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keefriffhard4life
which boxset is better? the 1990 boxset or the one from a few years ago called THERE IS A SEASON?

This is all you need:

[www.amazon.co.uk]

plus the deluxe edition of Sweetheart... with Gram's vocals.

is every byrds album in that set?? are they the expanded editions?


edit: just looked. that boxset contains the expanded albums plus the legacy 2 cd edition of SWEETHEARTS OF THE RODEO



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The 13 CD box is on my wish list and only £30.

I have Sweetheart 2CD, Best Of the 4CD box and a couple of Mcguinns.

Ballad Of Easy Rider always make me think of my pet chicken !

Amazing with a band that had 11 different line-ups in just 9 years (1964-73)...

Here's my favorite line-up from 1968:

Gram Parsons – guitar, piano, vocal
Roger McGuinn – 12-stringth guitar, vocal
Chris Hillman – bass, vocal
Kevin Kelley – drums

In 1979 Hillman and Clark were touring Europe together with Moon Martin (not on stage at the same time though, different sets on the same evening), that's the only time I've seen some of them live (isn't The Byrds some times = Roger McGuinn?)

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RSbestbandever
a hidden gem called Truck Stop Girl.

Written by Lowell George and Bill Payne:

Thank you EG for the clip, much appreciated my friend.

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Woody24
Their cover of Dylan's "My Back Pages," is an absolute classic from that era.

I totally agree!
My favorite line is
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

I love the sound of a Rickenbacker!

Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

So the full CD set is $40 roughly.
I think I could do that.
Will have to look at the full list of songs.
Thanks for noting that.

I remember sitting in my room listening to my first Byrds LP over and over.
It was one of those records you could just keep looking at the cover.
Plus no one has mentioned how Michael Clark looked like Brian.
All of my cover bands knew hey Mr. Spacemen but I could never talk
them into playing it a gig. Bummer.
What a great group. And they have a really long article in Wikipedia!

Thanks for the memories

Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

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Silver Dagger
This song rocks. Great guitars too.

yessss

the Mudcrutch version is good too

The Byrds were a truly great band, no doubt about that!
As I'm also a country music fan, it shouldn't surprise you that my favourite album is "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo".

For live shows, I recommend these:

Rome, Piper Club May 68
Some info here:[www.theromanforum.com]

Avalon Ballroom Nov. 2nd, 68

Boston Tea Party Febr. 22nd, 69

Univ. of Rhode Island May 9th, 69

Louisville, Kentucky April 20th, 70

Where is the original lead singer now cant recall his name?

I always liked "Wasn't born to follow"from Easy Rider....I would love to get a copy of that Rome,may 68 gig....anyone have any ideas ????

One of the best psychedelic rock songs I've ever heard...

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Great, great video. Never seen it, but never really looked either. Thanks for sharing. Wasn't that a great band with Clarence on guitar? What a player! He added such a strong dynamic to The Byrds.

Nice thread about a band that DID matter.

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tipps
Where is the original lead singer now cant recall his name?

Sorry to report:

He died of a heart attack on May 24, 1991 at age 46. He was buried in Tipton under a simple headstone inscribed "Harold Eugene Clark - No Other."[4]

Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

Love them one of the best bands ever.....terribly underrated in my opinion. And one of those bands where there are so many connections to the music I love. Gram parsons, clarence white, bob dylan, CSN.

Brian wilson tried to capture the whole history of the USA through the album "smile", from what i have heard he did a great job but the best of the byrds can take you through the history and journey of americia too.

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keefriffhard4life
which boxset is better? the 1990 boxset or the one from a few years ago called THERE IS A SEASON?

The 1990 box was a mind-bender. At four CDs, it anthologized the released material perfectly. Add to that a bounty of excellent, truly memorable unreleased stuff--including the long-discussed, but not even (to my knowledge) bootlegged Gram Parsons Sweetheart vocals and outtakes. Oh yeah, a then-recent performance with Dylan of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and four fine-to-excellent new recordings from McGuinn, Hillman and Crosby.

Honestly, I cannot think of a box that has ever done a better or more thoughtful job of presenting a band's history. They certainly deserved it--arguably the most underrated band in the annals of rock'n'roll.

Of course, instead of remastering The Byrds, Columbia/Legacy decided to milk the fans by cooking up There Is A Season. Better sound...perhaps. But without the 1990 recordings and a bunch of the rarities on the 1990 set, it's actually more worthwhile to seek out the excellent expanded and annotated remasters of the original albums--at least up through 1970's (Untitled). Top notch all the way, really.

Expanded, remastered and lovingly presented...hmmm...trying to think of another catalogue I'd like to see handled along these lines.

