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Leave us sling this hash on the griddle toot sweet, toots. Still smarting from the brickbats hurled at him for Byrdmaniax, Jim-Roger McGuinn and his latterday Byrdsband combat-crawled back into the studio under cover of night and swiftly cut this follow-up, vowing to never be overproduced again by anybody, like, ever. And making damn sure they kept to their nobly artistic vision by underproducing it themselves - that showed Terry Melcher! Haw!
What can we say? We can say it's our favorite Byrds album! because we're a dope who likes to flaunt our outrageous opinions. We can say it's underrated, because we're a bore with no real opinions of our own. Or we can just say, shucks, Hortense, the Byrds never made a bad album, not like the Beetles *snork*, and this is one of them.
Twenty-two tracks of not-stink rock music on this "complete" edition, including a great version of Tom Rush's Lost My Drivin' Wheel which should have made the cut.
I've been hanging out for this, the expanded version of the weakest Byrds' album (IMO). I'm intrigued as to how our anonymous compiler managed to come up with 11 bonus tracks : I can only think of 6 possibilities. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait until the LINK manifests itself...
ReplyDeleteDon't get your hopes up, John - he cheats. He also stops here, possibly running out of enthusiasm. I'm going to feature "Byrds" anyway, pimped up a little, because I think it's a swell album - "underrated", even! (Stealth Link in this comment somewhere).
ReplyDeleteAnd there'll be a post-ultimate post or two, wrapping up the early stuff.
Hey youse, post-ultimate is betta den penultimate rite. I meen I you been aroun da block a fuse timez, seen some tings, didn't see some tings, know wherez da bodies is berried when youse hit da post-ultimate. When youse in da pen it'z like-a bean in skoo agin, ya know, once agin youse see zome tings, odda tings youse-a blind. Pen-intimate youse justa starting out in da life. A lidda mugging here, hijacking da liquor trucks, youse knos da drill. Now, when I wuz a yout, youse know, a young hood rat, doing hood rat tings wit my hood rat frenz, dez Boids eLPees wuz okay. Some wuz a berry berry goot, some nazto goot. Nowadaze, when a dame gots ta haul off and hit a man, deez Boids eLPeez is great stuff. Some sez to me, Guiseppe, dissa stuff suckz, dey pushing up dazzies. I send dem to Australia....you know, down under. Mebbe mediocre for de Boids but betta den anyting out dere today. They just swell. Anyone disagrees, dey tok to my lil fren here. Now i gotta fly, grab a scotch and a potrezebid on rye. You don' owe me fer nuttin but de bullets FT3. tanks
Deletefriggin typos.....hard to see in dis little box...Hey Jimmy Hoffa's in here
DeleteWhich answers the musical question - What's In FiveGunsWest's Box? It's Jimmy Hoffa!
DeleteI see what you mean about cheating. those 1990 tracks really belong as a postscript to the reunion album. The extras that DO belong with Farther Along should be Mr. Tambourine Man & Roll Over Beethoven from the Banjoman soundtrack, recorded live in 1973 with John Guerin drumming and Captain Video from Skip Battin's album "Skip". Not only is the song about Mcguinn, it features him on electric 12 string with Guerin on drums. No sign of Clarence though...
DeleteThat really was a sneaky link. Rather an odd choice of extras, not including Bag Full Of Money, but including the 1990 reunion cuts. I've always liked Antique Sandy and precious Kate and, although I'm generally a Gene Parsons fan, never really took to either of his vocal contributions here. it'll be interesting to see how you 'pimp up' the reunion LP.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Disappointing after contributing the minor classics "Gunga Din" and "Yesterday's Train" there was no Parsons on Byrdmaniax and then these half-baked numbers here.
DeleteAntique Sandy IS an underrated number. And the Clarence tracks are great. Finally, some good lead vocals!
Thinking quickly about that last comment, there are 3 tracks which could be added, not counting Fair and Tender Ladies, which Johnny Rogan states as having been recorded at the session, but which, to my knowledge) has never sneaked (or been sneaked) out.
ReplyDeletePlease do link the extra cuts if you can, then we can all complete the "complete" version!
DeleteAs to "Byrds", you can only do the obvious - add the contemporary Gene Clark tracks that are really Byrds tracks and shift the running order, but if you have further/farther suggestions please help out! Those extra Clark tracks alone turn the album into something special.
I was actually referring to the reunion LP when mentioning the 3 additional tracks, the two Gene tracks on ROADMASTER and the third MY NEW WOMAN from McGuinn's first. They're here: https://workupload.com/file/YCtqjAXxjZT for when/if they're wanted. (If not required, then please ignore.) There are alternative mixes for the Gene songs, which I haven't included but will if requested. As for Bag Full of Money, the track on the 2000 expanded FA, is followed by the 'hidden' rehearsal version of Bristol Steam Convention Blues, which may or may not be the same as that included in the blog complete edition, I have no idea. For what it's worth it's here: https://workupload.com/file/zjdGCMyG4Hz. There is also a Parsons-White instrumental called AROUND THE BARN which was recorded somewhere around this time, but it's not really a Byrds track, just the two of them.
