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Mike posted the interview I did with Ray Paczkowski on Friday December 10, before Vorcza's Pepper Jack's Cafe gig.

The link to the interview can be found on the sticky topic on the Sanctuary or go to the JamInterview section on the main page of this site.

I'm so excited (as I show in the interview) at the possibilities of the Trey Anastasio Band consisting of Trey, Ray, Jon Fishman as well as King Crimson and Peter Gabriel alumni Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta! I guess even without Phish I still might go on tour.

I'll will also be writing a review for Vorcza's show at Pepper Jack's Cafe this week.

it is a super fab album ... particularly amazing when you consider that Dylan released *5* mind blowing albums in a row (Bringing It Al Back Home-Highway 61-Blonde On Blonde-John Wesley Harding-Nashville Skyline) , along in the same time span doing the Free Trade Hall/Albert Hall concerts, having the motorcycle crash and recording what would become the Basement Tapes ... kinda puts my life in perspective

While I am at it, super huge thanks to you, Meg, for your help in the big move this weekend, it was really appreciated. I owe you at least a drink

RnB

It was eight masterpieces in a row. "Freewheelin' with Bob Dylan," "The Times They Are A Changin'" and "Another Side of Bob Dylan" have to count before "Bringing It All Back Home."

The only other artist to have a similiar number of four or five star records in a row are the Beatles.

I love sharks and I like you Cyberhippie wonder why they had to kill it?

The worlds oceans will be fu©ked when these beautiful fish are all gone.

I really enjoyed Vorcza. I hadn't felt the best the past few days and was tired when I went to the show. But once Vorcza got on stage I couldn't believe how fast their sets went by! A great night.

I'll be writing a review of the PJC show for the site and will be posting an interview with Ray Paczkowski as well.

Poor attendance or not, I believe we will be seeing Vorcza around these parts again.

I miss the sweet voice and wonderfully melodic bass playing of Rick Danko.

I'm so happy I got to see him live with the reformed Band in Toronto at the Masonic Temple in 1996.

The release of "Festival Express" reminds me just how much spirit Danko had and how much he loved music. Unfortunately it also reminded me how much he loved drugs too and that's why he isn't with us anymore.

from www.billboard.com THIS DAY IN MUSIC December 10, 2004

1999 - Rick Danko, bassist and singer for acclaimed rock act the Band, dies at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. The Ontario-born musician would have celebrated his 57th birthday on December 29.

ya, as I say, don't really mind a quick frisk to see if I'm packin or sportin a blade

but my friendly little baggy is none of the club's business!

snap to work Tooly!

Hey Tooly,

You should pat paisley down big time the next time he walks through PJC doors and take whatever contraband he has on his person.

To be fair you can do the same to me, I might even enjoy it!

I actually feel bad about joking about this as what happened last night was such a terrible tragedy. Though I'm about to post this anyway.

this would makes a little more sense because how could anyone get a piece into a rock show?

But it was a 600 person capacity club. How often is there security at a club this size? Like I said above, I can't ever remember being searched at the local clubs of this size.

If you're going into the Phoenix in Toronto you're going to get searched, doesn't matter who you're seeing. As well as many other venues in Toronto, probably because handguns are an issue in the GTA.

Events like this tragedy with Dimebag Darrell will for at least a time probably induce the owners of clubs and other venues to increase their security so that their patrons feel safe or safer.

from www.billboard.com THIS DAY IN MUSIC December 9, 2004

1995 - The Beatles' first new tune in 25 years, "Free as a Bird," debuts on a six-hour ABC documentary on the Fab Four. The Beatles' "Anthology I" quickly shoots to the top of the charts.

from www.billboard.com

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. December 09, 2004, 9:30 AM ET

Update: Damageplan Guitarist Killed In Shooting

A gunman charged onstage at a packed Columbus, Ohio, nightclub at the beginning of a Damageplan concert last night (Dec. 8) and opened fire on the band and the crowd, killing guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities and witnesses said.

A Columbus police department spokesperson identified three of the victims of the shooting as former Pantera guitarist Abbott and two other men, Nathan Bray and Erin Halk.

Damageplan had just begun their first song at the Alrosa Villa when the man opened fire, first targeting Abbott, shooting him multiple times at point-blank range, a witness said.

Abbott, 38, one of heavy metal's top guitarists, and his brother, Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, were original members of pioneering thrash rock act Pantera, one of the most popular metal bands of the early 1990s. Vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla round out Damageplan.

