The third, 1975’s Roger McGuinn & Band, while inherently flawed, is a marked improvement over its predecessor, the unfortunately titled Peace On You.Īs its title suggests, the album is built around a cohesive band, a transplanted trio that had been working in Texas under the name Lone Star (they were augmented here by the bassist from Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band). Here’s the concert they did at The Hammersmith Odeon on Januvia The BBC.Roger McGuinn’s first two post-Byrds solo albums were reissued in early 2004.
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Other members included future John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Rick Vito, future Poco bassist Charlie Harrison and drummer Greg Thomas. In 1977, he released Thunderbyrd, which was also the name of his contemporaneous band. In late 1975, he played guitar on the track titled “Ride the Water” on Bo Diddley’s The 20th Anniversary of Rock ‘n’ Roll all-star album. He toured with Bob Dylan in 19 as part of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, cancelling a planned tour of his own in order to participate.
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In 1973 he collaborated with Bob Dylan on songs for the sound track of the Sam Peckinpah movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid including “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”. The second style was a merging of saxophonist John Coltrane’s free-jazz atonalities, which hinted at the droning of the sitar – a style of playing, first heard on the Byrds’ 1966 single “Eight Miles High”, which was influential in psychedelic rock.Īfter the break-up of the Byrds, McGuinn released several solo albums throughout the 1970s.
The first was “jingle-jangle” – generating ringing arpeggios based on banjo finger picking styles he learned while at the Old Town School of Folk – which was influential in the folk rock genre. During his time with the Byrds, McGuinn developed two innovative and very influential styles of electric guitar playing.
In case you don’t know, Roger McGuinn is best known for being the frontman of the Byrds. Thunderbyrd was not well received by critics or record buyers and was to be McGuinn’s last solo album until 1990’s Back from Rio. It also includes a version of Tom Petty’s “American Girl”, originally a hit the year before from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’s eponymous debut album. The album contains four original compositions by McGuinn and his old songwriting collaborator Jacques Levy. Instead he put together a new band, Thunderbyrd, and recorded this album with them. Following the success of his 1976 album Cardiff Rose, McGuinn intended to make another album in collaboration with its producer Mick Ronson. Thunderbyrd was singer-songwriter and guitarist Roger McGuinn’s 5th solo studio album, released in 1977 on the Columbia Records label. Roger McGuinn tonight, with his short-lived project Thunderbyrd in a concert from the Hammersmith Odeon and recorded by BBC Radio 1 for In Concert on January 1, 1977. Roger McGuinn Thunderbyrd – Live At Hammersmith Odeon – Janu– BBC Radio 1 – Roger McGuinn – Thunderbyrd seemed like a good idea at the time.
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