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therealblankman (Member Profile)
In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
@aniatario- Yup, definitely has a reputation as an asshole. As for "stealing" the rights to the music, well he's the songwriter for most of it and that's where the rights to revenues lies. That said the tracks that the band recorded were very collaborative, so he could have chosen to be more equitable, but chose not to. They worked together for over 20 years and by not sharing Robbie alienated himself from the rest of The Band, especially Levon Helm. So yeah... an asshole.
@rougy- During the editing process for The Last Waltz Scorsese and Robertson lived together and consumed copious quantities of drugs. I guess Scorsese was the typical New York hopped-up cokehead, and Robertson definitely seemed to be more of a mellow stoner.
Side note: Just read on Wikipedia that Elton John's song "Levon" was written as a tribute to Levon Helm, the drummer from The Band. Interesting.
wow man.
the next time i find a good robbie robertson vid ill send it your way to post.
you know waaay more about him and the band than i do,for real.
i learned more about him just by your comments..very awesome my man.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON-unbound (original video)
@aniatario- Yup, definitely has a reputation as an asshole. As for "stealing" the rights to the music, well he's the songwriter for most of it and that's where the rights to revenues lies. That said the tracks that the band recorded were very collaborative, so he could have chosen to be more equitable, but chose not to. They worked together for over 20 years and by not sharing Robbie alienated himself from the rest of The Band, especially Levon Helm. So yeah... an asshole.
@rougy- During the editing process for The Last Waltz Scorsese and Robertson lived together and consumed copious quantities of drugs. I guess Scorsese was the typical New York hopped-up cokehead, and Robertson definitely seemed to be more of a mellow stoner.
Side note: Just read on Wikipedia that Elton John's song "Levon" was written as a tribute to Levon Helm, the drummer from The Band. Interesting.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON-unbound (original video)
@therealblankman:
"...you've got to check out "The Last Waltz" from Martin Scorsese- probably the best live concert ever captured on film."
Saw that years ago with some friends. Loved it. Great show all around, but there's a scene where Robertson and Scorsese are having a talk that was just priceless. Scorsese is interviewing Robertson. Scorsese talks really fast, typical New Yorker, asks a question and can't shut up long enough to hear the answer. Robertson talks pretty slowly. And I can't remember what Scorsese said, but it sort of implied how slow Robertson was.
Well, there was a fly buzzing around Robertson when Scorsese said that, and Robertson caught it in mid-flight and tossed it on the table between him and Scorsese.
That's how I remember it, anyway.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON-unbound (original video)
Robertson is a legend. Oddly, for one who has made such a huge contribution to American music he seems to be known by name to only a few, but everrybody knows his music. I mean just hum a few bars of "The Weight" or "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" or "Up on Cripple Creek" and all of a sudden people go "Oh... yeah I know that one". The guy is a monster guitar player and one of the best American songwriters of the 20th century. The contributions that he has made, along with the rest of The Band can't be overstated, and don't forget that when people talk about Dylan going electric- this was the guy who was his chief collaborator. *quality stuff.
He's probably also one of the worst singers in the world. The Band released 9 LPs with Robertson writing the majority of the material, but he only sang on 2 tracks in total. When the group performed live his microphone was usually turned off or was so low as to be inaudible. The Band played the Woodstock festival, but their set is nowhere to be seen in the movie- the rumour as to why is that Robbie's mic was live and the whole set was ruined.
This track is from his last album, released in 1998- an eternity in rock and roll years. I met Robbie at a book-signing in TO and asked him about any upcoming solo projects, he said he had something in the works- this was about 4 years ago. Takes him a long time to come up with new material I guess- he's only released 4 solo albums since The Band's last LP in 1977. Wikipedia says he's got a project in the works with Clapton. I'll be there in the store on release day.
For fans of Rock, Country, Soul, Folk, Funk, Blues, Roots (am I missing anything) you've got to check out "The Last Waltz" from Martin Scorsese- probably the best live concert ever captured on film.
Basterds' star Christoph Waltz Is The Trololololo Guy
Or pick up on, basterdizing and exploiting. All good.
>> ^harry:
IMO, things like this show that the US is always that little step ahead when it comes to the 'mainstreaming' of Internet subculture.
Inglorious Basterds - Strudel Scene
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And he did. Yay!>> ^dag:
Fingers crossed for Waltz to get an Oscar tonight.
Inglorious Basterds - Strudel Scene
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Fingers crossed for Waltz to get an Oscar tonight.
Inglorious Basterds - Strudel Scene
This scene is not nearly as powerful taken out of context of the movie...
kudos to Quentin for hiring German, French, English, etc actors to play their respective roles. Christoph Waltz (Landa) was fantastic, really stole the show from Pitt (who was still quite good in this movie).
Inglorious Basterds - Landa Meets The "Italians"
I could easily watch a whole movie with just Christoph Waltz talking. He's just so perfect as the gentlemen/creep nazi.
Christoph Waltz on Charlie Rose
Waltz was simply incredible in that movie. In every scene he's in, it's hard to focus on any other character.
If he wasn't a Jew-hunting Nazi bad-guy, this movie would be called "The incredible adventures of Hans Landa"
Inglorious Basterds - Landa Meets The "Italians"
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Such an amazing scene. I love the way the camera just sweeps around them in the first part.
I'm with Adam Carolla- if Christoph Waltz doesn't win an Oscar for his Landa- we riot.
Christoph Waltz on Charlie Rose
>> ^alien_concept:
What is one channel audio?
The sound is coming out of only one speaker.
All the problems with the embed didn't keep me from enjoying it.
Christoph Waltz on Charlie Rose
I loved Waltz in Inglorious Basterds, but I can't stand one-channel audio, let alone out-of-sync one-channel audio.
Legend 1985 "Dance With darkness"
Tim Curry was the Devil dude.
Also, I actually love the Tangerine Dream music over the original music... don't know if sifters have seen the "director's cut" but it is actually kinda crap in both music and editing...
... The waltz from this scene is FAR more interesting than the original music.
For ANZAC Day, "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
More evidence, if any was needed, that Waltzing Matilda should be our national anthem.
Great sift, thanks.