@MrAurel40 the byrds virtually covered everything dylan did. the beatles wrote there own music, perhaps your opinion explains why your only musical export of note is vanessa paradis?
Wow, I am amazed! I remember well the release of this song & THE BYRDS, but some how it seems so insignificant & just a so, so performance now. The reason is Dylan. When you hear him sing this song there is so much that actually flashes through your mind. The entire turbulant, mind morphing, love VS rebellion 60's & the present. Dylan delivers this song like no one else can. I'm certain his phrasing, perfect diction & besides his feelings when writing this song bring our emotions to the surface
@hbh32210 Yo! Get ur head outta yer asre & put down the bong. After the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly liftin' after the 9-11 attacks, it was Bush who reunited the FBI & CIA as a united front against global terror. They had been de-clawed by the paranoid Bubba & Hillary gang during the prior 8 years! That's why the 16th hijacker was detained in MN, and the USA didn't have a clue what was planned. 8 years later Bush rang the Chimes of Freedom to Iraqis & Afghans - over 40 million freed!
@ChicagoNeilcon I think you're the one who's high. We're leaving Iraq because the Iraqis are sick of us, and we'll leave Afghanistan for the same reason. In the meantime, we owe trillions to China and our economy's in a shambles. By 2016 China will surpass us as the world's largest economy, while the conservatives starve our schools of funds. Thanks to Bush and the neo-cons' delusional "Project for the New American Century" this nation's going the way of all the other former empires - bankrupt.
@raunchboy Are the Iraqi's that are 'sic of us' the same ones that held up their purple fingers after being allowed to VOTE for their leaders after 12 centuries of oppression? As Albert Schweitzer said "The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life" Bush had a Catch 22, if he let Saddam export his Serin Gas to terrorists, you would have cried IMPEACH!
@glovemonkey How can someone who calls himself a humanitarian and open minded Liberal allow his Government to stand idly by to allow a dictator like Saddam have his thugs cut the tongues out of anyone who spoke against him. Who could look the other way as the dictators sons raped and killed at will. Who would violate the UN peace accords that provided UN Inspectors FREE ACCESS to inspect for wrong doing. The same inspectors that were sent packing during Clinton's reign with not even a whimper
@ChicagoNeilcon Not only did we stand by, we supported Saddam with loans and weapons during his war with Iran - the war where he was using poison gas on the Kurds and Iranians, incidentally. In fact, the U.S. has a long history of supporting repressive regimes, if it served our geopolitical or economic interests. Then when they stop toeing our line, the government starts ranting about "freedom" and "democracy," and people like you fall for it every time.
@raunchboy Agreed, 'Politics make strange bedfellows'. To support Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war was the lesser of 2 evils to contain radical Islam. Fact is after 9-11, Bush said "Either you're with us or against us...you decide". Saddam kept paying $10,000 reward to any terrorist's family who would carry out suicide bombings against Israel. In my book, that's supporting terrorism. Saddam was a loose cannon, a Hitler admirer, and we have to be pro-active to save American lives (even yours)!
@ChicagoNeilcon oh so you will shortly be invading Rwanda then? cambodia? North Korea ???? No i thought not and the reason........................ anybody................ yes thats correct NO OIL
i don't know where the amps were, but could they possibly have been playing? The instrumental track was not the one from the album version-maybe the used another take. I could be mistaken but the vocals look and sound as though they were actually singing.
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That old man is sooo cute...It´s so awesome for me to see someone so old at the time these heroes of mine and others were so young...and now so old...
Life doenst end,this guy lived a whole life at that precious time,such precious time for music and expression itself.I know he´s fine wherever he is now,this period just,just means so much to me
i love ed wynn . he was cool in the twilight zone makin a pitch to the angels to the devil , played by the husband of mrs. robinson , in the graduate . and the byrds were cool too.
One of my favourite songs of all times and the Byrds the best version. Crosby seems to have perfected that 'looking up into middle distance and smiling whilst wearing a cloak' stance. Why did these wonderful musicians have to be introduced by ageing comedians, T.V. cowboys, and idiotic D.Js. I will stick to the Vinyl and CDs
@keo774 That was him all right. He was ousted by Roger and Chris a few years later and started hanging out with Graham Nash, which he'd been wanting to do anyway ever since Mama Cass Elliott introduced the two. Then they got together with Stills and later Young...you know the rest.
Hey Postie....you're correct of course....and analog to digital has made a huge difference. I've always been a Byrds fan and always will be. McGuinn gets opening honors on "My Back Pages" at the Dylan 30th tribute and I'll watch that clip forever.
saddly our generation never really listened to the lyrics. The message was lost amidst the jingle of coinage and rustle of stocks and bonds, waivers and monday night football.
So"for every unharmfull person misplaced inside a jail" too bad so sad. We are too busy watching tv and earning a living, to take time to change the world.
@hbh32210 what generation are you talking about? when this was recorded (as well as forever since then) the lyrics of dylan and the beatles were studied by the fans as well as the critics and scholars.
