. >> brown: at 15, he would join the rockabilly band of ronnie hawkins and begin toing all over north♪ a few years later, he was playing lead guitar as bob dylan went electric. >> he opened some doors that, we didn't know what was behind those doors before.y there was a wa could write about before.♪hat nobody wrote ♪ ♪ i pulled into nazareth...mo >> brown of all, robertson was lead guitarist and songwriter for one of rock's most important and beloved bands, called simply, "theer band"--tson, rick danko, richard manuel, garth hudson, all canadian; and levon helm the arkansas-born singer and drummer. with songs like"up on cripple creek" and "the weight," the band brought together disparate inuences to make something new. >> there is no band that emphasizes coming together and becoming greater than m of their parts. simply their name, the band, that was it. >> and when "music from big pink" came out, people said, "what is this? where did this come from? this doesn't fit in. this isn't what's happening." and we were like, "thank you, thank you!" >> brown: that's what you wanted to hear. >