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
mountain
I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.