The Byrds Live Fillmore West 1969

[mothergrace1]

i played rr for 30 years backing up 4 tops ben e king drifters and too many too count i loved the original byrds and i still do but these people who say these renditions are bad!!!??who are you some sixteen year old kids with a guitar who read a music theory book?you dont question what real musicians do----

[sebz61]

Sounds way better live.

[DynaflowDonnie]

RIP Clarence White. You're Bender Tele was the best and your sorely missed by many. Great collection of this incarnation of the Byrds, they were always good and the different versions of the band just rejuvenated they're greatness IMHO.

D.

[DazedConfused1969]

@MikeMikeyYo the hell does that mean?

[THEScottCampbell]

WEIRD! DID THEY PLAY IT IN "E" AND TRANSPOSE TO THE ORIGINAL "D" AT THE SOLO? THIS WAS McGUINN'S GREATEST BAND, HILLMAN'S GREAT BASS PLAYING AND CROSBY'S BACKUP SINGING NOTWITHSTANDING. What an AMAZING medley!!!!!!!!!

[calbeatnik]

i was at several of the Fillmore shows

[mrmarinus49]

Never heard anyone playing more beautiful than Clarence White. Seen them once playing, more than 40 years ago and still missing them since.

[blackandtanful]

ｻﾞ･ﾊﾞｰｽﾞのﾌｨﾙﾓｱ･ﾗｲヴ音源1969年､"ﾀｰﾝ­･ﾀｰﾝ･ﾀｰﾝ""他ヒットｵﾝﾊﾟﾚｰﾄﾞ､ｸﾗﾚﾝｽ･ﾎ­ﾜｲﾄのテレキャスﾌﾗｯﾄ･ﾋﾟｯｷﾝｸﾞが冴え渡るネ!



[arusky2001]

It was 1965.. I was 17 and along came the Byrds and Mr Tambourine Man with McGuinn and that Rickenbacker 12 string.. I have been an electric guitar freak ever since.. Love that sound..

[Revolution1117]

Clarence White's guitar playing puts such a refreshing touch to the earlier Byrds songs! Such a terrible loss of a fantastic guitar picker.

[blackandtanful]

1969､ﾌｨﾙﾓｱのﾊﾞｰｽﾞ､ｸﾗﾚﾝｽ･ﾎﾜｲﾄのｶﾝ­ﾄﾘｰ仕込みｽﾗｯﾌﾟ･ﾋﾟｯｷﾝｸﾞの鋭い冴､当時ｱﾙﾊﾞ­ﾑ"ｱﾝﾀｲﾄﾙﾄﾞ"が欲しくて､欲しくて!

[warrenginmartini]

@blackandtanful I couldn't say it better! :o-)

[Kungen940127]

At 0:05 there is a poster saying jeffersen airplane -.-

[zappajohn]

I'm a pretty fair guitarist and I play several Hendrix tunes. It is very difficult to play guitar the way Jimi did. To the poster who called him "just another R&B guy from the chitlin' circuit," your pretentious talk about pentatonic scales doesn't cover up the fact that you're a complete idiot with no real knowledge of music.

[ryreinhardt]

@zappajohn Hendrix was basic ,boring - mostly sloppy, and often out of tune......truth hurts doesn't it..

[posthumanhero]

@ryreinhardt the idea that something has to suck for something else to be good is a good idea to undo before people get torn apart even more.....'tis all good...the only thing that really sucks is when things get boring.

[98jvstratcat]

Interesting how they started turn turn in key of E and then modulated to D which is what it originally done



[smautomat]

Damn, Clarence White was amazing! The master of the "B" Bender!

[EyMeng]

HOW DO YOU GET THAT DRUM SOUND?  i mean each individual sound. i know different players sound different but there is an unmistakable sound to these and other drums from live recordings of this era...back when live recordings sounded good

[mernst]

Classic tunes.....! Byrds were top of the top in that era! Great live bootleg recording it was jam time at the end kiddies! C White lives on!

[gramhound86]

Wow i love this! My fave Byrds line up for sure, love Clarence's playing towards the end of Mr. T-Man, with the rhytmically unreal Don Rich on LSD chicken-pickin' stuff. This is truly fantastic stuff.

[superfuzzymomma]

@gramhound86 "Rhythmically unreal Don Rich on LSD chicken-pickin stuff"! - NIce.

[gramhound86]

Wow! Love this. My fave byrds line up. Clarence White must be the greatest picker of all time.

[theonlyantony]

Love the Byrds , but this is rotten! Appalling drummer. said it before will say it again. Sounds like someone falling down the stairs carrying biscuit tins.This is an appalling medley. But out there on there on the chicken-in-the-basket circuit , there aren't many this good. ! My brother interviewed Rog recently on the phone. it was great to listen back to it. McGuinn is still a true beliver!