The witness, 22-year-old Chris Couch, said he was standing about 30 feet away from the stage when he noticed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and hockey jersey walk up to the stage, followed by a bouncer and another club employee.

The man in the jersey climbed onto the stage, started yelling and shot the guitarist five or six times at close range, Couch said. He said the gunman also shot a bouncer who pulled him off the musician.

Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said that after shooting at members of the band, the gunman fired into the crowd. Mull said a police officer who arrived shortly after the shooting began shot and killed the gunman.

"If the officer wasn't as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse," he said. "It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene."

The police spokesperson said the officer who killed the suspect was patrolling nearby when he heard the call go out. He entered the club through a back door and was directed to the stage, where he saw one person lying dead and the suspect holding onto another person. The officer shot and killed the suspect.

The suspect's name and that of the fifth person killed were not immediately released. The spokesperson said their family members are still being notified.

Contacted by Billboard this morning, the club's booking manager said the police were still on the premises conducting interviews.

After the shooting began, Couch and a friend headed for the exit along with a tide of hundreds of fans. "It was definitely a grudge. It was against something," Couch said.

Amanda Stankus, 19, who attended the show with Couch, said she initially thought the shooting was part of the show. "I just saw the guitarist fall down, and we decided to get out of there," she said.

The Abbott brothers produced Damageplan's debut Elektra album, "New Found Power," which was released in February and debuted at No. 38 on The Billboard 200.

"Damageplan carries on the tradition Pantera started, the ... hell-raising tradition we were all about," Vinnie Paul Abbott told the Dallas Morning News in October. "We do play some Pantera songs. Me and Dime wrote them, and we feel like we have the right to play them. But the focus is on Damageplan.

"It took a while for some of the Pantera fans to accept it; we knew that was gonna be the case," he said. "Change is something that people have a hard time accepting. But me and Dime intended on doing this our whole lives."

Damageplan's Web site said Darrel and Vinnie Abbott grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area where their father, country songwriter Jerry Abbott, owned a recording studio.

Pantera, known for its brutally hard, fast and aggressive sound, recorded four albums in the 1990s. They attracted a massive cult following and the band's third release, "Far Beyond Driven," debuted at No. 1 in 1994, surprising chart-watchers and critics alike.

Pantera was nominated for Grammys for best metal performance in 1995 for "I'm Broken" and in 2001 for "Revolution Is My Name." The video "The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits," made charts earlier this year as one of the top 10 in music video sales.

Dozens of messages were posted to the Dallas band's Web site after the shootings. "This is the worst day in metal history," one posting read. "The metal world feels your pain," another wrote.

fu©k him, he sucks.

Hey secondtube,

You forgot to use the purple font.

Hey kc,

Nice job getting that interview for Vorcza with the View, Sean Palmerston did quite the good job overviewing the band.

I forgot about,

Pre Flyte (1969) (US #84) Which really shouldn't be regarded as a compilation as there are songs on the album that don't appear on any other Byrds album, also the versions of songs that do appear on their Columbia debut "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965) are different here.

Also I should count their live album,

Live at the Filmore- February 1969 (2000) As their this material is all previously unreleased also songs appear on this album that don't appear on any other Byrd album, like Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home."

Here's my revised list:

1. Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

2. Younger Than Yesterday (1967)

3. Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)

4. The Notorius Byrd Brothers (1968)

5. Turn!Turn!Turn! (1965)

6. (Untitled)/(Unissued) (1970)

7. Fifth Dimension (1966)

8. Ballad of Easy Rider (1969)

9. Dr. Byrd & Mr. Hyde (1969)

10. Byrdmaniax (1971)

11. The Byrds (1973)

12. Live at the Fillmore- February 1969 (2000)

13. Pre Flyte (1969)

14. Farther Along (1971)

Please write down the order you feel these albums should go in (try and write them all down in order of favorite to least), I've got this going on a few sites and I want to compile a poll to see what everybody thinks.

May you rest in peace "Dimebag" Darrel Abbott, as well as the three other people that were killed.

What a terrible tragedy. Every couple of years now an event happens that should change the way concerts are run. A few years ago with Pearl Jam and those poor people trampled to death (happened before with the Who among others), the biggest tragedy in the history of rock concerts when there was the fire at the Great White concert in Rhode Island killing more people than I can remember including band member Ty Longley, and now this shoting of Dimebag Darrel onstage.

