1 00:00:15,099 --> 00:00:16,141 Okay? 2 00:00:20,187 --> 00:00:21,230 Okay, man. 3 00:00:21,313 --> 00:00:23,440 - Okay? - Yeah, I'll start again. 4 00:00:23,524 --> 00:00:25,693 Okay. Same slate. Still running. 5 00:00:25,776 --> 00:00:26,860 Cutthroat. 6 00:00:26,944 --> 00:00:28,904 Keep running. It'll get better. That's it. 7 00:00:28,988 --> 00:00:30,739 We're starting all over again. Same slate, right? 8 00:00:30,823 --> 00:00:32,825 - Yeah. - Now tilting up. 9 00:00:35,536 --> 00:00:37,162 Okay, Rick, what's the game? 10 00:00:38,122 --> 00:00:39,999 - Cutthroat. - What's the object of it? 11 00:00:40,082 --> 00:00:42,626 The object is to keep your balls on the table 12 00:00:42,710 --> 00:00:44,753 and knock everybody else's off. 13 00:01:06,317 --> 00:01:07,943 You're still there, huh? 14 00:01:12,865 --> 00:01:15,159 We're gonna do one more song, and that's it. 15 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:32,426 All right. 16 00:01:38,349 --> 00:01:39,850 Happy Thanksgiving. 17 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:50,856 - Thank you very much. - Thank you. 18 00:03:51,607 --> 00:03:53,609 Good night. Goodbye. 19 00:06:19,922 --> 00:06:23,550 Okay, look. We've been together 16 years. 20 00:06:23,634 --> 00:06:24,760 Who? 21 00:06:24,843 --> 00:06:26,011 - Who? - Yeah. 22 00:06:26,094 --> 00:06:27,679 - The Band. - Uh-huh. 23 00:06:28,722 --> 00:06:32,392 - Um, do you want me to plug that in there? - Yeah, let's do it again. 24 00:06:32,476 --> 00:06:35,687 The Band has been together 16 years, 25 00:06:35,771 --> 00:06:37,606 together on the road. 26 00:06:37,689 --> 00:06:40,984 We did eight years in bars, dives, dance halls. 27 00:06:41,068 --> 00:06:44,237 Eight years of concerts and stadiums, arenas. 28 00:06:44,321 --> 00:06:47,574 We gave our final concert, The Band's final concert, 29 00:06:47,658 --> 00:06:49,534 and we called it "The Last Waltz." 30 00:06:49,618 --> 00:06:53,455 Why was it held in San Francisco in Winterland, 31 00:06:53,538 --> 00:06:56,291 when you guys have been on the road for 16 years, you know? 32 00:06:56,375 --> 00:07:01,046 Winterland was the first place that the band played as The Band. 33 00:07:01,129 --> 00:07:04,049 Some friends showed up and helped us take it home. 34 00:07:04,132 --> 00:07:07,552 Well, they weren't just friends. I mean, they're more than that. 35 00:07:07,636 --> 00:07:10,597 Would you ask me that... Ask me that again? 36 00:07:10,681 --> 00:07:12,808 They weren't just friends. 37 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:16,269 They weren't just friends who came in to say hello. 38 00:07:16,353 --> 00:07:17,938 You know what I mean? Get that fly! 39 00:07:20,357 --> 00:07:22,609 No. They were more than just friends. 40 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:26,279 I feel they're probably 41 00:07:26,363 --> 00:07:30,826 some of the greatest influences on music on a whole generation. 42 00:07:31,535 --> 00:07:33,453 We wanted it to be more than just a concert. 43 00:07:33,537 --> 00:07:35,372 We wanted it to be a celebration. 44 00:07:36,665 --> 00:07:38,792 Celebration of a beginning or an end? 45 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:41,962 Beginning of the beginning of the end of the beginning. 46 00:07:42,045 --> 00:07:43,296 That's it. 47 00:07:44,381 --> 00:07:47,384 - Good evening. 48 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:32,484 It was kind of, uh... 49 00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:35,862 We didn't know where we were going, we didn't know what it was. 50 00:11:36,905 --> 00:11:39,908 But, for some reason, it seemed like a good idea. 51 00:11:40,825 --> 00:11:46,039 We got to this place, a joint, in Fort Worth, Texas. 52 00:11:46,122 --> 00:11:47,958 It was burned out, bombed out. 53 00:11:48,041 --> 00:11:50,627 The roof wasn't even on the place anymore. 54 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:53,713 And that's when they decided to call it the Skyline Lounge. 