I liked The Band rant because I always love a good Tom music rant, but I find The Band is Too Serious to be a weird argument, unless you just refer to Scorcese's mythologizing of them. Danko was a goof, Levon was chill, Garth was quiet and sweet, and sure Robbie was an asshole, but that's not rare for rock (Lou Reed, etc.). Plus their actual music, or at least the first few good records, is full of goofy, high school-music-nerd antics while a lot of that era was the beginning of the too-cool-for-school posturing of Bowie, Reed and such. I love all that music, it's just a different approach. Love CCR too, but a lot of their ballads come across as super serious.
