00:32:40,463
<i>and it just gets worse.</i>

589
00:32:40,796 --> 00:32:43,132
<i>We were thinking,
"Maybe they don't like it here,</i>

590
00:32:43,215 --> 00:32:46,218
<i>but when we go there, they'll
probably feel differently."</i>

591
00:32:46,510 --> 00:32:49,013
- No.
- ♪ <i>Let me follow you down</i> ♪

592
00:32:49,096 --> 00:32:51,724
Wenner: <i>Being in the
trenches with Bob on this fight</i>

593
00:32:51,807 --> 00:32:53,267
<i>probably reinforced
their relationship.</i>

594
00:32:53,350 --> 00:32:55,394
<i>I think they became closer
under fire.</i>

595
00:32:56,145 --> 00:32:58,481
It's fun to revolt.
Robbie's young,

596
00:32:58,689 --> 00:33:00,399
and you know, throwin' it
in the faces

597
00:33:00,483 --> 00:33:01,984
of all these like, pissant,

598
00:33:02,067 --> 00:33:03,736
you know, people that are
in tweeds, or whatever.

599
00:33:04,570 --> 00:33:06,614
George Harrison: <i>I remember
it well. The show was</i>

600
00:33:06,697 --> 00:33:08,991
<i>in two halves. In the first
half, Bob came out and did</i>

601
00:33:09,074 --> 00:33:11,368
<i>his usual thing with the guitar
and the harmonica.</i>

602
00:33:11,494 --> 00:33:13,871
<i>In the second half,
he came out with the band.</i>

603
00:33:13,954 --> 00:33:16,665
<i>All through that second half,
people were getting up</i>

604
00:33:16,916 --> 00:33:18,792
<i>and walking out, shouting,</i>

605
00:33:19,502 --> 00:33:21,504
and Bob just came out
and he said, "Well, you know,

606
00:33:21,587 --> 00:33:24,256
"you all may know this song.
Um, remember how

607
00:33:24,340 --> 00:33:26,759
it goes? Well, here's how
it goes now." You know?

608
00:33:26,967 --> 00:33:29,637
♪ ("Ballad of A Thin Man" by
Bob Dylan and The Band plays) ♪

609
00:33:35,226 --> 00:33:38,187
Robbie: <i>I remember saying
to the other guys,</i>

610
00:33:38,687 --> 00:33:41,106
<i>"This is good. They're wrong.</i>

611
00:33:41,941 --> 00:33:43,442
<i>This is good."</i>

612
00:33:44,235 --> 00:33:46,320
<i>And then you realize,</i>

613
00:33:47,112 --> 00:33:49,657
<i>you're in a musical revolution.</i>

614
00:33:50,199 --> 00:33:52,284
<i>There is something
going on here,</i>

615
00:33:52,451 --> 00:33:55,037
<i>and you have
nothing to compare it to.</i>

616
00:33:56,705 --> 00:33:57,957
<i>It just made us</i>

617
00:33:58,082 --> 00:34:01,168
feel like flexing
our musical muscles.

618
00:34:01,418 --> 00:34:04,797
We're gonna play this music
in your face.

619
00:34:11,637 --> 00:34:13,722
Bob Dylan: <i>The guys that were
with me on that tour,</i>

620
00:34:13,806 --> 00:34:15,516
<i>you know,
we were all in it together.</i>

621
00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:17,810
<i>We were puttin' our heads
in the lion's mouth.</i>

622
00:34:17,893 --> 00:34:20,646
<i>I had to admire them
for sticking it out with me,</i>

623
00:34:20,729 --> 00:34:22,273
<i>just for doing it,
in my book they were,</i>

624
00:34:22,356 --> 00:34:24,233
you know... gallant knights

625
00:34:24,316 --> 00:34:26,652
for even, you know,
standing behind me.

626
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,990
♪ <i>Mr. Jones</i> ♪

627
00:34:35,536 --> 00:34:37,871
(audience applauds and cheers)

628
00:34:40,124 --> 00:34:42,126
♪ ("Amour Secours" by
Claire Monchon plays) ♪

629
00:34:42,376 --> 00:34:45,004
♪ (singing in French) ♪

630
00:34:45,462 --> 00:34:48,048
Robbie: <i>One day, we were
just taking a walk</i>

631
00:34:48,132 --> 00:34:49,341
<i>and looking in stores.</i>

632
00:34:50,050 --> 00:34:54,471
<i>I see two really pretty girls.</i>

633
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,560
Dominique Robertson: <i>We're
taking a wonderful walk. It was</i>

634
00:34:59,643 --> 00:35:02,646
<i>the springtime in Paris.
There was a gathering of people</i>

635
00:35:02,813 --> 00:35:04,440
<i>somewhere around the corner</i>

636
00:35:04,690 --> 00:35:07,860
who began to talk to us,
and asked us what we were doing.

637
00:35:08,861 --> 00:35:10,487
Robbie:
<i>In broken English,</i>

638
00:35:10,571 --> 00:35:15,242
<i>they say they’re journalists
from Montreal.</i>

639
00:35:15,784 --> 00:35:17,244
<i>I'm like, "Wow!</i>

640
00:35:17,453 --> 00:35:19,413
I'm from Canada too.

641
00:35:19,747 --> 00:35:21,373
<i>I'm from Toronto."</i>

642
00:35:21,457 --> 00:35:24,293
And they look like,
"Oh, that's too bad."

643
00:35:24,501 --> 00:35:26,754
<i>And this whole thing
at the time</i>

644
00:35:26,879 --> 00:35:29,965
<i>between English-speaking
and the French-speaking,</i>

645
00:35:30,257 --> 00:35:32,718
<i>they were in a revolutionary
spirit. This is when they were</i>

646
00:35:32,801 --> 00:35:35,679
putting bombs in mailboxes,

647
00:35:35,763 --> 00:35:37,723
and it was rough going.

648
00:35:37,931 --> 00:35:40,517
I'm on neutral territory,
I'm in Paris.

649
00:35:40,601 --> 00:35:42,936
He looked like family to me
from the beginning.

650
00:35:43,145 --> 00:35:46,690
<i>It was like...
I recognized him.</i>

651
00:35:46,982 --> 00:35:49,652
♪ ("Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" by
Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin) ♪

652
00:35:50,402 --> 00:35:52,488
Robbie:
<i>I am fancy dancing</i>

653
00:35:52,613 --> 00:35:54,198
<i>the best I can</i>

654
00:35:54,281 --> 00:35:56,033
<i>to charm Dominique</i>

655
00:35:56,283 --> 00:35:58,577
into thinking
I'm not a bad person,

656
00:35:58,661 --> 00:35:59,703
I'm not the enemy.

657
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:01,997
<i>And we've got to spend</i>

658
00:36:02,081 --> 00:36:03,499
<i>some time together.</i>

659
00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:07,419
Dominique: <i>We went
to the concert at the Olympia,</i>

660
00:36:07,628 --> 00:36:09,755
<i>and the crowd was roaring</i>

661
00:36:09,838 --> 00:36:12,341
<i>in anger
about electric guitars.</i>

662
00:36:13,050 --> 00:36:15,010
Robbie: <i>I didn't even realize</i>

663
00:36:15,094 --> 00:36:18,305
people were booing anymore.
There was something

664
00:36:18,389 --> 00:36:19,890
<i>about her spirit.</i>

665
00:36:20,516 --> 00:36:23,811
<i>There was something
about her eyes and her smile,</i>

666
00:36:24,061 --> 00:36:26,480
and it was a fire inside her.

667
00:36:26,563 --> 00:36:28,315
♪ (singing in French) ♪

668
00:36:28,399 --> 00:36:30,901
Even though I didn't
speak his language,

669
00:36:30,984 --> 00:36:32,903
I spoke a language
that touched him.

670
00:36:35,322 --> 00:36:38,367
<i>I was definitely
falling in love with Robbie.</i>

671
00:36:45,833 --> 00:36:48,001
Robbie: <i>When we got back
to New York City,</i>

672
00:36:48,085 --> 00:36:51,171
<i>I invited her to come
and join me there,</i>

673
00:36:51,672 --> 00:36:53,382
and eventually she did.

674
00:36:54,758 --> 00:36:57,094
<i>The other guys
in the Hawks and myself</i>

675
00:36:57,261 --> 00:36:59,221
<i>were trying to find a place</i>

676
00:36:59,304 --> 00:37:01,849
<i>where we could
start working on our music.</i>

677
00:37:03,767 --> 00:37:06,854
<i>Albert Grossman, Bob's manager,</i>

678
00:37:06,937 --> 00:37:09,565
<i>he had a place up
in Woodstock, New York.</i>

679
00:37:09,898 --> 00:37:11,692
John Simon: <i>Albert was</i>

680
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:15,821
an anomaly in the world
of the record business people.

681
00:37:15,988 --> 00:37:17,322
<i>He didn't wear a suit.</i>

682
00:37:17,448 --> 00:37:20,284
<i>His had his hair tied back
in a ponytail.</i>

683
00:37:20,534 --> 00:37:23,328
<i>He looked like an overweight
Benjamin Franklin.</i>

684
00:37:23,662 --> 00:37:25,622
Albert took very good care
of his artists.

685
00:37:25,914 --> 00:37:29,042
<i>But as far as dealing with
other people, he was shrewd.</i>

686
00:37:29,585 --> 00:37:31,962
Robbie: <i>Bob had moved
up to Woodstock,</i>

687
00:37:32,045 --> 00:37:33,255
<i>got a house.</i>

688
00:37:33,380 --> 00:37:35,924
<i>Albert would go up there
on the weekends.</i>

689
00:37:36,216 --> 00:37:39,094
<i>So Albert says,
"Come up to Woodstock.</i>

690
00:37:39,178 --> 00:37:40,721
<i>There's so much room up there.</i>

691
00:37:40,888 --> 00:37:41,930
You can get a place.

692
00:37:42,181 --> 00:37:44,767
You can make
all the sounds you want."

693
00:37:44,933 --> 00:37:47,352
♪ ("Can You Please Crawl Out
Your Window?" by Bob Dylan) ♪

694
00:37:47,436 --> 00:37:50,439
<i>It was a very welcoming
possibility.</i>

695
00:37:50,773 --> 00:37:52,816
♪ <i>He sits in your room</i> ♪

696
00:37:53,358 --> 00:37:56,195
<i>♪ His tomb
With a fistful of tacks ♪</i>

697
00:37:56,779 --> 00:37:58,363
<i>Rick found us</i>

698
00:37:58,447 --> 00:38:00,449
<i>this ugly pink house.</i>

699
00:38:03,994 --> 00:38:06,121
<i>This is just what I've been</i>

700
00:38:06,246 --> 00:38:09,333
<i>dreaming about
all these years...</i>

701
00:38:09,666 --> 00:38:11,835
<i>a sanctuary that we could</i>

702
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,713
go and write and create.

703
00:38:14,797 --> 00:38:16,840
♪ ("Words and Numbers"
by The Band plays) ♪

704
00:38:19,176 --> 00:38:20,969
Oh, my god, I mean, a...

705
00:38:21,053 --> 00:38:22,971
pretty corny house, you know?

706
00:38:23,055 --> 00:38:24,556
But it was perfect.

707
00:38:28,185 --> 00:38:30,729
Robbie: <i>So we moved up
to Woodstock.</i>

708
00:38:31,313 --> 00:38:33,315
<i>We built a little studio</i>

709
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,693
<i>in the basement,
just for writing purposes.</i>

710
00:38:37,194 --> 00:38:39,738
<i>Garth, Richard, and Rick</i>

711
00:38:39,822 --> 00:38:41,824
<i>moved into this house.</i>

712
00:38:42,950 --> 00:38:45,786
<i>I called Bob,
and I drive him out there</i>

713
00:38:45,869 --> 00:38:47,204
<i>to show him the place.</i>

714
00:38:47,746 --> 00:38:50,499
<i>And he comes in
and he looks at this basement,</i>

715
00:38:50,624 --> 00:38:53,502
<i>and he sees all the instruments
set up there,</i>

716
00:38:53,585 --> 00:38:56,338
<i>a little tape recorder,
some microphones.</i>

717
00:38:56,421 --> 00:39:00,509
<i>He says, "Can you record music
in this place?"</i>

718
00:39:00,759 --> 00:39:03,804
And I was like, "Yeah, we've got
that little tape recorder.

719
00:39:03,887 --> 00:39:06,306
It's not... you know,
a recording studio,

720
00:39:06,557 --> 00:39:08,725
<i>but it's pretty good
for writing and stuff."</i>

721
00:39:09,017 --> 00:39:11,979
<i>He said, "Listen, I've got
a couple of song ideas</i>

722
00:39:12,104 --> 00:39:15,607
<i>I've been kicking around.
Maybe we could try them here."</i>

723
00:39:16,066 --> 00:39:18,861
Great! That's the spirit.

724
00:39:19,570 --> 00:39:21,697
♪ <i>Now look here, Dear Sue</i> ♪

725
00:39:21,780 --> 00:39:23,699
♪ <i>You best feed the cats</i> ♪

726
00:39:23,991 --> 00:39:25,951
♪ <i>The cats need feeding</i> ♪

727
00:39:26,243 --> 00:39:27,953
♪ <i>You're the one to do it</i> ♪

728
00:39:28,579 --> 00:39:29,830
♪ <i>Get your head</i> ♪

729
00:39:30,914 --> 00:39:32,207
♪ <i>Feed the cats</i> ♪

730
00:39:32,833 --> 00:39:34,960
♪ <i>You ain't going nowhere</i> ♪

731
00:39:37,462 --> 00:39:39,172
Danko:
<i>Bob would come by, you know,</i>

732
00:39:39,256 --> 00:39:41,049
<i>every day for about a six,
seven-month period,</i>

733
00:39:41,216 --> 00:39:44,052
<i>and we'd... we'd get together
every afternoon</i>

734
00:39:44,136 --> 00:39:46,555
<i>six to seven days a week.
And just from us</i>

735
00:39:46,763 --> 00:39:48,682
<i>getting together
and applying ourselves,</i>

736
00:39:48,891 --> 00:39:53,562
<i>- a lot does come out of that.</i>
- Robbie: <i>In the living room,</i>

737
00:39:53,645 --> 00:39:55,355
<i>there was a couple
of typewriters,</i>

738
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,066
<i>because Bob wrote songs
on a typewriter.</i>

739
00:39:58,150 --> 00:40:00,694
And he'd say,
"Guys, let's go, let's go.

