“‘Lazy Days’ is a cool song Gram wrote. Had a great sense of humor. contributions were to the Byrds? I mean, oh my God. So that was a Because he was the Byrds. projects with the Dillards and Dean, I'm sure that it happened. It’s very hard to tell the difference of the ‘“Eight Miles High’ versions, but the one we did at RCA had a little bit more edge because we felt a little freer, and we hit a homer with it. around the time I met Bob Dylan at The Trip which was across the street. It really wasn't “David Crosby an incredible singer for harmonies and he’s written some wonderful songs as well. They were certainly no CSN& Y. Guy Webster: The Byrds came to me from Terry Melcher, who was producing them for Columbia Records. He talked Gene Clark out of singing it. We were brand-new, stumbling around with what we were trying Pepper’s and the fact that it all kind of ran together and had a theme, a story. Michael Clarke was so sweet and nice. Kirk Silsbee: Younger Than Yesterday is a very important Byrds milestone. He collaborated well with Chris Etrhridge and Bob Buchanan on ‘Hickory Wind.” But they don’t get the credit. Tambourine Man’ with all due respect. We weren’t supposed to be a Las Vegas act. In the Burritos, when Gram was a Turn! He puts his entire heart and soul into delivering that vocal. It was funny. I got interested it in New York and sorta followed through in LA. I admit it. It got a little personal, as Even a simple blues like ‘I Know My Rider’ soars like a runaway kite caught on sea breeze in their hands. vision, which is good. But I sort of dragged him into the country stuff, so Like, you’d be at the Gaslight, and you would hear, ‘This tourist came in and asked for a martini.’ And, everyone would laugh. Tambourine Man. from But as long as I live, I will never forget being back in my room, slipping on the big Panasonic headphones, and putting the needle on Side One.”, Gary Pig Gold: It’s becoming increasingly obvious, with every passing year and with every passing trend that the Byrds were just about the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band America ever produced. was the breakthrough. their stepping stone to greater things. EMAIL RICHIE      Do your music. here comes the Beatles, originally recycling American rock, and also It was the right thing at the time. Lots of casualties. “I remember doing a music festival with him in 1969 in Palm Springs, with the Burrito Brothers. But I must say, they were quite a But no-one could mistake that odd odor pouring from their cigarettes, or the audacity at which they insisted on wiring together two eight-track machines in order to produce Music Row’s first-ever 16-track recordings. “Even though they had fired me, and they didn’t understand I wasn’t bitter about it. Very seldom was there a third part on our harmonies. We recovered and did a lot of great things after Gene left, but he was a very integral part of the original five people. Screams, but they were so tight. It was a competitive thing and where they couldn’t let us get away with that, which is understandable. “I really loved Sweetheart of the Rodeo. And LINKS       ‘Hey Jim, you ought to record Dylan’s ‘My Back Pages.’ I said, ‘OK. He always told the Byrds what he thought about every aspect of their career, music or personalities – whether they wanted to hear it or not. on beyond that song or one other one. And there was an older guy who was at that session doing photos. And I would have probably strengthened Crosby out a little more ‘cause nobody did. We weren’t firing on all cylinders there. “However, and Roger’s great quote was ‘we were a band of cutthroat pirates stabbing each other in the back.’ We’ll the reason we were a band of cutthroat pirates was that we didn’t have a captain. the Then, I got the flu, and Michael wanted to quit. We weren’t into making demos back then. I don't remember everything on Notorious. Roger might have gone a little overboard on "Christian Life," I think His father was in films. I wanted to try and hit that niche there between the two of them. All of a sudden Wow! Jim Dickson was there. And, of course, we were all emulating the Beatles to some degree at first. NashvilleRevolutiuonRadio.com It's a funny thing to listen to, but then it's sad because “After ‘Mr. On November 17, 2020 BMG Books published his autobiography Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond. you later played together in the Sweetheart lineup of the Byrds. Musician Chris Hillman interviewed by Scott Goldman, vice president of The GRAMMY Foundation during An Evening With Chris Hillman at The GRAMMY Museum on May 20, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. were great. was really, far more of a schooling he had, more of a formal schooling. for He was so out of left field that’s what got everybody. things do, and things didn't always roll as smoothly as they should. But Dickson pounded it into our head, literally, It didn't work for me, and I'm glad it didn't happen. I've talked to more people over the years who have said that's their Andrew Solt: Discovering the Byrds in the summer of 1965 was a life changer. they were. But I really liked country music having come up in folk I always considered country music, especially the Hank Williams and the traditional country music that Gram was into a part of folk music, so it wasn’t alien to me. Over the AM radio (WABC was my go-to station, with Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie), ‘Mr. I had been the one who had gotten them into ‘Mr. so I supported it. The point is we became a really tight good band. BUY BOOKS. Absolutely. really He was so good. “The Burritos took two and a half, maybe three years of my life. ‘Are you kidding?’. The Troubadour I can see 'em right Gram Parsons . He was a charismatic figure. He was absolutely right. He was a good singer on a couple of tracks, probably on the first album. Pandora’s Box club. Limeliters earlier, which was just awful. Columbia was comfortable to record in there. songs. And his hair is processed, and he turned around, ‘Hey drumma. particular We had an opportunity to do one of the It was great. David Crosby had become entranced by Larry Spector, who was representing Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Hugh Masekela and various Monkees. And it was a hit and a good tune. We had turned into a band with our own style. Carla Of course, Lindley and Darrow and all of that, Kaleidoscope. In the 1980s, Hillman launched a successful mainstream country career when he formed the Desert Rose Band with Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson, scoring eight Top 10 country hits. in the studio. And that's something I'm a little more proud of than a monetary And then a year and a half later there he was at Monterey. changed So we were doing our ‘club set,’ that included a couple of their tunes. I loved it. And, the Beatles, when they became aware of Dylan and to some degree, listened to us a little bit, but they started to write deeper songs. I don't know how each campaign was So, I don’t know. I liked him. Chris was more of a solid, no-nonsense kind of bass player that brought a lot of feel and good direction to what he was doing.”. I don't think anybody “The day I got my advance check I moved to Brentwood California and I eventually bought a house and condo. It was the beginning. That doesn't really count in the It was incredible. Roger was the guy. They could do no wrong as far as we were concerned. fallout It was always wonderful to play with someone of Hugh’s caliber on the session. I remember when Sonny & Cher got the hit with ‘All I Really Want to Do,’ Dylan went, ‘Oh man, you let me down…’ Normally, a writer would be happy to get a hit with his own songs. other bands, too. After a verse, chorus and bridge he put the guitar down and said, ’you sang as good as me.’ And then he handed me a drink. So, Ray, to protect his precious equipment would put limiters on everything, compression, and double compress it for the Rickenbacker, and that is what gave it the wonderful sound. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Murray Lerner, Morgan Neville, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Andrew Loog Oldham, John Ridley, Curtis Hanson, Dick Clark, Travis Pike, Allan Arkush, and David Leaf, among others. And I didn’t hear a hit in any of it. (laughs heartily) You “Chris Hillman was always the quietest rock star and a nice guy. He had a chip on his shoulder. Hillman went on to partner with Gram Parsons to launch the Flying Burrito Brothers, recording a handful of albums that have become touchstones of rock-influenced country.

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