THE LAST WALTZ

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Posted on 19th November 2011 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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If you’ve never seen this movie, it’s the greatest concert film ever made. Martin Scorcese directed it in 1976.

 

 

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  1. AKAnon says:

    A great flick indeed-my folks took me to see it as a teenager. I have at least a couple disks from each of your featured bands in my “road trip” collection. Also Janis, Grateful Dead & Warren Zevon-Don’t leave home without them.

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    19th November 2011 at 5:41 pm

  2. Colma Rising says:

    Grateful Dead Eats Shit

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    19th November 2011 at 5:43 pm

  3. Colma Rising says:

    Akanon:

    Remember that 21st Century Digital Boy post where everybody started with the King Crimson? One of the kids who made the video posted and gave props to K C… Now that’s old music that I can dig!!!

    LOL

    Those weekend videos aren’t so useless after all… Komrade Kurr actually registered, I think.

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    19th November 2011 at 5:48 pm

  4. AKAnon says:

    21st Century Schizoid Man? Yeah, I remember. I posted the King Crimson link. For a self-proclaimed “E-tard”, I felt like a fucking hero getting the link to work. Grateful Dead is in the eye of the beholder-really early stuff with Pigpen was pretty rockin’. That dude could sing the blues.

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    19th November 2011 at 6:34 pm

  5. flash says:

    +10

    I own this own VCR and DVD…greatest concert ever filmed.

    BTW, the Night They Drove ole’ Dixie
    Down is one of the finest pieces of music ever recorded.

    The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics
    Songwriters: Robertson, Robbie;

    Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
    ‘Til Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
    In the winter of ’65, we were hungry, just barely alive
    By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
    It’s a time I remember, oh so well

    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And the bells were ringing
    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And the people were singing
    They went, “La, la, la”

    Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me
    “Virgil, quick, come see, there go the Robert E.Lee”
    Now I don’t mind choppin’ wood, and I don’t care if the money’s no good
    Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest
    But they should never have taken the very best

    The night they drove old Dixie down
    [. From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/band-lyrics/the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-lyrics.html .]
    And the bells were ringing
    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And all the people were singing
    They went, “La, la, la”

    Like my father before me, I will work the land
    And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
    He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
    I swear by the mud below my feet
    You can’t raise a Caine back up when he’s in defeat

    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And the bells were ringing
    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And all the people were singing
    They went, “Na, na, na”

    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And all the bells were ringing
    The night they drove old Dixie down
    And the people were singing
    They went, “Na, na, na”

    © CANAAN MUSIC INC; WB MUSIC CORP.;

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    19th November 2011 at 6:45 pm

  6. Colma Rising says:

    Flash:

    What in the hell is a “V C R”?

    Is that a reference to the first Star Trek movie?

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    19th November 2011 at 7:04 pm

  7. Stucky says:

    What in the hell is a “V C R”?

    Simple.

    Venereal Colma Rising — a sexual disease derived by licking Boomer testicles.

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    19th November 2011 at 7:39 pm

  8. Colma Rising says:

    StuchenCreamer said:

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    ” …a sexual disease derived by licking Boomer testicles.”

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    19th November 2011 at 7:45 pm

  9. Diogenes says:

    In the early days the Dead were all about their live shows. Once in every 20 or 30 shows they would achieve magic. I was no deadhead but was lucky enough to see for myself one night. They finished and left the stage. No applause…no calls for an encore…nothing. After about 5 minutes or so everybody came out of it. Haven’t seen anything like it since. And it wasn’t just the pot – there was always weed; even on the nights they sucked.

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    19th November 2011 at 7:53 pm

  10. Colma Rising says:

    Diogenes:

    The last time I saw the Dead, it looked like Garcia was being propped up by a mic stand…

    Mediocre… like the Beatles.

    GDES

    BES

    (What happened to that Irrationalizer guy? Saying the Dead sucked got his feathers ruffled too.)

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    19th November 2011 at 7:59 pm

  11. Stucky says:

    Colma Kitty on his way to getting VCR
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    Priceless advice from an old skank.
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    19th November 2011 at 8:02 pm

  12. Diogenes says:

    Colma –

    Like I said, I wasn’t a deadhead and they did suck sometimes. Never saw them again after I left Berkeley in 1971. But that one night surely was an amazing thing to see.

