Hello, just a quick note as this is my first post.
The Byrds Collective - A Tribute To The Byrds (Los Angeles based - http://www.thebyrdscollective.com) is playing their very first show Thursday March 4, 2010 at The Cellar in Long Beach. It's a full restaurant and bar and from what I understand, the food is excellent.
Included in the line up is RR's own Dr.Byrd09 who plays a fantastic McGuinn, down to the 1966 370. The drummer is Stephen J. Arti from Andrew Gold's Byrds Of A Feather. The site has our recordings of some of your Byrd favorites. Please give a listen if you can.
The Byrds Collective at:
The Cellar in Long Beach
201 E BROADWAY On The Promenade
LONG BEACH, CA 90802
2 shows! 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm
Thanks for listening!
The Byrds Collective Show
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8mileshigher
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You guys sound good !! 
I hope to attend your Long Beach show.
Question: This is the very first gig ---- or just a reconstituted band, sewn together from other Byrds tribute bands, making its first appearance ?
Oh, and welcome also to the RRF !
I hope to attend your Long Beach show.Question: This is the very first gig ---- or just a reconstituted band, sewn together from other Byrds tribute bands, making its first appearance ?
Oh, and welcome also to the RRF !
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Welcome, Pat, and thanks for the posting! 
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. - Seneca
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Thank you all for welcoming me!
This is actually a new band. Mark (Dr.Byrd) has enjoyed much success in Beatles tribute bands (and I'm sure he's going to kill me for not remembering the names). Ken and Dave, had been out of music for years and decided that this was a worth while project. I've been playing in other projects (along with all my Ricks).
This is really a labor of love and, based upon the reaction we have been getting, one that hopefully will allow us to play in front of many Byrds fans. I know this is our first gig, but I really think we are very well rehearsed and won't disappoint.
Again, thank you all.
This is actually a new band. Mark (Dr.Byrd) has enjoyed much success in Beatles tribute bands (and I'm sure he's going to kill me for not remembering the names). Ken and Dave, had been out of music for years and decided that this was a worth while project. I've been playing in other projects (along with all my Ricks).
This is really a labor of love and, based upon the reaction we have been getting, one that hopefully will allow us to play in front of many Byrds fans. I know this is our first gig, but I really think we are very well rehearsed and won't disappoint.
Again, thank you all.
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Sounds good and..... LOCAL, TOO!!! Hope to be there!
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Thanks Scott! If you are able to make it, please stop by and say hello.
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I'd like to add, we found out , friend of the group, Andrew Gold (Lonely Boy, Thank You For Being A Friend) is going to be there and will sit in on a few songs. So at some parts of the show there will be a stage full of Rickenbackers (No less than 5).
Some of you may know that Andrew had his own Byrds tribute band, Byrds of a Feather so this is quite a feather
in our cap to have him come by.
Again, we invite everyone to stop by if they can.
Some of you may know that Andrew had his own Byrds tribute band, Byrds of a Feather so this is quite a feather
in our cap to have him come by. Again, we invite everyone to stop by if they can.
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8mileshigher
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It was an Excellent show put on by the Byrds Collective 
last evening in Long Beach!! At least one Ric 12 string was in every song and about half the other tunes had a second Ric playing. Total count of four Rics on stage.
They had their set broken down to three-phases of the Byrds career: Folk-Rock stage, the Psychedelic stage and the "Country Rock" stage. First part was all authentic instruments to the original Byrds line up with Croz playing his Gretch, (no STP sticker!) and later on, in the "Country" side of things, a Parson's B-Bender Tele was used. Mark had a '67 MapleGlo 360-12 that had been modded to a 370 with a third Toaster. He also had a back-up 370-12 of a later year with the bigger headstock.
I chatted with most of the guys, before, during and after, and they were real cool.
