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the former's "Stranger In A Strange Land." Only known as an instrumental, I think; a bonus track on the 90s CD of Turn! Turn! Turn!---have any words turned up?
Yes, but not with the Byrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzOcys76BU
Blackburn & Snow, short lived Frisco-based harmony duo. Sherry Snow dated the Cros, and that's how they got the song, a flop single in '66-7. She later popped up in the original version of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 February 2015 07:42 (nine years ago) link
Wow, thanks! Ever heard an album by them??
Ah, the Cros as 60s songwriter; maybe I should make a Spotify playlist...reminds me, "Everybody's Been Burned" was the one that got stuck in my head, when I briefly owned Younger Than Yesterday in high school. Good album?
― dow, Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I'll check it out, thanks. Also wondering about Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde---an interesting take from an ancient xgau round-up, archived on his site (though he didn't mention it in later Byrds reviews, apparently:
The original Byrds made many things possible. Their hit version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" early in 1965 opened the way to AM radio not only for Dylan but for all the young song-poets. The careful electronic counterpoint of their guitar ensemble was expanded (with inspiration from avant-garde jazz) into what McGuinn calls "space music," the basic rock feedback-volume experiment. And their roots in bluegrass and commercial folk made their trend-signalling turn to country and western last year a natural one.
The group's eighth and latest album, Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde (Columbia CS 9755), which is already off the charts although it appeared just a few months ago, combines all these elements, so much so that it appears a hodgepodge when compared to the conceptual sureness of 1968's Notorious Byrd Brothers (a smooth-flowing post-Pepper studio album) and Sweetheart of the Rodeo (a bittersweet tribute to country music).
Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde includes two compositions from the motion picture Candy, a reworking of the folk tune "Old Blue," country songs written with Gram Parsons, Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire," and a medley of "My Back Pages," "Baby, What You Want Me to Do," and the break song with which the group closes its club sets. Although the material is a little thinner than usual, it is not really confused: the record functions as a token of McGuinn's unfaltering love for his entire musical past--folk, rock, space, country and live performance.
Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde is first-rate Byrds, a high recommendation. The excitement generated is no longer exquisite, I suppose, but it lasts. Its major fault has plagued the group ever since the personnel changes began two-and-a-half years ago, when Gene Clark left because he was afraid of airplanes: a lack of strong voices to harmonize behind McGuinn's studiously unpolished lead. Its virtue is typical of the Byrds, who are in turn typical of Los Angeles commercial rock: a kind of ironic pressure produced by the tension between the no-nonsense constrictions of AM radio and the breakaway energy essential to rock's popularity. No matter how tightly a Byrd song is produced, its beat, its phrased guitars, and its uncitified harmonies all imply an insurrectionary human energy that transcends technics.("technics"?)
― dow, Monday, 2 March 2015 00:02 (nine years ago) link
Also, maybe a typo in "phrased": did he write "phased", as in what Beefheart called "psychedelic Bromo-Seltzer"? Either word is appropriate, though.
― dow, Monday, 2 March 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
Wow, thanks! Ever heard an album by them??
Ah, the Cros as 60s songwriter; maybe I should make a Spotify playlist...reminds me, "Everybody's Been Burned" was the one that got stuck in my head, when I briefly owned Younger Than Yesterday in high school. Good album?
― dow, Sunday, March 1, 2015 10:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Incredible album! Other than Mind Gardens of course. Definitely look for the version with bonus tracks. Lady Friend is possibly Crosby's greatest song...
― ColinO, Monday, 2 March 2015 05:10 (nine years ago) link