England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Anybody else would have said, Well, the audience isnt liking this, lets change what were doing. We didnt budge. He was 22 when they met. He thanked Mr. Clark in his speech when he was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He also logs the uses and abuses of his bandmates, especially Danko, Manuel and Helms use of heroin. Over her career, Maud Hudson sang and recorded with the likes of Dr. John, Norah Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Albert Collins, along with many others, including, of course, The Band. All the brass and woodwinds you hear on the iconic Ophelia? Share with friends Share your show . Once Were Brothers, in fact, takes its title from a recent Robertson song and is based on his 2016 memoir, Testimony. You need both, Hawkins explains, but it's the songwriter -- the melody and lyrics guy -- who gets credit, copyright and royalties. Helm was the nominal leader, Hudson was classically trained and reclusive, Danko good-looking and soulful, and Manuel from the start was cherished as sensitive and vulnerable: From a very young age, we understood that Richard had a difficulty with alcohol and addiction, Robertson says. The guys called Garth Honey Boy because he sweetened up the music after they had left for the day. Many consider The Band the first Americana group. Even after Manuel died in 1986, Hudson, Helm and Danko carried on without Robertson. Did he try it? Even new, those songs sounded old. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Were going to be in it for ever, just because of what we went through.. "And really come back together again to make music everybody just forgot to come back.". Just hoping you are doing well and if you want to reach out, I would love to hear from you. 7:00 pm, Im not sure if its true or not but I do remember reading back a year or so ago that Bob Dylan had personally got Garth and his wife set up in a comfortable apartment. The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece. Canadian-American roots rock group The Band (L-R Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel) pose for a portrait on 12 January 1978 in Los Angeles, California. It came from the heart. I do revisit special things in my heart about this brotherhood. But not if Robertson can help it. 10:14 am. Know youre loved , and thank you from the bottom of my heart, for all that youve done. Sometimes, it seems you have to choose between Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson. The idea was to be protective. I recently read where Garth is now being cared for in upstate New York. (Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel are deceased; keyboardist Garth Hudson, the only other surviving member, is only heard in archival interviews.) I shave my whiskers to their music, and drive through the mine repairing equipment with them vibrating the ground beneath my feet . It was like we went through the war together, Robertson says. Seventeen Seconds sold less than 50,000. What happened on that drive became part of literary history. But while the collaboration changed the course of music history, it had another, quieter and more personal effect on the Band, shifting the dynamics of what Robertson calls their brotherhood, the way the five of them related. Should he be faulted for being more conscientious than his bandmates? He negotiated with the bands manager Albert Grossman, whom they shared with Dylan took a growing charge of the songwriting and, as Danko, Helm and Manuel became increasingly interested in heroin, he tried to keep them focused on music. I heard Big Pink the night it was released on WBAi in New York with Steve Post. I appreciate very few Springsteen covers, but their version of Atlantic City is righteously superb. Fellow Canadians Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson joined the band to complete the brotherhood, and after they split from Hawkins, they continued to play as Levon and the Hawks. Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption Stringbuzz I sat with Levon for a good while, and thought of the incredible and beautiful times we had together. So it fell on me. But for a while he shared that planet, or came as close to sharing it as any musician did at the time. Others defend him, though we might wonder about what else they may have said. A very nice man. 8:33 pm, Michelle Zenz Inside of us we felt, This is a revolution. Robertson was mystified by the Bands drug use, In many ways, its the same old song: A band hits it big, only to lose themselves in drugs and unravel. The song was a signature tune on Music From Big Pink, and an aspiring singer-songwriter named Bruce Springsteen was among the fans who bought the record. "In those days we didn't realize that song publishing -- more than touring or selling records -- was the secret source of the real money in the music business," Helm wrote in This Wheel's On Fire. Most all of us also know about the legend of Levon HelmThe Bands drummer and often lead singer, as well as Robbie Robertson, the bands lead guitar player and primary songwriter. One day, Virgil Caine might be all of Levon Helm that listeners will know. I grew up to you and your band mates . Who will play him? Sneaky Pete was great, he played that pedal steel as good as he always had. There are the usual rock documentary talking heads with the likes of Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison appearing as well as archival interview clips from The Band's members. March 3, 2022 @ But Robertson sounds perplexed by the question. All rights reserved. 