55 00:11:54,506 --> 00:11:58,426 And we got there and set up and... A big place. 56 00:11:58,510 --> 00:12:02,847 Huge. Bar, way at the back and a big dance floor. 57 00:12:03,807 --> 00:12:06,643 - Real old. - So we set up the first night. 58 00:12:06,726 --> 00:12:09,312 We go down to the place to play. 59 00:12:10,313 --> 00:12:11,856 We go in there and there's about — 60 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:15,026 In this huge place, there's about three people in the audience. 61 00:12:15,110 --> 00:12:16,444 Mm-hmm. 62 00:12:16,528 --> 00:12:18,822 A one-armed go-go dancer 63 00:12:19,698 --> 00:12:21,950 and a couple of drunk waiters. 64 00:12:22,033 --> 00:12:24,244 A couple over here and a couple over there. 65 00:12:24,327 --> 00:12:25,620 Somebody shoots off a tear gas. 66 00:12:25,704 --> 00:12:28,832 - And a fight starts. 67 00:12:28,915 --> 00:12:32,210 There isn't enough people in the place to get angry. 68 00:12:32,294 --> 00:12:37,007 And we found out a few years later that it was Jack Ruby's club. 69 00:15:34,058 --> 00:15:36,811 Sixteen years ago, when we started, 70 00:15:37,562 --> 00:15:41,107 we started with a guy you might have heard of. 71 00:15:42,817 --> 00:15:46,112 We'd like to start with him. The Hawk! Ronnie Hawkins! 72 00:15:46,196 --> 00:15:49,365 He called me up and I said, 73 00:15:50,074 --> 00:15:53,828 "Sure, I'd like a job. What does it mean? What do I do?" 74 00:15:53,912 --> 00:15:56,498 He said, "Well, son, you won't make much money, 75 00:15:56,581 --> 00:15:58,875 but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra." 76 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:00,168 All right, ready! 77 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:06,799 > Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley 7 78 00:16:17,852 --> 00:16:18,853 Whoo! 79 00:16:19,521 --> 00:16:22,857 Big time, Bill! Big time! Big time! 80 00:16:59,269 --> 00:17:00,436 Ah-ah! 81 00:17:18,496 --> 00:17:21,040 Ah... 82 00:17:21,124 --> 00:17:23,376 Ah! 83 00:17:23,459 --> 00:17:25,587 Ahh! 84 00:17:45,148 --> 00:17:47,150 Come on, Robbie! 85 00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:53,174 Ah! 86 00:19:02,308 --> 00:19:04,519 Ah! 87 00:19:04,602 --> 00:19:06,020 Ahh! 88 00:19:14,070 --> 00:19:16,197 Oh, it's burning! 89 00:19:20,118 --> 00:19:21,661 Come on, son, come on! 90 00:19:22,704 --> 00:19:23,871 Whoo! 91 00:19:40,304 --> 00:19:41,347 Whoo! 92 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:04,537 Thank you, Ronnie! 93 00:20:06,664 --> 00:20:07,957 The Hawk! 94 00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:13,212 And the week went on, and it was a little depressing. 95 00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:18,843 And it was especially depressing 'cause we didn't have any money at all. 96 00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:20,470 - No dough. 97 00:20:20,553 --> 00:20:22,764 At one point, we had no more food money. 98 00:20:22,847 --> 00:20:24,474 It got to the point where, 99 00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:26,976 coming from Canada and everything, we had these overcoats, 100 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:31,314 big overcoats with pockets and everything, and we had a little routine. 101 00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:34,984 We'd go to the shopping center, all together. 102 00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:38,404 - But I stayed home, right? - No, you didn't. 103 00:20:39,822 --> 00:20:41,157 I got — I got the cigarettes. 104 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,036 I turned the cigarette machine upside down and got everybody some cigarettes. 105 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:46,454 Do you remember? 106 00:20:46,537 --> 00:20:49,749 - Yeah, but that was on the... - You got me some baloney. 