Bob dylan beyond a shadow of doubt1/21/2024 ![]() ![]() It's much more likely that something has occurred to dissuade his intelligence from operating. To put it briefly, I don't think any cosmic triple-whammy or Indian sign has been put on Robertson in order to deprive him of his creative intelligence. The Band's (and particularly Robertson's) incapacity to keep up the pressure of completed, filled-out achievement can most probably be written down to those sociological conditions which only an acutely self-preserving personality like Randy Newman has so far been able to out-flank. ![]() I don't want to be thought of as suggesting that this rapid boom-and-bust was written in the stars or has got something to do with an inherent inability of rock to sustain its own creativity: rock seems to me a form which can be worked with to infinity, and whatever laws govern the behaviour of its practitioners, they are not astral. ![]() In Cahoots Robertson's writing is reduced to plasma and the Band's musicality has started to sound mechanical. ![]() In Stage Fright the Band maintains its musicality but Robertson's lyricism is already softening its focus. In the second album they are both at their peak, producing one of the few rock artifacts in which every potentiality is completely realised. In Music from Big Pink both the Band and Robertson are on the climb. Abruptly and crudely, these convictions run as follows. In the second place, it will conform with my own convictions - perhaps idiosyncratic, certainly not widely professed - about the relative worth of the four Band albums we have had so far. In the first place, this will be a necessary step in trying to isolate Robertson's characteristics as a lyricist. There are good reasons for keeping these priorities, but for my own purposes I want to stand them on their heads, talking about Robertson as the master spirit and leaving the Band, with a capital 'B', out of account. Please do not copy or redistribute.ĬONSIDERING the Band, we tend to think first about its marvellous ensemble musicality and only incidentally about Jaime Robbie Robertson. Robbie Robertson - In the Shadow of The BandĪrticle copyright © Clive James. Clive James: Robbie Robertson - In the Shadow of The Band<</p>
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