 The Notorius Byrd Brothers (1968) [ larger cover art ] |
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Oh I'd rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent's glowing
And run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no-one knows the names of
And when it's time I'll go and wait
Beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected
In its clear and jeweled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another
I will watch her dive beneath
The white cascading waters
She may beg she may plead
She may argue with her logic
And then mention all the things I'll lose
That really have no value
In the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 09:23 An American supergroup. Of course, made their name with a lot of Dylan covers, but they had some great songs of their own and a unique sound. '60s and '70s sounds wouldn't have been as good without them. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 11:53 joelbb wrote: A genuinely beautiful song and the true motto of "Easy Rider" (as well as the very best people in my g-generation). The extraordinary Gene Clark wrote it, along with "Feel a Whole Lot Better" and "Eight Miles High". The hippest guy around, Dennis Hopper, knew exactly how good Clark was and used this cut and a couple of original cuts by him in the movie. Never a big commercial success himself, Clark partnered with Doug Dillard after leaving the Byrds. Dillard & Clark were seminal in cementing folk rock as an American genre with worldwide popularity. Tom Petty, R.E.M. and, yes, The Shins owe the Byrds in general and Gene Clark in particular a great deal. Dis not that which you don't know, Dweebs. Isn't this a Goffin/King song? |
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 11:47 myersei wrote: just watched easy rider for the first time in about 15 years last night. cool. rip DH. The last time I saw it, Easy Rider seemed like a disjointed mess. I thought that it was great when it came out however. |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 11:41 I love this song! Is that Garcia on the pedal steel? 10 in so many ways. |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 03:56 joelbb wrote: A genuinely beautiful song and the true motto of "Easy Rider" (as well as the very best people in my g-generation). The extraordinary Gene Clark wrote it, along with "Feel a Whole Lot Better" and "Eight Miles High". The hippest guy around, Dennis Hopper, knew exactly how good Clark was and used this cut and a couple of original cuts by him in the movie. Never a big commercial success himself, Clark partnered with Doug Dillard after leaving the Byrds. Dillard & Clark were seminal in cementing folk rock as an American genre with worldwide popularity. Tom Petty, R.E.M. and, yes, The Shins owe the Byrds in general and Gene Clark in particular a great deal. Dis not that which you don't know, Dweebs. What he said. Yeah.  |
| joelbb | Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 13:18 A genuinely beautiful song and the true motto of "Easy Rider" (as well as the very best people in my g-generation). The extraordinary Gene Clark wrote it, along with "Feel a Whole Lot Better" and "Eight Miles High". The hippest guy around, Dennis Hopper, knew exactly how good Clark was and used this cut and a couple of original cuts by him in the movie. Never a big commercial success himself, Clark partnered with Doug Dillard after leaving the Byrds. Dillard & Clark were seminal in cementing folk rock as an American genre with worldwide popularity. Tom Petty, R.E.M. and, yes, The Shins owe the Byrds in general and Gene Clark in particular a great deal. Dis not that which you don't know, Dweebs. |
| skyguy (CO) | Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 12:59 "Oh, I got a helmet!" |
| KurtfromLaQuinta (Deep in the heart of South California) | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 15:07 MinMan wrote: That's possible given that The Shins benefit from knowledge of the music produced in the intervening 40 years. Still, they're groundbreaking in their own way. Cars today are so much better than the ones produced 40 years ago. (Except they almost all look like jelly beans.)  |
| drivingunit103 (around the 4 western provinces) | Posted: May 12, 2012 - 04:57 ... my drivers license, my first harley and this album all in one summer. Couldn't beat the summer of '68. The memories... |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Aug 04, 2011 - 13:44 western union..da da da da |
| kestrel (On a wire ...in NC) | Posted: Jul 04, 2011 - 04:36 gooooooooooooooooose bumps  |
| spindrift (Philadelphia PA) | Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 13:22 O Wow!  |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 08:39 nothing captures that moment better than this |
| bachbeet | Posted: Feb 27, 2011 - 20:45 The actual album this was from was Notorious Byrd Brothers. Good album and I always liked this song. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Feb 27, 2011 - 20:44 Gryn wrote: Nice move from the Shins to The Byrds. Though, I still think the Shins are far better.  |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 11, 2010 - 12:53 NOTORIOUS! |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Dec 11, 2010 - 12:42 Crystal clear beauty. This song sparkles through the decades. |
| myersei (Denver, CO) | Posted: Jun 19, 2010 - 09:07 just watched easy rider for the first time in about 15 years last night. cool. rip DH. |
| Randomax (Wimberley, TX) | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 12:32 Rest in Peace Dennis Hopper — the eternal easy rider!!!!!!!! |
| Pharlap (Bahama, NC) | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 12:31 My favorite Byrds album. And so apt with the death of Dennis Hopper this week. Nice tribute, if that was the intention. |
| casey1024 (Between the rock & the hard place) | Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 12:31 RIP Dennis Hopper |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: May 18, 2010 - 14:02 FANTASTIC! |
