Gene Clark - "Mr. Tambourine Man" - live 1980's

Gene Clark, disguising himself as his alter ego Lester Byrd, and his "Byrds" hit the Solid Gold stage to tackle "Tambourine Man" fully live in the spring of 1987.

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• hillman
• michael
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[TheByrdsman]

You're right, its not the Byrds, but it is indeed Lester Byrd ! In the mid-eighties, when both McGuinn & Crosby were trying to gain legal control of the BYRDS name with court action, Gene saw himself deemed by a Judge ruling as a "Lesser Byrd" than the others & thus assumed his new identity as Lester Byrd & took his fake Byrds (including John York) out on the road to fight back - This is very rare footage as the tour was quite short lived before all the Lawyers came a'knockin' ...

[mojostephen]

Truly rare footage. Not exactly The Byrds, but the sound is very close. Too bad the 5 original members never could get back together...

[MrStratocaster1949]

Gene Clark was a great singer and musician and also one of the original Byrds but for me there is only one Byrds group and that was the one featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark and Michael Clarke. I've been a Byrds fan since Mr. Tambourine Man came out in '65 and although they are now broken up, they'll always be number 1 in my book.

[whobody40]

I loved Gene Clark more than any other Byrd; but it was dead wrong for Solid Gold to label this 'tribute' band as The Byrds. That said, Gene was the most talented original Byrd of all, and this is as good as this song can be done. He left us much too soon.

[bobbilse]

I saw this line-up at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, and they were GREAT! The only bad "Byrds" performance, original or off-shoot, I ever saw was with David Crosby at the original Fillmore Auditorium. He was a complete jackass and ruined the whole show. At least this band performed with complete professionalism, as did Michael Clarke's group, who I saw in Jackpot, Nevada, at Cactus Pete's. I'd rather watch newer recruits who are true to the sound than originals who put on a sub-par performance.

[kloudzjia]

everyone was looking at McGuinn and Crosby when the Byrds became a success, and they were awesome no doubt, but i like Gene Clark s voice and performance a lot! i m happy for him. he s a nice guy.

[visualart139]

wtf?!?! how can one dislike this old time classic rock ?

[MrDaisydooker]

best singer of this song.

[Kohntarkosz]

I remember seeing this when it first aired. I was only just starting to get into The Byrds at the time, but I knew enough to know that this wasn't "the real" Byrds, as I could tell McGuinn, Crosby and Hillman weren't in the group. Still a good performance, though. I seem to recall reading where McGuinn or Crosby said that at least Gene was one of the original singers and songwriters, unlike Mike Clarke (who soon afterwards toured with his own version of The Byrds).

[dbailey62]

Gene is singing absolutely magnificently here.

[byrdsmaniac]

@Nezwart Roger wasn't in this group.