Anyone watching this who lived through the period must realize that this was the greatest American band of all time. It's obvious why the Beatles, The Roling Stones, and countless others were huge fans of The Byrds.
I'm not kidding. Paul drove McGuinn around London in '65 and visited the studio in 1970 during the "Easy Rider" sessions. Lennon mentions McGuinn by name in a '65 interview and liked McG's wire rimm specs so much, he started wearing wire rims himself. Harrison stayed in touch with McGuinn until his death.
THe byrds were the big thing back in the 60's.They were America's answer to the Beatles.They were very good friends with the Beatles.When the Byrds went to England back in 65 they hung out with the Beatles and the Stones and others.Sadly they went through so many personal changes.
I think this is a real live performance. I don't see the amps, but it's definitely not the record. The record has three of the six (that I know of) verses. This version only has two.
This is how music was meant to be, great instrumental sound, great melody, great overall writing, It blows my mind that we idolize today's music as much as we do.
Although I love The Byrds this version doesn't do justice to the original with only 1.5 verses out of the original's 6. Still they did help Dylan's popularity grow enormously with all the covers of his songs, my favourite being My Back Pages.
Yes, I know Dylan wrote the song, and loads of people covered it. What I'm saying is, he may have based the melody on an older folk ballad; he's often used older source material for his songs ("Blowin' in the Wind" from "No More Auction Block", for instance). I don't know, which is why I said "I think". The Wikipedia entry says it was based on Michael J. Fitzpatrick's "Chimes of Trinity", which Dylan learned from Dave Von Ronk, who in turn had learned it from his grandmother.
Why does everyone keep going on about cover versions? What's wrong with covers? Anyway, I don't think Dylan wrote this melody. One of his best songs, though, and certainly one of his very best "protest" numbers (hate the term), up there with "Hard Rain" and "Hattie Carroll". Great to see Ed Wynn!
More inane TV coverage of fine music. Another stupid screaming audience. The Byrds did a pretty good job on Dylan's gorgeous song "Chimes of Freedom". Good vocal harmonies and arrangement. Dylan did it better, but the Byrds version is still quite good. One problem....they edited out about 90% of Bob's lyrics, and the lyrics were the main point of the song. They were dealing with a TV show here,though... meaning the attention span of a gnat, in other words.
Yeah, Ed Wynn was cool tho...The Scrubbing bubbles were a knock off of him (Oh me Oh my).....This cover is one of my favorite Byrds tracks...Listen to that Mcguinn/Clark/Crosby harmony,it was ripped off by that band David joined after the Byrds...
@Morgteck TV is how lots of these bands got seen. They didn't mind. Remember the am radio stations needed songs to be less than three minutes! When they played "Like a Rolling Stone," everyone was going on about how the three limit song limit barrier had been broken. But it took FM to allow long playing songs to find a place. Different time. But this clip is terrible, I agree. The record version they made is longer.
@deaddoc I have heard often that there was a 2:30 limit for singles, but that is somewhat of a myth. Ticket to Ride, Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone were all over three minutes. As the decade went on, there were a lot more. House Of The Rising Sun was over 4 minutes, but there might have been a singles version that was shorter.
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OMG...you mean McGuinn went all Milli Vanilli on us? I'll never listen to them again probably or maybe not...I'm now conflicted....they did another video with go-go dancers in cages...gotta watch the Dead to cleanse my palate.
@mobegone Back in those days it was really hard to get a good sound mix on live TV. They often times used canned music with live singing, but more regularly, to keep the quality of the sound clean, they synced. It's not a big deal, now days it is because of the higher quality sound equipment in TV broadcasts.
@mobegone Back in the day...ALL of the acts lip synced to their records on mostof the TV programs. Notice the lack of cords coming out of the guitars.
@mobegone no, just the instruments on most of the records, except mcguinn, he always played. but most bands in the 60's used "the wrecking crew" they were the group of musicians that did instrumentals, even the mamas and papas used them
Crosby provided the sperm for Melissa Etheridge's kids so she thought he was a hottie in a weird sort of way but yes the Byrd's interpretation of Dylan's folk to pop rock was a seminal moment in contemporary musicology.
Listen, I do think this video is cool and everything....seeing David Crosby as almost unrecognizable is funny, but, dammit, WHY are there always the girls screaming (for guys who are not cute--or were they in 1965?) at random points in the song and/or video? I assume that's some sort of effect or promo shit?
The screaming is really fanatic teeny boppers - this was a phenomena started w/BeatleMania and in 1965 the mass hysteria for any mod long haired groups had not yet died down.
I cannot believe these faces. Chris Hillman -- most of us think of him from later days, with curls and then a moustache, his Desert Rose Band look. David Crosby, what a baby face. And Gene Clark was so distinctively different. Actually I think Gene grew into his face by the 80's, the days of the duets with Carla Olson. Here it's a bit stark; time etched it better later, like rain-worn rock. A time of innocence and ideals; who knew McGuinn would be singing "King of the Hill" in 1990?
