It’s crazy that almost no one talks about the Byrds today m. They’re so incredible. And we’re so important in their time and for the revolution of music
I am hoping that on my last day, when my life is flashing before my eyes, it slows down or even pauses a bit on the late 60s, early 70s. Yes, we had some fun.
OMG l am 75 and a teen through the 60s and enjoyed the London club scene but all of us thought The Byrds outstripped the likes of The Beatles and The Stones by miles! Hanging on my wall since the 60s is a signed LP cover of Mr Tambourine Man by the entire group. I still listen to them 2 or 3 times a week! As good today
@@rogerbyroncollins7204 I'll go as far as saying they were the Best American Group between '65 & '66. Please let me know if you decide to get it appraised. Enjoy.
Maybe the 2nd greatest band after The Beatles (sorry, Stones, you never impressed me). Their perfect harmonies and guitar and drum work is peerless. Modern "musicians" WISH they could possess a FRACTION of this talent. You can listen to The Byrds a million times, and still never get tired of it.
Actually Idris Davies did. He wrote the lyrics. I think Pete Seeger wrote the melody. Davies lived a long time ago, when the mine disasters were fresh news.
This is but only one of many, many examples of why the sixties was the very best of all the music eras. We even had two Gospel songs that made it into the top 20 and even stayed there for a while. Try to find that anywhere today. This was the time of REAL music.
Byrds were such an important part of 196os music explosion when you heard there songs it was groovy man Yeah Byrds Beatles Kinks Animals Rolling stones Walker Brothers Manfred Mann Dave Clark Five Small faces Who the Move the Moody Blues yeah the days of the transistor radio 📟 you carried to hear the latest songs 📀
Not bad for 1960's technology; e.g. few if any stage monitors; probably an 8-channel mixer; instruments and drums poorly mic'd, etc. This is still an important video, as it's one of the very few existing videos of the Byrds actually playing and singing live. Still a great group and a beautiful Pete Seger song based on an old Welsh poem.
The poem is about a mining disaster in the South Wales Valleys. I love the song / poem. As someone who grew up in South Wales, I really understand the emotion, significance and politics behind the words. I know every village and town mentioned, including where I was born and brought up.
When have I seen such passion delivered by a band in a song so smooth? Never When have I seen girls dancing in their seats in a Motown feel to lyrics so profound and tragic yet achingly hopeful? Never When have I ever heard a savage groove of eighth notes in the bass drum throughout a song? Never What three singers have sung in unison with this intensity? Nobody
This is totally amazing stuff! Frankly I don't care if the harmonies don't match-up just perfectly. I think it is a beautiful piece - captured in time. As one other viewer noted McGuinn's 12 string is just simply beautiful. To See and listen to McGuinn Crosby Gene Clark Hillman and Michael Clarke is jaw dropping.. I think the crowd especially the girls are spellbound. Some even singing the words.. I'm totally impressed. For posterity purposes this video along with many of the groups in this period in Rock is Smithsonian worthy.
Yes, some of them seem to be saying "when will they stop playing this boring folk music." But the squeals are wonderful to hear and prove that some people of my generation had exquisite taste.
Great audience girl shots, plus the back sides of the band, and their perfectly combed bowlcuts. Music is a little slow, but so the heck what?? It's the glorious highflyin Byrds! And wow: produced by Phil Spector no less (every other producer was less-less than him, I mean), so I gather. And Ilya Kuryakin M.C.? Say uncle already! I wonder if David still has his cool cape? The Byrds made, and make my life so wonderfully resonate.
I once met...and touched The sweaty back of!...Roger McGuinn at a concert in Toronto. Not as on key as the recordings, perhaps...but fascinating to see the audience reaction to this rather serious song about the plight of Welsh miners! But THAT was the 60s!
The Byrds learned how to be a rock band by seeing “A Hard Days Night” in a theater. The Beatles were an obvious influence, but this song inspired George Harrison to write “If I Needed Someone” for the Rubber Soul album.
