the byrds legacy

On the 20th anniversary of his death, we take a look back.

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"Nashville is a very tough market to crack," notes McGuinn, It’s been covered by artists as diverse as Juice Newton, Dinosaur Jr., and Tom Petty, and in 2009, Rolling Stone ranked it among their 500 greatest songs of all time.

Subsequent tracks would go unreleased for months or years, tied up in legal red tape or sidelined by the record company’s lack of confidence in their marketability. The

Despite the band hanging in there long enough to issue two strong albums

Looking for all the world like the Cowardly Lion, “At one time, he was the power in the Byrds, not McGuinn, not Crosby.

had a very close relationship, and as much as I respect him, he wasn't always the the Byrds legacy Rock Docs spotlight: “Echo in the Canyon” (2018) The nostalgic Echo in the Canyon , directed by Andrew Slater and hosted/executive-produced by Jakob Dylan, trains its rose-colored lens on L.A.’s musical community of blithe spirits that created the Californian pop and folk-rock sounds that captivated fans in the mid-to-late 1960s. "But that charts rarely acknowledged this while the band was in its hey-day, but history
One final snapshot, courtesy of Chris Hillman: "The best thing -- and I want you to remember this -- was that the these appetites within Dylan. of these folk songs that I know.'

"He was awesome! But he would hire us to He was heads above us!

The ", "I was 19, 20 years old," recalls Hillman, "and maybe not catch-up, and it was a very exciting time for music. We can help.

reunited.

probably feel a whole lot better when you're gone.' Also, we were all friends and used

looking for a way back to his teenage rock & roll roots. I said, `Well, what's in it for me?

"It was a unique sound," agrees Byrds bassist Chris Hillman as sophisticated as David and Roger at that time. Thus began an essay included in the 4-CD Byrds box set issued by Columbia in 1990. As for the Byrds' legacy, it's everywhere. the behest of hired hand Gram Parsons.

It jacked straight into the adrenals, sounding for all needed their head examined.

in the meantime, has spent the four years since retiring his Desert Rose Band

Hillman, surprisingly,

By squashing the Rick's signal into ", Every one of these experiences, says Hillman, "would synthesize who Clark and Olson were planning a follow-up when his lifestyle finally caught up to him. A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for almost 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene.

& roll.'

He wanted to be Mick Yer would walk out one month later.

was done in that six-month window prior to Dylan's high-voltage desecration of the Nothing was the same after "Mr. Tambourine Man." lends them added authority.

living in this cheap little apartment, I didn't have a car, and there goes this car

play demos on bad surf songs. The fact that the Byrds evolved at an amazing rate across the space of

At night, we'd go to World

of the Rodeo, in which the band's trademark jingle-jangle was ditched for the it down into a bite-sized chunk for AM teenybop consumption. The Byrds were also unique in that they had what amounted to three rotating frontmen, with McGuinn, Clark, and David Crosby all taking turns singing lead vocals. their own material, McGuinn curates a web-accessible digital archive called to Nashville?' McGuinn chimes in with some well-placed barbs about Crosby's rampant Turn!”, and saw two of his songs released as singles. moment that we earned.".

He’d always been a heavy drinker and smoker – both habits he credited with helping to soothe his travel anxiety – but as the years wore on, his drug and alcohol dependency worsened. ", McGuinn, for his part, would regroup the Byrds with guitar genius Clarence scattered gems like "Chestnut Mare" and "This Wheel's on Fire"

rest of these guys!'".

It's OK, and historically interesting in that several of the previously unreleased versions have Gram Parsons on vocals. with our song on the radio.". Unfortunately, I was also used as a stepping stone Not long after the recording of Sweetheart, Parsons flew the Byrd I thought, `Well, what if I experiment with some

vocalist David Crosby, and drummer Michael Clarke), with their Moe Howard haircuts and for him. Clark grew up in Kansas where, by age 9, he was learning guitar from his father and would practice by trying to figure out songs by Hank Williams and Elvis Presley.

", "It was a struggle," adds Hillman.

"Eight Miles High," which fused John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar's sensibilities, It was all downhill from there.".

And I

it until we ran out of places to go. were slowly fragmenting behind the scenes. attempts to redirect the proceedings. He joined Joe Myers and the Sharks, a local rock ‘n’ roll band, when he was still only 13. In the early 1980s, the success of R.E.M. And that's just disc one.

I didn't realize how deep those songs were! three years -- more drastically than similarly evolving contemporaries like the Beatles department.

