Roger McGuinn - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-20-1974

Here's another radio broadcast concert from the small Ebbets Field venue in Denver, Colorado. This one is a solo acoustic performance by Roger McGuinn, former lead singer of the Byrds.

I'm very impressed by the roster of musical acts that performed at this club in the years of its existence, from 1973 to 1977. You can see a list of the performers in 1973 here:

https://queencityjamz.blogspot.com/2019/12/ebbets-field-denver-1973-listings.html

And the performers from 1974 to 1977 here: 

https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/tag/ebetts-field-denver-music-venue-1974/

In my opinion, there's a high rate of quality, with lots of concerts I wish I could hear, and not so many that I've never heard about or don't care for. I suspect that's because the owner of the venue, Chuck Morris, had good musical taste, and booked the artists he liked. To support that, I heard an anecdote that he was a very big fan of the Byrds, so much so that when he was hiring employees for his venue, one question he would ask was who were the five original members of the Byrds.

Given that, Morris must have been excited for this concert. The Byrds broke up in early 1973, right around the time the Ebbets Field venue opened up, so they never performed there. But McGuinn immediately started a solo career, releasing his first solo album, the cleverly titled, "Roger McGuinn," later in 1973. He was still promoting that album at the time of this concert.

The music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. However, I made a lot of adjustments, because this recording was in a pretty raw state. So parts of songs were too loud, others too quiet, the banter was especially quiet, and so on. But all of it was fixable.

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn)
02 talk (Roger McGuinn)
03 Lost My Drivin' Wheel (Roger McGuinn)
04 Bag Full of Money (Roger McGuinn)
05 talk (Roger McGuinn)
06 Wasn't Born to Follow (Roger McGuinn)
07 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Roger McGuinn)
09 Take a Whiff (Roger McGuinn)
10 talk (Roger McGuinn)
11 Wayfaring Stranger (Roger McGuinn)
12 Old Blue Story-Song (Roger McGuinn)
13 talk (Roger McGuinn)
14 Old Blue (Roger McGuinn)
15 talk (Roger McGuinn)
16 Mr. Spaceman (Roger McGuinn)
17 talk (Roger McGuinn)
18 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
19 talk (Roger McGuinn)
20 Lover of the Bayou (Roger McGuinn)
21 talk (Roger McGuinn)
22 Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (Roger McGuinn)
23 talk (Roger McGuinn)
24 The Bells of Rhymney (Roger McGuinn)
25 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Roger McGuinn)
26 The Lady (Roger McGuinn)
27 Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn)
28 talk by emcee (Roger McGuinn)
29 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/U4gbACq5 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XQrHNO2vRRX4oMy/file

The cover image shows McGuinn in Malibu, California, in July 1974. 

The Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds - The Flying Byrds Brothers, Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA, 9-19-1970

If you're a fan of country rock, this is a very special concert. The Byrds helped invent country rock in 1968. But a couple of key members left and started a new band, the Flying Burrito Bros, that kept developing the country rock sound. The various band members remained friends, however. So when they happened to be on the same bill together, they decided to merge their bands together for most of one concert. So that makes this concert very unique and special. But, even better, it was recorded with soundboard quality, despite still being unreleased.

By 1969, the main leader of the Byrds was Roger McGuinn. The Flying Burrito Bros were jointly led by ex-Byrds members Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, but by the end of 1969, Parsons had left, making Hillman the temporary leader. (He in turn would leave in early 1972, passing the leadership to others.) McGuinn and Hillman went way back, both being founding members of the Byrds in 1964, and they remained on good terms. So when their bands were on the same bill one night at the Boston Tea Party club in Boston in February 1969, they merged bands together for about an hour and a half. Unfortunately, there are no known recordings of that show. 

But then, in September 1970, they shared the same bill at the Whisky-a-Go-Go club for three nights in a row, playing two shows a night. For the first two nights, and the first show of the third night, they just did their sets separately. I have included the Byrds set from the first show. (If there's a Flying Burrito Bros set, I don't have have it.) Then, for this performance, the late show on the third and final night, they had something special planned. The Flying Burrito Bros did their second set as usual. Then, when the headlining act, the Byrds, came on, the two bands merged. And they didn't just perform together for a couple of songs. No, they were together for a full hour! They mostly played Byrds songs, since Hillman was in the Byrds from 1964 until late 1968, so he no doubt remembered many of them well.

At one point between songs, McGuinn jokingly suggested the name "Flying Byrds Brothers" for the merging of the two bands. That sounded pretty good to me, so I added it to the title and the cover art. 

It could be there were more Flying Burrito Bros songs at the start that didn't make the recording. The version I found started with the last minute of "The Train Song." I cut that because there wasn't much left of that song at that point, just one line repeated over and over. So it's possible there were other songs prior to that one before someone started recording. I'm not aware of any complete set list so we could check.

Also, it's possible that the Byrds set from the early show is incomplete. There isn't a clear start to the first song, with an introduction of the band, so there could have been more there. And the last song, "This Wheel's on Fire," was cut off about 30 seconds before the song ended. I patched that up by adding in the end from a concert in Ames, Iowa, a month later. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. But it also suggests there could have been more songs after that cut off.

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

UPDATE: On February 26, 2026, a few days after I first posted this, I was told about all the Byrds songs from the first set, so I added those in. This addition works out very nicely, because the Byrds clearly tried to play all different songs in the first set than in the second set. There's only one song played in both, "You Ain't Goin' There." It's telling that the leader of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn expressed surprise at the start of the song that the other band members wanted to play it again.

01 Lover of the Bayou (Byrds)
02 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
03 talk (Byrds)
04 I Trust (Byrds)
05 My Back Pages (Byrds)
06 B.J. Blues - Baby What You Want Me to Do (Byrds)
07 Well Come Back Home (Byrds)
08 Truck Stop Girl (Byrds)
09 Take a Whiff [On Me] (Byrds)
10 It's All Right Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Byrds)
11 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Byrds)
12 Jesus Is Just Alright (Byrds)
13 This Wheel's on Fire [Edit] (Byrds)
14 Payday (Flying Burrito Bros)
15 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
16 Wake Up Little Suzie (Flying Burrito Bros)
17 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
18 Colorado (Flying Burrito Bros)
19 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
20 Break My Mind (Flying Burrito Bros)
21 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
22 Trying to Reach My Goal (Flying Burrito Bros)
23 talk (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
24 Roll Over Beethoven (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
25 You Don't Miss Your Water (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
26 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
27 Hickory Wind (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
28 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
29 The Bells of Rhymney (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
30 Close Up the Honky Tonks (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
31 Time Between (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
32 Mr. Spaceman (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
33 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
34 Mr. Tambourine Man (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
35 Eight Miles High (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
36 Wasn't Born to Follow (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
37 Chimes of Freedom (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
38 talk (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
39 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
40 Hold It (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eoQ4idQm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AIqu9SRH7L4DmF5/file

There is a photo of the Flying Burrito Bros and the Byrds playing in concert together in 1969. But to call it "low quality" is putting it mildly. It's about as bad a photo as you can imagine, with the people looking little more than black blobs. So I didn't want to use that. Instead, I kind of created a fake picture. This is a real picture of McGuinn (left) and Hillman (right) on stage together when they were both members of the Byrds. It was taken at the Grand Old Opry in 1968. But at that time, McGuinn kept his hair very short, and he grew it out by 1970. So I found a photo of him in concert in early 1970 and pasted that over his head in the original photo. I hope this comes close to what they might have actually looked like at this concert.

Also, the original photo was quite low-res and in black and white. I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. And I used Krea AI to help with the detail.

Various Artists - Folk America at the Barbican - Greenwich Village Revisited, Barbican Theatre, London, Britain, 2-13-2009

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've been finding a lot of new BBC related music lately, as I keep searching for things for my big BBC project. I recently stumbled across this. It seems that in 2009, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg hosted a TV series about American folk music. The final episode (the fourth, I think) was this concert, which starred some of the most important singers from the 1960s folk movement. As you can tell from the subtitle, "Greenwich Village Revisited," there was a particular emphasis in picking people from the influential Greenwich Village scene in New York City. In addition to Bragg, a Briton who first got famous in the 1980s, the concert starred Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Carolyn Hester, Eric Andersen, and Judy Collins.

The entire concert was acoustic in nature, which was fitting, given the folk music they were paying tribute to. Each singer got to sing two or three songs (actually four in the case of McGuinn), and then they all came together at the end to do "Amazing Grace" as an encore.