107 00:20:50,792 --> 00:20:53,252 We'd go to the supermarket, 108 00:20:53,336 --> 00:20:59,592 and a couple of people would buy a couple of loaves of bread, 109 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:02,512 'cause that was about the cheapest thing you could get, you know. 110 00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:08,184 And the rest of us would be carousing the aisles, stuffing baloney. 111 00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:10,895 It got time to leave, the guy with the two loaves of bread 112 00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:13,064 would go up to the checkout and we'd say, 113 00:21:13,147 --> 00:21:16,067 "We'll meet you out at the car. You take the bread out." 114 00:21:16,150 --> 00:21:18,778 - "Y'all come back!" - And with these overcoats... 115 00:21:33,251 --> 00:21:39,465 I And it makes no difference Where I turn 116 00:22:54,957 --> 00:22:56,584 I No more I 117 00:24:23,421 --> 00:24:29,260 I That I never felt so alone 118 00:26:05,689 --> 00:26:10,194 Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, 119 00:26:10,277 --> 00:26:13,572 And smale foweles maken melodye, 120 00:26:13,656 --> 00:26:16,492 That slepen al the nyght with open eye, 121 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:20,579 So priketh hem Nature in hir corages; 122 00:26:20,663 --> 00:26:24,166 Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages 123 00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:27,795 To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; 124 00:26:27,878 --> 00:26:30,506 And specially from every shires ende 125 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:33,801 Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, 126 00:26:33,884 --> 00:26:37,513 The hooly blisful martir for the seke 127 00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:40,474 That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke. 128 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:44,353 Michael McClure! 129 00:26:47,982 --> 00:26:50,109 You all know the Doctor? Dr. John? 130 00:26:50,192 --> 00:26:52,236 Mac Rebennack. Come on, Mac. 131 00:27:03,038 --> 00:27:06,083 It's in thankfulness to The Band and all the fellas. 132 00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:08,043 Two, three, four, one... 133 00:29:05,035 --> 00:29:07,121 I My heart just skipped a little beat F 134 00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:02,551 Hey! 135 00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:14,980 The Doctor! 136 00:30:26,283 --> 00:30:27,910 Everybody knows him. 137 00:30:29,787 --> 00:30:31,330 You know this guy, I think. 138 00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:40,506 - Thank you, man, for letting me do this. - Oh, shit. Are you kidding? 139 00:30:40,589 --> 00:30:42,007 Are you Kidding? 140 00:30:44,134 --> 00:30:48,847 I'd just like to say before I start that it's one of the pleasures of my life 141 00:30:48,931 --> 00:30:51,308 to be able to be on this stage with these people tonight. 142 00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:12,663 They got it now, Robbie. 143 00:34:40,954 --> 00:34:43,665 I Oh, you feel so helpless F 144 00:35:59,449 --> 00:36:00,659 Thanks! 145 00:36:00,742 --> 00:36:02,160 Neil Young! 146 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,626 I don't know what it is. Maybe — I don't know if the years connect 147 00:36:09,710 --> 00:36:11,378 or it's a coincidence, or what it is, 148 00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:13,880 but it seems like, that's it. 149 00:36:13,964 --> 00:36:15,966 That's what The Last Waltz is. 150 00:36:16,049 --> 00:36:20,387 I mean, 16 years on the road. The numbers start to scare you. 151 00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:24,474 I couldn't live with 20 years on the road. 152 00:36:24,558 --> 00:36:26,393 I don't think I could even discuss it. 153 00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:18,880 > Now when he says that he's afraid © 154 00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:22,133 > Won't you take him at his word? 7 155 00:40:25,382 --> 00:40:28,593 Well, we were the — We were The Hawks. 