Since Pearl Jam doesn't have GA shows (as neither do a lot of other groups), regulations for pyrotechniques have become more stringent and now after this shoting I believe security checks at concerts will also become more stringent, as they should be. We will all just have to go to a concert a little earlier, but for the safety of us and the artists on the stage it is worth it.

May you rest in peace "Dimebag" Darrel Abbott, as well as the three other people that were killed.

What a terrible tragedy. Every couple of years now an event happens that should change the way concerts are run. A few years ago with Pearl Jam and those poor people trampled to death (happened before with the Who among others), the biggest tragedy in the history of rock concerts when there was the fire at the Great White concert in Rhode Island killing more people than I can remember including band member Ty Longley, and now this shoting of Dimebag Darrel onstage.

Since Pearl Jam doesn't have GA shows (as neither do a lot of other groups), regulations for pyrotechniques have become more stringent and now after this shoting I believe security checks at concerts will also become more stringent, as they should be. We will all just have to go to a concert a little earlier, but for the safety of us and the artists on the stage it is worth it.

Listening to their album now, it's pretty cool!

I should be out tonight, if my car is fixed.

Hey Trev,

I'll pick you up if your car isn't, just call me or PM me.

from www.billboard.com

New Lennon Songs in Show

Broadway musical to unveil two lost songs

Lennon, the upcoming musical built around the songs of John Lennon, will feature a pair of his unreleased works. Lennon's widow Yoko Ono granted the show's writer and director Don Scardino permission to use "India India" and "I Don't Want to Lose You" during a recent meeting.

"We were going over the calendar and talking about how the show was moving forward when suddenly out of the blue she said, 'You know, I have these songs that might be perfect,'" Scardino says. "Of course I was jumping out of my skin with the possibility, but casually I said, 'Oh sure, that sounds good.'"

"India India" was written during the Beatles' famed 1968 trip to meet with the Maharishi. "It's about coming to India and trying to follow his heart, but knowing that his heart was really back in England where his love waited," Scardino says. "I guess he didn't release it at the time because it would have blown the lid off his feelings for Yoko. His [first] wife [Cynthia] was with him. It's a beautiful, lilting sort of melody -- really pretty."

Lennon recorded a piano-and-vocals demo of "I Don't Want to Lose You" late in his solo career. "At one point, Yoko suggested it for the reconstituted Beatles' Anthology stuff, along with 'Real Love' and 'Free as a Bird,'" says Scardino, "but they couldn't get a clean track out of it."

Lennon will also feature the rarity "Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love)," a Lennon-penned rocker that appeared on fellow Beatle Ringo Starr's out-of-print 1976 solo album, Ringo's Rotogravure.

A lifelong Beatles fan -- who was waiting at the gate when the group touched down at New York's J.F.K. airport in 1964 and in the stands for a manic Shea Stadium concert -- Scardino recognizes the impact the unreleased songs will have on the musical. "You lean forward to hear something you've never heard before," he says, adding that they will be recorded for the cast album. "Yoko felt that if Broadway was going to be a part of his legacy, then this would be a good place to put these songs."

Lennon opens a month-long run at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on April 12th and then moves to Boston May 31st for a month's engagement at the Colonial Theater. It will have its Broadway debut on July 7th at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Today marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Lennon's death.

COLIN DEVENISH

(Posted dic 08, 2004)

This will be the first time since The Who's "Tommy" that I will actually want to go to a Broadway play.

So who's coming out to Toronto tonight to see Vorcza?

I hope I see you there Cyberhippie as I'll be making the trip to Toronto and I always love seeing my ol' friend from high school.

Best solo album by Byrds Members:

Gene Clark - No Other (just listened to it today while driving the tyke to daycare. A fu©king classic that doesn't get enough props)

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (just as great as No Other)

Gene Clark - White Light (great bonus tracks on the Universal 2002 remaster, what a shame that he was never got his just dues as a solo performer)

I completely agree Gene Clark has really not gotten his due as a solo performer, in Dillard & Clark or in McGuinn, Clark & Hillman.

I also feel that Chris Hillman has not gotten his due either as a performer with Gram Parsons in the Byrds (It was Hillman that convinced McGuinn to do "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"), in the Flying Burrito Brothers (Hillman cowrote nearly ever song with Parsons on their debut "Guilded Palace of Sin" and continued the group after Parsons quit), Manassas (with Stephen Stills), solo, McGuinn, Clark & Hillman the Desert Rose Band or with Herb Pedersen.