Taken fron the album " The Byrds Greatest Hits" Day 5990. 2 x 5 x 599. Sugar snap peas in the morning then all my urine then more peas at 1.00pm then all my urine then dried figs and grapes and apple and baby spinach leaves and more peas at 10.00pm. No change.
That's a very fine but quite different version. Never heard it before. More emotionally intense, with the slow funeral march beat... After all, the song is about a mining disaster. ruclips.net/video/jVrxlcNFccg/видео.html
A pretty good live performance of this classic track from the wonderful first Byrds' album. History has stressed how "terrible" the original group were in a live context but this sounds no better or worse than others circa 1965. Okay, the harmonies are a bit ragged towards the end and the audience look a little bemused by what they're seeing and hearing... but then, a song about a Welsh Mining disaster wasn't the usual fare for a "pop" audience at the time!
To my ears the band are pretty much in tune and their timing is fine. This sounds a bit ragged because of the mixing not being as polished as you could get with a studio. Todays technology should allow the voices (instruments and vocals) to be remixed and cleaned up to enable a much more slick and confident final showing. Could be done with Celemony Melodyne if anybody has the tools and the time.
Love that old-timey Rickenbacker, but the Byrds rock out even more (and the basic timbre is still maintained) if you play it on 1.25x "normal". Almost Philistine I know.
as an american who spent 9 years living in Wales, i can attest that few americans have any idea how to correctly pronounce Welsh words and place names. :D
I think everyone who is not from Wales (I am not as well) pronounces it incorrectly. Pete Seeger wrote and performed this brilliant song pronouncing it as "rimney" so everyone else did as well.
@@jamesfitzgerald6636 Pissed off or not everyone has their opinion ,Crosby was a F up ass ,Clark was great but didn't want to travel ,Micheal Clark so so drummer , Hillman was just coming into his own , Roger is the Byrds
Is that audience footage actually from that particular performance? I have a hard time getting my head around teeny boppers doing synchronised dancing to sombre folk tunes. Even if was the Byrds
@@anothercrazyguru66 I'm replying 6 years late, lol, but there WAS actually a garage band operating around the same time that was called the Bryds. There was also another garage band at the same time called the Birds. We're both right. The Bryds had "Your Lies." The Birds were a UK R&B band known for "Say Those Magic Words" among some other songs.
@@JustAFocus weren’t there have been lawsuits as to who has a copyright to the name “BYRDS” with a “Y”???!!!??? Where were the record company lawyers throughout all of us or maybe Gene Clark and Company were so mellow they didn’t care that they were other bands with that name? I don’t know someone enlighten me how that works! I know the “BANGLES” The all girl pop group from the 80s were originally called the “BANGS” but they had to change their name to the BANGLES because there WAS already another unknown (all girl) band using the name “BANGS”!
@@nealsausen4651 You're right about The Bangs having to change their name to The Bangles because there was already a band called The Bangs. Just like The Beat needed to be called The English Beat in the US because there was already an American band called The Beat. Same with The Chameleons having to go with The Chameleons UK. And The Salvation Army having to change their name to something completely different -- The Three O'Clock -- because of a legal challenge from the actual Salvation Army organization. But... Those were all exact name matches. In the case of the garage band the Bryds, the spelling is obviously (slightly) different, and it was pronounced "brides" so it was a stylized version of that word, while the Byrds is a stylized version of "birds." Then there's the aforementioned UK band the Birds, which again is not an exact name copy, so apparently not a problem legally.
@@JustAFocus : thanks for the clarification I did notice the spelling B.R.I.D.E.S But doesn’t That spell brides? U know like bride and groom?! Which would give it a completely different meeting from the avian variety! Lol🤣 OH It really doesn’t matter in the scheme of things All the other problems facing the world today! just enjoy the music everyone that’s my stance! There willnever be another scene like that again!
