New Posts
  • Hi there guest! Welcome to PoliticalJack.com. Register for free to join our community?

David Crosby RIP

RickWA

Snagglesooth

protectionist

Governor
Every time the Byrds are mentioned, I can't help remembering that the Byrds' rendition of the Bob Dylan song "Mr Tambourine Man" (about LSD), was a destruction of one of the greatest songs and pieces of poetry ever written. A fabulous song by Dylan, that relatively few people even today have ever heard, and even fewer understand the words.

Byrds "version" (if you can even call it that) was a highly commercialized, reduction of the original 4 verse song, with the tinny folk-rock, Beatles-Britain sound of the time period (Byrds version contained only 2 of the original 4 verses)

I might add that even though the Byrds recording was a joke content wise, compared to the Bob Dylan original, I still liked it for what it was. Still do. As different as the 2 versions are, I still like both of them. Crosby got off to a good start with this.
 
Last edited:
Top