Then, seemingly just as suddenly, they were gone. Rock music captivated Robertson, and when he was 15 his band opened in Toronto for the wild and crazy rockabilly group Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. At a certain point Robertson, alone among the group to have married and started a family (former wife Dominique is spoken to) began to get bigger ideas. He went out to Los Angeles, took meetings with David Geffen, moved to Malibu (as did Dylan and other Band members) and became friendly with Martin Scorsese. As Robertson himself puts it, “it was such a beautiful thing, and it went up in flames.”

Source: Los Angeles Times February 20, 2020 22:30 UTC