It is probably safe to say that, to most music fans, there is a world of difference between a band like Buffalo Springfield and a band like the Monkees. That perception, however, is not necessarily accurate. As Unterberger has written, “there was not nearly as much gauche commercialism separating the Monkees and the bold Sunset Strip vanguard as is commonly believed. The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Barry McGuire might have been landing hit records with social protest both gentle and incendiary, but they were tethered to a corporate media establishment in order to deliver those messages. On television’s Where the Action Is you could see the Byrds lip-synching The Bells Of Rhymney in front of vacuous, grinning beach bunnies and muscle men cavorting on diving boards and plastic inner tubes. When Buffalo Springfield mimed to For What It’s Worth on The Smothers Brothers Show, they suffered the insertion of a shot of Tom Smothers pointing a gun at the camera during the line ‘there’s a man with a gun over there,’ to a burst of uproarious canned laughter.”
It’s crazy that almost no one talks about the Byrds today m. They’re so incredible. And we’re so important in their time and for the revolution of music
They are one of the greatest bands ever! In my top 10 favorite albums is "The Best of the Byrds"!
Well...theyre not taylor swift😂😂😂
You're right the only times I heard them mentioned was when David always said he would love to get them together again. Great band!
Glad to have made it to being an old man in 2019, but we did have some fun in the '60's, didn't we.......
DAMN STRAIGHT
More than the law allowed.
Amen to that!
We were blessed
I am hoping that on my last day, when my life is flashing before my eyes, it slows down or even pauses a bit on the late 60s, early 70s. Yes, we had some fun.
I love that 12 string rickenbacker sound
What's not to love?
OMG l am 75 and a teen through the 60s and enjoyed the London club scene but all of us thought The Byrds outstripped the likes of The Beatles and The Stones by miles! Hanging on my wall since the 60s is a signed LP cover of Mr Tambourine Man by the entire group. I still listen to them 2 or 3 times a week! As good today
The Byrds as much as I like them and have most of their albums aren't in the same league as the Beatles.
Have you ever taken that gem of a LP cover to be appraised?
@@alonenjersey Thanks and I have never thought of that as it is on my wall and of great pride Best Group EVER All the best Roger
@@rogerbyroncollins7204 I'll go as far as saying they were the Best American Group between '65 & '66. Please let me know if you decide to get it appraised. Enjoy.
"All of us" being who?
Who doesn’t love the Bryds?!
Who the hell are the Bryds? Brides, yes (as in Frankenstein) but.......
RIP Gene and Mike, the two Clark (e)s.
Ahhhhh, that Rickenbacher!!!
A beautiful song with a beautiful guitar solo but telling the sad incidents in several coal mines in Wales almost 50 years ago😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
Best, most unique and influential band of the era!
Songs like this, Turn Turn Turn and 8miles high are deeper than anything. They were the best band in the world for that time
These are the Byrds!!!
Most exciting thing on RUclips, imho.
Wow !
Comme cette époque était belle
Classic Byrds. What a song !
Maybe the 2nd greatest band after The Beatles (sorry, Stones, you never impressed me). Their perfect harmonies and guitar and drum work is peerless. Modern "musicians" WISH they could possess a FRACTION of this talent. You can listen to The Byrds a million times, and still never get tired of it.
The Byrds FOREVERMORE 🎤🎶🎸🎸🎸🥁
The greatest lyrics - asking bells about the state of the world as if conversing with them- there’s your poetry. No one else did that
Actually Idris Davies did. He wrote the lyrics. I think Pete Seeger wrote the melody. Davies lived a long time ago, when the mine disasters were fresh news.
Great video and a great tune.
At minute 1:42, it's really touching to see those girls, so happy, watching and listening to their favorite artists.
Cheers!
This is but only one of many, many examples of why the sixties was the very best of all the music eras. We even had two Gospel songs that made it into the top 20 and even stayed there for a while. Try to find that anywhere today. This was the time of REAL music.
I miss the singer in the middle, Gene Clark. He was gone much too soon.
Byrds were such an important part of 196os music explosion when you heard there songs it was groovy man
Yeah Byrds Beatles Kinks Animals Rolling stones Walker Brothers Manfred Mann Dave Clark Five Small faces
Who the Move the Moody Blues yeah the days of the transistor radio 📟 you carried to hear the latest songs 📀
MARVELOUS BYRDS FOREVER IN OUR MINDS....
