What did you make of the Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers LP?
They sound good. He was approaching the Byrds again with those guys. He was trying to sound like the Byrds. It’s probably why he got with those guys because they could sing and they could play and he was trying to get that same sound that they had going in the Byrds. But, the only thing that’s missing is Roger McGuinn and that 12-string. The Gosdins are similar to David Crosby in the voices, very similar vocal sound, but it doesn’t have that great David Crosby detuned rhythm and the Roger McGuinn 12-string. Otherwise it would sound practically indistinguishable from the Byrds. You went onto to work with the Turtles and, at one point, you requested a tape of Gene Clark demos to use with the Turtles. Considering your relationship with Gene at the time – having been ousted from the Gene Clark Group – it seems a very magnanimous thing for you to do. Well, I guess so. I contacted Eddie Tickner, who was Gene’s manager at the time, and asked him if there were demos of Gene in the office. I’d
