20th Anniversary Tribute to The Byrds
Will Rogers Auditorium,
Fort Worth, TX

1985-05-05

Lineage: AUD > ? > Cassette > WAV > Audacity (Adjust speed, Normalize, Edit & Track) > TLH (Convert align on sector boundaries) > FLAC 8

(WAV file from Mauro R - GW 2021-05-15)

(TT 1:38:42)

Set List

01. Intro
02. Mystery Train (Rick Danko solo)
03. It Makes No Difference (Rick Danko solo)
04. She Knows (Richard Manuel solo)
05. //Every Night & Every Day (Rick Danko & Richard Manuel)
06. The Shape I'm In (Rick Danko & Richard Manuel)
07. Stage Fright (Rick Danko & Richard Manuel + band)
08. You Don't Know Me (Richard Manuel solo)
09. Silver Raven (Gene Clark solo)
10. Feel A Whole Lot Better
11. Set You Free This Time
12. Chimes of Freedom//
13. //Full Circle
14. Sail on Sailor (Blondie Chaplin vocals)
15. Mr. Tambourine Man (tape flip in middle)
16. My Back Pages
17. Backstage Pass
18. You Ain't Going Nowhere
19. So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
20. Eight Miles High
21. Band Introductions
22. Turn! Turn! Turn!
23. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (tape change in middle - no music lost but slight change in volume and tone)
24. Will The Circle Be Unbroken//

Tracks 10-24 All Performers

Gene Clark - guitar, vocals
Michael Clarke - drums
Richard Manuel - piano, vocals
Rick Danko - bass, vocals
Blondie Chaplin - guitar, vocals
Rick Roberts - guitar, vocals
John York - bass, vocals


Notes:

This is a recording from the 1985 tour that Gene Clark organised ostensibly as a tribute to the 20th anniversary of The Byrds but in reality as a a way to use The Byrds name without the agreement of Roger McGuinn or Chris Hillman. It included three ex-Byrds, two members of The Band, a one time Beach Boy and a member of Firefall/Flying Burrito Bros.

This is one of the most complete recordings I have heard of the tour. According to reviews (copies included), and compared with other shows, this is probably just missing a couple of solo performances by John York, Rick Roberts and Blondie Chaplin before Rick Danko is introduced.

This is quite a noisy, but small, audience which occasionally interferes with the music. This is though very listenable and a good record of an interesting combination of musicians.

The taper was obviously saving tap and pauses or stops recording at times between songs. The recording was split over three tapes with slight differences in speed, volume and tone which I have tried to correct/even out as best as possible.

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