740
00:40:00,819 --> 00:40:03,906
I think I got something. Let's
go." We'd all go downstairs,

741
00:40:04,031 --> 00:40:05,073
<i>we would record it.</i>

742
00:40:06,533 --> 00:40:08,327
Dylan: <i>No, not any harmony,</i>

743
00:40:08,410 --> 00:40:12,039
<i>but harmony in the background
like, ooh!</i>

744
00:40:12,205 --> 00:40:14,666
- Helm: ♪ <i>Whoa-oh...</i> ♪
- <i>Yeah, right.</i> ♪ <i>Why, why?</i> ♪

745
00:40:14,750 --> 00:40:17,252
<i>- You know, just...</i> (chuckles)
- Helm: ♪ <i>Oh, why...</i> ♪

746
00:40:17,336 --> 00:40:19,838
Dylan:
♪ <i>Every time I go to town</i> ♪

747
00:40:20,422 --> 00:40:23,508
<i>♪ The bars keep
Kicking my dog around ♪</i>

748
00:40:24,009 --> 00:40:27,012
<i>♪ I don't know why
I'm going to town ♪</i>

749
00:40:27,512 --> 00:40:29,848
<i>♪ I don't know
Why they kick my dog around ♪</i>

750
00:40:29,932 --> 00:40:32,184
<i>- Let me hear you now!</i>
- The Band: ♪ <i>Dog, dog, dog</i> ♪

751
00:40:33,268 --> 00:40:35,270
♪ <i>Dog, dog, dog</i> ♪

752
00:40:35,896 --> 00:40:39,149
Robbie: <i>Working with Bob,
I saw a door opening.</i>

753
00:40:39,691 --> 00:40:42,444
<i>He was making the possibility</i>

754
00:40:42,527 --> 00:40:46,156
<i>of using poetry in songwriting</i>

755
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,076
<i>like I had never
quite seen before.</i>

756
00:40:49,326 --> 00:40:51,870
It gave you a sense of liberty.

757
00:40:52,245 --> 00:40:54,790
You used to think, "I don't know
if you can do that.

758
00:40:54,873 --> 00:40:57,334
I don't know, is it all right
to say that?

759
00:40:57,417 --> 00:40:59,711
Can you express things
in that kind of way?"

760
00:41:00,253 --> 00:41:02,005
Boom, no rules.

761
00:41:02,422 --> 00:41:04,508
♪ <i>Well, that big, dumb blonde</i> ♪

762
00:41:04,591 --> 00:41:06,551
♪ <i>With her wheel gorged</i> ♪

763
00:41:07,010 --> 00:41:08,679
♪ <i>Turtle, that friend of hers</i> ♪

764
00:41:08,762 --> 00:41:12,516
<i>♪ With his checks all forged
And his cheeks in a chunk ♪</i>

765
00:41:12,683 --> 00:41:14,851
♪ <i>With his cheese in the cash</i> ♪

766
00:41:14,935 --> 00:41:16,645
♪ <i>They're all gonna be there</i> ♪

767
00:41:16,770 --> 00:41:18,605
♪ <i>At that million-dollar bash</i> ♪

768
00:41:19,982 --> 00:41:21,858
Robbie is a real artist.

769
00:41:21,942 --> 00:41:24,861
He is an amazing creative force.

770
00:41:26,321 --> 00:41:27,698
<i>I never saw him</i>

771
00:41:27,781 --> 00:41:29,908
<i>without a little pad of paper
and a pencil,</i>

772
00:41:29,992 --> 00:41:32,202
<i>writing notes about everything.</i>

773
00:41:32,744 --> 00:41:34,663
<i>Some thought, some idea</i>

774
00:41:34,746 --> 00:41:37,290
<i>that he could use
later in a song.</i>

775
00:41:37,749 --> 00:41:40,794
♪ <i>She reads the leaves</i> ♪

776
00:41:40,877 --> 00:41:43,630
♪ <i>And she leads the life</i> ♪

777
00:41:43,714 --> 00:41:46,925
♪ <i>That she learned so well</i> ♪

778
00:41:47,426 --> 00:41:50,637
♪ <i>From the old wives</i> ♪

779
00:41:50,721 --> 00:41:53,515
<i>♪ It's so strange
To arrange... ♪</i>

780
00:41:53,598 --> 00:41:56,643
Robbie: <i>When Dominique was
becoming my girlfriend,</i>

781
00:41:57,060 --> 00:42:00,147
<i>her connection
to French literature,</i>

782
00:42:00,230 --> 00:42:02,190
<i>poetry, music,</i>

783
00:42:02,482 --> 00:42:04,443
<i>was rubbing off on me.</i>

784
00:42:05,193 --> 00:42:07,821
<i>The path that I was
on intellectually,</i>

785
00:42:08,363 --> 00:42:10,365
<i>boom, she altered it,</i>

786
00:42:10,449 --> 00:42:13,410
<i>and I was being highly inspired</i>

787
00:42:13,702 --> 00:42:15,662
by what she was bringing

788
00:42:15,746 --> 00:42:17,247
to the table as well.

789
00:42:23,211 --> 00:42:25,589
♪ <i>I can't get to you...</i> ♪

790
00:42:26,548 --> 00:42:28,133
Robbie: <i>Albert Grossman</i>

791
00:42:28,216 --> 00:42:30,177
<i>was thinking about getting</i>

792
00:42:30,385 --> 00:42:32,137
<i>the Hawks a record deal.</i>

793
00:42:32,262 --> 00:42:34,639
<i>So he said, "You need to record</i>

794
00:42:34,848 --> 00:42:37,309
<i>a couple of your tunes
so I can play them</i>

795
00:42:37,392 --> 00:42:39,269
<i>for some record companies."</i>

796
00:42:39,478 --> 00:42:42,105
<i>So we went into a studio,</i>

797
00:42:42,189 --> 00:42:44,232
<i>and we got a session drummer.</i>

798
00:42:44,316 --> 00:42:46,985
<i>I was really not satisfied</i>

799
00:42:47,069 --> 00:42:48,570
<i>with what we did.</i>

800
00:42:48,862 --> 00:42:52,157
If you have a... a table
and one of the legs is missing,

801
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:53,909
it doesn't sit steady.

802
00:42:54,117 --> 00:42:55,786
This was the sign,

803
00:42:55,952 --> 00:42:59,748
it's time for him to come back.
We gotta find Levon.

804
00:43:00,415 --> 00:43:02,918
♪ <i>Ain't no more cane</i> ♪

805
00:43:03,001 --> 00:43:05,921
♪ <i>On the Brazos</i> ♪

806
00:43:08,131 --> 00:43:12,010
♪ <i>Ooh, ooh, ooh</i> ♪

807
00:43:13,887 --> 00:43:15,806
Robbie: <i>We tracked him down
and we told him</i>

808
00:43:15,889 --> 00:43:18,350
about the place we had
and that we were

809
00:43:18,433 --> 00:43:20,727
gonna get a record deal
and all of this,

810
00:43:20,936 --> 00:43:22,646
and you could hear

811
00:43:22,729 --> 00:43:25,190
the joy in his voice.

812
00:43:26,066 --> 00:43:28,693
<i>♪ You should've
Been on the river ♪</i>

813
00:43:29,569 --> 00:43:31,738
♪ <i>In 1910</i> ♪

814
00:43:32,697 --> 00:43:34,199
Dominique: <i>I remember
meeting him</i>

815
00:43:34,282 --> 00:43:37,744
<i>and he was such a nice guy.
He was such a charming person.</i>

816
00:43:38,036 --> 00:43:40,122
There was a sense of relief

817
00:43:40,205 --> 00:43:42,082
in the band that he was back,

818
00:43:42,165 --> 00:43:44,543
and hopefully he would stay.

819
00:43:45,335 --> 00:43:48,421
<i>Moved into the house there,
there was an extra spot for me,</i>

820
00:43:48,505 --> 00:43:50,215
<i>and uh,
started gettin' together,</i>

821
00:43:50,298 --> 00:43:52,134
<i>and just
putting songs together.</i>

822
00:43:52,342 --> 00:43:54,261
Simon: <i>I had the sense
that Levon realized</i>

823
00:43:54,344 --> 00:43:56,304
<i>he was coming back
to a good thing.</i>

824
00:43:56,471 --> 00:43:57,639
<i>They were on a salary,</i>

825
00:43:57,722 --> 00:43:59,224
<i>they were able
to make their own music.</i>

826
00:43:59,307 --> 00:44:02,352
<i>Woodstock was full of young
people and lots of girls.</i>

827
00:44:02,435 --> 00:44:04,271
It was better than being
on an oil rig in the middle

828
00:44:04,354 --> 00:44:07,899
of the Gulf of Mexico.
Robbie played the tapes

829
00:44:07,983 --> 00:44:09,734
<i>that they had made,
"The Basement Tapes".</i>

830
00:44:09,818 --> 00:44:11,736
♪ <i>Katie's been gone</i> ♪

831
00:44:11,820 --> 00:44:13,738
♪ <i>Since the springtime</i> ♪

832
00:44:13,822 --> 00:44:17,284
<i>♪ She wrote one time
And sent her love ♪</i>

833
00:44:18,451 --> 00:44:19,995
♪ <i>Katie's been gone</i> ♪

834
00:44:20,078 --> 00:44:22,038
♪ <i>For such a long time now...</i> ♪

835
00:44:22,122 --> 00:44:24,791
Robbie: <i>Levon's reaction was</i>

836
00:44:24,875 --> 00:44:28,753
<i>so extraordinary.
He was blown away.</i>

837
00:44:29,421 --> 00:44:31,298
Helm: <i>We had never
that kind of time</i>

838
00:44:31,381 --> 00:44:33,967
<i>on our hands,
and there we are in the...</i>

839
00:44:34,050 --> 00:44:36,678
<i>in the Catskills, and we don't
have a show to play that night,</i>

840
00:44:36,761 --> 00:44:39,764
<i>so we were enjoying it,
just sitting around, you know,</i>

841
00:44:39,848 --> 00:44:41,892
<i>the freedom to go down
and play some music,</i>

842
00:44:41,975 --> 00:44:45,353
<i>or go outside and throw a
football around at each other.</i>

843
00:44:45,896 --> 00:44:47,689
<i>That was just part of a...</i>

844
00:44:47,772 --> 00:44:50,108
<i>a lifestyle that we got to love</i>

845
00:44:50,233 --> 00:44:53,486
<i>in Woodstock, you know,
just being able to chop wood,</i>

846
00:44:53,570 --> 00:44:55,739
<i>or hit your thumb
with a hammer.</i>

847
00:44:56,489 --> 00:44:59,576
<i>We'd be concerned
with fixing the tape recorder</i>

848
00:44:59,659 --> 00:45:01,536
<i>and getting the songs together.</i>

849
00:45:01,661 --> 00:45:04,581
♪ <i>We can talk about it now</i> ♪

850
00:45:05,457 --> 00:45:07,709
♪ <i>It's that same old riddle</i> ♪

851
00:45:07,792 --> 00:45:10,879
<i>♪ Only starting
From the middle ♪</i>

852
00:45:11,087 --> 00:45:13,882
<i>♪ I'd fix it
But I don't know how ♪</i>

853
00:45:14,049 --> 00:45:16,551
Robbie: <i>We had come out
with a different sound,</i>

854
00:45:16,635 --> 00:45:19,679
<i>a different sensibility.
The music didn't</i>

855
00:45:19,888 --> 00:45:22,432
sound anything like what we did

856
00:45:22,515 --> 00:45:25,435
<i>with Ronnie Hawkins,
like anything we did</i>

857
00:45:25,644 --> 00:45:27,354
<i>as Levon and the Hawks.</i>

858
00:45:27,479 --> 00:45:29,940
<i>It didn't sound like
anything we did</i>

859
00:45:30,148 --> 00:45:34,486
<i>with Bob Dylan
on the infamous tour, so having</i>

860
00:45:34,569 --> 00:45:36,988
a new name felt natural as well.

861
00:45:39,032 --> 00:45:42,369
♪ <i>Pulling that eternal plough</i> ♪

862
00:45:42,869 --> 00:45:46,122
<i>♪ We've got to find
A sharper blade ♪</i>

863
00:45:46,206 --> 00:45:48,166
♪ <i>Or have a new one made</i> ♪

864
00:45:48,291 --> 00:45:50,502
Robbie: <i>In the town,
people'd say,</i>

865
00:45:50,585 --> 00:45:53,755
<i>"Oh, those guys, they play
with Bob. They're in the band."</i>

866
00:45:54,005 --> 00:45:55,799
<i>And we kept hearing,</i>

867
00:45:56,049 --> 00:45:58,593
<i>"the band, "
"the band, " "the band."</i>

868
00:45:58,802 --> 00:46:01,096
<i>And it felt unpretentious,</i>

869
00:46:01,304 --> 00:46:02,681
<i>un-jivy,</i>

870
00:46:03,181 --> 00:46:04,182
<i>un-cute.</i>

871
00:46:04,766 --> 00:46:07,435
Just strictly The Band.

872
00:46:07,602 --> 00:46:10,146
<i>We had done a lot of
pre-production work, of course,</i>

873
00:46:10,230 --> 00:46:13,525
<i>at Big Pink. Robbie was doing
a lot of the songwriting,</i>

874
00:46:13,608 --> 00:46:15,568
<i>you know, and doing
a lot more homework likely</i>

875
00:46:15,652 --> 00:46:18,488
<i>than the rest of us.
It was just a question of us</i>

876
00:46:18,571 --> 00:46:20,824
<i>arranging them,
and putting them together,</i>

877
00:46:20,907 --> 00:46:22,659
<i>and making them
as strong as possible</i>

878
00:46:22,867 --> 00:46:24,035
<i>and working together.</i>

879
00:46:25,370 --> 00:46:27,956
♪ <i>We can talk about it now</i> ♪

880
00:46:29,374 --> 00:46:32,335
Robbie: <i>I came back
to the house one evening.</i>

881
00:46:32,627 --> 00:46:34,587
<i>I thought,
"I gotta do some writing</i>

882
00:46:34,671 --> 00:46:36,798
<i>for this record
that we're working on."</i>

883
00:46:36,965 --> 00:46:38,883
<i>And I'm thinking, "What am I
gonna write about?"</i>

884
00:46:39,467 --> 00:46:41,928
And I'm sitting there
with a guitar,

885
00:46:42,053 --> 00:46:43,763
noodling around.

886
00:46:45,348 --> 00:46:48,727
I look in the guitar,
and inside,

887
00:46:49,102 --> 00:46:50,729
on Martin Guitars,

888
00:46:50,854 --> 00:46:53,606
it talks about
where they're made.

889
00:46:54,149 --> 00:46:57,402
And they're made
in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

890
00:46:58,862 --> 00:47:01,656
♪ <i>I pulled into Nazareth...</i> ♪

891
00:47:01,740 --> 00:47:04,075
And it just,
it was all coming to me.

892
00:47:04,617 --> 00:47:06,494
Going from Canada

893
00:47:06,786 --> 00:47:08,997
down to the Mississippi Delta

894
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,041
when I was 16 years old,

895
00:47:11,750 --> 00:47:15,211
characters and circumstances,

896
00:47:15,503 --> 00:47:18,715
all of it started
to come back to me.

897
00:47:18,965 --> 00:47:21,009
And when I got to this chorus...

898
00:47:21,092 --> 00:47:23,094
(humming and playing tune)

899
00:47:25,597 --> 00:47:27,557
And I could hear these voices...

900
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,477
♪ <i>And...</i> ♪
- voices: ♪ <i>And, and, and</i> ♪

901
00:47:30,977 --> 00:47:34,647
<i>♪ You put the load
Right on me ♪</i>

902
00:47:35,648 --> 00:47:38,568
And the whole thing
just blended together.

