Drummer reacts to "Mr. Tambourine Man" & "So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star" by The Byrds

Thank you to our alpha patron Joel for his yet again picking the best tracks for the channel. This was awesome to hear a slower yet almost faster at the same time cover of my favorite Dylan track. I liked some of the additions but not everything. The second track and video was so cool. It was nice to hear the drummer open up and to hear their harmony. Thank you Joel!
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[@yankeeboyno7]

Classic Byrds. One Dylan and one of their own. Perfect sign of the times.

[@L33Reacts]

This was great Joel! Thank you!

[@beverlyoyarzun3326]

A seldom talked about member of the Byrds is Chris Hillman. His first love is bluegrass-he was and is an ace mandolin player. He had never played bass before being recruited by the Byrds. He formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons. Great songwriting and vocals- check out “Have You Seen Her Face”

[@user-mk5xc4ye9t]

The finest "la la la's" ever recorded

[@mitchellbatchelor1594]

Dylan classic, Byrds making it their own.

[@realcoolbreeze]

The Byrds were such a cool band at a very cool period in American music history. Was a very young man then but even today - it still sounds great.

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

There's nothing quite like the sound of McGuinn's Rickenbaker. Tambourine Man was a massive hit in the UK and introduced us to the Byrds.

[@petermay3861]

Sweetheart of the Rodeo deserves a listen.

[@rebeccamcvey8600]

Yes, love that album.

[@nancy9891]

Bob Dylan won a Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 2016 for his profound effect on music. He is considered a poet laureate and his work over the years has inspired American literature.

[@JJ8KK]

*So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star* & *Eight Miles High* were my favorite Byrds songs...

[@namesameasu]

Mr. Tambourine Man as played by the Byrds was the first hippy rock song on AM rado. They followed this with Turn Turn Turn, another early hippy anthem.

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

The Hollies are a classic band, founded in the UK by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in 1962, and having Merseybeat-type sound, which I think easily rivalled the Beatles during that phase of their career. Nash's distinct vocals/harmonies contributed to the band's continuing success throughout the sixites. When he left in 1968, Allan Clarke further evolved the band's sound and propelled them back to international success with hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and the rock classic "Long Cool Woman In a Black Dress". 😊

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Laurel Canyon ruled in these days. The music that came out of that area of LA is unbelievable

[@joannparker1977]

I sang the Byrds' "Turn, Turn, Turn, Turn" at my Mother's funeral. It's a beautiful song.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

The bass line on "So You Want To Be.." is Sick as hell!!

[@scottyhotty1003]

I Love the Byrds Version Best Myself.❤💯🎶

[@36karpatoruski]

Yes, absolutely!

[@johndoe-gt6gp]

If you’re noticing some familiar names on tambourine man it’s because with the exception of Roger Mcquin on 12 string all the other musicians were the wrecking crew. The label didn’t think the other byrds were good enough players to risk them playing their own instruments. That was the case for most of the first album.

[@spazimdam]

Wow I did not know that. interesting.

[@ronnie237]

I remember hearing Mr,. Tambourine Man for the first timewatching Bandstand with Dick Clark. They would do a record review segment where they chose a few of the dancers to listen to a new record and rate it. From what I remember the people liked it and Dick Clark commented that this looks like music is starting to go in a whole new direction.

[@davidschecter5247]

They helped popularize Dylan.

[@blitztim6416]

You haven’t done The Hollies? Nash is on the early songs. Then he left. Try ‘Carrie Ann’, ‘Carousel’ or ‘Bus Stop’.

[@DOUGNIKKEL]

Followed the Byrds through all their changes of music and personnel. My second favorite band next to the Beatles........

[@mikemiller3069]

There is a huge mural of Dylan in downtown Minneapolis that covers the whole side of a large building. It is very colorful and well done. It portrays a young Bob Dylan, a middle aged one and an old one and the caption says, "The Times They Are A-Changin'".

