THE BYRDS : DOIN' ALRIGHT FOR OLD PEOPLE

  1. Don't you write her off
  2. crazy ladies
  3. train leaves here this morning
  4. bag Full Of money
  5. release me girl
  6. Come all Ye fair and tender ladies
  7. chestnut mare
  8. mr. tambourine man
  9. feelin' higher
  10. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To everything there is a season)
  11. you ain't goin' nowhere
  12. knockin' on heaven's door
  13. so you want to be a rock 'n roll star
  14. eight miles high
  15. bye bye, baby
  16. 5D (fifth dimension)

Label : The Swingin' Pig

Venue : The Bottom Line, New York City, New York, USA

Recording Date : March 19-21, 1978

Length : 64:08

Quality : Soundboard recording (A+)

Review : Not exactly a Byrds concert, rather a Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark acoustic performance in extremely good quality. Date on the artwork says "recorded October 1977". I would rather guess this is one of the 3 concerts from March 1978 at The Bottom Line. Some sources say this is the recording from the Boarding House in San Francisco, Februay 8th, 1978, but it isn't.

Review (Wolfgang's Vault) : This show, the first of three recorded at New York's Bottom Line club in March of 1978, was billed as "An Acoustic Reunion of Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark." Best known as the two main front men for the seminal '60s rock band The Byrds, it was one of the few times since Clark had left The Byrds 11 years prior that the two performed in public together. These shows (which included a collection of Byrds hits, Dylan covers, and solo material from both men) became the basis of the 1979-80 partial Byrds reunion project known as McGuinn, Clark & Hillman. These shows, featuring the two men only with their voices, guitars, and songs, would have to suffice until a more formal partial Byrds reunion (which also included bassist Chris Hillman) would take place the following year. It was, in fact, these shows that were the basis of that reunion, which lasted for two studio albums and a number of U.S. and European tours.

Review (AllMusic) : Officially, the show where this live bootleg was recorded - off a soundboard hookup, for broadcast - wasn't a Byrds gig. Rather, it was a Roger McGuinn-Gene Clark-Chris Hillman performance at the Boarding House in San Francisco where David Crosby showed up. So you had all the singing and composing members of the band together -- with Chris Hillman playing mandolin -- doing the best parts of their collective repertory, including a killer low-amplification version of "Eight Miles High." It was as close to a full Byrds reunion as anyone ever got (or ever will have, now that Gene Clark is gone) on-stage, and given the recent spate of bootlegs reclaimed and released by their respective artists -- from the MC5 on down -- someone ought to look into clearing this for legitimate release.