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Cathal · 4421 days ago · link · · parent · post: First Weekly "What Music Have You Discovered This Week" Thread
Read Levon Helm's brilliant biography This Wheel's On Fire if you want the real dope on what happened in the Last Waltz. He claims Robbie and Martin Scorsese holed up alone in a cutting room for months doing monstrous amounts of coke and wound up with a finished product that looked more like Robbie Robertson + 4. Screw-ups in the recording sesh resulted in them having to completely redo Rick Danko's bass parts in post-production. Oh, and Levon wasn't happy about Robertson's attempt to cut Muddy Waters set down in favour of Neil Diamond, who he was producing an album for at the time. Levon exploded when he heard this and said "Someone phone Neil Diamond and tell him we don't know who the fuck he is!"