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Playing the Isle of Wight festival with Bob Dylan in Aug. 1969. John and Yoko, George and Pattie, and Ringo and Maureen were there.
The arrangement for the Isle of Wight was that we would play a set with Bob and one on our own. We didn’t have much time to run over songs for the show, so we decided to fly over a few days early and rehearse. The Isle of Wight is an island off the south coast of England that had been a home of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Bob rented a house in the small town of Bembridge, with a building where we could work out some material, while the Band stayed at a nearby hotel.
John, George, and Ringo came down for a visit with their better halves to catch some of the show. John appeared thinner with his shoulder-length hair. He and Yoko were looking similar in spirit as well as physically, and they sat quietly in the corner smiling and holding hands as we rehearsed. George and Pattie cheered us on and made song requests like “Everybody Must Get Stoned” and “To Kingdom Come.” And Ringo made Levon’s day as he marched around the room peering through his sunglasses yelling, “Turn up the drums! We need more drums!”
Before we hit the stage, we heard that the police were having problems with th
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Why It Took Robbie Robertson Five Years to Write His Memoir
Robbie Robertson has an astonishing memory. When we meet to discuss his new memoir, Testimony, out today, and I mention the detail and remarkable intimacy conveyed in the book's 512 pages, Robertson launches into a twenty-minute story from his childhood.
"There's a part in the book where I talk about something that happened for me when I was around nine years old," Robertson begins, his deep voice extending every syllable to its breaking point. "We were visiting with our relatives on Six Nations, and the relatives and my mom and I went to the long house, which is a traditional gathering place for people from the Six Nations. An elder, who had an attitude that really caught my attention—because he was an amazing looking person, but kind of stern, kind of no bullshit about him, just the way he walked, the way he stared, the way he moved—he comes into this long house and sits down and he bangs his stick that he was carrying on the floor a few times. It was a signal that now he was going to do something."
"I had no idea what, or where this was going, and then he spoke in Native tongue," Roberston continues. "There was something about the sound of it—it had a certain magic to i