903
00:47:38,735 --> 00:47:40,779
♪ ("The Weight"
by The Band plays) ♪

904
00:47:49,162 --> 00:47:51,081
♪ <i>I pulled into Nazareth</i> ♪

905
00:47:51,748 --> 00:47:54,834
<i>♪ Was feelin'
'Bout half-past dead ♪</i>

906
00:47:55,794 --> 00:47:58,004
♪ <i>I just need some place</i> ♪

907
00:47:58,421 --> 00:48:01,841
♪ <i>Where I can lay my head</i> ♪

908
00:48:02,467 --> 00:48:04,511
<i>♪ Hey, mister,
Can you tell me ♪</i>

909
00:48:04,928 --> 00:48:07,597
<i>♪ Where a man might
Find a bed? ♪</i>

910
00:48:08,848 --> 00:48:11,810
<i>♪ He just grinned
And shook my hand ♪</i>

911
00:48:12,018 --> 00:48:13,561
♪ <i>"No, " was all he said</i> ♪

912
00:48:15,647 --> 00:48:21,027
<i>♪ Take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free ♪</i>

913
00:48:21,236 --> 00:48:22,695
Manuel: <i>We discovered a whole</i>

914
00:48:23,029 --> 00:48:25,782
vocal thing that we weren't
aware that we even had.

915
00:48:26,116 --> 00:48:28,576
♪ <i>And... and... and...</i> ♪

916
00:48:28,701 --> 00:48:31,329
<i>♪ You put the load
Right on me ♪</i>

917
00:48:36,042 --> 00:48:37,752
Manuel: <i>I remember
listening to playbacks</i>

918
00:48:37,919 --> 00:48:40,713
after the sessions
of songs and thinking,

919
00:48:41,297 --> 00:48:43,466
"I really like this stuff.

920
00:48:43,758 --> 00:48:47,011
And... I don't have
anything to compare it to,

921
00:48:47,137 --> 00:48:49,806
but I really like it,
and I hope everybody else does

922
00:48:50,014 --> 00:48:51,808
<i>'cause I really think
this is strong."</i>

923
00:48:52,267 --> 00:48:56,813
<i>♪ I said, "Hey, Carmen
Come on, let's go downtown" ♪</i>

924
00:48:58,565 --> 00:49:03,153
<i>♪ She said, "I gotta go, but my
Friend can stick around" ♪</i>

925
00:49:04,988 --> 00:49:07,323
♪ <i>Take a load off, Fanny</i> ♪

926
00:49:08,408 --> 00:49:10,660
♪ <i>Take a load for free</i> ♪

927
00:49:11,536 --> 00:49:13,913
♪ <i>Take a load off, Fanny</i> ♪

928
00:49:15,498 --> 00:49:18,209
♪ <i>And... and... and...</i> ♪

929
00:49:18,293 --> 00:49:21,296
<i>♪ You put the load
Right on me ♪</i>

930
00:49:26,551 --> 00:49:29,053
Robbie: <i>I was very excited</i>

931
00:49:29,220 --> 00:49:31,723
<i>playing this record for Bob.</i>

932
00:49:32,015 --> 00:49:34,517
<i>He hadn't heard a note of it.</i>

933
00:49:34,976 --> 00:49:36,478
<i>"The Weight" comes on.</i>

934
00:49:36,728 --> 00:49:38,855
<i>He's like, "Wait a minute.
Who wrote that?"</i>

935
00:49:38,938 --> 00:49:40,857
<i>And I said,
"I... I wrote that."</i>

936
00:49:40,940 --> 00:49:44,611
He said, "You wrote that?"
And I could just see

937
00:49:44,694 --> 00:49:47,322
the pride in his eyes.

938
00:49:47,614 --> 00:49:49,991
<i>♪ He said
"Do me a favor, son, ♪</i>

939
00:49:50,241 --> 00:49:53,411
<i>♪ Won't you stay
And keep Anna Lee company?" ♪</i>

940
00:49:54,329 --> 00:49:56,498
♪ <i>Take a load off, Fanny</i> ♪

941
00:49:57,415 --> 00:49:59,667
♪ <i>Take a load for free</i> ♪

942
00:50:00,919 --> 00:50:03,379
♪ <i>Take a load off, Fanny</i> ♪

943
00:50:04,797 --> 00:50:06,549
♪ <i>And... and... and...</i> ♪

944
00:50:06,925 --> 00:50:08,343
♪ <i>You put the load</i> ♪

945
00:50:08,426 --> 00:50:10,845
♪ <i>Right on me</i> ♪

946
00:50:11,346 --> 00:50:13,056
Springsteen: <i>I think
I was in a little coffee shop</i>

947
00:50:13,223 --> 00:50:16,184
<i>in Redbank, New Jersey.
Kid came in</i>

948
00:50:16,351 --> 00:50:19,312
<i>with</i> Music From Big Pink
<i>and put it on the sound system.</i>

949
00:50:19,395 --> 00:50:20,939
<i>It was late at night, after...</i>

950
00:50:21,147 --> 00:50:23,191
after the place was
about to close down,

951
00:50:23,441 --> 00:50:25,068
which was a fantastic moment

952
00:50:25,151 --> 00:50:27,862
to be introduced
to that music, you know?

953
00:50:27,946 --> 00:50:30,782
And suddenly this music comes on
and everything changes.

954
00:50:30,865 --> 00:50:33,785
<i>♪ Fought for the party
To kingdom come ♪</i>

955
00:50:33,993 --> 00:50:36,621
♪ <i>Sadly told his only son</i> ♪

956
00:50:36,996 --> 00:50:39,499
♪ <i>Just be careful what you do</i> ♪

957
00:50:39,582 --> 00:50:41,543
♪ <i>It all comes back on you</i> ♪

958
00:50:42,293 --> 00:50:44,254
Clapton: <i>When I heard</i>
Big Pink, <i>it was as if someone</i>

959
00:50:44,337 --> 00:50:46,714
<i>had like, nailed me
through the chest to the wall.</i>

960
00:50:46,923 --> 00:50:49,634
<i>I was just
immediately converted.</i>

961
00:50:50,051 --> 00:50:53,263
<i>That was when Cream was
in its sort of, uh, mid-stage</i>

962
00:50:53,513 --> 00:50:56,224
and pretty much severed
my connection with the other two

963
00:50:56,307 --> 00:50:59,561
in the band. And I thought,
"This is what I wanna do."

964
00:50:59,727 --> 00:51:02,230
<i>- It changed my life.</i>
- Taj Mahal: <i>They weren't</i>

965
00:51:02,313 --> 00:51:04,524
<i>reading out of
the modern book of music.</i>

966
00:51:04,607 --> 00:51:06,359
<i>They went to the source.</i>

967
00:51:06,651 --> 00:51:08,820
You'd say in the Caribbean,
"They was musical

968
00:51:08,903 --> 00:51:10,863
to the core, to the bone".

969
00:51:11,197 --> 00:51:13,992
<i>If there was
any American musicians</i>

970
00:51:14,284 --> 00:51:17,370
<i>that were comparable
to what The Beatles were,</i>

971
00:51:18,037 --> 00:51:21,040
- it would've been them.
- ♪ <i>We've been sitting here</i> ♪

972
00:51:21,124 --> 00:51:25,461
<i>♪ For so darn long, waiting for
The end to come along ♪</i>

973
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:27,964
♪ <i>Holy roaster on the brink</i> ♪

974
00:51:28,172 --> 00:51:30,758
<i>♪ I'd take a choice
Swim or sink ♪</i>

975
00:51:32,635 --> 00:51:34,012
Springsteen: <i>This is the middle</i>

976
00:51:34,137 --> 00:51:35,805
<i>of psychedelic era</i>

977
00:51:35,888 --> 00:51:38,141
<i>in popular music,
so something comes along</i>

978
00:51:38,224 --> 00:51:41,394
<i>that is the antithesis
of where music had been moving.</i>

979
00:51:41,477 --> 00:51:43,646
<i>Here come all these voices
that sound</i>

980
00:51:43,813 --> 00:51:45,607
like you've never
heard them before,

981
00:51:45,815 --> 00:51:48,735
and like they've always
been there, forever and ever.

982
00:51:49,027 --> 00:51:53,031
♪ <i>Oh, to be home again</i> ♪

983
00:51:53,615 --> 00:51:56,451
♪ <i>Down in old Virginny</i> ♪

984
00:51:56,868 --> 00:52:00,496
♪ <i>With my very best friend</i> ♪

985
00:52:00,705 --> 00:52:03,583
<i>♪ They call him
Ragtime Willie ♪</i>

986
00:52:03,791 --> 00:52:07,587
<i>♪ We're gonna soothe away
The rest of our years ♪</i>

987
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,799
<i>♪ We're gonna put away
All of our tears ♪</i>

988
00:52:12,008 --> 00:52:16,763
<i>♪ That big rockin' chair
Won't go nowhere ♪</i>

989
00:52:18,348 --> 00:52:20,475
Elliot Landy: <i>It was very
clear the moment I met them</i>

990
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,352
<i>who they were
and what they were about.</i>

991
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:23,603
<i>They were very grounded.</i>

992
00:52:23,686 --> 00:52:26,356
They were very strong.
They were very secure.

993
00:52:26,564 --> 00:52:28,858
<i>They were gracious,
like country people</i>

994
00:52:28,941 --> 00:52:30,693
<i>are gracious,
and they were totally in love</i>

995
00:52:30,860 --> 00:52:33,071
with their music, and they were
in love with each other.

996
00:52:33,613 --> 00:52:36,366
<i>I never saw any jealousy,
I never saw any arguments,</i>

997
00:52:36,449 --> 00:52:38,660
<i>I never saw them disagree.
It was always</i>

998
00:52:38,785 --> 00:52:41,412
<i>supporting each other.
They were five brothers,</i>

999
00:52:41,496 --> 00:52:43,581
<i>very clearly five brothers
who loved each other,</i>

1000
00:52:43,665 --> 00:52:47,335
<i>and I never saw
anything but that. In the '60s,</i>

1001
00:52:47,585 --> 00:52:49,045
part of the rebellion

1002
00:52:49,379 --> 00:52:52,548
was rejecting one's elders,
rejecting one's parents.

1003
00:52:53,299 --> 00:52:55,885
<i>The guys in The Band
wanted to say,</i>

1004
00:52:55,968 --> 00:52:58,513
<i>"Hey, that's not right.
We love our parents.</i>

1005
00:52:58,638 --> 00:53:01,599
<i>"They worked very hard
to bring us up</i>

1006
00:53:01,683 --> 00:53:03,518
<i>and care for us. " And so</i>

1007
00:53:03,810 --> 00:53:07,355
they wanted to have a picture
of their families in the album.

1008
00:53:07,438 --> 00:53:11,651
<i>♪ Would've been nice
Just to see the folks ♪</i>

1009
00:53:11,734 --> 00:53:15,822
<i>♪ Listen once again
To the stale old jokes ♪</i>

1010
00:53:15,905 --> 00:53:20,159
<i>♪ That big rockin' chair
Won't go nowhere ♪</i>

1011
00:53:24,372 --> 00:53:26,290
Robbie: <i>It was
a magical time</i>

1012
00:53:26,374 --> 00:53:27,959
<i>within this group.</i>

1013
00:53:28,459 --> 00:53:29,877
We're getting somewhere.

1014
00:53:34,882 --> 00:53:37,760
<i>They made</i> Big Pink <i>and then
Robbie said, "We wanna go out</i>

1015
00:53:37,844 --> 00:53:42,348
<i>on the road. " But then Rick
drove his car into a ditch...</i>

1016
00:53:42,557 --> 00:53:44,058
(car crashing)

1017
00:53:44,475 --> 00:53:45,768
<i>...and broke his neck.</i>

1018
00:53:47,854 --> 00:53:50,857
Dominique: <i>It was
a terrible car accident.</i>

1019
00:53:51,274 --> 00:53:54,402
<i>Rick was found
wandering in the woods,</i>

1020
00:53:54,569 --> 00:53:57,113
<i>which is pretty extraordinary
for someone who has</i>

1021
00:53:57,196 --> 00:54:00,241
<i>just broken his neck. He was</i>

1022
00:54:00,324 --> 00:54:03,411
taken to the hospital
and put in traction for

1023
00:54:03,703 --> 00:54:05,747
the longest time. We were all

1024
00:54:05,830 --> 00:54:08,124
quite scared as to
whether he would recover.

1025
00:54:09,208 --> 00:54:11,294
Robbie:
<i>We're canceling everything.</i>

1026
00:54:11,919 --> 00:54:13,838
<i>Everything just stopped.</i>

1027
00:54:14,630 --> 00:54:17,717
Music from Big Pink
<i>becomes this thing,</i>

1028
00:54:17,967 --> 00:54:20,470
<i>and we don't show up.
We never play a concert.</i>

1029
00:54:20,928 --> 00:54:22,889
They're like,
"Who are these guys?"

1030
00:54:25,016 --> 00:54:28,895
<i>We were becoming
the most mysterious people</i>

1031
00:54:29,061 --> 00:54:30,897
<i>in the music business.</i>

1032
00:54:32,398 --> 00:54:34,609
<i>After we recorded</i> Big Pink,

1033
00:54:34,692 --> 00:54:36,486
<i>there is that thing of like,</i>

1034
00:54:36,569 --> 00:54:40,072
<i>"Whoa, what do we do now?
Can we follow that up?"</i>

1035
00:54:40,281 --> 00:54:42,200
♪ ("Rag Mama Rag"
by The Band plays) ♪

1036
00:54:42,283 --> 00:54:45,411
<i>I was working day and night
on musical ideas.</i>

1037
00:54:45,953 --> 00:54:48,790
<i>Rick got out of the hospital,
and then</i>

1038
00:54:48,873 --> 00:54:51,000
boom, we were back
in the studio.

1039
00:54:51,501 --> 00:54:54,128
♪ <i>Rag Mama rag</i> ♪

1040
00:54:54,212 --> 00:54:56,923
♪ <i>I can't believe it's true</i> ♪

1041
00:54:57,006 --> 00:54:59,133
♪ <i>Rag Mama rag</i> ♪

1042
00:54:59,425 --> 00:55:01,469
Peter Gabriel: <i>You hear
timeless songwriting,</i>

1043
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:03,888
<i>painting pictures
and telling stories,</i>

1044
00:55:04,514 --> 00:55:05,890
<i>a cohesion</i>

1045
00:55:05,973 --> 00:55:08,100
<i>which is greater
than the sum of the parts.</i>

1046
00:55:08,893 --> 00:55:10,937
They were the very first band

1047
00:55:11,020 --> 00:55:12,939
who got it together
in a country house,

1048
00:55:13,147 --> 00:55:14,857
<i>which became a big thing.</i>

1049
00:55:15,233 --> 00:55:17,401
<i>When you shut out
the rest of the world</i>

1050
00:55:17,485 --> 00:55:20,029
<i>and the city,
and just concentrate on...</i>

1051
00:55:20,112 --> 00:55:23,241
<i>music-making and performing
and each other,</i>

1052
00:55:23,866 --> 00:55:25,910
you get
a different sort of result.

