Lavon Henry Helm - drummer

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Levon's grandson (Amy's son) sat in on drums for Shakedown 2nd set opener and The Weight encore

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He looks like Arlo Guthrie in 1969.

Yup. Same hat....

Who knew we were spelling Levon wrong all these years?

He was baptized Mark Lavon Helm. The tooled leather mandolin strap that Amy wears has Lavon in red

Exactly.  When did he change it to Levon?  Can't recall if he discusses this in Wheels On Fire?

The story in Wheels is that the Canadians couldn't pronounce his name so he changed it to Levon. Not sure when... clearly before Levon and the Hawks 

Thanks for clarifying that.  
 

Does his grandson sing too?

Had no idea of the backstory of Levon/Lavon's name back those years ago

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