Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: THE BYRDS - Satisfied Mind Oil Well RSC CD 058

THE BYRDS - Satisfied Mind
Oil Well RSC CD 058

1 I Knew I'd Want You 2:09
2 It's No Use 2:23
3 The Bells Of Rhymney 3:34
4 I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better 2:30
5 It Won't Be Wrong 2:20
6 The World Turns All Around Her 2:15
7 Satisfied Mind 2:56
8 Set You Free This Time 4:14
9 Stranger In A Strange Land 7:01
10 Wait And See #1 0:43
11 Wait And See #2 2:45
12 Oh Susanna 3:16
13 5D #1 8:15
14 5D #2 2:14
15 It's All Over Now Baby Blue 6:45
16 Mr. Tambourine Man 6:35
17 Goin' Back 3:46
18 Don't Make Waves 2:02
19 He Was A Friend Of Mine 2:44
20 My Back Pages / Baby, What You Want Me To Do? 6:17
21 Byrds Chirp (Interview) 1:51

Note:
All songs by The Byrds unless noted
~~Live in Baton Rouge, Louisianna, April 18, 1967~~

Track 1 recorded At – Columbia Studios, Hollywood on 20 Jan 1965

Tracks 3, 4, recorded At – Columbia Studios, Hollywood on 14 Apr 1965

Tracks 5,7,8 recorded At – Columbia Studios, Hollywood on 17 Sep 1965

Track 6 recorded At – Columbia Studios, Hollywood on 23 Aug 1965

Tracks 10,11 recorded At – Columbia Studios, Hollywood on 1 Oct 1965
Tracks 13,14 recorded At – Columbia Studios, Hollywood on May 1966
Track 17 recorded on The Smooth Brothers Comedy Hour on October 1967
Track 18 recorded in 1967
Track 19 recorded at 1967 Monterey Pop Festival on July 26th, 1967
Track 20 recorded at Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco - 2nd November 1968

Lineup:
Roger McGuinn – lead guitar, banjo, Moog synthesizer, vocals
Gene Clark – tambourine, rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals
David Crosby – rhythm guitar, vocals
Michael Clarke – drums
Chris Hillman – bass guitar, rhythm guitar, mandolin, vocals

Bill Putnam - bass
Larry Knechtel - bass
Hal Blaine - drums
Jerry Cole - guitar
Van Dyke Parks - Organ, Piano (on 5D-Fifth Dimension)
Leon Russell - piano

This bootleg is partial clone of: Unsurpassed Masters -1965 - On The Air ‎– OTA-008
This album contains alternative takes, outtakes, instrumentals and vocal tracks from Columbia Studios, Hollywood, California, 1965 and 1966. The album also features two live tracks. The first is He Was a friend of mine performed in Monterey (also present on video - here), the band's historic performance, here for the first time on CD. The second song is My Back Pages / Baby, What You Want Me To Do? recorded in San Francisco in 1968.

Please note that track 15 is It's All Over Now Baby Blue + 5D (Take 16);
Track 16 is 04 Mr. Tambourine Man (Take 4+5+6)
Read below for other infos about this bootleg!

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© Official released material:
Tracks 2,4 have been released officially on: Mr. Tambourine Man - 1996 CD reissue bonus tracks
Track 18 released on "Vic Mizzy ‎– Don't Make Waves (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1967
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Who are The Byrds
The Byrds were the most stylistically unified of American rock bands but paradoxically, this is an album without a style. It has little to do with the original band except that it is performed by its nominal members. I say nominal because everyone knows that only Roger McGuinn performed instrumentally on most of Mr. Tambourine Man, the most auspicious debut American album in pop Sixties rock, outdone internationally only by the Stones’ England’s Newest Hitmakers. The rest of the music was supplied by Joe Osborne, Hal Blaine, and, if memory serves, Leon Russell. It was music that combined contemporary material with high-pitched, almost whiney harmony, and the full-bodied ring of McGuinn’s Rickenbacker 12-string guitar.