[@757optim]

There's a song lyric that goes, "Roger McGuinn had a 12 string guitar, It was like nothing I'd ever heard" ("Willie, Waylon, and Me" by David Allan Coe). McGuinn was inspired to pick up the Rickenbacker 12 string by George Harrison, but Roger (Jim) perfected the "jingle jangle" sound that he got out of it that was his iconic signature.

[@herzwolf1724]

I was 12 years old when Mr Tambourine Man by The Byrds came out, in a German-speaking country. I didn't understand much of the lyrics, but for me it was the anthem of a dark, mysterious, dawning youth culture. It was one of my favorits at the juke box. A young person of the X-gene will probably perceive the song very differently.

[@terrycunningham8118]

Man, that compressed Ric sound stood up against the best the British invasion could throw at it. It was the sound of America saying "Ok, game on".

[@davidrauh8118]

No it's Roger / Jim McGuinn on lead vocals. Backing by Gene and David Crosby. But like always it's Crosby's middle vocal that is the glue that holds it together. The cheering you hear in the background on R&R Star came from a Beatles concert.

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Back in the day, we all listened to the AM radio and our favorite music was on it. Unfortunately, they made the artists cut their songs very short for top 40 airplay. On FM, however, they had cool channels like KMPX and KSAN in S.F. They often played entire albums without interruption and their DJ's were personalities and often live streamed their shows. It was a fun time.

[@jaycorby]

You have one of the most Irish Catholic girl's names I've not encountered since I was in parochial grade school!

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

@@jaycorby Thank you! I didn't like my name as a kid, but now I do. (My maiden name started with an "M" too)

[@user-pf7jm9go6o]

David Crosby relates that he wanted to play guitar, but when he saw the Beatles on TV that incentivized him to want to be a "rock'n'roll star" and led to the formation of the Byrds with McGuinn and the others.

[@L33Reacts]

Who wouldn't want to be a rock n roll star after seeing the beatles?? I wish I was in those videos goofing off with them so bad. 😅🤣🤣🤣

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Couldnt wish to help a better guy out Lee.

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

Great hit songs during Graham Nash's tenure with the Hollies are multiple. My favorites are "Look Through Any Window", "Bus Stop", and "King Midas In Reverse".

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

"King Midas In Reverse" was a bit of a departure from their typical "happy" sound. King Midas in Reverse was more psychedelic and experimental in nature. It's a great song in my opinion, but wasn't the hit the Hollies wished it would be. This failure may have somewhat contributed to Nash's eventual departure, but I'm sure there were other reasons.

[@aldo34]

Love The Byrds. Grew up on this stuff, good memories. I do think these songs sound better in Mono though.

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

McGuinns 12 string Rickenbacker guitar on Tambourine Man. Superb

[@L33Reacts]

Absolutely. That was the one thing I liked more then the original.

[@spazimdam]

Love that jangly 12 string electric Rickenbacker guitar of Mr McGuinn. You should check out their song Tribal Gathering from the Notorious Byrd Brothers album. It's a cool psychedelic song. Cool video Lee!

[@jimgreen2080]

At the time, The Byrds’ rock approach to Dylan essentially broke Dylan to a larger more commercial audience and virtually created the genre called folk-rock. Mr. Tambourine Man was their first single and the record company called in the best LA session musicians to play all of it besides McGuinn’s 12-string. That means the one Byrd not on that track was Michael Clarke, since he didn’t sing; everyone else’s vocals, led by McGuinn, are on it. So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star is the bands playing and singing, along with Hillman’s friend Hugh Masakela on trumpet and someone else adding Latin-style percussion (I don’t think that’s Michael, although he did play the drums on it).

[@gpxo11]

Another Dylan song the Byrds did you might enjoy is My Back Pages-my favorite overall Byrds song is The Bells Of Rhymny-it has a mezmerizing drone sound that pulls you in.

[@L33Reacts]

My back pages coming next week! The original and the cover.

[@gregbacon9808]

You should also play a lot of the Best of Buffalo Springfield since that’s Stills and Young❤️👏🏻👍🏻🎼

[@steveowens2505]

He did entire album

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

Bob Dylan didn't give a crap about the length of his songs. How he managed to fill the time with amazingly intricate vocals is what befuddles me, and makes him a legend....

