R.I.P. Levon Helm

adventurguy · Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 28 Location: Bracebridge

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/1164522--obituary-levon-helm-71-begins-his-next-adventure?bn=1

aaron_wright · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 3143 Location: Wenatchee

That's a bummer.

JPL · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

Wow, Levon is dead at 71 and in the article it says Robbie is nearly 70 himself, man I feel old today. Crying or Very sad

wayne · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1066 Location: NY State

Levon was a great guy- he supported a lot of local events and headlined a concert series I did for several years. He loved our series and started doing it for us because Rick Danko had done it and told him about it. Rick died the year after he did our show.

Thanks Levon, you are missed.
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oldfart · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject:

Sad news... I can remember as a youngster going to see the Last Waltz on the first day it premiered - with my older brother and his friends. It has become a time tested album in my collection.

I also vividly can recall his performance as Loretta Lynn's father in the great Hollywood production of "Coal Miner's Daughter" w / Sissy Spacek.

Oh yeah, also got to see the reformed "The Band" (no Robbie) a bunch of times in the mid 80's.

Sure wish I coulda caught some of those recent performances in Woodstock.

R.I.P Mr Helm . You added a lot to American music and culture. A job well done!
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hutguy · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 7108 Location: Breckenridge CO

Thanks Levon! A life well lived!
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SoulMan · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:46 pm Post subject:

From one ol' Southern boy to another, RIP Levon. You done good.
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cesare · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:12 pm Post subject:

Gonna miss that old boy. My favorite part of the interviews in The Last Waltz is where Scorcese is asking them about women on the road. Rick Danko and Richard Manuel start going on about how great it is and Levon just looks at them out of the corner of his eye and says, "I thought we weren't supposed to talk about that."

And I loved his brilliant acting in Coal Miner's Daughter. Should have won an oscar for that role.
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rockdoc · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 160 Location: western Oregon

This is very sad news. Sad

RIP, Levon. I'll be sure to raise a glass to your memory this evening.

I wanted to share the following that was posted on the Steve Kimock list yesterday:
"As posted on his facebook page----
Dear Friends, Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey. ...

Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage...

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.
From his daughter Amy, and wife Sandy"
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cesare · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject:

The Weight
The Night they Drove old Dixie Down
Up on Cripple Creek
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maynard g. krebs · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject:

RIP, really sad

grew up going to camp in the Catskills (shandaken) and running around the streets of Woodstock as a kid. One day on our way back from a swimming hole on the esopus, the counselers pulled the van up to pink house "that's big pink, one day you'll know what it means". I was 10 or 11 at the time. Didn't take me too long to find music from big pink in the parental record collection. Still going, vinyl, cassette, cd, iPod...

Later on, lived in a duplex house in algerville, owned by a friend who had been their road manager, gold records in the bathroom and all. Some very funny stories about their antics.
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robrox · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:56 pm Post subject:

Nice images maynard! I remember the huge loaves of rye in the bakery window.

Thanks Levon, you have surely earned your rest...go in peace.
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