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This is their best album
very nice album, love some country based psych
Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde is another great psychedelic country-rock album from them, albeit being an almost entirely different band bar McGuinn by that stage.
Side 1 of this record is just brilliant. And the mono mix is better than the stereo.
Love this album! Very blissful even though its so short. I wish they would have put Triad on it.
Right after making Younger Than Yesterday and before Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Byrds had made this monumental album that just kind of slipped by most people. Bob Kato, the Byrds photographer was told he was making 2 photo shoots that day. One was early morning with Roger, Chris and Mike with a horse in the 4th window. Later in the morning David Crosby came for the photoshoot and was placed in the 4th window. Roger didn't know if David would still be in the band by the time they released this album, so the horse was their safety. Roger and David had their last falling out. The horse stayed, David hooked up with Steve and Graham and Notorious Byrd Brothers fell to the wayside. Notorious Byrd Brothers is probably the only real psychedelic recording the Byrds made. It is a masterpiece of music.
Sweetheart came after Byrd Bros
I meant to say between the two.
is there a source for that story?
My aunt was married to Roger McGuinn. And, when I ran into Bob Kato once, he told me the story, since he was the photographer for The Byrds.
Gonna file that under ‘probably not true’. Being kicked out of the band was sprung on Crosby, there was no transitional period, and none of the band have ever said anything other than DC was out of the band and the horse wandered into the shot.
Guy Webster took the cover photo.
Almost everyone in the industry knew it.
That's the official story. I think that the other three played a rightfully mean-spirited practical joke on Crosby.
No shit it’s their best record. They had Gene Clark and half of the wrecking crew playing on it.
Gene was credited being only on two or three tracks, and that is still disputed because he's barely audible. Maybe on Goin Back he is but it doesn't stand out for me. Speaking of The WC, Hal Blaine and Jim Gordon replaced Clarke only on less than half of the album.
I swear I was born in the wrong place, wrong era. Wow.
wiki: In a contemporary review published in Esquire, music critic Robert Christgau described The Notorious Byrd Brothers as "simply the best album the Byrds have ever recorded".[53] Christgau grouped it with contemporary releases by Love (Forever Changes) and The Beach Boys (Wild Honey), remarking: "[i]t's hard to believe that so much good can come out of one place [i.e. Los Angeles].