If you like this type of music, this is a really nice concert. I believe it's unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 I Ain't Got No Home (Billy Bragg)
02 talk (Billy Bragg)
03 My Back Pages (Roger McGuinn)
04 talk (Roger McGuinn)
05 Oh Freedom (Roger McGuinn)
06 talk (Roger McGuinn)
07 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Roger McGuinn)
09 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn)
10 talk (Billy Bragg)
11 talk (Carolyn Hester)
12 The Last Thing on My Mind (Carolyn Hester)
13 talk (Carolyn Hester)
14 The House of the Rising Sun (Carolyn Hester)
15 talk (Billy Bragg)
16 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (Billy Bragg)
17 talk (Billy Bragg)
18 Violets of Dawn (Eric Andersen)
19 talk (Eric Andersen & Roger McGuinn)
20 Thirsty Boots (Eric Andersen with Roger McGuinn)
21 talk (Billy Bragg)
22 Both Sides Now (Judy Collins)
23 talk (Judy Collins)
24 Anathea (Judy Collins)
25 Someday Soon (Judy Collins)
26 talk (Judy Collins)
27 Amazing Grace (Judy Collins & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MsBkvi6j

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kYDFYTvdQgOVFwe/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. However, I did a lot of manipulation in Photoshop to get it just as I wanted it. I started with a screenshot taken during the final song. But the image quality was very low-res. So I then took screenshots of the heads of each of the people in the image. I pasted those in for higher quality. I then ran the resulting image through the Krea AI program to iron out the kinks from having this really made out of six images. That helped. But then I did it again, and that helped some more.

The Byrds - Love that Never Dies - Non-Album Tracks (1989-1998)

The Byrds disbanded in 1973. There were some reunions and collaborations between various key members in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but those faded out. Then, in 1989, the Byrds had a brief renaissance, culminating in all five original members appearing on stage to accept being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and even playing a few songs together. 

But things faded out again soon after that. One factor was that, only a few months after the Hall of Fame induction, key member Gene Clark died of cancer, exacerbated by various addictions, But also, Roger McGuinn was always central to the Byrds sound, with both his distinctive voice and guitar playing. He put out his first solo album in many years in 1991 with "Back to Rio," and even had a minor hit, "King of the Hill." However, shortly thereafter it seems he decided he wasn't interested in a conventional rock music career, and switched to mostly performing solo acoustic versions of traditional folk songs. Since 1991, he's only put out one conventional rock album of new songs, "Limited Edition," in 2004, with none of the other former Byrds on it. He rebuffed many requests by David Crosby for a Byrds reunion, saying he didn't need the money and preferred to keep the Byrds as a fond memory from long ago. Now, as I write this in 2023, Crosby has died as well, so no further Byrds reunions are possible.

This collects the best of what I could find from that early 1990s reunion time period. I've included songs actually done by the Byrds, which is defined here as original members McGuinn, Crosby, and Chris Hillman. Those three were on the outs with the other original members, Clark and Michael Clarke, due to legal battles over the use of the band name (other than their reunion for the Hall of Fame). Additionally, I've included a couple of songs with at least two members, McGuinn and Hillman or Hillman and Crosby. Finally, I've included songs just by McGuinn that had that Byrdsy sound to it. Putting all that together is just enough material for what I think is a very solid album.

McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman played a few concerts as a threesome in 1989, as part of their legal battle to argue that they were the real Byrds, and different bands led by either Clark or Clarke were not. I'm not including any songs from those concerts since the sound quality is rougher than everything else here. But if people are interested, I could post the best sounding bootleg from those shows. However, those concerts led to McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman recording four songs together in the studio, which came out on the 1990 box set simply titled "The Byrds." Three of those were covers, but the fourth, "Love that Never Dies," is a very nice McGuinn original. 

Tracks six through ten are what I consider the best songs from McGuinn's 1991 album "Back from Rio." However, one of those, "Without Your Love," is labelled as a Byrds song, because Crosby and Hillman also played and song on it. In 1996, McGuinn released a live acoustic album called "Live from Mars." But it had two new, original extra studio songs on it, "Fireworks" and "May the Road Rise," that were done with a full band. So I've included those here. The final song come from a Hillman solo album.

I didn't include any songs from the 1991 Hall of Fame induction. The performance was pretty rough, obviously with no practice, and Clarke totally drunk. (He would die of liver failure due to years of heavy alcohol consumption in 1993.) You can find videos of a couple of songs from that on YouTube. Far better were two songs done for a Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. I've posted that full concert here recently. But I'm including the two Byrds songs from that as bonus tracks, for those who don't want the whole show.

This album is 48 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman)
02 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
03 Paths of Victory (Byrds)
04 From a Distance (Byrds)
05 Love that Never Dies (Byrds)
06 Someone to Love (Roger McGuinn)
07 Suddenly Blue (Roger McGuinn)
08 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn with Tom Petty)
09 Without Your Love (Byrds)
10 If We Never Meet Again (Roger McGuinn)
11 Fireworks (Roger McGuinn)
12 May the Road Rise (Roger McGuinn)
13 I'm Still Alive (Chris Hillman with David Crosby)

Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds with Bob Dylan)
Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700743/TBYRDZ1989-1998_LvethatNverDies_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken backstage at the Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. From right to left, that's Hillman, Crosby, and McGuinn. I used Photoshop to darken the background, because there were some distracting balloons and other things there.

Various Artists - Roy Orbison Tribute Concert to Benefit the Homeless, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA, 2-24-1990

I recently stumbled across this Roy Orbison concert. As far as I can tell, it's never really appeared as a bootleg, other than as a single file with no song titles or artists given. So I had to some research just to figure out what this was exactly. But I think it was worth it because it's a very interesting show, with lots of big names. Despite it being ostensibly about Roy Orbison, probably the biggest musical event of the concert was the reunion of three key members of the Byrds - Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman - who were then joined by Bob Dylan for the song "Mr. Tambourine Man." Dylan wrote it in 1964, and the Byrds had a Number One hit with it in 1965, but they'd never done the song on stage together.

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at the end of 1988, when he was only 52 years old. The timing of his death was especially unfortunate because he hadn't had much commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, but that drastically changed right as he died, with him being a member of the Traveling Wilburys supergroup. He even had his first Top Ten hit in over 25 years with "You Got It." 

Regardless, Orbison was a much admired musical legend. So when he died, his wife Barbara Orbison put together a tribute concert that also doubled as a benefit concert to help the homeless. It's an odd concert as these things go, because most of the acts paid tribute to Orbison by covering his songs, but some other acts went in a different direction and played songs that seemed to have no link to Orbison whatsoever. For instance Iggy Pop played "Home," a song from his then-current album. Speaking of Iggy Pop, another odd aspect to the concert was the musical acts involved. Some made lots of sense, because they'd been heavily influenced by Orbison, such as John Fogerty or Chris Isaak. 

Others were more mystifying musically. For instance, you may well wonder what Patrick Swayze is doing here, dueting on the Everly Brothers song "Love Hurts" with Larry Gatlin. Yes, that Patrick Swayze, the famous actor. He released a few songs here and there, but never put out an album. Apparently, some acts mainly got involved because they liked the charitable cause.

Aside from Iggy Pop, the Patrick Swayze and Larry Gatlin duet, and the Byrds songs, plus a duet version of "I'm in the Mood" by John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt, and "The Thrill Is Gone" by B. B. King, I believe all the rest of the songs have some Orbison connection. For instance, "In the Real World," "Rock House," "Chicken Hearted," and "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" are fairly obscure songs, but they were all written and/or sung by Orbison. (He also did "Love Hurts," although the Everly Brothers did it first.)

Anyway, this contains all of the music performed at the concert that I could find. However, I cut out some of the talking between songs. There were some pitches for people to donate to the charitable cause, which is no longer relevant since the phone number mentioned has long gone dead, I'd assume. But I suspect there was more banter between songs, and maybe even more songs, that didn't get bootlegged. The show was broadcast on TV, but I think it's a safe bet a lot of edits were made to get it to fit within the allowed screen time. There were some acts involved that didn't get any songs featured at all, such as Michelle Shocked and the duet of Wendy and Lisa. They did help out along with some others on the all-female version of "Oh, Pretty Woman," but I wouldn't be surprised if they did songs that got cut from the TV show, and thus this bootleg, because they weren't so famous.

Also, near the end of this concert, the Byrds did four songs: "Turn, Turn, Turn," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Eight Miles High," and "He Was a Friend of Mine." Dylan took part with "Mr. Tambourine Man," as I previously mentioned. " He also took part in "He Was a Friend of Mine," but just barely, because he merely strummed along on guitar and didn't sing at all, so I didn't add his name to the credits for that song. I know this because I found a video of it on YouTube.

The Byrds performances of "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" have been officially released on a Byrds box set. But the other two remain unreleased, as far as I know.