3:23 pm. He seemed to glow in the dark, Robertson says. Trigger I knew each of their instruments, their voices, their playing, so I was casting them to play these characters. He cast Helm as Virgil Caine in The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; Danko embodied the man caught in the spotlight in Stage Fright; Manuel was seven lives in to his allotted nine in The Shape Im In.. (L-R) Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson,. This was curious because they were a five-pieceRick Danko, Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertsonand there's very little left of them now. 1:11 pm, D**m skippy,Country Knight,though Im also partial to The Weight and Up On Cripple Creek., Willie strandberg Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images After a near-fatal stabbingand decades of threatsthe novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act. He played on muddy waters at Woodstock album. Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Martin Scorsese (the films executive producer) and George Harrison as well as Dylan are among the greats happy to say how great the Band, and Robertson in particular, were. With The Bands output limited, it was up to Robertson to shoulder most of the writing responsibilities, and hold the group together. If you are not invested so deeply in the history of The Band, the greatest North American rock 'n' roll outfit ever, you might take Once Were Brothers as an exercise in nostalgia, an old rocker looking back fondly on youthful adventures and the companions with whom he shared them. And even if sending him letters is being discouraged, sharing his legacy, and the memories hes made for fans never should be. You get to be lazy as hell and incompetent too! We didn't know enough to ask or demand song credits or anything like that. Garth Hudson was very jovial and quite willing to shake hands and chat. Frank mount They never broke up. This article was amended on 29 October 2019. Bob doesnt do anything like this, ever.. Yeah, it wasnt for me, he says. It hit me. I thought this was going to be an obituary so glad to hear he is still kicking. 11:14 am. Thats how he met and formed a bond with the bands drummer, a lanky Arkansas native named Levon Helm. 2:43 pm, handsomeblackcowboybrady Garth Hudson is the most accomplished musician in the group of amazing musicians . Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption Keep on making it happen . Today, Helm's two surviving Band mates, guitarist Robbie Robertson and keyboardist Garth Hudson, have issued statements about the one of the greatest players in rock 'n' roll history. It could be dark. Dan Morris Visit Billboard Pro for music business news, The 25 Best Music Movies on HBO Max,Ranked, Every Jennifer Hudson Tribute Performance,Ranked, The Beastie Boys Story Documentary Is Both a History Lesson and Raw LiveExperience. From left: Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson. The Band in London, June 1971. GEAR EXPO 2023: The essential new audio interfaces and mixers of 2023, GEAR EXPO 2023: The best new effect plugins for 2023, GEAR EXPO 2023: The most innovative products of 2023 so far, Best budget mic preamps 2023: Upgrade your studio setup for less, Tame Impala reveals his favourite synth and weighs in on the analogue vs digital debate: "I love analogue synths, but I'll never argue they sound better than a digital clone", Electro-Harmonix adds beef to the Keef with the expanded Satisfaction Plus fuzz debuting an all-new Fat mode, Arturia blows its own trumpet as it launches Augmented Brass plugin, Teenage Engineering announces the CM-15, a portable microphone that promises great sound whatever the recording situation, Download 90 free Max for Live devices and learn how to make your own with Ableton's Building Max Devices tutorial pack, What is FM synthesis? Want to know what everyone in the music business is talking about. But along with Robertson, there is another surviving member of The Band, and one who is commonly and criminally overlooked when it comes to the Canadian groups legacy. Billboard is a part of Penske Media Corporation. And although a few years ago he and Dylan