Dylan may not be (in every one's eyes) a great singer, but he is a great singer of songs, few can match his phrasing, emotion and passion he can delivler, it is just amazing, you have to listen often to him to understand him and his work. Listen to Highlands 1999 live - or When he returns Live 1980 - Man in the Long Black Coat 11.3.1995 - 3 totally different deliveries and songs - he CAN sing !
At 2:26 you get the classic 1965 Byrds line-up of McGuinn on 12-string Rickenbacker, Crosby on Gretsch Tennessean (before he put that ugly STP sticker on it) and Hillman on Guild Starfire Bass. I like the way that Shindig's director always put extra long cords on all the guitars and microphones so you don't see a stack of ugly amplifiers cluttering up the stage.
I disagree with your comment. If a song is great and well written, there are bound to be a number of covers. Look at "Yesterday" by the Beatles or "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. Also, Dylan sang most of his early songs in the folk genre. Roger McGuinn rearranged this song to a rock tempo and added "The Beatle beat" (as Roger has said) to appeal to the pop crowd. I love both versions!
dylan must have gotten down on his knees since the byrds covered his song's...and introduced tons of people to the real deal.....at least those who were curious enough to read the linear notes.
the Byrds did more from dylan and rickenbachuer (sp?) than money could buy.
i think i saw them with a HUGE line up in hollywood one night.
.top act... Beach Boy's ...1965. we did 4 songs in the band.
The song itself is amazing. Some of the best lyrics I've ever heard. But I don't like Dylan's version (although I'm a huge Dylan fan), neither do I like this version here. The only one who I think does justice to this song is Bruce Springsteen.
This is a great Dylan song but a poor version from the Byrds on of those ghastly US TV pop shows of the mid '60's with all the screaming non listening chicks that were our mothers! The Byrds have covered this to a higher standard in the studio.
this song is written by dylan. released originally in 1964 on "another side of bob dylan".. nobody else, let alone the byrds, could have written these lyrics
Ed Wynn, one of the legendary Rock Impressarios? That's beyond weird. That's what happens when you don't care WHAT your agent gets you.Ah,sixties TV,so pathetically confused about pop music.........
The Byrds versions of Bob Dylan songs helped bring the 60's genius of Dylan to the masses. The Byrds brought the melodic pop-rock of the Beatles and melded it with the thinking man's folk of Bob Dylan.
What is going on here?? The Byrds were THE American band of the 1960s. They were way more than a cover band. They created Folk Rock inthe way they covered Dylan, Seeger & co. they created space rock. They led the way when Gram Parsons joined them to be at the forefront of country rock with Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. No Byrds, no Eagles...& so on. I could go on
@RudyCasordapek The Byrds wrote Eight Miles High -- their best song, imo. So that blows your theory. I liked what they did with the Dylan and Seeger covers. You see, Dylan didn't write "Turn Turn Turn" either, genius -- Pete Seeger did, along with "Bells Of Rhymney". The distinctive guitar riffs that go along with these covers, and the harmonies, and the booming bass were all laid in the Byrds nest.
Sing it, Byrds. We can use this today.
SpeegBJ 1 week ago
the final chorus... they harmonize so beautifully!
ejectorerector 3 weeks ago in playlist BYRDS
Yay!!!!
sonicsteev 1 month ago
1:37 :)))
ejectorerector 1 month ago
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ejectorerector 1 month ago
Roger McGwinn and his 12 strings Rickenbacker rules!
Frankonino 1 month ago
These stupid crying fans ...
dummefettehobbitse 3 months ago
Purojannu Those sun glassed were the style in the 60! Sit back and enjoy the music, that is what it is all about!
mackpucci 3 months ago
karaoke
mommm1 4 months ago
Peace
felixstoweblue 5 months ago
Dig David Crosby with the cape.
JimNitti 6 months ago
I'm french. 28 years old. If i had to choose between the Beatles or the Byrds, i choose The Byrds.
MrAurel40 7 months ago
@MrAurel40 the byrds virtually covered everything dylan did. the beatles wrote there own music, perhaps your opinion explains why your only musical export of note is vanessa paradis?
glovemonkey 6 months ago
Gene Clark out on the left all by himself
genericgeorge 7 months ago
awww......Ed Winn
worthmoremusic 7 months ago
one of the greatest songs of all time and a great performance, but man, those are some ugly sunglasses :D
Purojannu 7 months ago 2
God to see Ed Wynn introduced the byrds before he died
steve7138 8 months ago
Chris Hillman always looks like he's bored to death.
JohnnyNokaster 8 months ago
Wow, I am amazed! I remember well the release of this song & THE BYRDS, but some how it seems so insignificant & just a so, so performance now. The reason is Dylan. When you hear him sing this song there is so much that actually flashes through your mind. The entire turbulant, mind morphing, love VS rebellion 60's & the present. Dylan delivers this song like no one else can. I'm certain his phrasing, perfect diction & besides his feelings when writing this song bring our emotions to the surface
ohiodixiechick2 8 months ago
No, Fanzappa missed the entire point.
