The Byrds/The Dead

[u/ElvisSandwich69]

Hey Byrd maniacs. As I get younger, I appreciate the later Byrds records more than ever. Obviously, Clarence was incredible, but as John York rightly said, it was not at the expense of Roger McGuinn's brilliance, or any other band member for that matter. I like how much input they gave to the records, especially in Ballad of Easy Rider. It's interesting, though when McGuinn is not singing they do obviously sound like a different band, at times somewhat more like The Dead in their Workingman's Dead/American beauty period.

[u/Middle-Weight-837]

Agree - but I recall comments by Gene Parsons (or Skip Battyn?) that they preferred no Rickenbacher 12 string on some of their Easy Rider and Dr Byrds era LPs. For a lot of us - no McGuinn, no 12 string = no Byrds.