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One week ago (November 15), we posted an article about a promotional video clip done by French TV for a concert by The Flying Burrito Brothers in Blois, France, on October 19, 1985.

A couple of weeks ago, the ever-present Jean-Pierre Morisset sent the complete video of the concert to Thomas Aubrunner in Austria, telling him it was a very amateurish audience VHS taping ... but Thomas decided to make something of it and put the 'highlights' on YouTube. Great work!

Watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT4dJ9Q5F7w&feature=youtu.be

Thomas’ Burrito Brother website:

http://www.burritobrother.com/ 

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre and Thomas

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The Byrds are on the cover of the latest issue of Shiding! (#109) (November 2020)

There's a long article about them, with many pictures.

The article also includes a version of Toulouse Engelhard's review of his early 1973 concert as an opening act for The Byrds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzKNXGCdl0o

https://www.silverbackpublishing.rocks/latest-issue/

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Pictures courtesy of Jean-Pierre, taken when the interviews took place:

Chris Ethrige and his wife with Jean-Pierre and Jean Marcou (a well-known French rock journalist and rock writer – he co-wrote the first French language book on the Rolling Stones)

Gib Guilbeau and his wife.

More from the vaults of Jean-Pierre Morisset. Here comes the second part of hitherto unreleased interviews done by him when the revamped Flying Burrito Brothers toured Europe in 1975. This time, hear Chris Ethridge and Gib Guilbeau talk.

In this zip file:

Part one is the Chris Ethridge interview.

Part two is the Gib Guilbeau interview.

Once more, don’t expect high quality audio.

And don’t forget that the questions were asked by someone who isn’t Englishspeaker by birth.

These interviews are fascinating with many details unveiled about Chris Ethridge's and Gib Guilbeau’s carreers before this incarnation of the FBBs.

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre.

Download the interviews here:

https://www98.zippyshare.com/v/ousbDUsg/file.html

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Time Between:My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond

 

The Chris Hillman autobiography is being published today, November 17, 2020 (which coincidentally, is Gene Clark's birth date in 1944).
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The revamped Flying Burrito Brothers (Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Skip Battin, Greg Harris and Jim Goodall) toured Europe again in 1985. When in France, they had a concert booked in Blois, capital of the Loir-Et-Cher department, on October 19.

The ever-present Jean-Pierre Morisset persuaded the local branch of the official French TV channel France 3 to record an exclusive performance of the instrumental “Oklahoma Stomp” by the band, to be broadcast the previous day as a promo for the concert.

Jean-Pierre just found the VHS tape of the promo clip, as the lockdown leaves him plenty of time to search his archives. He sent a DVD rip to Thomas Aubrunner in Austria, and the latter put it on his YouTube channel two days ago.

Watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr022y1GWJg

You can download the whole October 19 concert here:

https://www63.zippyshare.com/v/QFczcKWL/file.html

Visit Thomas’s website here:

http://www.burritobrother.com/ 

With many thanks to Jean-Pierre and Thomas

The Flying Burrito Brothers with Jean-Pierre at Jean-Pierre's home

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From the vaults of Jean-Pierre Morisset, France’s biggest Byrds-family freak, here comes hitherto unreleased interviews done by him with Gene Parsons and Sneaky Pete Kleinow, when the revamped Flying Burrito Brothers toured Europe in 1975.

The lineup of these FBBs also included Gib Guilbeau, Joel Scott-Hill and Chris Ethridge.

Interviews with Gib Guilbeau and Chris Ethridge done at the same place at the same time will follow.

You can watch a 7 minute video of their soundcheck here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7L8o_ViA0

In this zip file:

Part one is the Gene Parsons interview done at the Alhambra in Bordeaux, France, on May 26, 1975, before the concert.

Part two is the Sneaky Pete Kleinow interview, also done at the same place before the concert.

Part three is the Gene Parsons interview recorded after the concert, in the car that brought Gene back to his hotel.

The places where the recordings took place explain why you shouldn’t expect high quality audio.

And don’t forget that the questions were asked by someone who isn’t Englishspeaker by birth.

We at Byrds Flyght found these interviews fascinating, with many details unveiled about Gene’s and Pete’s careers before, with and after the Byrds and the first version of the FBBs.

Total length = 41:25

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre (pictured here with Gene Parsons)

https://www50.zippyshare.com/v/0KTWiEHt/file.html

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The Crown Prince of the Rickenbacker 12 String strikes again!

Horst-Peter Schmidt, the unstoppable leader of Starbyrd, has just released a CD of new songs.

WHIRLWIND OF TIME

Liner notes by Eric Sorensen.

The first 6 songs are about pandemic-related issues. Horst-Peter lives in the present, illustrated by sounds of the past. 

As usual, we don’t have enough kind words to say how much we appreciate Horst-Peter’s work.

We still have his early recordings, that he sent us on cassettes decades ago, and we are always positively surprised by the quality of his on-going releases.

Strongly recommended by Byrds Flyght

Go here to get it:

https://starbyrd.bandcamp.com/releases

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The earliest (1962) known picture of David Crosby playing the guitar?

 

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We were informed (by Brian QTN) that 2 albums by Connie Cohen that we were unaware of, have been available at BandCamp for a long time.

Thanks Brian for the info and the links.

Trouble In Dreamland (recorded 1989)

https://conniecohen.bandcamp.com/album/trouble-in-dreamland-2

Standing In These Bones (recorded 1993)

 

https://conniecohen.bandcamp.com/album/standing-in-these-bones

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Brian's album (featuring Skip Battin) is available at BandCamp:

brianqtn.bandcamp.com/album/parakeetfishhead

 

 

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