An aiki solution to totally redirect the forces of the time was never realized.
Most folks who grew up in the late 60 and early 70's never understood what dylin was sayhing.
They never heard the bells of Rhimney, and now are fixing to retire to a consertative life in florida, or arizona.
The vast majority of America is selfcentered-self absorbed and uninterested in helping others.
That is why monsters like the bush dynasty existed.
hbh32210 9 months ago
@hbh32210 Yo! Get ur head outta yer asre & put down the bong. After the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly liftin' after the 9-11 attacks, it was Bush who reunited the FBI & CIA as a united front against global terror. They had been de-clawed by the paranoid Bubba & Hillary gang during the prior 8 years! That's why the 16th hijacker was detained in MN, and the USA didn't have a clue what was planned. 8 years later Bush rang the Chimes of Freedom to Iraqis & Afghans - over 40 million freed!
ChicagoNeilcon 8 months ago
@ChicagoNeilcon I think you're the one who's high. We're leaving Iraq because the Iraqis are sick of us, and we'll leave Afghanistan for the same reason. In the meantime, we owe trillions to China and our economy's in a shambles. By 2016 China will surpass us as the world's largest economy, while the conservatives starve our schools of funds. Thanks to Bush and the neo-cons' delusional "Project for the New American Century" this nation's going the way of all the other former empires - bankrupt.
raunchboy 8 months ago
@raunchboy wow an american who can see beyond the star spangled hype of the goverment. Respect
glovemonkey 6 months ago
@raunchboy Are the Iraqi's that are 'sic of us' the same ones that held up their purple fingers after being allowed to VOTE for their leaders after 12 centuries of oppression? As Albert Schweitzer said "The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life" Bush had a Catch 22, if he let Saddam export his Serin Gas to terrorists, you would have cried IMPEACH!
ChicagoNeilcon 6 months ago
@ChicagoNeilconb did you get paid to write that?
glovemonkey 6 months ago
@glovemonkey How can someone who calls himself a humanitarian and open minded Liberal allow his Government to stand idly by to allow a dictator like Saddam have his thugs cut the tongues out of anyone who spoke against him. Who could look the other way as the dictators sons raped and killed at will. Who would violate the UN peace accords that provided UN Inspectors FREE ACCESS to inspect for wrong doing. The same inspectors that were sent packing during Clinton's reign with not even a whimper
ChicagoNeilcon 6 months ago
@ChicagoNeilcon Not only did we stand by, we supported Saddam with loans and weapons during his war with Iran - the war where he was using poison gas on the Kurds and Iranians, incidentally. In fact, the U.S. has a long history of supporting repressive regimes, if it served our geopolitical or economic interests. Then when they stop toeing our line, the government starts ranting about "freedom" and "democracy," and people like you fall for it every time.
raunchboy 6 months ago
@raunchboy Agreed, 'Politics make strange bedfellows'. To support Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war was the lesser of 2 evils to contain radical Islam. Fact is after 9-11, Bush said "Either you're with us or against us...you decide". Saddam kept paying $10,000 reward to any terrorist's family who would carry out suicide bombings against Israel. In my book, that's supporting terrorism. Saddam was a loose cannon, a Hitler admirer, and we have to be pro-active to save American lives (even yours)!
ChicagoNeilcon 6 months ago
@ChicagoNeilcon oh so you will shortly be invading Rwanda then? cambodia? North Korea ???? No i thought not and the reason........................ anybody................ yes thats correct NO OIL
glovemonkey 6 months ago
This was what show?
RoyFive 9 months ago
who's idea was it to sing this in front of screaming pre-teens? LOL. Silly.
Clerkpro 9 months ago
bobby shaman?
fanzappa 9 months ago
@fanzappa Bobby Sherman
meg1955 9 months ago
@meg1955 he said shaman
fanzappa 9 months ago
did Mr.Dylan write this?
sh10131957 10 months ago
@sh10131957 Yes he did!
pjautuvas 10 months ago
@sh10131957 DUH...JFGI...
fanzappa 9 months ago
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fanzappa 9 months ago
@sh10131957 Yes, he did.
deaddoc 9 months ago
lol Ed Wynn was hella tweekin
richintalent 11 months ago
i don't know where the amps were, but could they possibly have been playing? The instrumental track was not the one from the album version-maybe the used another take. I could be mistaken but the vocals look and sound as though they were actually singing.
ShipwreckTownBand 1 year ago
@ShipwreckTownBand They are definitely not lip syncing on this.
rounds1954 10 months ago
mcguinn is too creepy when he sings. especially when he looks into the camera. this version is too slow
ejectorerector 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
A sweetheart of a guy Ed Wynn
mrhipsterdoofus 1 year ago
what kind of guitar is using the rhythm guitarist?
ealiagac 1 year ago
@ealiagac David Crosby, Rhythm guitarist using a Gretsch Country Gentleman.
johnnyscouser 1 year ago
Far out!My youth and playin this tune.
tnx 4 the vid.
donpedrossy 1 year ago
I never tire of this song
johnnyscouser 1 year ago
What did they try to do? Dylan's version is infinitively more powerful and strong... Well better-soundin'...
sonnygerd 1 year ago
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This band is a fake.
