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Aha! I still have that issue of Rolling stone
somewhere in my boxes of music magazines.I remember it well now that I see the complete shot.
I think Janis Joplin was the subject of the cover
this article on Roger appeared in.Pass on the fruitcup? Maybe Friskies or Science Diet will do for a bed time snackie.I think this will sit fine with the Dr. for this session.Join us again tomorrow for another exciting adventure....
Or, in the words of Adolph Rickenbacker, "Crank that sucker!!!"
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Boy, this is an old thread...

I only saw them once - probably circa '73 in Philly at the Tower Theater. It would have been McGuinn, Clarence, Skip and Gene... and Nashville West rocked, along with Lover of the Bayou.

Ah, but I was so much older then...
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That would have to have been pretty early '73,
as they broke up in early '73.
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Any one in this group ever see the original band?

I only saw the Clarence Byrds and Roger all the time in the 1970's all over southern California.

He's been to Seattle a few times since then and I always go ..."hope you are enjoying the end table this guy has helped you purchase"
So you too want yours "ALAPWOB"?!?!
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Actually, assuming you saw them in '73, Gene Parsons would not have been drumming anymore, as he was fired the summer of '72. Probably John Guerin was the drummer[later of Tom Scott and the L.A. Express, and Joni Mitchell's band, as well as her boyfriend!]
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From where I was in the balcony, I couldn't tell who was who but I know it was Roger and Clarence (and it may have been late '72 - possibly Oct/Nov).

Then, I was in Boston on a business trip (years later) and Roger was playing solo in Cambridge I think, but I didn't go.

I know that I saw him solo at least once at a small caberet on the Philly "Main Line" called "The Main Point" (there is now a club two doors down from where the original "Point" was which is now called "The Point").

The original was a great club - I was talking to Jackson Browne a couple of years ago and reminded him of a night like 28 years ago or so when I saw he and Lindley perform there and there was a clown in the audience who really hammed it up for them when they did Zevon's Werewolves of London... JB actually remembered the night and claimed that forever after Lindley would do the werewolf noises like that guy did.

Has RM released anything since Back from Rio?
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From where I was in the balcony, I couldn't tell who was who but I know it was Roger and Clarence (and it may have been late '72 - possibly Oct/Nov).
Absolutely still with Clarence; he was there till the end.
Roger put out a solo live CD in the [mid?] 90s,called "Live FRom Mars".It's a kind of musical/historical narrative of his career,from his early folkie days to the present.
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I was lucky enough to see the original Byrds (minus Gene Clark) in March of '66 at the Mosque Theatre in Newark, NJ.
They were touring behind the Turn, Turn, Turn album and were introducing a new song -- a strange-sounding thing called Eight Miles High.
I bought the single with the picture sleeve about a week later. Still have it.
By the way, The Byrds were awesome!
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