The Byrds why the are going 1966

[unclebobunclebob]

When Dylan first recorded this, the engineer said "Tambourine Man, Take 1" and Dylan leaned into his mike with the correction.

"That's MISTER Tambourine Man."

[ShockDoc]

It's dragging..wake up, guys..

[spacepatrolman]

hey mr .spaceman play a song for me on your jingle jangle 12 string wait only for my lear jet to be wandering im ready for to fade into captain souls parade...

[Rikk303]

All of them look like they're practising the inevitable combovers already

[mstax]

Listen to the crappy audio here and you'll understand why so much of the stuff from the '60's was lip-synched. It's rare to hear a well-mixed live performance - from a TV show - from that period.

[chapjones]

@mstax ...

But of course 45 years ago, the point wasn't about the TV show audio, it was about getting seen, it was about getting airplay, it was about promotion. Never mind that the high quality audio taken for granted today wasn't even close to being created at the time. But then if you want the real warmth of tone the Byrds delivered, you need to go cop the vinyl.

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[johnnynocaster]

Original - ORIGINAL

[12347771]

The Long hair wannabee and the B-52 hair with McGuinn Granny Glasses at 2:08 really says it all. Totally a change was in the air. I was in the 9th grade in 65 and the music that was all newness was dazzling. 30 years later I opened for McGuinn & co. at the Hard Rock in orlando.....03/95 it was. as a 12 string player it was pure magic to watch Roger crank the tone knob on the backline Roland Chorus amp to wide open to get his jangle together that night. Just the best music ever.

[OspreyD40]

I'd like to say that there were so many of these TV programs where the bands lip-synched to their recordings that, whatever the sound quality, we ought to be grateful for the rarer live performances. It took a lot of adjustment, back when you expected bands to sound 'like the record', to hear them live. Also, for years, cameras would only show faces, never the guitarist's hands, when we were dying to see how musicians played certain things. Maddening to have Clapton's face on TV... over a solo!

[timjmoran]

HEYY ARJEN.. whyn't you title this as the song it

is: MR TAMBOURINE MAN??? Plus the sound is ..

pretty awful....

[fecinny]

Too bad David Crosby NEVER mentioned that he based "Deja Vu" off of Essra Mohawk's 1970 "I Have Been Here Before." She was in Zappa's band and later wrote "Change of Heart" for Cyndi Lauper but what a creep!

[CornyPoopDude]

@fecinny too bad Deja Vu was written and recorded before that song, dumbass

[Byrds1967]

Man those chicks are screaming loud.

[MichelJDrouin]

Gene Clark was the main songwriter and lead singer at first.

A management decision delivered the lead vocal duties to McGuinn for their major singles and Dylan covers. This disappointment, combined with Clark's dislike of traveling (including a chronic fear of flying) and resentment by other band members about the extra income he derived from his songwriting, led to internal squabbling and he left the group in early 1966.

[raponte1955]

For those who wonder if Crosby was ever fat here's the proof he was not... by the way doesn't he looks like George Bush?

[junkie4vids]

Girls...stop your screaming already !! Jeez.

[bandcouver]

This music sure beats the crap the poor young kids are fed on these days. Have a listen to their albums "Younger Than Yesterday" and "Notorious Byrd Brothers". Hardly a bad track on either of them. Harmonies, and a vast imagination with the music that's so lacking in the great majority of the mainstream acts today.

[fatcatbuzz]

Those two albums are my favorite albums and I've been listening to them for at least 15 years. Music was way better 15 years ago, too, but the 60s were the best. Today's music is horrible, at least the stuff in the mainstream which is weird because The Byrds hit the top 10 with this one. Underground, jazz, and world music are the only things worth listening to today.

[bixbyglaser]

@bandcouver Two of the best albums of all time!

[beschermengel]

bad sound..

but su funny to see david crosby without a beard.. :)

[rtghffdfdg]

You mean a mustache? I don't think Crosby ever had a beard.

[Rhondalove]

All just babies, oblivious to their respective destinies.

[MrBruceBarham]

wonder if they allowed crosby to have guitar turned on?

[HepcatNZ]

ROCK on Byrds

to kewl

[kinksbeatlesstones]

Always makes the heart beat a few RPM quicker

[Byrds1967]

This is one performance I don't think I ever saw. Shoot, now that YouTube is around is seems like there's a new venue the Byrds performed at every week.

[bitterchew]

sounds like 10 million psycho cats in the background

[spoiledbigtime]

Gene Clark rules. He was the sweet tragic figure in the band who has always been under appreciated. The "real" Mr. Tambourine man.

[Whitedovie]

Check out Buffalo Springfield, Dave Clark 5,

Jay and the Americans, Beau Brummels, Peter

and Gordon all from that era...

Thanks for the memories!!!

[thestratlars]

One of my all time favourite bands. I LOVE The Byrds. They look SOOO Cool with those outfits. Bands knew how to look great back then. Love it. I'm glad it is a live performance.

[terrapin76]

You had to have those granny glasses if you wanted to be cool

[Cryo837]

A great live band...pity that so many of the videos are lip synced. Oh well, I'll take the live ones any way I can get them.

[victhebassman]

As with all the early Beatles shows, you got to sort of ignore the screams. This version a little slower than the record but that's alright. It has dynamics. Their stage gear ( all those Fender amps) and attire.... very F'n cool even now.

[kickassfan]

I have always loved their sound!!!!

[donnaperrault]

Very cool, tired of lip - sync. phony music. Nice to hear 'em live.

[Stereohands]

Wow you can barely hear the band with all that screaming, it hardly makes the song worth listening too.

[pieman420]

a relic of those good days in the days of folk-rock..the byrds...as i remember them in freaky la

[nhoner]

What a great live Byrds document! It's always fascinating to see what they did live compared to the record. What stands out in this version is how pounding the drums are. Clark was really an underrated musician, IMHO.

[tfmuch]

I love his drumming on the first version of Goin' Back.

[gamoonbat]

After this, I would have moved on to something else myself.

[pieman420]

iwould prefer to hear them in their more natural raw form, screams included to illustrate the impact the byrds made on us

[mstax]

If this is the original sound track - eeeek - it really illustrates why so many stations resorted to lip-synching the records.

[bluzblowr]

I know what you mean...the technology for live performances has come a long way. Still,it wouldn't be so bad if the screaming wasn't so loud. I think they used to mike the audience...the T.A.M.I. show with

James Brown and The Stones was the same way...un-listenable due to the loud screams.

[paardekop]

Very nice work