On Jan 11, 2:33=A0am, Hekkie <henk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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. =A0The 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. =A0But 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. =A0And then of course Dr John and
> >Bobby Charles both appeared at The Last Waltz. =A0All 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
Henk
Not sure why he was edited out (there were a number that were
including a number of The Band songs that I would love to see
including Georgia and King Harvest) - but I believe when you listen to
the Scorcese commentary on the making of The Last Waltz on the latest
reissue of LW, he indicates there were times that they simply had to
take breaks.
Recently, there was a post in rec.music.dylan about The Band receiving
a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award and a contributor dug up some
wonderful Band performances on YouTube including Georgia. Well, when
I went back to look at it again the other day, it had been removed due
to "a copyright claim by NBC Universal". And then another one
disappeared with the same reason stated. Yesterday I searched and
favourited a number of Last Waltz performances on YouTube that are
taken from the offical release - I'll be keeping an eye on these and
see what the fate of these are.... Can only suggest you search YouTube
re Bobby Charles and see what turns up - with luck (a) you might find
something and (b) it might stay around....
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