BOX SET - THE BYRDS 4 Cassette MINT UNPLAYED (1990) Start Price USD 39.95 Current Price USD 39.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, May 11, 2008 End Time Sunday, May 18, 2008 Location Innisfil, ON See more about 'BOX SET - THE BYRDS 4 Cassette MINT UNPLAYED (1990)' Description ORIGINAL MINT/UNPLAYED BOX SETS THE BYRDS BOX SET ***FOUR CASSETTE TAPES 1990 CS Columbia/Legacy C4T-46773*** .Although they only attained the huge success of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys for a short time in the mid-'60s, time has judged the Byrds to be nearly as influential as those groups in the long run. They were not solely responsible for devising folk-rock, but they were certainly more responsible than any other single act (Dylan included) for melding the innovations and energy of the British Invasion with the best lyrical and musical elements of contemporary folk music. The jangling, 12-string guitar sound of leader Roger McGuinn's Rickenbacker was permanently absorbed into the vocabulary of rock. They also played a vital role in pioneering psychedelic rock and country-rock, the unifying element being their angelic harmonies and restless eclecticism.Often described in their early days as a hybrid of Dylan and the Beatles, the Byrds in turn influenced Dylan and the Beatles almost as much as Bob and the Fab Four had influenced the Byrds. The Byrds' innovations have echoed nearly as strongly through subsequent generations, in the work of Tom Petty, R.E.M., and innumerable alternative bands of the post-punk era that feature those jangling guitars and dense harmonies. BOX MINT / CASSETTES MINT STEREO  ***REALLY NICE COPY*** .When the four-CASSETTE Byrds set was first released in 1990, it was something of a landmark in Columbia Records' history on several counts. For starters, it was the first box set ever released by Columbia Records' pop division (as opposed to its jazz division) devoted to a noncurrent act (that is, they'd already issued boxes on Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, but both of them were active artists), and there had been boxes of sorts on Miles Davis and some other jazz figures, but their place in music history was already a given, whereas the Byrds, to Columbia Records' management and a lot of mainstream critics and even most listeners not attuned to their history, were "nothing" but a defunct rock act. In a sense, this set was a long-overdue declaration of their importance, in addition to being the first good-sounding incarnation of their work ever to come from Columbia. . It took this project, plus the work of a lot of people behind the scenes and an unending stream of complaints from consumers, to get the label to find the right source tapes and then treat them right in digitizing them. In the decade and a half since its release, the Byrds box has receded in obvious importance as the group's entire catalog was subsequently upgraded and many of the rarities and outtakes in this set appended as bonus tracks on those separate Cassettes of their albums. But it remains the best overview of their history ever assembled, despite a few minor flaws in its content. One suspects, for instance, that had Bob Irwin, who oversaw the later upgrading of the group's albums, been producing this box, there might be a few tracks predating the hit of "Mr. Tambourine Man," from the group's Elektra recordings (as "the Beefeaters"), or their demos as the Jet Set; and maybe the audio portion of their live set from The Big TNT Show or perhaps a track or two from the Monterey Pop Festival; and, conversely, two or three fewer tracks representing the Skip Battin/Gene Parsons lineup of the band. But strangely enough, along with British CBS' double-LP History of the Byrds and the more recent Essential Byrds, this four-disc set is one of only three attempts at doing a comprehensive history of the group, and it's still got all of the competition beat right out of the starting gate, and well worth owning. ***THIS IS A VERY RARE AND HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE SET*** ALL RECORDS ARE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION AND ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION UNLESS NOTED.  RECORDS HAVE BEEN STORED IN DELUXE INNER LINER AND JACKET ALSO STORED IN QUALITY PLASTIC SLEEVE. NOTE: I DO NOT OWN A DIGITAL CAMERA - SO MY JACKET 'SCANS' ARE ONLY PARTIAL DUE TO SCANNER SIZE.  PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. RECORDS ARE SHIPPED IN PROPER RECORD MAILERS AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. PAYABLE IN US FUNDS, AND PLEASE ADD $14.95 FOR U.S. EXPEDITED SHIPPING , unless stated otherwise. EMAIL ME FOR INTERNATIONAL OR CANADIAN SHIPPING COSTS.  PAYPAL NOW ACCEPTED  Place a Bid!