Garth Hudson walked over to me while we were rehearsing The Weight for their induction into the Juno Hall of Fame. I was expecting some sort of exchange since we were both keyboard players and this is “The Band” and he’s the keyboard player. He waited for a moment when Greg, Jim, Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko were engaged in discussing something and nobody really noticed. He got up and walk over and I saw him coming. I had already thought I would play simple, single note, just background and not interfere with his expression. He had an absent minded old professor drawl and spoke without looking you in the eye,<\/p>\n
“What exactly are you going to do over here?”<\/p>\n
“I thought I would just play in the mid range just chords so you’re heard very clearly.”<\/p>\n
“Uh huh… Um why don’t you just not ….play.”<\/p>\n
“Ok.”<\/p>\n
“Ya, uh huh, that’s good.” He walked away. So that night I played the show\u00a0like an actor with the keyboard mostly off. It was win win.<\/p>\n
The best part anyway\u00a0was in the rehearsal hearing Rick Danko’s magic voice sing in front of my face and feeling his pain, wishing I could turn something off for him too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"