This line-up continued to tour, until Skip Battin retired from touring for health reasons in 1997. Michael Curtis, who had played extensively with both Michael Clarke and Gene Clark, as well as being a member of Crazy Horse, and The Curtis Brothers had recently relocated from Los Angeles,CA to Nashville,TN, and was introduced to Terry by their mutual friend Susan Heffernon, which led to an invitation to join THE BYRDS CELEBRATION. After an automobile accident involving Vince Barranco, Tim Politte, who had worked with Scott Nienhaus in his band, Acousticity and with The Nicolette Larson Band, joined The Byrds Celebration. Vince Barranco, a very talented session drummer in Nashville,TN, replaced Parsons, performing with THE BYRDS CELEBRATION on many tours of Europe and the U.S., as well as playing on The Rogers / Nienhaus Band CD 'Empty Room' recorded in St. When Gremp returned to his gig with The Daredevils, Gene Parsons agreed to reunite with his old "Byrds' mate Skip Battin, and THE BYRDS CELEBRATION embarked on their first European Tour in 1994.Īt the end of this 1st tour of Europe for The Byrds Celebration, Gene Parsons left to work with Fender Guitars, designing guitars with his patented Stringbender mechanism, that he had designed for Clarence White. In early 1994, Terry Jones Rogers and Skip Battin formed The Byrds Celebration, along with newcomer Scott Nienhaus, who had been introduced to Rogers by their mutual friend Supe Granda of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, and Ron Gremp, also a member of The Daredevils. This line-up continued to tour nationally and internationally until Michael Clarke's untimely death, in December of 1993. This 4 piece line-up of Michael Clarke, Skip Battin, Jerry Sorn and Terry Jones Rogers then embarked on their first extensive tour of Europe, as The Byrds featuring Michael Clarke.
At this point, Skip Battin stepped up to the bass position, as he did in his former stint with The Byrds. John York replaced Bernal on the 2nd half of a national tour, but departed after only a few months, flying home to be with his expectant wife. This line-up included Michael Clarke, Skip Battin, Carlos Bernal, Jerry Sorn and Terry Jones Rogers. This led to a long association with The Byrds, as Terry fronted the group on it's national and international tours. Overall, this is a very raw and unrefined Byrds sound and the later releases really improve on this lack of cohesiveness present on this album.Terry Jones Rogers was invited to join The Byrds when they reformed in 1988, by Michael Clarke, the original drummer. I think there isn't much point in returning back to this album once you have listened to it, just pick out the superior songs and listen to those instead. They are just there and pass the time on the album so it feels a bit more fleshed out. Then there are 3 to 5 nothing tracks that are just filler and aren't memorable or enjoyable at all. 102 sounds awfully cringey nowadays and the ending on the track makes me feel so uncomfortable. There are a few more songs that come close to this quality but the majority of songs are far off it. The simple composition of it with its great lyrics and wonderful vocal makes for just pure bliss. This record possibly has the greatest Byrds song ever made on it in My Back Pages which is just such a stunning and brilliant listen. There are some extremely beautiful cuts on this record but they are let down by the failed attempt to be experimental and the slower more boring tracks. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100.
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on. (*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings) The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. You can include this album in your own chart from the My Charts page! Younger Than Yesterday collection Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. Latest 20 charts that this album appears in: Sort ranksĬrosby, Stills, Nash & Young ~ together and apart
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