Rick Danko
Rick Danko
Richard Clare "Rick" Dankowas a Canadian musician, bassist, songwriter and singer, best known as a member of The Band...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth29 December 1942
basement bob canadian-musician great job music richard singing song tapes time wrote
Bob wrote the song during The Basement Tapes time period; we put it on Music From Big Pink. Richard did a great job singing it in falsetto.
canadian-musician playing
Well, it's just always the same. It's the same arrangements. It's the same if I'm playing bass, if I'm playing guitar, if I'm playing piano.
bob canadian-musician changes itself
I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.
band canadian-musician dates together
The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.
band canadian-musician nightclubs played playing remember run rut
You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.
canadian-musician discuss hard hearing people sit talk
It's hard for me to sit around and discuss what I do - I'm used to hearing other people talk about what I do - It makes me very uncomfortable.
canadian-musician hooking last statement
Just this last year, I made the statement by hooking up with Greenpeace. By not only contributing money, but by contributing more my time.
god complaints
God don't like complaints.
thinking helping should
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
retirement play together
The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
mountain
I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
ink soybeans
I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.
payback firsts dolphins
My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.
together band
Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.