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| Ashrob |
Posted - 10/03/2012 : 21:04:19
Have owned this bootleg issued on Fly Records for about 40 years.
White cover with black and white picture of McGinn, White, Battin and Parsons on the front.
No date.
Tracks:
Side One
Eight Miles High
Lover of the Bayou
My Dog Blue
Well Come Back Home
My Back Pages
Side Two
You Got Me Doing Whast I Want To Do
He was a Friend of Mine
Willin
Fiddle Song
Take a Whiff on Me
Does anyone have any knowledge of this ?
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| John9 |
Posted - 15/03/2012 : 17:38:42
Thanks Ashrob - sadly, I never saw The Byrds play as a band. Though I have seen McGuinn, Crosby, Gene Clark and Hillman perform separately. I envy you seeing the Clarence White lineup at Lincoln....they were supposed to be fantastic there weren't they? They had returned to England at that time specially to record the Farther Along album.
I occasionally used to visit Virgin Records in Birmingham because I was uni in Leicester at the time. Virgin then still had a slightly undergound feel to it...you never quite knew what you were going to find there. Being a huge Byrds fan, then as now, I did seriously contemplate buying Live at Buddy's.... at the time, I think it was the only Byrds bootleg in existence. But as you say, it was very expensive...and there was no knowing what the sound quality was going to be like. And so I bought Love's False Start there instead....I think for £1.95 . |
| Ashrob |
Posted - 14/03/2012 : 20:11:37
Thanks John9 for all the information you have provided.
Used to buy all my records from a shop in Dudley. The Shop Manager brought it back for me following a trip to London. I remember it being twice as expensive as a standard LP.
I always went to the Discory when visiting Birmingham and was a regular at Birmingham Town Hall, the Odean and Mothers.
I saw Love 3 times in the 70s at the Town Hall and the Rum Runner and each time they played in Birmingham in the 2000s.
I didn't see The Byrds in Birmingham but saw Roger McGinn when he toured with a band after The Byrds. I did see The Byrds at The Lincoln Festival |
| John9 |
Posted - 14/03/2012 : 00:33:28
Hi Ashrob -Live At Buddy's is actually a misnomer. As LK says, it is taken from a 1970 show - but the venue was Het Concertgebowe, Amsterdam. I'm not certain as to how the release acquired its alternative and misleading title. The entire concert became available twenty odd years later on a double CD and a triple vinyl bootleg....but the best news of all is that Wolfgang's Vault now have almost the whole thing. You can listen or download as you prefer - the quality is quite reasonable. The first link is to the early show....but you'll also find a late one with a different set list:
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-byrds/concerts/concertgebouw-july-07-1970-early-show-set-1.html
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-byrds/concerts/concertgebouw-july-07-1970-early-show-set-2.html
Getting back to the original bootleg, I remember seeing it at Virgin Records in Birmingham in 1972. The long hair of each of the group members looked as though it was being blown by a giant fan.
As for sources about the band's unofficial releases, Johnny Rogan's recently published tome Requiem For The Timeless has fifty-nine pages on Byrds' bootlegs!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Byrds-Requiem-Timeless-Volume-1/dp/0952954087/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331683345&sr=1-1
And the best Byrds' site is Raoul's Byrds Flyght....based in Belgium:
http://users.skynet.be/byrdsflyght/main.htm |
| Ashrob |
Posted - 13/03/2012 : 19:32:11
Thanks for your help LK. Yes its on Fly Records.
I don't remember a club in the UK called Buddy's at that time.
Can anyone help or is there a Torben type Byrds website where I can investigate this further ? |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 10/03/2012 : 22:12:37
Recently, I've seen it go for $99 in good condition. On "Fly" label, right?
It is rare....how's the audio? I've never seen it digitized anywhere.
The date is 1970, I believe.
A keeper, ashrob!
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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