ran into each other at an event and caught up a bit, they have less in common now. It has great performance footage, interesting talking heads, and freighted music. I am so grateful I got to see him one last time and will miss him and love him forever. That album and their second, The Band (1969), were not big sellers, but gained huge respect from critics and musicians as the group built up a passionate fan following. For a few years, four. Garth is a recluse and he doesnt talk, Robertson says. Today, Helm's two surviving Band mates, guitarist Robbie Robertson and keyboardist Garth Hudson, have issued statements about the one of the greatest players in rock 'n' roll history. Highly recommend. "Last week I was shocked and so saddened to hear that my old band mate, Levon, was in the final stages of his battle with cancer. But Im not going back on the road with you. I knew what was going on with Richard, Rick and Levon, still. First was to meet Sneaky Pete Kleinow, and second,meet Garth Hudson. Ex-wife Dominique Bourgeois graciously fills in some blanks about their Woodstock retreat, in the house called Big Pink, but no one mentions that they divorced decades ago. 1:52 pm. Performing with her husband as a duo, Maud was raised in Los Angeles where she met Garth. Robertson's ex-wife Dominique is extensively debriefed, and she is delightful. Celebrate the keyboardist's 84th birthday by watching this emotional video from 2014 where he returned to the legendary basement from 'The Basement Tapes', Flashback: The Bands Garth Hudson Returns to Big Pink, Watch Billy Joel Play Los Angelenos For First Time in 42 Years, U2 Announce Sphere Las Vegas Dates. Around that time, Rolling Stone took Hudson back to West Saugerties, New York to visit Big Pink for the first time since the late Sixties. Levon Helm on stage in 2009 at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Born in Windsor, Canada, both of Garth Hudsons parents were musicians as well, and he was classically trained from an early age on multiple instruments. The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including their previous employers Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan, as well as Paul Butterfield, Bobby Charles, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, and Neil Young, handsomeblackcowboybrady Still, "Once Were Brothers . The Last Waltz is a 1978 musical documentary film about The Band and its 1976 farewell concert. They got in touch and said, We want to go out and do some playing, and is it OK that we use the name the Band? Because they didnt have a creative outlet like me. By then Robertson was writing music for film. He has always depicted the end of the Band as a surprise but this seems at odds with the concept of a supremely elaborate farewell concert. The group had even booked a date at a studio. He remembers how the brotherhood ended in heroin addiction and self-destruction. Thank you as I have been escaping to your rock since the 60s. However, as Saving Country Music worked to verify the addresses of the social media posts and the current status of Garth Hudson, representatives for the 84-year-old say the effort isnt warranted, and sharing his address publicly is against Garths wishes. I really do hope you get my genuine gift, Glennis All rights reserved. The Band in 1969, from left: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson, from the documentary "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band. hide caption. He's also on good terms with Robbie. He was the best musician in a band of great musicians. He accused Robertson and Martin Scorsese of editing the film of that concert, The Last Waltz, the greatest rock 'n' roll concert film yet made, to make it look like Robertson was the undisputed leader of the group. March 3, 2022 @ Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson go electric at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia in 1966. Still, those close to Hudson know that, like all of The Band members except Robbie Robertson, he never received songwriting royalties from classic albums like "Music From Big Pink" and "The Band . I went to high school with Garth. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. And, look, I'm sure an attempt was made, but I think I'd rather watch a . Rob Jockel Robertson was already recording in the Mississippi Delta by the time he could legally drive. Levon used to say shit about the booking agent, the manager, the lawyer, the accountant, everybody, Robertson explained. Rock of Ages is my go to album when I feel like I am on unsteady ground. Well we got to hear him play The Weight that night. He has a novelist's unsparing eye for telling details and. Ronnie Hawkins, who employed Robertson first as a 15-year-old songwriter before bringing him to Arkansas to be tutored by Helm in the ways of Delta music, explains that Robertson was always a songwriter, whereas