156 00:40:29,511 --> 00:40:31,846 And everything was fine. We were sailing along. 157 00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:36,309 And all of a sudden, one day, The Hawks meant something else altogether. 158 00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:40,522 It was right in the middle of that whole psychedelia. 159 00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:47,112 There's "Chocolate Subway." "Marshmallow Overcoat." 160 00:40:47,195 --> 00:40:49,364 - Right. - Those kind of names. 161 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:53,785 When we were working with Bob Dylan and we moved to Woodstock, 162 00:40:55,286 --> 00:40:57,455 everybody referred to us as The Band. 163 00:40:57,539 --> 00:40:59,165 He called us The Band. 164 00:40:59,249 --> 00:41:02,502 Our friends called us The Band. Our neighbors called us The Band. 165 00:41:02,585 --> 00:41:05,463 And we started out with The Crackers. 166 00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:09,884 We tried to call ourselves The Honkies. 167 00:41:12,804 --> 00:41:16,141 Everybody kind of backed off from that, you know? 168 00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:20,854 It was too straight, you know. 169 00:41:23,273 --> 00:41:29,154 So we decided just to call ourselves The Band. 170 00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:03,303 Beautiful. 171 00:46:08,975 --> 00:46:12,395 - You still have that flat pick? - This looks interesting. 172 00:46:12,478 --> 00:46:15,023 We'll play "Old-Time Religion" for the folks. 173 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:11,412 Oh, it's not like it used to be. 174 00:48:20,398 --> 00:48:23,943 I "La la-la la la-la la-la la" 175 00:49:24,295 --> 00:49:27,924 I "La la-la la la-la la-la la" 176 00:49:39,644 --> 00:49:42,522 I I will work the land 177 00:50:31,571 --> 00:50:35,491 I "La la-la la la-la la-la la" 178 00:51:03,603 --> 00:51:07,398 I "La la-la la la-la la-la la" 179 00:51:28,502 --> 00:51:29,837 A dream come true. 180 00:51:31,255 --> 00:51:32,923 Fascinating. Scary. 181 00:51:35,635 --> 00:51:38,095 Kind of hard to take the first time. 182 00:51:38,929 --> 00:51:41,015 You have to go there about two or three times 183 00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:42,975 before you can fall in love with it. 184 00:51:44,518 --> 00:51:46,854 But, uh, that happens eventually. 185 00:51:47,563 --> 00:51:51,651 We stayed at the Times Square Hotel on 42nd Street. 186 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,445 Well, the title of the hotel and everything, 187 00:51:54,528 --> 00:51:58,574 it sounded like it was conveniently located in Midtown Manhattan. 188 00:51:58,658 --> 00:52:03,621 What did we know? We came out of the hotel after checking in, 189 00:52:03,704 --> 00:52:06,374 and you think, "Oh, it's great to be back in New York." 190 00:52:06,457 --> 00:52:08,125 Movie theaters forever. 191 00:52:09,168 --> 00:52:13,714 All these friendly women walking up and down the streets. 192 00:52:13,798 --> 00:52:16,717 It was, uh... It was great. 193 00:52:16,801 --> 00:52:20,888 Yeah, New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. 194 00:52:22,056 --> 00:52:26,394 So it took a couple of trips, you know, to get into it. 195 00:52:27,311 --> 00:52:32,024 You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. 196 00:52:32,817 --> 00:52:33,984 As soon as it heals up, 197 00:52:34,068 --> 00:52:36,987 - you come back and you try it again. 198 00:52:37,071 --> 00:52:39,573 Eventually, you fall right in love with it. 199 00:52:41,409 --> 00:52:47,623 Roulette Records was located in the middle of this mythical place, Tin Pan Alley. 200 00:52:47,707 --> 00:52:50,126 The songwriting capital of the world. 201 00:52:50,209 --> 00:52:53,379 And we met some of the greatest songwriters ever. 202 00:52:53,462 --> 00:52:55,256 Rock-and-roll songwriters. 203 00:52:55,339 --> 00:52:58,634 Doc Pomus. Mort Shuman. Leiber and Stoller. 