1053
00:55:27,370 --> 00:55:31,457
<i>♪ Up on Cripple Creek
She sends me ♪</i>

1054
00:55:31,791 --> 00:55:34,794
Jonathan Taplin: <i>Taking some
of that roots music,</i>

1055
00:55:34,877 --> 00:55:38,464
<i>a little bit of Muddy Waters,
a little bit of Hank Williams,</i>

1056
00:55:38,798 --> 00:55:41,259
<i>no long guitar solos, it was</i>

1057
00:55:41,425 --> 00:55:43,177
just simple,
straightforward music.

1058
00:55:43,344 --> 00:55:45,763
Nowadays we call it Americana.

1059
00:55:47,682 --> 00:55:49,892
(yodeling)

1060
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:51,811
Van Morrison: <i>I was in Boston.</i>

1061
00:55:51,894 --> 00:55:53,104
<i>I was sleeping on a couch,</i>

1062
00:55:53,229 --> 00:55:54,939
<i>and it was
"I Shall Be Released"</i>

1063
00:55:55,022 --> 00:55:56,649
<i>was what came on.</i>

1064
00:55:57,149 --> 00:55:59,402
I thought, "Oh yeah, there's...
there's something. I'm

1065
00:55:59,777 --> 00:56:01,863
connecting with something here."
That's what I thought.

1066
00:56:02,738 --> 00:56:05,491
<i>I got an impression there was
a lot of mythology going on.</i>

1067
00:56:05,992 --> 00:56:10,538
<i>♪ Standin' by your window
In pain ♪</i>

1068
00:56:11,873 --> 00:56:14,041
♪ <i>A pistol in your hand</i> ♪

1069
00:56:14,125 --> 00:56:16,127
Scorsese: <i>You'd never
really heard a sound like that.</i>

1070
00:56:17,044 --> 00:56:19,088
It also it reminded me greatly

1071
00:56:19,171 --> 00:56:21,757
of 19th Century literature,
American literature.

1072
00:56:21,966 --> 00:56:25,678
<i>♪ Try and understand your man
The best you can ♪</i>

1073
00:56:26,429 --> 00:56:29,181
♪ <i>Across the great divide</i> ♪

1074
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,851
♪ <i>Just grab your hat</i> ♪

1075
00:56:31,934 --> 00:56:34,562
♪ <i>And take that ride</i> ♪

1076
00:56:34,812 --> 00:56:37,440
Particularly Melville.
There's something

1077
00:56:37,523 --> 00:56:40,151
about the Melville stories,
and the sense of...

1078
00:56:40,359 --> 00:56:43,487
<i>searching The Band brings
to mind for me.</i>

1079
00:56:43,654 --> 00:56:46,407
Jimmy Vivino: <i>Each song is like
a little John Steinbeck novel.</i>

1080
00:56:46,782 --> 00:56:47,742
Steinbeck also

1081
00:56:47,825 --> 00:56:49,410
gives you these images
of America,

1082
00:56:49,493 --> 00:56:51,120
<i>of dustbowl America.</i>

1083
00:56:51,621 --> 00:56:54,582
♪ ("Unfaithful Servant"
by The Band plays) ♪

1084
00:56:54,665 --> 00:56:58,794
♪ <i>Unfaithful servant</i> ♪

1085
00:56:59,086 --> 00:57:00,338
♪ <i>I hear you</i> ♪

1086
00:57:00,421 --> 00:57:01,672
Harrison: <i>I spent quite
a bit of time</i>

1087
00:57:01,756 --> 00:57:04,717
<i>with The Band, and one of the
things that Robbie said to me</i>

1088
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,928
<i>was the fact that when he wrote
a tune, he had</i>

1089
00:57:07,011 --> 00:57:09,013
<i>all these different singers
who could sing the song.</i>

1090
00:57:09,180 --> 00:57:12,350
And he could write lyrics,
like, to write a song

1091
00:57:12,433 --> 00:57:14,518
knowing that Levon
was gonna sing it.

1092
00:57:14,602 --> 00:57:17,063
You know, you could be...
you could write much different

1093
00:57:17,146 --> 00:57:19,023
to knowing if you were gonna
have to do it yourself.

1094
00:57:19,190 --> 00:57:23,110
<i>♪ Did you do it
Just for the glory? ♪</i>

1095
00:57:23,194 --> 00:57:25,279
Springsteen: <i>When they came
together, something happened</i>

1096
00:57:25,696 --> 00:57:28,491
<i>that could not have occurred
on their own</i>

1097
00:57:28,658 --> 00:57:30,493
or individually.
You know, something...

1098
00:57:31,369 --> 00:57:32,787
miraculous occurred.

1099
00:57:34,121 --> 00:57:36,332
♪ <i>She really cared</i> ♪

1100
00:57:36,415 --> 00:57:38,542
♪ <i>The time she spared</i> ♪

1101
00:57:43,839 --> 00:57:46,676
Robbie: <i>We were booked
to play our first job</i>

1102
00:57:46,759 --> 00:57:50,471
<i>as The Band at Winterland,
in San Francisco,</i>

1103
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,515
<i>with Bill Graham presenting.</i>

1104
00:57:54,183 --> 00:57:56,227
Taplin: <i>We went
up to San Francisco, like,</i>

1105
00:57:56,310 --> 00:57:58,604
<i>two days early. Robbie is</i>

1106
00:57:58,688 --> 00:58:00,439
<i>sick as a dog.</i>

1107
00:58:01,107 --> 00:58:04,860
Robbie: <i>I'm completely drained</i>

1108
00:58:04,986 --> 00:58:08,823
<i>and it hits me: the last time
we played together,</i>

1109
00:58:08,990 --> 00:58:12,076
<i>everybody boos us
everywhere we go, right?</i>

1110
00:58:12,326 --> 00:58:15,788
Am I having some kind
of stage fright thing?

1111
00:58:16,747 --> 00:58:19,750
Taplin: <i>He's got a fever of 103.</i>

1112
00:58:19,834 --> 00:58:23,045
I'm saying to Bill Graham,
"We've gotta cancel. I'm sorry."

1113
00:58:23,587 --> 00:58:26,757
Robbie: <i>Bill Graham says,
"Impossible. There is</i>

1114
00:58:26,841 --> 00:58:29,593
no way in the world
that we can cancel this."

1115
00:58:30,261 --> 00:58:32,304
<i>And finally Bill says,</i>

1116
00:58:32,388 --> 00:58:35,349
<i>"What do you think
about the idea</i>

1117
00:58:35,474 --> 00:58:37,852
<i>of us bringing in a hypnotist?"</i>

1118
00:58:41,022 --> 00:58:43,858
Taplin: <i>A little guy,
about 5'8",</i>

1119
00:58:43,983 --> 00:58:46,694
<i>black suit, white carnation,
shows up,</i>

1120
00:58:46,944 --> 00:58:48,654
and he puts him under.

1121
00:58:50,156 --> 00:58:53,200
<i>And he's saying,
"Your stomach will feel</i>

1122
00:58:53,284 --> 00:58:55,036
<i>as calm as a lake.</i>

1123
00:58:55,244 --> 00:58:58,706
<i>Your head feels
as cool as a winter breeze."</i>

1124
00:59:00,666 --> 00:59:03,335
Robbie: <i>The next thing
I know, my head doesn't feel</i>

1125
00:59:03,419 --> 00:59:06,338
<i>so bad. And I'm thinking,</i>

1126
00:59:06,422 --> 00:59:09,258
<i>"I'll be damned,
I'm actually feeling</i>

1127
00:59:09,508 --> 00:59:13,262
<i>stronger and better
than I was before."</i>

1128
00:59:14,055 --> 00:59:14,972
<i>He says,</i>

1129
00:59:15,056 --> 00:59:17,892
<i>"Any time you start
to feel too weak,</i>

1130
00:59:17,975 --> 00:59:19,727
<i>you look over at me</i>

1131
00:59:20,019 --> 00:59:23,731
and I'm gonna say
to you, 'Grow."'

1132
00:59:24,065 --> 00:59:26,609
♪ ("Chest Fever"
by The Band plays) ♪

1133
00:59:44,251 --> 00:59:46,295
(audience applauds and cheers)

1134
00:59:57,098 --> 01:00:01,519
<i>And the crowd is yelling
and we're playing.</i>

1135
01:00:01,811 --> 01:00:05,147
<i>And I look over at him
and he goes,</i>

1136
01:00:05,231 --> 01:00:06,148
"Grow."

1137
01:00:07,858 --> 01:00:10,861
Bill Scheele: <i>This guy had
to be onstage with Robbie.</i>

1138
01:00:10,945 --> 01:00:13,656
<i>This was the first concert
I'd ever experienced with them,</i>

1139
01:00:13,948 --> 01:00:15,574
so... what did I know?
But I did,

1140
01:00:15,658 --> 01:00:17,993
I know that usually there's not
a hypnotist onstage.

1141
01:00:18,911 --> 01:00:21,205
♪ <i>Any scarlet would back her</i> ♪

1142
01:00:21,330 --> 01:00:24,708
Everybody got
their own starring moment.

1143
01:00:25,167 --> 01:00:26,585
<i>Rick had his songs.</i>

1144
01:00:26,836 --> 01:00:29,004
<i>Garth got to do "Chest Fever, "</i>

1145
01:00:29,296 --> 01:00:31,132
<i>and Richard was brilliant.</i>

1146
01:00:31,382 --> 01:00:33,676
<i>So in those first
year and a half,</i>

1147
01:00:33,759 --> 01:00:37,221
- it was amazing.
- ♪ <i>Can't be here no more</i> ♪

1148
01:00:38,305 --> 01:00:42,309
♪ <i>And as my mind unweaves</i> ♪

1149
01:00:42,601 --> 01:00:45,896
<i>♪ I feel the freeze
Down in my knees ♪</i>

1150
01:00:47,690 --> 01:00:51,902
♪ <i>But just before she leaves</i> ♪

1151
01:00:52,194 --> 01:00:54,446
♪ <i>She receives</i> ♪

1152
01:00:57,783 --> 01:00:59,743
Bill: <i>Well, when we first
went out on tour,</i>

1153
01:00:59,827 --> 01:01:01,912
<i>they were famous
because of their relationship</i>

1154
01:01:01,996 --> 01:01:05,249
<i>with Bob Dylan, but here they
were now as themselves.</i>

1155
01:01:05,457 --> 01:01:09,378
This was The Band.
That brought about a fame

1156
01:01:09,461 --> 01:01:11,505
to them that they had
never had before.

1157
01:01:11,881 --> 01:01:14,300
- Announcer: Folks, The Band.
- (audience applauds and cheers)

1158
01:01:14,383 --> 01:01:17,428
♪ ("Slippin' and Slidin" '
by The Band plays) ♪

1159
01:01:33,652 --> 01:01:36,947
<i>♪ Slippin' and slidin'
Peekin' and hidin' ♪</i>

1160
01:01:37,031 --> 01:01:39,533
♪ <i>Been told a long time ago</i> ♪

1161
01:01:40,075 --> 01:01:42,328
Clapton: <i>And I got the
chance to go and meet Robbie.</i>

1162
01:01:42,786 --> 01:01:44,955
<i>And I went up to Woodstock
to hang with him.</i>

1163
01:01:45,164 --> 01:01:48,000
And the reason I went up there
was to pluck up the nerve

1164
01:01:48,083 --> 01:01:50,085
to ask him
if I could join The Band.

1165
01:01:50,169 --> 01:01:52,630
Maybe they needed
a rhythm guitar player!

1166
01:02:00,304 --> 01:02:02,431
<i>And I was wearing pink boots</i>

1167
01:02:02,514 --> 01:02:04,516
and I had curly hair,

1168
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:06,143
<i>just psychedelic. And they were</i>

1169
01:02:06,310 --> 01:02:07,853
kinda really earthy.

1170
01:02:08,687 --> 01:02:10,481
<i>And I was saying,
"Well, let’s jam."</i>

1171
01:02:10,648 --> 01:02:11,899
And he said, "We don't jam."

1172
01:02:12,107 --> 01:02:13,901
So it was a songwriting outfit.

1173
01:02:15,736 --> 01:02:18,113
♪ <i>I work for the union</i> ♪

1174
01:02:18,322 --> 01:02:20,032
Clapton: <i>Robbie's listening
to the way</i>

1175
01:02:20,157 --> 01:02:22,034
<i>that each of them play,
but the way they worked</i>

1176
01:02:22,117 --> 01:02:23,994
<i>as a unit was,
like, incredible.</i>

1177
01:02:24,119 --> 01:02:25,913
<i>Rick was pretty dynamic,</i>

1178
01:02:25,996 --> 01:02:27,790
<i>and he was
a very powerful energy.</i>

1179
01:02:27,915 --> 01:02:29,458
<i>Garth was shy,</i>

1180
01:02:29,625 --> 01:02:31,919
<i>and I fell in love
with Richard.</i>

1181
01:02:32,086 --> 01:02:35,381
He was the most mournful,
soulful thing I'd ever heard.

1182
01:02:35,714 --> 01:02:38,592
<i>♪ Last year this time
Wasn't no joke ♪</i>

1183
01:02:40,302 --> 01:02:43,430
<i>♪ My whole barn
Went up in smoke ♪</i>

1184
01:02:45,015 --> 01:02:46,767
♪ <i>And our horse, Jethro</i> ♪

1185
01:02:46,850 --> 01:02:48,310
♪ <i>He went mad</i> ♪

1186
01:02:49,186 --> 01:02:51,021
♪ <i>And I can't ever remember</i> ♪

1187
01:02:51,105 --> 01:02:53,190
♪ <i>Things being that bad</i> ♪

1188
01:02:54,692 --> 01:02:57,236
Dominique:
<i>God, Richard was</i>

1189
01:02:57,319 --> 01:02:58,946
<i>such a sensitive man.</i>

1190
01:02:59,655 --> 01:03:01,490
<i>Like a wounded bird.</i>

1191
01:03:02,032 --> 01:03:04,827
But a beautiful, beautiful soul.

1192
01:03:05,828 --> 01:03:07,371
Clapton: <i>He was very fragile,</i>

1193
01:03:07,496 --> 01:03:09,248
<i>and we liked to drink together.</i>

1194
01:03:09,623 --> 01:03:12,793
When you put us together,
there was an instant bond.

1195
01:03:13,419 --> 01:03:16,005
<i>Robbie, in a way,
was kind of outside of that</i>

1196
01:03:16,088 --> 01:03:18,299
<i>because I saw Robbie
as the straight guy.</i>

1197
01:03:18,382 --> 01:03:20,926
<i>He was a guy
who we could drink with,</i>

1198
01:03:21,010 --> 01:03:23,637
<i>but at some point,
he would lose interest in that,</i>

1199
01:03:23,721 --> 01:03:26,056
you know, whereas me and Richard
were the kind of people

1200
01:03:26,140 --> 01:03:27,766
that we would like
to drink together,

1201
01:03:27,850 --> 01:03:30,728
but we'd drink... we'd like
drinking even more on our own.

