Younger Than Yesterday and Notorious Byrd Brothers stand with Mr. The loss of his middle-ranged voice threw the vocal equilibrium off and forced the group into a more adventurous instrumental style, a challenge that McGuinn met head on with such masterpieces as “Eight Miles High” and “5D.” But on Fifth Dimension they flew off into the cosmos and hard rock, leaving behind the Dylan songs and doing it all without Gene Clark. Despite such great cuts as Gene Clark’s “Set You Free This Time” (which almost equaled his “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better,” from the earlier album) they simply weren’t up to it. When the group decided to play its own music on Turn! Turn! Turn! they were forced to equal, if not copy, the style that had been handed them by the L.A. It was music that combined contemporary material with high-pitched, almost whiney harmony, and the full-bodied ring of McGuinn’s Rickenbacker 12-string guitar.Ĭhris Hillman on the Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons and the End of the Sixties The rest of the music was supplied by Joe Osborne, Hal Blaine, and, if memory serves, Leon Russell. Tambourine Man, the most auspicious debut American album in pop Sixties rock, outdone internationally only by the Stones’ England’s Newest Hitmakers. I say nominal because everyone knows that only Roger McGuinn performed instrumentally on most of Mr. It has little to do with the original band except that it is performed by its nominal members. ![]() The Byrds were the most stylistically unified of American rock bands but paradoxically, this is an album without a style. At their best, they were once my favorite white American rock & roll band, but not only isn’t this their best - it is barely them. But at the moment, I am obliged to comment on the most disappointing and one of the dullest albums of the year, Byrds. ![]() Todd Rundgren’s near best A Wizard/A True Pop Star, Dusty Springfield’s Cameo (an absolutely stunning return to recording), Judee Sill’s Heart Food (possibly as good as her first), The Harder They Fall (a great soundtrack and introduction to Jimmy Cliff) and Bob Seger’s Back In ’72 (a superb regional star from Detroit finally makes good). To tell the truth, I would rather write about some of the fine new albums released since the first of this year - including Dr.
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