Monumental Robbie Robertson Fisking

It went on for nine gods-damned years. It may go on forever.  I'm not a huge fan of The Band--I thought they sounded like something like a junkie wedding band doing cover songs even at their prime--but the story and the bullshit image inculcated by the Scorsese film have made the whole thing more interesting and significant than it otherwise would have been.  (Add to that the fact that you can't appreciate the hilarious opprobrium in the Spinal Tap movie until you have watched The Last Waltz a couple of times.  Vicious.)