![]() ![]() I had a brief but intense Gram Parsons period right around 1999, when the fantastic tribute album “Return of the Grievous Angel” came out. So, just like Buffalo Springfield, I came to a fuller appreciation of The Byrds much much later than I should have. Key songs found their way onto cassettes, and so I actually thought I had more Byrds than I did. But for some groups, and I think The Byrds fell into that category, I had some, he had some, and that was just fine. Because I believe that we had some other Byrds records (I know we had Fifth Dimension, but I do not, so it must have been Danny’s)- but at a time of life when money was very limited, there were quite a few records that I never bought because Danny had them, and why would we need two? There were a lot of things that didn’t apply to - both being Beatles fanatics, we knew that when graduation day finally came, we’d both be graduating with full Beatles collections. This is one of those cases where having a lot in common with a roommate that you live with for several years can come back to bite you. Byrds Greatest Hits front cover – shot through the bag, because whoever owned this before I did taped the bag to the jacket, and I’ve never bothered to change it. And yet, I never had another Byrds record. Did I feature most of its songs on various mix tapes in the early ‘80s? I did. Did I love this record, and play it endlessly? I did. This 1967 collection, which I bought well-used in 1980, is the only Byrds album I ever owned, until quite recently. ![]() Yesterdays Gold - Various Artis.True confessions time.Johnny Rivers - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate.Herman's Hermits - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate.Booker T and The MGs - Discography - 320kbps.Janis Joplin - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate.The Temptations - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate.Tony Christie - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate.David Crosby - [Discography - 320kbps Bit.Max Merritt and The Meteors - Discograp.British Invasion-History Of British Rock.Barry Gibb - Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook. ![]() The Byrds' innovations have echoed nearly as strongly through subsequent generations, in the work of Tom Petty, R.E.M., and innumerable alternative bands of the post-punk era that feature those jangling guitars and dense harmonies. Often described in their early days as a hybrid of Dylan and the Beatles, the Byrds in turn influenced Dylan and the Beatles almost as much as Bob and the Fab Four had influenced the Byrds. They also played a vital role in pioneering psychedelic rock and country-rock, the unifying element being their angelic harmonies and restless eclecticism. The jangling, 12-string guitar sound of leader Roger McGuinn's Rickenbacker was permanently absorbed into the vocabulary of rock. They were not solely responsible for devising folk-rock, but they were certainly more responsible than any other single act (Dylan included) for melding the innovations and energy of the British Invasion with the best lyrical and musical elements of contemporary folk music. Although they only attained the huge success of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys for a short time in the mid-'60s, time has judged the Byrds to be nearly as influential as those groups in the long run. ![]()
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