Bob Weir documentary on Netflix


Just saw this. It's called THE OTHER ONE. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Cheers -Don
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The Muscle Shoals doc IS great, and also worth seeing is the one on Levon Helm (of The Band, for you youngsters), "Not In It For My Health".
Seriously, Mateored? Maybe you have to be a musician to fully appreciate The Band. I've seen a lot of them starting with The Beach Boys (you laugh? They were great live!), Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Hendrix, Cream, Jeff Beck, Doors, up through current ones, and The Band were BY FAR the best of them all. A few other guys who agree with me: Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, T-Bone Burnett, Nick Lowe, Bonnie Raitt, John Hiatt, many, many others. They are to Rock 'n' Roll what Count Basie and Duke Ellington are to Jazz---pure class!
The Band were the antidote to all the crappy hippie bands and psychedelic hogwash and excess of the late 60's/early 70's.
Okay, upon reflection, I take your (plural) point and admit to deserving it. How embarrassing! But lemme 'splain: I was actually startled to see the sentiment of not being a huge fan of The Band in print. Where I come from, The Band are so significant in the pantheon of Pop Music makers and history, that to not be a, if not huge, then at least not declared so, fan of them is akin to a Classical music person saying they are not a huge fan of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. Hope I'm not compounding my error in judgment fellas!