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long. If anyone knows the correct order of the songs, please let me know.

UPDATE: On February 12, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. Musical associate Lilpanda had a different source for this concert, with the same high quality sound. Most of it was the same, but there were five songs I didn't have. So I added those. I don't know the correct song order, so I put three of the newly discovered ones at the start (the ones by NRBO, Joe Ely, and Syd Straw). That also included two songs by the Byrds, "Eight Miles High" and "He Was a Friend of Mine," so I put those with the rest of the Byrds' set. That added about 20 minutes of music to the album.

01 Chicken Hearted (NRBQ)
02 Working for the Man (Joe Ely)
03 She's a Mystery to Me (Syd Straw)
04 talk (John Fogerty)
05 Ooby Dooby (John Fogerty)
06 Mean Woman Blues (Levon Helm)
07 I'm in the Mood (John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (Chris Isaak)
09 Leah (Chris Isaak)
10 Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream] (Shrunken Heads [Tom Tom Club & Jerry Harrison])
11 Crying (k. d. lang)
12 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King with Al Kooper & Don Was)
13 You Got It (John Hiatt with Don Was)
14 It's Over (Was [Not Was])
15 In the Real World (Booker T. Jones)
16 Home (Iggy Pop)
17 Oh, Pretty Woman (k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt & Emmylou Harris)
18 That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (Emmylou Harris & Michael McDonald)
19 Claudette (Dwight Yoakam)
20 talk (Bernie Taupin)
21 Running Scared (Benny Mardones)
22 Love Hurts (Larry Gatlin & Patrick Swayze)
23 talk (Stray Cats)
24 Rock House (Stray Cats)
25 talk (Barbara Orbison)
26 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
27 Candy Man (Bonnie Raitt with Chris Isaak)
28 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
29 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
30 talk (Roger McGuinn)
31 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds & Bob Dylan)
32 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
33 Only the Lonely (Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3by8k2RW

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https://bestfile.io/en/FNC3nsZwXP8dae0/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/m7zft

For the cover, I used a photo of Dylan with the three former Byrds from this exact concert. The section at the top with the title comes from some promotional artwork for this concert, but I cropped and stretched it to fit.

The Byrds - The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, 2-9-1978

David Crosby reunited with other key members of the Byrds for three acoustic concerts in the late 1970s. I've posted one of those concerts already, which took place at the Boarding House in San Francisco in December 1977. There's another one that took place at the Roxy in Los Angeles in early 1978. I don't know much about that, since it hasn't been bootlegged, but all four of the band's original singer-songwriters united there: Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark.

Finally, there's this concert, which also took place at the Boarding House in San Francisco, but in February 1978. Again, Crosby, McGuinn, Hillman, and Clark reunited on stage. We're lucky, because this concert was broadcast live on the local radio station KSAN, so this bootleg recording exists with professional sounding quality.

There are pluses and minuses of this concert compared to the December 1977 one at the Boatding House. In that one, Hillman wasn't there. So this is a fuller reunion. In fact, I could be wrong, but I think the only time after this that these four appeared on stage together was for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1991. The earlier show was longer by about twenty minutes, and they did some great, lesser known songs that they didn't do here, such as "She Don't Care about Time," "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Chimes of Freedom." So that one is definitely worth hearing. But the sound quality is better for this one, and the performance was more assured.

Just like the December 1977 show, the concert began with solo spots for most of the members. Crosby didn't do a solo spot, but Clark, McGuinn, and Hillman did two songs each. Hillman was assisted on vocals by a female singer, Kim O'Kelley, who had been singing with him in his solo concerts at the time.

There was a major sound quality issue with one of Clark's songs, however: "Release Me Girl." The acoustic guitar sounded great, but the vocals were all messed up. For nearly all of the song, the vocals were quiet and distant. I tried using the audio editing program X-Minus to boost them, but when I did they still sounded muffled and bad. Only near the very end of the song was an apparent problem with the microphone fixed, and Clark came through loud and clear. So instead, I used X-Minus to strip the vocals entirely from the song. Then I took the vocals from another concert around this time and patched that it, carefully matching the pitch and tempo and so forth. That one happened to have McGuinn joining in on backing vocals, so there's that bonus now, even though he didn't actually do that for this show. 

The vast majority of this concert had all four of the Byrds on stage singing and playing together. Clark and McGuinn had been doing an acoustic tour together in late 1977, so they knew these songs and arrangements well. Hillman had joined that tour by this time, so he had gotten up to speed with them. However, like the previous Boarding House show, Crosby was flying by the seat of his pants, often singing harmonies on songs that the Byrds did only after he'd left the band in 1967, such as "Chestnut Mare," "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," not to mention relatively new songs like "Crazy Ladies" and "Bye Bye Baby." Still, a fun time was had by all.

These reunion concerts led to three of the ex-Byrds forming the band "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman." They wrote some good new songs. Unfortunately, when they put out two albums, one called "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman" in 1979 and the other called "City" in 1980, they opted for a slick, contemporary sound that didn't suit them, even touching on disco at times. They deliberately stayed away from their 1960s Byrds sound, such as the distinctive use of the Richenbacher guitar by McGuinn. This was a big mistake. They sounded much better in concert.

As part of wanting a contemporary sound and moving away from the Byrds sound, they didn't want to get too involved with Crosby. When they recorded their first album "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman" in Miami, Crosby actually flew there from the West Coast with the idea of adding harmonies to one or more of the songs, only to have that rejected by the others. That led to more bad feelings, so there were no more reunions for a long time. The next time Crosby appeared on stage with McGuinn and Hillman would be in 1989, when the three of them did a few concerts as the Byrds as part of a legal battle to win the rights to the band's name from the band's original drummer, Michael Clarke. They did some other things together around that time, including some studio recordings, before petering out again around 1991.

It so happens that there aren't any really good bootleg recordings of those 1989 reunion shows. As a result, this show and the 1977 Boarding House show stand out as the best documents of Byrds reunion shows. They're all the more important because not many recordings has survived of the original Byrds on stage back in the 1960s when Crosby was still in the band.

This concert has been bootlegged many times, often with the name "Doin' Alright for Old People," based on a comment Clark made between songs. In recent years, due to European copyright law, different "grey market" versions of this have gone on sale. However, don't be fooled. Those are basically bootlegs, with none of the profits going to the actual artists. I imagine there are legal complications to getting the rights of all four band members, so this probably will never be officially released. Ditto with the 1977 reunion show. But at least we have the bootlegs.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. By the way, for the 1977 show, I merged an early and late show together. This time, I don't know if there was just one show, or if only one was recorded. Either way, this is just one complete show this time.

01 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
02 Release Me Girl [Edit] (Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn)
03 talk (Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn)
04 Bound to Fall (Chris Hillman & Kim O'Kelly)
05 It Doesn't Matter (Chris Hillman & Kim O'Kelly)
06 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
07 Jolly Roger (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Byrds)
09 Chestnut Mare (Byrds)
10 Crazy Ladies (Byrds)
11 talk (Byrds)
12 Train Leaves Here This Morning (Byrds)
13 talk (Byrds)
14 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
15 talk (Byrds)
16 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
17 talk (Byrds)
18 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
19 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Byrds)
20 talk (Byrds)
21 Bye Bye Baby (Byrds)
22 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
23 talk (Byrds)
24 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
25 talk (Byrds)
26 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)

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https://www.upload.ee/files/15278258/TByrd_1978_TheBoardngHouseSanFrnciscoCA__2-9-1978_atse.zip.html

What I did to try to get an accurate, color photo is a bit complicated. I found one photo that showed all four Byrds here on stage at the Boarding House in the late 1970s. It had to be this exact show, because it had Hillman in it, and he wasn't there for the 1977 show. However, that photo was only in black and white, and the band members were spread out on stage, making it not a good one to use for the cover. I found another one in color with them wearing exact same clothes, so that one must also have been from this exact concert. However, by chance, that one didn't have Hillman in it. So I took another photo of Hillman from a different late 1970s concert and used Photoshop to add him in.

For the band name at the top, like I did with the 1977 show, I used the lettering from the band's 1973 reunion album "Byrds."

The Byrds - The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, 12-8-1977

Here's a concert I'm particularly psyched to present, as part of commemorating the recent death of David Crosby (as I write this in January 2023). As far as I can tell, Crosby reunited on stage with other key members of the Byrds for only three concerts in the late 1970s. One of them, at the Roxy in Los Angeles, apparently hasn't been bootlegged at all. But very luckily, the other two have been bootlegged with excellent soundboard quality. I plan on posting both of them. Here's the first one that took place chronologically.

