The two last performed publicly with McGuinn on a brief Meanwhile, The Byrds’ other two surviving co-founders, David Crosby and ex-San Diego bluegrass mainstay Chris Hillman, have repeatedly expressed a desire to reunite The Byrds, to no avail. It's a collaborative effort and we'll probably focus on songs people know." "We're thinking Marty and the Fabulous Superlatives will do a song or two, then I'll do a Byrds' song or two, then they'll come back and we'll do some songs together, and we’ll keep coming and going. "The format is pretty similar to to 'The Rolling Thunder Revue'," McGuinn said, referring to the loose-knit approach employed on Bob Dylan's fabled 1975 concert tour with McGuinn, Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Neuwirth and a backing band that included T-Bone Burnett, Scarlett Rivera and ex-David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson.
Their Poway performance is part of a four-city West Coast mini-tour. The friendship between McGuinn and devoted Byrds fan Stuart has grown since they first met 13 years ago, although McGuinn said they have only performed four shows together to date. (Byrds co-founders) Gene (Clark) and Chris (Hillman) were doing country stuff before Graham joined the band and we never thought anything much about it." "Jim Stafford told me once he asked Graham (before The Byrds) about country music, and Graham said that, no, he wasn’t into it. I got a black Cadillac El Dorado it was a role playing thing for me and I think for (second-generation Byrds' member) Graham (Parsons), too. We wen to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes. "When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing," McGuinn recalled. The Byrds received a decidedly cool response when they performed during a 1968 Opry telecast at the Ryman Theater in Nashville, largely because the audience didn’t appreciate long-haired hippies playing country music, no matter how reverently. Stuart was subsequently instrumental in inviting McGuinn to sing on the Grand Ole Opry. Where: Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway Watch The Byrds perform “Eight Miles High” in 1970 at the legendary Fillmore East venue.Roger McGuinn > & Marty Stuart, with The Fabulous Superlatives I’m not denying that the Byrds did drugs at that point – we smoked marijuana – but it wasn’t really about that.” And what would the song be without the Rickenbacker 12-string breaks?”Īccording to McGuinn after being asked if it was about drugs, he replied: “Well, it was done on an airplane ride to England and back. I came up with the line, ‘Six miles high and when you touch down.’ We later changed that to Eight because of the Beatles song ‘Eight Days a Week.’ I came up with several other lines as well. Roger McGuinn argues, “Not true! The whole theme was my idea… Gene would never have written a song about flying.
The melody and lyrics I wrote myself in a hotel room with Brian Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.” Claims about who really wrote the songs are quite confusing, as Gene Clark says he was the main author of the lyrics, saying, “I wrote the song and presented it to McGuinn and Crosby on tour – we were on a bus tour at the time, and we were listening to a lot of John Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar, and they helped me finish the song.
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