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Post by rick on Apr 19, 2012 15:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Apr 19, 2012 15:29:37 GMT -5
Does anyone else here get the feeling that people in the entertainment/media world are dropping like flies at an accelerated rate these days?
This is another real sad loss in rock, for what Levon and The Band have meant to it (IMHO).
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Post by sliderocker on Apr 20, 2012 0:46:14 GMT -5
Definitely get that feeling but you know, many of the rockers of the 60s and 70s are in their 60s and 70s now or getting close to it, so they're at an age where they're likely to be dropping like flies. Dying not from the drugs like many of their contemporaries did when they were younger but dying from natural cuases like heart attacks and cancer.
Rest in peace, Levon and thanks for the wonderful music that you made with the Band that was part of my life and soul.
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Post by erik on Apr 20, 2012 8:40:38 GMT -5
And it's kind of instructive to note what the music world was like in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and how The Band flourished in it without being a mega-selling act. Music From Big Pink, for instance, just barely got into the Top 30 on the album chart; and their biggest hit single, "Up On Cripple Creek", only reached #25 in the winter of 1969-70. And yet, the hunger for that roots-based style of rock, as an antidote to all the heavy acid rock of the time, was such that groups like The Band had such loyal audiences.
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Post by rick on Apr 20, 2012 17:09:08 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Apr 23, 2012 2:35:33 GMT -5
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