Re: Byrds and Who

[Lev Polinsky <polinsky@husc.harvard.edu>]

On Wed, 8 May 1996, Gary M. Gillman wrote:

> Mark`s reference to Roger (Jim) McGuinn`s Back to Rio (a truly lovely
> record) puts me in mind that there should by all rights be a number of
> significant links between the Who and the Byrds - both of them great,
> musical, innovative, spiritual bands which nonetheless have rather different
> sounds despite their contemporaneity. Yet, all I can think of in terms of
> anything which really links the two bands is the jangly Byrds sound Pete
> gets off his guitar in So Sad About Us. Mark, can you, or any other lister,
> identify any further links between these two iconic bands of the classic
> rock era?....Gary M.

Both played at Monterey.
Or how about Byrds-Crosby-N.Young-E.Vedder-Townshend?

--LP.