Both Gene Clark and Chris Hillman are as important to the development of country rock as Gram Parsons. They actually preceeded Parsons in the origins of the genre Parsons called "Cosmic American Music."

i dont get you, timmy... looks to me like he stayed mum on the subject...

It's always about the last word in.

By stating you will get into something later, isn't staying "mum" on the subject.

John Lennon my he rest in peace, was one fourth of the greatest band that ever made music on this earth, the Beatles!

A guy on another board asked me what were my favorite Byrds albums so I started writing and a couple of hours later I had my list in order and why I thought the albums should be where they are. I decided to make this a new thread so others can make their own list and we can compare. I almost want to make a poll out of it, I guess we'll see what kind of interest it has.

I love the Byrds so much. This is partly because it wasn't ever just one or two people in the Byrds that made them great, it was the whole band. This to me continued with all the line up changes that occured throughout reign of the Byrds.

I would have to say that the debut "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965) was their most important record. Though it doesn't necessarily make it my favorite (actually it does today). It was America's answer to the Beatles whether David Crosby would like to admit it or not. And it helped to convince the greatest songwriter of all time, Bob Dylan go electric. Also it was the original Byrds which was the quintessential group even if they didn't last long.

Gene Clark was to the Byrds as Brian Jones was to the Rolling Stones. Clark pushed the band hardest at the beginning just like Jones did. Though the difference is that Clark quite on his own accord, which allowed for the others in the Byrds to blossom, specifically Roger McGuinn. While Jones was pushed out by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

That being said Roger McGuinn is my favorite Byrd. As Crosby said "McGuinn is the Byrds."

Another thing about the Byrds is how their albums progressed. From folk rock, to psychedelic rock, to country rock, back to all three combined. In all there styles it was always the Byrds. And in many ways the Byrds helped to create these genres within the realm of popular music.

Here's a list of my favorite Byrds albums in order of my personal favorites (not including compilations or live albums), though the order could change on any given day.

1. Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) (If you don't believe me it made rollingstone [RS] The 500 Greatest Albums off All Time list at #232. Also charted in the US #6 UK #7) The album that started it all off with the original line up. It was America's answer to the British invasion, more specifically the Beatles. Much like the albums the Beatles were releasing (actually every Beatles album released) there was little or no filler. The Dylan tracks, including the title track (RS The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #79, US #1 UK #1), "Spanish Harlem Incident," "All I Really Want to Do" (US #40 UK #4) and "Chimes of Freedom" are all great. The Clark original "I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better" (RS 500 Songs #234) was a great break up song. And in the soon to be tradition of interesting closers for the Byrds picked the Ross Parker/Hugh Charles song "We'll Meet Again."

2. Younger Than Yesterday (1967) (RS 500 Albums #124, US #24 UK #37) As they were moving from folk to psychedelic rock, which started with "Fifth Dimension" they perfected the flaws that were on 5D on "Younger Than Yesterday." The McGuinn/Chris Hillman song written in response to the Monkees "So You Want to be a Rock 'N' Roll Star"(US #29) was a classic opener and should have been a bigger hit. As the Song notes on the album written by Johnny Rogan states "Chris Hillman's emergance as a singer/songwriter was one of the surprise highlights on this album." Seen on tracks like "Have You Seen Her Face" (US #74, Crosby's had a good B side on this song with "Lady Friend" US #82) and "Time Between." One of my favorite songs by David Crosby is found on this record as well "Everybody's Been Burned." The Byrds version of "My Back Pages" (US #30) is brilliant as well.

3. Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968) (RS 500 Albums #117 US #77) It must not be forgotten that if it weren't for Chris Hillman's influence as an original member of the Byrds and Roger McGuinn's lack of ego, Gram Parsons would have never had the opportunity to make this country rock masterpiece with the Byrds. Hillman (as well as Gene Clark's post Byrds material) does not get enough credit for helping to create country rock. Hillman on "Turn!Turn!Turn!" chose the Port Wagoner country hit "Satisfied Mind" in 1965, way before Gram Parsons started his thing with the International Submarine Band with Lee Hazelwood in 1967. I'm not trying to diminish Parsons contributions to the genre of country rock, I just want to lift Hillman's (and Clark's) contributions to where they should be. That being said it doesn't get much better than Parson's "Hickory Wind." Other highlights are the Dylan opener "You Ain't Going Nowhere" (US #74 UK #45) and closer "Nothing Was Delivered." As well as "You Don't Miss the Water," the Byrds first cover of Woody Guthrie with "Pretty Boy Floyd" and Parsons "One Hundred Years From Now."

