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Old 08-12-2006, 07:00 AM   #1
Srewxardsasv

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Default Following A Band: 1960 to 1976
THE BAND PLAYS ON

The philosophy of The Band was: “All for one and one for all.” -ABC, TV, 19 July 1997, 2:25 pm, Sunday, The Band.

You1 formed just after I’d joined
and went for sixteen years making
it here and there and very big in the
late ‘60s and early ‘70s while I was
just starting out on my career.
You worked with Dylan
as he was going electric
and I was going to Windsor
and getting electrified with Eskimos
and hospitalized because of my body chemistry.
They were hectic years and on and on
you went across the country
while I went to Australia.

By the time you had your last walse
I was living across from the Eureka Stockade2
and starting to buckle again,
you could not turn them on, or yourselves.
It was as if you’d died and turned to clay.
But, oh, sweet memories of time
take me back to yesteryears
and all your sounds which just about bring tears.

In youth I did love, did love with a passion
so dear, but now it has cooled
though it still is quite near.
It’s a quieter force and the music is gone,
the notes muffled, then, in the poison of grief
and sadness and woe. I try just as much,
even more in some ways.
The sound of my voice sings on new days
from a peace in my mind and a small tranquil heart
which is a gift from His grace for my own small part.

Ron Price
19 July 1997

1 You, here, is a group known as The Band which formed in 1960, a few months after I became a Baha’i. It was disbanded in 1976.
2 The group came to an end during my first year in Ballarat, in 1976, where I lived across from the Eureka Stockade. This was a famous place in Australian history.
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