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Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Georgia Straight guide to the 34th annual Dancing on the Edge festival, Education: Upgrade your skills for a dramatically new world. Drugs and alcohol hit the Bands rhythm section hard: I would be, like, Guys! 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. From left: Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko of The Band poses for a portrait in circa 1969. 'Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band' review: Music doc It fell on me and I respect it and I try to tell the most honest version of the story I can., Its a fair point, yet for a memoirist, he seems pretty averse to reflection. "The idea was we'd take care of each other," he says in the film. I was about seven years old and he seemed so tall when I met him. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, When Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and principal songwriter for the Band, wrote for the groups three singersLevon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuelhe thought of himself as composing movie songs., I was like their director, Robertson, who is seventy-six, said the other day. It was shattering to me when Richard died. 8:28 am, The finest musician of the rock era ! Search is currently unavailable. 2:43 pm, handsomeblackcowboybrady But to this day I don't fully understand why he had to let go of it the way he did. Robertson was already recording in the Mississippi Delta by the time he could legally drive. 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 never realized he was forgotten because he has continued to contribute to so many projects besides The Band. He was also the wise elder of the group, and the one that shied away from drugs and alcohol, which is probably why Bob Dylan trusted him to man the reel-to-reel recorder in the basement of Big Pink when he recorded The Basement Tapes in 1966 and 1967.