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The Byrds w/Gram Parsons- "Mr. Spaceman" 1968 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)
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I was in Rome when this happened! The Byrds played at the Piper Club. The first International Pop festival happened just before this!
Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett) played there too.
@@ndesdsadfdSyd wasn’t there
Gram stole show at piper club.his three songs beautiful powerful god bless and keep gram always
My parents had all the Byrds albums. I remember them listening to this groove when I was a kid. It reminds me of such a wonderful time!!
Your parents must have been much younger than mine. My parents danced in the living room to tunes on the radio, like Be My Love by Mario Lanza
I hear you
Never seen this before. First footage I’ve seen with Gram in the Byrds. Sweetheart of the rodeo is one of my favourite albums. Thanks for sharing.
Ah! that beautiful 12 string rickenbacker sound!
Only sounds like this when Roger Mcguinn is playing it.
Feb 1968 Erich Vn Daniken's Chariots of the Gods was published and sold millions of copies and lots of psychedelic music came out with otherworldly sounds. What a great time to live. Every day try try try and live and love and help yourself and others. Go green and sustainable and let us all know if someone from outer space or inner space leaves you messages on your mirrors. Peace out, peace in.
Woke up this morning with light in my eyes
And then realized it was still dark outside
It was a light coming down from the sky
I don't know who or why
Must be those strangers that come every night
Whose saucers shaped lights put people up tight
Leave blue green footprints that glow in the dark
I hope they get home all right
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along
For a ride
Woke up this morning, I was feeling quite weird
Had flies in my beard, my toothpaste was smeared
Over my window, they'd written my name
Said, "So long, we'll see you again"
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along
For a ride
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along
For a ride
Great quality upload, even if it is a lip-synch to a song recorded two years earlier! Love seeing Doug Dillard as a Byrd!
Great clip, I have never seen this one before, cool to see Gram in it too !
I was a junior in high school when our World Academy Schools of Foreign Study tour group visited Rome's Colosseum in June 1968. Didn't miss The Byrds by much, as they were there in May.
Thank you for this upload. Amazing!!
If only Gram hadn't gone to Joshua Tree that horrible day. I suppose we should appreciate the music he did leave behind even more since it was cut off so cruelly.
It would have have happened somewhere else I think
@@recordguy4321 I think so too ...
He was a drug addict. I'm sorry. I love him but he would have OD'd later anyway.
According to Caitlin from "Ask a Mortician," one of Gram's bandmates was supposed to watch over Gram to make sure he didn't accidentally OD. Unfortunately, this buffoon decided to detour back to California to pick up some pot. And so it was that Gram OD'd on morphine... It truly is tragic; Gram was a musical talent who was respected by the Stones, the Byrds, Emmylou Harris, etc. He seemed to be on the verge of real greatness but sadly self-destructed before he could achieve his potential. Of course, he's not the only musical figure from that era to succumb to drugs...
WOW. McGuinn looked so young in that video. I had never seen this one. Cool
I always found it odd, seeing him with that haircut when it was still 1968...
I love this song and love the Byrds
It's great to see Gram Parsons with the Byrds. I have never seen this footage, and it makes me happy to see Parsons here looking relatively healthy, although I am pretty sure he was totally intoxicated during the shoot. I wish that McGuinn had not overdubbed Parson's contribution to Sweetheart of the Rodeo, but that's the business. Crosby overdubbed all the other Byrds vocals on Lady Friend, so I guess McGuinn had that, and Parson's insane drug use and its potential implications for touring, in mind during post-production. Anyway, I wish Parsons had more time to develop his talents. He was quite a character, and a very good song writer.
From what I've read, I think the really heavy drug use came a little later when Gram was with the Burritos. He was pretty hard-working and motivated when he was with the Byrds and for the first Burrito album. As to why McGuinn erased Gram's vocals, Hillman and Gary Usher have acknowledged they didn't want Sweetheart to become a "Gram Parsons album" even though he did a lot of the work with Usher. I don't think he was sorry to leave the Byrds.
I agree. Definitely gone much too soon. RIP
Gram is nothing but the goat of country rock...with Mr Clarence white
Drugs got in Gram's way.😔
@@adrianbeaumont6745 Self-medication; bad childhood despite the money.
Gram's mustache is very impressive.
What Hellomcfly said.
Anymore Gram Parsons is greatly appreciated!!
Gram died in my fathers ambulance.
@@stoneagemom Very sad.
@@stoneagemom Your father owns an ambulance?
