The Byrds-"I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better"-9/16/65

From the band's 2nd out of three appearances on "Shindig", this is one of the VERY FEW TOTALLY LIVE TV show appearances the band did.

The guitar solo is chopped in half, plus no guitar outro in order to fit the show's very strict time contraints.

This performance also exposes the band's weakness as a "Live act", which they were indeed known for.

Notice on the close-up of Michael Clarke, his foot is not even on the kick drum pedal!!!

The stiff, plodding sound of the rythym section, coupled with the kind of music they were doing, and the '60's sound system situation; all these things really worked against the band.

It's a kick to hear Gene Clark try to cram the word "Probably" into damn near two syllables, as they are playing the song extra fast to fit the allocated time.

Bass players: This is GREAT place to learn the Bass line, because here, Chris Hillman is louder than everything else. :-)

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• Byrds
• Roger
• McGuinn
• David
• Crosby
• Gene
• Clark
• Chris
• Hillman
• Michael
• Clarke
• Folk
• Rock

[lhcarter]

Wow, Gene Clark, best looking guy EVER in my opinion.

[junkie4vids]

There is no singing to a track here...this is totally live...you can hear the slight instrumental imperfections, but the Byrds performance is great. Nowadays, every performance is pre-recorded, polished, and made sanitary to the point of sterility.

[ChrisCurtisFan]

@RodCow They didn't have any screamers of their own?

[hkyoutoob]

@macaibhistin Glad someone like yourself picked up on that. He was all over the neck, laying down a relatively melodic, and piercing bass line. Seems like he was utilizing lead-ins and/or lead-out bass lines from one to the next of the many chord changes, in the tune. On the studio reordings, he usually cut thru very well, and added alot of punch to the songs. Remmber to "keep it LOW"!

[rafacigarros]

How much have been listening this music a modern band called Band of horses , Great for them !

[73849309378]

Thanks mcd220! Nothing better than live renditions! A shame they made them speed up and shorten the song though. Tom Petty did this one too, but was no comparison to the Byrds.

[macaibhistin]

The bass playing rocks! So unorthodox!

[TheBluesguy62154]

Love the integrity and honesty in the vocals.

[taypar11]

What a band! You can see where David Crosby took these harmonies and blended with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. It's so sad that Gene Clark, the lead singer of this band was such a alcoholic and died too soon.

[Tomboy91xoxo]

the drummer is cute :)

[securitycat11]

Rodger is so under rated