Talk:The Band

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Band at 2008 Grammy's

It says in the article that the band is set to reunite for the 2008 Grammy Awards to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award. Does anyone have a source to site for this or proof that this is really true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Particleman624 (talk • contribs) (20:16, 19 January 2008)

Controversial Content

The long-standing controversy about the songwriting credit for the songs recorded by The Band has led some editors to remove content that they disagree with. When such content has citations to support it it should remain. It should not be allowed to be removed. Doug.r.macrae (talk) 03:52, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

The article implies that Rick Danko agreed with Levon Helm about the songwriting credits, but I don't think that's accurate. I've read the interview with Rick Danko, and it seems to me that what he is agreeing with is Levon's claim that the "spirit" of The Band changed due to Robbie's ego, and when Robbie and Grossman started dominating The Band's business management. And he MAY agree that Robbie and Grossman took advantage of the rest of the members to obtain their existing royalty rights. But that's different than saying he agrees that Robbie didn't deserve the songwriting credits. Maybe he did believe that, but that's not what he said in the interview. 170.85.72.189 (talk) 12:03, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Timing

This article says that they split with Hawkins in 1963 but the Hawkins article says that he didn't move to Canada until 1964. -- Beardo (talk) 14:52, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

“Americana”

Just a note when using this word “Americana” for this band to describe their music, it means North American, which, in this case, also includes Canada, not just the United States. Stormydaygirl (talk) 17:34, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Capitalization of "The"

This seems to be the only article for a band that capitalizes the word "the" in the name, which goes against the Manual of Style. Should this be changed or is there consensus to keep it? If the latter, should "The Band" be capitalized everywhere on Wikipedia or just on this page? Robbie Robertson's page doesn't capitalize the "The" except for the first mention for some reason. Same with Rick Danko and Garth Hudson more or less. Richard Manuel's page is inconsistent, sometimes even within the same sentence: Template:Tq

I think we should agree on a consistent formatting across Wikipedia. If there's consensus for this to be the one exception to MOS:THEBAND, then that there should be a footnote about that on said page. – MW_(t•c) 17:45, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

I really dislike that MOS, especially for The Band, but gave up on it long ago (the Beatles just looks wrong to me, too). The history is here. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 17:58, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

I was most disappointed to discover that MOS:THEBAND doesn't actually provide any advice specific to The Band. In offering my response regarding this issue, I feel obliged to disclose that one of my pastimes is to collect silly Wikipedia edits, but I would point out that "The Band" may be "the exception that proves the rule". So I think we should have a serious deliberation on this, and if a conclusion is reached to "decapitalize" the definite article preceding "Band", then I shall be pleased to add this to my "silly edit" collection. Fabrickator (talk) 18:11, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah I saw that. Seems like the article got changed back at some point in the past ten years so I'm curious if it's because the consensus has changed – MW_(t•c) 20:36, 29 March 2025 (UTC)