THE BYRDS - You Ain't Going Nowhere (1968)

[TheGymnast1222786]

That's Clarence White on guitar BTW, not Gram Parsons

[DoxiaGwynplaine]

Saw them during this phase in San Diego in '68. Great musicians but were ahead of their time with the country trip. So was "Seatrain". Incidentally, there's a movie on NetFlix instant called "Grand Theft Parsons" about his death and fight over his body.

[JackKlompus13]

@DoxiaGwynplaine

You saw The Byrds?!?! Awesome!

[Markgr122]

CLARENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[cjwalsh91]

I love to racial harmony, and yet I doubt these brothers owned a copy of sweetheart of the rodeo

[hoopsjo2000]

where was this and why wasnt i invited.nobody looked like this jeans and long hair.this must have been the cast of the play hair

[MrNatwill2]

This song reminds me of home in rural Virginia. Bluegrass everywhere, but many of us electrified it to sound like The Byrds.

[bunntyco7046]

Thanks also to Gene Parsons for inventing the B-Bender for Clarence to get that Pedal steel

sound!!

[theoriginaljeffro]

No Chris, no Gram, no thanks.



[theoriginaljeffro]

@DONGOE If it weren't for Gram Parsons, The Byrds would have kept making those boring little hippy-dippy records with 12-strings abounding, all while wearing those ridiculous teashades and farting lyrical spooge from their mouths.

GOD BLESS GRAM PARSONS

[abt7217tc]

@theoriginaljeffro Clanence White's guitar playing in combination with Gram's country music roots changed the direction of the band. Don't forget old Clarence (RIP).

[19CACTUS51]

@theoriginaljeffro When most people think of The Byrds, they think of that little hippy-dippy sound, as you call it. The original Byrds where much better than what they evolve into. One only has to look at record sales…

[theoriginaljeffro]

@19CACTUS51 OK sure, whatever.

[DonStirFrye]

@DONGOE Are you joking? Gram Parsons was one of the greatest musicians of this era and an integral part of The Byrds' late 60's sound. Clearly you're not a big fan of them if you're not aware of him.

[MrNatwill2]

@DONGOE You don't know of Gram Parsons? Look it up on Wikipedia and check out his tragic death to ensure you don't forget him.

[SeafloorReunion]

Thats what it is.

[moz8123]

YEEEEEEESSS!!!!! this is awesome!

[inatizzy2]

And by the way.. GREAT video!! Thanks!

[inatizzy2]

OH SNAP! This was the 2nd song I ever learned to play or should I say, strum on the guitar. Didnt realize its the BYRDS!!! That makes it even better now.



[Nashfair]

I found a Japanese release of a Byrds compilation and an awesome studio version of this song is on it. There were a few songs on that album I had never heard before. Thank God for small out of the way used record stores.

[henrynevins]

Want to see and hear the band, see Clarence White playing his newly installed b-bender on the sunburst tele and instead have to suffer through those dancing jerks who only care how cool their lame moves are.

[BROOKS39]

@henrynevins LMAO!!

[Skiddaloo]

dude in the yellow shirt stole my moves!!

[Grecoguitardude]

@Skiddaloo LOL!!!! I was thinking the black fella in the tux stole mine!

[MrDanzo711]

Haha, the black disco dancing to The Byrds, playing a Bob Dylan tune. Too funny.

[TheLegendaryTim]

Actually Bob Dylan wrote 2 sets of lyrics to this song. One is found on the Greatest Hits 2 release and the 2nd is found on the Basement tapes release. As for the Byrds I prefer the version found on The Sweet Hearts of The Rodeo release.

[IamYouNYC]

This live version is closer to the better, albeit more 'lo-fi", recording of this "cover song" by the Byrds. If someone can point me out to the other recording of the song, I would be more than glad... They changed the song pretty much completely with the chorus/harmonies, and the melody of the verse, and this is the closest it comes to that recording..

[HillsoGold]

What lyrics are these byrds singing?

[greu52]

purely authentic... the Byrds were so far ahead of the time and making the time at that time...the dancers were pathetic but again, authentic of that moment, but showing little understanding of what they were dancing to. Got to appreciate the precise enunciation of the lyrics!...."gate won't close, railings froze

[FlannelPlains]

God, this is amaaaazzing.

[cudaj2]

Though not the original Byrds, just as good and a shift in a different direction. Would have loved to see this lineup stay together much longer than they did. What they would sound like today!

[AOXOMOXO]

Filmed for TV's "Playboy After Dark" at Hef's...Hef just had to get groovy bands...the one with the Grateful Dead doing Mountains of the Moon is hilarious...Bob Weir's expressions really funny

[AOXOMOXO]

@AOXOMOXO try alook:

watch?v=NVqArOogY-c

[Lostchord1000]

A great Dylan song...nobody has done it better than the Byrds! Roger McGuinn and Clarence White are two of the most distinctive--and greatest--guitarists of all time.