1202
01:03:34,106 --> 01:03:36,025
Taplin: <i>Just when The Band
was really hitting,</i>

1203
01:03:36,191 --> 01:03:40,404
the difference between Robbie
and the rest of the band was

1204
01:03:40,612 --> 01:03:44,158
<i>his family was
incredibly important to him.</i>

1205
01:03:44,241 --> 01:03:45,909
<i>He already had a baby.</i>

1206
01:03:45,993 --> 01:03:49,204
<i>Dominique was
this incredibly vital,</i>

1207
01:03:49,288 --> 01:03:52,041
<i>smart woman that he liked
hanging with.</i>

1208
01:03:52,124 --> 01:03:55,878
<i>She was incredibly beautiful.
And the rest of the guys</i>

1209
01:03:55,961 --> 01:03:59,715
<i>were still trying to figure out
did they want a family or not?</i>

1210
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,634
<i>And they were consuming
a lot of drugs,</i>

1211
01:04:03,093 --> 01:04:04,428
<i>playing a lot,</i>

1212
01:04:04,511 --> 01:04:06,972
<i>drinking too much, you know,
everything else.</i>

1213
01:04:08,182 --> 01:04:10,184
Dominique:
<i>In Woodstock, it was...</i>

1214
01:04:10,392 --> 01:04:14,188
<i>at one point, car accidents.
And the phone ringing</i>

1215
01:04:14,271 --> 01:04:16,523
<i>in the middle of the night
to say this one or that one</i>

1216
01:04:16,607 --> 01:04:19,902
had totaled the car
or was in the ditch.

1217
01:04:22,363 --> 01:04:24,448
<i>Rick, he was lucky, you know,</i>

1218
01:04:24,531 --> 01:04:26,658
<i>but it became far too</i>

1219
01:04:26,867 --> 01:04:30,079
<i>often that there were
situations like that.</i>

1220
01:04:32,206 --> 01:04:34,416
<i>I had this Mustang</i>

1221
01:04:34,958 --> 01:04:36,585
that Robbie had bought,

1222
01:04:37,336 --> 01:04:39,463
and Richard wanted to drive it.

1223
01:04:40,130 --> 01:04:42,383
<i>I said,
"Really, can you do it?"</i>

1224
01:04:42,466 --> 01:04:46,136
<i>And he said, "Well, I sober up
behind the wheel."</i>

1225
01:04:48,472 --> 01:04:50,766
<i>And I said,
"Please, don't go so fast,</i>

1226
01:04:50,849 --> 01:04:52,643
<i>you know, can you see?
Can you see?"</i>

1227
01:04:52,726 --> 01:04:55,229
<i>And he said,
"Oh, I can see like a lynx."</i>

1228
01:04:58,190 --> 01:05:00,943
<i>You know,
and I was naive, frankly.</i>

1229
01:05:01,193 --> 01:05:03,362
We hit this curve,

1230
01:05:03,487 --> 01:05:05,447
and it was like every...

1231
01:05:05,531 --> 01:05:08,158
hit every cement pole
in the curve.

1232
01:05:08,450 --> 01:05:10,285
- (car crashes)
- (glass shattering)

1233
01:05:10,369 --> 01:05:11,829
<i>We ended up in the ditch.</i>

1234
01:05:13,497 --> 01:05:15,290
<i>Then Richard lit a match.</i>

1235
01:05:17,209 --> 01:05:19,378
And I thought,
"You're gonna blow the car.

1236
01:05:19,503 --> 01:05:22,131
We have to get out."
Push. "Get out. Get out."

1237
01:05:25,217 --> 01:05:27,136
Simon: <i>We were
at Big Pink and somebody</i>

1238
01:05:27,219 --> 01:05:29,179
<i>came rushing up and said...</i>

1239
01:05:29,471 --> 01:05:32,141
"Richard's just had an accident
and he's crashed a new car."

1240
01:05:32,641 --> 01:05:35,602
<i>Levon you know,
jumps into his Corvette</i>

1241
01:05:36,061 --> 01:05:37,771
<i>and rushes to the scene,</i>

1242
01:05:37,896 --> 01:05:40,399
and accidentally crashes
into the police car.

1243
01:05:40,482 --> 01:05:42,818
- (tires screeching)
- (car crashes)

1244
01:05:43,068 --> 01:05:45,904
Dominique: <i>The cop threw Levon
on the back of a car.</i>

1245
01:05:46,029 --> 01:05:48,782
I think they handcuffed him.
I don't know how long

1246
01:05:48,866 --> 01:05:53,078
it took me, you know,
to really absorb the shock.

1247
01:05:56,123 --> 01:05:58,834
Robbie: <i>Richard could've
killed Dominique.</i>

1248
01:05:59,668 --> 01:06:00,919
<i>What do you say?</i>

1249
01:06:01,128 --> 01:06:02,421
It pissed me off.

1250
01:06:03,922 --> 01:06:06,800
<i>But it was something
that we weren't educated in</i>

1251
01:06:06,884 --> 01:06:10,095
<i>at the time,
of dealing with alcoholism.</i>

1252
01:06:10,554 --> 01:06:13,557
And all the things
that you think you should do

1253
01:06:13,807 --> 01:06:17,769
is mostly the things that you
should absolutely not do.

1254
01:06:17,853 --> 01:06:20,939
<i>♪ My biggest mistake was
Loving you too much ♪</i>

1255
01:06:21,356 --> 01:06:23,192
♪ <i>And letting you know</i> ♪

1256
01:06:24,276 --> 01:06:26,737
<i>♪ Now you've got me
Where you want me ♪</i>

1257
01:06:26,820 --> 01:06:28,489
♪ <i>And you won't let me go</i> ♪

1258
01:06:29,490 --> 01:06:31,200
<i>♪ If my heart was
Made of glass ♪</i>

1259
01:06:32,576 --> 01:06:34,411
♪ <i>Well, then you'd surely see</i> ♪

1260
01:06:34,495 --> 01:06:36,413
<i>And after that,
there was a whole period</i>

1261
01:06:36,497 --> 01:06:38,499
<i>where he didn't
hardly drink at all.</i>

1262
01:06:38,832 --> 01:06:41,335
<i>So we were holding it at bay.</i>

1263
01:07:13,075 --> 01:07:16,036
(audience applauds and cheers)

1264
01:07:16,119 --> 01:07:20,499
<i>By this point, there was
an experimenting going on</i>

1265
01:07:21,124 --> 01:07:23,627
that led to heroin.

1266
01:07:23,752 --> 01:07:27,631
And I was confused
that the guys wanted

1267
01:07:27,839 --> 01:07:30,092
to play with that fire.

1268
01:07:31,635 --> 01:07:34,429
Dominique: <i>That was devastating.
Nobody had</i>

1269
01:07:34,513 --> 01:07:37,474
any understanding of addiction,

1270
01:07:37,558 --> 01:07:41,478
that it's a mental disorder.
And at the time,

1271
01:07:41,562 --> 01:07:43,480
<i>it felt very much
like a betrayal.</i>

1272
01:07:44,731 --> 01:07:46,608
<i>Robbie might've used,</i>

1273
01:07:46,775 --> 01:07:49,820
<i>he might've drank, he might've
tried different things,</i>

1274
01:07:49,903 --> 01:07:52,114
<i>but he did not have that gene</i>

1275
01:07:52,281 --> 01:07:55,659
that would cause him
to become an addict.

1276
01:07:57,995 --> 01:07:59,079
<i>He had a vision,</i>

1277
01:07:59,162 --> 01:08:00,872
<i>and nothing
was gonna get in the way</i>

1278
01:08:00,956 --> 01:08:02,165
<i>of the vision.</i>

1279
01:08:03,333 --> 01:08:07,462
Taplin: <i>If you think about
the summer of 1969 into 1970,</i>

1280
01:08:07,671 --> 01:08:10,299
Music from Big Pink,
<i>I think Robbie wrote</i>

1281
01:08:10,382 --> 01:08:14,344
<i>less than half the songs.
By the Brown Album,</i>

1282
01:08:14,428 --> 01:08:16,638
<i>he wrote maybe two thirds
of the songs.</i>

1283
01:08:16,805 --> 01:08:20,017
By Stage Fright, <i>he was
writing all of the songs.</i>

1284
01:08:20,475 --> 01:08:23,061
<i>And it wasn't that
he wanted to do that.</i>

1285
01:08:23,478 --> 01:08:25,564
<i>Robbie would start
writing, like,</i>

1286
01:08:25,814 --> 01:08:28,900
<i>at ten in the morning.
And to be honest,</i>

1287
01:08:29,109 --> 01:08:31,903
Levon, and Rick, and Richard,
were still asleep.

1288
01:08:32,821 --> 01:08:35,073
Robbie:
<i>I loved writing with Richard.</i>

1289
01:08:35,699 --> 01:08:38,619
<i>Richard had a beautiful,
melodic ear,</i>

1290
01:08:38,827 --> 01:08:41,246
<i>and he would come up with
chord changes</i>

1291
01:08:41,413 --> 01:08:42,664
<i>I would never find,</i>

1292
01:08:42,914 --> 01:08:48,420
but somehow it just
wasn't happening for him,

1293
01:08:48,629 --> 01:08:53,050
and if I pushed too hard,
it made him feel bad.

1294
01:08:53,884 --> 01:08:55,927
John: <i>With Richard,
it was really poignant.</i>

1295
01:08:56,470 --> 01:08:58,430
I very clearly remember Robbie

1296
01:08:58,513 --> 01:09:01,433
pleading with Richard, asking
him, do you have anything?

1297
01:09:01,642 --> 01:09:04,561
<i>Anything to add to the song?
Richard just didn't have it.</i>

1298
01:09:04,645 --> 01:09:06,313
<i>He didn't have
anything to offer.</i>

1299
01:09:07,731 --> 01:09:10,484
It was up to Robbie
and Garth, primarily,

1300
01:09:10,567 --> 01:09:13,737
to keep driving
the basic creative force,

1301
01:09:13,904 --> 01:09:18,033
<i>and hoping that their friends
would keep on.</i>

1302
01:09:19,660 --> 01:09:21,244
John: <i>During the recording</i>
of Stage Fright,

1303
01:09:21,411 --> 01:09:23,121
<i>heroin was being used.</i>

1304
01:09:23,538 --> 01:09:25,957
<i>It had an effect on their
energy, their ability</i>

1305
01:09:26,124 --> 01:09:29,378
<i>to be present. Levon
would sometimes be</i>

1306
01:09:29,503 --> 01:09:32,297
<i>nodded out upstairs, and it was
a little sad, you know,</i>

1307
01:09:32,381 --> 01:09:34,966
<i>because he would come down,
and you could still see a look</i>

1308
01:09:35,050 --> 01:09:37,260
in his eye that was
a little strange,

1309
01:09:37,386 --> 01:09:38,845
and it was-- it was difficult.

1310
01:09:40,764 --> 01:09:43,975
Bill: <i>This is very different
from the very energetic Levon</i>

1311
01:09:44,059 --> 01:09:46,812
<i>that I used to know,
who was always very wiry,</i>

1312
01:09:46,895 --> 01:09:48,689
<i>always up for action,</i>

1313
01:09:48,814 --> 01:09:51,024
<i>up for going after it,
whatever it may be,</i>

1314
01:09:52,401 --> 01:09:55,821
and now it was like sleepy time.
That's not easy to deal with.

1315
01:09:56,905 --> 01:09:59,116
Dominique: <i>It's hard to connect
with somebody</i>

1316
01:09:59,241 --> 01:10:01,827
<i>who's doing that,
it's hard to trust,</i>

1317
01:10:01,993 --> 01:10:05,622
<i>it's hard to really keep
a friendship going.</i>

1318
01:10:05,747 --> 01:10:09,501
It was beginning to feel
like a real fracture.

1319
01:10:11,002 --> 01:10:13,088
Robbie:
<i>One day I said to Levon,</i>

1320
01:10:13,255 --> 01:10:16,049
<i>"I can see what's going on.
I know you."</i>

1321
01:10:16,508 --> 01:10:20,303
<i>And he was doing
the junkie denial</i>

1322
01:10:20,429 --> 01:10:23,849
and explaining
and making excuses

1323
01:10:24,015 --> 01:10:27,102
and laughing
and slapping me on the back,

1324
01:10:27,394 --> 01:10:30,689
and I'd never had this kind of
an encounter with him before.

1325
01:10:32,983 --> 01:10:36,027
<i>We don't do that.
We don't lie to one another.</i>

1326
01:10:38,697 --> 01:10:41,116
<i>I still loved him,</i>

1327
01:10:41,283 --> 01:10:45,203
<i>but something
got broken in that.</i>

1328
01:10:45,287 --> 01:10:46,788
<i>And it was like glass,</i>

1329
01:10:47,581 --> 01:10:50,167
it was hard to put back
together again.

1330
01:10:52,002 --> 01:10:54,129
Dominique: <i>It was not just
an exasperation,</i>

1331
01:10:54,212 --> 01:10:57,716
<i>it was a feeling that Robbie
could lose everything.</i>

1332
01:10:58,967 --> 01:11:02,220
<i>That brotherhood,
that friendship,</i>

1333
01:11:02,304 --> 01:11:05,932
<i>that bond, that love
that they had for each other.</i>

1334
01:11:06,016 --> 01:11:07,350
<i>They were terrific guys,</i>

1335
01:11:07,434 --> 01:11:10,103
<i>I loved them myself,
all of them,</i>

1336
01:11:10,187 --> 01:11:13,023
but when you begin
to function out of fear

1337
01:11:13,106 --> 01:11:16,026
of losing something,
it's maddening.

1338
01:11:16,693 --> 01:11:19,905
<i>I think I wanted something
that I couldn't have,</i>

1339
01:11:19,988 --> 01:11:23,033
<i>which was normalcy
and a regular schedule.</i>

1340
01:11:23,241 --> 01:11:28,121
<i>After the children were born,
my focus changed entirely.</i>

1341
01:11:28,205 --> 01:11:29,623
♪ ("All La Glory"
by The Band playing) ♪

1342
01:11:29,706 --> 01:11:31,750
♪ <i>Climb up your ladder now</i> ♪

1343
01:11:34,336 --> 01:11:36,755
♪ <i>It's time for you</i> ♪

1344
01:11:36,963 --> 01:11:38,882
♪ <i>To dream away</i> ♪

1345
01:11:41,426 --> 01:11:44,930
<i>♪ For what a big day
You've been through ♪</i>

1346
01:11:46,181 --> 01:11:50,435
Robbie: <i>Our children
were elevating my life,</i>

1347
01:11:50,519 --> 01:11:52,479
<i>they were making everything</i>

1348
01:11:52,562 --> 01:11:55,774
<i>have a beautiful aura
around it,</i>

1349
01:11:55,899 --> 01:11:58,318
<i>except when
I had to go to work,</i>

1350
01:11:58,735 --> 01:12:03,907
and then this darkness,
this cloud came back overhead.

1351
01:12:04,616 --> 01:12:07,410
<i>My family was my saving grace.</i>

1352
01:12:08,078 --> 01:12:12,207
<i>♪ And keep the little one
Safe and warm ♪</i>

1353
01:12:14,251 --> 01:12:17,712
<i>♪ 'Cause to her
It's just a fantasy ♪</i>

1354
01:12:19,005 --> 01:12:23,802
<i>♪ And to me
It's all a mystery ♪</i>

1355
01:12:24,010 --> 01:12:25,554
Robbie: <i>I had to go</i>

1356
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,139
<i>from Woodstock out
to Los Angeles,</i>

1357
01:12:28,306 --> 01:12:31,935
<i>and while I was out there,
I got a message</i>

1358
01:12:32,102 --> 01:12:35,605
that this guy who had
a record company

1359
01:12:35,730 --> 01:12:39,901
wanted to meet with me,
and his name was David Geffen.

