I don’t need a Ferrari or anything like that. We’d go out and play some sheds, maybe gross a couple of million dollars and split it four or five ways. “David and I have talked about this at length, and to me a reunion would just be for the money. “I’m happy with the Byrds as a good memory,” he said. McGuinn explained to Rolling Stone that same year why a Byrds reunion would probably never happen. I honestly don’t even think it would even by that big of a money deal.” I must have asked him at least 10 times and he always says no…And to me a reunion wouldn’t be about the money. It would be great fun, but I got tired of asking him. “It’s a shame because he and Chris and I could do it. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with the Byrds. 2 He is best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds. “ just not interested in a Byrds reunion,” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. James Roger McGuinn / mkwn / (born James Joseph McGuinn III July 13, 1942) 1 is an American musician. Crosby has been very vocal about his desire for them to reform the band since then. The surviving members of the Byrds (McGuinn, Crosby and Chris Hillman) haven’t played together since a brief, two-song set at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 19 years ago. “Must have mixed you up with those other guys.” The two bandmates have had a somewhat strained relationship over the years, but McGuinn (unlike Stills, Nash and Young) did film a new interview for the documentary and they communicate regularly, at least via Twitter. “You’re saying I won’t talk to you and hate you,” McGuinn wrote. DC is not hated but that doesn’t mean anyone wants to work with him.”Ĭrosby’s initial query came in response to a tweet from McGuinn complaining that Crosby unfairly lumped him in with Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash as former bandmates that “won’t even talk to me” and “hate my guts” in his new documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name. “Roger was just tired of David crying about being hated. “Neither Roger or Chris entertain the idea of a Byrds reunion,” McGuinn’s rep wrote. McGuinn didn’t respond to the tweet, but a representative did when reached for a comment. David Crosby urged his former Byrds bandmate Roger McGuinn to reunite the group over the weekend, asking the singer on Twitter, “Want to do a couple of Byrds dates? I’ll just sing harmony.
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