Highlights for me were Mark doing an excellent job on his McGuinn style vocals (with a touch of a Dylan twang) on My Back Pages and Chimes of Freedom and his great, jangly MG 370-12 stuff on everything..... The very tasteful double Ric in tandem guitar solo that Ken and Mark did together on Turn-Turn -Turn. Dave did an excellent solo on Eight Miles High on his Fireglo 12 string and Dave's B-Bender "Clarence White" style was nice on the medley they did of Ballad of Easy Rider and Wasn't Born to Follow as well as You Ain't Going Nowhere and some other Graham Parsons tunes.
They had great harmony vocals throughout, exemplified by Feel a Whole Lot Better and Have You Seen Her Face.
Bassist Pat Hayes did a great job anchoring down the bottom end and telling some history of the Byrds in between segments and drummer Steve Arti never missed a beat !
They opened the show doing MTM in style of the original 45 release, with Croz playing his accent parts on the upper frets and they finished the show with an MTM encore where the three vocalists each chose their favorite of Dylan's five verses for a different spin and making a longer version of the song and the second guitar played the B-Bender in the style of Clarence White as you would have heard his fills on MTM on the "Untitled" LP, "The Byrds do Dylan" CD or the "Live at the Filmore 1969" CD.
Highly recommend RRF-ers (or any Byrd-aholics) to check them out at an upcoming gig !
You can download several of their Byrds cover tunes from their site:
http://www.thebyrdscollective.com/
My apologies -- I forgot my camera
last evening in Long Beach!! At least one Ric 12 string was in every song and about half the other tunes had a second Ric playing. Total count of four Rics on stage.They had their set broken down to three-phases of the Byrds career: Folk-Rock stage, the Psychedelic stage and the "Country Rock" stage. First part was all authentic instruments to the original Byrds line up with Croz playing his Gretch, (no STP sticker!) and later on, in the "Country" side of things, a Parson's B-Bender Tele was used. Mark had a '67 MapleGlo 360-12 that had been modded to a 370 with a third Toaster. He also had a back-up 370-12 of a later year with the bigger headstock.
I chatted with most of the guys, before, during and after, and they were real cool.
Highlights for me were Mark doing an excellent job on his McGuinn style vocals (with a touch of a Dylan twang) on My Back Pages and Chimes of Freedom and his great, jangly MG 370-12 stuff on everything..... The very tasteful double Ric in tandem guitar solo that Ken and Mark did together on Turn-Turn -Turn. Dave did an excellent solo on Eight Miles High on his Fireglo 12 string and Dave's B-Bender "Clarence White" style was nice on the medley they did of Ballad of Easy Rider and Wasn't Born to Follow as well as You Ain't Going Nowhere and some other Graham Parsons tunes.
They had great harmony vocals throughout, exemplified by Feel a Whole Lot Better and Have You Seen Her Face.
Bassist Pat Hayes did a great job anchoring down the bottom end and telling some history of the Byrds in between segments and drummer Steve Arti never missed a beat !
They opened the show doing MTM in style of the original 45 release, with Croz playing his accent parts on the upper frets and they finished the show with an MTM encore where the three vocalists each chose their favorite of Dylan's five verses for a different spin and making a longer version of the song and the second guitar played the B-Bender in the style of Clarence White as you would have heard his fills on MTM on the "Untitled" LP, "The Byrds do Dylan" CD or the "Live at the Filmore 1969" CD.
Highly recommend RRF-ers (or any Byrd-aholics) to check them out at an upcoming gig !
You can download several of their Byrds cover tunes from their site:
http://www.thebyrdscollective.com/
My apologies -- I forgot my camera
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Thanks for the terrific review! I'm glad you could make the show and am tickled you enjoyed it so much.
Like he says, the "guitar show" is as big a part of the show as the actual music! We all love our RIckys and love to show them off.
There are photos and videos of the show now posted on www.thebyrdscollective.com. Please forgive the poor sound quality on the videos-- we weren't able to take a stereo feed from the mixing board and had to use the little mics on the video camera.
Like he says, the "guitar show" is as big a part of the show as the actual music! We all love our RIckys and love to show them off.
There are photos and videos of the show now posted on www.thebyrdscollective.com. Please forgive the poor sound quality on the videos-- we weren't able to take a stereo feed from the mixing board and had to use the little mics on the video camera.
