{"id":85,"date":"2014-06-13T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinyldialogues.com\/VinylDialoguesBlog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T20:33:29","slug":"roger-mcguinns-mr-tambourine-man-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinyldialogues.com\/VinylDialoguesBlog\/roger-mcguinns-mr-tambourine-man-a-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger McGuinn&#8217;s &#8216;Mr. Tambourine Man&#8217; a classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UY9xGiBd9wY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Roger McGuinn of The Byrds played a solo gig June 12, 2014, at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hearing Brian Wilson sing \u201cSurfer Girl&#8221; in concert.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to America\u2019s Gerry Beckley from the fifth row as he sings \u201cSister Golden Hair.\u2028&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers rock out to \u201cChina Grove.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing great songs in person sung in their original versions by the artists who made them famous has always appealed to me. And now I can cross another one off my list: Hearing Roger McGuinn of The Byrds sing \u201cMr. Tambourine Man\u201d in person.<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s a Bob Dylan song. And certainly one can argue that hearing Bob Dylan <span id=\"b6ec5afe-2f2b-46d7-a8da-c6f2e5cf7ebf\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">sing<\/span> it would be hearing \u201cMr. Tambourine Man\u201d in its original form. Dylan released the song in March 1965 and The Byrds\u2019 version was released in April 1965.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the harmonies of McGuinn, Gene Clark and David Crosby &#8211; and the birth of what we now know as \u201cfolk rock\u201d &#8211; on The Byrds version of the song that I remember from my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>So it was a real kick to hear McGuinn sing it Thursday, June 12, 2014, at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, nearly 50 years after the song was first released by The Byrds.<\/p>\n<p>These days, it\u2019s just McGuinn and his guitars on stage. And that\u2019s enough. He did two, 45-<span id=\"a9eb9721-7b12-46c5-9d1a-85d9540b30bc\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">minutes<\/span> sets at the Colonial. McGuinn is a great storyteller, and not only with his song lyrics. Throughout the performance he prefaced almost every song with a story explaining the genesis of the song. To me, that\u2019s <span id=\"97bef3a8-bdc7-4f06-9d91-8d3fd132a05f\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">gold<\/span> for those artists who have been around for decades &#8211; to mix in the actual history of the songs that have become historic.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the premise behind \u201cThe Vinyl Dialogues\u201d &#8211; to get the accurate historical details and perspectives about albums and songs directly from the artists who made that history.<\/p>\n<p>It would be great to get McGuinn on the record for Volume II of \u201cThe Vinyl Dialogues.\u201d I like his 1976 solo album, \u201cCardiff Rose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGuinn was just coming off Dylan\u2019s \u201cRolling Thunder Revue\u201d tour in 1975 and I\u2019ve love to hear the details of the creative process that he was experiencing in the lead-up to the making and release of \u201cCardiff Rose.\u201d McGuinn touched on that a little bit when he told a story during the Colonial performance about how he got Joni Mitchell\u2019s song \u201cDreamland\u201d to include on \u201cCardiff Rose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Living, breathing rock and roll history in a live concert. It doesn&#8217;t get much better than that.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u2019ve got the vinyl, of course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger McGuinn of The Byrds played a solo gig June 12, 2014, at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA. Hearing Brian Wilson sing \u201cSurfer Girl&#8221; in concert. 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