The Byrds-"Country Suite"-1/17/72

Enough hair to make Repunzel shave her head!

Enough hair for "Hair Farm(er) Aid"!

EXTREMELY RARE TV performance with Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Gene Parsons, & Skip Battin.

Everybody get's a solo here (Except Roger! :-) which is quite cool.

As always, Clarence tears it up on Mandolin, & Guitar.

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Music

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• Byrds
• Roger
• McGuinn
• Clarence
• White
• Gene
• Parsons
• Skip
• Battin

[macaibhistin]

Wow! What a fabulous piece of footage! Huge thanks to whomever found this nugget. Clarence was such a monster talent.

[bobbyramada]

Wow, that's the first time I've seen Clarence play mandolin. Guess he was paying attention to his brother Roland the whole time.

God, I love to hear him pick...

[diatroptoff94]

@MrBEB123 Roger said the reason he kept the name was because Clarence always wanted to play in the Byrds. So if they changed the name he wouldn't be playing in the Byrds and since Roger owned the band he called the shots

[F100ScottyG]

This was the neatest part of this generation of The Byrds.....kick-ass rock,and step right into bluegrass, followed by traditional folk songs....amonster of talent in one package. Some of the reworks of earlier Byrds songs were far superior to the originals...."Rock and Roll Star" for example, and the live version of "Eight mile High" is tremendous.....I personally love it all, but prefer the McGuinn, White, Parsons, and Battin line-up.

[F100ScottyG]

This was the neatest part of this generation of The Byrds.....kick-ass rock,and step right into bluegrass, followed by traditional folk songs....amonster of talent in one package.

[RayNDeere]

@eyedocmark Gene Parsons, I think

[diatroptoff94]

everyone just looks at clarence like a little kid in candy store

[eyedocmark]

Who's playing banjo?

[MrBEB123]

What I meant to say was his first band after leaving the Beatles. Interestingly Gene Clark put together an entirely different band which I saw performing live and he called that band the Byrds. The real Byrds was the group between 1965 to 1967 or possibly '68, after that it was a different band with one original member using the same name for marketing purposes. Commercialism has no place in artistry.

[MrBEB123]

This lineup of the Byrds which is except for McGuinn completely different than the group in 1965 is really good but like David Crosby said just shouldn't have been called the Byrds. Its a different band and should have been given a different name to go along with the new lineup. Also I don't care for them playing the first bands hits. This would be like Paul McCartney calling his first band the Beatles instead of Wings.

[skydogz1]

Saw 'em live (and every other band you can name) ...was never anything like this band. Best band ever.

[RasMajnouni]

And Clarence White,why;he even inhales,he exhales.Byrds were a band of many great talents.& they had the great producer Terry Melcher.And Clarence,don't forget Clarence.