Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released on Februon Columbia Records. " So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star".In 1965 Gennady Sholomitskii discover that the object’s radio emissions were varying, a public announcement that caused a world wide sensation followed, claiming that the emission was caused by an unknown stellar civilization. Then there’s the song “CTA - 102,” named for a quasar discovered in the early 1960’s.
It’s said that she arrived in San Francisco at the age of sixteen, a runaway, who married fellow scene-ster and bassist for Quicksilver messenger Service, David Friebery. Girl was a friend of David Crosby, her parents nicknamed her Girl as she was the only female out of their six children. “Girl With No Name” was inspired by a young lady with the unusual moniker of Girl Freiberg.
#The byrds younger than yesterday how to#
*** The Fun Facts: Originally named the Jet Set before adopting the Byrds as their moniker, the clever spelling wasn’t just some Renaissance-inspired wordplay Roger McGuinn and company had dubbed their group in honor of the great Admiral Richard Byrd, famous for his expeditions to both the North and South poles.Īs to the song “So You Wanna Be A Rock n’ Roll Star,” seems the boys were looking through some teen magazines, noticing how many people were actually rock n’ roll stars, then thought that everybody should have a list of ingredients, a kit on how to become such. “Have You Seen Her Face” was a mirror image of the Paul McCartney number “I’ve Just Seen Her Face,” where the influence of the Beatles on Hillman sounded as if the Fab 4 were waiting in the closet to rework and revision his songs. The album’s closing track “Why” had already been released as the B-Side to “Eight Miles High,” and was a far better version than that laid down here. Other visions from the album included “Everybody’s Been Burned,” penned when David Crosby (now on the outs) was played on the folk club circuit back in 1962, along with the luscious “Renaissance Fair,” which seemed intent on both defining and capturing the heady laidback atmosphere of the time. Now, the album’s title Younger Than Yesterday was lifted from the Bob Dylan song “My Back Pages,” which is included here, provided the Byrds with their third Dylan hit. Like them or not, and there is as much to like as there is to dislike, the Byrds were musical game changers, all based around the shimmering 12 string Rickenbacker played by Roger McGuinn, along with the transformative smoke laden harmonies of David Crosby and Gene Clark.įour of the best numbers found here were penned by Chris Hillman, solidly based on his bluegrass influences, where with the Byrds he developed some of the most infectious slippery country riffs ever known, simply consider “The Girl With No Name” and “Time Between.” Yet all of the material wasn’t so good, well received, nor did it stand the test of time, case in point, McGuinn’s electronic “C.T.A - 102” (a blazer type quasar discovered the early 1960’s by a radio survey), a song that gave way to the manipulated oscillation of voices, then there was “Mind Gardens,” where Crosby is self indulgent at best, though entirely goofy would be more to the point, with most listeners sure that the man was lysergicly blissed at the time, where there’s simply no excuse for this number to have ever seen the light of day.Ĭertainly “So You Want To Be A Rock n’ Roll Star” was the high point of the album, featuring the brassy hot riffs of trumpeter Hugh Masekela, hailing from South Africa, which embodied the song with an unexpected jagged jazzy edge.
0 kommentar(er)