By 1977, the solo career of former Byrds member Roger McGuinn was losing steam. He resorted to going on an acoustic tour as a duo with former Byrds member Gene Clark. In early 1978, another former Byrds member, Chris Hillman, would join them and they would release a couple of albums as "McGuinn, Clark, and Hillman." At the time this concert took place, Hillman wasn't in the picture yet. 

But former Byrds member David Crosby was living in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time, so when the McGuinn and Clark tour came to town, McGuinn called Crosby and asked them to join them on stage. Crosby was a big star at that point, with the Crosby, Stills and Nash album "CSN" released earlier in the year and selling millions. So it's surprising that not only did Crosby join his former Byrds band mates on stage, he played most of both the early and late shows with them. All five original members of the Byrds had reunited for a studio album in 1973, simply called "Byrds." But Crosby, Clark, and McGuinn hadn't played on stage together since 1966 (when Clark quit the band).

Both the early and late shows were recorded with soundboard quality. However, there are pluses and minuses of both shows, and some different songs were played. So what I've done is combined the best parts of both shows, creating one ideal show that contains all of the songs from both. If you want to know which song is from which show, that info is in the comments field of the mp3 tags.

Generally speaking, I tried to use the late show song versions. The format of the show was that each band member played two or three of their songs in a solo acoustic format, then all three played together for the rest of the show. For the songs played together, Clark and McGuinn had been doing this tour together for some time, so they knew the songs well. But Crosby hadn't sung with the others on stage in a decade, and many of the songs they did were from AFTER the time he'd been fired from the Byrds in 1967! So he was flying by the seat of his pants much of the time, trying to come up with harmony vocals on the spot. I figure he did a better job of that in the late show, because he at least got a whack at the songs in the early show.

For the solo spots in the first portion of the show, I carefully combined songs from the early and late shows. For instance, Clark's "Release Me Girl" and "Train Leaves Here This Morning" are from the early show, and "Silver Raven" is from the late show. I didn't include his performance of "Denver or Wherever" because it was the one song in the whole bootleg where the sound was really messed up. (That's probably because it was the first song of the late show and some technical problems had to get worked out.) It seems that Crosby only did a solo spot for the late show. That's why he only has two solo songs, while Clark has three and McGuinn has four, since Clark and McGuinn played some different songs in each of their solo spots. 

For the main part of the show, with all three playing together, they generally did the same songs in roughly the same order. There were a few exceptions. For instance, "Wild Mountain Thyme" was only done in the early show, and "Little Mama" was only done in the late show. As I mentioned above, I generally used the late show versions. But a few of those were marred by a kind of crackling noise. So in those cases I used the early versions instead. Also, the first part of "Mr. Tambourine Man" had really bad sound quality on the vocals. But since that was just the chorus, I patched in the chorus from later in the song.

There's a lot of banter between songs. One can tell all three of them were having a great time. I used as much banter as possible, taking bits from the early show and adding them in to the late show banter. Hopefully, the end result sounds like one seamless whole.

I consider this a "must have" for any Byrds fan. It was a special and even historic evening. The three of them did songs they never did together before, like "Chestnut Mare," "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," as well as rare songs from their early Byrds days like "She Don't Care about Time" and "Chimes of Freedom" that they didn't even do in other reunion shows.

This album is an an hour and 33 minutes long. I plan on posting their 1978 Boarding House reunion show soon.

01 talk (Gene Clark)
02 Release Me Girl (Gene Clark)
03 Train Leaves Here This Morning (Gene Clark)
04 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
05 talk (Gene Clark)
06 The Lee Shore (David Crosby)
07 talk (David Crosby)
08 Drive My Car (David Crosby)
09 talk (David Crosby)
10 Dreamland (Roger McGuinn)
11 talk (Roger McGuinn)
12 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
13 Wasn't Born to Follow (Roger McGuinn)
14 talk (Roger McGuinn)
15 Jolly Roger (Roger McGuinn)
16 talk (Roger McGuinn)
17 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
18 Chestnut Mare (Byrds)
19 Crazy Ladies (Byrds)
20 talk (Byrds)
21 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
22 talk (Byrds)
23 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)
24 She Don't Care about Time (Byrds)
25 talk (Byrds)
26 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
27 talk (Byrds)
28 Wild Mountain Thyme (Byrds)
29 talk (Byrds)
30 Chimes of Freedom (Byrds)
31 talk (Byrds)
32 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
33 talk (Byrds)
34 My Back Pages (Byrds)
35 talk (Byrds)
36 Little Mama (Byrds)
37 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Byrds)
38 talk (Byrds)
39 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
40 talk (Byrds)
41 Eight Miles High (Byrds)

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https://bestfile.io/v92ahZo9fXqa8VY/file 

The cover photo comes from one of the late 1970s reunion shows with Crosby, but which one? This shows Clark (left), Crosby (center), and McGuinn (right). It actually had Hillman in it too, but I cropped him out. I have another photo with all four of them on stage at the Boarding House. So that must be from a later reunion concert they did in that venue in 1978, since Hillman wasn't there on this night. Thus, by process of elimination, I'm pretty sure this photo comes from the other reunion show with all four of them, at the Roxy in Los Angeles. 

For the band name at the top, I used the same unusual lettering as what was on the cover of their 1973 reunion album.

I later used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality.

The Byrds - Born to Rock and Roll - Non-Album Tracks (1972-1973)

In the wake of David Crosby's death (as I write this in 2023), I want to post some more music by Crosby with the Byrds, but first I'm moving through the Byrds' career chronologically, and the next one doesn't have Crosby in it (except for a very little bit). This stray tracks album marks the end of the era of the Byrds from their origin to their first break up in 1973. But there would be intermittent reunions after that, including one of all the original members later in 1973!

The Byrds slowly petered out in 1972 and 1973, with Roger McGuinn as the only original member. The band last studio albums were released in 1971, "Byrdmaniax" and "Father Along." They did a little more studio recording in 1972 (tracks 2, 3, and 5 here), but none of it was released at the time. They continued to tour extensively until February 1973, however. Meanwhile, a reunion with all five original members - McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark, and Michael Clarke - was brewing. These five recorded a new album in late 1972, while the other version of the band was still performing concerts. The reunion version put out the studio album "Byrds" in March 1973. McGuinn broke up the touring version of the band at that time due to anticipation that the original members would go on tour. But their new studio album was a critical and commercial disappointment, and no tour materialized. But McGuinn retired the Byrds name at that point, and started a solo career instead.

There are some songs here attributed to the Byrds. In addition to the three studio tracks mentioned above (eventually released as bonus tracks), there are unreleased versions of "Kansas City" and "The Water Is Wide." The rest of the songs though are generally solo works. However, there's the odd case of the song "My New Woman." This was included on McGuinn's first solo album, simply called "Roger McGuinn," and also released in 1973. All of the original Byrds either played or sang on it, including David Crosby, which is why I said above there was a little bit of Crosby in this album. I'm guessing that song was an outtake from the 1972 sessions for the reunion album by the original members.

Towards the end of the Byrds' career, lead guitarist Clarence White had become a key member. Unfortunately, he was killed in July 1973 due to being struck by a drunk driver when he was loading musical instrument into a parked car. Five of the remaining songs here feature White. Another is from a solo album by Byrds member Skip Battin.

01 Kansas City (Byrds)
02 Lost My Drivin' Wheel (Byrds)
03 Born to Rock and Roll (Byrds)
04 Alabama Jubilee [Instrumental] (Clarence White)
05 Bag Full of Money (Byrds)
06 My New Woman (Roger McGuinn & the Byrds)
07 Why You Been Gone So Long (Clarence White with Ry Cooder)
08 The Last Thing on My Mind (Clarence White)
09 The Water Is Wide (Byrds)
10 I Am a Pilgrim [Instrumental Version] (Clarence White & Bob Baxter)
11 China Moon (Skip Battin)
12 Draggin' (Roger McGuinn)
13 Lost Highway (Clarence White & Muleskinner)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17362736/TBYRDZ1972-1973BrntoRckndRll_atse.zip.html

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The cover photo was taken in Connecticut in June 1972.

R.E.M. - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 6-9-1984

Here's a very nice R.E.M. concert I just came across, so it goes to the top of my pile of albums to post.

I was looking for R.E.M. BBC material as part of my larger BBC project. I didn't find anything really good from the band's very early years, but this is of similar excellent sound quality, despite being officially unreleased. That's because it's the audio to an MTV show called "Rock Influences: Folk Rock." One nice thing about it is that it has a couple of guest stars at the end: Roger McGuinn of the Byrds and John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful. I suppose that ties in with the name of the TV show, since those are folk rock stars who influenced R.E.M.

