What really comes home to me when I watch these guys is the quantity and the quality of the musical experience on stage. Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn and Marty Stuart each have about 50 years of experience. Add in drummer Harry Stinson, the bass player and other sidesmen having around the same/near as, then you are looking at a total of more than 250 years maybe. Thank you gentlemen for sharing your talents with us.
I love how much fun these guys are having. I saw them twice on this tour and each show, while the sets were similar had unrehearsed conversations and quips and there were smiles all around the stage.
Ralph had the last laugh when Roger appeared on his tv show. He asked Roger about "Drugstore", what was it about. Roger squirmed nervously and said, "We were just trying to send a little message, Ralph".
Legend says Ralph asked Roger, "How's Gram Parsons?" "Still dead" was the answer. Another reason to dislike Emery; didn't give a damn about someone who cared so much.
I love the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, but wasn't too familiar with Hillman's post-Byrds/FBB output when I went to a concert of his (with Bearnie Leadon and Sneaky Pete Kleinow) in 1984. I was mightily impressed, and it's good to see Hillman and McGuinn still going strong. Wish they'd visited my part of the world.
I knew Bernie's brother (Tommy) in Gainesville back in the day. Bernie was the lead guitarist for the Eagles on their first two albums (my favorites) he has been a much in demand session man in Nashville for many years. He played banjo on "Take it Easy".Sneaky Pete was one of the best peddle steel players ever. He was also an animator in Hollywood, he drew Gumby and Pokey.
Jan-Tore Egge I was running the soundboard for a band that had Sneaky Pete on Pedal Steel. His stage volume was so freakin loud I could not get a decent house mix. Imagine my having to approach this legend to ask him to turn down! He was great and did exactly that. Looking back, I think he was testing me.
@@oregonmusicfan9496 I couldn't see the other 6 tuners on that strange setup Rickenbacher uses for headstock tuners, but yes it is a 12 string and it sounds terrific. Now, if a 6 string could sound like that, I'd but one. or 2...
@@alan4sure I was thinking it might be that seven string he sometimes uses. It has two paired g-strings tuned an octave apart, with the rest of the strings like a normal 6-string.
Funny stories, but with a bittersweet quality. Think about the Byrds of that time and how the bad luck was to be ahead of their time--country before country was hip, they couldn't get rock audiences to embrace that and the country DJ rejected their Dylan song turned country. "Eight Miles High" was previously banned from most US radio stations for being "a drug song," which it wasn't. The Byrds were just too damn hip and too damn unlucky for the time. By the way, note to Chris Hillman: No, "Notorious Byrd Brothers" was album number five, and definitely one of your best. I feel like that was the last album representing The Byrds for me, though "Sweetheart" was a kind of transition out, with later versions featuring only Roger McGuinn not deserving of holding the band name.
See where all that popular hiphop country has it’s roots? I didn’t think so. What happened to country music? Unfortunately the country music “industry” has always been as clueless about good music as all the others.
Where's the rest of the show? I saw this show about two months after this was recorded. One of the best I've ever seen. Imma big fan of Chris, Roger, Marty, and my man Kenny Vaughan.
Yeah, Hippies may have loved everyone but they didn't care much for having a job or bathing. There's still an old sign on Broadway in Nashville that says " Please don't feed the hippies"
