Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it, and it kinda put some things straight.
My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.
I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones.
I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.
I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.
