Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rock's most successful and respected figures, Robbie Robertson of The Band, explaining in his own slightly hackneyed way the group's decision last year to stop touring. The Band--Robertson (lead guitar and covals), Rich Danko (bass and vocals), Levon Helm (drums and vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards) and Richard Manuel (piano and vocals)--did what few groups, successful or struggling, have ever managed to do: they quit while they were still ahead...
...perhaps the best number in the film), "The Weight" and other standbys. The Band is so consistent that these songs always sound great, but there is a slight difference between their 1977 renditions and the sound of their 1974 "Before the Flood" tour with Dylan. Four years ago, Garth Hudson's wailing organ played a more central role in The Last Waltz. Robertson's lead guitar dominates most of the songs. Either way, the sound is worth the price of admission...
Edmund Stillman, director of Hudson Research Europe, Ltd., Paris...
...contestants must weave down the river, passing through a series of metal gates. Novices have to pass through 15 gates; the hardy competitors who try the toughest slalom must find a way of getting through 20, which are often devilishly placed in the most treacherous spots in the Hudson. Anyone hitting a gate suffers penalty points; anyone missing one then and there loses just about any chance of winning. The longest slalom race is 1.5 miles. The "downriver" runs for 7½ miles, and is purely a speed and endurance event. The only contestants to get a break...
Right below Gate 16 in the giant slalom, the Hudson foams into a fury of white water. A boulder, an obstacle that was a legend to the contestants, rises 2 ft. out of the river, churning the currents into a whirling eddy. All afternoon the competitors, young and old, hurtled down, striving to swerve their boats around it The better racers changed directions nimbly; the novices-faces distorted by fear -dug frantically at the water...