@@itistime467 He was a ambulance attendant for the Joshua Tree Ambulance Service. My father was also a San Bernardino reserve sheriff and helped in the investigation of the theft of Grams body.
Awesome!
I've been looking for this video for years. Thank you soooooo much!
We were very excited when we found the master film many years ago and we’re happy to share it
ReelinInTheYears66 who’s the guy on banjo
Doug Dillard
@@ReelinInTheYears66 where does this footage originate from? Was it a tv show or a promo?
@@billylilly it originates from a TV show and when we met Roger a few years ago we asked him about this and he remembered being on a small ledge when they were filming this.
Wish I’s seen this line-up or the original with Gene and David. But I did see them on the “Untitled” tour with Clarence White/Gene Parsons/Skip Batton and Roger…probably their best musician wise.
I’d love to have seen that lineup, the one that did the “Untitled” album. Musically those 4 together were as good as it gets. Gene Parsons didn’t get his due as a drummer. He’s very good. He and Battin were an amazing rhythm core. Throw in White and McGuinn; magic.
I saw this line-up, minus Doug Dillard, at the Albert Hall in 1968.
Absolutely fantastic from da byrds!!!! O)/+++from Connecticut !!!
Great clip! I believe you have more Byrds material in your archive. Please upload!
Wow. Gram Parsons can sound just like Crosby, & that banjo is getting drowned out.
Maybe Gram can sound like Crosby, but he ain’t on the recording.
I don't think Gram did ever sound like Crosby. Gram was a class of his own. However he had nothing to do with this song.
I was just making a little joke because they mimed to the recording. lol
COOL!! I've never seen this before.
I remember Bill Mumy singing this in an episode of LOST IN SPACE.
Virtually the later Flying Burrito line up
Cool,thanks!
The Bryds at their best respect Gram
Strange that they did a video for this song in 1968, two years after it came out.
Brilliant.
greatness!!!!!!!!!
Wow, Gram Parsons and Doug Dillard in the same video.
Good job boys.would love to have all orignal. Members on it.
Still waiting in linen for my Mr. Spaceman UFO ride I know it'll be worth the wait.
Of course they were lip syncing to the original recording with David Crosby singing harmony. In the late '60s The Byrds went through various personnel changes. I had the chance to see this lineup in person in N.Y.'s Hunter College in '68. It was McGuinn on 12 string, Hillman on bass, Parsons on guitar/keyboards and a guy named Kevin Kelley (Chris Hillman's cousin) on drums. There was no banjo player.
Doug Dillard (the banjo player) was only with them during their Europe tour in ‘68. Still cool to see him featured in this music video
RIP GRAM PARSONS
It's COOL
To the best of my knowledge, this is the only extant video featuring Gram Parsons with The Byrds.
Half of his vocals on Sweetheart of the Rodeo were re-done and dubbed over by McGuinn
Listened to an interview with gram Parsons about his time with the Byrds. Dwight.yoakam had talked about it.
Recently I knew that in that period they were host in a program of Rai (Italian Public Television). The program is now available on raiplay, but I have still to search the Byrds performance: Iìll make you know.
Correction: The video does not feature Parsons, of course, as that's McGuinn singing a song he wrote and recorded.
very cool...
Banjoist on left at 2:03....Isn't that Doug Dillard?
Cool clip
Handsome lad.
How true we find out now.
It was some sort of a Zen vision thing or something. I remember reading about it back in the seventies. Probably Google has it.
Gram Parsons at 1:22 reminds me of singer Pete Droge ("If You Don't Love Me").
Wonderfiull songs 60's
Good Tune. I had no idea the Grammy's were named after Gram Parsons.
MegaTriumph1 I sincerely hope that was your attempt at sarcasm?
😯
Well, he was nominated for a Grammy in 1982 for Love Hurts done with Emmylou and the Fallen Angels.
heh...now find the footage where they got booed off the Grand Ole Opry in 1968 - Id like to see that...
were they really there or was it a radio show with Ralph Emery the Drug store truck drivin man
they did that interview while they were in Nashville - but they definitely appeared on the Opry - in fact - they changed songs at the last second (playing Hickory Wind instead of some cover) - which irked the producers - seems like we would have seen the footage if it still existed...
was that a TV show like He - Haw or just a concert that was never filmed ?
a country music show - live music - here is Roger with the "truck drivin man" himself in the 80s - telling the story - czcams.com/video/nJcKYyJLfbM/video.html
ok but this is a TV talk show was the Grand Old opry just a concert or was it filmed ?
Gram 😘
Does anyone else get rather pissed off when people keep referring to Bohemian Rhapsody as having the "first real promotional video" and they keep finding great old clips like this from the 60's?
