The Last Waltz |
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| By: Elliott Thursday November 27, 2008 6:41 am | |
Happy Thanksgiving
It was 1976, I was living in the Bay Area back then.
My biggest fantasy was to go to The Last Waltz on Thanksgiving
Just wanted to go Up on Cripple Creek
Ronnie Hawkins showed up, Who Do You Love?
Neil Young was there, Helpless
Superstar Jam
Don’t Do It, don’t you break my heart … but they did and it was over.
To dream, perchance to waltz.
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This is one of the three legendary concerts I wish I could have attended.
(The other two are the Watkins Glen with The Band, The Allman Brothers, and The Dead and any one of Fillmore East concerts with The Allman Brothers
wow Ms Elliot – got off the phone with my peanut not 5 minutes ago – she was asking about songs to rip for a mom cd . . . I requested Unfaithful Servant – live NYC – dayum !!
almost didn’t go – like many, balked at the $25 ticket price – but this was the cult band of my youth and Hejira had just come out …
truly one of my most treasured memories
Elliot!
Two Words: Rick Danko.
Oh, yeah.
Didn’t see the concert, but saw the movie made about it. And, have the DVD of same.
Big time, Bill. Big time. I think it was Ronnie Hawkins who said that.
I was down the peninsula and didn’t make this one, was recently back from time in Monterey, broke, and I missed it. I didn’t miss many at Winterland, from ‘68 thru ‘74. Or at Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom, Playland, etc.
But I missed this one. Those clips will break a heart, no doubt. And what a joy to see Richard Manuel and Rick Danko once again, rest their souls . . .
Thanks Elliot . . . that was a special Thanksgiving Gift. . .
Elliott, just occurred to me . . . I was mostly in San Mateo for a long time, absent a spell in Monterey for a year.
Were you near? I knew a family of Elliott’s. Highlands. Aragon, ‘71 Mike E and I and pals.
sorry Larue, those aren’t my Elliotts,
they be Catholic Irish arriving here in 1824 — Five Points for five years, then off to the coalfields of NE PA — for a start.
heh there’s Scorsese again.
Kuramotos in San Mateo? — roses
Not that I recall.
Takahashi’s, they had a flower shop on 3rd St.
Glen was my age and in a few classes.
Life is funny, ya never know, thanks for the reply!
And again, a great thread . . . .
Helpless, helpless…Thanks for this, Ellie.
“It Makes No Difference” is just one heartbreakingly beautifully sad song and one of my favorites among my many favorite Band songs.
I had a chance to go. My coworker was selling her son’s pair of tickets for face value $25.00. However, I was seventeen and an idiot. My best friend’s mom wouldn’t let her go – because of her bad attitude, so as a sign of solidarity, I did not go. It is one of the few regrets of my life, the others also having to do with things not done, or missed opportunities, where I did not listen to my heart.