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| | Greil Marcus: The Man on the Left |
 | | The best words on Rick Danko were written thirty-four years ago, almost to the day he died, by the late Rolling Stone co-founder, Ralph J. Gleason. |
| | Gleason, though, was drawn to the left, where the young bass player moved with an uncannily graceful yet somehow violent rhythm, as if he were cracking the rest of the band like a whip - as if, secretly, he were the scientist behind the alchemy. |
| | Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, on Dylan's Bay-area shows, Gleason, thinking of the concrete cylinder that shot up over the city from Telegraph Hill, summed up Danko more directly: "He looked," wrote a man who had covered Hank Williams, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Elvis Presley, "like he could swing the Coit Tower." |
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