Bob Proehl - Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin

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One sin very naturally leans on another.

Thomas Wilson

Bob Proehl

2008

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Copyright 2008 by Bob Proehl

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Proehl, Bob.
The Gilded Palace of Sin / Bob Proehl.
p. cm. -- (33 1/3)
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN-13: 978-1-4411-4349-5
1. Flying Burrito Bros.
Gilded Palace of Sin. 2. Flying Burrito Bros. I. Title. II. Series.

ML421.F63P76 2008
782.420922--dc22

2008045099

With thanks to Casey, Gregg, Khaled, Luke, Melanie, and Shaianne for reading it, Steve for alleviating some of my guitar-related ignorance, Eryn for listening to me blather on about it, and Sarah for being awake three hours later than anyone on the East Coast.

The next one will be for my mom, but this one is for my dad.

Roger McGuinn had gotten his band back.

It was McGuinn whod started the Byrds off, after all. Gene Clark was between jobs and between sounds when he stumbled upon McGuinn playing Beatles covers at the Troubador in LA, a bold move in a club devoted to folk. And David Crosby was essentially a Hollywood brat and petty criminal when he joined the duo singing in a stairwell at the Troub months later. The trio had mild success doing folk songs as the Jet Set, but McGuinn had given the band its name and, between his spiraling Rickenbacker 12-string and his lilting tenor rising out of the harmonies to take the lead on Mr. Tambourine Man, its signature sound. Bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke were brought on almost as hired help, turning the folk trio into a real band. But as the Byrds expanded the folk rock sound theyd topped the charts with in 1965, McGuinn found himself shouldered out Clarks departure for personal reasons left McGuinn and Crosby to grapple for control of the band until midway through the 1967 sessions for