The Byrds - Old Blue (Kralingen festival, 1970)

[@gdosic]

One of the great songs from the "Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde" album. Clarence playin' the coolest Tele ever!

[@georgefelton669]

McGuinn: "Clarence did great work on everything we ever did, like “Chestnut Mare” and “Old Blue.” He was incredible. He was unpredictable. He was always syncopating and coming out of places you didn’t expect."

[@jerjerbeat]

Wonderful song to a dog named Blue. The Byrds had the best tunes out there.

[@bookiesclub8706]

Drummer/guitarist/banjo player GENE PARSONS invented the B-bender with help from Clarence White, hence the "Parsons-White B-Bender". The guy who took over for Clarence in McGuinn's solo band invented a B-bender that can be retrofitted to ANY stop bar tailpiece on any Gibson, Epiphone, or anything similar and you can put them on various strings, even 2 or three on the same guitar! Gene and Clarence did some incredible stuff.

[@DCShaneTours]

I am glad Clarence White's awesome guitar Hummingbird is in good hands with Marty Stuart.

[@caran26]

The Byrds were one of the top attractions on this festival, they were very popular in Holland at the time, their album Notorious Byrd brothers had been higly acclaimed by the Dutch Popmusic yournalists before, Sweetheart of the Rodeo and the different line-ups and off-spring of the Byrds were scrutinized with great interest and VPRO radio had broadcasted their performance in Rome (Piper Club).Their performance of Old Blue in this festival was for me and many then the highlight of their show.

[@frederichoxie13]

The Byrds had a lot of good songs about dogs. Bless their hearts!

[@GoatDust]

And UFOs !

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

And horses!

[@kool380]

im 87 this makes me feel young again woot woot

[@jordancherkinsky4788]

All of my very favorite musicians….Clarence was amazing. Saw them two times at Michigan State University….1970 & 1971,,,,

[@JOCA208]

Yes,i was there in 1970 the byrds and many good bands like pink floyd it was in my home town Rotterdam very nice festival,what a great time whe have there!!!!!!!

[@A66omd]

Yeh, great to see this one back. Love the understated approach of the band.

[@Byrds1967]

Man, I love this song!

[@smitty54017]

Clarence playin' the coolest Tele ever!

[@TheRecordSelector]

I wonder why they left out my favorite line? "When I get to heaven first thing I'll do is grab my horn and call for old Blue". It's the best thing about that song and I always remember it when I think of my old dogs.

[@j.dragon651]

They kinda jammed a lot of tunes. You will hear different versions of the same song that are radically different. This wasn't their best show, but pretty damn good. I was lucky enough to see them three times.

[@Sheabonez]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say because marijuana.

[@tony22745]

If there's a heaven, it sounds like that Ric!

[@Diggsblues]

One of the great master of the Telecaster. I guess he's jammin'in heaven with Roy Buchanan.

[@bunnyfish714]

my favorite all time American band

[@rremkes]

I was there, as well!

[@dictionar1]

Gawd, ah love this song!

[@CadillacL]

I'd love to get some cd's of this version of Byrds w/clarence.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Every Byrds album from 1969-1971: Dr. Byrds & Hyde, Ballad of Easy Rider, Untitled, Byrdmaniax, and Farther Along--all feature Clarence White on guitar. Knock yourself out! :)

[@drrobert7543]

Love the dual lead guitars

[@gdosic]

Clarence White invented the B-Bender device. This device raises the b (second) string of the guitar a whole step by the use of pulleys and levers attached to the upper strap knob and the second string on the guitar. It is activated by pushing down on the neck, and produces a "pedal steel" type sound. White's playing, now owns and regularly plays White's 1954 Fender Telecaster with the prototype B-Bender. Awesome!!!

[@ericsimon9937]

- GREAT TIMES, BIG PLAYERS !!! How I miss them all... I've often wondered who grabbed Rickenbakers first : Harrison or McGuinn ?

[@jwjeffrey]

It was Harrison,McGuinn said he saw Harrison playing one in the movie A Hard Day's Night

[@tomlehr861]

Gene one heck of a drummer

[@stereopair]

Ahh, Clarence White, I wonder he'd be playing now if he were still with us...

[@davearagon7571]

@stereopair -- Yes, and 15 years after your comment, it's 15 more years of music to wonder about. And besides the music with his actual name on it, I'm thinking about all the musicians who'd listen and learn. Even now, as little time as he had, some fine guitarists name him as an influence. So there could be a difference in the whole sound of things, had he lived longer (just as we now enjoy the difference due to McGuinn having used that 12-string to enrockify folk songs, which caught George Harrison's attention, and so on.) Well, maybe by Mr. White having gone on ahead when he did, he's able to do some sessions that there wasn't time for down here. Janis Joplin maybe? And some older string-pickers who were *his* influences, but never got to play together as much as they'd have liked. (Because "generation gap" was a much bigger deal in those times; and/or, because the industry was miffed at artists who wouldn't stay in their assigned categories ... "Electric bluegrass? As if Johnny Cash wasn't already headache enough for this business. And aw, now lookit -- those hippies have got Earl Scruggs playing with 'em, so he'll be corrupted now too.")

