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Teiz Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 573 Almere, Amsterdams ugly twin Gender:	Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Apr 17^th, 2012 at 5:11pm Got this through SV on Facebook: one of the greatest in modern music is about to leave us. I'm spinning some of his stuff in his honour.. http://www.levonhelm.com/ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/levon-helm-in-final-stages-of-his-battle-...
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #1 - Apr 17^th, 2012 at 5:38pm Feared the worst when I heard he was ill a few days ago. Sad news. One of the greatest voices out there.
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Sioux Rocks Off Regular Offline Brian Jones---Foundation Stone--Golden Stone Posts: 4,176 Virginia, U.S.A. Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #2 - Apr 17^th, 2012 at 6:18pm This is so incredibly sad.... My prayers are with him and his family, friends, and legion of fans...
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Reply #3 - Apr 17^th, 2012 at 6:23pm

OMG...one of my faves of alltime.....saw the Band in so many venues....600,000 people at Watkins Glen....75,000 with Clapton at Rich Stadium Buffalo (blew drunk Eric off the stage)...2500 people in our local music theater..and 450 people in a small venue in Western Ontario....what memories....hoping for the best,....fearing the worst.

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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #4 - Apr 17^th, 2012 at 6:39pm This is so sad, Levon goes back a long way with me, in the 60's (before Dylan) The Band was Ronnie Hawkins band, played in Toronto bars all over, Cancer sucks big time!
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mojoman Rocks Off Regular Offline HMERLS Posts: 6,593 joyzee Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #5 - Apr 17^th, 2012 at 9:30pm damn the man just gave us so much for more than fifty years. thank you sir for all your magic. god bless
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Teiz Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 573 Almere, Amsterdams ugly twin Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #6 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 6:20am @gimmekeef and Heart Of Stone. I would love to hear some more stories about those gigs. Being born in 1973 on the other side of the pool, I never got to see the Band or Levon with his fantastic band. I love all that stuff on disc though.
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,237 US Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #7 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 6:45am Very Very sad. Levon Helm is amazing. My prayers go out to his family. FG
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Reply #8 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 10:25am

Teiz wrote on Apr 18^th, 2012 at 6:20am:

@gimmekeef and Heart Of Stone. I would love to hear some more stories about those gigs. Being born in 1973 on the other side of the pool, I never got to see the Band or Levon with his fantastic band. I love all that stuff on disc though.

Well I was too young to see Ronnie Hawkins in bars in the late 60's, that's where they started, he was the front man & The Hawks were his backing band, so the emphasis was on Ronnie, but the band really shined on some singles that were released "40 Days/Bo Diddley/Who Do You Love" Robbie's guitar especially, being a guitar player that's what stood out, then they became Levon & The Hawks, then Dylan's back up band when he went electric, & then in about '69 they became The Band, could be '68, but it was with Ronnie Hawkins where they really learned their trade sort of speak, by playing years in bars, I don't even know if they have that nowdays or not, I don't go to bars, I hear the entertainment is playing piped in music, & there's not that many bands in bars anymore, there's also Karaoke that's popular, bands are on the way out.

Here's a site that has a documentary on the Toronto scene in the 60's.
http://www.bravo.ca/events/yongestreet/index.asp

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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #9 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 1:02pm Keith Richards, Scotty Moore, Levon Helm, D. J. Fontana & The Band: Deuce & A Quarter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jpqF1uolk&feature=share
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PartyDoll MEG Rocks Off Regular Offline Just one drink from your lovin' cup Posts: 3,127	Re: Sad news from Levon Helm and his family Reply #10 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 2:36pm So sad! Another one from our era losing his battle with the deadly CANCER!!
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