And then David said, “Millbrook’s off!” Timothy Leary had a sort of acid commune in north upstate New York, in a town called Millbrook. He said, “Are you so jealous of Simon and Garfunkel that you’re acting like that?” We just got into it with each other. Roger : It was just this little exchange, but David got mad. Then David says, “I can’t believe you treated Paul Simon like that.” I don’t know what happened, but Paul leaves. I think Jim Dickson tipped us off that Dylan might come, but we didn’t rehearse or anything.Ĭhris : David thought Roger was not being polite to Paul Simon. I have no idea why we were wearing matching shirts, but, yeah, Bob Dylan gets up and sings “Tambourine Man” with us, which was cool. He said, “Wow, you can dance to it.” It was a revelation.Ĭhris : That was a great night when Dylan came down. Tambourine Man.” He and Bobby Neuwirth came to our rehearsals at World Pacific, and they listened to it. There’s another picture from that night on the back of our first album. Bob just came up and started jamming with us. Finally, Bob turned to me and said, “We should get out of here.” I remember he and I going out to a coffee house on Sunset Strip and having to leave. Tambourine Man” single, Bob Dylan showed up at Ciro’s, the Hollywood club that launched the Byrds, and ended up onstage with them.ĭavid : Dylan came down a lot. On March 26, 1965, shortly before the release of the “Mr. Jim Dickson Archive, courtesy Henry Diltz Photography (The book follows the group as it gradually goes from a quintet to a quartet to a trio, and leaves off before Gram Parsons’ arrival in 1968, which launched a whole new chapter of the Byrds.) 20 - which is a comprehensive oral history and a gorgeous coffee-table photo book all in one: The editors basically licensed virtually every known photo of the group from the era, sat down with surviving founding members Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Chris Hillman and got them to share their memories of the moments, the band, the era, each other and lots more. Well, fans are getting the Byrds history they’ve always dreamed of with BMG Books’ stunning “The Byrds: 1964-67” - out Sept. Anyone who clicked on this article knows that the Byrds are one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time: They weren’t only influenced by the Beatles, they influenced them they showed the world that Bob Dylan songs could rock and via their own songs like “Eight Miles High,” “So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star,” “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” and “Time Between,” they paved the way for countless artists that followed, from jangle-pop to psychedelia to country rock.

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