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
lost-love play safe
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
player bass bass-players
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
silly mind getting-older
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
hunting gun whales
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
goal thinker ifs
He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.
growing-up kids lakes
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!
vision world changing-the-world
When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.
play people used
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
technology cds waste
When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.
mean thinking want
The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.
new-year spring night
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
records way detroit
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
portions greenpeace
Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.
country uncles artist
Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.