Turn Turn Turn - full version of solo performance by Roger M

Roger McGuinn solo performance of the Byrds hit "Turn Turn Turn". While this is from his instructional video, this video was on his web site for downloading for several months. Try www.homespuntapes.com to order Roger's instructional DVD and see in detail the techniques used in Turn, Turn,Turn and other Byrds classics. Roger's DVD is also available on Amazon.com

Note to Roger McGuinn's fans: YouTube sent me a note explaining that this video may be infringing copyright but no action was required on my part (they have not requested that I remove this video).

Let me make my views clear: I posted this video to increase interest in Roger and possibly increase sales of his instructional DVD for which I provide a link.

Lately there has been a rash of YouTube take-downs of cover performances by amateur musicians, usually initiated by complaints of music publishing companies.

It strikes me as foolish for music publishing companies to force YouTube to remove cover performances of popular songs (the Eagles have been especially heartless about this). These amateur cover performances are actually forms of flattery to the songwriter and the performer; they make not one red cent for the teenager that creates the cover, but they increase interest and buzz for the original song and its creators.

Normally I'd ascribe this heartlessness to greed, but squashing interest in music is going to affect these artists who foster the take-downs in a very negative way. Our copyright and patent system is being abused lately and it only stifles innovation.

Cheers, Jim Lynch

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[MrRonnieG]

It was, indeed, Roger McGuinn's 360-12 Rickenbacker that gave the Byrds their unique signature sound during the 1960's. 

[lynchzilla]

@MrRonnieG You're quite right. However, let's give two other features some due credit: the Rickenbacker was run through two vacuum tube compressors and was then plugged directly into the recording console. They did not record the guitar from an amplifier using a microphone. I saw the Byrds twice, including the 1965 lineup, and while they sounded good, the live performance 12-string sound couldn't quite match the ring and crispness of the studio recordings.

[lynchzilla]

Pete Seeger took the verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes, rearranged them so that they would rhyme, added the Turn, Turn, Turn words and crafted the melody. The whole thing is so beautiful that I've never heard a bad version of it (Judy Collins, the Byrds, Diesel Park West, and so on).

[battman926]

sep 9 2006 was my birthday!



[59flametopburst]

@lynchzilla Ric were always strung like that . Gives it that sound. and for one more reason.

[voncoolio]

... I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11)

[voncoolio]

A time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

[voncoolio]

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose;

[TheSRalston]

Awesome, did McGuinn learned first how to play a banjo? Since he surely seems to be playing likewise on some parts. This guitar has a beautiful sound.

[Moijeennu1]

The only other guy I ever saw play a guitar with flat pick and two fingerpicks is James Burton, who is certainly no slouch either.

[Imachowderhead]

@lynchzilla Roger also reversed the strings on his rick to give it a different sound. I cant wait to see him again in Richmond in March 2012...very nice guy

[lucas07700]

@GreenDayPolice i'm so jealous. just kidding, congratulations!

[GreenDayPolice]

roger signed my rickenbacker!