This song was released in 1966...kind of weird they are doin' a promo video w/Gram in '68.
how much video exists of the country gram byrds
There is movies that the best beat CD the Beatles fans never have heard.
Boy, that Gram Parsons fella sure sounds a lot like David Crosby...
Soulvigilante gram is playing the acoustic as a flat top lol
@@cynjansen Gram Parsons does NOT play (or sing) on this song, which is precisely why he DOES sound like David Crosby. Yes, he does appear in the video lamely lip-synching to the original tune (which was recorded in 1966, more than two years before he'd joined the group), but it is neither his voice nor his guitar licks. The dude was just faking it.
You could see Gram was sarcastically mumbling in a lip sync fashion.
@@cynjansen Gram Parsons was vocally way out of David Crosby’s league.
@@mikebloomfield2147 In complete agreement. His effort with Emmylou Harris is excellent if you need funeral music. ;)
Excellent video of their legendary visit to Rome, with Gram Parsons, Doug Dillard next to Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and Kevin Kelly. My favorite Byrds cast if also Gene Clark would have been there ! If you want to hear the banjo of Doug, or Gram singing go to czcams.com/video/NryDsElAjP8/video.html that has their whole appearance in the Piper Club in Rome, same days in high quality , right from a Dutch radio recording
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Chaim Caran I am curious- what happened with the Byrds in Rome? Obviously the video, but I'd like to hear what you know. Thanks!
Doug Dillard had a date in destiny with Gene Clark.
Gene wouldn't have flown to Rome.
Chaim caran,thanks for helping others to find sites for this beautiful bands music,cosmic American as gramused to say.i still play and sing these +,fbb's with GP.thanks. Brian let masters.
The vocals and songwriting
took these Byrds on a steep nosedive. This is one of the poorer tracks from the brilliant 5D album repeated here for God knows what reason with 40% of the original group. When you lose two of the era's greatest creative talents in Gene Clark and David Crosby, just scrap the flight plan. You are flapping your wings to no avail.
It should be 'The Byrds with Roger McGuinn'. He sings it and does the guitar solo. And Roger wrote it too. Parsons added some harmony. That's it.
@@pedal4ever the title refers to the video which is the only known footage of Gram Parsons with the Byrds.
Gram lip-synched to this old Byrds song recorded when he was not a member, nor Kevin or Doug. Some person in charge thought it was a good idea. It is fun to see this version of the Byrds, though.
Roger is such a clean cut young man here. I wonder why his eyes are so red.
Probably because he had woken up that morning with light in his eyes.
Is that a mangy caterpillar on Gram's upper lip?
Interesting video which had to be filmed around 1968. They're lip synching to the original version recorded in 1966 and which appeared on the 5D album. Roger's bandmates in this video are John Hartford(I think), Chris Hillman , Kevin Kelly(Hillman's cousin) and Gram Parsons. This lineup (and others) recorded "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968. Roger and Chris were the only guys from this group on the original recording of Mr.Spaceman.
The other guy in the video is Doug Dillard, not John Hartford.
@@maxmerry8470 thanks
ED NORTON.....Hartford did, however, play on the "Sweetheart" album which Dillard didn't. Doug was with the Byrds for some of the European tour of 1968 which explains his appearance in this film. He would shortly be teaming up with Gene Clark, of course,.......but that's another story :-)
They made a music video for a two year old song?
I thought something didn't add up. ..l was positive this was recorded way prior Gram....getting older the memory is dipping.
@@michaelrose3101 1965 not 68
@@lilajagears8317 Thanks Lila didn't check l have the album knew it had to be 65 or 66.
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1:09 MR 12 STRING MAN is 6 foot 2
He's actually only 5 foot 10.
Did Gram Parsons ever actually play piano with The Byrds? I know that's why he was ostensibly hired, but I've never seen or heard him play keys, only guitar.
I've read reports of him playing electric piano on live versions of songs like "So You Want to Be A R&R Star."
Yes on stage , but in the studio it was Earl Ball, which is no surprise as Earl was brilliant
At gigs in 1968 Gram played an electric organ on the rock songs and acoustic guitar on the country numbers. The organ sounded terrible.
Isn’t it filmed in Tunisia ? I kinda recognize places I v visited there. The first background seen in this video was used in the movie The English Patient. If I m not mistaken.
It was filmed in the Coliseum in Rome.
1:29 GUITAR SOLO
Does anyone know why the made this video two years after the song was recorded? In those days two years meant 4 indispensable classics from this band even with all the turnover.
