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(More customer reviews)As the third reviewer of this book, I appear to be the first person to actually have read it--or at least large sections of it. And I'll be rereading it, too.
This book is amazing, and surpasses all my expectations. It goes FAR beyond the Rogan book on the Byrds, which is its own first-rate exploration of the subject. But this book . . .
It has so much material that hasn't appeared in print together before. It really is a day by day account, describing concert performances, recording sessions (I didn't know that Gene Clark was the co-writer of the song "Get to You" from The Notorious Byrd Brothers, not Chris Hillman, but there it is, in McGuinn's own words), contemporaneous reviews of the singles releases, the albums. ETc, etc.
And there are so many photos, images of posters advertising concerts, and on and on. This is about as comprehensive as you can get, a dream of a book for a Byrds fan. I was stunned to see reviews of a concert I'd attended at Carnegie Hall in New York, when the Byrds and the Gram Parson/Chris Hillman Burrito Brothers shared the bill and later jammed together; or the concert at the Fillmore East where the band introduced (Untitled).
This is a treasure trove for the fanatic. Yes, I know, that's what I am. I demand that amazon institute a new 6 star rating system, so I can give this book one extra star.
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