Portis1Luv 1 year ago
Geez... Ed Wynn intros the Byrds. I'm fucking old.
berrypossum 1 year ago
That old man is sooo cute...It´s so awesome for me to see someone so old at the time these heroes of mine and others were so young...and now so old...
Life doenst end,this guy lived a whole life at that precious time,such precious time for music and expression itself.I know he´s fine wherever he is now,this period just,just means so much to me
GabrielDhalaman 1 year ago
i love ed wynn . he was cool in the twilight zone makin a pitch to the angels to the devil , played by the husband of mrs. robinson , in the graduate . and the byrds were cool too.
Thadmotor1044 1 year ago
Good to see Ed Wynn introduce the Byrds before he passed away.
steve7138 1 year ago
David Crosby looks like a Hobbit!
CleanLineFilms 1 year ago 2
listen to the girls screaming xD
i would have laughed my ass off hahah
MegaCoreMagnetizer 1 year ago
One of my favourite songs of all times and the Byrds the best version. Crosby seems to have perfected that 'looking up into middle distance and smiling whilst wearing a cloak' stance. Why did these wonderful musicians have to be introduced by ageing comedians, T.V. cowboys, and idiotic D.Js. I will stick to the Vinyl and CDs
SuperNevile 1 year ago
at 1:23...
oh my good...
is that crosby????????????????
I can't believe it..
is this the crosby who made triad, guinneviere, the lee shore?
please, somebody help me
keo774 1 year ago
@keo774 That was him all right. He was ousted by Roger and Chris a few years later and started hanging out with Graham Nash, which he'd been wanting to do anyway ever since Mama Cass Elliott introduced the two. Then they got together with Stills and later Young...you know the rest.
RoyFive 9 months ago
@RoyFive he looks totally diffrent from when he was with nash and stills
keo774 9 months ago
THE MAD HATTER!!!
thejojoshabadoo 1 year ago
Where have I seen or heard that host before?! His voice is so famailiar, does anyone know if he was in a movie or something?
elderflowertea 1 year ago
@elderflowertea
"a very merry unbirthday to you..to me?
a very merry unbirthday to me..to you?
now blow the candles out my dear..."
moles2000 1 year ago
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@elderflowertea
"a very merry unbirthday to you..to me?
a very merry unbirthday to me..to you?
now blow the candles out my dear..."
moles2000 1 year ago
@elderflowertea He is Ed Wynn, actor and comedian.
breezebro 1 year ago
Hey Postie....you're correct of course....and analog to digital has made a huge difference. I've always been a Byrds fan and always will be. McGuinn gets opening honors on "My Back Pages" at the Dylan 30th tribute and I'll watch that clip forever.
mobegone 1 year ago
I respect The Byrds and their contribution to the folk-rock aesthetic, but this cover is so uninspired. It's a shame, really.
Enright9591 1 year ago
ed wynn and the Byrds, whoda thought it
bitterchew 1 year ago
anybody know the kind of guitar david crosby is holding. It looks huge?
mustangsr2fun 1 year ago
@mustangsr2fun
gretsch country gent. single cutaway.
single cut ver.of guitar used by g.harrison.
fanzappa 1 year ago
saddly our generation never really listened to the lyrics. The message was lost amidst the jingle of coinage and rustle of stocks and bonds, waivers and monday night football.
So"for every unharmfull person misplaced inside a jail" too bad so sad. We are too busy watching tv and earning a living, to take time to change the world.
hbh32210 1 year ago
@hbh32210 what generation are you talking about? when this was recorded (as well as forever since then) the lyrics of dylan and the beatles were studied by the fans as well as the critics and scholars.
fanzappa 9 months ago
Anyone watching this who lived through the period must realize that this was the greatest American band of all time. It's obvious why the Beatles, The Roling Stones, and countless others were huge fans of The Byrds.
THEScottCampbell 1 year ago
@THEScottCampbell Huh? I know you're kidding, but fess up to those who don't know.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
I'm not kidding. Paul drove McGuinn around London in '65 and visited the studio in 1970 during the "Easy Rider" sessions. Lennon mentions McGuinn by name in a '65 interview and liked McG's wire rimm specs so much, he started wearing wire rims himself. Harrison stayed in touch with McGuinn until his death.
THEScottCampbell 1 year ago
great song
shanehenning26 1 year ago
THe byrds were the big thing back in the 60's.They were America's answer to the Beatles.They were very good friends with the Beatles.When the Byrds went to England back in 65 they hung out with the Beatles and the Stones and others.Sadly they went through so many personal changes.
