(TV) Sweet ness / Byrds Clarification / Verlaine

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

More Jonathan Richman

"Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso,

An asshole."
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Used to hang around bakeries,

Because there was a lack of sweetness in my life." 

> --- Scott Neukam wrote:
> ...who cares if they [Monkees]
> didn't play their own instruments 
>(neither did the Byrds)..

Not to get too picky, but not exactly. 
In fact, Roger (aka Jim) McGuinn had been 
a teenage musical prodigy and an important 
session man for many artists' records in early 
1960s, e.g. The Chad Mitchell Trio, Hoyt Axton, 
Bobby Darin's (folk phase) , etc.  

While it is true that the Byrds' first producer,
the legendary Jim[?] Boyd, used several session 
musicians on the Byrds' first album for Columbia, 
my recollection is these hired guns were used 
only for David Crosby's non vocal parts as Crosby 
could at that time not play the guitar well enough.   

You ask where is the Television content to my post?
If you have the vinyl boxed set (maybe in cd box too?)
of Nick Drake there is a very nice little pamphlet of 
liner notes in which the author interviews Jim Boyd
(who had also been Drake's producer) and Boyd tells 
the story of how around 1977-78 Verlaine introduced 
himself to Boyd and said something along the lines 
of "Nick Drake... he was the best." 
  
-----Original Message-----
From: g grant 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:29 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest 
V1 #590/ bad lyrics
>They also certainly were not the wordsmiths Jonathon
>Richman was either, ...., 
>greg
--- "Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> "And your heart longs for some little girl that you
> dated / Do you long for
> her, or for the way *you* were?" -- Jonathan
> Richman, "That Summer Feeling"
> --Philip
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