Nearly all the songs come from a pristine soundboard bootleg. However, the three songs at the end with guests McGuinn and Sebastian do not. But that's okay, because I found a YouTube video of the show that includes them as well, and the sound quality of those tracks are also excellent. The one snag is that there's no intro to those (and I imagine there was some kind of reaction when the guests came on stage), and the applause was quickly cut off after each song. For those three songs, I patched in more applause from other songs earlier in the show, so hopefully that sounds normal. But if anyone has a different bootleg with the intros to those last songs, please let me know.

By the way, one more thing regarding those songs with the guests. The Byrds song "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" was basically sung by McGuinn, with R.E.M. chiming in on backing vocals. That's the same case with Sebastian singing "Do You Believe in Magic." But for the final song, "Gloria," R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe sang it. McGuinn was on stage, as can be seen in the YouTube video, but he just helped with backing vocals and strummed along with his guitar.

The songs "Hyena," "Old Man Kensey," and "Driver 8" were played in public for the first time in this concert.

This concert is an hour and ten minutes long.

01 talk (R.E.M.)
02 Pale Blue Eyes (R.E.M.)
03 Second Guessing (R.E.M.)
04 Hyena (R.E.M.)
05 Letter Never Sent (R.E.M.)
06 Harborcoat (R.E.M.)
07 talk (R.E.M.)
08 Seven Chinese Brothers (R.E.M.)
09 talk (R.E.M.)
10 Pretty Persuasion (R.E.M.)
11 So. Central Rain (R.E.M.)
12 Gardening at Night (R.E.M.)
13 9-9 (R.E.M.)
14 Windout (R.E.M.)
15 Old Man Kensey (R.E.M.)
16 Sitting Still (R.E.M.)
17 talk (R.E.M.)
18 Driver 8 (R.E.M.)
19 Carnival of Sorts [Boxcars] (R.E.M.)
20 talk (R.E.M.)
21 Radio Free Europe (R.E.M.)
22 Little America (R.E.M.)
23 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (R.E.M. & Roger McGuinn)
24 Do You Believe in Magic (R.E.M. & John Sebastian)
25 Gloria (R.E.M. with Roger McGuinn)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697045/REEEM1984_CapitlTheatrePssaicNJ__6-9-1984_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a bit low res. That's because it's a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of this exact concert.

The Byrds - Nothin' to It - Non-Album Tracks (1970-1971)

I got a request the other day to post more from the Byrds, so here's the next in my series of stray tracks albums for them. (I've got tons of albums all ready to go, I just need to make the album covers and write the blurbs. So if you want something posted sooner rather than later, please let me know.)

1970 was a big year for the Byrds, with the successful double album "(Untitled)" and lots of touring. For my purposes, nearly all of the new music for that year wound up on the expanded versions of both parts of that double album. As a result, only the first three songs are from 1970.

The fact that there's enough material here for an album is rather surprising, because 1971 was another busy year for the band, with two studio albums, "Byrdmaniax" and "Farther Along." Three of the songs here are officially released "Byrdmaniax" bonus tracks: "Think I'm Gonna Feel Better," "Nothin' to It," and "Just like a Woman." "Roll Over Beethoven" is from the archival live album "Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971." The last two songs will be discussed separately.

The other seven songs are unreleased. The Byrds toured heavily during this time period, and there are many soundboard bootlegs of their shows. I believe all of these are from soundboards, and they all sound excellent. We're especially lucky to have this version of the Bob Dylan song "She Belongs to Me," because it may have only been played in concert once (or at least a very small number of times). 

Most of the songs are sung by Roger McGuinn, the undisputed head of the Byrds at the time. But a couple were sung by Skip Battin. The song "Central Park" would later appear on a solo album he released in 1973. 

The song "Hanoi Hannah" had a drop out in it that lasted for a couple of seconds. Luckily, it was during a chorus, so I was able to patch it up with a different section of the song. That's why it has "[Edit]" in the title. By the way, a studio version of that song would later appear on McGuinn's 1973 solo album.

The last two songs, "One in a Hundred" and "She's the Kind of Girl," are a different kettle of fish. They were both written and sung by Gene Clark. Clark was the original leader of the Byrds, but he left in 1966 for a less commerically successful solo career. I don't know the story of how these songs came to be recorded, but they were performed in 1971 by all five of the original members of the Byrds: Clark, McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke. They were released on Clark's 1973 album "Roadmaster." 

One could argue these two songs don't belong on this album, because the personnel is very different, with only McGuinn on all the songs. But I figure these songs are part of the Byrds legacy and fit here chronologically. The five original Byrds would briefly unite for a studio album in 1973, simply called "Byrds."

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 She Belongs to Me (Byrds)
02 Last Time I Was Home [Home Sweet Home] (Byrds)
03 Think I'm Gonna Feel Better (Byrds)
04 I'm So Restless (Byrds)
05 Hanoi Hannah [Edit] (Byrds)
06 Central Park (Byrds)
07 Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Byrds)
08 O Mary Don't You Weep (Byrds)
09 Nothin' to It [Instrumental] (Byrds)
10 Just like a Woman (Byrds)
11 Roll Over Beethoven (Byrds)
12 One in a Hundred (Gene Clark & the Byrds)
13 She's the Kind of Girl (Gene Clark & the Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16067826/TByrd_1970-1971_NthintoIt_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in Amsterdam in 1970 or 1971.

The Byrds - (Untitled) Studio (1970)

In 1970, the Byrds released the well-received double album "(Untitled)." Half of it was live material and the other half was studio material. I my opinion, even though it's a very good album, it could be improved upon. My last post consists of the live material, expanded into a double album of its own. This is what I've done with the studio material.

The original studio album was about 37 minutes long. I removed "Take a Whiff on Me" because the revised live album contains a version of that song that I prefer. I also edited down the song "Welcome Back Home," because the original version is nearly eight minutes long, and far too repetitive for my tastes. This edited version is only four minutes long. I also used an alternate version of "Yesterday's Train" that I liked better.

After those removals and changes, the album was only 27 minutes long. But I made up for that and some by adding five songs: "Kathleen's Song," "Willin'," "Just like a Woman," "Lover of the Bayou," and "Amazing Grace." All of thesee, plus the alternate of "Yesterday's Train," come from the 2000 expanded edition of the album, given the new name "(Untitled)/(Unreleased)."

After those additions, the studio portion is now 48 minutes long. That's pretty long for a single album of that era, but still doable. I think it's a stronger version than the original. Note that there are concert versions of "Lover of the Bayou" and "Willin'" on the live portion of "(Untitled)" that I've posted separately. But they're both good songs, and I like both versions, so I've included both.

01 Chestnut Mare (Byrds)
02 Truck Stop Girl (Byrds)
03 All the Things (Byrds)
04 Hungry Planet (Byrds)
05 Just a Season (Byrds)
06 You All Look Alike (Byrds)
07 Kathleen's Song [Early Version] (Byrds)
08 Willin' (Byrds)
09 Just like a Woman (Byrds)
10 Yesterday's Train [Alternate Version] (Byrds)
11 Lover of the Bayou (Byrds)
12 Welcome Back Home [Edit] (Byrds)
13 Amazing Grace (Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15126899/TByrd_1970_UntitldStudio_atse.zip.html

The cover here is mostly the same as the official cover, but I made one very significant edit. The original photo was of the band standing on some stairs with sky in the background. This was edited back in 1970 to have a desert in the background instead. I went with the original look, with the sky background. If nothing else, this difference should make it clear that this is an alternate version instead of the original.

The original was also edited to include a warped version of another photo of the band on the side of the stairs, and I've kept that the same.

The Byrds - (Untitled) Live (1970)

Ever so slowly, I've been making my way through improving the discography of the Byrds. The last album I'd posted was a 1969 stray tracks one. That takes me to 1970, and the Byrds album known as "(Untitled)." It's probably the most acclaimed Byrds album from their later era, after David Crosby and Chris Hillman left. It was a double album, with one of the albums all live material and the other all studio material.

I don't want to simply post a popular album here unless I made significant changes to it. In this case, even though "(Untitled)" it s a very good album, I felt it could use a lot of improvement. The main reason for the change is that a deluxe version of the album was released, with the name "(Untitled)/(Unissued)." As you can guess, that had a lot of previously unreleased songs. But, in my opinion, they were added to the end as bonus tracks instead of being integrated into the other songs in an intelligent way.

There was so much material that I was able to turn the single live album into a double album, which is presented here. The single studio album remains a single album, but with a significantly different song list. I'll post that shortly as a separate album.

