The Last Waltz

[Don Vito Corleone]

I am trying to watch The Last Waltz on HDMOV. It's an appealing movie in that it has lots of brilliant live performances by musicians I like, including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, and Muddy Waters, among many others, and it's interesting to watch a coked-up Martin Scorsese interviewing musicians.

That being said, I guess I just don't get The Band. They are discussed with outright reverence in this movie, but I regard their music as fairly typical bar-band white-boy blues, and essentially boring. Why do they get such respect?

 

[NTB]

Part of it, as you said in your own post, is some of the people they worked with. They also did some neat things. For instance, their last live concert was held on the evening of Thanks Giving - and they catered a full Thanks Giving dinner for everybody there 🙂

Nate

 

[deftron]

That Thanksgiving concert was
The LAst Waltz, I think

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: deftron
That Thanksgiving concert was
The LAst Waltz, I think

You're right. Just read it on Wikipedia. I've only heard the music; haven't watched the movie.

Nate