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VanDyke on 5D. I don't know who played on MBP, I always assumed it was Gary Usher...it could be Leon, but I've never seen any session chits from that album.

Leon definitely plays Wurly on the first single.

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VanDyke Parks on a Hammond organ.

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> when Gary Paxton (Bakersfield International)
> first got one they had to keep it hidden
> so he didnt get in trouble with the unions...

Indeed, though I think Paxton actually had a Mellotron, one of the first sample-playback keyboard instruments, as opposed to a true synthesizer, like a Moog ...

It's a Hammond with a fast Leslie setting. The Byrds didn't start using the Moog until "Notorious Byrd Brothers."

The first 60's pop band to use a Moog was...wait for it...The Monkees, on their "Pices, Aquarius..." Lp in 1967.

Buck Owens was actually the second big Moog sale in the US, buying ...

Semantics. If it swims like a duck, whether its one lap around the lake or two, it's still a duck.

A reunion is a reunion is a reunion, whether for a day, a week, or a year, one concert, a series of concerts, or 4 new tracks for the boxset (though I found those to be a disappointment...too much ...

Actually they've reunited a few times since the Asylum Lp (which is actually a pretty good record, certainly better than the last few "official" Byrds Lps), including live shows in the late 80's during the trademark dispute with Clarke, the Roy Orbison tribute, the new tracks for the 1990 boxset ...

The Eagles have always been about the money...

Exactly.

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I don't buy that part of the argument, any more than using Biblical excuses to hide behind...not like anyone expects to see 19 year-old kids with puddin' basin haircuts.

Andres Segovia played into his 90's, Bill Monroe into his mid-80's, BB King is 70-something & still playing...McGuinn's still ...

I think the McCartney quote was, "you can't re-heat a souffle."

My feeling is he's just happier as a solo...lets face it, he's never had much luck with bands. The guys in the Chad Mitchell Trio used to ***** slap him, the Byrds were always warring with each other, he had problems with some of the ...

They resolved those differences long ago, & have played (& recorded) together several times since then.

There's always the chance that it might suck, but I thought they did pretty good at the '89 shows, & circulating boot recordings from those shows tend to bear that out...YMMV of course...

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This is one of the many reasons why I think its insane to base your whole life around some old superstitious Bronze-age scribblings.

*sigh*

> They tried it in 1973...and it flopped...

I wouldn't call it a flop -- it's a pretty good album. Sure it could've been mixed better, but its definitely head & shoulders above Byrdmaniax & Farther Along, not to mention a goodly portion of Untitled (namely the Skip Battin songs). Crosby had other ...

That's PRE-stringbender Clarence, btw...

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> Per 'Six Decades Of The Fender Telecaster'
> (Tony Bacon), that's not where that tele
> came from...

Well...per James himself it is, but please do tell!

bw