Music video by The Byrds performing Everybody's Been Burned (Audio). Originally released 1966. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
David Crosby's crowning achievement as a singer-songwriter. The chordal structure of the song is breathtaking as is Roger McGuinn's guitar solo. Croz also helped the Byrds immeasurably with his ear for harmony. RIP David
Crosby was scarier than Manson - when he ran out of crack and took his gun and crashed celebrity coke parties in the late 70's looking for drugs.............
As a very young boy I heard this...it changed my idea of music from The Beach Boys to something much deeper. It opened my mind about the pain of Life that was coming in the future...The Door that shuts just before you get to the Dream.
@@MrSonovox 👍 I remember the time and place I bought my copy. Friday night at a record shop at Walker Scott shopping mall, Escondido CA, rushed home and listened in the dark.
I heard it on there too. I already have this album but haven't played it in years so had pretty much forgotten about the song. It was a really good series too.
Indeed he could. What set The Byrds aside from the rest were McGuinns' 12 string jangle and those angelic harmonies. And David Crosby, he WAS the harmonies.
... those three w/ the addition of Buffalo-Springfield, the Yardbirds, the Hollies w/ Nash, & J. Airplane ... sent me atmospheric in the 60's and I am still in their musical orbit ...
I TOTALLY agree!! David Crosby's voice is so uniquely beautiful and haunting and his writing is also underrated but this is one of his very best, along with The Lee shore and Guinnevere. (and a handful of others..)
RIP David Crosby. One of my downright favorite songs by one of my biggest heroes musically. I hope you are harmonizing with Gene Clark again wherever you are...
Remembering David Crosby born on August 14, 1941. He was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelia in the mid-1960s, and later as part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, who helped popularize the California sound of the 1970s. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby
Lovely singing from Crosby on this song. It makes you wonder why he didn't take the lead vocals more often on Byrds songs. After he left late in 1967 the Byrds were never the same group afterwards. They should never have gone full blown into country rock in my view.
David Crosby was an under rated and under-used singer in both the Byrds and CSN. I think Stephen Stills was similar to McGuinn not using Crosby more.@@martinamanecke3622
Love everything about this song. Dream-like soundscape, cool Rickenbacker guitar, haunting lyrics. I have this on a 45. I believe it was on the flip side of Have You Seen Her Face, another great song!
David, I will raise a glass to you tonight. You were a seriously flawed man but you were an undeniably great musician. You join Gene Clark as an immortal.
There is nothing out there that compares to this .Crosbys outstanding song and lyrics ChrisHillmans base and McGuinns guitarplaying.we will never experience something like that ever again.
david crosby's increasingly experimental compositions eventually led mcguinn and chris hillman to kick him out, but this ravishing song was a landmark in the groups growing sophistication.
David Crosby wrote this as a torch song in ca. 1963. There is a Byrds demo when they were working on this that sounds almost nothing like the finished song, so the other Byrds helped him immensely, particularly the guitar work.
On December 28th, 1985 the third channel of the Italian state-owned television celebrated the 90th anniversary of the first public movie screening with a film marathon called _La magnifica ossessione_ ( _Magnificent Obsession_ is an American movie by Douglas Sirk). The program's main title sequence was by Italian painter and filmmaker Mario Schifano (a very good friend of the Rolling Stones who dedicated a song to him) and this dreamy song by The Byrds was the music for it.
[Verse 1] Everybody has been burned before Everybody knows the pain Anyone in this place can tell you to your face Why you shouldn't try to love someone [Verse 2] Everybody knows it never works Everybody knows and me I know that door that shuts just before You get to the dream you see [Verse 3] I know all too well how to turn, how to run How to hide behind a bitter wall of blue But you die inside if you choose to hide So I guess instead I'll love you
Yes, Chris Hillman! Always great. This album was an amazing display of his playing. Renaissance Fair and So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star really stand out.
One of their best tracks. Crosby was a master at fusing rock, folk and jazz but listen to Hillman's bass in this. It's probably even more inventive than other contemporaries from that period. McGuin's solo is haunting and Clark's drumming has a lovely sound. Gene was missed but I really wished this line up were able to do a few more albums. I can't listen to the stuff after Crosby left and they went country. It was a different band and didn't warrant the name The Byrds at all.
Crosby left because he felt that with three songwriters they should stop doing covers but instead Hillman and McGuinn decided to record Goin’ Back and Wasn’t Born to Follow and more Dylan songs. So the other two fired Crosby but a few years ago McGuinn admitted that Crosby was right, they were making Dylan and Carole King rich while the Byrds made very little money as pretty much a cover band.
I know everbody says the Crosby is a douche, but his talent is undeniable. The short change from minor to major key is brilliant! And that voice! Well.........................
Crosby’s voice is remarkable and superior to most of even his great peers. It’s just that unusual and resonant and musical.... I love David Crosby. Most artists are complex people but we don’t know him anyway. :) I am quite sure he has a very good heart.
The Byrds were never the same after they sacked Crosby in October 1967. I tried getting into Sweetheart of the Rodeo, but was very dissapointed in it upon my first listen. I tried giving it another, but stopped at track five and just couldn't go any further. History cannot be changed, but I personally ignore everything released after Notorious.
funny you say that as I think he almost crashes and burns as he stumbles around trying to be jazzy but his timing is herky jerky and his technique is sophomoric...he finds it just in time for a nice outro as Crosby picks up the vocal Hillman's bass is the musical standout on this track
Rob Hollander, four of the many Crosby duds: Triad, Mind Garden, Almost Cut My Hair, Morrison. JUDGE: Objection overruled. And I'll hold you in contempt if you waste anymore of the court's time!"
They did Gene Clark dirty... Thats all I can think about when I hear this track... "You're gonna blow it for yourself man" - Roger McGuinn to Gene... shout out to drifters sympathy pod cast for shining some light on The Byrds and the genesis of "selfish music" I highly recommend you check it out.
Best high harmony ever in rock. Losing record as a songwriter but this is one of his finest moments. Anyone doubting he should've moved on to a group called CSY check out Neil Young Archives (youtube) and listen to the very brief harmony he, in the moment, put on Neil's "Alabama". The ear and voice of genius.
"Losing record as a songwriter"; there's no evidence to assert that. Maybe you don't like his material, but many millions around the world do and there's no loss in that.
Is it my imagination or are there two bass tracks on this song? Sounds like there's a simple one on the side with the drums, and then a jazzy "lead" bass on the other. Or maybe I'm just hearing the low notes of the rhythm guitar...
Why the fuck did the remaining Byrds omit Triad from Notorious? Every bit as great a song as everybody's been burned, this band suffered a heavy loss when Croz was fired. But hey, people move on and David was viewing greener pastures...
Great song. One of my favourite bands , the charlatans stole the opening lyrics to this song. If your gonna steal, might as well steal from the greats 👍
Crosby's voice was awesome. Still is. I wonder if the guitar is slightly out of tune on purpose in this one? It's a 12 string and those are a pain to tune, but still
Despite all the laudatory comments for David Crosby below and notwithstanding the fact that this is probably his best song , I'll never forgive him for virtually destroying the greatest American group ever with his overweening ego and then almost destroying this fantastic album with the WORST "song" ever, "Mind Gardens." I've been jumping up for 56 years now right after "Thoughts & Words" begins Side II and then putting the needle down on "My Back Pages" just to avoid the absolutely execrable "Mind Gardens." Good riddance to Crosby!