Helm was a gifted "arranger.". I thought it was very ironic that Indians would teach me to play guitar with a picture of a cowboy on., By 15 he was proficient enough to be hanging around rockabilly Ronnie Hawkins when he played in Toronto, captivated by Levon Helm on drums, sticks flying, white hair blazing and only three years Robertsons senior. He was also the guardian of the master tapes for decades, though he eventually sold them to Canadian music archivist/producer Jan Haust. Robertson also regards Dylan as still part of the brotherhood. July 3, 2022 @ Crashing on the scene as Bob Dylan's anonymous-but-not-for-long backup band on his controversial and thrilling electrified tours of 1965-66, the group emerged fully formed, capable of both intense and experimentalist noise and tight, basic rock and roll. December 24, 2022 @ That was all Garth Hudson. This past spring, Richard Bernstein investigated the questions hed been asking his whole careerabout right, wrong, and what we owe one anotherone last time. Plenty of fresh photos and a television performance from those years help add detail and texture to a formative period for rock and roll, the pre-Beatles '60s, that's often mischaracterized as lacking grit. My mother was a Mohawk Indian, Robertson went on. You can here a strong blues line on all his work with the band. Once Were Brothers premiered at the Toronto film festival in September. Garth Hudson of The Band Not Forgotten During Difficult Time, Brennen Leigh Aint Through Honky Tonkin Yet, Family Bible Singer, The Tall Texan Claude Gray Has Died. That is in Canada, where many are from, and also Woodstock NY in the 70's where many lived and worked.Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Richard Manuel in Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2019) Cast: Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Hawkins, Van Morrison, Dominique Robertson . Im not sure I would want to characterize that he doesnt want to deal with fan mail. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). It was genuine and came from thd heart. Theres not a day goes by that I dont think of Garth , Levon, Richard and Rick . He also found a father figure in rockabilly rebel Ronnie Hawkins, which is how, at age 15, he hooked up with Hawkinss state mate Levon Helm, the stalwart singing drummer who would become his best friend and key rival in the Hawks. Stay well my friend . All of it. Their story gets laid bare in the fascinating Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band. 2. Except for Garth. The sad declines of Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel are glanced over lightly. When people boo you night after night, it can affect your confidence. January 28, 2023 @ In 1975, critic Greil Marcus described them in Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock and Roll as "committed to the very idea of America: complicated, dangerous, and alive. Ron Field It took fifty years, but Robertsons movie songs are finally coming to the multiplex. J meant not intrusion. Your email address will not be published. Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, 87 Cast: Documentary, with Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, George Harrison, Dominique Robertson, This film is available for rental on Amazon Prime and iTunes. That word forgot feels like a bit of a narrative liberty. He has a habit of bringing his recollections back to the present, and for someone who celebrates a love of storytelling, his enjoyment seems rather ambivalent. He was 3 yrs. But Robertson says it is extraordinary that he contributed at all. They certainly weren't the same without Robertson. Thank you for your patience as we work towards bringing this back. After all, Helm was critical of Robertson in his 1993 autobiography, This Wheels on Fire, for the way he distributed songwriting credits (Robertson got most of them). But for folks in-the-know, they know the memory of Garth Hudson will never be erased. September 14, 2022 @ Garth is an incredibly private person, and the last thing he wants is that kind of attention, and he doesnt want to be flooded with cards and letters says Gilbert. 9:39 am, Garth, Just saw that Maud passed last year and felt so sorry that I had not kept in touch better. He was in somewhere else, he says, as if that were a place. He was grabbing a flight to the UK after dinner, probably for the Isle of Wight festival. The now 76-year-old Robertson tells the history from his no-nonsense perspective, and the Grammy-winning songwriter-guitarist doesnt hold back in revealing how drugs and other demons led to the musicians unraveling. After Dylan watched Once Were Brothers, so he could sign the release, he called me and said, My God, I started watching this, and I got completely hooked. But Robertson reveals that The Band originally intended to take some time to off, and then regroup to record another album. March 7, 2022 @ I had loved them with Bob Dylan before I even knew who they were. and have remained life long friends. Bath taglines Contents 1 Taglines 2 Robbie Robertson 3 Richard Manuel 4 Garth Hudson 5 Rick Danko 6 Levon Helm 7 John Simon (producer) 8 Others 9 Dialogue Robertson was driven, a man with a vision who wanted his work to matter. 