The last member of one of the great bands of our lifetimes has exited stage left
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Thread: RIP Garth Hudson
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01-21-2025, 11:35 AM #1
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RIP Garth Hudson
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01-21-2025, 12:10 PM #2
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RIP. I saw Jim Weider (with GE Smith and Larry Campbell) the other night, Weider played guitar when the Band re-formed in 1983, taking Robbie Robertson's spot. I guess he's the closest thing to a living member now.
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01-21-2025, 12:12 PM #3
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Damn. Time to put the last waltz into the truck deck for another road trip.
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01-21-2025, 12:51 PM #4
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If you had asked me yesterday, I would have guessed he already died years ago.
RIP."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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01-21-2025, 02:54 PM #5
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RIP Garth Hudson
RIP Garth. The last time I saw Levon in upstate NY he invited Garth on stage to place Chest Fever. I have to admit between the big beard and big hair flowing out from under a black wide brimmed hat, he looked like a muppet. Rocked the shit out of that opening organ stanza though.
He could play light and beautiful as well.
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01-21-2025, 03:45 PM #6
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It's too bad they all didn't own a piece of that music. Talented bunch. Robertson wouldn't have had what he had without those guys.
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01-21-2025, 04:48 PM #7
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Robertson was a pretty great talent, they all made it work
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01-21-2025, 07:19 PM #8
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Yeah it took all of them to make it work. I saw the whole band a few times in the 80s and one show in particular at a bar on Long Island in September 85 was just off the hook wonderful. I even still have the ticket stub! When I saw versions of the band it wasn't the same but Levon brought the goods right up to the end. Garth's passing got me to get back in touch with the girl I went to a bunch of Band shows in high school and college so that was cool. Side story but totally related; my dad was at the Quality Inn the night Richard Manuel hung himself. He worked for this big accounting firm in NYC and the family that owned that property and a few others had their main office there so he went down twice a year for a while. He said that it was a shitty place, noisy with loud music and loud people all over haha. In the morning when he left for the airport he said there were all sorts of cop cars pulling in, he thought it was probably a drug bust. When we talked a few days later I told him and if I could've seen him I bet he shrugged his shoulders.
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01-24-2025, 02:24 AM #9
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