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<center><h3> Former Byrd-man Roger McGuinn <br> stages a comeback </h3></center> | <center><h3> Former Byrd-man Roger McGuinn <br> stages a comeback </h3></center> | ||
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"I wasn't really pursuing a record deal actively. I was taking kind of a passive attitude about it," he said. "If somebody wanted to sign me, they'd let me know, but I wasn't going to go out of my way to do it. 1 didn't really miss it. The only thing I missed was that when you have records out there, it's a form of advertising and you can play bigger venues. That's the only advantage that I could see." | "I wasn't really pursuing a record deal actively. I was taking kind of a passive attitude about it," he said. "If somebody wanted to sign me, they'd let me know, but I wasn't going to go out of my way to do it. 1 didn't really miss it. The only thing I missed was that when you have records out there, it's a form of advertising and you can play bigger venues. That's the only advantage that I could see." | ||
McGuinn broke away from the record industry in 1980, when the McGuinn-Hillman-Clark Band ran its course and he opted to go solo. "My wife and I talked about it and said, 'What do we want?' We decided what we really wanted was a good quality of life. So I said I'd love to just throw my guitar in the back of the car and barnstorm America and the world. And we did. We went to Europe and we did Japan and played all kinds of places around the U.S. and Canada. We just loved it." | McGuinn broke away from the record industry in 1980, when the McGuinn-Hillman-Clark Band ran its course and he opted to go solo. "My wife and I talked about it and said, 'What do we want?' We decided what we ''really'' wanted was a good quality of life. So I said I'd love to just throw my guitar in the back of the car and barnstorm America and the world. And we did. We went to Europe and we did Japan and played all kinds of places around the U.S. and Canada. We just loved it." | ||
Along the way, he met up with various musicians, such as Elvis Costello, who wrote the folk-rocking "You Bowed Down" for the new album. | Along the way, he met up with various musicians, such as Elvis Costello, who wrote the folk-rocking "You Bowed Down" for the new album. | ||
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"I knew I'd be recording soon, so I asked him if he had any songs and he said no, but he'd write me one. Then I bumped into him at the airport in Atlanta. I was getting off a plane and he was getting on the same plane. I said, 'Have you written my song yet?' And he said, 'No. I forgot.' He went back to Ireland after that, wrote the song and three weeks later sent it to Petty & the Heartbreakers, who sounded just like the Byrds when they started in the late '70s, also volunteered help on "Back from Rio." | "I knew I'd be recording soon, so I asked him if he had any songs and he said no, but he'd write me one. Then I bumped into him at the airport in Atlanta. I was getting off a plane and he was getting on the same plane. I said, 'Have you written my song yet?' And he said, 'No. I forgot.' He went back to Ireland after that, wrote the song and three weeks later sent it to Petty & the Heartbreakers, who sounded just like the Byrds when they started in the late '70s, also volunteered help on "Back from Rio." | ||
Strangely enough, there are no Dylan songs on the new album. "I asked Dylan if he had any songs for the album and he didn't. I did try. I do talk to him from time to time. I've always been a big admirer of his as a writer and performer. How could you not do great material like that" | Strangely enough, there are no Dylan songs on the new album. "I asked Dylan if he had any songs for the album and he didn't. I did try. I do talk to him from time to time. I've always been a big admirer of his as a writer and performer. How could you ''not'' do great material like that" | ||
The new album, to be followed by a band tour this spring or summer (but not likely a Byrds reunion), restores McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar sound to electrifying prominence. | The new album, to be followed by a band tour this spring or summer (but not likely a Byrds reunion), restores McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar sound to electrifying prominence. |
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