![]() ![]() We got a standing ovation at MIT! That never really happened before.”Ībout David Crosby, who was once the major irritant in the group and left the Byrds several months ago at Roger’s insistence, Roger now says, almost sadly, “It’s too bad we had to lose his musical abilities.”Ĭrosby’s leaving the Byrds came after Gene Clark left and although a new album, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, was on the stands picturing the group as a trio, suddenly the Byrds were two. And we started getting encores and standing ovations. “We just finished a tour of Eastern schools. Nobody’s doing the watch-me-catch-this-one bit. The new group is better in person than the old one. Before, we had some stars to contend with. Yo La Tengo Preview New EP With a Cover of the Byrds' 'Wasn't Born to Follow'Ī few days before the party at Giro’s, Roger put it this way: “There are fewer hang-ups now. He referred to a situation that often caused the Byrds to provide sets noted for excessive tuning, instrumental braggadocio, barely adequate voicing, and plenty of backstabbing, intentional musical fluffs. How often have the Byrds cut their wrists in front of us in the Whisky-a-Go Go and in the Trip…?” He referred, of course, to the chaos of the early Byrds – Roger (then Jim) McGuinn, Mike Clark, Chris Hillman, Gene Clarke and David Crosby. Long after Taylor had ceased being the Byrds’ publicist, he said about Los Angeles, “It’s a marvelously public place for suicide. It is also interesting that the occasion for the appearance was a going-away party for Derek Taylor, the man who has worked for them hardest and stuck by them longest. It is close to ironic that the “new Byrds” – a phrase Roger McGuinn uses these days – should make their first West Coast appearance at the same club, Giro’s. That was eight hit songs, six albums, countless conflicts and changes in personnel and personality, and a little over three years ago. It was in a smallish night club on the Sunset Strip that the Byrds broke in their act and suddenly became the best-loved and most exciting group in Los Angeles. ![]()
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