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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
band canadian-musician dates together
The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.
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.
inspirational positive people
By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
dream cutting apples
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
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!
song sight singing
You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
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.
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.
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.
technology cds waste
When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.