Mikelan082 1 year ago
Chimes Of Freedom Live = Cath the wind (bob dylan). the sing is very similar for cath the wind
pedrobmg 1 year ago
I think this is a real live performance. I don't see the amps, but it's definitely not the record. The record has three of the six (that I know of) verses. This version only has two.
VinnySchaller 1 year ago
@VinnySchaller
the usually sang to a track back then. if live, the amps were usually off camera, backstage.
fanzappa 1 year ago
sure looks and sounds live to me.
jackwhiskey 1 year ago
This is how music was meant to be, great instrumental sound, great melody, great overall writing, It blows my mind that we idolize today's music as much as we do.
Aceman7895 1 year ago
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TheDaddyCokes 1 year ago
Great piece of history.
skydogz1 1 year ago
haha does bitches jus went crazy when he announced the band. LOL
opidig25gange 1 year ago
David Crosby before the fringed leather jacket!!!
alicenc 1 year ago
makes me feel 22 yrs old!
yardta 1 year ago
eternally great!
MusicianStanKilkes 2 years ago 16
Although I love The Byrds this version doesn't do justice to the original with only 1.5 verses out of the original's 6. Still they did help Dylan's popularity grow enormously with all the covers of his songs, my favourite being My Back Pages.
alfspyder 2 years ago
@alfspyder
time restraints of a tv show will not allow six verses of any song...
fanzappa 1 year ago
This is why Dylan still plays today. master of words
mrbimbo2000 2 years ago 2
Yes, I know Dylan wrote the song, and loads of people covered it. What I'm saying is, he may have based the melody on an older folk ballad; he's often used older source material for his songs ("Blowin' in the Wind" from "No More Auction Block", for instance). I don't know, which is why I said "I think". The Wikipedia entry says it was based on Michael J. Fitzpatrick's "Chimes of Trinity", which Dylan learned from Dave Von Ronk, who in turn had learned it from his grandmother.
gdash4 2 years ago 3
Why does everyone keep going on about cover versions? What's wrong with covers? Anyway, I don't think Dylan wrote this melody. One of his best songs, though, and certainly one of his very best "protest" numbers (hate the term), up there with "Hard Rain" and "Hattie Carroll". Great to see Ed Wynn!
gdash4 2 years ago
Dylan did write it and a load of people covered it.
blueperiod 2 years ago 2
More inane TV coverage of fine music. Another stupid screaming audience. The Byrds did a pretty good job on Dylan's gorgeous song "Chimes of Freedom". Good vocal harmonies and arrangement. Dylan did it better, but the Byrds version is still quite good. One problem....they edited out about 90% of Bob's lyrics, and the lyrics were the main point of the song. They were dealing with a TV show here,though... meaning the attention span of a gnat, in other words.
Morgteck 2 years ago 6
Yeah, Ed Wynn was cool tho...The Scrubbing bubbles were a knock off of him (Oh me Oh my).....This cover is one of my favorite Byrds tracks...Listen to that Mcguinn/Clark/Crosby harmony,it was ripped off by that band David joined after the Byrds...
decemberschild1217 2 years ago
@Morgteck Spot on, Dead right!
drachir6 1 year ago
@Morgteck TV is how lots of these bands got seen. They didn't mind. Remember the am radio stations needed songs to be less than three minutes! When they played "Like a Rolling Stone," everyone was going on about how the three limit song limit barrier had been broken. But it took FM to allow long playing songs to find a place. Different time. But this clip is terrible, I agree. The record version they made is longer.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@deaddoc I have heard often that there was a 2:30 limit for singles, but that is somewhat of a myth. Ticket to Ride, Satisfaction and Like A Rolling Stone were all over three minutes. As the decade went on, there were a lot more. House Of The Rising Sun was over 4 minutes, but there might have been a singles version that was shorter.
rounds1954 10 months ago
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OMG...you mean McGuinn went all Milli Vanilli on us? I'll never listen to them again probably or maybe not...I'm now conflicted....they did another video with go-go dancers in cages...gotta watch the Dead to cleanse my palate.
mobegone 2 years ago
No, they all sing on the record...
HIghFlyinByrd 2 years ago 10
@mobegone Back in those days it was really hard to get a good sound mix on live TV. They often times used canned music with live singing, but more regularly, to keep the quality of the sound clean, they synced. It's not a big deal, now days it is because of the higher quality sound equipment in TV broadcasts.
Postie218 1 year ago 2
@mobegone No way this is not live.
BaronTurco 1 year ago
@mobegone Back in the day...ALL of the acts lip synced to their records on mostof the TV programs. Notice the lack of cords coming out of the guitars.
Keyboardman88 1 year ago
@mobegone no, just the instruments on most of the records, except mcguinn, he always played. but most bands in the 60's used "the wrecking crew" they were the group of musicians that did instrumentals, even the mamas and papas used them
scotfreak 9 months ago
@mobegone Seriously? Let's just think about the music brother! Forget dancers from the late sixties!