4. The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) (RS 500 Albums #171 US #47 UK #12) Way into psychedelic rock now and it was the last record with Crosby as the Byrds had already fired him before the albums release. It is also the second Byrds record in five to not have a Bob Dylan cover on it. Instead they use two Goffin/King songs to great effect "Goin' Back" (US #89 UK #12) and the anthem like "Wasn't Born to Follow." The writing of McGuinn, Hillman, Crosby and Clarke really blossom on this album with songs like "Artifical Energy," "Natural Harmony," "Draft Morning," "Old John Robertson," "Tribal Gathering" and "Dolphin's Smile."

5. Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965) (US #17 UK #11) This album I would like to put higher, but since it doesn't cover any new ground that isn't already captured on "Mr. Tambourine Man" it is a bit further back. That being said I love this album as it is the last one with the great Gene Clark. The title track with the words from the Book of Ecclesiastes adapted by Pete Seeger is their second chart topper (US #1 UK #24). Clark again dominates this album with songs like "Set You Free This Time" (US #79), "The World Turns All Around Her" and "If You're Gone." McGuinn is no slouch either with his own "It Won't Be Wrong" (US #63), his lead vocals on one of my favorite Byrds Dylan song "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" his adaption of "He Was A Friend of Mine" with additional lyrics about the assasination of John F Kennedy and the first Byrds cowritten song with Crosby "Wait and See". Also it has Hillman's verison of one of my all time favorite songs the country classic "Satisfied Mind" which seems to have been covered by everybody. And the closer the traditional "Oh! Susannah" makes me smile everytime I hear it.

6. (Untitled)/(Unissued) (1970) (US #40 UK #11) The classic double live/studio album. This is definitely the best of the Roger McGuinn as the only original member of the Byrds albums. The McGuinn/Jacques Levy song "Chestnut Mare" (UK #19 fails in US) is one of his best songs, also other McGuinn/Levy songs like "All the Things" and especially "Just a Season" are great as well. Also on the studio side I love the prophetic take that Clarence White does with the Lowell George song "Truck Stop Girl" (as White would die in a car related accident years later). On the live side I love the sixteen minute take on "Eight Miles High" as well as the Gene Parsons/Clarence White instrumental "Nashville West" named after their previous band and not found on any other Byrd release.

7. Fifth Dimension (1966) (US #24 UK #27) This is their first venture into psychedelic rock. It does have their greatest psychedelic song, if not the greatest psychedelic song of all time in the McGuinn/Crosby/Clark song about flying, that was mistaken as a song about drugs, the great "Eight Miles High" (RS 500 Songs #150 US #14 UK #24 It's amazing it charted this high as it was banned on many radio stations through out the US). It also has McGuinn's first venture into country rock in "Mr Spaceman" (US #36). the title track "5D (Fifth Dimension)" also written by McGuinn charted (US #44). This album might be the beginning of their commercial decline only a little more then a year in, but they were definitely going to release better albums.

8. Ballad of Easy Rider (1969) (US #36 UK #41) McGuinn with the new Byrds has the original producer Terry Melcher return for this effort, which was a smart move. Also having the title track on the antiestablishment hit cult fim "Easy Rider" doesn't hurt either. The title track charts (US #65) as does "Jesus is Just Alright" (US #97). Highlights for me are John York's "Fido" the Clarence White/Gene Parsons "Oil In My Lamp," the superior version of Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (which the Byrds recorded with the originial line up, but this one captures the essence of the song better), Parsons "Gunga Din" and the version of Guthrie's "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)." Also the return of Melcher had the return of funny closing tracks this time the spacey "Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins" (Which continured the theme of space songs of the past such as "Mr. Spaceman," "CTA -102" and "Space Odyssey.").

9. Dr. Byrd & Mr. Hyde (1969) (US #153 UK #15) The first full album with Clarence White the greatest country rock guitarist of all time should be higher on the list but the Byrds had a lot of great albums. I love the Byrds takes on Dylan's "The Wheels On Fire" and "Lay Lady Lay" here. Also "Old Blue" is a great track as well. The highlight is the McGuinn/ Gram Parsons (not Gene) song "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" which was a B-side to "Bad Night At the Whiskey" which failed to hit the top 100. "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" surely would have cracked it.