[@bobduerwald9805]

A great Byrds song that is rarely reacted to is 5D(Fifth Dimension). Very jingly jangly Byrds guitar work but still a fine song and very catchy tune.

[@jeffreythaw3333]

Excellent choice. But there are so many wonderful Byrds songs: "5D", "The Bells of Rhymney", "Turn, Turn, Turn", "My Back Pages", "Wasn't Born to Follow", "Goin' Back", "Nothing Was Delivered", "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", "Chimes of Freedom", "Eight Miles High"...

[@dczzzz55]

Hugh Masakela on trumpet on Rock n Roll Star

[@alrivers2297]

Cool. Didn't know that

[@russallert]

Hugh was returning a favour after he hired David Crosby and Chris Hillman to play on a record he was producing for South African singer Letta Mbulu. The music was a kind of African/jazz/pop mixture, and both Crosby and Hillman were way out of their comfort zone. But the session was so inspiring to Hillman that he went home and wrote his first song: Time Between. Totally different style (country) than what he'd just been playing at the session, but he was channeling the muse to a style he was familiar with.

[@dekk640]

Cool personified I love the Byrds, favourites are Chestnut Mare and I wasn't born to follow oh yeah and Eight Miles High.

[@vortexpilot5096]

And thus folk-rock was born.

[@vortexpilot5096]

And yeah, the second song does not feature Gene Clark who had left by then. Of course in the video the band is miming to their studio recording, as was common back then.

[@goonbelly5841]

From Wikipedia (clarification on who plays on the single and the album): Record producer Terry Melcher felt that the band hadn't completely gelled yet musically, so he brought in a group of L.A. session musicians, later known as the Wrecking Crew, to provide the musical backing on the single. As a result, McGuinn was the only Byrd to play on the Mr. Tambourine Man single. By the start of recording sessions for the album, Melcher felt satisfied that the group had polished their sound enough to be able to produce professional-sounding backing tracks and the Byrds were allowed to record the rest of the Mr. Tambourine Man album without any help from session musicians.

[@user-ph9wt3ue7c]

Hal Blaine on drums. Larry Knechtel on bass. Jerry Cole on guitar. McGuinn understood this because he had done studio worrk himself.

[@davidwatts1906]

'I Used To Be A King' from Graham Nash's first solo album! All kinds of musician friends playing on it! Even Gerry Garcia on steel pedal no less!

[@charlesharris2749]

There's several good Laurel Canyon documentaries you might like, Legends of Laurel Canyon and a 2020 tv series among them. Everyone from Zappa to Jackson Browne to Joni and so many others lived there.

[@Cheryworld]

If you want to check out the Hollies - the song "He ain't Heavy, he's my brother" hits real real hard

[@L33Reacts]

I can only imagine from a title like that. 😪

[@andersjohansson4734]

@@L33Reacts It's a great one, but you will miss out on Graham Nash. He left 1968 and He ain't heavy was recorded a year later.

[@jefffinn1105]

No, no, no.... Nash isn't on that tune & that type of recording is why he quit the band, totally different style. That's more 1970's MOR. "Bus Stop" or "Look Through Any Window" are typical.

[@757optim]

@@L33Reacts Check. That one is recommended. Video version.

[@thescrewfly]

The standard length for a single was about three minutes - up from two and a half minutes a decade or so earlier.

[@steven.6227]

McGuinn was a huge influence on Tom Petty

[@ep1956]

The dubbed on screaming girls was actually taken from a concert by The Monkees!

[@user-mo6tz6oh9i]

I believe Roger McGuin is singing lead on Mr. T.

[@robertthole695]

saw them at the civic aud in santa monica back in the day

[@gwensnyder8313]

The Hollies made an entire album of Dylan covers. The only one I’ve seen on KZbin is “The Mighty Quinn”. My bad, there are a few of them.