Not bad for 1960's technology; e.g. few if any stage monitors; probably an 8-channel mixer; instruments and drums poorly mic'd, etc. This is still an important video, as it's one of the very few existing videos of the Byrds actually playing and singing live. Still a great group and a beautiful Pete Seger song based on an old Welsh poem.
The poem is about a mining disaster in the South Wales Valleys. I love the song / poem. As someone who grew up in South Wales, I really understand the emotion, significance and politics behind the words.
I know every village and town mentioned, including where I was born and brought up.
When have I seen such passion delivered by a band in a song so smooth?
Never
When have I seen girls dancing in their seats in a Motown feel to lyrics so profound and tragic yet achingly hopeful?
Never
When have I ever heard a savage groove of eighth notes in the bass drum throughout a song?
Never
What three singers have sung in unison with this intensity?
Nobody
This is totally amazing stuff! Frankly I don't care if the harmonies don't match-up just perfectly. I think it is a beautiful piece - captured in time. As one other viewer noted McGuinn's 12 string is just simply beautiful.
To See and listen to McGuinn Crosby Gene Clark Hillman and Michael Clarke is jaw dropping..
I think the crowd especially the girls are spellbound. Some even singing the words.. I'm totally impressed.
For posterity purposes this video along with many of the groups in this period in Rock is Smithsonian worthy.
Robert Pattison Ageeed - it’s perfect as it is here. Their singing is really intense here, much better than the album version.
This may be the only live version we have of this song from the original lineup.
Some of the audience are thoroughly enjoying this performance, others it seems may be dead from the neck-up.
What a fabulous blast from the past.
Yes, some of them seem to be saying "when will they stop playing this boring folk music." But the squeals are wonderful to hear and prove that some people of my generation had exquisite taste.
Maybe those that are not screaming, etc. are actually listening to the lyrics.
Great audience girl shots, plus the back sides of the band, and their perfectly combed bowlcuts. Music is a little slow, but so the heck what?? It's the glorious highflyin Byrds! And wow: produced by Phil Spector no less (every other producer was less-less than him, I mean), so I gather. And Ilya Kuryakin M.C.? Say uncle already! I wonder if David still has his cool cape? The Byrds made, and make my life so wonderfully resonate.
Corvallis Oregon is for me.
Beautiful song with a fine vocal work❤
lots of cute girls in the audience....they look so innocent
and they look like they're all having a great time.
A much better era then.
they should of always had genes mic being the highest...hes the best singer
steve donahue Agreed. Although Gene + David’s high harmony is another level of gorgeousness.
Love The Byrds with Gene Clark...he should have sang more lead.
the guitar rhythm used by Harrison in song if i needed samone
Look at that, a whole group of people actually watching and not looking through their phones.
I think one of the most under rated guitarist of all time.
Damn this sounds great
Amazing for live! WOW
fantastic
They stood there and did it for real... Good job Byrds
Drop D tuning; Rickenbacker 12. Memories!
Love the Byrds . Young David Crosby
By the way, the lyrics are by the Welsh poet idris Davies.
I once met...and touched The sweaty back of!...Roger McGuinn at a concert in Toronto. Not as on key as the recordings, perhaps...but fascinating to see the audience reaction to this rather serious song about the plight of Welsh miners! But THAT was the 60s!
Espectacular!!
Tremendous drummer
Michael Clark
He didnt even play until the Byrds recruited him in '64 because he looked like a rock star. He never even touched a drum. Lol
@@Meme-zc4cw hes no keith moon but sounds good to me
@@markyboy214 You don't need Keith Moon's style on a song like this!!!
He had played before 🙄
The Mr Tambourine Album was one of the best
I think this a segment from the Lloyd Thaxton show. I REMBEMBER THE FENDER BASSMANS STACKED VERTICALLY
The Byrds learned how to be a rock band by seeing “A Hard Days Night” in a theater. The Beatles were an obvious influence, but this song inspired George Harrison to write “If I Needed Someone” for the Rubber Soul album.
i'm glad you made it!
