yeah… new posts are coming, but while i work on em here @ 3 am, i figured i would get a few more re-posts in for good measure. here are the byrds performing at the avalon in san francisco on 11.2.68. for a recording that is almost 40 years old it sounds superb. 1. old blue 2. my back [...]
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The Byrd's droll little song has been running, with the two that follow, on a loop all day on my biological harddrive.They all tie in together and complete my thoughts.A while back I speculated that Hillary's Lust for power and Obama Barrack's "messianic" sales pitch would almost certainly lead to a serious schism within the Democrat party.Now, with yesterday's polls indicating significant port...
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This song has always been a favorite of mine from this kinda spotty Byrds album. I always thought it sounded like an old folk tune, but it was apparently written by head Byrd Roger McGuinn."We lowered him down with a golden chainAnd every link we called his name..."
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The late-period Byrds recorded a great version of Dylan's "This Wheel's On Fire". Unfortunately, it was not the studio version released on "Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde", which was marred by strange sound effects. No, the great version is on a CD of them live at the Fillmore in '69.Another thought is how impressed I am that one man, Roger McGuinn, can come close to creating an entire band with one gu...
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This song came up on the iPod this week and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Although I have it on that first boxed set, I do not own its source album "Untitled" Hmmm...maybe time to re-think that decision...
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Of the many songs by the Byrds that I love, this is the one that has played hard-to-get for some 40 years. Written by Gene Clark, "She Don't Care About Time", it was the flip side to the single "Turn Turn Turn" and was just as good as, if not even better than, the A-side.Yet, it did not make the album of the same name, which instead included puzzlers like "Oh Susannah".So a decade or two ago, w...
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Today’s New York Times (and probably numerous other publications) featured a full-page ad from Apple that thanked the buying public for 100 million iPods sold. That’s a hell of a lot of portable music on the march, and some considerable profit for Steve Jobs and the Mighty Mac Attack. But I say, “Good for them.” The iPod and competing mp3 players have been a real boon to music lovers in mo
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Listening to Tom Petty covers (reference "Something in the Air) it dawned on me that Tom has done some truly reverential covers. To wit - this one - I'll post the original first:The Byrds were the first electric champions of Bob Dylan's songs. Dylan in turn praised the exotic balladry of main writing Byrd Gene Clark. "I remember him saying, 'Gene is really interesting to me,' " said bassist Chris
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It's very late/early Sunday, and he only thing that registers clearly as I charge the battery on Ye Olde Pismo is a song that popped up on iTunes DJ. Yes, everybody's heard Bette Midler's version, but this one antedates that Pop icon. Presented for your consideration, a song about relative perception, a real "glass half full/ half empty" track.
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I came to the realization this past summer that I'm getting old. I became 59, and every preconceived idea of aging I had accumulated up to this point played on me.I noticed subtle differences in the way I was being treated by people I work with. Where once I was the one everyone had to have at the party, it's now wondered if I might find such things too different. I might even keel over from a ...
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and we don't get those too often around these parts this time of year.This song could go on another couple of minutes for sure.
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Roger McGuinn, best known as frontman for the late great '60s rock band, The Byrds, says he is not interested in reforming the group for cash at this time. "[Former Byrds member] David Crosby has been trying to get me to go back and do the Byrds for years now," McGuinn told Billboard. "It seems to come up every six months or so. It is not something that is impossible, but it's not something I'm...
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Roger McGuinn, best known as frontman for the late great '60s rock band, The Byrds, says he is not interested in reforming the group for cash at this time. "[Former Byrds member] David Crosby has been trying to get me to go back and do the Byrds for years now," McGuinn told Billboard. "It seems to come up every six months or so. It is not something that is impossible, but it's not something I'm...
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The Byrds and I is a series of essays that tell the story of my life through each album from my favorite band.Part Four: Younger than Yesterday (1967), The Best of the Byrds (1967), and Blur's Think Tank (2003)y education on the Byrds first came from my father, and for the most part it involved the band's first four albums. I did skip ahead a little to 1968's Sweetheart of the Rodeo but, in ge...
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