News about The Byrds - The Byrds to Release Previously Unreleased Archive Recordings, Proving Once Again That There Really
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Well, kids, you know the ol saying, "A Time for every purpose under heaven," right? (You know, Ecclesiastes 3.1? Ring a bell? Helloooo?!? What the heck are they teaching you in school, anyway!?!). Well, whatever, never mind. Either way, it just means that everything has its proper time and place in a sort of "grand plan" that we have no control over. Its supposed to be comforting or something. And apparently, sometimes the current "time under heaven" just happens to be set aside for the purpose of, you know, siphoning some bottom-of-the-barrel cash for an aging 60s-70s folk-rock band named The Byrds. Neat how that works out, huh? And so, never ones to ignore the subtle forces of heaven, the influential L.A. psych-jangle-folk pushers are gearing up to release a recording of their 1971 appearance at Londons Royal Albert Hall. This historic (?) concert features the then-lineup of Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Skip Battin, and Gene Parsons. The recording itself is seeing the light of day courtesy of founding (and only constant) member Roger McGuinns private collection. And dont look now folks, but hes got plenty more where that came from. "Weve carried these tapes around for 30-something years. We just never paid much attention to them. Bob Irwin (from the Sundazed record label) came down, and hes a genius at discerning these things. He could look at a box, and go Oh, this is that, and so-and-so was there, this is wonderful." Irwin has taken additional tapes from McGuinns archive and is hoping to release them in the subsequent future (a.k.a. whenever money is tight). Meanwhile, the release of this particular ancillary monument to fast-fading baby-boomdom is slated for June of this year, though the final release date will most likely be determined by asking God what He thinks...
By Dave Gurney
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