Taken fron the album " The Byrds Greatest Hits"
Day 5990. 2 x 5 x 599. Sugar snap peas in the morning then all my urine then more peas at 1.00pm then all my urine then dried figs and grapes and apple and baby spinach leaves and more peas at 10.00pm. No change.
The best lineup ever
Seems like Harrison lifted the rift here for "If I Needed Someone." Just Sayin'.
Music used to sound so good...
Just listening to this after playing The Alarm version to try and decide which one’s best. Still none the wiser though, love ‘em both.
That's a very fine but quite different version. Never heard it before. More emotionally intense, with the slow funeral march beat... After all, the song is about a mining disaster.
ruclips.net/video/jVrxlcNFccg/видео.html
back when people were cool !
If I Needed Someone
What drama is unfolding at 0:46?
That guy at around 0:48 or 0:49 seconds in is possibly listening to the music VERY carefully
A pretty good live performance of this classic track from the wonderful first Byrds' album. History has stressed how "terrible" the original group were in a live context but this sounds no better or worse than others circa 1965. Okay, the harmonies are a bit ragged towards the end and the audience look a little bemused by what they're seeing and hearing... but then, a song about a Welsh Mining disaster wasn't the usual fare for a "pop" audience at the time!
To my ears the band are pretty much in tune and their timing is fine. This sounds a bit ragged because of the mixing not being as polished as you could get with a studio. Todays technology should allow the voices (instruments and vocals) to be remixed and cleaned up to enable a much more slick and confident final showing. Could be done with Celemony Melodyne if anybody has the tools and the time.
Max Merry.. Great post Max
I am astonished at the tone of McGuinn's Rickenbacker, even in a live context. Did his guitar have built-in compression at that point.
Geoffrey Gentry no not at that moment in time
Gene!
RIP David Crosby and Gene Clark!
Love that old-timey Rickenbacker, but the Byrds rock out even more (and the basic timbre is still maintained) if you play it on 1.25x "normal". Almost Philistine I know.
Anybody think that's a setlist taped to the back of Roger's guitar at 3:15?
Certainly could be. That's a good idea.
It is!
I'm glad they chose this for the important sentiment; however, Rhymney is mispronounced. Pete Seeger sings it correctly.
Yes it's "RUM nee"
as an american who spent 9 years living in Wales, i can attest that few americans have any idea how to correctly pronounce Welsh words and place names. :D
Oh yea
Cardiff Born and Cardiff Bred and when I die I'll be Cardiff Dead! :-)
they were not close to the Beatles but had a unique sound and great songs
George Harrison's If I needed someone is influenced by this Song
Patterson will pay.
Cover of a Pete Seeger song who set the Dylan Thomas poem to music.
I live in Rhymney :D and they're pronouncing it wrong
I think everyone who is not from Wales (I am not as well) pronounces it incorrectly. Pete Seeger wrote and performed this brilliant song pronouncing it as "rimney" so everyone else did as well.
The best live line up was the last they were the best , McGuinn , White, Batten and Gene Parsons saw them many times
They weren’t the Byrds!!!!!! 3 hired hands and Roger! Don’t piss me off! This is better than anything the hired hands did because it’s the real Byrds
@@jamesfitzgerald6636 Pissed off or not everyone has their opinion ,Crosby was a F up ass ,Clark was great but didn't want to travel ,Micheal Clark so so drummer , Hillman was just coming into his own , Roger is the Byrds
Bob Chisholm- sorry, nope.
Who wrote the poem?
It's said Bryds instead of Byrds for the past 7 1/2 years...
👎💯
Patterson will pay ,
DEATH. 😮
They looked as good as the Beatles.
You mean "sounded "?
Better!
Sounded just as 👍great
Well Crosby had the "cape look" made famous by the "Help" album cover.
The Bryds? They sure look like the Byrds to me.
If a need someone
Music made on another planet and brought here by mistake.
Where is the harmonies?
The Byrds, but not The Bryds.