1360
01:12:40,068 --> 01:12:42,737
♪ ("Free Man In Paris"
by Joni Mitchell playing) ♪

1361
01:12:48,743 --> 01:12:51,746
♪ <i>The way I see it, he said</i> ♪

1362
01:12:51,830 --> 01:12:54,332
♪ <i>You just can't win it</i> ♪

1363
01:12:54,833 --> 01:12:56,793
In every band,
there is someone

1364
01:12:56,877 --> 01:12:58,962
who ends up being the leader
one way or the other.

1365
01:12:59,045 --> 01:13:00,964
Usually, the star
is the lead singer.

1366
01:13:01,256 --> 01:13:02,340
In The Band, it wasn't.

1367
01:13:03,091 --> 01:13:05,427
<i>Robbie's a star.
You put him in any group,</i>

1368
01:13:05,552 --> 01:13:07,429
<i>Robbie'll start talking,
and telling stories,</i>

1369
01:13:07,512 --> 01:13:09,931
<i>and performing,
and he's a star.</i>

1370
01:13:10,974 --> 01:13:15,103
Taplin: <i>David Geffen was
a manager, a record executive.</i>

1371
01:13:15,687 --> 01:13:19,691
<i>He thought if he could get Bob
Dylan to his record company,</i>

1372
01:13:19,774 --> 01:13:23,695
that would cement him as the
king of the music business.

1373
01:13:24,279 --> 01:13:27,616
David saw Robbie as a way
to make that happen.

1374
01:13:28,408 --> 01:13:31,036
He started romancing Robbie.

1375
01:13:33,121 --> 01:13:36,458
David was incredibly candid,

1376
01:13:36,583 --> 01:13:38,793
incredibly straightforward,

1377
01:13:39,210 --> 01:13:41,379
<i>and back in Woodstock,
in the world</i>

1378
01:13:41,504 --> 01:13:45,216
<i>of Albert Grossman,
and of Bob Dylan,</i>

1379
01:13:45,300 --> 01:13:47,552
<i>a lot was left unsaid.</i>

1380
01:13:48,386 --> 01:13:51,014
<i>There was something
about meeting with David</i>

1381
01:13:51,097 --> 01:13:52,474
<i>that was so open.</i>

1382
01:13:52,724 --> 01:13:54,434
David Geffen: <i>I remember
saying to Robbie,</i>

1383
01:13:54,559 --> 01:13:57,896
of all the places you could
live, why pick Woodstock?

1384
01:13:57,979 --> 01:13:59,898
Because Albert Grossman
lives here?

1385
01:14:00,482 --> 01:14:02,692
<i>I thought it was a shithole,
I mean, I hated it.</i>

1386
01:14:03,401 --> 01:14:06,112
<i>I suggested to Robbie
that he move to Malibu.</i>

1387
01:14:06,696 --> 01:14:09,491
♪ <i>I was a free man in Paris</i> ♪

1388
01:14:09,741 --> 01:14:12,118
♪ <i>I felt unfettered and alive</i> ♪

1389
01:14:12,327 --> 01:14:15,664
<i>♪ There was nobody
Calling me up for favors ♪</i>

1390
01:14:15,747 --> 01:14:18,041
<i>♪ And no one's future
To decide ♪</i>

1391
01:14:18,500 --> 01:14:22,337
If you could imagine, that
move to Malibu, sight unseen,

1392
01:14:22,504 --> 01:14:24,714
it was another
<i>Twilight Zone</i> experiment.

1393
01:14:25,090 --> 01:14:26,216
<i>You know? For me.</i>

1394
01:14:27,425 --> 01:14:31,221
<i>- I guess for all of us.</i>
- Robbie loved it.

1395
01:14:31,596 --> 01:14:34,349
♪ (song continues playing) ♪

1396
01:14:42,357 --> 01:14:44,985
Robbie: <i>It did feel
like something fresh.</i>

1397
01:14:45,276 --> 01:14:47,112
Geffen: <i>He woke up
every morning at the ocean,</i>

1398
01:14:47,529 --> 01:14:48,613
<i>his kids loved it,</i>

1399
01:14:48,780 --> 01:14:51,992
<i>his wife loved it. You know,
I remember Robbie saying to me,</i>

1400
01:14:52,075 --> 01:14:54,494
what the fuck was I doing
in Woodstock?

1401
01:14:56,246 --> 01:15:00,041
I was like, I'm gonna call the
guys, tell 'em to come out here.

1402
01:15:00,208 --> 01:15:04,004
♪ (song continues playing) ♪

1403
01:15:11,136 --> 01:15:13,096
Geffen: <i>I thought it would be
very stimulating for Robbie,</i>

1404
01:15:13,304 --> 01:15:15,015
<i>I thought it would be
stimulating for The Band,</i>

1405
01:15:15,098 --> 01:15:16,266
and Bob was there.

1406
01:15:16,474 --> 01:15:18,518
Robbie was the one
who suggested I meet him.

1407
01:15:19,394 --> 01:15:20,562
Robbie: <i>The next thing,</i>

1408
01:15:20,687 --> 01:15:23,064
<i>David Geffen is saying,
you know,</i>

1409
01:15:23,148 --> 01:15:28,278
<i>it might be a great idea
for Bob Dylan and The Band</i>

1410
01:15:28,361 --> 01:15:31,239
to play together again,
and do a tour.

1411
01:15:31,448 --> 01:15:35,618
♪ ("Endless Highway"
by Bob Dylan and The Band) ♪

1412
01:15:51,801 --> 01:15:54,763
Bob had basically been
in hiding in Woodstock

1413
01:15:54,846 --> 01:15:57,307
<i>since the tour of '66.</i>

1414
01:15:57,432 --> 01:16:00,727
<i>David somehow managed
to convince Bob</i>

1415
01:16:00,894 --> 01:16:02,437
<i>to come out on the road.</i>

1416
01:16:02,562 --> 01:16:04,105
Geffen: <i>No one
had seen Bob for years.</i>

1417
01:16:04,230 --> 01:16:05,440
It created quite a stir.

1418
01:16:05,899 --> 01:16:07,692
Taplin: <i>It was what
David Geffen wanted,</i>

1419
01:16:07,942 --> 01:16:11,488
but David was just pure,
unleashed ambition.

1420
01:16:12,030 --> 01:16:16,367
<i>♪ You're gonna walk
That endless highway ♪</i>

1421
01:16:19,913 --> 01:16:22,916
<i>♪ Walk that highway
Till you die ♪</i>

1422
01:16:24,417 --> 01:16:26,336
Robbie: <i>The last time
we played together,</i>

1423
01:16:26,544 --> 01:16:30,423
<i>in 1966, it wasn't
very well received.</i>

1424
01:16:31,508 --> 01:16:34,677
<i>Now we go out, it was embraced</i>

1425
01:16:35,261 --> 01:16:37,388
like the second coming.

1426
01:16:37,639 --> 01:16:42,143
♪ ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
by Bob Dylan playing) ♪

1427
01:16:44,604 --> 01:16:48,274
Robbie: <i>We didn't change
a thing; the world changed.</i>

1428
01:16:48,608 --> 01:16:49,901
It was kind of a good feeling.

1429
01:16:50,527 --> 01:16:53,988
<i>♪ Mama, take this badge
Off of me ♪</i>

1430
01:16:54,155 --> 01:16:57,534
(cheers and applause)

1431
01:16:57,742 --> 01:17:00,453
♪ <i>I can't use it anymore</i> ♪

1432
01:17:01,496 --> 01:17:03,790
Geffen: <i>I had signed The Band</i>

1433
01:17:03,873 --> 01:17:05,750
<i>and Bob Dylan
to Asylum Records.</i>

1434
01:17:06,167 --> 01:17:07,836
I had a handshake agreement
with them,

1435
01:17:08,086 --> 01:17:09,671
<i>because Bob Dylan said to me,</i>

1436
01:17:09,796 --> 01:17:13,049
"Is my word good for you?"
And I thought, Bob Dylan,

1437
01:17:13,133 --> 01:17:15,468
he wrote "Blowin' in the Wind",
"The Times They Are a-Changin'."

1438
01:17:15,885 --> 01:17:17,220
Yeah, I'll take your word.

1439
01:17:17,428 --> 01:17:20,807
<i>♪ Knock, knock, knockin'
On heaven's door ♪</i>

1440
01:17:23,977 --> 01:17:27,105
<i>♪ Knock, knock, knockin'
On heaven's door ♪</i>

1441
01:17:27,689 --> 01:17:29,691
Bill: <i>What I remember
very clearly,</i>

1442
01:17:29,774 --> 01:17:34,863
<i>after the tour of '74,
they went on tour as The Band,</i>

1443
01:17:35,071 --> 01:17:36,114
and not with Bob Dylan.

1444
01:17:36,406 --> 01:17:38,700
♪ ("The Shape I'm In"
by The Band playing) ♪

1445
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:47,584
<i>♪ Go out yonder
Peace in the valley ♪</i>

1446
01:17:47,792 --> 01:17:51,254
<i>♪ Come downtown
Have to rumble in the alley ♪</i>

1447
01:17:51,421 --> 01:17:54,132
♪ <i>Oh, you don't know</i> ♪

1448
01:17:54,299 --> 01:17:56,176
♪ <i>The shape I'm in</i> ♪

1449
01:17:59,262 --> 01:18:03,016
Bill: <i>After a while touring,
it was very noticeable</i>

1450
01:18:03,183 --> 01:18:06,352
that there was change afoot.

1451
01:18:06,519 --> 01:18:10,732
<i>♪ Oh, you don't know
The shape I'm in ♪</i>

1452
01:18:11,733 --> 01:18:14,861
Bill: <i>We played a gig
in Cleveland...</i>

1453
01:18:15,403 --> 01:18:18,865
(cheers and applause)

1454
01:18:19,741 --> 01:18:22,660
<i>...Richard had been
doing heroin,</i>

1455
01:18:22,744 --> 01:18:24,829
and apparently
he lost his stash.

1456
01:18:25,455 --> 01:18:26,831
Bill Graham:
Sorry about the delay,

1457
01:18:26,915 --> 01:18:28,917
Richard Manuel, the pianist,

1458
01:18:29,125 --> 01:18:32,086
has taken ill, he's being
taken care of backstage.

1459
01:18:32,170 --> 01:18:34,380
The Band is gonna go on in a few
minutes without Richard.

1460
01:18:34,505 --> 01:18:35,798
Hopefully he'll be fine.

1461
01:18:37,675 --> 01:18:39,969
Bill: <i>They actually played
the concert</i>

1462
01:18:40,053 --> 01:18:44,891
<i>as a quartet, without Richard,
and it sounded so strange.</i>

1463
01:18:45,350 --> 01:18:48,561
<i>I kept seeing a lot of looks
between everybody.</i>

1464
01:18:48,811 --> 01:18:50,980
Obviously very uncomfortable
with this.

1465
01:18:51,105 --> 01:18:52,273
♪ ("Twilight"
by The Band playing) ♪

1466
01:18:52,398 --> 01:18:55,318
♪ <i>Over by the wildwood</i> ♪

1467
01:18:55,777 --> 01:18:57,737
♪ <i>Hot summer night</i> ♪

1468
01:18:58,571 --> 01:19:00,698
Robbie:
<i>These guys were soldiers,</i>

1469
01:19:00,990 --> 01:19:04,077
<i>but Richard Manuel
had a disease.</i>

1470
01:19:04,827 --> 01:19:07,330
<i>This band was a real band.</i>

1471
01:19:07,455 --> 01:19:13,461
All those spark plugs needed to
be ignited, or it didn't work.

1472
01:19:13,628 --> 01:19:16,589
<i>♪ But a young man
Serves his country ♪</i>

1473
01:19:17,423 --> 01:19:20,218
<i>♪ And an old man
Guards the home ♪</i>

1474
01:19:20,927 --> 01:19:23,096
Hawkins: <i>At first it was Richard
holding everybody back,</i>

1475
01:19:23,221 --> 01:19:24,305
<i>he wasn't able to play,</i>

1476
01:19:24,389 --> 01:19:25,723
<i>and that's why they called me
out there,</i>

1477
01:19:25,807 --> 01:19:27,475
<i>to try to scare
Richard straight.</i>

1478
01:19:27,850 --> 01:19:28,851
<i>Everybody, all of them</i>

1479
01:19:28,977 --> 01:19:33,690
was good, young, honest,
solid guys, all of 'em.

1480
01:19:33,898 --> 01:19:37,026
Two or three years later, they
were different personalities.

1481
01:19:37,235 --> 01:19:40,697
<i>♪ Don't leave me alone
In the twilight ♪</i>

1482
01:19:41,364 --> 01:19:44,284
Bill: <i>The rhythm section
had definitely fallen into</i>

1483
01:19:44,409 --> 01:19:46,744
heavier drugs.
And once again,

1484
01:19:46,828 --> 01:19:49,539
<i>it was up to Robbie
and Garth, primarily.</i>

1485
01:19:53,835 --> 01:19:56,587
Levon was doing things he'd
never done in a million years

1486
01:19:56,796 --> 01:19:58,131
<i>if it hadn't been for drugs.</i>

1487
01:19:58,423 --> 01:20:02,343
♪ (song continues playing) ♪

1488
01:20:03,886 --> 01:20:07,390
Robbie: <i>Levon often complained
about our lawyer,</i>

1489
01:20:07,473 --> 01:20:11,978
<i>about our manager, and it was
a kind of paranoia.</i>

1490
01:20:12,603 --> 01:20:15,440
<i>I would often say,
"Don't worry,</i>

1491
01:20:15,523 --> 01:20:18,568
if anybody is taking
advantage of us,

1492
01:20:18,651 --> 01:20:21,321
we are gonna stop that
immediately."

1493
01:20:22,447 --> 01:20:25,158
<i>But a bitterness
set in with him.</i>

1494
01:20:27,118 --> 01:20:29,704
Vivino: <i>Levon felt something
was being taken away,</i>

1495
01:20:30,163 --> 01:20:33,333
you know? But families, man,
nobody can feud like a family.

1496
01:20:34,208 --> 01:20:36,711
<i>Families can go
to the grave feuding.</i>

1497
01:20:37,837 --> 01:20:38,963
Dominique:
<i>If a person is getting</i>

1498
01:20:39,130 --> 01:20:40,381
<i>a little more attention,</i>

1499
01:20:40,715 --> 01:20:43,843
<i>resentment can set in,
you know, and jealousy.</i>

1500
01:20:45,178 --> 01:20:49,557
Robbie kept moving forward,
and not everybody could follow.