204 00:52:58,718 --> 00:53:01,721 They were all there then. Carole King. Neil Diamond. 205 00:53:01,804 --> 00:53:04,724 At the time, it wasn't a very fair thing 206 00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:07,476 that a songwriter was the low man on the totem pole. 207 00:53:08,144 --> 00:53:11,480 But then, uh, these people... 208 00:53:11,564 --> 00:53:13,482 And here come the '60s, 209 00:53:13,566 --> 00:53:17,361 with change and revolution and war and assassinations, 210 00:53:17,445 --> 00:53:20,990 and a whole other frame of mind coming along. 211 00:53:21,073 --> 00:53:25,369 And these songwriters were expressing the feelings of people... 212 00:53:26,203 --> 00:53:27,329 people in the street. 213 00:53:27,413 --> 00:53:32,293 In a way, it was kind of the beginning of the end of Tin Pan Alley. 214 00:55:03,634 --> 00:55:08,138 I And we came fo learn the secret 215 00:56:40,522 --> 00:56:41,732 Neil Diamond! 216 00:56:42,775 --> 00:56:45,194 - Thanks so much. 217 00:56:51,033 --> 00:56:53,702 So when you guys first started playing as The Band, 218 00:56:53,786 --> 00:56:56,538 you kind of shied away from publicity a lot. 219 00:56:56,622 --> 00:56:58,040 Can you talk about that a little? 220 00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:04,171 That was just part of a lifestyle that we got to love in Woodstock. 221 00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:09,760 We got to like it, you know, just being able to chop wood 222 00:57:09,843 --> 00:57:12,721 or hit your thumb with a hammer. 223 00:57:12,805 --> 00:57:19,103 We'd be concerned with fixing a tape recorder, fixing a screen door. 224 00:57:19,186 --> 00:57:21,814 Stuff like that. And getting the songs together. 225 00:57:21,897 --> 00:57:24,483 We always seemed to get a whole lot more done 226 00:57:24,566 --> 00:57:28,445 when we didn't have a lot of company around, you know. 227 00:57:28,529 --> 00:57:30,739 Just, uh, we were more productive. 228 00:57:30,823 --> 00:57:35,536 And as soon as company came, of course, we'd start having fun. 229 00:57:36,704 --> 00:57:39,373 You know what happens when you have too much fun. 230 00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:47,297 Something we've kind of evaded around here, but I'll ask it now. 231 00:57:47,381 --> 00:57:49,466 - What about women on the road? - I love 'em. 232 00:57:50,843 --> 00:57:53,429 That's probably why we've been on the road. 233 00:57:55,097 --> 00:57:59,143 - That's it. - Not that I don't like the music. 234 00:57:59,226 --> 00:58:00,894 You know, but... 235 00:58:04,732 --> 00:58:07,568 I thought you weren't supposed to talk about it too much. 236 00:58:07,651 --> 00:58:10,988 - No, I guess we're not. - I thought we were supposed to... 237 00:58:11,071 --> 00:58:15,534 pan away from that sort of stuff, get into something else. 238 00:58:15,617 --> 00:58:19,079 Since the beginning, since we started playing together, 239 00:58:19,163 --> 00:58:23,709 just like we've all grown just a little bit, so have the women. 240 00:58:25,044 --> 00:58:27,921 - You know? And it's amazing. - That's right. That's good. 241 00:58:28,005 --> 00:58:30,090 I just wanna break even. 242 00:58:35,929 --> 00:58:37,598 Joni Mitchell. Right. 243 00:59:25,771 --> 00:59:29,441 I Just how close fo the bone And the skin and the eyes I 244 00:59:39,743 --> 00:59:42,287 I You're not a hit-and-run driver 245 01:03:45,030 --> 01:03:48,700 Levon's hometown, it's near West Helena. 246 01:03:48,784 --> 01:03:52,454 At one time we were there, for some reason or another, 247 01:03:52,537 --> 01:03:56,875 and we decided we were gonna look up one of the legends of that town, 248 01:03:56,958 --> 01:03:58,502 which was Sonny Boy Williamson. 249 01:03:59,378 --> 01:04:02,172 In my opinion, he's the best harp player, 250 01:04:02,255 --> 01:04:04,674 that's like harmonica, 251 01:04:05,592 --> 01:04:09,721 blues harmonica, that I've ever heard. 252 01:04:09,805 --> 01:04:11,973 - He's the big daddy of 'em. - Yeah. 253 01:04:12,057 --> 01:04:17,229 And he took us to a friend of his place, a woman's place, 254 01:04:17,312 --> 01:04:21,274 who served food and corn liquor. 