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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
- Folk Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
- Guitars
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really collect guitars.
- Finger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time... around 1960 or so.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.
- Good Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.
- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not attracted to expensive things.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020