All the live tracks here were recorded in New York City either on February 28, 1970, or March 1, 1970, with the exception of two ("Take a Whiff on Me" and "Jesus Is Just Alright"), which were recorded also in New York City, but in September 1970. That was the same month the album was actually released, but I'm including them here since they were chosen as bonus tracks.

The first six songs here are the songs that made up Side One of the original release. Side Two consisted entirely of a long version of "Eight Miles High." I've put that at the end, since it was the last song in their concerts at the time (not counting the short "Hold It" instrumental, which is also here). I made an edit to "Eight Miles High," which is why it has "[Edit]" in its title. This version had a fade in at the start. That's a shame, in my opinion, because I love the iconic bass notes that open the song. So I found the missing intro bit from a different bootleg version around that same time, and patched it in.

Most of the rest of the songs come from bonus tracks on the 2000 deluxe edition. But three more songs, "You All Look Alike," "Willin'," and "Black Mountain Rag (Soldier's Joy)" dribbled out on the band's two official box sets, so I included those too.

I think this works much better as a double album than the original single album, since it closely resembles a full concert. Admittedly, it's a bit short as concerts go, at only an hour and nine minutes. I could have added more songs from bootlegs dating that same year, but I wanted to keep this a collection of all officially released material, recorded with great sound quality.

01 Lover of the Bayou (Byrds)
02 Positively 4th Street (Byrds)
03 Nashville West [Instrumental] (Byrds)
04 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
05 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
06 Mr. Spaceman (Byrds)
07 You All Look Alike (Byrds)
08 Willin' (Byrds)
09 Black Mountain Rag [Soldier's Joy] (Byrds)
10 My Back Pages (Byrds)
11 Old Blue (Byrds)
12 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
13 It's Alright Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Byrds)
14 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Byrds)
15 This Wheel's on Fire (Byrds)
16 Take a Whiff on Me (Byrds)
17 Jesus Is Just Alright (Byrds)
18 Eight Miles High [Edit] (Byrds)
19 Hold It [Instrumental] (Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15126912/TByrd_1970_UntitldLive_atse.zip.html

The cover photo features the Byrds in concert in London in 1971. For the text, I imitated the look of the text on the original "(Untitled)" album.

The Byrds - Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, 11-2-1968

I just posted a live Byrds concert from 1968 yesterday. But what the heck, I have another one with everything ready for posting, so here it is too.

When it comes to 1968 Byrds concerts, this one and the one I just posted (The Piper Club in May 1968) tower above everything else in terms of sound quality. In fact, this one sounds the best of all, good enough to be an official release. The performance is excellent too, making me wonder why this remains merely a bootleg.

A disappointment for many Byrds fans would be the band line-up. In August 1968, the band released their classic "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" country rock album. But just a few months later, two key members of that version of the band had already left: Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons. The line-up now consisted of Roger McGuinn, Gene Parson, Clarence White, and John York. This might have been York's first concert with the band. At the very least, it was from his first week or so.

While I would have rather had a concert like this with Hillman and Parsons still in the band, this line-up had its merits as well. White in particular was an excellent addition, with his stellar guitar playing skills.

This concert consists of an early set and late set. If you listen to be banter between songs, you can hear that "This Wheel's on Fire" is the last song from the early set, and "Pretty Boy Floyd" is the first song from the late set. On the popular bootleg I took this from, there's a song in between, "Stanley's Song." I've removed this song entirely for two reasons. One, it's from the soundcheck before the show (or something else), not from the show itself. But more importantly, it gets abruptly cut off halfway through. I also removed the one song repeated in the second set, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star." I would have kept it if it was a good version with a nice guitar solo or something like that, but the version from the early set was clearly performed better.

The first set is about 10 minutes longer. It could be there were more songs not included. But I suspect the band simply played a shorter late set, because at the end of the early set there already was an issue with time running out. Apparently, the management told the band that the venue had to close by 2 A.M. So this was probably as much as could be squeezed in before then. 

The songs played come from all phases of the band's career up until that point. But there's a fair number of songs played from the band's next album, "Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde," which wouldn't be released until early in 1969. Those songs are: "Old Blue," "My Back Pages - Baby, What Do You Want Me to Do," "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man," "This Wheel's on Fire," King Apathy III," "Bad Night at the Whiskey," and "Nashville West." That album isn't considered a particularly strong one by the band's standards. However, I think the versions played her are generally better than those on the album.

Oh, a nice rare treat is the band's version of the classic Carl Perkins song "Blue Suede Shoes." According to setlist.fm, the band only ever played it one time. Admittedly, that database is probably very incomplete for this time period, so I'll bet they played it more. But it seems likely it was only done in late 1968, and it doesn't appear on any record.

This concert is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Old Blue (Byrds)
02 My Back Pages - Baby, What Do You Want Me to Do (Byrds)
03 talk (Byrds)
04 Mr. Spaceman (Byrds)
05 talk (Byrds)
06 Time Between (Byrds)
07 talk (Byrds)
08 Goin' Back (Byrds)
09 Blue Suede Shoes (Byrds)
10 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
11 talk (Byrds)
12 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
13 talk (Byrds)
14 Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man (Byrds)
15 talk (Byrds)
16 This Wheel's on Fire (Byrds)
17 talk (Byrds)
18 Pretty Boy Floyd (Byrds)
19 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
20 talk (Byrds)
21 You Don't Miss Your Water (Byrds)
22 Hickory Wind (Byrds)
23 talk (Byrds)
24 King Apathy III (Byrds)
25 Bad Night at the Whiskey (Byrds)
26 talk (Byrds)
27 Nashville West (Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17362754/TBYRDZ1968AvlnBallromSanFrnciscoCA__11-2-1968_atse.zip.html

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/CxaAJoZf

One again, I'm hindered by a lack of good color photos of a band from a certain time. Since I couldn't find a suitable photo of the band in concert, I searched for concert posters. I came across a nice one from the general era. 

I had to make a number of changes to it though. The biggest one was that not only was the poster rectangular, it was longer vertically than most. So I cropped a lot out, and also vertically squished the bottom portion. Also, the orange box contained photos of the band members, but it was the wrong line-up. So I replaced that with a photo of the correct one, and then colored it orange to give it the same general look at the area it had replaced.

I updated the image with Krea AI, so there are some slight differences from the original poster.

The Byrds - European Pop Festival, Piper Club, Rome, Italy, 5-7-1968

I posted the Pink Floyd album "Live in Europe 1968" which included some songs that band did for the European Pop Festival in Rome, Italy. That reminded me that the Byrds played that festival too, and that I hadn't posted that yet. So here it is.

Unfortunately, the earliest and best years of the Byrds are very poorly represented when it comes to live recordings. I've posted an album of the band's live songs from 1965 to 1967, but it's a matter of a song here and a song there. The first good sounding concert we can hear comes from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. I'm not posting that here because it's widely available as part of an official release for the whole festival. But the disappointing thing about that concert is that the Byrds' set is only 22 minutes long.

This is the next good recording. It only exists on bootleg. The sound quality is good for its era. But unfortunately it's rather short too, at only 27 minutes long. It's also incomplete. According to setlist.fm, the first two songs they played were "You Ain't Going Nowhere" and "Old John Robertson," which aren't here.

But hey, half a loaf is still better than no loaf at all. It's true that David Crosby was no longer part of the Byrds by the time of this concert. But the legendary Gram Parsons was. (He sang lead on "You Don't Miss Your Water" and "Hickory Wind.") Furthermore, the band was augmented by Doug Dillard of the Dillards on banjo just for this show. You can hear a fair amount of banjo on the recording if you pay attention. The full band line-up was Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, Kevin Kelley, and special guest Doug Dillard.

The Byrds released their seminal country rock album "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in August 1968. This concert was in May. But they'd already mostly finished recording that album, and they were moving into country rock mode, playing four songs from that album (three of which are on this recording).

The bonus track is rather out of place with the rest. This song, "Milestones," was a jazzy instrumental Miles Davis cover. It was recorded at the Winterland in San Francisco on December 9, 1967. It's only a bonus track because the sound quality is poor. But I figure it's the one thing worth saving from that bad bootleg, because it's a song the band never released.

01 You Don't Miss Your Water (Byrds)
02 Hickory Wind (Byrds)
03 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)
04 Chimes of Freedom (Byrds)
05 The Christian Life (Byrds)
06 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
07 My Back Pages - B. J. Blues - Baby What You Want Me To Do (Byrds)
08 Mr. Spaceman (Byrds)

Milestones [Instrumental] (Byrds)

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I'm psyched about the album cover I made here. I never thought I would find a photo of band from this exact concert, because any photos of the band in concert around that era are pretty much nonexistent. And I didn't... but I came close! Apparently to help promote this festival, the Byrds lip-synced their way through the song "Mr. Spaceman" while posing in different spots in the Coliseum in Rome. I found a video of this and took a screenshot. 