Is that audience footage actually from that particular performance? I have a hard time getting my head around teeny boppers doing synchronised dancing to sombre folk tunes. Even if was the Byrds
Great sound, but why do the jacks have such thin legs like storks?
Inspiration for George Harrison Here comes the sun
Oops -- these are the Byrds, not the Bryds. The Bryds were an actual garage band that were operating at around the same time.
The Birds (with "i") was the garage band. This Byrds (with "y") was the folk/rock band c: dont get confused haha peace! (;
@@anothercrazyguru66 I'm replying 6 years late, lol, but there WAS actually a garage band operating around the same time that was called the Bryds. There was also another garage band at the same time called the Birds. We're both right. The Bryds had "Your Lies." The Birds were a UK R&B band known for "Say Those Magic Words" among some other songs.
@@JustAFocus weren’t there have been lawsuits as to who has a copyright to the name “BYRDS” with a “Y”???!!!???
Where were the record company lawyers throughout all of us or maybe Gene Clark and Company were so mellow they didn’t care that they were other bands with that name? I don’t know someone enlighten me how that works! I know the “BANGLES” The all girl pop group from the 80s were originally called the “BANGS” but they had to change their name to the BANGLES because there WAS already another unknown (all girl) band using the name “BANGS”!
@@nealsausen4651 You're right about The Bangs having to change their name to The Bangles because there was already a band called The Bangs. Just like The Beat needed to be called The English Beat in the US because there was already an American band called The Beat. Same with The Chameleons having to go with The Chameleons UK. And The Salvation Army having to change their name to something completely different -- The Three O'Clock -- because of a legal challenge from the actual Salvation Army organization.
But... Those were all exact name matches. In the case of the garage band the Bryds, the spelling is obviously (slightly) different, and it was pronounced "brides" so it was a stylized version of that word, while the Byrds is a stylized version of "birds." Then there's the aforementioned UK band the Birds, which again is not an exact name copy, so apparently not a problem legally.
@@JustAFocus : thanks for the clarification I did notice the spelling B.R.I.D.E.S But doesn’t That spell brides? U know like bride and groom?!
Which would give it a completely different meeting from the avian variety! Lol🤣
OH It really doesn’t matter in the scheme of things All the other problems facing the world today! just enjoy the music everyone that’s my stance! There willnever be another scene like that again!
It's pronounced like 'Rumney', not 'Rimney'.
Possibly true, but that's how Pete Seeger pronounced it, who first set the poem to music.
It is true ... I was born in the Rhymney valley ... but it's a great song anyway !! @@blueyedboymrdeath
I live in Rhymney and you're 100% right! That's annoying!
It is probably safe to say that, to most music fans, there is a world of
difference between a band like Buffalo Springfield and a band like the
Monkees. That perception, however, is not necessarily accurate. As Unterberger
has written, “there was not nearly as much gauche commercialism
separating the Monkees and the bold Sunset Strip vanguard as is
commonly believed. The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Barry McGuire
might have been landing hit records with social protest both gentle and
incendiary, but they were tethered to a corporate media establishment
in order to deliver those messages. On television’s Where the Action Is
you could see the Byrds lip-synching The Bells Of Rhymney in front of
vacuous, grinning beach bunnies and muscle men cavorting on diving
boards and plastic inner tubes. When Buffalo Springfield mimed to For
What It’s Worth on The Smothers Brothers Show, they suffered the insertion
of a shot of Tom Smothers pointing a gun at the camera during
the line ‘there’s a man with a gun over there,’ to a burst of uproarious
canned laughter.”
Patterson will pay !!!!!
Check out that '65 Audience
Denise Pettet
The Bryds?
When I first saw them on TV they were terribly out of tune. They got much better and have always been one of my favorite bands.
The audience just missed THE WAVE 😂
Patterson is a ploopster 😅
"The Bryds"
👎💯
What even is that misspelling
Is that Sarah Palin at 2:17 ? :)
byrdsmaniac ....probably not not unless there was a 1 year old in the pic...
no, too much life and niceness!
Considering it looks nothing like her.... no.
no monitors
According to me, the recording is slowing.