Word: winterland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class countrified rock had had one final look at The Band. After 16 years, some of them spent as Bob Dylan's back-up group, Guitarist Robbie Robertson, Bassist Rick Danko, Organist Garth Hudson. Drummer Levon Helm and Pianist Richard Manuel had come to San Francisco's Winterland for their final live performance together...
...eventually faded. After a desultory summer of canceled concerts and mixed reviews, they decided, in Robertson's words, "to bring it to a head. We're going to conclude this chapter of our lives." So, with dinner out of the way, the group took the stage at Winterland last week for one final, marathon 37-song set. On hand for the grand farewell: old friends like Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and finally Dylan himself. Their last number, Dylan's I Shall Be Released, began with the line: "They say everything...
...Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Recognizing that the group is a very special talisman for the cultural breakaways who have built their lifestyles around them, TIME's Tim Tyler sought out a typical Stones freak last week and went with him to San Francisco's Winterland. Tyler's report...
Finally we were at Winterland. Jagger appeared and it was a shock; he looked frail and innocent for a man of 28 trailing a history of fights, drug busts and death. Pouty child in glittery eye makeup, strutting and singing, posturing like a crane with his skeletal legs draped in clinging white jersey pants, squeaking around on little white sneakers. Jagger is half the show; the tight, excellent rock 'n' roll of the augmented quartet behind him is easy to miss if you get mesmerized...