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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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