4:22 am. Quite a memory, and I left going, man did that just happen? 9:14 pm. I dont want to be the guy whining, but we got work to do! 4. I just wanted him to know he is most certainly not forgotten here in Scotland. This come after it was reported Garth had lost his home or was having some hard times. Their music gave us a sure sense that the country was richer than we had guessed; that it has possibilities we were only beginning to perceive.". Thinking of you Mr Hudson on this Christmas eve .from Scotland , Foster m And that's how all of us discovered The Band and their music. Heres how it works. Like I said, early on they just kind of pushed me out there and said, Tell them what were trying to say. And because I was the creative writer in this group, and I also have the ability to whatever you call it lead the charge, everybody enjoyed that I would take that responsibility. Hes an enthusiastic guitarist, but hes nowhere near the likes of the people he interviews. It was a tiny venue and felt like having them in a living room. I specifically remember (I think) all the band members answering questions in the movie. Id say he doesnt want his private address out there and to be flooded by letters and cards that he then might feel obligated to respond to, and may not want to be doted on. 5:50 am. And then Garth would turn us on to certain classical pieces that were haunting and beautiful., When the five sat down to make music of their own, facing one another in a circle in the basement of Big Pink, their house near Woodstock, New York, all those influences came out, and the result sounded so unlike anything else being recorded at the time (the late sixties to the mid-seventies) that it birthed a new genre: Americana. Helm attacked Robertson as vainglorious, mocking him for showing up at their final concert in heavy makeup. Inequality to the other guys? he asks, sounding puzzled. But Im very much, like, 90% of it is what Im doing today and what I need to do tomorrow. March 6, 2022 @ All Rights Reserved. I didnt feel any separate feeling, he says. We had success later it doesnt mean those records are better than Seventeen Seconds: The Cures Robert Smith on how to make it on your own terms. Please check your browser settings to ensure that it is not blocking Facebook from running on straight.com. As he says in the film, he always assumed that The Band would get back together after The Last Waltz. It's still rare to see women represented as essential to the rock scene of that era, and Dominique Robertson's contributions recenter the Big Pink experience around relationships and place, rather than solely music. Please continue praying for Levon and family. Archive audio of his voice features in this documentary, but no new interview. Robertson was the lead guitarist of the Band (then known as The Hawks), the five-piece group that backed Dylan in his early days as an electric act: essentially, they supplied the noise that the acoustic-loving crowds booed on tour. Get to know the technology behind the next generation of effects plugins. But at this stage he is 76 it all comes flowing out and I cant stop it. The name was also unpretentious, un-juvenile and un-cute, per singer/guitarist and de facto leader Robbie Robertson. I had this fear inside Robbie Robertson. Garth Hudson later had a solo career, though it started off somewhat unfortunately as he released his first solo album called The Sea to The North on September 11th, 2001. Robbie Robertson's memoir, "Testimony," coasts in at size XL; it's an even 500 pages. March 3, 2022 @ All rights reserved. And Im just about to sign the papers with Warner Bros. Pictures to make the story of the Band! he announced. Robertson has a gift for romanticizing his own hero's journey, even if in the end, the film comes off as elaborate self-justification. I went to the show for two reasons. