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Article: The Byrds.(RIFFS: Oeuvre Easy)
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- Guitar Player
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- November 1, 2008
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THE BYRDS ASSIMILATED MORE GENRES of music and helped develop more musical hybrids than almost any major band that emerged in the '60s. Their arrangement of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" launched folk rock before Dylan famously went electric at Newport. The John Coltrane/Ravi Shankar-influenced "Eight Miles High" put the Byrds in the vanguard of "raga rock." They recorded songs about aliens and interstellar travel before even Pink Floyd, which makes them space-rock pioneers. During Gram Parsons' short tenure, the band cut Sweetheart of the Rodeo, generally considered the cornerstone of country rock.
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... ... Untitled/Unissued When the Byrds performed at San Francisco ... Parsons--a major part of the Byrds new country sound--and original ... Gene Parsons, and guitarist Clarence White. White had appeared on Sweetheart ... Rodeo (as well as earlier Byrds albums Notorious Byrd Brothers ...
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