I love the Byrds and my favorite album is The Notorious Byrd Brothers. What is your favorite?
Jim
I love the Byrds and my favorite album is The Notorious Byrd Brothers. What is your favorite?
Jim
Cabin Fever String Band, National Pike Pickers
My favorites are Sweetheart of The Rodeo and Untitled. Clarence's Nashville West on Untitled is a great cut.
I saw them live in that era several times.
here's another vote for untitled (& for the side long version of 8 miles high).
Sweetheart of The Rodeo and the Byrds Greatest Hits.
Rick
Turn, Turn, Turn and Ballad of Easy Rider
'Sweetheart" and 'Ballad of Easy Rider'!!
Clarence's short break on the end of 'Wasn't Born To Follow"!!!
Notorious Byrd Brothers
That newly released Live at The Fillmore, Feb 69 is prety hot.
Catalog of instructional books/CDs, Mandocrucian's Digest issues, etc.
Niles interviewed
"Free your mind, your hands will follow." "It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now."
"Turn, Turn, Turn", "My back pages" and the others too...
Untitled has that great tune "Truck Stop Girl", Clarence had the drawl down!
no one voting for Dr Byrd & Mr Hyde??
to me that is the REAL deal.....commercial FLOP, but what a GREAT LP. that one showcased clarence better than any other studio recording imo.
sweetheart is fantastic too, but i got a little worn out when all the .alt country bands started on the whole gram parsons worship thing, completely ignoring clarence and the rest of the SH players, along with the other great pioneers of the genre.
if SH "was" grams project
then Dr. Byrds "was" clarences
oh heck..don't let "f5loar" find this thread, you'll never shut him up
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
www.f5journal.com
Hmmm...
"Farther Along"
'nuff said,
Dave
1984 Flatiron A5-2
1930 (?) Regal Tenor
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. Lovecraft
8 Miles High
mandollusional Mike
Mr. Tambourine Man and Sweetheart of the Rodeo
It's great to see all the Byrd watchers. I noticed that many or most of their albums have been released as remasters w/bonus tracks (usually instrumentals w/MOOG or alt takes). I also noticed how quickly I have to put in another CD as most ran around 30 minutes. I kind of wish they would re-release them as two-fers. I bought some Beach Boys two-fers a while back, takes less space on the shelf!
Cabin Fever String Band, National Pike Pickers
As much as lengh I still prefer the orignal's on these albums on CD. On a footnote do you know why CD are at the length they are?It was when they designed the first CD they wanted it long enough to fit Beethoven 9th on one CD.In regard to the Byrds I love the Byrds and Clarence also with or without them but Sweethearts at it's orig. length is fine.
Rick
About 12 years ago I attended a party at the Anaheim NAMM show on the occasion of the release of the Roger McGuinn Special Edition Model Rickenbacker 12-string guitar...
It was basically all Rickenbacker employees who were in a very celebratory mood, and McGuinn gave a solo concert that was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
You Byrds fans would have loved it...
All the hits, and some very obscure ones at that. #Highlights were a (solo!) "8 Miles High", "All I Really Want To Do", "Feel A Whole Lot Better", etc. etc. etc.
The highlight for me was a tune that I've always loved and requested that night-- "It Won't Be Wrong" from the "Turn Turn Turn" LP.
McGuinn just cranked that Ricky-12, and sounded like a full band.
Cool evening that I wish I had a recording of...
Spruce
Yea..F5loar has one of those special Rickenbakcers too..I guess he just hasn't found this thread yet
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
www.f5journal.com
I don't frequent this grouping at the Cafe. But yes Byrds were the best when Clarence was riding high with them so anything he was on from SOTR to Farther Along are my favorites. Also anything live that is out there from the CW era Byrds. CW had this thing of not hitting the same lick twice each show. They were one of the first rock groups to bring Bluegrass music to a young audience pre-Deliverence as CW would do a few numbers each show which had the kids foot-stomping. Gene Parsons would play banjo and CW would switch from guitar to mandolin. He even would strap his vintage F2 over his shoulder and pick a guitar break and then swing around the mandolin for a mandolin break. The saying goes if CW had gone with Monroe in '67 instead of the Byrds and studio work we would be hearing a different Monroe sound. He was asked and declined and brother Roland got the job on guitar with Monroe.
Oh, man the Byrds and the various offshoots have pretty much been my life as far as favorite music.
If I had to pick only a few besides some of the collections and the box set:
Notorious
Fillmore
Untitled
Mr Tamborine Man
Heck, I'd even take Farther Along, and yes I do like Dr Byrds -- some great Clarence White there.
The Reunion Album really isn't bad and it includes a good bit of mandolin.
Saw them several times and have collected Bootlegs for years -- especially Gene Clark.
Just Outstanding stuff and I love the Bonus tracks on the newer CDs.
If you don't know there is a great site: http://users.skynet.be/byrdsflyght/
The site was down for awhile, but it's back up -- great pictures, info, newly available stuff, etc.
Good thread. Thanks.
Saw Mcquinn several months ago -- he played a 7 string Martin guitar the whole show. It sounded really great.
The paired sting is the G string -- he said this allows him to get the drone, but be able to play more blues stuff with bends. It sounded darn good and Martin will supposedly be putting the model out before long.
Hoyt Woodfin Song Samples
http://www.musicianmp3.com/search_de...?adinfoid=6877
Of course, Clarence played on a couple of tracks on Younger than Yesterday.
I think I have a rather good collection of Byrd cd's. The remastered ones with additional tracks are ok, but I find that listening to an alternate mix or alternate take within minutes of the original track to be "odd" - I'd rather have had a box similar to the Beatles Anthology.
I tend to like the original five line-up as the Byrds vocals without Gene and David aren't the Byrds (to me anyway).
Couldn't resist revisiting this thread again. I saw Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson this past season at Windgap Bluegrass festival. First off they sounded great as a duo. I think the audience collectively got a chill during Chris' take on Turn, Turn, Turn. I felt 8 miles high!
Cabin Fever String Band, National Pike Pickers
The fact that all 5 original members of the Byrds continued to write and perform songs is a testiment to their greatness. Clarke and Clark continued to perform Byrd songs until they died and McGuinn,Hillman and Crosby will do at least one Byrd song every show they do. Their music is so timeless. McGuinn maybe the only artist that has 4 signature models with his name. A Rick, 2 Martins and most recent an Epiphone.
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