The picture quality isn't exactly the best, but hey, it's them in Rome from their trip there to play this concert. The picture even has guest Doug Dillard in it. From left to right: Dillard, Hillman, McGuinn, Kelley, and Parsons. The image was really bleached out, but I used some Photoshop tricks to give it more color and contrast.

UPDATE: On March 12, 2023, I replaced the cover photo. A kind commenter sent me a better photo that was obviously taken on the same day in the same location. Again, I used Photoshop to make it look better. I still like the first one I made though, so I'm including it as an alternate.

UPDATE: On October 1, 2024, I further upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue - Night of the Hurricane: Madison Square Garden, New York City, 12-8-1975

In 1975 and 1976, Bob Dylan put on a concert tour called "the Rolling Thunder Revue." It's something he's never done before or since, because instead of putting on regular concerts with himself as the main musician and one or more opening musicians, this was more like a traveling road show. Yes, Dylan was the main star, but he shared the spotlight with other big stars too, as well as lesser knowns.

There have been two official releases related to the Rolling Thunder Revue: "The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue," and "The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings." The first one contains selected songs from various concerts, and the second one contains no less than five complete Dylan sets from the tour, as well as rehearsals, and more. Yet all of these releases ignore the other musicians who played with Dylan (except for the duets he did with Joan Baez). I've always wanted to hear a complete show from this tour, with Dylan AND all the other musicians.

Here it is, in all three hours and 50 minutes of it! 

If you want to hear just one full Rolling Thunder Revue concert, this is the one, for several reasons. For starters, this concert had a special purpose, to help free professional boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter from prison. Dylan (and many others) felt Carter was unjustly imprisoned, so he wrote a song about it, "Hurricane," which would be included on his 1976 album "Desire." I don't want to go into the full story, but if you want to know more, I suggest watching the 1999 movie "The Hurricane" starring Denzel Washington. Although the concert was still part of the tour, it was given the special name "Night of the Hurricane." Many famous people attended it, and there was a lot of press about it, helped by the fact that it was held in New York City.

Given all that, it's a lucky break that there's a soundboard bootleg of this entire concert with fantastic sound quality. This sounds just as good as any of the officially released material from the tour. Also, it's from a sweet spot in the tour where the musicians had found their groove but hadn't grown bored or fatigued (as would happen with many of the 1976 shows on the tour). 

Furthermore, many of the musicians here played for all or most of the tour, like Roger McGuinn and Joan Baez. But this concert gets an extra lift with the special guests Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack. Mitchell did play on some other shows during the tour, but this is as good as it gets in terms of sound quality for her set. And this was the only show with Roberta Flack. Also, Robbie Robertson from the Band played guitar on "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" and possibly a couple other Dylan songs.

Another special guest was boxing legend Muhammad Ali. During the show's intermission, Ali came out on stage and gave a speech about the point of the show, raising public awareness and pressure to release Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter from prison. During this speech, Ali spoke on the phone to Carter from his prison cell. Some other lesser knowns spoke as well, including some politicians. All in all, this segment took up half an hour. It's fine to listen to it once, but I don't think it stands up to repeat listenings. So I've brutally edited than half an hour down to just five minutes, focusing on Ali's phone call with Carter. 

A lot of the what is cut out is unnecessary fluff. For instance, Ali got sidetracked and spent a few minutes praising a politician friend of his, who he claimed was going to run for president. (I looked it up, and that person did run for many offices, but never won anything.) Later on it the concert, Dylan, with his great sarcastic wit, makes a reference to this by introducing another musician and commenting that person is NOT running for president.

At nearly four hours, this is probably the longest album I've posted on my blog so far.

01 Good Love Is Hard to Find (Bob Neuwirth)
02 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
03 Sleazy (Bob Neuwirth)
04 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
05 Hula Hoop (T-Bone Burnett)
06 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
07 Too Good to Be Wasted (Rob Stoner)
08 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
09 Laissez Faire (Steven Soles)
10 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
11 Life on Mars (Mick Ronson)
12 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
13 Alabama Dark (Ronee Blakley & Bob Neuwirth)
14 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
15 Need a New Sun Rising (Ronee Blakley)
16 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
17 Cindy [When I Get Home] (Bob Neuwirth)
18 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
19 Mercedes Benz (Bob Neuwirth)
20 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
21 Shadows and Light (Joni Mitchell)
22 Coyote (Joni Mitchell)
23 talk (Joni Mitchell)
24 Edith and the Kingpin (Joni Mitchell)
25 Don't Interrupt the Sorrow (Joni Mitchell)
26 talk (Muhammad Ali & Rubin "Hurricane" Carter)
27 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
28 [Ballad Of] Ramblin' Jack (Bob Neuwirth)
29 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
30 Muleskinner Blues (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
31 Pretty Boy Floyd (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
32 talk (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
33 Salt Pork, West Virginia (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
34 talk (Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Bob Neuwirth)
35 Rake and Ramblin' Boy (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
36 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
37 When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan with Bob Neuwirth)
38 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)
39 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan)
40 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Bob Dylan)
41 talk (Bob Dylan)
42 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Bob Dylan)
43 talk (Bob Dylan)
44 Romance in Durango (Bob Dylan)
45 talk (Bob Dylan)
46 Isis (Bob Dylan)
47 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
48 talk (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
49 Dark as a Dungeon (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
50 Mama, You Been on My Mind (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
51 talk (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
52 Never Let Me Go (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
53 talk (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
54 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
55 talk (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
56 I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan & Joan Baez)
57 talk (Joan Baez)
58 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
59 talk (Joan Baez)
60 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Joan Baez)
61 Prison Trilogy [Billy Rose] (Joan Baez)
62 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
63 Long Black Veil (Joan Baez)
64 talk (Joan Baez)
65 Please Come to Boston (Joan Baez)
66 talk (Joan Baez)
67 talk (Roberta Flack)
68 25th of Last December (Roberta Flack)
69 talk (Roberta Flack)
70 Why Don't You Move In with Me (Roberta Flack)
71 talk (Joan Baez)
72 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
73 Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn)
74 talk (Joan Baez)
75 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez with Roger McGuinn)
76 talk (Bob Neuwirth)
77 Love Minus Zero-No Limit (Bob Dylan)
78 Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan)
79 talk (Bob Dylan)
80 Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan)
81 talk (Bob Dylan)
82 Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
83 One More Cup of Coffee [Valley Below] (Bob Dylan)
84 talk (Bob Dylan)
85 Sara (Bob Dylan)
86 talk (Bob Dylan)
87 Just like a Woman (Bob Dylan)
88 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan with Roger McGuinn)
89 This Land Is Your Land (Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Revue)

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I believe the cover photo comes from the final bows after the last encore. Going from left to right, I believe that's Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Dylan and Baez sharing the center microphone, then Rob Stoner, Bob Neuwirth, Steven Soles, and Ronee Blakely. Thanks to loneill for help with identifying everyone.

Various Artists - Tom Petty's 70th Birthday Bash, 10-23-2020

Here's something that I think is great if you're a fan of Tom Petty's music at all. And who isn't a fan of Tom Petty's music? Petty died in 2017. Had he lived, he would have turned 70 on October 20, 2020. There has been a yearly tribute concert in his hometown of Gainsville, Florida, on his birthday each year since his death. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a normal concert wasn't possible, so a virtual home concert was held instead, with different artists sending in their cover versions of Petty songs from their homes. The entire concert was well over five hours long. I've cut that down to three hours to make a really strong concert.

Somewhat strangely, this concert was broken into three different parts. The first two parts were only played on SiriusXM satellite radio. The first part consisted mostly of performances by Gainsville musicians. Most of those musicians are obscure, with no officially recorded music whatsoever. In cutting this concert from five hours down to three, I mostly cut from the first part. There are a lot of generic and unremarkable covers of Petty songs by bands you've never heard of, such as the Arts in Medicine Hospital Band and Jeff Slate's Weekend Wilburys. But there were some excellent performances by some unknowns, so I've included those. There are were a few songs by more famous artists sprinkled in early, such as one of my favorites, Larkin Poe, doing a song with Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on drums. Another Heartbreaker, guitarist Mike Campbell, also helped with a song by Starcrawler.

For the second part of the concert, a different SiriusXM DJ took over. The focus on Gainsville musicians ended. Instead, more famous musicians from all over were featured, starting with Eddie Vedder, lead vocalist of Pearl Jam. This section continued through the performance by the Raconteurs.

