On Jan 15, 2:04=A0am, Hekkie <henk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 12 jan, 04:27, Annie Mc <anniemcne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jan 11, 2:33=A0am, Hekkie <henk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On 7 jan, 17:04, "Peter Stone Brown" <ps...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > "Annie Mc" <anniemcne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >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
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> > > >just that. =A0But because of the tight timeframes, they also called
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> > > >other good friends from New Orleans - these friends being Dr John
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> > > >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
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> > > >Played Rock of Ages last night after reading your post - great as
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> > > 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?
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> > > Thanks again,
> > > Henk
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> > Henk
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> > 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.
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> > 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. =A0Well,
when
> > I went back to look at it again the other day, it had been removed due
> > to "a copyright claim by NBC Universal". =A0And then another one
> > disappeared with the same reason stated. =A0Yesterday 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....- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk
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> Hi Annie,
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> I've watched TLW with the Scorcese comments and he says they were
> constantly out of film on several camara's. Thats why there are some
> long shots from just one camera (like Muddy Waters) just because it
> was the only footage he had. Still it's strange that all the quest
> stars appear in the film accept Bobby Charles. I got the official cd
> release of the last waltz and again, in the booklet, no photos of
> Bobby Charles. (while there are photo's of any other artistthat
> performed) I've read several articles in magazines claiming that the
> reason was that he had obvious cocaine traces hanging on his nose.
> There are several re****ts from that evening talking of a 'white room'
> backstage. Still, just rumours, but I'm very curious about any footage
> there is. There were some clips on youtube a while ago from a bootleg
> DVD "the lost waltz' with video that was shot from the audience. Not
> very good quality but there is something out there. -those clips are
> also removed :-(
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> Did you see this bootleg DVD?
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> cheers,
> Henk
No Henk, I haven't seen it - but have read about it on The Band's
website - it certainly has all the performances (including Bobby
Charles doing Down South In New Orleans and Richard and The Band doing
Georgia) - that are missing from the official release. Re drug use,
it is a common "fact" or "myth" that Neil Young came out to perform
with cocaine still hanging from his nose and it was edited out - so
that can't be the role reason for Bobby Charles' exclusion. And as
for The Band's performances, eg Georgia, I've read that their
exclusion is that there was a feeling that Richard's vocal and the
overall performance were just not good enough. And as said above,
even if these outtakes come to life on YouTube, it seems that they
will be quickly be made unavailable due to copyright restrictions.
However having said that I just checked again on YouTube and there are
a number of performances taken from the official The Last Waltz that
are still freely available - go figure!
Cheers
Annie
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