When the group decided to play its own music on Turn! Turn! Turn! they were forced to equal, if not copy, the style that had been handed them by the L.A. studio musicians. Despite such great cuts as Gene Clark's "Set You Free This Time" (which almost equaled his "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better," from the earlier album) they simply weren't up to it. But on Fifth Dimension they flew off into the cosmos and hard rock, leaving behind the Dylan songs and doing it all without Gene Clark. The loss of his middle-ranged voice threw the vocal equilibrium off and forced the group into a more adventurous instrumental style, a challenge that McGuinn met head on with such masterpieces as "Eight Miles High" and "5D."

Younger Than Yesterday and Notorious Byrd Brothers stand with Mr. Tambourine Man as their greatest albums and I used to have a hell of a time choosing between them. The former contained the flowering of Hillman's ornate bass style and the perfection of the progressively harder rock approach. "Everybody's Been Burned" was easily the best piece of music Crosby ever created and "Thoughts And Words" was one of their purest ventures into rock & roll.

The Broadcast Archive
The Broadcast Archive is a three CD set of radio broadcasts – semi-professional bootlegs in other words. Two of the albums have actually been out (on this label!) since 2015, one is new for 2017 and the whole have been repackaged into a single box set. The Byrds isn’t an exactly honest representation of the box, as Electric Ladyland 1991 is a Roger McGuinn concert. This isn’t such a problem since it’s by far the best CD in the set – the sound is pretty good quality and amongst several Byrds songs there are plenty from his last big studio album Back From Rio. It’s good to hear McGuinn with a full band – the trees are all gone boils with eco-concern, King of the Hill is a jangly tale of rock star drug abuse, Eight Miles High is a fine set closer. So far, so good.

So, let’s turn out attention to the other two CDs and see how they compare. How do they compare ? Not well. Firstly Lee Jeans Living Rock Concert, 1969 – imagine that The Byrds had done a live concert broadcast on an American radio station. Now imagine someone taped it. And they then made a copy for a friend who’d missed the broadcast but was a big Byrds fan and wanted to hear these sounds. Now imagine this friend was the well spring for a vast network of similarly Byrds loving fans who had missed the broadcast. And imagine that his tape was copied, and then that copy was copied and then…on and on until finally All Access have the temerity to release it on a CD to sell to Byrds loving suckers. Ok, then we’ve dealt with Lee Jeans Living Rock Concert, 1969. How about the latest of these releases? Sunshine States purports to be 1968 vintage broadcasts from Rome & Baton Rouge. Oh really? Odd that so many tracks sound like outtakes and alternative versions. And that would be ok, but let’s try and guess where All Access sourced this from. Imagine, if you will, that a Byrds fan got hold of a bootleg recording- and he made a copy of it. Now imagine that he still had that friend who just sponged recordings off him – and then, probably, sold them on to other people, making ever inferior copies. If the accreditation of the live track to May 1968 is actually correct then this material does offer the chance to hear a Byrds line-up with Kevin Kelley on drums. A few of the live tracks do have almost reasonable sound and there’s a really nice banjo part by Doug Dillard on Chimes of Freedom. Is that enough to recommend this set of recordings? Probably not – unless you happen to be one of those Byrds loving suckers.

So, here’s the situation – this collection has two CDs of almost unlistenable quality offering up tracks you may well already have better versions of – those expanded Byrds albums are full of alternate takes. The third CD is a perfectly acceptable live broadcast by Roger McGuinn heavily featuring songs from his last big studio album. It’s pretty good, but overall this set is pretty bad. By all means root out the McGuinn album as a solo CD, consider Sunshine States if you want to hear Dillard in the Byrds, but otherwise don’t buy this set.

July 26th, 1967: The Byrds perform tribute to JFK at Monterey Pop Festival
Last month at The Monterey Pop Festival, The Byrds performed folk traditional, "He Was A Friend Of Mine" with alternate lyrics about the assassination of JFK.
Lead singer Roger McGuinn re-wrote the lyrics of the song to include the verse;He was in Dallas town/ From a sixth floor window
A gunman shot him down/ He died in Dallas town

Introducing the song, guitarist/singer David Crosby said to the audience, "He was not killed by one man. He was shot from a number of different directions — by different guns. The story has been suppressed, witnesses have been killed, and this is your country."
Following the performance McGuinn said of the incident, "Come on, give me a break. He didn't know anything more than anybody else. He was just trying to be Mr. Cool up there. I resented it, frankly."