Byrds extracurricular projects: s/d

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i'm begining to feel that the byrds are better than the beatles individually. i've recently been getting all sorts of byrd solo projects and have seriously fallen in love.

my top two choices would easily be Gene Clark's "No Other" and David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name"

i just got Clark & the Gosdin Bros today and it's already another fave. i think the Roger McGuinn s/t album is pretty cool, has some nice looser moments, but is definitely kinda flawed. and obviously the Gram Parsons stuff is amazing. it's way too hard to choose a fave out of all this great stuff.

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

the dillard&clark lp has some nice moments, train leaves here this mornin, in particular

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, i have both the dillard & clark albums. first is way better than the second, but both cool

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

I love both Dillard and Clark albums. Don't like the Gosdin bros. album too much. Burrito Bros had three Byrds and probably wins overall. I still have to hear McGuinn's albums.

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Gene Clark's solo records alone is practically better than anything the Beatles did individually.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

true dat

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

i don't love White Light. i think Roadmaster is good but need to give it more time

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

McGuinn's Cardiff Rose album is good, and the song "Dreamland" off that is completely classic.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

(produced by Mick Ronson!)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Roadmaster is incredible. White Light is very good.
The Gosdin Brothers is both great and historic.

― JAS, Friday, 4 November 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

And yes, the first Dillard and Clark. Great stuff.

But Roadmaster! "In a Misty Morning" - monster song.

― JAS, Friday, 4 November 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Agree with you there. Roadmaster is my favourite Clark album. His attempts to go all loverman on the title track ("and I'm carryin' a pretty big load....") are funny and endearing. "I remember the Railroad", "Full Circle"...great tracks.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 4 November 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

dillard and clark & clark's 66-67 solo stuff (collected on echos) are better than pretty much anything the byrds ever did, if you ask me, which you did.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Re "Roadmaster" itself - note just how much the way he sings the line "I like to play my music when there's lotsa pretty women a-rooounnnnnnnd" sounds like Alex Chilton's latter-day persona.

― JAS, Friday, 4 November 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I think most of us can agree Gene Clark solo was amazing. But what about some of the other stuff? Are any of those McGuinn-Hillman band records (and their 48 permutations) worth hearing? Like, at all?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Not that anyone deemed it worthy of answering the above question, but I recently pulled down a bootleg from 1978, I believe, of McGuinn and Gene Clark playing live. There's a bunch of different boots from that era w/ the setlist, so I'm not sure which show it is, but it's absolutely incredible — just the two of them harmonizing and McGuinn playing these gorgeous 12-string parts on a bunch of underplayed songs that I imagine were produced terribly in the studio. In particular, Clark's "Release Me Girl" is astonishing — as good as anything he did in the 1970's.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

clark & mcguinn did a duo thing around 77 or so, and there's a song (live bootleg) that's circulated around called Crazy Ladies - the sound quality is poor, but what an amazing song - search that for sure. Beautiful melody and Jim plays some 8 Miles High-style soloing.

― tjay, Thursday, 16 February 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

I looked at that one — though the tracklisting was similar, I'm not sure if it was that boot, in part b/c the sound quality on this was fantastic. Sounded like a radio broadcast. Yes, "Crazy Ladies" was also great — and McGuinn's guitar is in super fine form throughout. Also, they open with "Don't You Write Her Off", which is catchy, stupid and fun.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

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