

Anyone who’s read Ratso’s first book, 1978’s On The Road With Bob Dylan, has witnessed his epic persistence. What most people dream about, Larry “Ratso” Sloman makes happen. Portrait of Larry “Ratso” Sloman by William Beaucardet. The Last Waltz Suite: Evangeline 1:25:45Īfter the jump, part three has all of the Dylan material, Ringo Starr, and the big jam sessions. The Lord’s Prayer (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)Ģ2. Transgressing The Real (Robert Duncan) 1:10:26ġ9. Get Yer Cut Throat Off My Knife / Revolutionary Letter #4ġ7. Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Michael McClure) 1:07:36ġ6. Poem (Hell’s Angel Sweet William) 1:02:41ġ5. Acadian Driftwood (with Joni Mitchell and Neil Young) 54:07ġ3. Tura Lura Lural (with Van Morrison) 44:10ġ1. Furry Sings The Blues (with Joni Mitchell)ĩ. Four Strong Winds (with Neil Young) 18:01Ħ. Further On Up The Road (with Eric Clapton) 5:39Ĥ. All Our Past Times (with Eric Clapton) 0:00Ģ. Part two begins with Eric Clapton coming onstage to join The Band, followed by Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond and Van Morrison and then poetry from Digger Emmett Grogan, Lenore Kandel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure and others.ġ. Mystery Train (with Paul Butterfield) 1:13:23ġ7. Introduction / Who Do You Love (with Ronnie Hawkins) 57:26ġ5. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 43:26ġ3. Introduction / Up on Cripple Creek 0:00ġ0. As much as you might love The Last Waltz, this is probably even better.ġ. (It’s also not had that blob of cocaine hanging from Neil Young’s nose edited out through frame by frame rotoscoping….)Īside from the opening acts, this is the entire main event.

The audio and video sound quality is amazing and best of all, this is not only how it went down, in the order that it went down, and it’s actually how it sounded before Robbie Robertson went in and overdubbed everything. I was looking for something else entirely when I stumbled across THIS buried treasure: The Band’s complete “Last Waltz” concert, as shot from what must have been the house cameras at Winterland.