DeleteJust read JPB's comment below, so the Bag link is in fact redundant, by the looks of it.
DeleteOr maybe not...totally confused, but what do you expect at my age, which is...........hmmmm? Your guess is as good as mine.......
DeleteOne could also add the alternative version of "She Don't Care About Time" that came out on The Lost Sessions by Gene Clark. It's only McGuinn and Clark, as far as Byrds go, but it's essentially a co-lead by McGuinn. To be honest, you can almost not hear Gene, but definitely Jim-Roger...
DeleteThen of course there are the M(C)H albums. 'We are not the Byrds' Oh, yes, you are! (??) Though the Albert Brothers did a good job of them not being the Byrds. And Barry Beckett did a good job of ruining the 3rd with all those covers. The middle one I always thought the best of the 3. No doubt there will be plenty of objections?
Deletewhy can i never ever find thos stealth links? Tapped on every letter and exclamation mark but ZILCH!
ReplyDeleteThe crux of the biscuit is in a three letter word in the comment that says it contains the stealth link.
DeleteAnd it's easy to find.
DeleteMaybe I'm wrong (which is often the case), but it appears track 15 is stealthier than the link. Is it perhaps the aforementioned Bag Full Of Money, which was track 15 on a different expanded edition?
ReplyDeleteI must be utterly stupid clicking on every three letter word (while verbally mentioning four letter words) and still can NOT find it...
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad 1851, it's happened to me enough times. Once you grok the methodology. Just think of the first word of the opening of every single Monty Python. If I'm out of line here, of course FT3 will, rightfully, remove this comment from the record.
DeleteIt's true sometimes that words have more than letters
DeleteFGW has it right, if you know your MP. I never got a couple of them in the past either. Quite by accident I found it this time.
DeleteSambgodot, could I bother you for some of the extra stuff that you posted under the last Rick Nelson post. Since my PC blocked pixeldrain, I never got around to it.
DeleteWould it be possible for you to upload "The Rest Of Rick (aka The Scrapings Of The Barrel?)" and "Stone Canyon Band 69 -76 mostly outtakes some 45s" on something other than pixeldrain? I would be much obliged.
One Buck Guy - the Stone Canyon set is up again on the original post - Jan 24th. Working on the Rest Of at this moment. I'll put that against the original too. Did you want the 2 smaller links too?
DeleteRest Of is also up now. Enjoy.
DeleteThanks, man, I appreciate it.
DeletePleasure.
DeleteIf I can abuse your kindness a little more...you talked about having some other live albums from the man...is the 74 one any good?
DeleteI've put it up on the Rick page together with very brief explanations of the other live stuff. There's an old Zen saying, 'The giver should be grateful'. I've taken a lot in the past, only too happy to give something back.
DeleteYou're the dude, dude! MotMotD indeed!
DeleteHallelujah! I've seen the light only to find out it's missing Track 15 (Whatever that might be)
ReplyDelete"Lost My Drivin' Wheel" is, by the way, not a Tom Rush song, but a song from the very underrated David Whiffen ("Mr. Whiffen is incommunicado today"...indeed) and didn't make the album because it was cut almost a year later as a first try out for McGuinn's solo album. Yes, even the original bonus tracks were already 'cheating', so effectively for hunters of rarities this was slim pickins'.
ReplyDeleteOur anonymous compiler (and no, it wasn't me) was running out of (Bristol) steam when he came to this, and decided to fling what he had at it and walk away. The "reunion" album does benefit from a slight return, though - that's coming up so we can talk about it and Da Boids in general and particular.
ReplyDeleteAs to the missing track 15 - and it's missing on my "copy" too - it has to be Bag Full Of Money, which appears on my Japanese 2014 expanded issue (and yours) in its right place, number fifteen. If anyone deosn't have it, I'll slip it under the mat.
DeleteI put it up. See above. But it does also have Bristol Steam tagged after it.
DeleteThanks, Mr. O'Dot! Get's a mite confusin' keepin' track o'these here comment doo-hickeys! Hihihih! Woopsh - thayar goesh mah denchuresh agin! Tarnition hound'sh run off wit' mah bridgework!
DeleteThat cover, though, right?! Pretty great and definitely fitting for the twilight of the Boids. It caught my eye browsing through my dad's vinyls as a young'un. This was also the first Byrds album I ever bought, years later as a student.
ReplyDeleteLove the cover, enjoy the album ... we can get too serious about this stuff. And in spite of the usual slings and arrows you can pitch at Jim-Roger, he's a great artist with a wonderful voice who wrote some undying songs and played on some of the most beautiful music ever made. Made a lot of people's lives a little bit better.
DeleteOh, you'll get no argument from me on that.
DeleteTo the immortal question "Beatles or Stones" I'll always answer "Byrds!"
I remember getting this album at its release and loving it so much...so, considering this affection for the record, I ask you to show me the link...please...
ReplyDeleteHallellujah!!! I got it....
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