| Giselle62 (California's Cental Coast) | Posted: May 02, 2010 - 20:12 me likey—-great movie, of course, but I have the Byrds boxed set cuz i like em that much. |
| kestrel (On a wire (in NC)) | Posted: Feb 28, 2010 - 13:20 aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
| colt4x5 (hi, deb.) | Posted: Dec 27, 2009 - 15:31 ahhhhhh. |
| kurtster (Area code 216) | Posted: Nov 26, 2009 - 05:40 ...sweet morning music... |
| mcYammer | Posted: Nov 10, 2009 - 10:15 Our rivers of vision flowed into one another just fine, but on the umpteenth train ride to a different college girlfriend, realized i wasn't born to follow. Then thought about buying an easy rider bike, but a Chicago bus ran me over...ahhh, Clarence W., love ya |
| Tana (Lancaster, PA) | Posted: Sep 08, 2009 - 09:17 Such classic Byrds, even outside of Easy Rider! |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Jun 05, 2009 - 09:55 makes me wanna go swimming, maybe in a quarry! |
| Marley (Portland, Or) | Posted: Jun 05, 2009 - 09:53 I always liked Carole King's version better. |
| kurtster (Seeking shelter from the cold) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 04:13 lwilkinson wrote: Easy Rider ........... this and a few other songs mark the movie, the time in history and for those of us who were in high school getting to hold our best-girl's hand while Jack Nickelson got his head beat in by a bunch of red necks was priceless.  Had very much the same experience !!! |
| wrangler (swamps of jersey) | Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 10:54 BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! good one. Gryn wrote: Nice move from the Shins to The Byrds. Though, I still think the Shins are far better. |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Mar 02, 2009 - 15:40 gutboy wrote: Is it just me, or has everybody missed the fact this song is about a sexual encounter You know, probably 3/4 of pop music is about a sexual encounter....wanting one, having one or wishing you hadn't...in one way or another... |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Dec 29, 2008 - 10:48 kaybee wrote: I think a lot of the music of the 60's wasn't so much pretentious as it was self-indulgent and maybe even naive. But that's ok! The 60's were a great influence on rock music. And you can definitely hear, not the Byrds, but the Beatles influence on the Shins' music. Not so much pretentious or self-indulgent as it was experimental. And that's always something to encourage. The little sonic touches may sound silly today, but to a high school kid in the late 60s they were an indication that things were happening beyond his/her horizon. |
| trekhead (Under The Tree) | Posted: Dec 29, 2008 - 10:47 "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday..." |
| oldman (Lost in Northern Virginia) | Posted: Dec 13, 2008 - 13:47 I miss Clarence White |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 20:15 BasmntMadman wrote: Lordy...all those colors no one knows the name of...reminds me of Buzz the bush pilot in The Red Green Show. Wasn't Born to Follow may be pretentious, but the Byrds get away with it, and it's a wonderful song. I think a lot of the music of the 60's wasn't so much pretentious as it was self-indulgent and maybe even naive. But that's ok! The 60's were a great influence on rock music. And you can definitely hear, not the Byrds, but the Beatles influence on the Shins' music. |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 14:32 Gryn wrote: Nice move from the Shins to The Byrds. Though, I still think the Shins are far better. That's possible given that The Shins benefit from knowledge of the music produced in the intervening 40 years. Still, they're groundbreaking in their own way. |
| msvogel2 (Bremerton, WA) | Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 14:30 Always reminds me of Jack in "Easyrider." when I first watched it on the big screen. He made the movie! |
| aragon (Nowhere Fast) | Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 14:27 a_genuine_find wrote: nice segue!
 Hey, This is a good movie suggestion for the evening...yeah!  |
| gutboy (hanging out in) | Posted: Jun 22, 2008 - 20:37 Is it just me, or has everybody missed the fact this song is about a sexual encounter "And if you think I'm ready You may lead me to the chasm where the rivers of our vision Flow into one another". as beautiful and pure as life itself should be , even if it was a one night stand. I know I'm a pig, but come on, it's obvious. |
| Gryn (Oregon) | Posted: Jun 07, 2008 - 01:58 Nice move from the Shins to The Byrds. Though, I still think the Shins are far better. |
| mrcookieface (KCMO) | Posted: May 22, 2008 - 10:09 Excellent timing. I was just listening to this soundtrack, Notorious Byrd Brothers and Sweethearts of the Rodeo last night.  |
| a_genuine_find (Nieuw Amsterdam) | Posted: May 06, 2008 - 15:38 nice segue! |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Mar 20, 2008 - 10:55 jjafri wrote: No Actually this followed "PLeasant Valley Sunday" at least the NBB album and this single did. Everybody knows who the horse on the cover represented. Yes, someone prone to "Mind Gardens: type pretentiousness. I think Crosby said once that every bit of music he wrote and/or played was under the influence of marijuana. I think that was before he started freebasing, though! |
| lwilkinson (North Am) | Posted: Mar 04, 2008 - 14:56 Easy Rider ........... this and a few other songs mark the movie, the time in history and for those of us who were in high school getting to hold our best-girl's hand while Jack Nickelson got his head beat in by a bunch of red necks was priceless. |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 11:32 algrif wrote: Anybody else think that this might have been some sort of influence on the Dead's music? yeah, due to Owsley!(click here) |
| dixiedeb (Augusta, GA) | Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 11:29 dcdog wrote: more Byrds!
Yes! Yes! |
| dcdog (washington dc) | Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 11:28 more Byrds! |
| Otomi (Guanajuato) | Posted: Jan 01, 2008 - 18:06  Muy Muy Muy Agradable |