PS: The two-disc Sweetheart was a massive letdown for me. Lots more alternates, but nothing of any importance that couldn't be found on the single disc remaster. Also padded out with some, but not all, of Gram's earlier (superb) International Submarine Band recordings. No Grand Ole Opry performances, no Gram-period live material at all, which is a shame, as they got into some wonderfully strange stuff spanning the "old" hits and the newer lineup--"Eight Miles High" with a banjo, and so on...

I love their Dylan covers. A really good band that is somewhat forgotten on the radio.

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Rev. Robert W.

Honestly, I cannot think of a box that has ever done a better or more thoughtful job of presenting a band's history.

I like it, but I thought it was an unfortunate Stalinist decision to airbrush the very strange song "America's Great National Pastime" out of their history, since it received a lot of airplay during the period when The Byrds weren't heard on the radio very much compared to their McGuinn, Crosby, Clark, Hillman, Clarke, heyday.

And there were a couple of good tracks off the 1973 reunion album called "Byrds" which was released on Asylum. I would rather seen those on the box than those new 1990 recordings.



I'd argue that the Everly Brothers "Heartaches and Harmonies" box set on Rhino is probably a better overall collection. You can hear a real Stones/Aftermath vibe on some of the songs they recorded with Dave Hassinger in the mid-60's.

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keefriffhard4life
which boxset is better? the 1990 boxset or the one from a few years ago called THERE IS A SEASON?

The 1990 box was a mind-bender. At four CDs, it anthologized the released material perfectly. Add to that a bounty of excellent, truly memorable unreleased stuff--including the long-discussed, but not even (to my knowledge) bootlegged Gram Parsons Sweetheart vocals and outtakes. Oh yeah, a then-recent performance with Dylan of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and four fine-to-excellent new recordings from McGuinn, Hillman and Crosby.

Honestly, I cannot think of a box that has ever done a better or more thoughtful job of presenting a band's history. They certainly deserved it--arguably the most underrated band in the annals of rock'n'roll.

Of course, instead of remastering The Byrds, Columbia/Legacy decided to milk the fans by cooking up There Is A Season. Better sound...perhaps. But without the 1990 recordings and a bunch of the rarities on the 1990 set, it's actually more worthwhile to seek out the excellent expanded and annotated remasters of the original albums--at least up through 1970's (Untitled). Top notch all the way, really.

Expanded, remastered and lovingly presented...hmmm...trying to think of another catalogue I'd like to see handled along these lines.

PS: The two-disc Sweetheart was a massive letdown for me. Lots more alternates, but nothing of any importance that couldn't be found on the single disc remaster. Also padded out with some, but not all, of Gram's earlier (superb) International Submarine Band recordings. No Grand Ole Opry performances, no Gram-period live material at all, which is a shame, as they got into some wonderfully strange stuff spanning the "old" hits and the newer lineup--"Eight Miles High" with a banjo, and so on...

thanks. i think i'm going to get that COMPLETE RECORDINGS BOXSET that was posted as it contains every album in the expanded form. only thing is the crap cardboard sleeves they'll come in make it easier to damage the discs

Byrds fanatic Peter Fonda has admitted that "Wyatt" and "Billy" were loosely based on McGuinn and Crosby.




If you want to be a bird
Why don't you try a little flying
There's no denying
It gets you high
Why be shackled to your feet
When you've got wings
You haven't used yet
Don't wait for heaven
Get out and fly

Just glide there
Through the clear air
Making figure eights
Through the pearly gates
Where the soul and the universe meet

If you want to be a bird
It won't take much
To get you up there
But when you come down
Land on your feet



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i still don't know about that boxset with all of the albums. i really hate the cheap cardboard "mini vinyl replica" sleeves that scratch up the discs

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Thanx Tatters....

detroitken, please look over here:
lossy:
[www.guitars101.com]
[www.themidnightcafe.org]
[so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com]

lossless:
[gratefulbreed.blogspot.com]
link two and three are still okay.
You should try as many sources as you can, tape quality varys, especially regarding the speed of the recording!

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Great conversation with Buffalo Springfield's Richie Furay about his friend Gram Parsons, the subject of Poco's epic song "Crazy Eyes", released Sept. 15, 1973, four days before Gram's death.






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(Richie Furay)

I got a feeling about you, love who's been fooling who
Crazy eyes I been a foolin' you
You sing songs about brass buttons and shiny silver shoes
Crazy eyes what had you to lose

Down among the South Carolina pines
You spent most of your lifetime in deep thought
Then changes come about and you find the time you spent
Wasn't quite reason for being bought

So now to be or not to be is the question...now
Crazy eyes don't you forget how
'cause I'm used to seeing your face in the crowd
You thought you saw me
Crazy eyes blind as you can be



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