[@jefffinn1105]

That album is specifically what caused Nash to quit The Hollies, he didn't want to be part of a cover band.

[@LoopORama]

Gene Clark's album No Other is a masterpiece. Chris Hillman's album Slippin' Away is also great. Lee Sklar played bass on both!

[@robbielux8353]

For Hollies you should do Bus Stop, Look Through Any Window, Yes I Will, Here I Go Again

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Great choices again Joel

[@stevenblock9712]

That is Roger McGuinn singing, not Gene Clark. Tambourine Man was followed by Turn Turn Turn, which went to #1. You also should hear Eight Miles High, which is more psychedelic and was banned on many radio stations because of the drug references.

[@fineasfogg1461]

That video is our version of psychedelia before computer chip

[@carolynschmidt5467]

Hello there.😊

[@zendt66]

I love the music on Tambourine Man from the Byrds but it's only one verse. There's so much more to this song.

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah I prefer dylans version. A lot more too it. But it's a good single for them. I honestly liked the second song more for them

[@johnhopkins4767]

The Dylan studio version from Bringing It All Back Home would be the one I go to for repeat listening. And of course many other songs from that album are also famous. I like his performance on "It's All Over Now Baby Blue".

[@davidwalsh7128]

Nice. My favorite version of Rock n Roll Star is Patti Smith Group. Definitely worth a spin. Thank you....

[@ralliswiesenthal3495]

Roger McGuinn on lead vocals

[@paulkingartwerks7981]

Roger McGuinn on lead vocals.

[@unstrung65]

The Byrds are my favorite band , why do a song twice ?? There are others to choose from !!!

[@dougca7086]

React to the Jefferson Airplane live on the Dick Cavett Show the day after they appeared at Woodstock also on the show is David Crosby and Stephen Stills and Joni Mitchell all singing together on the show to love somebody

[@johnniekight1879]

That's Roger McGuinn singing.

[@terenzo50]

Jim was singing lead (now Roger) on Tambourine Man.

[@chitownlee]

Roger McGuinn is singing lead.

[@mikeconway9103]

My favorite Byrds song is Feel a Whole Lot Better. You may wish to listen to it.

[@splitimage137.]

Graham Nash's solo album SONG FOR BEGINNERS has some good songs on it... BETTER DAYS... and CHICAGO ("So your brother's bound and gagged, and they've chained him to a chair - won't you please come to Chicago, show your face..." about the 1968 police riot for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago... which MAY happen again this summer, considering the reaction to the U.S. involvement supplying Israel's weapons for its war in Gaza, causing protests like we haven't seen... since... Chicago 1968!

[@JB-Deadskins]

Bob Dylan is the GOAT. But you haven't even scratched the surface on his catalog., to be picking favorites. Listen to Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks. So many great songs, and you still are just getting started. No one has more songs that have been covered.

[@andrewk5710]

Beatles have been covered more. Just saying. Bob is cool, especially with The Band 💕

[@JB-Deadskins]

@@andrewk5710 actually, no they haven't. Even if you put them all together, which you can't do, because they're not one artist, Bob has more distinct songs covered., the Beatles have had the same songs covered more times, but that's not what I said.

[@andrewk5710]

I read this a few times and I’m still not sure what you said. 😂 It’s a me problem. I like your Dead picture! Seen Jerry and the Dead many times, 5 times with Dylan opening.

[@JB-Deadskins]

@@andrewk5710 the Beatles songs that have been covered, are the same songs, being covered over and over. Dylan has more songs that have been covered, just not as many times. His catalog spans so many genres and styles. There's something for everyone.

[@andrewk5710]

Gotcha! And yes, there is something for everyone in his catalog. His live shows are hit or miss, though. When he’s on, he’s on! But when he’s off….ugh

[@HeidiDenoble]

Check out My Back Pages by them.

[@CharCanuck14]

Suggestion: "My Back Pages" - great song by Dylan, recorded by The Byrds with the best version being the 30th Anniversary Concert. n.b. The "u" in Roger McGuinn's name should be pronounced as a "w".

