THE WEIGHT: 1 - Grateful Dead ☮ (Easy Rider, 1969) and 2 - The Band & The Staple Singers (Last Waltz, 1976/1978) | Movieclips

Tribute to Dennis Hopper, featuring The Band's (canadian-american rock group) "The Weight", here covered by the Grateful Dead, rock band formed in Palo Alto, California.

The Grateful Dead flourished in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. Video down below with movie scenes from Easy Rider (Sem Destino)....

As cenas deste filme, para mim, na verdade valeram não pelos motoqueiros e suas motos, mas pelas estradas, pelo cenário, pela natureza e pela liberdade... Gosto muito mais de correr com as próprias pernas; e muito mais de corridas de cavalo do que de motos ou de automóveis...

E numa outra versão, em outro grande filme, "The Last Waltz", dirigido por Martin Scorcese e lançado em 1978 junto com um álbum fonográfico triplo. Nesta, com os autores, vocalistas e instrumentistas do "The Band" num concerto no Dia de Ação de Graças, em San Francisco, 1976, se juntam "The Staple Singers" (grupo originalmente 'gospel', formado pelo patriarca da família, Roebuck 'Pops', amigo do Reverendo Martin Luther King, com seu filho Pervis e suas três filhas Cleotha, Ivonne e Mavis).

The Weight

The Band

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no, " was all he said

Take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown
She said, "I gotta go, but my friend can stick around"

Take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee
He said, do me a favor, son, won't you stay and keep Anna Lee company?

Take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, I will fix your rack, if you'll take Jack, my dog
I said, wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man
He said, that's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can?

Yeah, take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone

Take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band - Against the Wind

AGAINST THE WIND LYRICS

Seems like yesterday
But it was long ago
Janey was lovely, she was the queen of my nights
There in darkness with the radio playin' low

And the secrets that we shared
Mountains that we moved
Caught like a wildfire out of control
'Til there was nothing left to burn and nothing left to prove

And I remember what she said to me
How she swore that it never would end
I remember how she held me oh so tight
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

Against the wind
We were running against the wind
We were young and strong
We were running against the wind

The years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends
Found myself further and further from my home and I

Guess I lost my way
There were oh so many roads
I was livin' to run and running to live
Never worried about payin' or even how much I owe


Movin' eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breakin' all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searchin'
Searchin' for shelter again and again

Against the wind
Little somethin' against the wind
I found myself seekin' shelter against the wind

Well, those drifters days are past me now
I've got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out

Against the wind
I'm still running against the wind
I'm older now but still running against the wind
Well, I'm older now and still running
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
Still running
Against the wind
I'm still running against the wind
Against the wind
I'm still running
Against the wind
I'm still running against the wind
Against the wind
Still running
Against the wind
Running against the wind, running against the wind
Against the wind
See the young man run
Against the wind
Watch the young man run
Against the wind
Watch the young man runnin'
Against the wind
He'll be runnin' against the wind
Against the wind
Let the cowboys ride
Against the wind
Mm
Against the wind