{"id":2447226,"date":"2019-08-06T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868154"},"modified":"2019-08-06T12:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:58:29","slug":"flashback-original-byrds-lineup-reunites-at-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-original-byrds-lineup-reunites-at-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Original Byrds Lineup Reunites at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Byrds fans were dealt a disappointing bit of news yesterday when a representative for Roger McGuinn totally rebuffed<\/a> David Crosby<\/a>\u2019s public offer to reunite the group. \u201cNeither Roger or Chris [Hillman] entertain the idea of a Byrd\u2019s reunion,\u201d they wrote to Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cRoger was just tired of David crying about being hated. DC is not hated, but that doesn\u2019t mean anyone wants to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dialogue began when Roger McGuinn<\/a> took to Twitter<\/a> to complain that David Crosby unfairly lumped him in with Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash as former bandmates that \u201chate his guts\u201d and \u201cwon\u2019t talk\u201d to him in his new documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name<\/em><\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re saying I won\u2019t talk to you and hate you,\u201d McGuinn wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s just not true!\u201d Crosby responded with an offer to reform the Byrds<\/a>, something he\u2019s been pushing at for years. \u201cWant to do a couple of Byrds dates?\u201d he wrote.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019ll just sing harmony. No talking?\u201d<\/p>\n

McGuinn isn\u2019t willing to do that, but he is willing to do solo shows focused heavily on Byrds songs. He was also willing to reunite with Chris Hillman last year for a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sweetheart of the Rodeo.<\/em> They justified excluding Crosby from that since he wasn\u2019t on that album, even though a decent chunk of the show was devoted to songs from his era like \u201cMr. Tambourine Man\u201d and \u201cSo You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star.\u201d It\u2019s easy to understand why he was a little miffed when he first learned about it.<\/p>\n

The Byrds have reunited a number of times over the years, beginning back in 1973 when the original lineup reformed for a self-titled album. They drifted apart after that into projects like 1979\u2019s McGuinn, Clark and Hillman, and in the 1980s they went to war when rhythm guitarist Gene Clark and drummer Michael Clarke took their own versions of the Byrds on the road. This led to legal action and McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman briefly touring together to reestablish the trademark.<\/p>\n

This whole mess was still being worked out when the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 16th, 1991. Surprisingly, they were able to put all their problems aside for the evening and perform \u201cTurn Turn Turn,\u201d \u201cMr. Tambourine Man,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll Feel a Whole Lot Better.\u201d As you can see from this video, Crosby was in a wheelchair and they weren\u2019t exactly in top form, but it was historic nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Gene Clark died just four months later and Michael Clarke followed two years later. Sadly, that wasn\u2019t enough to bring the surviving members together for one last tour. And even though all these years later, the three of them still have very strong singing voices and remain active on the road, it doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Byrds fans were dealt a disappointing bit of news yesterday when a representative for Roger McGuinn totally rebuffed David Crosby\u2019s public offer to reunite the group. \u201cNeither Roger or Chris [Hillman] entertain the idea of a Byrd\u2019s reunion,\u201d they wrote to Rolling Stone. \u201cRoger was just tired of David crying about being hated. DC is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 20:23:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}