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This DVD captures an intimate solo performance from Roger McGuinn in 2002. The set list is jam packed with Byrds classics such as Feel A Whole Lot Better, The Ballad Of Easy Rider, You Showed Me, Mr. Spaceman and others. Throughout the concert performance the film cuts to interview segments where Roger McGuinn explains how some of the songs came about and gives a history of his career and of course the Byrds.
James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn is probably best known as a founder member of American band The Byrds. The band was formed in 1964 in California with fellow members Mike Clarke, David Crosby, Gene Clark and Chris Hillman and was originally part of what would be termed the folk rock boom. The bands first hit was a majestic cover of the Bob Dylan song Mr. Tambourine Man which featured the jangly sound of Roger McGuinn’s twelve string Rickenbacker guitar which would go on to become the signature sound of the band. Whilst with The Byrds Mcguinn recorded a number of highly regarded and groundbreaking albums. At the time of the bands split in early 1973 McGuinn was the only founder member still remaining although the original line up reformed for a one off reunion album for David Geffen’s Asylum label later in the year. Following the split the band would r3eform a number of times but never with a full compliment of original members.Mcguinn embarked on a successful solo career recording albums and performing with a number of bands. He also performed as part of Bob Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Review in 1975 and 1976. In the late seventies Mcguinn would hook up with former Byrds colleagues Gene Clark and Chris Hillman in the short lived soft rock trio Mcguinn Clark and Hillman before returning to a solo career which continues to this day.This DVD captures an intimate solo performance from Roger McGuinn with a set list jam packed with Byrds classics such as Feel A Whole Lot Better, The Ballad Of Easy Rider, You Showed Me, Mr. Spaceman. Throughout the concert performance the film cuts to interview segments where Roger McGuinn explains how some of the songs came about and gives a history of his career and of course the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jul 13, 1942 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Rock
Styles: Country-Rock, Folk-Rock, Rock & Roll, Singer/Songwriter
As the frontman of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. in the process. James Joseph McGuinn was born on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, where by his teenage years he was already something of a folk music prodigy. After touring with the Limelighters, in 1960 he signed on as an accompanist with the Chad Mitchell Trio, appearing on the LPs Mighty Day on Campus and At the Bitter End; frustrated with his limited role in the group, he soon joined Bobby Darin's group when the singer moved from pop to folk.
After appearing on sessions for Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, and Tom & Jerry (soon to be known as Simon & Garfunkel), McGuinn began playing solo dates around the Los Angeles area, where he soon formed the Jet Set with area musicians David Crosby and Gene Clark. After a failed single under the name the Beefeaters, the group recruited bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, changed their name to the Byrds, and set about crystallizing McGuinn's vision of merging the poetic folk music of Bob Dylan with the miraculous pop sounds heard via the British Invasion. McGuinn was the only member of the Byrds to play on their landmark debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man," but his jangly guitar work quickly became the very definition of the burgeoning folk-rock form; still, despite the Byrds' immediate success, both commercially and critically, the group was plagued by internal strife, and following the release of their 1968 country-rock breakthrough Sweetheart of the Rodeo, McGuinn was the only founding member still in the band.
Under the direction of McGuinn -- who had changed his first name to Roger after a flirtation with the Subud religion -- the Byrds soldiered on, delving further and further into country and roots music before finally dissolving in February 1973. That same year, McGuinn issued his self-titled solo debut, an ambitious, eclectic affair which explored not only folk and country but surf and even space rock. 1974's Peace on You and 1975's Roger McGuinn & His Band preceded a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, which helped revitalize his standing within the musical community. 1976's Cardiff Rose was regarded as his best solo effort to date, but the next year's Thunderbyrd, which featured a cover of Tom Petty's "American Girl," failed to connect with audiences.
In late 1977, McGuinn reunited with Byrds mates Chris Hillman and Gene Clark; the resulting LP, 1979's McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, notched a Top 40 pop hit with the McGuinn-penned "Don't You Write Her Off." Midway through recording the follow-up, 1980's City, Clark departed, and the album was released under the name "Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman Featuring Gene Clark." Following another effort, 1981's McGuinn/Hillman, they went their separate ways. After undergoing another religious conversion, this time becoming a born-again Christian, McGuinn spent the remainder of the 1980s without a recording contract and performing solo dates.
The appearance of a faux Byrds led by Michael Clarke prompted McGuinn to reform the group with Hillman and David Crosby in 1989, resulting in a series of club performances, an appearance at a Roy Orbison tribute, and a handful of new recordings for inclusion on a box set retrospective. In 1991 -- the same year the Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- McGuinn issued his first new solo recordings in over a decade, the all-star Back to Rio, which was met with great public and critical acclaim. Live From Mars, a retrospective of songs and stories, appeared in 1996.
---Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide |
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