10. Byrdmaniax (1971) (US #46 fails in UK) The beginning of the end, the Byrds couldn't sustain the momentum they regained with "The Ballad of Easy Rider" and "(Untitled)." But it's definitely better than their last effort with this line up ("Farther Along"). I feel this album has one of the best songs that McGuinn ever wrote found in the song "I Trust" (released as a single but failed to chart) brings me to tears with the use of the gospel choir. The gospel inspired "Glory, Glory" is a great opener. Also the McGuinn/Parsons "Pale Blue" is a good track as are the McGunn/Levy songs "I Want To Grow Up To Be A Politician" and "Kathleen's Song." The rest of the album falls a bit short.

11. The Byrds (1973) (US #20 UK #31) This should have been better than what it was. I don't want to pick on David Crosby but this album should have had someone other than him producing it. If it was the original band they should have brough back Terry Melcher the original producer. The second problem which also occured often with people that worked with Crosby was that original line up here didn't bring their best material forward (Crosby and Nash used to complain about Neil Young not bringing his best stuff to the table in the seventies). Everybody either had a solo or another group album they had just recently released or were about to when this came out. Also songs on here had been released before on other albums like McGuinn's "Born To Rock 'N' Roll" and Crosby's "Laughing." And these versions fell short of their originial counterparts. That being said it's still the Byrds and no matter what they sing they sound like angels. The Gene Clark classic "Full Circle" opens the album and the first time you hear it you think it's going to be the best Byrds album ever. Also I'm not going to complain with original Byrds replacing Bob Dylan as their main songwriter with my other favorite songwriter, Neil Young. They perform both Young's "Cowgirl In the Sand" and "(See the Sky) About to Rain." Also using a track by Crosby favorite and mine Joni Mitchel's "For Free" was a good idea as well. Also the single the Chris Hillman/Dallas Taylor (drummer for CSNY) "Things Will Be Better" (fails to chart) is good. The album just could have been so much better but wasn't.

12. Farther Along (1971) (US #152) The Byrds last album on Columbia though maybe an album or two before should have been the last. It still has some moments the McGuinn opener "Tiffany Queen" is quite the good rocker. The next track by Gene Parsons "Get Down the Line" has some great string bending by Clarence White. The title track (also recorded by another band Flying Burrito Brothers which was full of former Byrds, Chris Hillman, Gene Clarke and Gram Parsons) was arranged nicely by White. Plus the single "America's Great National Pastime" by Skip Battin/Kim Fowley was funny. I love the harmony vocals on the Bob Rafkin song "Lazy Waters" which has a nice feel to it. Essentially this album has the feel of McGuinn fulfilling his obligations to Columbia for the Byrds before venturing out on his own a solo artist.

What are your favorite Byrds albums? Give me your list and let us compare. I'd like to make this a poll. You obviously don't have to go into this kind of detail, the album titles and order will do.

hahaha

dude, I will be in bed before then... but, don't worry we will continue this discussion..

You said mum's the word and it's not midnight yet!

just to clear up any misconceptions some*coughcoughahesscough*people may have in regards to DSO

they do not play The Grateful Dead note for note.

what band could recreate a Grateful Dead show and pull it off note for note? NO BAND

Funnily enough neither could the Grateful Dead.

Unfortunately, I found out about this one too late.

I'm now having a little email with Dr.Hux about the Wings: Band on the Run in february. That would be foooging unreal.

Hey, so are there any recordings floating around from any of the other performances....say of the Beatles reproductions?

Hey Mike,

I'll definitely be at the "Band on the Run" show in February. I hope to see you there.

The Beatles rule as does Paul McCartney!

I will remain mum on this subject for today, just outta respect... rest in Peace---John

The Beatles are the greatest band of all time.

The Beatles have done more to change the course of popular music than any other artist and/or group.

Two and a half more hours of peace and quiet on the subject.

I am going to check it out.

How much is cover?

$8

I woke up today and Rachael and I finished watching the Danny Clinch film "Ben Harper Pleasure + Pain."

In DVD extras section their was the recording session of Harper recording "Strawberry Fields Forever" for the "I Am Sam" soundtrack.

When I finally got behind the computer and realized that today is the anniversary of the passing of John Lennon, it made me think back to the Harper covering the Lennon Beatle track and how the Beatles are the greatest band of all time.

I miss Lennon even though I was only six when he died and I never knew him. I don't wish we all knew him as that would have taken too much of his time. Though I wish we all got to see him live.

PS On the DVD extras for the "Pleasure + Pain" film there is a recording session with Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama. The do two of Ben's songs the last of which "I Shall Not Walk Alone" brought Blind Boy Clarence Fountain to tears and it did for me as well.