    I was more into The Jeff Beck Group and Fleetwood Mack in those days.

    And yeah, I know; JBES & FMES

    I’ve always loved wise-ass…WAES?

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    19th November 2011 at 8:22 pm

  13. Muck About says:

    Flash sez” : “The Night They Drove ole’ Dixie Down”, is one of the finest pieces of music ever recorded.” This is about the first thing – well maybe the third or forth thing that Flash has said that I heartily agree with.

    It’s a wail of defeat by a dying cause, looking forward into a bleak future.

    Perhaps we should write something that reflects what we are facing but it would take far more talent that mine to even attempt it.

    MA

    PS : You just gotta love Betty White. That’s a true quote by the way!

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    19th November 2011 at 8:28 pm

  14. Administrator says:

    flash

    I had a feeling you would like that song. I left it is as the finale. It is a great song.

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    19th November 2011 at 8:30 pm

  15. Colma Rising says:

    Diogenes:

    I heard Punky’s more fluid than Jeff Beck (6:10-6:20)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7SiJygZK0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC2A90169201C281B

    Stuchenstein would love this one too… I guess Austrians are obsessed with lips and balls.

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    19th November 2011 at 8:35 pm

  16. Diogenes says:

    Colma -

    Amazing…never heard that line before; and I love Jeff Beck like flash loves Dylan. How’d you have that so handy?

    Zappa and Captain Beefheart went to high school together. What are the odds of something like that happening? The Captain was more my style – y’think Punky’s more fluid than Ry Cooder?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMNSXq1VG8I

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    19th November 2011 at 8:59 pm

  17. Colma Rising says:

    Diogenes… I was a Zappa freak in High School. That album is burned with laser precision in my psyche.

    Beefheart rocks.

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    Beware, as I might just have to post some other shit.

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    19th November 2011 at 9:19 pm

  18. Diogenes says:

    Colma – post away; the shit we’re in, I’m always ready for other shit.

    I post other shit here and elsewhere all the time.

    Admin recently put up the new Black Keys video. They have covered the Captain:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbKHJO3ygg

    New Keys album in a couple of weeks. BKES?

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    19th November 2011 at 9:36 pm

  19. Colma Rising says:

    BKES

    I’ll submit som Bad Religion stuff tonight…

    It will be a compare/contrast.

    I’ll be back with some shit in a minute…

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    19th November 2011 at 10:13 pm

  20. Diogenes says:

    Colma, you’re grow’n on me.

    You’ve mentioned them before, right? I used to listen to them a lot back when MTV didn’t suck and had 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation. Drove my wife nuts; she hated that shit.

    Not me – I’m not a boomer; I’m a rocknrolla. And if it’s got a taste of delta, better yet. And I’ve passed it on to my (millenial) daughters.

    Another site posted this today – couldn’t believe I’d forgotten this song::

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJz9-4N-s0&feature=player_embedded#!

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    19th November 2011 at 10:39 pm

  21. Colma Rising says:

    Diogenes: That’s fucking awesome!

    I’m going to sneak the playlist into the mix tonight.

    Sisters of Mercy…

    I must’ve been in a cave.

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    19th November 2011 at 10:57 pm

  22. Colma Rising says:

    I’ve posted this before… but enjoy if you’re out there, because the neo-keynesian textbooks say it will be so…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC2lekU4bLE

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    19th November 2011 at 11:11 pm

  23. Colma Rising says:

    Testing imbed skillz…

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    19th November 2011 at 11:14 pm

  24. Colma Rising says:

    Yeah, that didn’t wok at all. Click the fucking link.

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    19th November 2011 at 11:14 pm

  25. Diogenes says:

    Thanks Colma – seem’s I’m always out there…

    Clicked it and liked it. I lost track of them…now I have more to catch up on.

    Same as it ever was.

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    19th November 2011 at 5:51 am

  26. Zara says:

    I was in college what that movie came out. A couple of friends and I drove fifty miles to find a theatre that was showing it.

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    19th November 2011 at 4:38 pm

  27. AKAnon says:

    Enough Doom & serious shit for the night. Had to watch the rest of the Last Waltz vids-great stuff. Thanks for posting, Admin. Felt obliged to bring Rock of Ages out of the truck & pop in the CD changer. Ahhh, decompression, at least for a while.

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    19th November 2011 at 1:12 am

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