Crucifixism 8 months ago
People: This new folk-rock group "The Byrds" has the harmonization to go all the way like "Peter, Paul and Mary". Dan, Ma.
swordofconstantine 2 years ago
No amp feeds. Sticks not hitting drums. Singing live. But instrumentation recorded.
huskyjerk 2 years ago 2
If you can really really sing, you're not afraid to sing live! Hear this, all you talentless modern fucks!
nicodagger 2 years ago
no doubt!...what's up with these jonas boneheads anyway?
lago4 2 years ago
No. Gene Clark.Jim Mcguinn. Michael Clarke on drums,David Cosby and Chris Hillman.
bren1231001 2 years ago
is that gp?????
52joan 2 years ago
total agreement
jonchic2002 2 years ago
Byrds have better "polu-phonia",
but I think the Dylan 1964 is an order of magnitude above...
Bob Dylan !
ivpivivpiv 2 years ago 4
Ed wynn jovially introducing the Byrds, so 60s!
carolingianguy 2 years ago
Oh my god, skinny David Crosby.
But god, they're all so young. And what a performance.
McMunchy 2 years ago
I wonder what a Rickenbacker 360 cost back then?
richintalent 2 years ago
I dunno, but I got a used 330/12 for $600 last summer...
According to Pete Townshend, something like three hundred fifty pounds in the early sixties I think.
McMunchy 2 years ago
I remember the figure £200 for 1966 when Townshend was replacing them. I probably paid less than 50p to see the Who play.
tfmuch 2 years ago
Townsend reckoned they were the crappiest guitars ever...but then he mashed them up..so what does he know?
Seriously though at that time US products were expensive in the UK
Jim
captainsoul1953 2 years ago
I think Chris Hillman looks sweet and cute.
bren1231001 2 years ago
1965?
juaneljudio1991 2 years ago
Crosby provided the sperm for Melissa Etheridge's kids so she thought he was a hottie in a weird sort of way but yes the Byrd's interpretation of Dylan's folk to pop rock was a seminal moment in contemporary musicology.
mobegone 2 years ago
Crosby's head looks like a melon.
mgssol90 2 years ago
Listen, I do think this video is cool and everything....seeing David Crosby as almost unrecognizable is funny, but, dammit, WHY are there always the girls screaming (for guys who are not cute--or were they in 1965?) at random points in the song and/or video? I assume that's some sort of effect or promo shit?
geoffsnuts 2 years ago 2
The screaming is really fanatic teeny boppers - this was a phenomena started w/BeatleMania and in 1965 the mass hysteria for any mod long haired groups had not yet died down.
ChasBeauregarde 2 years ago
If you think girls screaming for these '60's bands is crazy---watch the teeny boppers go nuts for Jacko this weekend.
marksbel 2 years ago
right on, thats a good one !!!
riknbkr360 2 years ago
I cannot believe these faces. Chris Hillman -- most of us think of him from later days, with curls and then a moustache, his Desert Rose Band look. David Crosby, what a baby face. And Gene Clark was so distinctively different. Actually I think Gene grew into his face by the 80's, the days of the duets with Carla Olson. Here it's a bit stark; time etched it better later, like rain-worn rock. A time of innocence and ideals; who knew McGuinn would be singing "King of the Hill" in 1990?
amerikanprincess 2 years ago
Dylan may not be (in every one's eyes) a great singer, but he is a great singer of songs, few can match his phrasing, emotion and passion he can delivler, it is just amazing, you have to listen often to him to understand him and his work. Listen to Highlands 1999 live - or When he returns Live 1980 - Man in the Long Black Coat 11.3.1995 - 3 totally different deliveries and songs - he CAN sing !
adha4 2 years ago 2
McGuinn sang lead on most of the byrds hits - what are you talking about bookkeeper57
mitjazz 2 years ago
One of the few numbers that McGuinn sang. David Crosby, about 22-23 years old, at 1:26.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago
david looked so young before he destroyed his body.
dandeexxxx 2 years ago
An for each an evry underdog soldier in the night
An we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Luc22a 2 years ago
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin constantly at stake
An we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Luc22a 2 years ago
At 2:26 you get the classic 1965 Byrds line-up of McGuinn on 12-string Rickenbacker, Crosby on Gretsch Tennessean (before he put that ugly STP sticker on it) and Hillman on Guild Starfire Bass. I like the way that Shindig's director always put extra long cords on all the guitars and microphones so you don't see a stack of ugly amplifiers cluttering up the stage.
IDLERACER 2 years ago
chimes of freedom is such a great song *^_^
i for one love it :-)
MistyWilliams 2 years ago
No one sings Dylan like Dylan - some come close, but I prefer Dylan every time !
adha4 2 years ago
Dylan is a legendary songwriter-few approach his talent, but a great vocalist he was not, hence all the covers of his work.
351460 2 years ago 4
Well 351460,
I disagree with your comment. If a song is great and well written, there are bound to be a number of covers. Look at "Yesterday" by the Beatles or "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. Also, Dylan sang most of his early songs in the folk genre. Roger McGuinn rearranged this song to a rock tempo and added "The Beatle beat" (as Roger has said) to appeal to the pop crowd. I love both versions!
