Eight miles high byrds you tube live series#

Recording sessions for The Notorious Byrd Brothers took place throughout the latter half of 1967 and were fraught with tension, resulting in the loss of two members of the band. The Byrds also introduced the sound of the pedal steel guitar and the Moog modular synthesizer into their music, making it one of the first LP releases on which the Moog appears. With producer Gary Usher, they made extensive use of a number of studio effects and production techniques, including phasing, flanging, and spatial panning. The album represents the pinnacle of the Byrds' late-‘60s musical experimentation, with the band blending together elements of psychedelia, folk rock, country, electronic music, baroque pop, and jazz. Arranging has been very helpful in understanding music better and playing better and making better use of the guitar’s unique strengths.The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the fifth album by the American rock band the Byrds, and was released in January 1968, on Columbia Records. Just enough to arrange and play pieces for guitar. I understand the (western system) keys, chord structure, circle of fifths, a few other patterns in western music. When I was about 21, I heard Will Ackerman’s record It Takes a Year (a very mellow fingerstyle record - sort of the ur-version of a “Windham Hill” record but just solo guitar, no strings or wind instruments) and decided that same day I would play a guitar like that. I never played a musical instrument until I was 36 years old, never touched one. The fingerstyle genre mostly comes out of the folk+blues tradition, with some additions from jazz and classical (and other places). All kinds of folk music: Straight folk (anglophone), flamenco, blues and its child – rock, many other world folk traditions, slack-key guitar. Jam songs have never really done that much for me - even live (though that’s much better). I bought one CD but didn’t care for it very much. I don t know the Phish music very well but a few friends like it and have recommended it.

I like a few songs (especially from the Dead) but overall, not so much. I am actually not a fan of Dead/Phish genre. In later years, he pulls a lot more out of it than his did on the original recording for Fragile. Mood isn’t so hard but Howe brings amazing feeling to it. Clap is really hard, for sure, I’ve never tried to play it.

I highly recommend his live record Not Necessarily Acoustic. Peter Finger also does some amazingly difficult stuff. Martin Taylor, Pat Metheny, Django, Larry Carlton, I could go on for a long time … The difficulty question is a hard one - except, from my experience, they are mostly the arrangements the classical guys do and flamenco playing.

He also does superb interpretations of the Beatles tunes. I will try to link to one of his pieces I like best: Little Wing. Great player.Īnother UK player I really love is Laurence Juber (formerly McCartney’s lead player in Wings). And the stuff he does with the banjo tuners during his pieces is pretty amazing.

Eight miles high byrds you tube live series#

When he broke onto the US scene, he did a long series of travelogues on NPR as he went around the US – very funny and insightful.