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1:56 Where is this the roman colesium
No. It is the Rome Coliseum.
Colosseum - Rome
Was that when McGuinn's first name was Jim? That's when I knew him.
he changed it from jim to roger...no idea why
@@onezitman Subud religious conversion.
@@onezitman Someone from tje "other side" instructed him. It was the 60's dude.
Who is the fifth member? Gram,Roger,Chris and Kevin Kelley on drums.but the other one?
Doug Dillard was with them in Europe.
Is that Doug Dillard on banjo?
Yes.
It is! Doug was an official member of the Byrds for a while in late 1968 and into sometime in 1969. Aunt Bea says hey.
Greg & Mary Hughes yup
Gene Clark, Michael Clark and David Crosby?
@@Tenskwatawa4U I thought for a moment it was Herb Pedersen
This is just the original album version put to a video with later members who are.not even playing or singing on the song. Interesting though.
Scott Bing well Roger did sing the song on the original version and Hillman was there too. The only reason this clip is of serious historical value is that it’s the ONLY footage of The Byrds with Gram Parsons.
@@ReelinInTheYears66 Why?
Very weird video! Doug Dillard (!?!), Gram Parsons and Kevin Kelly pretending to play on a song that was recorded a couple of years before without the participation of any of them!
Did Doug Dillard ever record anything as a member of the byrds?
No studio work but he was definitely part of the line-up which can be heard on the Live At The Piper Club bootleg recorded either just before or after this video.
What a bizarre video. The only connection between this version of Mr. Spaceman and the guys in the video is McGuinn (12-string Rick) and Hillman (bass). The other guys on the track were David Crosby (rhythm guitar, high harmony) and Michael Clarke (drums), who were gone by the time this video was made.
My guess is that the video was the brain child (or brain fart) of some bozo at Columbia Records. They never really understood what innovators the Byrds were, never really got behind them after the Turn! Turn! Turn! album.
In fact, Columbia pretty much threw the Byrds under the bus during the whole Eight Miles High controversy-a made-up pantload by some moronic DJ in the south.
My guess is that the band were touring Europe, where Hey Mr Spaceman was still sufficiently popular that they were playing it at their concerts (I checked - they did), and an Italian TV producer wanted to feature it on his show. That's all.
On the other hand, its refreshing to see all the close ups of Mcguinn instead of David mugging for the camera
Factually correct. This is the 5D version of the song with Crosby's soaring harmonies that surely the quintet in the video would not have had the audacity, not to mention the skill, to attempt perform in concerts. And I'd hope that Gram Parsons, at any level of drink and drug injested mindlessness, would beg be excused from a singalong
of this "Yellow Submarine" level musical nonsense.
@@davidmurray2539 HAR! Truth be told, I never really understood how Gram Parsons was a good fit for The Byrds outside of his contributions to _Sweetheart Of The Rodeo_ ...and even there, he wasn't much of a team player. His attempt to remake The Byrds in his own image was, IMO, incredibly ill conceived.
Then too, Parsons preferred to hang out with Keith Richards when the Stones and The Byrds were on each other's turf. That wasn't exactly a moderating influence on his...er, pharmaceutical inclinations.
Your comment about the soaring harmonies is spot on. For all his compulsive egocentrism, Crosby was a great match with McGuinn vocally, and it knocked me out from the first time I heard _Mr. Tambourine Man_ - consistently. It was part of the glorious, instantly recognizable sound that was unique to The Byrds. Gene Clark's departure left a big hole, but by the _Younger Than Yesterday_ album, Chris Hillman filled it admirably, and the harmonies continued to soar through _Notorious Byrd Brothers_ .
Alas, it was never the same after Crosby's departure.
@@Vito_Tuxedo In or out of a tuxedo you have my respect, Vito. Yes, I believe you're right about Parsons not being on his comfort zone as a Byrd. He was comfortable in the company of Chris Hillman though and to my mind his greatest vocal and songwriting period was with the Burrito Bros. Their first album, and not Sweetheart of the Rodeo, belongs in the Smithsonian. Hesitate to contradict your fine opinions but Gram's vocals were almost entirely erased on Sweetheart. Replaced by McGuinn. Something to do with a contractual conflict with Parsons' former record label and as far as I can discern there was no way that he, a newcomer to the Byrds was in any way going to take over and remake the group's sound. McGuinn was always "the boss" in any and all configurations of the band right through to its long and dismal conclusion.
