Hello, all ! Peter was gracious enough to ask me if I wanted to give this a shot, so I guess most
anything goes here.If you happen to frequent Alt.
Byrds and the Rickenbacker N.G., you have some sort of primer on the basic subject already. And
if you were a teen in the early to mid 60s, you have an added advantage in that you Know few bands
[and there were a Lot of them!] were as hip and cool as the Byrds!I suspect most of us here got
some sort of start playing guitar back then and
doubtless were mesmerized by the look of Rickenbacker guitars. Contrary to our parents
claims all this was a "fad" that would soon pass,
well, just look at you all Now!!And we Still haven't grown up!Let's see what craziness we can
generate here[but keep it Nice!] Don
Thanks for having me aboard...
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Tom_H._Cat
"The Byrds were the wackiest five guys in the world to put together, seriously. Strange people. We had, oftimes, nothing in common musically and very little in common socially. Except a love of pot and the Beatles. And basically that's what made the fracking thing so meaningful!"
-- Chris Hillman
(Byrds Box Set booklet, p. 50)
-- Chris Hillman
(Byrds Box Set booklet, p. 50)
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Mark
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Don
I knew if this thread lasted long enough that someone would eventually get to the bottom of things.
Life, as with music, often requires one to let go of the melody and listen to the rhythm
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yettoblaster
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Hey Mark,
Don wrote:
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> The new challenge will be to show or quote us
> something that isn't Already in your databases!
Well, I answered the challenge. I take it neither you nor Don has ever seen the above photo, let alone the whole picture. Perhaps if you did, its on-topic relationship to this forum would become abundantly clear. FYI, the above photo was published in a major rock magazine and those nekkid buttocks have been viewed by countless long-time Byrdfans worldwide over the past three decades. McGuinn himself is quite familiar with those buttocks (as Peter can attest), and the complete photo does have redeeming (and rare) Rickenbacker content.
However, if you're dead set on removing blotches from the buttocks, good heavens, be sure to sand up to 1800 before even beginning the buffing process. And don't forget, the older aluminum oxide papers (black) are likely to leave their own permanent residues, among other things.
Cheers
Don wrote:
>
> The new challenge will be to show or quote us
> something that isn't Already in your databases!
Well, I answered the challenge. I take it neither you nor Don has ever seen the above photo, let alone the whole picture. Perhaps if you did, its on-topic relationship to this forum would become abundantly clear. FYI, the above photo was published in a major rock magazine and those nekkid buttocks have been viewed by countless long-time Byrdfans worldwide over the past three decades. McGuinn himself is quite familiar with those buttocks (as Peter can attest), and the complete photo does have redeeming (and rare) Rickenbacker content.
However, if you're dead set on removing blotches from the buttocks, good heavens, be sure to sand up to 1800 before even beginning the buffing process. And don't forget, the older aluminum oxide papers (black) are likely to leave their own permanent residues, among other things.
Cheers
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Don
Well my vote is for some out take of the Untitled LP and this could be (God ,this must be embarrassing for him) Henry McGuinn's rear end ,the man who answers the parts phone at the factory and is also [email protected]
So you too want yours "ALAPWOB"?!?!
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Don
Well, after a long day at work, at least this
subject[a--es] is more interesting than the a--es
I have to endure on the job.Hmm, maybe it's Not
Croz.Looks alike a baby's but[t] it's not[or is it?].Now, let's get to the "bottom" of this once and for all.Tomcat, let's have it, out with the
truth, or it's Two nites in a row you get no fruitcup!Geez, AGR hasn't been This silly,thanks to the MD and he who needs more meow mix.Maybe this is what we really need; we're taking all this other stuff everyone has memorized by now
too seriously.I mean, Really, this is 1st off, a Rick site. Byrds have Rick content, but how far can you really go with it? We know where all the Byrds Ricks are even if all the whole stories
are not known[IMHO, they are not likely to be, either]and lately, more early Byrds photos have turned up that even I'd never seen.So what's to
prove, unless of course, someone from time to time happens to stumble on some Incredibly cosmic
picture of Roger from the early days we've never yet seen.And there Has to be some more of that out there, we've just not connected with it yet.
How about this for some input on the Byrds? To those here who Actually saw them perform from '65 to '73, let's hear from some of you chronic gearheads like myself, who Always had to scope out the band and could give a full report afterwards as to just what amps and guitars the band used on a given gig.I only saw the Byrds twice, in Feb.'70 and again in May '70, just a few months before "Untitled" came out.To anyone who is interested,ask me, and I'll give you a Detailed inventory of the contents of their stage.
Anyone else want to commit to this one?I will say
that if you never got to hear Roger back 30 years ago, Live, [pre-compressor] thru 3 Fender amps with JBLs[a Twin, Super, and Dual Showman Reverb],
you have no clue how irrelevant the whole compressor issue is. Maybe he was wishing he'd had
one to use live then[and there are some reports that at some point in time he supposedly dragged
some type of compressor with him]but when I saw him, I was close enough to see the numbers on his amp knobs, and he was not plugged into anything but the amps.Simply put, he was[and still is] amazing.Enough of me. Someone else come out and get us revved with a detailed, live Byrds story!!