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Junos Canadian Hall of Fame, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2008, its hard to argue that Garth Hudson has been forgotten. Know that although this life is fleeting , that life itself is eternal , and you and Sister Maud, will one day likely waltz together on creaky floorboards of some quiet country home once again and perhaps for all eternity. The Last Waltz wasnt supposed to be the end. I cant help wondering whether memoir is a way to self-soothe, to sort through the difficult circumstances that led to the Bands demise, the pain of the distance from Helm in particular towards the end of his life. When Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and principal songwriter for the Band, wrote for the group's three singersLevon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuelhe thought of himself as composing. Garth is also a blues man . Born to a Mohawk mother and a Hebrew gangster, as she described the man who died prior to his birth, the future Robbie Robertson took his last name from his (abusive) adoptive dad and the first from that robot in Forbidden Planet, drawing influences from his unusually diverse relatives. Bob Dylan hired them away from Hawkins on his first big electric outing, in 1965, when the former folkie wanted a touring version of his Like a Rolling Stone backers. The first Dylan tour was no crowd pleaser. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google. It sent rumbles around the world.. We want to hear it. But thats not what Im interested in I havent talked to him in a long time.. From left: Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko of The Band poses for a portrait in circa 1969. guitarist Robbie Robertson, . Mr. Hudson and Mr.. The mournful sax moans on Tears of Rage? My addiction was work. He pauses. Robbie Robertson did not hand out sheet music with lyrics when The Band created their magic. He thanks an acquaintance who . All of the members of The Band played an indelible part in making them one of the most influential groups in popular music, and eventually put them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 31, 2023 @ 12:42 pm, I really dont know how many times Ive watched The Last Waltz.. Ill have to let my dad know. Guitarist Robbie Robertson helped to change music history with Bob Dylans backing group the Band. Search is currently unavailable. Levon Helm passed away in 2012. Garth Hudson,like this handsome ol boy,was born in Windsor,Ont.,Can.,but unlike Yours Truly,he left as an infant. That symbolic weight was the core of The Last Waltz (1978), Martin Scorsese's loving documentary capturing the group's final concert in 1976. ", Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, March 3, 2022 @ Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns I could see it being possible with their history and Bob would probably be in the position to help out a friend in need. In fact he died a year later I recall. William McGuire Robertson was in the thick of it, a supple and -- remarkably, in the time of bombast -- subtle lead guitarist, chief songwriter and the one who cared most about photographs and album covers and the like. To clarify, Dylans first electric appearance, at the Newport folk festival in 1965, was with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Two separate screenshots of social media posts said Garth was feeling forgotten, and gave addresses for fans to write letters to let him know otherwise. This brotherhood is clearly on Robertsons mind, because after a lifetime of writing steadfastly unautobiographical songs, the most powerful track on his new solo album, Sinematic, mourns the demise of his band family three of whom are dead. Bluegrass Fan Garth Hudson was my idol and inspiration and remains to be one of my greatest influences as a musician. Once Were Brothers presents that era as historically on par with any show The Band performed with Dylan which, in the end, might be its most significant contribution. March 3, 2022 @ I never realized he was forgotten because he has continued to contribute to so many projects besides The Band. He later created a reboot of the Flying Burrito Brothers with pedal steel player Sneaky Pete Kleinow called Burrito Deluxe, and worked as an in-demand session musician for many years. We were just mixing some of this with some of that, and, holy shit, it had an effect, Robertson said. Young Garth played organ at the local church and at his uncles funeral parlor, and by the age of 12 he was performing professionally. Im going to die if I keep living this way, I went in the other direction. March 4, 2022 @ Im always wanting to move forward., It was Robertson who organised the Bands farewell concert, The Last Waltz, in 1976, partly, he says, because of my deep concerns for Richard [Manuel]s wellbeing. In isolated, poor regions of South Carolina, coming from an lite familyoffereda feeling of impunity. 5:51 pm, You always was and still are the music teacher, Your email address will not be published. Im not lazy! he exclaims, a realisation he describes as a wake-up call but he sounds happy to be busy, and Im not convinced its news to him. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. March 3, 2022 @ Yesterday, it was revealed that Levon Helm, the legendary drummer and co-vocalist for The Band, was in the "final stages" of his long battle with cancer. It was heartwarming to be greeted by his lovely daughter Amy, whom I have known since she was born. Now I feel duped and hurt that Garth would not want it.