Parsons association with The Rolling Stones and Keith Richards in particular was predictably a windfall artistically for The Stones. His jaded countrified influences are heard all over what to me is the greatest rock album ever conceived, Exile On Main Street. Unfortunately for Gram , as with many of the highly gifted and less gifted musicians who crossed paths with The Glimmer Twins, that extended Mediterranean encounter probably set him on the road to ruin.
Yes, The Byrds couldn't survive in any meaningful artistic way without Crosby's greatest ever high harmonies and even his leads, when the songs had lyrical merit. For me, the loss of Gene Clark was the beginning of the end for this brilliant, through the course of five albums, group. It was three introspective, serious musicians pitted against a control freak and an embarrassing mouthy juvenile and it's a wonder these guys could even make albums let alone be the only serious competition The Beatles had in terms of pushing musical boundaries. And they achieved this, for the most part, without the guy who possessed I'd say, 80% of the group's talent. Just check out Gene Clark's solo work through the years and consider how much of it, with Crosby's harmonies, could've carried The Byrds forward for years!
is this the only video of the country byrds
20 something year old Roger looking like he just turned 16 with that haircut and suit!
And if you've see or heard his bio, you'll know that McGuinn was already in big-time demand as a performing and studio musician by then.
Ha! Gram on pseudo-dobro!
Gram is nodding off
I am guessing that's Doug Dillard on Banjo?
Yes.
I guess all I hear is Hillman and David Crosby ,probably not Gene.... and certainly not Gram Parsons
Here you can hear Gram and Doug too, recorded by Dutch Radio , same days in the Piper Club in Rome czcams.com/video/NryDsElAjP8/video.html
Geoffrey Groves yes..it's a lip synch to the record
captainsoul1953 you should know that I have everything they've ever recorded ..I know their family tree I know the transitions I know the studio players and I know the original version... just saying
on the record that is true
Not gene! Certainly not gram!
Isn't that Roger singing? I think it is. Fir sure not 1968.
A pity they had them facing the sun so they are all squinting.
Isn't this from '66?
Gram Parsons is the one with acoustic guitar?
Yes.
Who is playing banjo in the clip?
Doug Dillard.
@@margaretross9150 I thought so. Interesting. Likely he had some bluegrass background with Chris Hillman.
Gram Parsons is not on this recording.
No, he's not. Just pretending for a video.
Gram Parsons was alright with the Byrds , still preferred the original band members Gene Clark and yes even David Crosby.
well that was all McGuinn....
I was born august 20th, 1969.
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The Sacred Dozen are probably the most Authentic 12 we could ever see.
Twelve archetypes have been proposed for use with branding: Sage, Innocent, Explorer, Ruler, Creator, Caregiver, Magician, Hero, Outlaw, Lover, Jester, and Regular Person.
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The Scriptures record that the original apostles of Jesus were Peter; James; John; Andrew; Philip; Judas Iscariot; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alpheus; Bartholomew; Judas Thaddeus; and Simon Zelotes.
The gifts of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12 are the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
Matthew 26:52-54 The Message (MSG) Jesus said, “Put your sword back where it belongs. All who use swords are destroyed by swords. Don’t you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies-more, if I want them-of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready? But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?”
Gram is saying.. I’m outta here.
Хоть и велики их заслуги , якобы ! Но для меня это сопливость ! Великие Beatles и Rolling Stones!
Gram had a half sister, she’s half a gram.
Thumbs down for ugly watermark
Odd choice of songs, already over 2 years old at this point. and not one of their better songs to begin with. Why not something new with Gram.
Here also some newer songs, same days, recorded in the Piper Club in Rome, by Dutch radio. Excellent quality (after the first 2 songs) :czcams.com/video/NryDsElAjP8/video.html
I agree it's an odd choice, being 2 years old at the time. I disagree that it's not one of their better songs. It's always been one of my favorite Byrds songs and was an early forerunner of the change in musical direction they took. I think they probably kept it in their set list because it fit in well with their new country rock style, and they didn't have a lot of older country sounding songs other than the new Sweetheart album. They were still playing this live throughout the later Clarence White era.
@@FenderBassMustang And it was a hit single in '66, something increasingly rare for The Byrds after '67.
Nice fake dobro by Gram
Parsons? What?? What does this video have to do with Parsons except for the fact that he's sitting there. Roger McGuinn wrote it, recorded it, and is singing it here. Clueless titling.
Gram Parsons. What a waste. Too young but self inflicted.
Yes, he did it to himself, but his family tragedies greatly contributed to his suicidal behaviour. Just too much for one youngster to handle.
Awesome!
I didn't realize until now that the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band's "I'm the Urban Spaceman" is a parody of this song....