Episode 781 - Robbie Robertson

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Robbie Robertson is in the garage to give Marc the full lowdown on the history of The Band, from its origins as a backing group to its final bow with The Last Waltz. Robbie talks about being with Bob Dylan when he went electric and dealing with the blowback of that, and he explains how he came to have such a great working relationship with Martin Scorsese on many of the director's films.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fuck
0:14.9	nicks?
0:17.1	Fuck it man.
0:21.0	I've got Robbie Robertson on the show today.
0:23.9	He was the guitar player for the band.
0:27.8	He's got a book coming out.
0:29.7	It's called Testimony and there's also a big box set of the last waltz, which I had some
0:36.5	nice emotional respite watching it, watching that time, those guys, all those people that were
0:46.2	in that movie.
0:47.2	But talking to Robbie was, if you love music, you know, from back when music had intent
0:54.1	and some political purpose and also, you know, just it was that time, man, you know, the
0:59.2	time, the crashing waves of the 60s into the 70s, the last gasp until the resurrection
1:06.7	of Americana.
1:08.0	But it was a great talk.
1:10.0	But look, I got to talk about something.
1:11.6	I can't.
1:12.6	He gets to a point where you really got to ask yourself, what is it?
1:19.2	What's your responsibility?
1:21.8	Personally, to the country and as an American and as somebody who believes in this country,
1:32.2	I mean, this, you know, this refugee band, I mean, I haven't been sleeping and I wake
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