[GeorgieWise]

I have NEVER seen another black man dance that way in my entire life. He must have been paid in sex, drugs and rock and roll. I would never turn down an offer like that but I still wouldn't dance like a white boy, if I were black.

[treatmentbound]

Wow! Great post! It looks like they recruited the back-up dancers from "Laugh-In" to dance to a Bob Dylan song which was probably the first ever alt-country song.  Where was this filmed and/or what is this from?

[TheeBirchfeathaa]

I want to like the Byrds but they should have gone more into the "eight miles high" direction. I wish they had even one more song like eight miles high. The 12-string sounds amazing with that chord progression and that Indian sounding scale

[BruisedArcade09]

great cover.... you'd get locked up today if you danced like they do in this video around the 2:30

[elbo33]

I admire Roger for sticking with his vision of a western rock band (not country). How could he go any other direction when he had Clarence? He must have gotten a lot of flack from producers, fans, ex-girlfriends, etc. who wanted the old Byrds back.

[milbury55]

This lineup of the Byrds alway got overlooked in my opinion, they did some great songs and some revamped versions of earlier songs. Fab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[itchyologie]

super awesome rickenbacker

[guitarstalk]

Clarence White utilizing his B-bender on lead guitar!

[Revolution1117]

@guitarstalk What a great guitarist Clarence White was, and his masterful Telecaster "B-bender" playing! Such a tragic loss of a great musician, to a drunk driver...

[oldsoul247]

Check out "Folkdub - You Aint Going Nowhere (Dylan, Byrds)"

[pumazpawz]

Who's the bass player? Skip Batten?

[llenllenllenl]

@pumazpawz

The bass player is John York, who preceded Skip Batten.

[nuttingbounce]

those are some dance moves

[pwea1]

yes , that"s Barbi ......... Who woulda thought that "after Heff " she' d of been the hottest honney on "Hee Haw " in the early 70's !!  lots of us young teens "Helped our selves " to the nubile wences of the day .. lolololol

[rw5791]

get yer mind off dinnertime

you ain't goin' nowhere

[Kenjock3000]

The gorgeous, long haired, leggy brunette sitting and clapping time downstage from Roger throughout ,has got to be  future Playmate of the Year and Hef-squeeze Barbie Benton(?) ,Next to Chestnutt Mare,that is the sweetest Byrds tune of 'em all!

[Revolution1117]

No, kidding about Dick Dale. He played ass-backwards for a "lefty'. Doyle Bramhall II of Eric Clapton's band, is also a lefty, who plays a left-handed Strat, strung RIGHT-handed (upside-down). Pretty interesting to watch, really.

[marti606]

This must have been right after Chris Hillman and Gram Parson left to start the Flying Burrito Brothers

[Scrotemeister]

They got SO laid after this.

[CalCanuck9]

I've played this song many times...with a pedal steel player. Clarence White shows his virtuosity by getting that steel sound on a Tele. What a great talent!

[spacepatrolman]

clarenece white gets that pedal steel sound with a string bender built in the guitar now the guitarist in the pretenders james whalbourne has one

[Revolution1117]

@spacepatrolman The "B-Bender" (or String -bender), was invented in '67 by Gene Parsons and Clarence White, who ultimately sold it to Leo Fender.

[spacepatrolman]

@Revolution1117 are you sure they sold it to fender some independent is installing them now

[Revolution1117]

@spacepatrolman Yeah, go to Wiki and type in "B-Bender", it gives you the whole history, subsequent designs, the "string-puller", outsourcing, etc.

[spacepatrolman]

@Revolution1117 they have to route out the back of the guitar it wont be the original way it came from the factory anymore

[Revolution1117]

@spacepatrolman You're correct, if you want a standard Telecaster converted with a B-bender or string puller installed. Fender DOES have a Telecaster available "off the shelf " called the "American Nashville B-Bender Telecaster" with the updated "C.White/Gene Parsons" B-bender, for around $2000 bucks. Check out Fender.com and then chose Telecaster. Pretty cool guitar. If ya wanna here a cool story about the invention, search "gene parsons b bender" on Youtube. Gene tells the whole story!

[spacepatrolman]

@Revolution1117 thanks i didnt know that fender issued that after the upside down dick dale model they can do anything somebody had a telecaster with a jazzmaster neck with 2 pickups and a bigsby it was heavy I dont know if the factory did that

[SuperRenepascal]

ditte iss voll jeil alta

[runem46]

Doesn't get much better than this, Early footage of The Byrds with Clarence White. Thanks for posting