A few of those songs, like “Chestnut Mare” and “Just a Season,” emerged on Byrds albums. In 1969, he and the late lyricist Jacques Levy wrote two dozen songs for a musical, Gene Tryp, based on Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. McGuinn says we shouldn’t expect any more of those shows - he felt they should have been limited to that five-decade mark - but he continues to tour solo and has a least one more Byrds trump card up his sleeve. ![]() In 2018, timed to the 50 th anniversary of Sweetheart of the Rodeo, McGuinn and Hillman reunited to play the country-rock milestone start to finish. Hendrix came to see us at the Whisky A Go Go and he came backstage and was shaking Clarence’s hand.” He was a great friend and one of the best guitar players I’ve ever worked with. McGuinn says it was the publisher BMG’s decision to focus on what he calls “the early Byrds,” adding, “It would have been great to have Clarence. What fans won’t find are any photos of the 1968-1972 years, when different McGuinn-fronted incarnations of the Byrds continued with the likes of Gram Parsons, Clarence White, Skip Battin and Gene Parsons. Of that project and the way he lorded over it, Crosby admits, in his comments, “I tried to be nice, but I’m pretty sure I was a dick.”ĭavid Crosby on a motorcycle. The book also features new, running commentary from surviving members McGuinn, Crosby and Hillman and ends with a final section devoted to photos from the sessions for their ill-fated but underrated 1973 reunion album. ![]() Focusing on the original lineup of Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark and Michael Clarke, the tome includes in-studio photos, alternate takes of album covers, backstage and tour-bus glimpses, goofy group publicity photos (including one of them in bathing suits with a beauty-pageant winner), and many shots of a startlingly cherubic-looking Crosby. band that created folk-rock, country-rock, and arguably psychedelic rock too. ![]() On September 20, the group will release The Byrds: 1964-1967, which crams 500 photos (some previously unseen), into 400 pages, all documenting the legendary L.A. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, and many more have been awarded that high-end treatment, and the latest recipients will be the Byrds. You know you’ve become a rock institution when you’re awarded a photo-heavy coffee table book that will test the budgets of your fans.
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