HEAR TODAY BYRDS OF A FEATHER ROCK TOGETHER.Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer American rock starts with the Byrds. When the group first took flight in Los Angeles in 1964, the British Invasion in the form of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks held sway. But the Byrds -- consisting of former folk, country and bluegrass musicians in love with the new, electrified sounds of the '60s -- changed all that. The chime of Roger McGuinn's jangly adj. 1. like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; sounding with a jangle ; as, a custodian with a jangly set of keys s>. Adj. 1. 12-string Rickenbacker guitar and the heavenly vocal harmonies of McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby and Chris Hillman gave the U.S. its first major homegrown rock band. As the new four-CD Byrds box, ``There Is a Season'' (Columbia/Legacy; $54.98), points out, the group's influence has never waned. The 99-track, chronologically sequenced package, spanning 1961 to 1990, includes all the hits (``Turn! Turn! Turn!'' ``Eight Miles High'' and ``Mr. Tambourine tambourine (tăm'bərēn`), musical instrument of the percussion family, having a narrow circular frame and a single parchment drumhead, with metal plates or jingles set in the frame. Man,'' among them), key album cuts, previously unreleased stuff, live radio shots, in-concert performances and, of course, the studio classics that still sound fresh today. A bonus DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. contains 10 previously unreleased TV appearances from the '60s. We caught up with McGuinn, 64, who still performs and records the early folk music that first inspired him, at home in Orlando, Fla. Q: You had a hit with a cover of Bob Dylan's ``Mr. Tambourine Man,'' but didn't Dylan try to stop it from coming out? A: What happened was our manager got in touch with Dylan's publishing people, and they sent us a copy of the song, which we learned and recorded. We were always searching for the best material we could find. We thought it was always better to record somebody else's great song than your own not-so-wonderful song. When we got ``Mr. Tambourine Man,'' nobody was writing anything as hip as Dylan was, but he was still underground. After we recorded it, Dylan's manager found out and tried to stop it for some reason. But it was too late because it had already climbed to No. 1 on the charts. There was no stopping it. Anyhow, Dylan had heard us do it once at rehearsal and liked it. He said, ``Wow, you can dance to it.'' Q: Why is the music of the Byrds timeless? A: The music was based in folk music, which is a timeless art form. We were all from folk backgrounds and we thought of ourselves as folk singers, even when we played electric guitars and dabbled dab·ble v. dab·bled, dab·bling, dab·bles v.tr. To splash or spatter with or as if with a liquid: "The moon hung over the harbor dabbling the waves with gold" in country and jazz. I'm very proud of our legacy, and I'm thrilled with this box set -- but when I hear those songs, all I can think about is all the hard work that went into it. Here's a sample of other new releases in stores this week: Janet Jackson's ``20 Y.O.'' (Virgin; $17.99) arrives on the 20th anniversary of her breakthrough album, ``Control.'' Evan Dando brings to life another lineup of his cult band ``The Lemonheads'' (Vagrant VAGRANT. Generally by the word vagrant is understood a person who lives idly without any settled home; but this definition is much enlarged by some statutes, and it includes those who refuse to work, or go about begging. See 1 Wils. R. 331; 5 East, R. 339: 8 T. R. 26. ; $17.98). New York's campy Scissor scissor pertaining to scissors; like scissors in effect. scissor bite see scissor bite. scissor mouth a narrow space between the rami of the mandible so that the molar arcades do not meet. Sisters revive the feel-good '70s on their second album, ``Ta-Dah'' (Universal; $13.98). Pianist-singer Fats Waller was an improvisational genius and show-stopping entertainer; ``If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It'' (Bluebird/Legacy; $34.98) spans the years 1926 to 1943. Woodland Hills' own rock and soul king Solomon Burke covers country old and new on ``Nashville'' (Shout! Factory; $18.98). Also in stores ``The Homecoming,'' Andre Rieu (Denon; $18.98) ``Le Futur Noir,'' Strays (TVT TVT transmissible venereal tumor. ; $15.98) ``Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain,'' Sparklehorse (Astralwerks; $18.98) ``The Carnegie Hall Concert,'' Keith Jarrett (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ; $29.98) ``Open Season'' soundtrack, Paul Westerberg (Lost Highway; $13.98) ``At UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX 1965,'' Charles Mingus (Sunnyside; $19.98) ``The Dawning of the Day,'' Ronan Tynan (Decca; $18.98) ``A Piano: The Collection,'' Tori Amos (Atlantic; $74.98) ``Phases,'' Steve Reich (Nonesuch none·such also non·such n. 1. A person or thing without equal. 2. See black medic. none ; $34.98) ``Like Red on a Rose,'' (Arista arista (ä·riˑ·st ; $18.98) ``Ecce Cor Meum,'' Paul McCartney (EMI Classics; $18.98) CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Roger McGuinn, left, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman and a pre-handlebar-mustache David Crosby of the Byrds. (2 -- 3) no caption (CD covers) |
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