I've read about the Byrds not making much money in their day despite their success. My thought on their loss of profit was their over-reliance on Dylan and all covers. Aside from 3 Dylan singles, too much cover song album filler cut into what the band would have made, and only made Bob more profitable. Sweethearts Of The Rodeo was almost all covers, and records like that never recoup publishing costs, even if they sold a half a million copies (which the Byrds never did anyway)
And going by the outtakes that surfaced on the 1996-2000 reissue series, their producers, and the band as a whole had some serious judgement issues as to what songs to put on an LP. There are A+ Hot 100 songs that went UNRELEASED while weak amateur material filled out records like Notorious and Untitled.
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: Judging by some hugely underground yet
: enormously scintillating sixties
: "jam" music from the sixties I've
: been hearing on another site,I'd have to
: almost overwhelmongly agree that people's
: general perspective(s) of the era musically
: is certainly tainted and skewered in favor
: of recordings with a more commercial
: therefore accessible approach.This is why
: many,though not me,lay claim that the
: Beatles were at least a little overrated.I'd
: always suspected there was more going on
: then than I hear on my local classic rock
: stations.As far as your comment about SAC
: should have stuck more with the underground
: with long almost impromptu jams
: explemplifying their instrumental skills
: more accurately,I whole hearted agree and
: even made comment to the band here a month
: or two ago.Thins like "Nightmare of
: Percussion" state this point clearly.I
: alos agree the the Clock committed career
: suicide by sticking to more corporate
: formulas.I even suggested to them the exact
: same thing you mentiomned about the name
: change and asked why they didn't explore
: progressive rock further.Their answere in a
: nut shell was that they were essentially
: satisfied with what they did between 67 and
: 69n and then moved on.Their career most
: definitely came to an untimely end.Ed King
: was more lucid about the
: situation,co-founded the Skynrd,and wound up
: enshrined in Cleveland.Bravo!!
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: there has always been a consistency in the
: marketing of the 60's. I guess some company
: owns the way the story is told.
: "Woodstock" doling out endless
: reissues with a few bonus tracks here and
: there is a corporate business model,
: reselling virtually the same thing an
: endless number of times - and there are
: still at least 6 hours worth of unreleased
: audio and video that will be inched out on
: the 45th, 50th and 60th anniversary
: re-sells. (I won't be buying it, I've
: collected it all on my own )
:
: Tim Leary has no relevance these days, but
: there will always be bands interested in
: listening to the later Beatles albums, cover
: bands the pour over Stones and Tom Petty
: music.
:
: Current legends even have their past careers
: exaggerated. Jimi may appear to be the
: guitar icon of the 60's, but his records
: weren't really major sellers in their day -
: nowhere near the level of say Creedence
: Clearwater. Historical revisionism has made
: him, the Byrds, Grateful Dead, Cream appear
: "bigger" than they actually were.
: The Dead are said to define the 60's, yet
: their first four albums didn't even make the
: top 40 and they hardly played anywhere but
: CA and NY. As long as the characters
: involved are around to tell and sell the
: same old stories, they can perpetuate their
: own myths.The keyboard player from the Doors
: has been telling the same 6 Doors stories
: about Jim for exactly 40 years-every
: interview, every time.
: Every female country signer claims Patsy
: Cline is their biggest influence, but how
: likely is it that those people have ever
: heard more than 2 songs from her? Its just
: sort of the standard thing to say in an
: interview, because they've heard it said so
: many times by others.
:
: I'm not sure why SAC would resent other
: bands for being the more defining bands of
: their era. A 1 hit wonder doesn't hold much
: clout compared to major bands. Seems to me
: they resent their label for not promoting
: them and for giving them lame outsider
: material to record (perhaps the band should
: have shown better original material to begin
: with and the label wouldn't have forced
: other songs on them). If they wanted a
: bigger audience, doing silly generic hippy
: dippy (trying to hard to sound overly
: trippy) stuff like Black Butter wasn't the
: way to go. A 6-minute heavy jam in its place
: would have rocked and put SAC in a more
: legitimate place in music. And of course,
: if they wanted more songs on the radio, you
: all knew how to play the payola game , just
: didn't really get the chance to get out
: there and play it. But with CCR, Mountain
: and Steppenwolf jamming out in 68/69, SAC
: were already out of touch with what was
: really going down in music. Ed probably saw
: the future in Skynard, and the other guys
: fell by the wayside, when they could have
: just changed the bands name to something
: more marketable, and moved into a different
: style/phase in their music.
: - a producer's perspective -
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: Did you ever resent the press for virtually
: trying to coerce you into accepting social
: figureheads like the Beatles or Tim Leary as
: your generational leaders,Gurus,and mentors?
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