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Garth Hudson Dies: The Band’s Last Surviving Member Was 87
Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, died January 21 in his sleep in Woodstock, NY. He was 87.
Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band whose farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last Waltz, died Tuesday in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, NY. “The Weight” was featured in nearly two dozen movies, playing an integral role in classics such as Easy Rider, The Big Chill and as well as in projects as diverse as Patch Adams, Starsky & Hutch, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The King of Staten Island. Two decades later, the surviving members of the group — Manuel died in 1986 — embarked on an extended tour of mostly small venues that included the House of Blues in West Hollywood and led in a slot at Woodstock ’94.
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