McGuinn band so you want to be a rock n'roll star live 1973

[pdorn777]

I read an interview with Roger recently, in which he stated that he had practiced playing his Rickenbacker EIGHT hours a day for two solid years prior to becoming famous! Fame like that was no accident and talent was only half the picture -- years of yard work were the key to success in music back in the days when it was still real.

[philoats]

rog is just fine here. but the albums he made with these chumps... well as robert christgau said in his review of the record "Roger McGuinn and Band": and band's songs. D-

[alicenc]

Yeah...The bass line in the original Byrd's version is ROCKIN

[davidromesberg]

The bass player is Steve Love. Also played bass on Garden Party with Rivk Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band.

[04041919]

What a fine tune, but I still prefer the Hookfoot version, the best ever!

[vintagezigg]

Roger is undoubtedly the most under ra ted R&R star of all time. A genius !

[Lisihaldir]

I love it!!!

[RDG484]

This version to me sounds much better than the original studio version of this song. This version really kicks some serious ass.

[jityr2]

Can anyone find the Patty Smyth version? Limewire and Frostwire don't have it. Even though they used to.

[MrBruceBarham]

this song, it is so hard to get the flowing rhythm right, and Im sure it was frustrating for this particular time frame to play with such lower unknowledgable musicians as Roger had then.....hillmans bass parts for this are so missed, this bassist hasnt a clue, probably thought , ah two chords back and forth, no problem, I loved Hillmans work on it, and instead of trying copy hillman skip  battin did his own, the incarnation of white parsons battin INTERPRET music with McGuinn so sweet

[Racer800]

Isntit Thunderbyrd?

[xrecordresident]

tom petty's is so much better

[gittahfiend]

is that  allen woody on bass?

[mal334455]

long live the Byrds

[PHS71]

Great looking Byrds shirt just like the one McGuinn wore on the 73 Byrds reunion LP on Ebay just now.

[PHS71]

McGuinn was the biggest and most important part of the Byrds for sure.

As David Crosby said when talking about a Byrds reunion "You Can't have The Byrds without Roger McGuinn"!

[PHS71]

This is Roger McGuinn & Band from his solo career, not the Byrds!

[itzjoeymac]

Roger McGuinn IS the Byrds.

[FireGlo360]

Twenty comments...and only one correctly pointing out that this is NOT The Byrds of any lineup, but Roger McGuinn and a backing band. Clarence White is not present on this video. FWIW, I greatly prefer The Byrds of the first five albums. Still, saying Clarence White was not a Byrd reveals a rather shocking ignorance. He played session guitar on albums 4, 5 and 6, and was a full member from album 7 until the end.

[aarfeld]

Thanks for pointing this out. I thought that this might be that last line-up that was a partial reunion of original members that came together in early '73. I really liked the last line up of the band: Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Skip Battin. They did some lovely tunes. In fact, the whole country rock period of the band from '68 onward is among their finest work.

[tfmuch]

Coke? Roger? It was his Rory Gallagher phase.

[danelectroman70]

so you wanna be a coked out star-we'll listen now-do what i do. LOL! McGuinn is gakked up fo sure here.

[psh1115]

these were the days when everybody had coke...cant you tell...

[donnaperrault]

I dig it. Perhaps you prefer Britney Spears?

[munit1954]

Where does that comment come from? Ignorance about who the Byrds were, how they started, and how they ended, and the great Clarence White who was killed tragically . . . c'mon now, say something intelligent

[donnaperrault]

Sorry, Clarence White was a great guitarist. I've been a Byrds fan since they first started playing them on the radio. I just like them in all of their iterations.

[munit1954]

Without Clarence, it sucks.

[IShootPpl4funNmoney]

it's such an informative crowd you have here.

the byrds is roger mcguinn, NOT clarence white.

white came in during the byrds country phase.

8 miles high, rock n roll star, renaissance fair, mr spaceman,etc..

remember them? clarence white WAS NOT BYRDS at all.

[munit1954]

Clarence, Gene Parsons, and Skip was the most stable and had the longest duration of any Byrds line-up, remember that? I'm quite familiar with the career of CW, dating back to the Kentucky Colonels and his early appearances on the Andy Griffith show. And even Roger himself said so many wonderful things about the virtuosity of Clarence White, and how he was the best addition to the Byrds. REMEMBER THAT?

[VerdillacFSM]

Sorry, Clarence was on more Byrds albums then the original Byrds were...

Younger Than Yesterday

Notorious Byrd Bros.

Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Dr Byrd and Mister Hyde

Untitled

...Easy Rider

Byrdmaniax

Farther Along

Clarence was a Byrd, and his guitar playing helped the Byrds stay in the air...

[aarfeld]

And this is my favorite period in the Byrds' career. I thought that they really hit their stride when they were on the ground floor of those inventing country rock--and Clarence White was instrumental in helping the band define it.

[tfmuch]

White played with them in 67.

[VerdillacFSM]

Clarence White was amazing...I don't like country, but I will listen to any Byrds Song with Clarence playing on it.

[munit1954]

Without Clarence, it sucks.

[elbo33]

Hey, Dylan hasn't had a regular band in decades!

[HumGuitar]

Cool, Grizzly Adams playing the Gibson SG.

[Gerkinstock]

He looks kind of like one of those farmers interviewed at the beginning of John Mellencamp's video for "Rain on the Scarecrow." The pudgy one who didn't say anything.

[donnaperrault]

Those were different times. If you walked downtown back then you saw dozens of guys who looked just like that. I guess that they don't conform to whatever today's standards are. Those were strange days indeed, but in many aspects far better than today.

[villeroyb]

Not the Byrds, but McGuinn with band.

[PonyExpressNYC]

Isn't that essentially just what The Byrds were in the later days?