Re: (TV) End-of-year Review / Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

>>IMO, all the great Byrds songs are either covers or Gene Clark songs.
"Here
>>Without You" is another one of my faves.

While I'd say that there's a fair amount of great stuff by McGuinn, Crosby,
and even Hillman, particularly concentrated on the post-Clark "Notorious
Byrds Brothers", as a general rule, you're right.  Clark was the top of the
heap.  He put out the best solo records, too!

Rex

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 09:24:43 -0800
> Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Neat to hear "Days" reversed and Richard's rather amazing internal
> > backwards masking abilities confirmed.
>
> I've been playing Mr Tamb Man for years, but if you asked me to play the
> riff
> backwards, I'd never be able to just pull it off - I'd need a few days of
> working it out.  But then again, I'm not RL either!
>
> > "She Don't Care About Time" is one of my absolute favorite Byrds tracks.
> > It's odd that it's just a b-side.
>
> IMO, all the great Byrds songs are either covers or Gene Clark songs.
> "Here
> Without You" is another one of my faves.
>
> > The mastering on that cassette was super dodgy so that at times Crosby's
> > rhythm guitar sounded way more overdriven than it should have.  "Why?"
> > sounded vaguely like a Husker Du song with harmonies and an extended
> sitar
> > break.  I kinda dug it and even missed the grit when the remasters came
> out!
>
> Probably less the mastering than the cassette reproduction.  Some of that
> stuff was just awful, but there's also something to be said for the grit
> that tape compression brings.
>
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