255 01:04:21,358 --> 01:04:23,443 In a Southern booze can. 256 01:04:23,527 --> 01:04:26,029 And he would sit there and he was playing for us. 257 01:04:26,113 --> 01:04:28,990 And we were getting drunk and trying to figure out where we were. 258 01:04:29,074 --> 01:04:30,117 We were wiped out. 259 01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,161 He was spitting in a can. I thought he was dipping snuff. 260 01:04:33,245 --> 01:04:35,956 I thought maybe he had something in his lip. 261 01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:40,168 And he kept spitting in this can and playing, and we kept getting drunker. 262 01:04:40,252 --> 01:04:44,714 Finally, I looked over in the can and I realized it was blood. 263 01:04:44,798 --> 01:04:48,009 He was getting pretty tired and pretty drunk by then. 264 01:04:48,093 --> 01:04:52,681 And we made big plans for the future and all kinds of things we were gonna do. 265 01:04:52,764 --> 01:04:55,517 And it was tremendous. A great night. 266 01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:59,855 A couple of months later, we got a letter from his people, 267 01:04:59,938 --> 01:05:03,150 his manager, or whoever it was, saying that he had passed away. 268 01:05:58,872 --> 01:06:01,875 I Rollin' around the bend I 269 01:06:10,550 --> 01:06:13,178 I Rollin' around the bend I 270 01:06:39,621 --> 01:06:42,123 I Rollin' around the bend I 271 01:06:50,715 --> 01:06:53,343 I Rollin' around the bend I 272 01:07:59,159 --> 01:08:00,577 Paul Butterfield! 273 01:08:05,957 --> 01:08:07,375 Near Memphis... 274 01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:12,130 cotton country, rice country, uh... 275 01:08:12,964 --> 01:08:16,468 the most interesting thing is probably the music. 276 01:08:16,551 --> 01:08:19,346 Levon, who came from around there? 277 01:08:19,429 --> 01:08:20,680 Carl Perkins. 278 01:08:20,764 --> 01:08:22,182 - Carl Perkins? - Sure. 279 01:08:24,434 --> 01:08:28,063 - Muddy Waters, the king of country music. - Yeah. 280 01:08:28,146 --> 01:08:30,315 - Elvis Presley. - Mm-hmm. 281 01:08:30,398 --> 01:08:33,026 Johnny Cash. Bo Diddley. 282 01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:36,237 That's kind of the middle of the country, you know, back there. 283 01:08:36,321 --> 01:08:40,992 So bluegrass or country music, 284 01:08:41,785 --> 01:08:44,496 you know, if it comes down to that area 285 01:08:44,579 --> 01:08:48,124 and if it mixes there with rhythm and if it dances, 286 01:08:48,208 --> 01:08:53,088 then you've got a combination of all those different kinds of music. 287 01:08:53,171 --> 01:08:56,758 Country, bluegrass, blues music. 288 01:08:56,841 --> 01:08:59,260 - The melting pot. - Show music. 289 01:08:59,344 --> 01:09:01,805 - And what's it called then? - Rock and roll. 290 01:09:01,888 --> 01:09:04,641 Rock and roll. Yes. Exactly. 291 01:09:04,724 --> 01:09:05,725 Whoo! 292 01:09:43,096 --> 01:09:44,097 Yeah! 293 01:10:06,161 --> 01:10:08,246 > "0," child I 294 01:10:22,093 --> 01:10:24,137 > I'm a full-grown man I 295 01:11:31,412 --> 01:11:33,456 > All you little girls F 296 01:11:49,264 --> 01:11:50,306 Yeah! 297 01:12:12,495 --> 01:12:14,706 > "0," child I 298 01:12:28,511 --> 01:12:30,597 > I'm a full-grown man I 299 01:12:48,865 --> 01:12:51,659 I Man-child 300 01:13:32,158 --> 01:13:35,161 Wasn't that a man? Muddy Waters! 301 01:13:38,915 --> 01:13:41,125 On the guitar, Eric Clapton! 302 01:13:51,678 --> 01:13:54,389 One, two, a-one, two, three... 303 01:18:50,768 --> 01:18:54,981 Okay. So, Rick, what is Shangri-La? Maybe you could give us a little tour. 304 01:18:55,064 --> 01:18:56,732 What is a Shangri-La? 305 01:18:56,816 --> 01:19:02,905 It's a clubhouse where we get together and play. Make records. 306 01:19:03,990 --> 01:19:05,032 Yeah? 307 01:19:07,576 --> 01:19:11,122 Kind of better. It's like an office, I guess, but... 308 01:19:11,205 --> 01:19:12,999 It used to be a bordello. 