![]() ![]() What would become the alternative scene that would climax with the ascent and burnout of the band we know call Nirvana. ![]() The Byrds are firmly part of the rock and roll canon – heck, they were even inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame shortly before Gene Clark and Michael Clarke expired (& around the time Crosby, Hillman and McGuinn set against a Clark-Clarke lead incarnation of The Byrds, which also featured Rick Danko of The Band at one point).īut there was one time when the Byrds were kind of neglected – it was really the early US 80s that rediscovered their work and celebrated it, from the Paisley Underground scene, to REM’s jangly early years on IRS, to more jingle-jangles from Johnny Marr in the celebrated Smiths, and an apparent influence on two key bands from Minneapolis rooted in the US underground and the burgeoning college rock scene: Husker Du and The Replacements. There’s only really space for the crap albums they released towards their latter incarnations – which is why folk have moved onto rediscovering later solo ventures like Cardiff Rose, If I Could Only Remember My Name & No Other. Which is cobblers, especially when you consider the alt country odes to a certain part of their career and the way books and reviews have appeared for less celebrated records like ‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ or ‘Untitled/Unissued’ in recent years. Yes…really – the band that’ve had several box sets, biographies and 33 1/3 books, a mass of compilations, everything reissued and bands citing them to buggery in the 80s and 90s are underrated and unsung. In this blog, McGee demonstrated that his finger is on the pulse by writing about the neglected status of The Byrds. It was quite amusing recently to read a blog on the Guardian Unlimited website from one Alan McGee, one of the men behind Creation records – a once celebrated indie label that later flogged itself to Sony. Signs in the street that say where you’re goingĪmong those afraid of losing their groundīy Gene Clark, David Crosby & Roger McGuinn Later collected in 1990 on the Makes No Sense At All cd single: ![]() Husker Du Eight Miles High b/w Masochism World ![]()
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