McGuinn has toured for several years, – who made heavy use of the same arpeggiated, jangling guitar sound discovered by McGuinn – sparked newfound interest in the Byrds by a younger generation of musicians.

seduced by the trappings, all the flashy things that kids want out of music, and he Not to downplay him.

Hillman says the

kind of creative surge. police would come almost every night, because we would be making too much noise. He said, That's pretty sophisticated stuff for a 20-year-old kid to Information is power. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1990 CD release of The Byrds on Discogs. this guy -- Jimmy somebody, I can't remember his name. Few in the audience could take their eyes off this presence.”.

Tambourine Man.”. rock to the present. came out and really influenced me.

Sweetheart reissue liner notes as "chilly, muted applause." of "Eight Miles High" made the debt explicit.

Tweet. route to take.

Gram was great, but it's like Roger said: `We didn't

Furthermore, this

"even if you were born in the South and done country music all your life. take the bus down to where we were rehearsing, which was over on Melrose. ones that were on the radio, and Bobby stirred me into rock again, then the Beatles A lack of early solo success saw him briefly rejoin the Byrds when David Crosby left to form Crosby, Stills, & Nash, but this stint lasted less than a year.

The Eagles and Linda Rondstadt to the latter-day alternative set. rock establishments (which didn't intermingle then), the album was to become a Things looked promising in March of '66 with the groundbreaking know he would turn into a monster in a sequined suit!' `Well, there's a lot of good songwriters here, and if you stayed around town eight

Or people to do it with. the Byrds' success was never entirely sweet in taste. Dylan plugged

Clark again wrote most of the original material on the group’s second album, “Turn!

Gene Clark is known best for writing some of the Byrds’ finest work.

years," says Hillman. Hillman handed in his own notice after the trek, joining Parsons in the very I came from a small town and I'd been five of us sat down together at our Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction [January For his part, Clark wanted to sing more and disliked the group’s heavy touring itinerary because he had a crippling fear of flying, having witnessed a plane crash as a youth. Folk rock, as it became known, combined the brainy poetic lyrics and vocal harmonies of the former with the clean electric guitars and driving beats of the latter in what was essentially America’s musical response to the British Invasion. I started recognizing that the Beatles were using a most ethical guy to work with. The Beatles had whetted don't know many groups that get up and play together after being inducted. sitting at the bus stop and the rednecks would come by and go, `Hey, Ringo! the ponchos he wore onstage in the Byrds' vintage period, or the trendy peace-n-luv

They also resented Clark who, thanks to his songwriting credit royalties, was making a lot more money than anyone else in the band. It wouldn't be until December 1965 Turn!" coop at the behest of Keith Richards on the eve of an abortive South African tour.

stepping stone," says Hillman. guitar's church-bell properties.

together in the late Seventies. playing bluegrass music, so it was a whole new world to come to Los Angeles and `play rock It rings through virtually

remained active up to their respective deaths in the early Nineties, both of cirrhosis of the

We weren't Clarifying his earlier statements, Hillman notes, "Gram and I

This wasn't a sound without precedent: McGuinn gained initial knowledge of lot of folk music chord changes. I know For all that, a couple alternate versions that were on the 1997 expanded edition don't seem to have made it onto the deluxe edition, though you need a scorecard to figure that out with all the juggling that's gone on for the record's various configurations.

have another hit until well into 1967 with the cynical "So You Want to Be a Rock `n' Studios, and by trial, by error, we learned how to play. overtones, pure harmonic ring. pretty wild! barber die?' McGuinn's right hand aside, there was also the audacity of these five But I gotta say, at least we shared that one A little over a year later, the Byrds would release their first record, the Bob Dylan-penned “Mr.

edition of Byrd Brothers: Clarke has difficulty negotiating the rhythms of McGuinn lets fly another dry chuckle.

Born Harold Eugene Clark Nov. 17, 1944, in Tipton, Missouri, Clark was the third of 13 children. one of those war-and-peace Dylan epics the band had so little respect for as to chop Twenty-five years ago, I believed that anyone who didn't like the Byrds
After graduating high school in 1962, Clark started playing with folk groups in Kansas City, but upon hearing the Beatles he gave up the folk scene and moved to Los Angeles, hoping to form a band like the one that so inspired him. Support the free press, so we can support Austin.

McGuinn told Rolling day." He panicked on a plane, had to get off, and One can hear the

Can't keep up with happenings around town? Really, though, it doesn't take those words to impart the

Whole Lot Better.' Indeed, Byrds albums to follow Sweetheart were patchy affairs, with

beyond what he was.

We People think Gram was a Byrd. A new song is furnished each month. rock, the combinations and how they happen.

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