Founding members Robbie Robertson and bassist Rick Danko looked back on the country rock group that influenced a generation. ... and an Ampeg fretted. I also have a Gibson Ripper, ...

“Fancy people go driftin’ by,” Danko sings in the last verse. That’s likely a reference to the stars coming out to see this hyped group. Robertson sums up the experience in chilling fashion.

“This Wheel’s on Fire” from Music From Big Pink (1968). In this case, it was Rick Danko who chunked out some chords on piano at Big Pink before handing them off to Dylan for his lyrics.

Garth Hudson at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards. Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson stand behind. January, 1994 [Photo: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]. Organist and multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson ...

Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko performing with The Band at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey on October 21, 1983. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns via Getty Images) Redferns. By .

Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel killed himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of cancer in 2012. The Band was inducted into the Rock & Roll ...

Of his bandmates, Richard Manuel was found dead in 1986, Rick Danko died of heart failure in 1999, and Levon Helm of cancer in 2012. In August 2023, Robbie Robertson died aged 80, surrounded by ...

Saying Goodbye to The Band With Garth Hudson’s passing on Tuesday, the rock ‘n’ roll giants have left us for good. While they were together, Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Levon ...

Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial Lowrey organ, he summoned Bach, hymns, the gospel church or a circus calliope.

(L-R) Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson of The Band in 1971. ... Danko died of heart failure in 1999, and Helm of cancer in 2012.

Members of The Band dying before him were keyboardist Richard Manuel in 1986, bassist Rick Danko in 1999, Helm in 2012, and Robertson in 2023. Hudson’s wife, Maud, died in 2022. Originally ...

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Canadian roots-rock group the Band, died Tuesday at a nursing facility in his adopted hometown of Woodstock, N.Y.