Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde [Import] [Limited Edition]

Track Listings
1. This Wheels On Fire    
2. Old Blue    
3. Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me    
4. Child Of The Universe    
5. Nashville West    
6. Drug Store Truck Drivin Man    
7. King Apathy III    
8. Candy    
9. Bad Night At The Whiskey    
10. Medley    
11. Stanleys Song (Bonus Track)    
12. Lay Lady Lay (Alternate Version) (Bonus Track)    
13. This Wheels On Fire (Version 1) (Bonus Track)    
14. Medley (Alternate Version Take 1) (Bonus Track)    
15. Nashville West (Alternate Version) (Bonus Track)    

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese reissue of 1969 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve features 15 tracks including 5 bonus tracks, 'Stanley's Song', 'Lay Lady Lay' (Alt. Version), 'This Wheel's On Fire' (Version One), Medley - 'My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me To Do' & 'Nashville West' (Alt. Version - Nashville Recording). CBS. 2003.

Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde, Music, Byrds, Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop
Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Byrd's second best album
  • My fav Byrds CD
  • Schizophrenia to limited effect
  • 12-STRING TWANGIBILLY ROCK
  • Dr. Rock & Mr. Country Plays the Lead In the Byrds' Rebirth
 Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
The Byrds
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002AGG
Release Date: 1997-03-25

Tracks:

  1. This Wheel's On Fire
  2. Old Blue
  3. Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me
  4. Child Of The Universe
  5. Nashville West
  6. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
  7. King Apathy III
  8. Candy
  9. Bad Night At The Whiskey
  10. Medley: My Black Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me To Do
  11. Stanley's Song
  12. Lay Lady Lay
  13. This Wheel's On Fire (Version 1)
  14. Medley: My Black Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me To Do (Alternate Version - Take 1)
  15. Nashville West (Alternative Version - Nashville Recording)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Byrd's second best album .......2006-05-29

To me, this is my second favorite Byrds release after Younger Than Yesterday which if it included 8 miles high would have been the greatest album of the sixties. Dr. Byrds has good songwriting and a very strong tight band. Clarence White is very well respected among bluegrass listeners but probably not as appreciated by rock fans. This guy is amazing. His guitarwork is wildly inventive and not in a showboating way. Hendrix was a fan of his and next to Hendrix I think White was probably the greatest sixties rock guitarist!

5 out of 5 stars My fav Byrds CD.......2006-02-09

This is the best CD the Byrds did.
Has everything you can ask for, Country and Western plus a bit of Rock thrown in.
A must get.

2 out of 5 stars Schizophrenia to limited effect.......2006-01-11

I'd long been led to expect that this was a dog's dinner of an album, at least as far as Byrds albums go. While not quite that poor, this is absolutely not any place to get an introduction to The Byrds. However, if you know what came before, it makes some kind of sense after a couple of plays and a bit of supplementary reading. While leagues short of the kind of ecleticism that characterised the Beatles' White Album, the dual proto-heavy rock and country rock at least makes an intriguing listen, but the album ultimately fails to deliver a lasting impression.

The lighter 'Mr. Hyde' songs are generally stronger, particularly Old Blue, a traditional song given a Byrds arrangement with some wonderful picking by Clarence White, which is a genius turn of running order, tucked in on the heels of a rather turgid proto-heavy rock run through of one of Dylan's lesser songs, This Wheel's on Fire. The final two cuts of the orginal LP, Bad Night at the Whiskey and Medley are also heavy turgid filler to my ears, but feel free to disagree.

Three songs, the best of which is King Apathy III, combine the two styles - although the others, Child of the Universe and Candy, are far less effective. But ultimately even King Apathy's ode to quitting the city for the simple country life is far less effective than Neil Young's identically-themed 'Here we are in the years' from the same year.

Of the bonus tracks, only the alternate take of This Wheel's on Fire and a pleasant-enough version of Dylan's Lay Lady Lay add anything to the experience. Some other reviewers here will tell you this is a full-on five-star album, but in truth it's for committed Byrds fans only and is best listened to only once you're familiar with the first 6 albums.

5 out of 5 stars 12-STRING TWANGIBILLY ROCK.......2005-05-25

How fortunate of me to discover this album. I liked the early work the Byrds produced but lost touch over time. "Wheel's on fire,(both versions),Old Blue,Stanley's song,King Apathy" are the best songs.Clarence White's prowess on the guitar is stunning and Roger McGuinn's singing and 12-string are wonderfully satisfying. After listening to this I purchased "Ballad" and "Untitled" which are similar in quality but this one is best.

