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In reply to the discussion: Ok, you suddenly have the power to resurrect 1 musician to enjoy new work from them for 10 more [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)58. Gene Clark
From Rolling Stone:
The last Byrds song Clark had a hand in writing, and also the band's last Top 20 hit, this Clark/Crosby/McGuinn co-write was the group's most ambitious single, with the latter's Rickenbacker 12-string guitar tuned to a higher plane of Ravi Shankar-inspired raga drones and Coltrane-esque modal fire. The wry lyrics, though, are primarily Clark's, and they're appropriately soaring, psychedelic and impressionistic. He left the band the same month as the single was released, citing, somewhat ironically, a fear of flying.
For a Spanish Guitar
From Rolling Stone:
It's been widely reported that Bob Dylan had this to say about "For a Spanish Guitar," arguably Gene Clark's greatest effort: " It's) something I or anybody else would have been proud to have written." Against gracefully descending guitar chords, Clark distills Dylan's poetic mysticism down to its emotional essence. In the song, he examines the troubadour's plight: his or her effort to draw in the great wide world of beggars, laughing children and seagulls, and to render that world in song and strings. Clark muses, as best he can, that "the answers they cannot explain/ pulsate from my soul through my brain/ in a Spanish guitar."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/byrd-lives-cult-hero-gene-clarks-21-best-songs-15355/for-a-spanish-guitar-134566/
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Just for the heck of it, A cover of Gene Clark's Feel A Whole Lot Better performed by Tom Petty (RIP)
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