309 01:19:14,583 --> 01:19:17,211 - A bordello? - I think you can tell by the wallpaper. 310 01:19:17,295 --> 01:19:20,631 That decadence, that softness in the barroom. 311 01:19:20,715 --> 01:19:23,718 I've heard a few funny stories, man. 312 01:19:24,719 --> 01:19:26,554 That's why all these rooms are here. 313 01:19:26,637 --> 01:19:30,141 You can't believe most of what you hear. 314 01:19:34,353 --> 01:19:40,401 This was a master-control bedroom, this is now a master-control music room. 315 01:19:40,484 --> 01:19:44,447 Let me ask you, now that The Last Waltz is over, what are you doing now? 316 01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:45,614 Uh... 317 01:19:49,201 --> 01:19:52,330 - Eddie, why don't you... 318 01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:53,414 Yeah. 319 01:19:57,084 --> 01:20:00,254 - Just making music, you know? - Oh, yeah. 320 01:20:02,131 --> 01:20:04,258 Trying to stay busy, man. 321 01:20:04,342 --> 01:20:06,635 - That's good. - It's healthy. 322 01:20:42,046 --> 01:20:43,714 It's where the music will take you. 323 01:20:43,798 --> 01:20:46,801 Otherwise, you would never go into such a situation. 324 01:20:46,884 --> 01:20:50,888 Because of the music, it took us everywhere. 325 01:20:51,597 --> 01:20:53,891 It took us to some strange places. 326 01:20:55,184 --> 01:20:56,977 Physically and spiritually? 327 01:20:57,061 --> 01:21:01,065 Physically, spiritually and psychotically. 328 01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:06,362 It just always wasn't on the stage. 329 01:21:07,238 --> 01:21:09,073 Even though you were on the stage. 330 01:21:09,156 --> 01:21:11,826 Even though we were on the stage, yeah. 331 01:25:47,601 --> 01:25:51,355 Garth was one of the most amazing musicians 332 01:25:51,438 --> 01:25:53,232 that we knew at the time. 333 01:25:53,315 --> 01:25:56,026 He could play better than anybody we ever heard. 334 01:25:56,110 --> 01:25:58,320 And Garth joined The Band... 335 01:25:59,321 --> 01:26:05,494 if we would, uh, make him the music teacher. 336 01:26:05,577 --> 01:26:07,955 We didn't know why or what that was all about, 337 01:26:08,038 --> 01:26:11,250 but we said, "Sure. I mean, we're interested anyway." 338 01:26:11,333 --> 01:26:17,881 And we had to pay him $10 a week each for these music lessons. 339 01:26:17,965 --> 01:26:20,843 - Then I was sure it was a riff. 340 01:26:20,926 --> 01:26:23,846 But then I found out what it really was, 341 01:26:23,929 --> 01:26:28,100 was that, where he was coming from and his musical education, 342 01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:32,229 to tell his parents at this point that we was joining a rock-and-roll band 343 01:26:32,312 --> 01:26:34,523 would have been like pouring it down the drain. 344 01:26:34,606 --> 01:26:39,361 So he justified it to his people and his background 345 01:26:40,070 --> 01:26:41,655 by being a music teacher. 346 01:26:42,364 --> 01:26:46,326 There is a view that jazz is evil 347 01:26:47,161 --> 01:26:50,330 because it comes from evil people. 348 01:26:50,414 --> 01:26:56,962 But, actually, the greatest priests on 52nd Street 349 01:26:58,255 --> 01:27:03,177 and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. 350 01:27:03,260 --> 01:27:06,054 They were doing the greatest healing work. 351 01:27:06,930 --> 01:27:10,809 And they knew how to punch through music 352 01:27:10,893 --> 01:27:15,314 which would cure and make people feel good. 353 01:30:27,297 --> 01:30:29,132 Most of the show stuff, though, 354 01:30:29,216 --> 01:30:32,636 it was like traveling shows, like tent shows. 355 01:30:33,595 --> 01:30:37,724 One was Wolcott's Rabbit's Foot Minstrels. 356 01:30:37,808 --> 01:30:42,646 - What was that? - Wolcott's Rabbit's Foot Minstrels. Yeah. 357 01:30:44,564 --> 01:30:49,027 You know how they used to have the show start, right? 