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There is also an official "Complete Last Waltz," at 4 CDs, but apparently the bootleg version is quite different (official version remixed, I suspect.)
The original LP release was a triple disc set, and I think it was expanded for CD to four CDs. The main difference (apparently) is that after the concert The Band overdubbed their parts (some more than others, I believe Danko redid all his), which made cutting the film very difficult for Scorcese's team as the footage didn't match the music. The Bootleg version is the original recordings before overdubbing
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Andy, might I point you in the direction of this?
A trawl of your local interwebs might find a copy somewhere.
The complete soundboard recording was used for this elaborate four CD set of The Band's farewell show of Thanksgiving Day 1976. Recorded at San Francisco's Winterland, the concert was filmed for commercial release by Martin Scorsese. In the subsequent three LP soundtrack, some songs were eliminated; and the song sequence was shuffled around to create a better flow.
The Complete Last Waltz restores all of the omitted tracks, and is sequenced exactly as the concert was performed -
I was a bit disappointed in it, to be honest
Yep, there's a reason it went unreleased for thirty years.
I read somewhere the Stones were so disappointed by their performance they offered the footage to the Who to rebrand it "The Who's Rock n Roll Circus". Apparently they'd been there since 9am the previous morning and were filming about 4am.
The Taj Mahal clip with Jesse Ed Davis is a highlight for me.
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David I'll see your Jerry Jeff and raise you a couple of Robbie Fulks:
Every Kind of Music But Country
Well, I've been hounding her for such a long time
Trying to impress her with my hillbilly whine
But she told me I was barking up the wrong tree
She liked every kind of music but country.Every kind of music but country
She liked it fast, she liked it loud, she liked it funky
She liked everything about me, 'cept for one thing
She liked every kind of music but country.Well, I thought I had a big one on the line
She said listening to music was her favorite pastime.
But she told me I was trying to swim upstream
She liked every kind of music but countryShe saw I had a guitar in my hand
(But she never heard me playing until the night she heard my band)
But she thought I was a hick until the night she heard my band
And now she can't remember having told me
She liked every kind of music but countryand
The Buck Starts Here
Lyrics
I never knew this place had so much empty space
Until tonight, when you walked right out the door
And so I walked to our bedside and pulled out that 45
That laid for years behind our chest of drawers.At first, it looked too worn to play, the label all but washed away
Then I made out the name of my old friend
Thirty years, and a scratch or two, but when the needle hit the groove
I knew it was crying time again.The Buck starts here
With Hank sure to follow
Turn him up loud and clear
He's singing my sorrow
Let the sad songs roll on
Through a house filled with tears
Where the good times is gone
The Buck starts here. -
But I think coaches have to be patient. If there are no vacancies, then there are no vacancies. And remember we've chased a few messiahs in the past, including our current one.
Yes I agree, and Deans was probably right to sling his hook rather than wait four more years, given he was entitled to think that an unsuccessful World Cup should have created a vacancy at the top.
(I supported and still support the reappointment of Henry in 2008, and would not fire him now)
Talkback was awful yesterday, with Lawrie Mains, a coach who had his fair share of people trying to get him sacked, suggesting that two years is more than enough time and Henry should get the bullet. I turned it off when people started suggesting Blackadder was the man for the job.
I see your point now that Cooper's next promotion will be to the selection panel, given he's hardly shown the sort of record you'd want in a head coach. Given that with Deans gone, Cooper & Foster are the most successful coaches in the country over the last 2 seasons, they would be front runners for the job if it were vacant now. Watch out for Gatland to ride over the horizon after the 2011 World Cup, like Mitchell did in 2001 (and Henry after him)
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I see Hinton's Crusade has been a success.
I have to ask, why can the coaches not fill the heads of their players with instructions to win by six points, but insist they fill their heads with the words to one of the worst national anthems in existance (way worse than the Aus one)?
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And here's me thinking your title was particularly prescient in light of the Jacko news this morning - I had visions of a chimpanzee in a hot air balloon
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Megan, you're right, there is little beyond the S14 coaching positions for these guys to go for. I don't have a solution really, beyond reinvigorating the NPC competition, and making it the bread & butter competition.
The Union is in a bind over someone like Colin Cooper, who has done his dash at S14 level and has nowhere to go but overseas. He sure ain't AB material. (but that's another story)
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I once had visions of infiltrating the NZRU and staging a coup, but given that to do so you've got to infiltrate a good number of the provincial unions first to even get a look in, much too hard.
IMHO he is far too dazzled by the News Corp money, and is terrified that if he loses that, the Union is in the shit (which it is, given how few broadcasters are in a position to throw that sort of money at the game).
The NZRU's (I'll stop slagging off Tew, because it is union inertia as much as anything that's causing this) inability to see other potential revenue streams (The Japanese would love to host the Maori, or the Crusaders or something similar).
Any company with just one substantial revenue stream would be extremely vulnerable in the same way the NZRU is.
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Like it or not the ABs are a business. They bring in loads of cash to fund everything else. As a traditionalist I'm not completely happy with some of the recent changes, but if I were in Tew's shoes would I do anything differently? I'm not so sure.
He's building an unsustainable model that will bite us on the arse in the next few years - insufficient opportunities for coaches beyond Super 14, narrowing our professional ranks and creating an ever increasing gap between that and provincial rugby, ignoring other potential revenue streams, failing to follow their own rules (a la messers Carter & McAllister).
Sure it's a tough job, that's why he's paid the big bucks.