I recommend "Gene Clark with the Gosdin Bros" which
was his first post-Byrds album. With Chris Hillman on
bass and Michael Clarke on drums (along with future
Byrd Clarence White on guitar) it's practically a
Byrds album. Released around the same time as "Younger
Than Yesterday", it's almost as good as that album. 

I've always wondered what the best four songs off this
album, knocking off the weakest four from YTY
(especially "Mind Gardens" ) might have done to how
YTY is remembered. It's already one of the best Byrds
albums (I rate it as #2 behind "Notoriuos Byrd
Brothers"), but could have been even better

Rich B


> 
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> 
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:14:03 -0400
> From: king radio <kingradio@pumpingstation.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Gene Clark / No Other
> Message-ID: <a05200f01bb5ec0a618ad@[192.168.0.3]>
> 
> >Just picked up the reissue of this album at
> lunchtime, after reading a
> >review in Uncut mag which said it was the best EVER
> album by a Byrd ....
> >"Gram Parsons was great, but not this great", was
> the reviewer's opinion.
> >Are any on the list familiar with this album?  Am I
> gonna be disappointed,
> >based on what the reviewer said?
> >
> >B^)
> >
> >PS The album seems to be padded to around double
> its original length with
> >bonus alternate takes of many of the songs.
> 
> 
> I'm psyched to see the nacient rumblings of a Gene
> Clark thread.  For 
> years I've been curious about Gene's solo stuff.  I
> also was curious, 
> after falling in love with "teenage symphonies to
> god" what good 
> stuff might be found on the Dillard and Clark
> albums.  Does anyone 
> know if there are any quality remastered versions of
> these d & c 
> albums on cd and which might be the choicest to
> start with.  I've 
> been told the cover the Velvet Crush did was from
> "The Amazing 
> Dillard and Clark" but I feel like a real dolt about
> all these 
> records.
> 
> Frank.
> 
> 
> 
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