tells the story of the Band from Robertson’s perspective, from 1960, when the 16-year-old Canadian first joined the Hawks, an Arkansas band led by Ronnie Hawkins and featuring a 20-year-old drummer na
med Levon Helm, to the 1976 Last Waltz concert, the last time the five members of the group performed together in public.
There’s something cinematic about the scene evoked by that chorus, as if it’s the final minutes of a movie about Civil War soldiers, about former college roommates or about estranged bandmates. “I don’t know of any other group of musicians with a story equivalent to the story of the Band,” Robertson adds. “It was a beautiful thing; it was so beautiful it went up in flames.
Crucial to the dispute between Robertson and Helm were their differing definitions of songwriting. The former embraced the standard industry definition: songwriting is inventing the melody, chord changes and lyric. Once those are in place, everything else is interpretation—that’s why different artists can perform the same song in different ways.
, Ronnie Hawkins and others connected to the Band’s story, was turned into one of the best rock movies of all time by director Scorsese. As Robertson’s partnership with Helm was ending, his partnership with Scorsese was beginning.The chief songwriter for the Band has loved the movies since he was a kid on the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Ontario.
“I thought of these songs as movies,” Robertson agrees. “I saw ‘The Weight,’ for example, as this movie that goes from one episode to another. A guy’s trying to leave, and somebody says, ‘While you’re there, check in with Joe,’ and that changes everything.
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