Comments on: OTB Latenight – The Byrds http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/otb_latenight_-_the_byrds/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:47:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bithead http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/otb_latenight_-_the_byrds/comment-page-1/#comment-986973 Bithead Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:36:04 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=32560#comment-986973 The irony here is the music they're lipsyncing to isn't even theirs. On the original recording, Roger McGuinn is the only band mamber playing. Everyone else is a member of the original Wrecking Crew. (Hal Blaine, for example played drums) The only reason McGuinn was included in the original recording was because nobody else could do the sitar -like sounds he could get. Of course, that kinda thing went on in the recordings of nearly every group of the day. The irony here is the music they're lipsyncing to isn't even theirs. On the original recording, Roger McGuinn is the only band mamber playing. Everyone else is a member of the original Wrecking Crew. (Hal Blaine, for example played drums) The only reason McGuinn was included in the original recording was because nobody else could do the sitar -like sounds he could get.

Of course, that kinda thing went on in the recordings of nearly every group of the day.

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