[posthumanhero]

@theonlyantony the drummer is excellenty......but they were more into a personalized hjppy feel.......not going for the trance affect.....just being themselves.

[catoohey]

I think these songs sound best with the original Byrds voices - McGuinn just sound better when he sings with Clark.... they complement each other well.

[XajrXinRs]

i like the byds but it seems they changed the sound of most of their songs from the 60's - 70's.

[JoelGallob]

Somehow, you all miss mentioning the man who was the key to The Byrds in all incarnations, Roger McGuinn. Without him there woulld never have been a Byrds, and without him, their distinctive lead voice and guitar would have been absent.

[HRE1122]

@JoelGallob You are of course correct,but McGuinn is way to hard to like. He doesn't need a fan club, he has that giantic outspoken ego that is none other than Roger McGuinn.

[frederickus]

Now I wanna get one of them there string stretchers like Clarence!

[taariqtaariq]

@frederickus I am getting a B bender fitted by Mr .gene parsons himself this year 2011. check out his string bender dot com website. It isn't cheap but if you want the best job done by the man who invented it money does not matter.You need a G and L asat classic tele or a `58 style Fender tele.No other axe will work .

[MrBEB123]

This lineup could not cover the original Byrds hits very well. A good group but they didn't measure up to the original five members. I also do not think they should have been called the Byrds being it was almost an entirely different band. If David Crosby and Gene Clark aren't there what ever it is it is not the Byrds.

[taariqtaariq]

@MrBEB123 Bullsh*t, the Byrds in their 68-72 line were a very good live band. The Live at the Royal Albert hall line up and 2 x LP is proof that They were a cracking live act.

[posthumanhero]

@MrBEB123 the newer lineup were better musicians but probably too good to get the trance effect of these songs.......yet there is a certain merit to the funkiness they brought to the songs.

[patfealy]

the byrds needed to practice. they usually played out of tune in public

[me2gap]

love the pic at 2:03..... remember when you wore yoru "sunday best" whenever out in public Or when in a ROCK BAND!!!! awesome, baby. Awesome!

[reywilliamr]

back in the days john york crashed at our house for several days and did we ever have some great jam sessions ah to turn the clock back

[IanMacScot]

This version of the band is not with gram, but it is with JOHN YORK (b/v)

[PAULisDEADMANnumber9]

to country-ish, i mean clarence white was good, but i mean, leave the hits the way they were made. dont change 'em the long embedded, so dont change 'em. but its ok to change up a little while....... and this was their country phase....

[gittahfiend]

@PAULisDEADMANnumber9 ,This was the BEST version of the byrds.all these guys were REAL players of Instuments !

[Topographer]

What's the message?

I think the main message was:

Drugs are an excellent idea!

[TheDeansQueenXXX]

what we're hearing....is this the boot from Fillmore 69 ....not bad if so....thx for the load...x

[fiendwithoutaface66]

this is officially released

[whiskey6actual]

40 years ago --we were soldiers once ....and young

[superfuzzymomma]

One Amazing band.....

Mr. McGuinn was, and still is a mesmerizing performer! God rest brilliant guitarist Clarence White - sooo tasty. Clarence's telecaster and McGuinn's Rickenbacker are tonal wet dream.

VIVA LOS BYRDS!

[anglicanbeachparty]

@superfuzzymomma - Well put! They had a magic combination there.

[BabylonShitstem]

one of the best concerts i ever heard

[blacklightdeep]

ahh this is INSANE I can't stop listening, OMG how good is this band oh fuck me lord drunk because there aint nuttin like this band ever

er..yeah beautiful.

[myfrenchybuster]

now, now children, don't make me stop this car!!!!!!!

[talerdudansk]

Music with a message in 2009 and into the future.. Just love the Byrds..!!

[reywilliamr]

eight miles high

what else matters

[talerdudansk]

Oh gosh, I`m sorry, even though I do possess a p.h.d. in history, thank you for educating me about the origins of the term "limey". Please find yourself a girl friend and get out a little more.

[talerdudansk]

It`s eight MILES.. I hear the HOUSE MARTINS are ready for a comeback tourne.. something for you maybe? Please go away...

[ryreinhardt]

remember I am an alien - and eight miles is not quite far enough .... oh brainless one

[talerdudansk]

To my little limey friend is "arsehole" spelled correctly? If it fits wear it. For the rest of you Boy George wannabes just go away and leave THE BYRDS alone.

[ryreinhardt]

Limey? do even know the origins of that word? I guess not because you are a dope. It was a term to describe the use of lemons and lime by brittish sailors to combat scurvy ( way ahead of it's time in recognising the benefits of vitamin C) I am neither brittish or a sailor you intellectually challenged dimwit. I guess you find boy george attractive he's obviously on YOUR mind.........

[talerdudansk]

Seriously all you guys must have had been born from illegitimate mothers from an alien planet.

