Well, Levon Helm is one of my greatest examples of that, and look what he’s done with his career and his life after The Band. He and Garth still live in Woodstock; Levon has his rambles. Levon’s a star, and he went and did his thing and had his own career and his own direction, and everybody else could have thrown their hands up and said, “We give up, we’ve got nothing; it was only Robbie’s talent and songwriting that got us where we got,” but that’s not what happened. Everybody forged their own path, and use that as an example. I could use Tom Petty — Mike Campbell is one of my favorite guitar players of all time, and so there has to be an understanding that certainly the lead singer is going to get more respect or whatever, but it’s bullshit respect half the time. It’s attention, but its not always the revelry that the artist might want, and then the true appreciators are the ones who really dig around and so, “Oh my God. Mike Campbell was on that record?” Those are the things I seek out in my spare time, so I can only hope the knowledgeable fan will do the same with us.
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Ireland ? .. when ? .. did we know about that ?
must have missed something, don’t think I’d forget about Ireland . . . .
Grace manages to give credit and kudos to the rest of the band in just about every interview . . I like that . . a lot actually