The Byrds: Classic Or Dud

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lol at volume 1 !
guess the second volume is supposed to be about the members' post byrds careers ...

I love that Michael can't keep a straight face in that photo.
Who are they kidding? Nice branch, Crosby!

i'm sure cros was like "this branch ... means something, man!"

So this is "Timeless Flight" expanded again?

yeah i think so. you'd think rogan would be so sick of the byrds by now.

i'm sure cros was like "this branch ... means something, man!"

He believed it played a part in the Kennedy assassination, iirc.

haha.
i actually haven't read timeless flight -- it's good?

Timeless Flight is very good.

Tempted to buy this, despite having bought 2 previous versions of "Timeless Flight". One of my all time favourite music books.

yeah looking forward to reading it. guess it hasn't been published in the US yet? or something?
http://www.amazon.com/Byrds-Requiem-Timeless-Johnny-Rogan/dp/0952954087/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1318659492&sr=8-2

I just went through that. Yeah if you look at amazon.co.uk you will see it.

This guy had a deeeep trove, much of it West Coast buckskin, much of it Byrds and related--all crashed with Mega Mama, but he's re-posting, with Chris Hillman and Friends at the top of this page, Untitled-era live Byrds at the bottom, Flying Burritos etc in between, and might not be long til he restores Byrds x FBB
http://bbchron.blogspot.com/

yeah i grabbed that fbb/byrds gig before it went down -- very fun stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOpjDF86yo

Just reminded my first copy of Timeless flight was a thin paperback back in the 80s. then got the one from like 10 years ago & been wondering how necessary an update was on that.
Got the John Einarson Gene Clark book to read sometime in near future too.

did anyone read that latest version of rogan's bio?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7486eb541c1887e7a984467ed73b1a7/tumblr_mkov20xPFt1qa9uo9o1_500.jpg

man they're too much aren't they

you listen to them and it's too much, but you keep listening

their time has come again

did anyone read that latest version of rogan's bio?

Classic

holy shit @ the jesu joy of man's desire bridge in she don't care about time. i thought it was just half man half biscuit who pulled that stuff :D

gene is easily the best byrd but younger than yesterday is my favorite album of theirs

Roger McGuinn might be a totally doofus, but he's clearly the best Byrd.

Surprised there hasn't been a Best Byrd poll, tbh.

Roger McGuinn might be a totally doofus, but he's clearly the best Byrd.

Worst is probably Mike.

Dave is a distant second-worst.

Chris I like a lot, especially his bass lines, although I dock him a point or two for being a little sloppy now and then, as well as for his unspectacular multi-instrumentalism. But perhaps I am being too harsh.

Gene is probably the best songwriter

This is probably true or at the very least he is the most consistent (all the other major songwriters had some real stinkers to go along with their gems). That said I'd also say quality of songwriting matters a little less here since Byrds were always consistently brilliant interpreters of other people's songs.

Indeed

Well Gene Clark was a great songwriter full stop. |seems to have been a pretty flawed human being but it does seem to have fed into his songwriting.

I think that John Einarson biography of him Mr Tambourine Man was pretty good, but most of his bios have been anyway.

yeah that einarson book is excellent.

Lotta good stuff on this thread too: Byrds POX

I"m sure I said this before but the Byrds' two best albums are Younger Than Yesterday and Notorious, and those are the two albums were Chris Hillman stepped up... he is by far the most underrated Byrd.

OTM, then went on to be underrated in the Flying Burrito Brothers.

And, oddly enough, correctly rated in the SHF Band and Desert Rose Band.

avians

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I made a lot of mistakes in my life and one of them was firing the best harmony singer in the world @thedavidcrosby https://t.co/agVfV7Pz75

— Roger McGuinn (@RogerMcGuinn) November 2, 2017

awwwww

does seem like mcguinn, crosby and hillman could do a nice stripped down reunion thing at this point.

;_;

McGuinn and Crosby do show up on the new Hillman solo album---which is what it is, but/and producer Tom Petty evidently means to help it be all that it can be: some Heartbreakers also appear, and Hillman credits TP with talking him into incl. that good version of "Walk Right Back", one of the many under-covered Everlys worthies.

Also some live reunion sets of these three guys are posted here and there, worth checking out.

Croz seems to have completely fallen out though with Neil Young and especially Graham Nash in recent years

Not that surprising as the guy is a notorious legendary asshole of almost Mike Love proportions.

Reminds me: bonus tracks on a Notorious Byrd Brothers CD incl. a rehearsal clip. in which McG. is tactfully teaching Michael Clarke a cue, when suddenly there's Croz: WHY CAN'T YOU GET IT RIGHT MAN, WHAT THE FUCK'S THE MATTER WITH YOU.

No longer with The Byrds, he went on to tell the Woodstock audience SHUT UP MAN

I love “What’s Happening” with all my heart right now. Crosby is my favorite singer in the byrds (iirc this is also his first time as a min singer in the band) that chuckle around 0:42 in the second or third “I don’t know” never fails to charm me.

The song is so good... I think it’s my favorite Byrds song by a long shot... sounds like the missing link between 60’s psychedelia and the baggy movement.