5 out of 5 stars Dr. Rock & Mr. Country Plays the Lead In the Byrds' Rebirth.......2004-09-05

After the disintegration of the original Byrds line-up, and a transitional country-rock album that was hated at least by the hardcore country-western music population, Roger McGuinn could hardly be blamed if he was found in a bad mood. But somehow he found the will to keep the group alive and continue to make Byrds music. In interviews years later, McGuinn would later express unsatisfaction over certain aspects of the latter-day Byrds era (despite positive interviews in the 60s), but musical history is extremely fortunate that he carried on, and "Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde" is the first souvenir from this productive era, despite the fact it failed to even break into the Top 150 on Billboard's album chart.
Ironically, this album contained more original material than its much more successful follow-up "Ballad of Easy Rider," and McGuinn decided to take lead vocals on all of the numbers here, at least for the time being until the audience was used to the change, but their playing here proves that vocals would be no challenge. Guitarist Clarence White had participated in numerous sessions with the group over the years, and his musical contributions to the latter-day Byrds are rivaled in importance only by friend and drummer Gene Parsons who, much like White, had become a veteran of the road. John York was brought in as the new bassist and though his stay in the group was short, it was nonetheless important, as here he proves to be a flexible and talented bass player (this is evident on the in-concert release "Live at the Fillmore," and his creative input was more apparent on "Ballad of Easy Rider").
The product of this new beginning certainly deserved its title; it showed two sides of the Byrds, a progressing experimental spirit and one that showed a great appreciation for country and southern roots. On any other album, the sequencing of two different styles would be uneven, but given Dr. Byrds' admission of the theme, it works surprisingly well. McGuinn's bitterness over the country music scene's negative reaction to the "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album, and a general disillusionment with the hippie-era "age of aquarius" is apparent as the album opens up with a haunting, driven cover of Bob Dylan & The Band's `This Wheel's On Fire,' signalling doomsday and disdain. The Byrds' version of this much-covered song is the best ever recorded (next to Dylan & The Band's "Basement Tapes" version, and The Band's solo version). `King Apathy III' can be seen as McGuinn's accusations of hypocrisy towards the flower-power hippie movement as he sings of naive "Middleclass suburban children, wearing costumes that reveal / Blindly follow recent pipers, with their mystical appeal." `Candy' (meant for the soundtrack of a film of the same name) could have cynicism under its unassuming nature, while `Child of the Universe' (for the same film) boasts stirring, dark music (highlighted by an effective kick-drum) that contradicts the lyrical content addressing the film's main character, proving that perhaps McGuinn was not persuaded by the movie's ideas. Throughout the album, the title's reference to the split personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is more and more fitting; the laid back country of `Old Blue' and `Your Gentle Way of Loving Me' contradicts the cosmic rock of `Wheel's On Fire' and `Child of the Universe,' which surprisingly is followed by White and Parsons' rowdy but organic country instrumental `Nashville West.' McGuinn and former member Gram Parson's `Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man' may be country, but it is actually a cynical reaction to the Nashville world's resentment of "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" (aimed at one disc jockey in particular). Some songs actually blend the different personalities; `King Apathy III' and `Bad Night at the Whiskey' have both slightly psychedelic/progressive tinges and country touches. The closing medley is a joy as well, containing a verse of Dylan's `My Back Pages' mixed with `B.J. Blues' and `Baby What You Want Me To Do,' McGuinn's vocals on the alternate version in this re-issue being a real treat.
Unfortunately, the public reactions to "Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde" were as mixed as the country and rock influences it contained. But time has aged the album well, as it is a glimpse at the Beginning of the End for the illusions of the flower-power age, and it is a refreshing example of a band starting from scratch while keeping their feet in two musical pools at once.
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    The Byrds
    Manufacturer: Sony Japan
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000CD87C
    Release Date: 2003-12-01

    Tracks:

    1. This Wheel's on Fire
    2. Old Blue
    3. Your Gentle Way of Loving Me
    4. Child of the Universe
    5. Nashville West
    6. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
    7. King Apathy III
    8. Candy
    9. Bad Night at the Whiskey
    10. Medley: My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do
    11. Stanley's Song [*]
    12. Lay Lady Lay [Alternate Version][*]
    13. This Wheel's on Fire [Version One][#][*]
    14. My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do [Alternate Take]
    15. Nashville West [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][*]

    Album Description

    Japanese reissue of 1969 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve features 15 tracks including 5 bonus tracks, 'Stanley's Song', 'Lay Lady Lay' (Alt. Version), 'This Wheel's On Fire' (Version One), Medley - 'My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me To Do' & 'Nashville West' (Alt. Version - Nashville Recording). CBS. 2003.

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    Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
    Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
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      		Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
      The Byrds
      Manufacturer: Columbia
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0007OE4WO
      Release Date: 2005-05-02

      Tracks:

      1. This Wheel's on Fire
      2. Old Blue
      3. Your Gentle Way of Loving Me
      4. Child of the Universe
      5. Nashville West
      6. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
      7. King Apathy III
      8. Candy
      9. Bad Night at the Whiskey
      10. Medley: My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do
      11. Stanley's Song [*]
      12. Lay Lady Lay [Alternate Version][*]
      13. This Wheel's on Fire [Version One][#][*]
      14. My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do [Alternate Take]
      15. Nashville West [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][*]

      Album Description

      Japanese digitally remastered pressing with 5 bonus tracks. CBS. 2005.
      Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
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        		Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
        The Byrds
        Manufacturer: Sony
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00000DRVO
        Release Date: 1991-07-02

        Tracks:

        1. This Wheel's on Fire
        2. Old Blue
        3. Your Gentle Way of Loving Me
        4. Child of the Universe
        5. Nashville West
        6. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
        7. King Apathy III
        8. Candy
        9. Bad Night at the Whiskey
        10. Medley: My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do
        11. Stanley's Song [*]
        12. Lay Lady Lay [Alternate Version][*]
        13. This Wheel's on Fire [Version One][#][*]
        14. My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do [Alternate Take]
        15. Nashville West [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][*]

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