![]() ![]() "So in his songs, he'd sing a verse or two and then he'd nod at me and I'd play a solo, and he'd sing another verse, nod at me and I'd play another solo. I came in on the rock 'n' roll, blues and rhythm and blues train – so when we started playing with him, the idea of blazing guitar solos in the middle of his songs – he really enjoyed that fire in his music.īob Dylan was just getting on the train of rock and roll so they talked about it back then of him 'going electric'? I'd never been non-electric! Robbie Robertson ![]() He was just getting on the train of rock and roll so they talked about it back then of him 'going electric'? I'd never been non-electric! I didn't know folk music. And I started to appreciate that and was moving somewhat in that direction, and then we hooked up with Bob Dylan. "And I quite liked Curtis Mayfield's playing, just because it was so damn cool. And the rhythmic playing – playing different rhythms against the song and, not blazing fills, cool little fills on the lower strings, and I thought, 'Hmm, that's interesting'. I would see the guitar player for Little Junior Parker's band, for instance, and it was a style of playing that, the motion of it and the groove of it, played just as big a part as the solos did. "Then, after we left Ronnie Hawkins, we went into a bit of a different musical world at that point, playing a lot in the South and – in the music that we heard and the people that we were around – I started picking up some other aspects of guitar playing. And after a period of time I started to understand some of the subtleties and cooler ways to approach things than just putting your fist through the ceiling constantly. Because I was 16 and so hot-to-trot, I came out with the pedal-to-the-metal all the time. There were guitar solos in almost every song. "I started playing professionally on the road for a living when I was 16 years old with Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks," he says, "and when I was playing with Ronnie, I was blazing. ![]() ![]() As Robertson explains, that's because he'd already grown out of his 'blazing' phase. It's an unusual piece of pyrotechnics in a sense, because there aren't that many blazing guitar solos in the Band's recorded work. ![]()
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