The Last Waltz The Last Waltz The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. "The Last Waltz" was advertised as The Band's "farewell concert appearance", and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Bobby Charles, Dr. John, Paul Butterfield, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Joni Mitchell, and The Staple Singers. The musical director for the concert was The Band's original record producer,
The Last American (novel) made at the time. All of the Persians have farcical names (Nōz-yt-ahl is the name of an historian, for example) and often speak in breathless wonder at what they see. "The Last American" was among a group of anti-Utopian disaster literature which were published in the late 19th century, along with Ignatius Donnelly's "Caesar's Column" and Park Benjamin Jr.'s "The End of New York". Montesquieu's "Persian Letters" may have provided some degree of inspiration. In its own turn, the book seems to have been a rough model for Aldous Huxley's "Ape and Essence". The Last American (novel) The Last American