Gene Clark - Backstage Pass

[vagabondrecon]

lovely and of course hillman continues on today

[vagabondrecon]

lovely and of course hillman continues on today

[Tom57ish]

Is that Michael Clark on Drums?

[Jiffxx]

@Tom57ish

No, George Grantham of Poco.

[RoryNights]

Wonderful stuff.. thank-you for posting this footage :)

[rollandmcroll]

This Version to me is superior to the Album Version, which i feel does not capture the quality of this great song.

[rockon1898]

That's Poco's George Grantham on the skins and singing harmony!

[psychobollox]

@rockon1898

yep.

played it well, too...

[pjs7tube]

@rockon1898 Yeah, I saw them on this tour ('78 in Honolulu on their way back from Oz-NZ) -- they were phenomenal, and LOUD! One of the best concerts of my life, so big thanks for this!

[NOOTHERGYPSYRIDER]

Definitely check out the version from Dutch TV; it's a bit different. Gene Clark gives a very animated performance. They all sound great together, but Roger McGuinn seems to be giving Gene the cold shoulder....check it out!

[MyRickyz]

there is another MCH version of this pretty good song that you can find in video 123 nl from Holland.

[Byrds1967]

That's a cool stripped down version of the song. I think the studio recording has horns and strings and all that. It's cool to hear the 12-string filling in the gaps.

[roadiekat]

Ok much love to Gene but whats with Roger he looks like a deer in the headlights!

[boonzo]

True, Roger looks a bit frightened. Probably because he knows Gene's written yet another superior song, thus leading to even more guilt over his plan to exclude many great Clark compositions from the Byrds box set.

[roadiekat]

@boonzo LOL so agree with you! thank god for Chris Hillman at least he is around to give Gene props I doubt we will hear kudos from Roger or David..

Miss you Gene!

[psychobollox]

@boonzo

LoL

you could be right though. the best writers in the Byrds were Crosby and Clark.

[bren1231001]

@psychobollox : I like a lot of what Chris Hillman wrote to.They all wrote some good songs.But I would have to say that Chris and Gene are my two favorites.

[TheMichaelJB]

@psychobollox I would rate the order of Byrds songwriters as Clark, McGuinn, Hillman and then Crosby. I wouldn't want to fail to give Crosby some credit though, as he was a great harmony singer with the Byrds and Renaissance Fair was one of my favorite songs on Yonger Than Yesterday. On the other hand, the Crosby penned Mind Gardens was the worst song. Chris Hillman had clearly passed Crosby as a songwriter by the time of YTY.

[psychobollox]

@TheMichaelJB

At the time of YTY, I'd say you're quite right there. Crosby's output seemed to vary to extremes, really... the stuff he wrote that didn't get on that and the next album, though ... pretty good. Eventually, he found his way into something more to his speed, and that went well.

Clark, though ... pure genius!

[Babyhowdy233]

@boonzo

That is quite true!

[blondiebabs]

hey gary i n ever heard this its a great

song........babsie x

[monypots]

Glad to see this, and it's certainly better than the anemic album version (terrible arrangement, that). Still, it suffers from a tempo that is too slow. There used to be a video on YouTube of a performance of Backstage Pass from the 1978-9 New Zealand tour, which had a faster tempo and more energy--a superior performance of a fine song.

[halohelios]

Great rare footage from a legendary band...and a Superiour songwriting talent from Gene Clark.

[roadiekat]

Can someone please tell me what album this song is on? Can't find it anywhere!

Thanks

[Ze18613]

This song is from the first album by McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, which incidentally has that same name, released in 1979.

[martinelowell]

could someone send this to Coldplay's singer....

[nyrichiek]

And the drummer is not half bad good vocalist too. Poco's George Grantham.

[brade51]

I wish they would have stayed together longer. Saw them twice in Hawaii. Once in 1978 and also in 1979. Both at univ of Hawaii. America opened for them in 1978.

[Belushipower]

much more enjoyable to listen to than the LP version - that production is hankytime!

[pinescar]

SON LOS BYRDS

[bearfjord]

My guess is 1969 or 1970. Who knows the venue?

[bluecountry1980]

Anybody knows where this is from? Date, venue?

[brade51]

Somewhere around 1978 to 1979.

[Pinzhead]

1978, Wellington, New Zealand. Wonderful rendition.

[tmotfge]

great gene clark song pity it is out of synch

[Wisegeorge]

Everytime I discover something new on YouTube new or about Gene Clark it reminds me of what attracted me to it to begin with. I know what attracted my attention to the Byrds and my focus on Gene. Great songwriting and vocals. It's irresistable.

[RossM3838]

Gene broughts lots of soul to the Byrds.

[Babyhowdy233]

@RossM3838

He sure did! :)

[junkie4vids]

Incredible video of the McGuinn, Clark and Hillman days. So much talent packed into three musicians.

[Byrds1967]

Thanks for posting this! I had never seen anything from this era before. It's Great!

[marcotukoff]

do you have 'he was a friend of mine' from the same show? thanxs!!!

[gerardusch]

This is from 1978. They played it a lot faster in 1979 ... which makes it sound even better.

Roger Mcguinn and Gene Clark always seemed to get the best out of each other. No one could arrange a Gene Clark composition better than Roger Mcguinn.

[brade51]

I saw the trio twice in Hawaii in 1978 and then again in 1979. Can't get enough of them.

[nightjasmine25]

Now I can't get the song out of my head. It's been stuck there for a week!

[shelly10538]

I loved that whole album, Surrender to me, Don't you write her off, and this is my favorite. We bought it after seeing them host the midnight special, plus we were Byrd fanatics.

[nightjasmine25]

Never heard this one before. Nice to hear something by them for the first time!

[DougM63]

God i wish there was a good recording of this......Roger a true class act, Gene so sad your gone, chris always the Rock.

[Rickowner]

THE trio! I love the sound of McGuinns 12 stringed Rickenbacker, like a wallpaper throughout the song....

"The Byrds will never die - they just fly higher"