1501
01:20:49,807 --> 01:20:53,102
♪ (song continues playing) ♪

1502
01:20:54,979 --> 01:20:58,066
Robbie: <i>This is different now.
This is hard.</i>

1503
01:20:58,358 --> 01:21:00,318
<i>This is kinda painful.</i>

1504
01:21:02,236 --> 01:21:04,072
<i>This could be tragic.</i>

1505
01:21:04,697 --> 01:21:07,825
♪ <i>Don't leave me alone</i> ♪

1506
01:21:08,117 --> 01:21:10,244
♪ <i>In the twilight</i> ♪

1507
01:21:11,037 --> 01:21:13,748
Robbie: <i>I don't know
why we're doing this.</i>

1508
01:21:18,878 --> 01:21:20,254
Simon: <i>Robbie told me
he just didn't wanna</i>

1509
01:21:20,338 --> 01:21:22,590
<i>go on the road
with a suitcase full of heroin.</i>

1510
01:21:23,216 --> 01:21:25,760
Robbie was planning
the next step in his life.

1511
01:21:26,677 --> 01:21:29,263
I've always had that sense,
way back

1512
01:21:29,430 --> 01:21:32,517
from when we cut the first album
and we knew we had something,

1513
01:21:33,017 --> 01:21:35,269
and he said he wanted to work
with Ingmar Bergman.

1514
01:21:35,561 --> 01:21:37,855
That's not the usual thing
that a rock n' roller would say.

1515
01:21:37,939 --> 01:21:39,440
"I wanna work
with Ingmar Bergman."

1516
01:21:39,649 --> 01:21:43,236
(waves crashing)

1517
01:21:43,694 --> 01:21:47,907
Robbie: <i>There were many elements
that brought this to a head.</i>

1518
01:21:48,616 --> 01:21:51,244
<i>It wasn't only
because of drugs,</i>

1519
01:21:51,744 --> 01:21:55,498
after you've been together
for 16 years, you think,

1520
01:21:55,581 --> 01:21:57,875
"We need to be able
to catch our breath."

1521
01:21:58,084 --> 01:22:01,170
- (fire crackling)
- Robbie: <i>I thought,</i>

1522
01:22:01,462 --> 01:22:03,923
<i>"If we could get off
the treadmill,</i>

1523
01:22:04,090 --> 01:22:08,136
<i>if we can go and
take care of ourselves,</i>

1524
01:22:08,511 --> 01:22:11,222
<i>we might be able to
come to our senses."</i>

1525
01:22:11,722 --> 01:22:13,724
<i>My solution was,</i>

1526
01:22:13,808 --> 01:22:18,020
let's bring it to a culmination
in the name of music.

1527
01:22:18,104 --> 01:22:19,981
That's how we fight back
on this.

1528
01:22:20,231 --> 01:22:22,900
♪ ("Stage Fright"
by The Band playing) ♪

1529
01:22:24,444 --> 01:22:25,611
Robbie: <i>And we did.</i>

1530
01:22:25,736 --> 01:22:29,824
(song continues)

1531
01:22:44,422 --> 01:22:46,716
Taplin: <i>The concert
came together so quickly</i>

1532
01:22:46,883 --> 01:22:48,092
<i>it was almost shocking.</i>

1533
01:22:48,176 --> 01:22:51,721
<i>I think we started planning
a month before we did it.</i>

1534
01:22:51,929 --> 01:22:55,224
<i>♪ Now deep in the heart
Of a lonely kid ♪</i>

1535
01:22:56,017 --> 01:22:58,895
<i>♪ Who suffered so much
For what he did ♪</i>

1536
01:23:00,062 --> 01:23:03,483
<i>♪ They gave this poor boy
His fortune and fame ♪</i>

1537
01:23:04,150 --> 01:23:07,278
<i>♪ Since that day
He ain't been the same ♪</i>

1538
01:23:08,863 --> 01:23:11,407
Robbie: <i>We decided to do it
with our friends.</i>

1539
01:23:12,950 --> 01:23:15,453
<i>And that's why we felt
comfortable</i>

1540
01:23:15,620 --> 01:23:19,540
with the idea of doing
"The Last Waltz".

1541
01:23:21,083 --> 01:23:22,710
♪ <i>But when we get to the end</i> ♪

1542
01:23:23,377 --> 01:23:25,213
<i>♪ He wants to start
All over again ♪</i>

1543
01:23:27,173 --> 01:23:29,300
<i>♪ Just let him take it
From the top ♪</i>

1544
01:23:29,425 --> 01:23:32,637
Robbie: <i>I'm thinking, we should
document it properly.</i>

1545
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:35,181
<i>Let's think of some filmmaker</i>

1546
01:23:35,389 --> 01:23:37,391
who could tell this story.

1547
01:23:38,893 --> 01:23:40,603
Scorsese:
<i>Robbie called me one day,</i>

1548
01:23:40,728 --> 01:23:42,605
<i>and he said, "These are some
of the names in the lineup:</i>

1549
01:23:42,813 --> 01:23:46,317
<i>Joni Mitchell, Neil Young,
Van Morrison, Muddy Waters,</i>

1550
01:23:46,484 --> 01:23:47,485
<i>Eric Clapton."</i>

1551
01:23:47,693 --> 01:23:50,071
<i>Worse comes to worse,
the Library of Congress</i>

1552
01:23:50,238 --> 01:23:53,824
will have 35mm footage of these
extraordinary people,

1553
01:23:53,908 --> 01:23:56,577
performers and artists,
and that would be it.

1554
01:23:57,328 --> 01:23:59,830
What it became, really,
it was a celebration.

1555
01:24:00,331 --> 01:24:04,001
It was a celebration. It was
all the influences of The Band.

1556
01:24:04,126 --> 01:24:06,504
♪ (music playing) ♪

1557
01:24:10,883 --> 01:24:13,844
Woo! Big time, Bill!

1558
01:24:14,387 --> 01:24:15,846
Big time! Big time!

1559
01:24:15,972 --> 01:24:17,181
Robbie: <i>Ronnie Hawkins,</i>

1560
01:24:17,306 --> 01:24:20,560
<i>when I was 17 years old
with him, I would play</i>

1561
01:24:21,060 --> 01:24:24,564
and he would come over
and fan the guitar

1562
01:24:24,814 --> 01:24:27,817
<i>like it's gonna go up in flames
if I don't cool it down.</i>

1563
01:24:28,568 --> 01:24:30,778
It was just, it was
so heartwarming.

1564
01:24:31,195 --> 01:24:32,488
Aaaah!

1565
01:24:34,699 --> 01:24:36,576
Hawkins: <i>I went out
with the boys a month early</i>

1566
01:24:36,701 --> 01:24:39,453
just to see the rehearsals
because I didn't know

1567
01:24:39,537 --> 01:24:41,664
a lot of these people, I'd never
met 'em. I knew who they were,

1568
01:24:41,747 --> 01:24:42,707
big stars.

1569
01:24:43,124 --> 01:24:44,834
<i>You see a lot
of weird things out there,</i>

1570
01:24:45,042 --> 01:24:47,295
<i>and they paid 35,000 cash</i>

1571
01:24:47,461 --> 01:24:50,047
<i>right in front of me for a
little ole bit of cocaine.</i>

1572
01:24:50,339 --> 01:24:53,134
I snorted a couple lines
and I said, "Boys,

1573
01:24:53,217 --> 01:24:54,760
there's enough flour and sugar
in this shit

1574
01:24:54,844 --> 01:24:55,803
you'll sneeze biscuits

1575
01:24:55,886 --> 01:24:57,930
for three fuckin' months
after you snort this."

1576
01:24:59,473 --> 01:25:01,434
And they ended up
buying another one.

1577
01:25:01,601 --> 01:25:03,561
♪ ("Caravan"
by Van Morrison playing) ♪

1578
01:25:03,686 --> 01:25:06,397
<i>♪ Yeah, the caravan
Is on its way ♪</i>

1579
01:25:07,148 --> 01:25:09,275
All I remember is that it was
more of a celebration

1580
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:10,776
than feeling sad.

1581
01:25:10,860 --> 01:25:12,903
If I didn't know all
these great-- all these people,

1582
01:25:13,779 --> 01:25:15,615
<i>and that was a good gig,
it was fun.</i>

1583
01:25:15,740 --> 01:25:16,866
<i>There was no pondering it.</i>

1584
01:25:16,949 --> 01:25:19,327
It was only gonna happen once.
You know, hey, presto.

1585
01:25:19,493 --> 01:25:24,290
♪ <i>La la la la, la la la</i> ♪

1586
01:25:25,124 --> 01:25:30,046
<i>♪ La la la la
La la la ♪</i>

1587
01:25:31,631 --> 01:25:34,133
<i>♪ Yeah, the caravan is painted
Red and white ♪</i>

1588
01:25:34,258 --> 01:25:37,845
Scorsese: <i>It was a crazy
idea, but we prepared so well.</i>

1589
01:25:38,012 --> 01:25:41,474
<i>I remember doing charts as to
how to shoot, where to shoot,</i>

1590
01:25:41,557 --> 01:25:43,351
<i>which camera picks up
which performer,</i>

1591
01:25:43,476 --> 01:25:47,104
which lyric, which verse,
the chorus, what instrument.

1592
01:25:48,481 --> 01:25:49,899
<i>I said, "We shouldn't show
the audience</i>

1593
01:25:49,982 --> 01:25:51,025
<i>reacting during songs.</i>

1594
01:25:51,150 --> 01:25:52,985
<i>We've seen it,
so we stay on the stage."</i>

1595
01:25:53,778 --> 01:25:55,905
<i>We had hoped to get
the way The Band works,</i>

1596
01:25:56,113 --> 01:25:58,616
<i>the looks, the glances,
the moves.</i>

1597
01:25:58,824 --> 01:26:01,077
<i>So I decided to stay onstage</i>

1598
01:26:01,202 --> 01:26:03,162
<i>with the performers, and how
they relate to each other.</i>

1599
01:26:03,245 --> 01:26:04,789
And that was the key
to the whole piece.

1600
01:26:05,164 --> 01:26:07,500
♪ ("Further On Up the Road"
by Eric Clapton playing) ♪

1601
01:26:08,751 --> 01:26:10,544
Clapton: <i>When I found out
who was on the bill,</i>

1602
01:26:10,670 --> 01:26:11,879
<i>I thought, "My god,</i>

1603
01:26:12,129 --> 01:26:13,464
this is huge," you know?

1604
01:26:13,964 --> 01:26:16,509
(song continues)

1605
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:21,847
Clapton: <i>The main memory
I have of that thing</i>

1606
01:26:22,056 --> 01:26:24,600
<i>is obviously
my strap coming off.</i>

1607
01:26:25,309 --> 01:26:26,477
Whoa!

1608
01:26:27,228 --> 01:26:29,855
Robbie: <i>His strap broke,
so I jumped in.</i>

1609
01:26:30,106 --> 01:26:32,525
<i>You've gotta cover his back,
he was our guest!</i>

1610
01:26:33,442 --> 01:26:36,153
(song continues)

1611
01:26:42,952 --> 01:26:45,996
Robbie: <i>And then he's like,
"Wait a minute, pal,</i>

1612
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:49,250
<i>let's not get
too fancy over there."</i>

1613
01:26:49,583 --> 01:26:52,586
(song continues)

1614
01:27:05,683 --> 01:27:07,393
♪ <i>Further on up the road</i> ♪

1615
01:27:08,185 --> 01:27:10,688
Clapton: <i>What I remember
about it, it was just...</i>

1616
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:12,940
<i>so free, it was...</i>

1617
01:27:13,023 --> 01:27:15,359
<i>and I mean, nobody knew
what was gonna happen next.</i>

1618
01:27:16,152 --> 01:27:18,112
And I loved it, I loved it.

1619
01:27:18,279 --> 01:27:19,780
I didn't want it to ever end.

1620
01:27:20,072 --> 01:27:21,824
♪ ("I Shall Be Released"
by Bob Dylan playing) ♪

1621
01:27:21,991 --> 01:27:24,326
♪ <i>I see my light</i> ♪

1622
01:27:24,535 --> 01:27:27,538
♪ <i>Come shining</i> ♪

1623
01:27:30,416 --> 01:27:35,129
<i>♪ From the west
Down to the east ♪</i>

1624
01:27:38,466 --> 01:27:41,385
♪ <i>Any day now</i> ♪

1625
01:27:42,595 --> 01:27:45,681
♪ <i>Any day now</i> ♪

1626
01:27:46,557 --> 01:27:51,061
♪ <i>I shall be released</i> ♪

1627
01:27:52,688 --> 01:27:54,315
Robbie: <i>"The Last Waltz"</i>

1628
01:27:54,440 --> 01:27:58,152
<i>was such a beautiful thank-you</i>

1629
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:01,864
to this wonderful journey
that we'd been on,

1630
01:28:02,031 --> 01:28:05,367
and the amazing
experiences we had.

1631
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:09,163
The whole thing was so moving.

1632
01:28:09,789 --> 01:28:12,625
♪ <i>Any day now</i> ♪

1633
01:28:13,709 --> 01:28:16,504
♪ <i>Any day now</i> ♪

1634
01:28:17,588 --> 01:28:22,343
♪ <i>I shall be released...</i> ♪

1635
01:28:24,762 --> 01:28:28,098
(cheers and applause)

1636
01:28:35,648 --> 01:28:37,149
Thank you very much.

1637
01:28:40,152 --> 01:28:43,447
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.

1638
01:29:04,635 --> 01:29:06,262
♪ (music playing) ♪

1639
01:29:06,387 --> 01:29:08,639
<i>♪ When that curtain
Comes down ♪</i>

1640
01:29:10,724 --> 01:29:13,352
♪ <i>We let go of the past</i> ♪

1641
01:29:15,062 --> 01:29:18,148
♪ <i>Tomorrow's another day</i> ♪

1642
01:29:19,233 --> 01:29:22,069
<i>♪ Some things weren't
Meant to last ♪</i>

1643
01:29:22,736 --> 01:29:25,030
We need a little bit more
of the harp

1644
01:29:25,781 --> 01:29:29,201
in the intro and in
the first turnaround.

1645
01:29:29,493 --> 01:29:32,413
You want a little bit more,
like, grit on it, or...

1646
01:29:32,788 --> 01:29:36,125
Yeah, just a little
more atmosphere. Not so dry.

1647
01:29:36,375 --> 01:29:37,835
Yeah, got it.

1648
01:29:40,254 --> 01:29:43,257
<i>♪ Some things weren't
Meant to last ♪</i>

1649
01:29:44,884 --> 01:29:47,177
Robbie: <i>We did "The Last Waltz"</i>

1650
01:29:47,678 --> 01:29:51,557
with the idea that
we would put that away,

1651
01:29:51,724 --> 01:29:53,767
take care of one another a bit,

1652
01:29:54,393 --> 01:29:57,980
and really come back
together again

1653
01:29:58,147 --> 01:30:01,483
and make music like
we had never made before.

1654
01:30:01,567 --> 01:30:04,528
That was our dream.
That was the idea.