[@L33Reacts]

That one is in the pipeline! Next week :) gonna be the original and the cover.

[@CharCanuck14]

@@L33Reacts Ty Lee! You're the best!

[@johnhopkins4767]

I find the 30th anniversary version a mess - about as focused as people singing happy birthday at a birthday party. The Byrds' studio recording is quite an outstanding arrangement - Dylan himself said he changed how he performed the song after hearing the Byrds' arrangement. McGuinn's vocal is one of his top efforts, and the the brief guitar solo is unusually intense. A truncated version was on the radio.

[@mamared56]

Please, please, please do a reaction to I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better" also by the Byrds.

[@paulehney4581]

All of the Byrds stuff is excellent. Lol, I like the Bryds version of both tunes better than the originals.

[@KalPDal-vq5fl]

Try "My Back Pages" and "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", two more Dylan songs that the Byrds recorded. "My Back Pages" wasn't a big hit, strangely enough, and "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" was never released as a single. Great song, though. Speaking of early Dylan covers Manfred Mann recorded "If You Gotta Go, Go Now", "Just Like A Woman" and "Mighty Quinn". And the Turtles recorded "It Ain't Me Babe". All big hits.

[@somersetcace1]

I actually heard this version of "Mr. Tambourine Man` before the original. I didn't even know it was a dylan song until I had heard this version on the radio several times. It kind of tainted my opinion of the original at first, but dylan is kind of an acquired taste anyway. and I was 12 at the time. lol

[@L33Reacts]

So you had the opposite experience as me 😆 funny how that works out. Our brains are so funny

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Bob had been around longer. The Byrds were just starting at this time.

[@patticrichton1135]

It's ROGER (Jim) McGUINN singing lead on Mr. Tambourine. He's not imitating Dylan, that is how he sings

[@glenndespres5317]

Man, Rock ‘n’ Roll Star should have been 10 minutes min!

[@JB-Deadskins]

Is it just me or did David Crosby seem totally nervous doing that introduction?

[@alrivers2297]

Possibly, but it kinda sounded like he was out of breath a bit. Maybe they had to scramble on stage and get everything together quickly or something

[@jefffinn1105]

Roger McGuinn did the lead vocal & is the ONLY Byrd whose instrument (12 String) is on this record. All the other music was performed by the Wrecking Crew ( a good rabbit hole to look into later on) who performed most pop/rock music on records out of LA up to about mid-60's or so. This was so inexperienced bands wouldn't have to learn how to perform in the studio & take up a lot of time, Roger had already recorded in studios as a folkie.

[@L33Reacts]

Take it up with the liner notes. Not me. Lol

[@beverlyoyarzun3326]

The Wrecking Crew played *only* on the 45rpm single of Mr Tambourine Man and whatever the Bside was. The Byrds played their own instruments on every recording after that one single.

[@user-pf7jm9go6o]

Listen to the lyrics of Rock'n'Roll Star again, they're very sarcastic and spoofing the music industry.

[@user-qm7ze4sx4e]

No, sorry! There was a reason many of dylan's songs became popular & it wasn't the one's he sang! They were mostly the one's COVERED by others, whether it was a band or a solo artist! Simply put, we liked the stratocaster, Gibson, fender guitars others employed over a box guitar! And, their voices were powerful, rhythmic, & had more feelings in delivery! The credit should go to the writer, Dylan, but the applause should go to the cover artists that gave LIFE to the songs! The Turtles, Byrds, Cher, etc., all deserve it bc they put his music out for mainstream listeners like me who, at 15 years old in '65 just lived for these sounds! 'Course, the Beatles were #1! BLOOD ON THE TRACKS was definitely an album that no covers could touch bc Dylan was perfect in every song but early on, except for LIKE A ROLLINGSTONE, seemed like only covers could do justice to his songs!

[@danhill5619]

Go back to Buffalo Springfield you missed something

[@L33Reacts]

I've done most of Buffalo Springfield already. It's just on patreon. I've done the entire retrospective album on there and a handful of tracks on here