Fact #98347
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The Band record Tears Of Rage, co-written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel, at A And R Recording, New York City, USA. It will appear on their debut album, Music From Big Pink. On the same day they record Yazoo Street Scandal, but it will not appear on the album.
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Robbie Robertson (The Band) : We were into gospel music... not particularly spiritual gospel music, black gospel music, but white gospel music. It was easier to play. and it came more natural to us. We were trying to get a bigger sound going on - we had like piano, guitar, bass and drums for a long time, and we tried horns and all kinds of things but there were too many people. So we realised that the only instrument that could make that fullness, and take the place of horns or anything like that, was an organ. We met Garth at that time, who was a hundred times superior musician to any of us... I mean he was, to us, just a phenomenon. He could play rings around all of us put together, and he joined the group and his job was to play organ and horn and to teach us music... and the organ was incorporated and we thought "great ", we loved it and we never thought anything about it after that, it kind of fit natural and it's been that way ever since. It wasn't till later that some groups started popping up with the same instrumentation. And I know why they had that instrumentation - because it's full, it feels much more secure.
(Interview in Melody Maker, May 29 1971)
Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) : Another Dylan song, from Music With Big Pink, a record that really changed rock 'n' roll. Whether for better or worse, I don't know. Everything was influenced by it at the time. It was the contrapuntal, improvised group playing, plus the dynamics and harmonies were unpredictable and had kind of a gospel effect. The singing was spectacular - three fantastic singers, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. There's never been anything else like it. It was on a much higher level than any other records in those days - homemade and beautiful-sounding.
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(Interview in Melody Maker, May 29 1971)
Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) : Another Dylan song, from Music With Big Pink, a record that really changed rock 'n' roll. Whether for better or worse, I don't know. Everything was influenced by it at the time. It was the contrapuntal, improvised group playing, plus the dynamics and harmonies were unpredictable and had kind of a gospel effect. The singing was spectacular - three fantastic singers, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. There's never been anything else like it. It was on a much higher level than any other records in those days - homemade and beautiful-sounding.