1655
01:30:06,238 --> 01:30:09,033
<i>Everybody just forgot
to come back.</i>

1656
01:30:09,283 --> 01:30:10,701
(song continues)

1657
01:30:10,868 --> 01:30:13,203
♪ <i>There'll be no revival</i> ♪

1658
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:17,666
♪ <i>There'll be no encore</i> ♪

1659
01:30:20,002 --> 01:30:22,588
♪ <i>Once were brothers</i> ♪

1660
01:30:23,881 --> 01:30:26,508
♪ <i>Were brothers no more</i> ♪

1661
01:30:30,304 --> 01:30:31,680
Dominique: <i>I was the first one</i>

1662
01:30:31,889 --> 01:30:33,307
<i>who was heartbroken,
in a way,</i>

1663
01:30:33,390 --> 01:30:35,351
<i>because I loved
The Band so much,</i>

1664
01:30:36,101 --> 01:30:37,603
<i>you know, and it felt like</i>

1665
01:30:37,686 --> 01:30:40,272
it's closing this book,
this chapter.

1666
01:30:41,732 --> 01:30:43,609
Robbie: <i>If somebody had said,</i>

1667
01:30:43,692 --> 01:30:45,903
<i>I've got a couple
of tunes started,</i>

1668
01:30:46,028 --> 01:30:51,325
we're dying to go in
and create some music,

1669
01:30:52,451 --> 01:30:54,328
I would've said yes in a minute.

1670
01:30:55,079 --> 01:30:56,121
Helm: <i>By that time</i>

1671
01:30:56,205 --> 01:30:58,332
<i>I don't think you could've
kept The Band together.</i>

1672
01:30:58,582 --> 01:31:00,793
<i>Everybody had something
they wanted to do,</i>

1673
01:31:01,043 --> 01:31:03,671
<i>and after "The Last Waltz, "</i>

1674
01:31:03,837 --> 01:31:05,756
we started chasing those dreams.

1675
01:31:09,259 --> 01:31:10,844
Robbie: <i>Some years later,</i>

1676
01:31:11,595 --> 01:31:13,973
<i>Levon was having a tough time.</i>

1677
01:31:15,849 --> 01:31:17,267
<i>And out of that,</i>

1678
01:31:17,893 --> 01:31:19,937
<i>his anger was aimed at me.</i>

1679
01:31:20,604 --> 01:31:23,440
♪ ("It Makes No Difference"
by The Band playing) ♪

1680
01:31:23,774 --> 01:31:27,277
Taplin: <i>In the end, Levon
contended that somehow</i>

1681
01:31:27,403 --> 01:31:31,365
<i>he should've gotten a lot
of the songwriting revenue.</i>

1682
01:31:31,573 --> 01:31:34,118
And he just got more
and more pissed off.

1683
01:31:35,953 --> 01:31:37,079
Hawkins: <i>I can see why</i>

1684
01:31:37,204 --> 01:31:39,289
<i>Levon might say
something like that,</i>

1685
01:31:39,373 --> 01:31:41,667
because he was really good at
helping arrange.

1686
01:31:42,126 --> 01:31:43,377
But Robbie wrote all the songs.

1687
01:31:43,544 --> 01:31:45,546
Robbie was writing songs
when he was 15 years old.

1688
01:31:46,672 --> 01:31:48,841
<i>And the rest of the boys
helped arrange the songs,</i>

1689
01:31:49,133 --> 01:31:50,759
<i>which is
a little bit different.</i>

1690
01:31:51,385 --> 01:31:54,471
Larry Campbell: <i>Levon's point
was that these were five guys</i>

1691
01:31:54,763 --> 01:31:56,724
<i>that all played a role</i>

1692
01:31:56,807 --> 01:31:59,935
<i>in making The Band what it was.</i>

1693
01:32:00,853 --> 01:32:05,482
I mean, the combination of those
five guys was so unique,

1694
01:32:05,607 --> 01:32:07,901
and so he felt as though Robbie

1695
01:32:08,027 --> 01:32:10,487
<i>were claiming all the credit
for himself.</i>

1696
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:14,575
<i>You could kinda see in Levon,
through this bitterness,</i>

1697
01:32:14,700 --> 01:32:17,911
that because of his
interpretation of what happened,

1698
01:32:18,037 --> 01:32:20,205
he was really hurting, you know?

1699
01:32:20,497 --> 01:32:22,041
<i>He just let it chew him up.</i>

1700
01:32:22,207 --> 01:32:25,669
♪ <i>And the sun</i> ♪

1701
01:32:25,836 --> 01:32:28,213
♪ <i>Don't shine</i> ♪

1702
01:32:29,798 --> 01:32:33,260
♪ <i>Anymore</i> ♪

1703
01:32:35,304 --> 01:32:36,930
Hawkins: <i>When Levon
ran out of money,</i>

1704
01:32:37,139 --> 01:32:38,932
<i>that's when he went crazy,</i>

1705
01:32:39,058 --> 01:32:40,726
<i>because he had been
living high.</i>

1706
01:32:40,809 --> 01:32:43,353
But Levon's kind of like me,
he gets mad

1707
01:32:43,437 --> 01:32:45,898
and says things he shouldn't
say, and goes crazy.

1708
01:32:47,316 --> 01:32:49,568
Levon and Robbie
were best friends,

1709
01:32:49,693 --> 01:32:52,780
were brothers, I mean,
Levon showed him the ropes.

1710
01:32:53,614 --> 01:32:55,407
<i>So it was very sad</i>

1711
01:32:56,116 --> 01:32:57,785
<i>that that's how he felt</i>

1712
01:32:58,077 --> 01:33:00,412
<i>and that, you know,
that's what he believed.</i>

1713
01:33:02,539 --> 01:33:05,000
Robbie: <i>Years later,
I got a message</i>

1714
01:33:05,501 --> 01:33:08,128
<i>that Levon was in the hospital</i>

1715
01:33:09,838 --> 01:33:10,923
<i>and he was dying.</i>

1716
01:33:12,966 --> 01:33:16,053
<i>I got on a plane
and I went to the hospital.</i>

1717
01:33:17,346 --> 01:33:19,640
<i>Levon wasn't conscious anymore.</i>

1718
01:33:20,724 --> 01:33:25,062
His daughter was there
and she took me into the room,

1719
01:33:25,270 --> 01:33:27,981
I sat with him
and I held his hand

1720
01:33:28,941 --> 01:33:30,776
and I thought about

1721
01:33:31,860 --> 01:33:35,489
<i>the amazing times
that we had had together.</i>

1722
01:33:37,616 --> 01:33:39,535
<i>We'd been on the front lines</i>

1723
01:33:39,743 --> 01:33:42,496
<i>of two or three
musical revolutions.</i>

1724
01:33:44,081 --> 01:33:47,668
<i>And now we're just left
with these memories.</i>

1725
01:33:49,586 --> 01:33:51,547
<i>So I sat with my brother,</i>

1726
01:33:51,713 --> 01:33:53,298
<i>and held his hand.</i>

1727
01:33:54,341 --> 01:33:55,467
<i>You know, I said,</i>

1728
01:33:55,634 --> 01:33:59,096
Levon, I'll meet you
on the other end.

1729
01:34:03,058 --> 01:34:05,185
♪ ("The Night They Drove
Old Dixie Down" by The Band) ♪

1730
01:34:06,061 --> 01:34:08,438
♪ <i>Virgil Caine is the name</i> ♪

1731
01:34:08,605 --> 01:34:11,692
<i>♪ And I served
On the Danville train ♪</i>

1732
01:34:13,193 --> 01:34:15,737
♪ <i>'Til Stoneman's cavalry came</i> ♪

1733
01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:19,533
<i>♪ And they tore up
The tracks again ♪</i>

1734
01:34:21,076 --> 01:34:25,455
<i>♪ In the winter of '65,
We were hungry ♪</i>

1735
01:34:25,831 --> 01:34:27,833
♪ <i>Just barely alive</i> ♪

1736
01:34:28,667 --> 01:34:31,753
<i>♪ By May the tenth,
Richmond had fell ♪</i>

1737
01:34:31,962 --> 01:34:35,090
♪ <i>It's a time I remember</i> ♪

1738
01:34:35,174 --> 01:34:38,719
♪ <i>Oh so well</i> ♪

1739
01:34:39,094 --> 01:34:44,600
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1740
01:34:45,225 --> 01:34:47,644
<i>♪ When all the bells
Were ringing ♪</i>

1741
01:34:47,853 --> 01:34:52,316
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1742
01:34:53,192 --> 01:34:56,195
<i>♪ And all the people
Were singing, they went ♪</i>

1743
01:34:56,361 --> 01:35:00,032
♪ <i>Na, la, la, la, na, na</i> ♪

1744
01:35:00,115 --> 01:35:03,744
<i>♪ La la, na, na
La, la, la, la, la ♪</i>

1745
01:35:07,915 --> 01:35:11,293
<i>♪ Back with my wife
In Tennessee ♪</i>

1746
01:35:12,085 --> 01:35:14,963
<i>♪ When one day
She called to me ♪</i>

1747
01:35:16,715 --> 01:35:19,760
<i>♪ Said "Virgil, quick,
Come and see ♪</i>

1748
01:35:20,052 --> 01:35:22,763
<i>♪ There goes
The Robert E. Lee" ♪</i>

1749
01:35:23,889 --> 01:35:27,059
<i>♪ Now I don't mind
Choppin' wood ♪</i>

1750
01:35:27,601 --> 01:35:31,813
<i>♪ And I don't care
If the money's no good ♪</i>

1751
01:35:31,897 --> 01:35:34,650
<i>♪ You take what you need
And you leave the rest ♪</i>

1752
01:35:35,150 --> 01:35:38,403
<i>♪ But they should never
Have taken ♪</i>

1753
01:35:38,528 --> 01:35:42,407
♪ <i>The very best</i> ♪

1754
01:35:43,116 --> 01:35:48,121
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1755
01:35:49,122 --> 01:35:51,500
<i>♪ When all the bells
Were ringing ♪</i>

1756
01:35:51,583 --> 01:35:56,421
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1757
01:35:56,588 --> 01:35:59,424
<i>♪ And all the people
Were singing ♪</i>

1758
01:35:59,591 --> 01:36:03,262
<i>♪ They went, "Na, la, la
La, na, na ♪</i>

1759
01:36:03,804 --> 01:36:08,058
<i>♪ La la, na, na
La, la, la, na, na" ♪</i>

1760
01:36:15,774 --> 01:36:18,235
♪ <i>Like my father before me</i> ♪

1761
01:36:19,236 --> 01:36:22,197
♪ <i>I will work the land</i> ♪

1762
01:36:23,782 --> 01:36:27,077
♪ <i>And like my brother above me</i> ♪

1763
01:36:27,494 --> 01:36:30,080
♪ <i>Who took a rebel stand</i> ♪

1764
01:36:30,956 --> 01:36:34,418
<i>♪ He was just eighteen
Proud and brave ♪</i>

1765
01:36:34,751 --> 01:36:38,797
<i>♪ But a Yankee laid him
In his grave ♪</i>

1766
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:41,925
<i>♪ And I swear by the mud
Below my feet ♪</i>

1767
01:36:42,384 --> 01:36:45,345
<i>♪ You can't raise
A Caine back up ♪</i>

1768
01:36:45,554 --> 01:36:49,933
♪ <i>When he's in defeat</i> ♪

1769
01:36:50,183 --> 01:36:55,522
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1770
01:36:56,189 --> 01:36:58,817
<i>♪ When all the bells
Were ringing ♪</i>

1771
01:36:59,151 --> 01:37:03,488
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1772
01:37:04,323 --> 01:37:07,034
<i>♪ And all the people
Were singing, they went ♪</i>

1773
01:37:07,284 --> 01:37:11,038
♪ <i>"Na, la, la, la, na, na</i> ♪

1774
01:37:11,288 --> 01:37:14,875
<i>♪ La la, na, na
La, la, la, na, na" ♪</i>

1775
01:37:23,300 --> 01:37:28,638
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1776
01:37:29,056 --> 01:37:31,058
♪ <i>The bells were ringing</i> ♪

1777
01:37:31,183 --> 01:37:35,896
<i>♪ The night they drove
Old Dixie down ♪</i>

1778
01:37:36,813 --> 01:37:38,899
<i>♪ And all the people
Were singing ♪</i>

1779
01:37:38,982 --> 01:37:42,986
<i>♪ They went, "Na, la, la
La, na, na, na ♪</i>

1780
01:37:43,570 --> 01:37:47,449
<i>♪ La la, na, na
La, la, la, na, na" ♪</i>

1781
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:59,044
(cheers and applause)

1782
01:38:05,884 --> 01:38:10,931
♪ ("Ophelia"
by the Band playing) ♪

1783
01:38:18,939 --> 01:38:23,110
<i>♪ Boards on the window,
Mail by the door ♪</i>

1784
01:38:24,069 --> 01:38:28,031
<i>♪ What would anybody leave
So quickly for? ♪</i>

1785
01:38:28,281 --> 01:38:30,325
♪ <i>Ophelia</i> ♪

1786
01:38:33,036 --> 01:38:35,080
♪ <i>Where have you gone?</i> ♪

1787
01:38:39,835 --> 01:38:44,172
<i>♪ The old neighborhood
Just ain't the same ♪</i>

1788
01:38:45,132 --> 01:38:49,469
<i>♪ Nobody knows
Just what became of ♪</i>

1789
01:38:49,553 --> 01:38:51,304
♪ <i>Ophelia</i> ♪

1790
01:38:53,348 --> 01:38:55,892
♪ <i>Tell me, what went wrong?</i> ♪

1791
01:39:01,148 --> 01:39:04,526
<i>♪ Was it somethin'
That somebody said? ♪</i>

1792
01:39:06,236 --> 01:39:09,322
<i>♪ Mama, I know
We broke the rules ♪</i>

1793
01:39:11,533 --> 01:39:15,495
<i>♪ Was somebody up
Against the law? ♪</i>

1794
01:39:16,746 --> 01:39:21,418
<i>♪ Honey, you know
I'd die for you ♪</i>

1795
01:39:21,835 --> 01:39:26,214
<i>♪ Ashes of laughter,
The coast is clear ♪</i>

1796
01:39:26,965 --> 01:39:30,802
<i>♪ Why do the best things
Always disappear ♪</i>

1797
01:39:30,969 --> 01:39:33,305
♪ <i>Like Ophelia</i> ♪

1798
01:39:35,056 --> 01:39:37,642
♪ <i>Please darken my door</i> ♪

1799
01:40:24,523 --> 01:40:28,276
<i>♪ Was it somethin'
That somebody said? ♪</i>

1800
01:40:29,653 --> 01:40:32,447
<i>♪ Honey, you know
We broke the rules ♪</i>

1801
01:40:34,783 --> 01:40:38,411
<i>♪ Was somebody up
Against the law? ♪</i>

1802
01:40:40,038 --> 01:40:44,584
<i>♪ Honey, you know
I'd die for you ♪</i>

1803
01:40:44,918 --> 01:40:46,836
♪ <i>They got your number</i> ♪

1804
01:40:47,879 --> 01:40:49,464
♪ <i>Scared and runnin</i>' ♪

1805
01:40:50,131 --> 01:40:53,843
<i>♪ But I'm still waitin'
For the second comin' ♪</i>

1806
01:40:54,010 --> 01:40:56,096
♪ <i>Of Ophelia</i> ♪

1807
01:40:58,848 --> 01:41:01,101
♪ <i>Come back home</i> ♪