Dave897456 2 years ago
Ed Wynn...wow
unclebobunclebob 2 years ago 2
He's also the same guy who provided the voice for the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland".
OurPlaceInTime 2 years ago
good to c you notice things like that. and now that you said it Yea! lol
LoNgBoArDsFoRLiF 2 years ago
The Byrds are amazing...great song! I love the vibe of all there songs..its great. great video post!
xojbabyxo 2 years ago 4
this song is great on so many levels--how could one man be so talented?
cmoscmos 3 years ago
man that reminds me of bob dylan =O
Rotcivkk 3 years ago
that is because Bob Dylan wrote it. hahah xD
the byrds just sung it and made it theirs :P
PapagenoJuan 2 years ago
i thought my friend wrote this, cause we did it in our band. he was the lead singer who made us do it.
sillydream1969 3 years ago
lol.
Everyone wishes they wrote this song, I'm sure. If not all Bob Dylan songs!
HIghFlyinByrd 3 years ago 3
dylan must have gotten down on his knees since the byrds covered his song's...and introduced tons of people to the real deal.....at least those who were curious enough to read the linear notes.
the Byrds did more from dylan and rickenbachuer (sp?) than money could buy.
i think i saw them with a HUGE line up in hollywood one night.
.top act... Beach Boy's ...1965. we did 4 songs in the band.
sillydream1969 3 years ago
Ed Wynn.
Bob Dylan.
The Byrds.
It just don't get any better than this.
philipcarol 3 years ago 2
The song is great and the Byrds are great but isn't the guy who introduces the Byrds the guy who sings "I love to laugh" in Mary Poppins?
SingleMaltdd 3 years ago
Yes, I was gonna mention that until I say this comment. This is indeed the same guy!
TurgeonFan77132 2 years ago
The song itself is amazing. Some of the best lyrics I've ever heard. But I don't like Dylan's version (although I'm a huge Dylan fan), neither do I like this version here. The only one who I think does justice to this song is Bruce Springsteen.
XRaylroad 3 years ago
This is a great Dylan song but a poor version from the Byrds on of those ghastly US TV pop shows of the mid '60's with all the screaming non listening chicks that were our mothers! The Byrds have covered this to a higher standard in the studio.
kiwoz 3 years ago
that would be dylans song my friend
dylanfan1986 3 years ago
The Byrds definitely had it before Dylan. Dylan only covered it.
JetMech72 3 years ago
How do you know?
thetruthfulliar 3 years ago
actually the Byrds coverd Dylan.
wonkamonkie 3 years ago 4
Wonkamonkie,
You are correct. I've just heard the Byrds' version so much I took it for granted that they recorded it first.
JetMech72 3 years ago
this song is written by dylan. released originally in 1964 on "another side of bob dylan".. nobody else, let alone the byrds, could have written these lyrics
greentasm 3 years ago
Loser!!!
scragger07 3 years ago
This is one of the BYRDS Best songs ever! Awesome vocals!...RIP Gene & Mike
49erBW 3 years ago
The byrds took folk music in there own direction every group had a different style or unique sound. Unlike music today
royalfuzziness 3 years ago 2
for each and every underdog
for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
Luc22a 3 years ago
Ed Wynne was the host becuase he scored a pound of primo weed for the Byrds.
snorklefoot 3 years ago
Ed Wynn, one of the legendary Rock Impressarios? That's beyond weird. That's what happens when you don't care WHAT your agent gets you.Ah,sixties TV,so pathetically confused about pop music.........
thevidiotkid 3 years ago
And just where are you getting your music fix on free tv, now.
rvcrvc2 3 years ago
The Byrds versions of Bob Dylan songs helped bring the 60's genius of Dylan to the masses. The Byrds brought the melodic pop-rock of the Beatles and melded it with the thinking man's folk of Bob Dylan.
haltmusic 3 years ago
This is such a great song! The intro guitar part is like none other.
Byrds1967 3 years ago 2
What is going on here?? The Byrds were THE American band of the 1960s. They were way more than a cover band. They created Folk Rock inthe way they covered Dylan, Seeger & co. they created space rock. They led the way when Gram Parsons joined them to be at the forefront of country rock with Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. No Byrds, no Eagles...& so on. I could go on
kenphilips2003 3 years ago 9
@kenphilips2003 Their best songs were Dylan covers. No?
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
@RudyCasordapek I don't recall Dylan composing Eight Miles High.
altosame 1 year ago
@altosame I don't know who wrote Eight Miles High.
RudyCasordapek 1 year ago
@RudyCasordapek The Byrds wrote Eight Miles High -- their best song, imo. So that blows your theory. I liked what they did with the Dylan and Seeger covers. You see, Dylan didn't write "Turn Turn Turn" either, genius -- Pete Seeger did, along with "Bells Of Rhymney". The distinctive guitar riffs that go along with these covers, and the harmonies, and the booming bass were all laid in the Byrds nest.
altosame 1 year ago