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As Roger McGuinn once said of the Byrds, "It was Dylan
meets the Beatles." The Byrds combined the upbeat, melodic
pop of the Beatles with the message-oriented lyrics of Bob
Dylan into a wholly original amalgam that would be branded
folk-rock. If only for their harmony-rich versions of
Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn! Turn!
Turn!," drenched in the 12-string jangle of McGuinn's
Rickenbacker guitar, the Byrds would have earned their
place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yet the group
continually broke ground More...




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the rivers of our vision | Reviewer: Maurice Judge
    ------ About the song Wasn't Born To Follow performed by The Byrds

This is all about ACID and the psychedelic production by the Byrds is a trip out to this day.Dig the guitar solo and the trippy flange effects also used by the Small Faces and Jimi.You can also note that the country feel is at odds with the hippy vibe and the Byrds later went to the country side with clarence White


Byrd Lover | Reviewer: Doug Hood
    ------ About the song Chestnut Mare performed by The Byrds

It is a beautiful song and you can read into it WHAT YOU WANT. I wrote a paper about it in my Western Lit class in college. I inerpreted as a Roger McQuinn BRYDS eye view of trying to find yourself and your destiny...really has nothing to do about a horse!! I got an A++ for the paper...I looked down and saw this red thing below us...our reflection in a little pool of water...

So Good! | Reviewer: Byrd Watcher
    ------ About the song Chestnut Mare performed by The Byrds

Don't listen to the other review-this is a true classic. Its a long song because McGuinn originally wrote it for a play that never ending up seeing the light up day, and eventually he decided to record it with the Byrds. If you want to read bestiality into it...well, fine, that's what your mind gets out of, but its really just a beautiful song about a bygone time and the connection between man and nature. Beautiful 12-string picking by McGuinn and acoustic fills by Clarence White.

The danger of Certainty | Reviewer: Anonymous
    ------ About the song My Back Pages performed by The Byrds

War, slavery, crucifiction, mutiny, environmental degradation, murder. pride... all come from being certain of your superiority and/or righteousness. We need to be younger, more open, less "defensive" because defense often becomes offensive.

back pages | Reviewer: steve
    ------ About the song My Back Pages performed by The Byrds

agree with tim dylan told a audience recently that by the time he wrote my back pages he had grown up was thinking about the real heros of his generation were his fathers contemporaries that fought and saved the world during WW II

grown-up | Reviewer: Tim
    ------ About the song My Back Pages performed by The Byrds

You could interpret this in plenty of ways. Roger McGuinn said that Bob Dylan was "protesting about protest songs", mocking his younger self, and asserting that he had grown up since then. I think Dylan had grown tired of being a radical and just wanted to settle down.

Life | Reviewer: Richard
    ------ About the song My Back Pages performed by The Byrds

This is one of the greatest "protest" songs. Dylan was mature beyond his years,and thats reflected in all of his songs. This songs shows how we are maniuplated by our elders and shows how when we are faced with facts that are different from what we are taught, it causes confusion "munity" and brings in to question all that we think we know. I pray for all of my generation lost in Vietnam.

Five Star Sixties Byrds | Reviewer: charles
    ------ About the song Lay Down Your Weary Tune performed by The Byrds

This is one of the Byrds finest songs. It mixes the incomparable Bob Dylan lyric with crystal clear instrumentation to produce a little mini anthem celebrating the mystery of life and the universe and all its potential. For a guitar player the arrangement is simple enough to pick up on but plenty of room to mix up the changes and play some real music!

Transitions | Reviewer: Anonymous
    ------ About the song My Back Pages performed by The Byrds

This is a lyrically incredible song. It seems that the Byrds best song are the ones written by Dylan (eg. this one and Tambourine Man). I believe this song is about the narrator's transition from the New Left (Civil Rights, Free Speech Movement, etc.) which is political and therefore "older" to the Hippie Counterculture which is "younger"; i.e. more childlike.

TOP TEN | Reviewer: Surgeman
    ------ About the song Wasn't Born To Follow performed by The Byrds

I believe this to be one of the best songs ever recorded, definately in the Top 10. I cannot understand how this song is NOT included on the "Byrd's Greatest Hits."
The only problem with this song is it is TOO SHORT.
FYI, from the movie, "Easy Rider."


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