Baby Huey! LOL. Perfect description.

Oh, yeah, if he had been high on cannabis, would this have happened? Nope. It would have been a totally mellow evening.

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.

@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.

Dude needs some weed. Mellow him right out.

I'm glad DFT talked you off the edge, the place wouldn't be the same without you. I went back and read that one again as well, great laughs. Thanks for the reminder, I hope you work mellows out soon. Take care.

In reply to this comment by MycroftHomlz:
Hey, I was contemplating sifticide and I went back and read this... man that was funny. I think am better now... DFT talked me off the edge. Work has been pretty rough.

Oh shush, give them some watermelon, and they'll mellow out...


too soon?

As a mellow album I liked The Antlers

Did you miss the part of the video with Glenn Beck in it?>> ^imstellar28:
>> ^kymbos:
This is just jaw-dropping.

Why? I can't name a single economic or corporate sector in america that doesn't experience significant corruption or manipulation...can you?

>> ^kymbos:
This is just jaw-dropping.


Why? I can't name a single economic or corporate sector in america that doesn't experience significant corruption or manipulation...can you?

Wow - I recall GG being a bit too mellow for my tastes back in the day, but this number really is fantastic!

That is the most mellow song about milking cows that I have ever heard.

Thank you for the promote.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
*promote

love beck its a kind of guile that is sublime

I'm currently reading "The Fall of the Roman Empire" by Peter Heather, recommended to me by my brother / fellow sifter Almanildo. It proposes a new solution to the mystery of the death of the Roman Empire, different from the prevailing notion of a decadent elite gone soft. Heather writes very engaging for a historian, and the book is propped full of exciting anecdotes from the time period in question.

There are a lot of books I would like to recommend, but I've noticed that my reading tastes are very similar to a lot of other sifters (Who would have thought?), so they will probably get recommended anyway. So as not to clutter this comment with too much info, I will only recommend two norwegian books, because I think most sifters haven't heard of them. If you are going to read only one book by a norwegian author, read this one:

"Mengele Zoo" by Gert Nygårdshaug. This book takes on heavy subjects like environmentalism, north-south conflict, imperialism and terrorism, but in an extremely page-turning and action-packed way. And you can not help but fall in love with the main protagonist from the moment you meet him. When you are finished reading it, you will be unsure whether you have become a better or worse human being for doing so.

"Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson has a radically different mood. It is a mellow story about a father/son-relationship, love and betrayal. It starts out as almost a non-story, but gradually reveals layer upon layer of intrigue. Petterson has often been compared to another great norwegian author, Knut Hamsun, for the way he uses the norwegian landscape to describe the psychology of his characters, in this case the heavy fir forests on the Norway-Sweden border. It also has the best closing sentence I have ever read in a book.

Oh, and anything by Kurt Vonnegut jr.

Five parts all here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Beck-10-Years-of-Mellow-Gold-Part-1

*kill

Part 1: http://www.videosift.com/video/Beck-10-Years-of-Mellow-Gold-Part-1#comment-843590