The final and longest section tended to feature the most famous names, though a few lesser knowns are scattered in as well. This last second was made available on video at Tom Petty's official website and other places. You can find all of it on YouTube if you want to watch and not just listen. Since this section is much more widely available, most press accounts mistakenly asserted that was the entire concert. But in fact it was only about half.

Now, let me explain some more about what I chose not to include. There were five songs performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers scattered through the concert. Judging by appearances, they're from different years of Petty's long careers. I didn't include any of those because I felt they didn't fit the rest of the concert. They were typical versions of his famous songs, like "Refugee" and "I Need to Know." Most of the songs were done by other musicians in the concert, so including them would have increased the repetition of songs a lot.

There also were a lot of spoken word sections. I removed nearly all of those. They're nice to hear once or twice, but they don't have much replay value after that, in my opinion. I've only included the between song banter by Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench, the lead guitarist and pianist, respectively, of Tom Petty's band the Heartbreakers. They did a mini-set of three songs, and the banter between the songs was an important part of that, in my opinion. Nearly all the talking was in the last section of the concert. If you watch that on YouTube, you'll hear nice spoken tributes to Petty by his wife Dana, his daughter Adria, Stevie Nicks, a poem by George Harrison's wife Olivia, and more.

Most of the songs sound great. But a few were recorded from homes with poor recording equipment. I rejected a few songs due to sound quality issues. I didn't include a version of "Yer So Bad" by Adam Sandler mostly because it was so poorly recorded. The songs by Beck and Susanna Hoffs also were not recorded well, but I included them because they just barely sounded good enough for my ears, and I particularly like those two artists.

Another problem was that there didn't seem much effort to prevent multiple versions of the same songs. For instance, there were no less than four versions of the song "Wildflowers!" I removed two of them, by the bands Grouplove and the Arts in Medicine Hospital Band, while keeping the versions by Eddie Vedder and Brandi Carlile. The song "Honey Bee" was another problem. There were three versions that I decided to keep, by Larkin Poe, Grace Potter with Reysonator, and the Foo Fighters. There were all good, and all different from each other. I removed some other songs that were done more than once. There are a few other songs with two versions: "American Girl," "Room at the Top," "Runnin' Down a Dream," and "Walls (Circus)." Since the concert is so long at three hours, I figure a few of those are okay.

Almost all musicians played just one song. There are a couple of exceptions though. As mentioned above, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench did three songs together to end the concert. Norah Jones played two songs. And Margo Price and Lukas Nelson each did one song, but then also did a duet together.

As I mentioned above, this a great concert. All sorts of my favorite musicians were included, and they did excellent versions. Honestly, I could hardly have picked a better line-up myself. If you like Tom Petty at all, please give this a listen!

Another point I want to mention is that the vast majority of the performances were done on or just before the broadcast date, from the musician's homes, but there are a few exceptions. The Gary Clark, Jr. and Jason Isbell performances comes from concerts in 2017. The Killers did their song "American Girl" in concert. I don't know the date or location, but they played that song a bunch of times in concert from 2017 to 2019. Eddie Vedder's version of "Wildflowers" is a solo acoustic version done without an audience, so it sounds much like the others. But it actually was done in 2017 at some point after Petty's death and not made public until this concert.

Oh, and one last thing: as Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench repeatedly said at the very end of the concert, if you're a US citizen, please VOTE in the election on November 3rd!

01 Saving Grace (Andrew Leahey & the Homestead)
02 Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll (Hannah Harber)
03 Ways to Be Wicked (Sunkat)
04 Yer So Bad (Tristen)
05 Kings Highway (Michigan Rattlers)
06 Honey Bee (Larkin Poe with Steve Ferrone & Tyler Bryant)
07 Joe (Hannah Wicklund & the Stepping Stones)
08 The Apartment Song (Miss Tess)
09 Sweet William (Edan Archer)
10 There Goes Angela [Dream Away] (Emma Swift)
11 I Need to Know (Starcrawler with Mike Campbell)
12 Wildflowers (Eddie Vedder)
13 Walls [Circus] (Dawes with Mike Viola)
14 Room at the Top (Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit)
15 Square One (Caamp)
16 Honey Bee (Grace Potter with Resynator)
17 Learning to Fly (Kurt Vile)
18 American Girl (Killers)
19 Runnin' Down a Dream (Raconteurs)
20 Listen to Her Heart (Flaming Lips)
21 Don't Come Around Here No More (Beck)
22 The Waiting (Jackson Browne)
23 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Lukas Nelson & Margo Price)
24 Southern Accents (Lukas Nelson)
25 Free Fallin' (Susanna Hoffs)
26 Walls [Circus] (Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers)
27 Breakdown (Spoon)
28 Angel Dream No. 2 (Lady Blackbird)
29 Crawling Back to You (Margo Price)
30 Honey Bee (Foo Fighters)
31 Runnin' Down a Dream (Lucinda Williams)
32 Rockin' Around [With You] (Sabina Sciubba)
33 Good Enough (Gary Clark, Jr.)
34 Love Is a Long Road (Dhani Harrison & Graham Coxon)
35 Room at the Top (Amos Lee)
36 Climb That Hill (Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers)
37 Cabin Down Below (Alison Mosshart)
38 Wildflowers (Brandi Carlile)
39 Don't Fade on Me (Chris Stapleton)
40 Time to Move On (Norah Jones)
41 Only a Broken Heart (Norah Jones)
42 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn)
43 I Won't Back Down (Stephen Stills with Christopher Stills)
44 It's Good to Be King (Dave Stewart)
45 Alright for Now (Emily King)
46 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
47 American Girl (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
48 Something Good Coming (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
49 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
50 We Want Boogie 'bout Midnight (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
51 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)

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The cover art is the official artwork for the convert. I didn't have to make any changes at all.

The Byrds - Live, 1965-1967

In my opinion, it's a tragedy that there is so little recorded of the Byrds playing in concert in the 1965 to 1967 commercial heyday, when they had all five original members. But "little" is not the same as "none," and this album gathers up the few live recordings from them that I've found.

The Byrds were extremely popular and influential during those years, with two number one hits and some other hits. As a result, they were shown on TV a lot. Unfortunately, most of the time, they simply lip-synced to their records. I think I've found all the cases where they actually played live on TV in those years, though in one case ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"), only the vocals were live, and the instrumental portion came from a backing track.

The good news is that there are so many songs performed live on TV. But in most cases, the recordings aren't that great. For instance, because the band was so popular, there's lots of screaming and cheering at the starts and ends of songs, and sometimes even in the middle. So please, if you listen to this album, be a little tolerant of the sound quality. Once again, we should be grateful there are these recordings at all.

Happily, there is one recording that is much better and cleaner. That's six songs that were recorded for a radio show in Sweden in 1967. These songs sound quite different because instead of the screaming and cheering with the other songs, there's no audience at all for those six. Also in contrast to the others, there's some talking from the band members before each song.

The album ends with three more songs from TV. Like the earlier ones, those have rougher sound quality.

By the way, I haven't included all the live performances from the original band, because I've skipped one key concert: the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The Byrds played a 22 minute-long set there that was recorded with great sound quality and has been officially released as part of a Monterey Pop box set. I haven't included that performance in part because it has been officially released, and I figured most fans who are into the Byrds will have that already. But also, by pure luck, there's almost no duplication of songs here, with only "Mr. Tambourine Man" being repeated. But if I included the seven Monterey Pop songs, literally every single one of those would be duplicates of songs here. Perhaps I could post that performance separately, if there is a demand for it.

Only one song featured here has been officially released. That's the performance of "Roll Over Beethoven" in the Swedish radio show. It appeared on the box set simply known as "The Byrds." However, I didn't use that version, since I wanted all the songs from the radio show to be from the same source. I would have used it if I thought it sounds better, but it sounds exactly the same as the bootleg version to my ears.

Oh, by the way, when putting this album together, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Byrds did a version of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away." That's a song they didn't put on any album.

01 Not Fade Away (Byrds)
02 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)
03 The Times They Are A-Changin' [Live Vocals Only] (Byrds)
04 Chimes of Freedom (Byrds)
05 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
06 The Bells of Rhymney (Byrds)
07 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
08 talk (Byrds)
09 Hey Joe (Byrds)
10 talk (Byrds)
11 My Back Pages (Byrds)
12 talk (Byrds)
13 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
14 talk (Byrds)
15 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
16 talk (Byrds)
17 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
18 talk (Byrds)
19 Roll Over Beethoven (Byrds)
20 Renaissance Fair (Byrds)
21 Lady Friend (Byrds)
22 Have You Seen Her Face (Byrds)

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The cover art photo comes from an appearance on the "Ready Steady Go" TV show in 1965.