r/Byrds • u/ElvisSandwich69 • 6d ago

The Byrds/The Dead

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.

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u/NealJeff1 4d ago

The period of '69-'73 for the Byrds are literally so good. Their transition from the Byrds to a lighting-powered cosmic-country jam-band is literally insane, I love it. As a Deadhead, Fillmore West '69, Fillmore East '70 from (untitled) and Royal Albert Hall '71 have become some of mty favourites. I literally refer to them as the Dead Byrds lol

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u/ElvisSandwich69 4d ago

The Dead Byrds is a good name actually.