Re: Dr.John

On 7 jan, 17:04, "Peter Stone Brown" <ps...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Annie Mc" <anniemcne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message

>Dr John was involved with Rock of Ages.  The Band engaged Allan
>Touissant from New Orleans to do the horn arrangements (they had
>already worked with him on Life is a Carnival) and he came to NY to do
>just that.  But because of the tight timeframes, they also called in
>other good friends from New Orleans - these friends being Dr John and
>Bobby Charles - just to help out.  And then of course Dr John and
>Bobby Charles both appeared at The Last Waltz.  All this info from
>Barney Hoskyns' great bio of The Band called Across The Great Divide.

>Played Rock of Ages last night after reading your post - great as ever.

Thanks for your reply. I noticed the photo long ago but didn't know
the story behind it.
Do you know if there's any video or photo footage of Bobby Charles
performing on the last waltz?
I've read about him beeing edited out because of visible drug usement.
Do you know if this is true?

Thanks again,
Henk