358 01:30:49,111 --> 01:30:54,366 They'd have the singers and the players and the different parts of the show. 359 01:30:54,449 --> 01:30:58,120 Then the master of ceremonies would come out just before the finale 360 01:30:58,203 --> 01:31:01,748 and explain that after the finale, after the kids go home, 361 01:31:01,832 --> 01:31:03,709 they'd have the midnight ramble, right? 362 01:31:04,501 --> 01:31:06,670 - The midnight... - The midnight ramble. 363 01:31:07,713 --> 01:31:13,260 The songs would get a little bit juicier and the jokes would get a little funnier. 364 01:31:13,343 --> 01:31:18,056 And the prettiest dancer would really get down and shake it a few times. 365 01:31:18,140 --> 01:31:23,895 A lot of the rock-and-roll duck walks and steps and moves 366 01:31:23,979 --> 01:31:25,188 came from a lot of that. 367 01:31:25,272 --> 01:31:27,399 Everybody did it, and so, when, you know, 368 01:31:27,482 --> 01:31:30,861 you would see Elvis Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis 369 01:31:30,944 --> 01:31:34,281 or Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley really shaking it up, 370 01:31:34,364 --> 01:31:37,576 you know, it didn't come out of nowhere, it didn't come out of the air. 371 01:31:37,659 --> 01:31:40,912 It was like the local entertainment everybody was going to see. 372 01:31:40,996 --> 01:31:43,832 So when they exposed it to the rest of the world, 373 01:31:43,915 --> 01:31:47,419 it was like this unknown beast that had come out, 374 01:31:47,502 --> 01:31:52,257 the grotesque of music that the devil had sent, you know? 375 01:31:58,889 --> 01:31:59,931 Here we go. 376 01:32:57,572 --> 01:32:58,615 Sing it too. 377 01:36:03,216 --> 01:36:05,093 I Do that one more time 378 01:36:09,139 --> 01:36:10,765 I Do that one more time 379 01:36:18,106 --> 01:36:19,816 I Do that one more time 380 01:36:24,195 --> 01:36:25,822 I Do that one more time 381 01:36:29,951 --> 01:36:31,578 I Do that one more time 382 01:36:35,999 --> 01:36:37,625 I Do that one more time 383 01:36:38,335 --> 01:36:39,419 Thank you. 384 01:36:54,559 --> 01:36:56,353 Hey, Van the Man! 385 01:37:02,359 --> 01:37:04,277 Lawrence Ferlinghetti! 386 01:37:20,919 --> 01:37:22,587 Let us pray. 387 01:37:24,422 --> 01:37:28,385 Our Father, whose art's in heaven, 388 01:37:29,427 --> 01:37:35,600 hollow by thy name, unless things change. 389 01:37:35,683 --> 01:37:38,478 Thy wigdom come and gone. 390 01:37:38,561 --> 01:37:41,940 Thy will will be undone 391 01:37:42,023 --> 01:37:45,527 on earth as it isn't heaven. 392 01:37:46,903 --> 01:37:49,614 Give us this day our daily dread, 393 01:37:49,697 --> 01:37:52,325 at least three times a day. 394 01:37:53,535 --> 01:37:59,374 And forgive us our trespasses on love's territory. 395 01:37:59,457 --> 01:38:02,794 For thine is the wigdom and power and glory... 396 01:38:02,877 --> 01:38:04,838 Oh, man! 397 01:43:31,748 --> 01:43:35,251 > Well, I'll do anything In this God-almighty world F 398 01:44:05,448 --> 01:44:09,035 > Well, I'll do anything In this God-almighty world F 399 01:44:45,905 --> 01:44:49,325 > Well, I'll do anything In this God-almighty world F 400 01:45:36,205 --> 01:45:38,332 - Thank you! 401 01:46:19,457 --> 01:46:23,419 We got Ringo and Ronnie Wood. They're gonna help us out on this one too. 402 01:49:59,635 --> 01:50:02,930 - Thank you. - Thank you very much. 403 01:50:03,764 --> 01:50:06,934 The road was our school. It gave us a sense of survival. 404 01:50:07,017 --> 01:50:08,435 It taught us all we know. 405 01:50:09,270 --> 01:50:12,481 There's not much left that we can really take from the road. 406 01:50:12,565 --> 01:50:16,569 We've had our share of... Or maybe it's just superstitious. 407 01:50:18,028 --> 01:50:21,574 - Superstitious in what way? - You can press your luck. 408 01:50:21,657 --> 01:50:23,868 The road has taken a lot of the great ones. 409 01:50:24,618 --> 01:50:29,331 Hank Williams. Buddy Holly. Otis Redding. 410 01:50:29,415 --> 01:50:31,667 Janis. Jimi Hendrix. 411 01:50:32,459 --> 01:50:33,586 Elvis. 412 01:50:35,546 --> 01:50:37,756 It's a goddamn impossible way of life. 413 01:50:40,467 --> 01:50:43,721 - It is, isn't it? - No question about it.