[@karyluhernandez5966]

Excelent music

[@gdosic]

Good question! That's a corker.. In my opinion, Telecaster is best guitar for some reasonable or unreasonable experiments..On this video see how White replaced neck pick-up!

[@gdosic]

Great idea and great, big job---- cuting out the back of the guitar!

[@yann29443]

I was there.....

[@fanviewijsselmeer]

Me too en paidfor it. Great three days!

[@CadillacL]

@macaibhistin From what I've heard/read yes. I've seen him play it & didn't realize, at the time, that it was it.

[@PE1GVK]

Kralingse Bos 1970.... Wat gaat de tijd snel :)

[@psychodelicrock12]

I like this live version of OLD BLUE better than the UNTITLED/UNISSUED version. Plus, THE BYRDS should have done a medley of MR. SPACEMAN & OLD BLUE since both songs are played at the same rhythm and pace.

[@loumndzbl7680]

cool beans!

[@kbaileyg]

Thanks - always thought I would marry Roger McGuinn - my brother just sent me this vid since we are having to say goodbye to our border collie, Stella, tomorrow - Guess they did a lot more than the music and making a 14-year old all goofy -

[@davearagon7571]

@KBaileyG -- goofiness is good for the circulatory system and everything. I hope you're happy & healthy & still enjoying the music. That's the beauty of these recordings; sound waves in air are gone like a dream, and we can't share the experience, nor even really discuss it, with anyone who wasn't right there with us when those waves went by, that one time. There is a deep love for the Byrds in Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, and it's worthwhile to look up their more recent videos. Mr. Stuart was pilloried by fans, for a time, as a hopelessly unworthy steward of Mr. White's B-bender. But he's got some hellacious skills *and* his guitarist Kenny Vaughan is, if anything, better. Well, lately they've taken to *both* playing benders at once and it's a good sound. Also, I saw Mr. Vaughan play (in a pretty recent YT video) a guitar you'll know from sight and sound -- on loan from Mr. McGuinn (who's still a saint to me, whatever his own theology might say.) So, since Marty was on Mr. White's guitar, that's evidently the first time those two instruments have been played together since ... well, since some time that you can perhaps bring to mind.

[@tunderbomber]

I was there.

[@drstevie]

Brill.

[@Detroit1967]

The Hüsker Dü of Folk-/Countryrock : )

[@j.dragon651]

Lucky enough to see Clarence three times, twice with this line up and once in his last concert with the Byrds. Skip and Gene had left by that time and the concert was kind of a dud compared to the first two I saw with this line up.

[@magicmike618]

you can hear him hollerin' miles around....

[@magicmike618]

bye bye blue, you good dog you....

[@bertus161057]

13 at the time missed it was well aware of missing something special historic

[@georgeguttler9364]

Is it speed of the tape or does this seem unduly slow? RM starts it too slow.....LOVE the song though......

[@DJPenguino51]

It's a semitone too low. Song is in D major. Here it's in D flat due to the speed of the film / tape.

[@noflintstone]

Do you have anymore Byrds from this era?

[@TuboUser666]

Tele and everything else with strings.

[@macaibhistin]

Is it true that Mart Stuart now owns Clarence's tele?

[@laytonrichards2188]

Andrew Austin yes it is.

[@RayNDeere]

Marty was a friend of Clarence's brother Roland (the two played in Lester Flatt's band). Clarence's widow was selling some of his stuff and offered some to Marty. Marty asked about the guitar and she had it. Marty handed her his checkbook and told her to write in a price and if he needed to, he would make a loan at the bank his mother worked at. I believe she sold him the guitar, a couple of jackets and other items for a grand total of something like $1500, saying that she knew Marty would take care of the guitar.

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Yes. Clarence sister gave it to him.

[@MrEconline]

When Blue die he died so hard shook the ground in my backyard

[@MrVampiredog]

I HAD A DOG NAME BUTCH

[@race29dub]

Cameramen really sucked back then😒

[@michaelmattichiii1595]

Rather lackluster performance,what happened to the Coke??

[@2002MX5]

TheByrds live could never be accused of knowing how to sing OR play. I've heard every existing live performance, and they're all crap.

[@katiezee2]

Then why did you click on this video to watch it

[@AlexVerbergt]

was there, had a good laugh during their performance

[@22lyric]

Is it really "crap" if people enjoy them?

[@2002MX5]

@@22lyric Nobody enjoyed that garbage.