[ryreinhardt]

I sure am an alien - isn't ANYONE who is not American considered an alien? "Eight billion miles high and when you touchdown you'll find that's stranger than known"

[johnkiene]

...stranger than Nome. (Nome, Alaska, USA, Planet Earth)

[butterp7]

WOW, look at that bill.

[talerdudansk]

Please try to grow up if that is possible for you, although I doubt it.

[ryreinhardt]

sloppy shit - more bad notes than a hendrix concert

[butterp7]

Watch your mouth.

[ryreinhardt]

I just watched it and I saw two full lushious lips and beautiful white teeth - you should clean your ears if you think sounds good...moron

[butterp7]

OK smart ass..for every live Hendrix show where you say he hits bad notes I can give you a performance where he played flawlessy. So bring it. You think you know your shit then BRING it so I can jam those teeth right down your throat. Don't talk about shit you don't know about.

[ryreinhardt]

hendrix was a boring blues player with lots of fuzz and a pentatonic scale - even he knew he was very good - read his interviews - he longed to be able to play like classical and jazz guys - but didn't have the technical ability or music theory just another R&B guy from the chitlin' circuit - who had to do his ridiculous party tricks and dress like a fag to get noticed

[butterp7]

Boring..muthafucka he was doing technical shit that no one at that time was doing! You know if you just wanna say you don't like Hendrix's music that's one thing but get your facts straight. OK, smart ass dig in your ass and bring out someone that just makes you pee in your pants. We're all waiting to hear this!!

[ryreinhardt]

you are an uneducated twit - you can't even spell - and and an ass is a donkey you,and if playing already wornout blues lines is technical shit - your half right - it's just shit

get an education dum dum

[butterp7]

No you stupid, uninformed, egregious, retard. What I mean is since you are so well versed and we are all non-intelligent why don't you dig way down into your vast knowledge and inform us of the person you feel is so exciting to you that you just pee in your pants or..shut the fuck up and put another shrimp on the barbie Kangaroo Jack and the Dingo's not your baby.

[ryreinhardt]

wow you're sooo funny - the only shrimp I'd put on a barbie is you little dum dum,you sound like you have small man's syndrome.

poor jealous little American, living in your trailer and flippin' burgers....if you want to know a real guitarist - look up lenny breau

[butterp7]

OK, how about Lee Ritenour, Pat Metheny, let's not forget Wes Montgomery playing 4 on 6 or "What's New", you ain't talking about nothing. If you want to technical rock how about Paul Gilbert, Al DiMeola. Oh and by the way I'm college educated, 4 bedroom house, work at one of the largest institutions here, 5"10" 8% body fat 175 lbs, don't need to flaunt my balls unless there's a need to..so what else and who else you got

[ryreinhardt]

sure all those guys make poor old Jimi look like an amateur glad we agree on something - but I must admit I can't stand Pat Methany's playing ...my whole point has been the whole Hendrix worship thing is NOT justified and really aggravates me

[butterp7]

Yeah but that's your point and your point only and the people I've mentioned are the same people that exhalt Jimi as a great guitarist and writer. You miss the beauty in his work like Little Wing and Bold as Love and my favorite One Rainy Wish. I can go back further and pull up some more people but why, you're stuck on fucking thing that doesn't encompass the whole. That's like condeming a race of people on the actions of a few.

[butterp7]

Lastly, my band played a version of One Rainy Wish and there was soldier in the club just home from Iraq. When we finished our set he came up to me and shook my hand because that was his friend's favorite Hendrix song and his friend died in Iraq. This dude had tears in his eyes so fuck what you're talking about. The man's music touches people. If you don't dig it that's fine it's a free world but you shouldn't spew bullshit. Dig yourself my friend.

[talerdudansk]

Tom Petty was a kind of of cool played with Dylan and Roger M. on tours in the late 80`s. The early Byrds still the best. Really miss Clarence White after a useless drunk driver ended his life in 1970. so sad.

[fmat3]

Byrds,roger McGuinn so influential,ever listen to Tom petty? wonder where that sound came from..Clarence White we miss you ,any comment i make is an understatement,well Roger is still going strong thank god...

[talerdudansk]

Please remember Clarence White, R.I.P.

[blacklightdeep]

just incredible.

[Byrds1967]

Yeah, what a great tripple shot of Byrds! I saw this CD for sale but I thought is was just going to be carbon of the Untitled album. Nice to hear it's pleasantly different. Thanks for the post brother.

[RadioReporter01]

At 4:02 you see the building next door is burnt out. I went to see the Who the week after that fire.

Seems that with a second alarm fire raging in the deli next door, a fire Marshall got on stage and tried to clear the house.

Where he promptly got kicked in the balls and into the audience, causing one of the Who to be arrested.

