![]() He got out of bed and wandered on down the hall, leaving me lying there hurt and confused, then Levon walked into the room, and climbed into bed with me. ![]() ![]() In the middle of making love, Rick found out I wasn’t on the pill and things (as it were) ground to a halt. We partied on into the night, and at one point I ended up in bed with Rick Danko. One night a few months after I met them, they rented a few rooms in the Seahorse Motel down on the lakeshore. She told her own, sad story of how band members treated her like a slut at 17 to Rock and Roll Toronto: Apparently it was his nickname for Smith: she says in her book Chasing The Dragon that she would turn red and run away every time he sang it, because he would look over at her and grin. Helm played the Larry Williams song "Short Fat Fannie," on the Conan O'Brien show in 1993, and said it was his favorite song to sing in the old days of the Hawks. What a friend to the band she was! Yet she was hardly treated as such. "Kathy," by all accounts, was Cathy Evelyn Smith, who met Helm and the Hawks in her hometown of Hamilton, Ontario in 1963. "Take a load" could refer to picking up a certain weight of pot or some drug from a woman named Fanny, who apparently didn't get paid for the risk she took in the venture, since the lyrics say, "take a load for free." When I learned that the title of the song was "The Weight," I wondered if it was also about a drug deal. you’re trying to do what’s right, but it seems that with all the places you have to go, it’s just not possible. "In going through these catacombs of experience. "The story told in the song is about the guilt of relationships, not being able to give what’s being asked of you," Robertson has said. Written by The Band member Robbie Robertson, "The Weight" has cryptic and poetic lyrics with many possible interpretations, and is admittedly about characters known to members of the group. Who was this Annie (or Fanny) who was so weak she needed some burden taken off of her? Cathy Smith, Inspiration for "The Weight"?įrom a woman's perspective, the dreary, draggy song has always bugged me.
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