Les Baxter's Balladeers

[mcd220]

Something that has been occuring to me; I think of the way David sang in The Byrds, and the voice he "Found" later on for CSN&Y.

When listening to just his parts on the first two Byrds albums especially; he's really singing those parts like a 1940's crooner, as opposed to the "Feel & sound" of his "Almost cut my hair" voice from years later.

I'm really thinking that his experience with Les Baxter kind of "Held over" into The Byrds, (These things usually do with musicians) and if so, this is a VERY CRUCIAL element and influence in that "Byrdsound".

Again, it's almost always the synthesis of styles that has made the most memorable music, I think anyway.

By the time of "Everybody's been burned", his love of Jazz is really coming through, especially during the timing on "I know that dooooooor, it shuts.........just before...and stuff.

I really do hear this tune as a prototype for "Guinnevere". There are similarities in the two songs.

Any thoughts here?

Christian

"The Walrus was Crosby"


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[tamborineman]

I agree with you Chris, Crosby was a little older, a little more experienced in life, a little hipper. He had that beatnik thing going on. I think of him as the guru of Laurel Canyon. He had a svengoli influence on the young hippies around him. If David said it was cool, it was. He looked like a pot smoking fransican monk with a country style guitar! Very infuential on all of us 14&15 year old wanta be hippies back east. He was a piller of legitemit Kool. He was John the Califoria Baptist to Stills and Nash....IMHOP

[tamborineman]

Dear Chris,
sorry for killing your thread. [ i did'nt mean to ].

merry christmass,

from hank

[mcd220]

Not at all Hank!

Enjoyed your post

Happy Christmas! Chris