McGuinn Performance Tonight

finklea · Post by **finklea** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:05 pm

Great as expected ! No 7 string Martin on stage...all 12 strings , all night...Thanks Roger.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:22 am

Welcome Finklea, I was there as well. Where did you sit? I was front and center about 5 rows back.

BTW, Roger signed my pickguard! WOOO HOOOO! Had a very good conversation with Camela too. She was very nice.

Cole

finklea · Post by **finklea** » Sun May 22, 2005 6:03 am

Cole,
I was 6 rows back to the left of the stage. Thought maybe Jwilli would have shown up too....

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sun May 22, 2005 11:51 am

What's funny is it seems no one there knew the new songs off of L.E. I knew all the words...lol

The new ones are pretty good, I wish the RIC would stand out a little more in the mix though.

His 370 sounded great last night! I couldn't tell if he was playing the janglebox or not. I didn't see anything on the floor other than a bottle of water.

Cole

finklea · Post by **finklea** » Sun May 22, 2005 1:56 pm

I agree. I thought the mix was weak and the EQ was dull on most everything. I don't know if it was the guys running the board or the system itself. A friend of mine installed the house system and I would expect it to be MUCH better than I heard last PM. Roger is still a very strong vocalist and plays maybe better than ever....

admin · Post by **admin** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:05 pm

Finklea: What was Roger's best performance? First, from your point of view and second from the response of the audience.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:20 pm

Peter, if you ask me I think the audience really dug Mr.Spaceman and DSTDM. I really was impressed with 8MH. He didn't do the "echos" version but really did 8MH with an echoy type arrangement. In other words he sang the song as well. He did the download song of the month off of FolkDen. I didn't expect that. He played the first verse of MTM like Dylan played it. He reminded me of Seeger all night. My big dissapointment was that he didn't do the instrumental break from TTT.

I was really looking forward to that! Oh well. He was very animated last night. I thought he was going to come out of his chair during some of the songs. My wife said she just knew he was going to break a string while playing. He just ripped that Martin up!

Cole

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:42 pm

Check out my Ricky now!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/loverickbass/IM002601.jpg

finklea · Post by **finklea** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:19 pm

Peter,
I'd have to say Eight Miles High was THE most impressive from a performance POV (Acoustic 12). I too expected strings to fly......and 8MH has never been my favorite McGuinn/Byrds song. Vocally, he was great on every selection, period!

finklea · Post by **finklea** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:27 pm

I feel this audience, as with so many in the heyday of The Byrds, responded predictablly to 8MH.....

admin · Post by **admin** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:25 am

Beautiful photo Cole. The autograph goes great with the finish. Mind you it would go nicely with any Rickenbacker finish.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:52 am

Thanks Peter,I will treasure it.

Cole

janglebox · Post by **janglebox** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:58 am

Cole wrote: "His 370 sounded great last night! I couldn't tell if he was playing the janglebox or not. I didn't see anything on the floor other than a bottle of water."

I'd be certain Roger used his JangleBox. He keeps it either right off the wings of the stage or by the sound board -- wherever Camilla or the venue's sound tech can get to it and make adjustments if necessary.

On the Byrds FAQ, updated just last week, Roger gives us a nice mention:
http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/ByrdsFAQ.html

Cole, your guitar looks terrific!

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:25 am

Thanks Steve, Camilla was seated at the sound board so I bet it was there.

Cole