[for the moment, let's deal in Byrds Only, no solo
Roger stuff; that we can get to soon enough, and I know MD has more than a few of those shows to relate.]
subject[a--es] is more interesting than the a--es
I have to endure on the job.Hmm, maybe it's Not
Croz.Looks alike a baby's but[t] it's not[or is it?].Now, let's get to the "bottom" of this once and for all.Tomcat, let's have it, out with the
truth, or it's Two nites in a row you get no fruitcup!Geez, AGR hasn't been This silly,thanks to the MD and he who needs more meow mix.Maybe this is what we really need; we're taking all this other stuff everyone has memorized by now
too seriously.I mean, Really, this is 1st off, a Rick site. Byrds have Rick content, but how far can you really go with it? We know where all the Byrds Ricks are even if all the whole stories
are not known[IMHO, they are not likely to be, either]and lately, more early Byrds photos have turned up that even I'd never seen.So what's to
prove, unless of course, someone from time to time happens to stumble on some Incredibly cosmic
picture of Roger from the early days we've never yet seen.And there Has to be some more of that out there, we've just not connected with it yet.
How about this for some input on the Byrds? To those here who Actually saw them perform from '65 to '73, let's hear from some of you chronic gearheads like myself, who Always had to scope out the band and could give a full report afterwards as to just what amps and guitars the band used on a given gig.I only saw the Byrds twice, in Feb.'70 and again in May '70, just a few months before "Untitled" came out.To anyone who is interested,ask me, and I'll give you a Detailed inventory of the contents of their stage.
Anyone else want to commit to this one?I will say
that if you never got to hear Roger back 30 years ago, Live, [pre-compressor] thru 3 Fender amps with JBLs[a Twin, Super, and Dual Showman Reverb],
you have no clue how irrelevant the whole compressor issue is. Maybe he was wishing he'd had
one to use live then[and there are some reports that at some point in time he supposedly dragged
some type of compressor with him]but when I saw him, I was close enough to see the numbers on his amp knobs, and he was not plugged into anything but the amps.Simply put, he was[and still is] amazing.Enough of me. Someone else come out and get us revved with a detailed, live Byrds story!!
[for the moment, let's deal in Byrds Only, no solo
Roger stuff; that we can get to soon enough, and I know MD has more than a few of those shows to relate.]
Here's the whole picture.
Caption reads:
'If we were this much of a problem to our elders, yet we're model Ts . . .'
As anyone can see, it's not kiddie porn or anything that sick filthy minds might conjure. It's The Byrds' very own Roger McGuinn and son. For anyone with family values, can't get much more family than father and son. The only thing missing from the photo might be the Holy Ghost. Then again, ghosts are said not to photograph all that well. However, for the truly Rickenbacker conscious, as soon as straying eyes quit gawking at the naked child or staring at the pack of smokes and whatever else is on the table, notice the 1966 Jetglo Rickenbacker 325Byrd hanging off the wall in the background at the top of the photo (just to the right of Roger McGuinn's head). That Rickenbacker currently belongs to Roger's son Henry McGuinn. The original full size photo shows the Vox treble booster mini-switch just above the two toggles which identifies the guitar. And no, that's not Henry in the photo. Rolling Stone did a lengthy feature on Roger McGuinn and The Byrds back in 1970, and this was one of the accompanying photos. The caption is a McGuinn quote from the Rolling Stone article itself. I'm sure Roger McGuinn himself could have asked article author and photographer Ed Caraeff not to include that particular photo in the published article if Roger, as the child's father, thought it might compromise his son's integrity. And so, far from being irrelevant, the photo has plenty of McGuinn, Byrds and Rickenbacker content, since The Byrds were still very much an ongoing band at the time that photo was taken.
However, if this forum finds the sharing of Byrd quotes and obscure McGuinn/Byrds/Rickenbacker photographs or baby pictures to be obscene or inappropriate, my database will step aside and let others contribute something more relevant.
Fruitcup? No thanks. Trying to cut down.
Caption reads:
'If we were this much of a problem to our elders, yet we're model Ts . . .'
As anyone can see, it's not kiddie porn or anything that sick filthy minds might conjure. It's The Byrds' very own Roger McGuinn and son. For anyone with family values, can't get much more family than father and son. The only thing missing from the photo might be the Holy Ghost. Then again, ghosts are said not to photograph all that well. However, for the truly Rickenbacker conscious, as soon as straying eyes quit gawking at the naked child or staring at the pack of smokes and whatever else is on the table, notice the 1966 Jetglo Rickenbacker 325Byrd hanging off the wall in the background at the top of the photo (just to the right of Roger McGuinn's head). That Rickenbacker currently belongs to Roger's son Henry McGuinn. The original full size photo shows the Vox treble booster mini-switch just above the two toggles which identifies the guitar. And no, that's not Henry in the photo. Rolling Stone did a lengthy feature on Roger McGuinn and The Byrds back in 1970, and this was one of the accompanying photos. The caption is a McGuinn quote from the Rolling Stone article itself. I'm sure Roger McGuinn himself could have asked article author and photographer Ed Caraeff not to include that particular photo in the published article if Roger, as the child's father, thought it might compromise his son's integrity. And so, far from being irrelevant, the photo has plenty of McGuinn, Byrds and Rickenbacker content, since The Byrds were still very much an ongoing band at the time that photo was taken.
However, if this forum finds the sharing of Byrd quotes and obscure McGuinn/Byrds/Rickenbacker photographs or baby pictures to be obscene or inappropriate, my database will step aside and let others contribute something more relevant.
Fruitcup? No thanks. Trying to cut down.