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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 31/10/2007 : 13:18:25
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Just listen to this - I've only just heard it myself. Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman talk very widely and very freely to John Dennis upon the release of the new Byrds' box set from last year. Normally interviewers only want to ask about Mr Tambourine Man and Eight Miles High - but John Dennis takes them right through the Byrds career: Dylan, Gene Clark, Crosby, Younger Than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Brothers, Sweetheart, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers and Clarence White - the best of its kind I've ever heard.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/2006/10/the_byrds.html |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 31/10/2007 : 14:09:28
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john9..thanks...yes, this was sooooo good and certainly because they're one of my top top bands of all time...if you see Jon Dennis floating around on the streets over there tell him he does a great podcast..why?..because he lets the guys speak and asks the right questions... ...got to know stuff I wasn't aware of like I knew Gram was rich but man was he rich!...picking up $250,000 a year at the bank...not bad not bad.......As Hillman said they made some great records...and yes I agree as they do... they should never reform...the records are what they are when they were...... |
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ed the bear
Fourth Love
USA
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 05:12:54
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what rocker said. this guy is a wonderful interviewer.
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Edited by - ed the bear on 01/11/2007 05:22:59 |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 15:44:17
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| Many thanks Ed and Rocker. I especially liked Hillman's comment about what the group might have achieved if only the original five had managed to stay together - I think that, creatively at least, they would have continued to give The Beatles a good run for their money. Mind you, you never really know. Gene Clark was such a prolific songwriter that had he stayed, Crosby and Hillman may never have had the chance to step forward in the way they did on 'Younger Than Yesterday' and 'Notorious'. And maybe the high quality work that Crosby would come up with between 1968 and 1972 was at least in part down to the fact that he felt that he had a point to prove. There would almost certainly have been no 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo', and therefore no 'Gilded Palace of Sin'.....and in the long run, no 'Untitled'. Ah.... the great ifs of history! |
Edited by - John9 on 01/11/2007 15:45:21 |
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McGuinn/Hillman interview podcast