Where, held over by popular demand after his release I saw him

"I thought he was a heckler"- said The Who

[clemzzz]

Fuck me... eight miles high is the best version EVER...outstanding...it's just blew me away

[bandcouver]

I don't have this CD ,but, I'm definately picking it up. This is obviously the line up after Chris Hillman to join Gram Parsons ( and Micheal Clarke ) to form The Flying Buritto Brothers.

[taariqtaariq]

@bandcouver this is the York-white mcGuinn-Gene parsons line up.

[talerdudansk]

Love the Byrds..always..

[BlauerGMI]

Clarence White is one of the greatest of all time!

[cutis1000]

@BlauerGMI What, at country twang??? Bah!

[talerdudansk]

Sorely missed Clarence White. Easter 2009.

[gittahfiend]

McGuinn,White,battin& kelly or parsons.

the best incarnaton of the group.

[sleakitweasel]

What I plainly hear is a band ripping it up good style: Clarence White and Roger McGuinn chiming and overdriving their Fender amps.

"Not a good live band".

Rly? You hear the drummer? This Rocks.

[choperena]

¡¡¡Es una pena que no se grabara este concierto en cine!!! Momentos como el de los Byrds en el Fillmore West deberían haberse grabado para que las nuevas generaciones pudieran disfrutar de la magia de aquellos conciertos. ¡¡¡Maravillosos!!! Como dice Fernando López Chaurri en su libro, The Byrds son --y serán-- "Más jóvenes que ayer".

[editorjuno]

McGuinn/White/Parsons/Battin was the second-greatest incarnation of a truly great band -- after McGuinn/White/Parsons/York. The original five were transcendent in the studio, but the latter-day lineup was far superior live. Clarence White was so far beyond his contemporaries as a lead guitar innovator that he might as well have been playing on another planet -- there was nobody like him and, and in a world full of Hendrix, Clapton, and Garcia clones there still isn't. What a loss he was.....

[gamoonbat]

Crosby is not on this. Not sure about Hillman. Most likely this is the White, Parsons, Battin band.

[nickybadboy50]

There will never be another era like the 60's when some of the greatest artists played some of the greatest music ever. You could see 3-4 different super groups at the Fillmore, then go to Winterland the next weekend and see 3-4 more. I'll never forget the Gold Harvest Festival in Amador County on Lake Amador. Tina & Ike, Taj Mahal, Bo Diddley, Albert Collins, Al Wilson, Santana, John Fahey, Cold Blood, Kaleidoscope! Thanks for the memories!!!

[stresslie58]

I concur 100 percent my friend.

I almost wish I was old enough to shared in those magical one of a kind days but then, I don't even like being 50! LOL Have a good day, peace. LD

[nickybadboy50]

I hear you. I have a few years on you. If you like the Byrds then checkout Buffalo Springfield "For what it's Worth." It will make you feel like you're 21 again. -Thanks & Peace -

[bandcouver]

I love the music of this era too ,but, there is good music being made now outside the bland mainstream. In Vancouver ,for instance, there's a ton of acts trying something other than the what the bland mainstream is offering. Acts like: Mother Mother, Parlour Steps, Veda Hille, Cinderpop and more. Have a listen to the bandcouver show online when you get a chance.

[nickybadboy50]

Sounds interesting! Thanks bandcouver, I'm checking them out as I write.

[bandcouver]

Your welcome. I've done some research and found out that the later Bryds album called "Untitled" ( 1970-half studio/half live ) is actually a better document of this line up's live show. Definately looking out for that one.

[Fortunebound]

Hi Man I'm 58 I was there all the time. It was the summit of our civilization. I opened a whole summer long for Tull on their German Tour. Have had a great live since and still do. But those days were more than magic. We knew. We never did again since. Peace.

[bayridgegroove]

My pleasure nickybadboy50-spent many nights as a teen at the Fillmore East before the huge arena greed merchants took over. Thanks for your comments.

[abingdon66]

@nickybadboy50

Ha, ha! I was there at Lake Amador in 1969. The best part was dipping into the Lake and hearing all that great music coming from the shore.

[nickybadboy50]

Yeah...those were the days!

[Elguitarmysterioso]

:) This was an awesome incarnation of the Byrds!

[BustardBuzzard]

great tape. Clarence is super!

[maida1982a]

Listen to Clarence; Hendrix rated him, that tells you something.

[fatcatbuzz]

Hendrix always thought there were better guitar players than just him. He thought the guitarist for Chicago was better. And in 68 or 69 McGuinn, Clapton, and Hendrix jammed together in New York. I kind of one of those "what if."

[jimbosity002]

Thanks for sharing that info rangerbravo275

[jimbosity007]

Always a pleasure Mr.Otaku! Nobody covers the Sixties better than you my friend!

[60otaku2]

jimbosity007,

thanks for sharing great songs!!

I subscribed your channel just now.

Otaku2 (^o^)b