THE BYRDS Chestnut Mare REACTION - I heard Beatles,Dylan and Byrds on this - First time hearing
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- THE BYRDS Chestnut Mare REACTION - I heard Beatles,Dylan and Byrds on this - First time hearing
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I like laying on my back on the floor and sticking my head in between the speakers for this one.
One of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands of all time. The Byrds can do no wrong for me.
Wow.....I can't tell you how many decades it has been since hearing this. Fell in love with it as a 12 year old.
Yes, Harri, you nailed it. Interesting that you hear some Dylan in this. The lyrics were written by Bob Dylan's psychiatrist, Jacques Levy, who became fast friends with lead singer and guitarist Roger McGuinn after Dylan introduced the two. Levy had also co-written songs with Bob and fancied himself a lyricist/poet. So, given Levy's profession, you can definitely see the use of heavy metaphor! Thanks Harri for the nice reaction.
The Byrds are one of those bands I like but I never realise how much I like them until I hear their songs and this is one of their best with nearly all the elements that make a great Byrds song, which is inevitable with the change in personnel through the years.
I'm sure you know the band John, you always do, but can you remember a seventies British band called Starry Eyed and Laughing who were heavily influenced by the Byrds and who were led by Tony Poole on 12-string Rickenbacker. Listening to the Byrds always brings them to mind and I've just found that there are three new albums on Bandcamp. Having bought six albums by Kelly's Heroes this month and with New Model Army's latest on order I shall leave them for next month but I've already listened to "The Girl in a Gene Clark Song" and it sounds really good.
Harri,
The guitar sound you love from the Byrds so much is primarily the 12 string Rickenbacker of Roger McGuinn. I have loved this band from the beginning when I was a 12 year old in 1965. Tomorrow evening I am seeing the great Roger McGuinn in concert I Saratoga, California. I have never been so excited to see a concert. At nearly 82 years old, McGuinn still performs all over the US, doing what he's loved for more than 60 years. Clearly, by the number of songs you reviewed of the Byrds, you've become a big fan as well.
This version of The Byrds had Clarence White on guitar. Clarence was a world class bluegrass guitar player at a very young age and later one of the most innovative electric players ever. He was sadly killed by a drunk driver in 1973 but is still influencing pickers today. And, of course, Roger’s 12-string sounds beautiful
it's always sad when we lose artists so young in their careers... but goddamn, the world REALLY lost out when Clarence died. He had sooo much still yet to contribute to music, and as great as his contributions were i feel like he was only scratching the surface. So young. Same with Gram.
Boy a great double header tonight John. I love the Byrds and this song is less well known I think, but just as great. Harri is right about them being very recognizable. Thanks!
Most beautiful bridge of any song ever!
This is a great song by the Byrds and they go way back with great songs and memories. Thank you Harri and John.💞
This was my favorite song back in the days when a buddy and I were dabbling with sky diving.
That's a crazy song, but I enjoy it a lot.
I think this, like many great lyrical songs, can be taken on multiple levels. I've always viewed it as a re-telling of the story of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. The idea that, as a young person, you find or get a glimpse of perfection - whether it's a person or something else. But you're unable to hold onto it and spend the rest of your life trying to recapture it. Or it could be about a horse...your choice.
Always have loved this.
I'm an old guy and a huge Byrds fan. Sometimes I think this song is not a struggle with a horse wanting to stay free but a frree spirited woman. Either way it's a beautiful country rock love song!
Great selection John. This brings back such wonderful memories. That Byrds sound is woven in and out of my teens. This song was released when I was a senior in HS. I can picture my friends when I close my eyes. Thanks Harri and John 🌺✌️
The whole album is fantastic. True country heart, rock, folk. Just talent at the top of their game.
Harri, Thanks for bringing back an amazing Memory for me!!
LIke your channel. Had not heard this in some time. Quite a song. My best guess is he is referring to a meditative experience, where the shock of what he experienced shook him out of it. That happened to me one time when I was younger trying to enter a super relaxed state of mind with my eyes close, and I started visualizing a spinning triangle with lights, and it shook me out of it. But I thought I would like to try that again, and to try and hold on.
ultimate song.
I was never much of a Byrds fan but I always absolutely loved this song for many ,many years.
I still have the LP. Love the Byrds’ country phase.
It might be hard to imagine the music world before Punk Rock and Disco, but in the mid-seventies you could here music like this on the radio often......and even after punk/disco, the classic rock business was very slow to adapt!
Jaques Levy WAS NOT Dylan's psychiatrist! Levy was a playright most famous for staging Oh Calcutta the first broadway production to feature nudity. He hooked up with Roger McGuinn to write songs for a planned musical based on Norwegian playrwight Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt but set in the American West. Levy was primarily the lyricist. The musical never got off the ground and McGuinn issued several of the songs on subsequent Byrd albums. Several years later Dylan ran into Levy, and familiar with his work with McGuinn, decided to write some songs with him for what became his album Desire.
Chasing your elusive dream.
Originally, the song was written for a rock music adaptation of the stage play Peer Gynt titled Gene tryp, Which changed the setting of the play from Norway to the American Southwest. although the original was steeped more in Metephor and Myth, The song as preformed by the byrds is presented like an old time "Tall Tale" with the singer / narrator telling a whopper (an exageration) about catching and losing a wild horse.
......Also in the original, it was a Deer and not a mare.
I love this one, a great story song. I've recommended it to a number of reactor's, you're the first that has played it as far as I know. I've not bothered looking for metaphors I just take it at face value, and enjoy the melody which canters along just like a horse.
Mr Spaceman is another from the same album, you might consider reacting to. It's a fun piece.
She tamed him. He was the one chasing her.
Yes, I definitely think it's a metaphor.
ALWAYS my favorite Byrd song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It never got enough airplay when it was new
Check out the Byrds tune Wasn't Born to Follow.
Fantastic song but it has one major problem, it's too short. ✌️😏
Harri, I had to look up what kind of guitar Roger McGuin played. Very unusual guitar. It is a 12 string made by Rickenbacher, best known for bass guitars. Maybe that is why it is very distinct.
a mixture of metaphor, fantasy, and western iconography
This is another one of the most influential folk rock bands from the 60's. The Byrds covered a lot of Bob Dylan's songs. They had a lot of great hits such as "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Eight Miles High", "All I Really Want To Do", "I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", "So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star" etc. David Crosby (who passed away recently) was originally in this band before he became part of Crosby Stills & Nash.
Did anyone notice that in the picture behind Hari, David Crosby has his hand on Roger McGuinns shoulder and is giving the finger.
I'm pretty sure some of the other members of CSNY would say that just about sums up how they felt about Crosby.
@@dusty4835 agree.
hahaha
It's really about a Chestnut mare horse
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Good late Byrds. Even better earlier.
I really hope it's literally about a horse that he wants to make "like a wife". Because the alternative is that he's stalking and assaulting this woman who wants nothing to do with him, and that's even worse. "Oh he didn't mean it like THAT", I'm sure people are thinking. Well what exactly DOES he mean it like? The woman is fleeing from him, he won't take "no" for an answer, and one way or another this is why pepper spray was invented.
The Beatles Harri???
You really need to get out more😵😵
Great song but dated and slipping slightly out of their normal area
Lovely sound, but getting away from a controlling personality like McGuinn is another interpretation. (No expert here).