Trying To Reach My Goal
The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers Lyrics

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Alton Ellis I don't know where I'm going But I sure know where…

We have lyrics for these tracks by The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers:

Break My Mind Baby, oh baby Tell the man at the ticket stand That…
Close Up The Honky Tonks She's in some honky tonk tonight I know She's dancing where…
Colorado Hey Colorado it was not so long ago I left your…
Eight Miles High Eight miles high, and when you touch down You'll find that…
Hickory Wind In South Carolina there are many tall pines I remember the…
I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better The reason why oh, I can't say I have to…

Mr. Spaceman Woke up this morning with light in my eyes And then…
Mr. Tambourine Man Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me I'm not…
Roll Over Beethoven I'm gonna write a little letter Gonna mail it to my…
So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star So you want to be a rock and roll star? Then…
The Bells Of Rhymney Oh, what will you give me? Say the sad bells of…
The Train Song Six more days and I'll be gone Get on the train…
Time Between Don't say you love me Don't say you care You're so far…
Turn Turn Turn To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, tu…
Wake Up Little Susie Wake up little Suzie, wake up, wake up little Suzie,…
You Don't Miss Your Water In the beginning you really loved me But I was blind…

You Dont Miss Your Water In the beginning you really loved me But I was blind…

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Thomas Robinson

2y↑40

Chris Hillman is the real deal.

Asdf Zxcv

He was great in the band Manassas.

Edgar Snake

2y↑7

Chris is a terrific bass player. I loved his bass sound. 50 years later I still try to emulate his sound and style. I recently saw Chris and Roger with Marty Stuart and the Superlatives backing them up. It made me cry...tears of joy.

merockunot

2y↑17

My Dad was Chris's Luthier/repairman...I met him a few times thru my Dad and he was just so totally cool with me...Love the Byrds and FBB

richard mindemann

2y↑5

The writer of " Have You Seen Her Face", Chris became a fine songwriter about the time of the Byrds "Younger Than Yesterday' LP. I STILL can't believe "Have YSHF" peaked around number 70 or so on the Billboard Top 100. I've been outraged about that since 1967. Shouldn't I have gotten over that by now?

Gripkeys

Have You Seen Her Face is my favorite Byrds single.

Thom Miller

2y↑6

Chris is one of the most amazing musicians that has ever walked the planet. So so humble!

Mike Baron

2y↑7

It’s always nice when people who have worked really hard and earn success are also nice people. Great interview.

Katherine Kimes

What a great interview. Chris is so articulate. I love hearing about all his band as memories. So talented, but yet so humble. ❤️

Jojo heartspaypay

2y↑15

I love this man. There was a time when he was angry, but I can understand where he is coming from.
What a hero!

Margaret Ross

@TenBroeck They had different skills and personalities. Both great but in different ways.

northern light

2y↑1

What a great interview!

TenBroeck

2y↑1

He has done so much great stuff, yet all he heard for years was "That Gram was the greatest ever, you sure are lucky to have known him!" When it was Chris who was and is the greatest. Although I can not help but love Gram Parsons also.

Bullpucky

2y↑5

I’m 58 yrs old, and remember seeing FBB albums in the bargain bin at my local record shop as a youngster. Didn’t pay much attention. Flash forward 40 years, “Gilded Palace” comes up on my Spotify suggestion feed, and I thought..what the hell. I now regret passing over that terrific album all those years ago.
Never too old to learn!

Jeffrey Bank

2y↑3

Loved the first Byrds album back in 65 I guess it was. I was 15. I still remember McGuinn saying on Shindig "The Byrds is coming" in that twangy voice.

Rob Iacullo

I was 16 then.

Gene Payne

2y↑3

What a terrific interview. God bless, Chris Hillman. (Thank you, Aaron and the Load Out Podcast!)

Dennis DeMark

2y↑8

The quiet Byrd... whenever you see the Byrds performance on t.v he was standing
in the background doing his thing!
Great musician and man.
Long live the Music and Legacy of The Byrds 🎤🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🥁

Davian

This is one of the best interviews I’ve heard in ages, even though the interviewer, like so many, is way too fixated on Gram whilst completely overlooking the contributions of Gene Clark, who wrote Feel A Whole Lot Better, I Knew I’d Want You, and wrote the majority of lyrics and melody to Eight Miiles High. Chris Hillman’s bass intro to the latter is the most iconic ever. In fact, Chris is the most multi-talented of the band, playing guitar, bass, and mandolin. He’s superb at all of them and a most gracious interview.

Dennis DeMark

2y↑9

Long live Chris Hillman and the Music and Legacy of The Byrds 🎼🎶🎸🥁

chris parker

2y↑2

Chris has always remained my favorite musician . What a legacy he has left us!

Tonetwisters

2y↑2

Country Rock ... my favorite genre of music. Nice to see Chris wearing a cross. This is the time to be a Christian, as time is running out.
I remember this guy was pitched as one of the best mandolin players anywhere, while playing bass for The Byrds. Our lives seem to have been rather similar ... for me, it was my older brother who was my mentor, and my world fell apart when my parents divorced ...

Doug Reed

2y↑4

Chris was part of it, he didn't 'invent' country rock, gene clark with gosden bros and doug dillard just beat him to it, but they were all part of it!

joe bloggs

2y↑2

I completely agree about GENE CLARK

Ed Clark

2y↑2

As a young kid who had recently lost his own dad, I heard a song recorded by a group called the Byrds entitled Mr Tambourine Man…I would play that record repeatability to hear that bass line at the tag of the tune! I thought it was the coolest thing I had heard!

dan hull

2y↑1

One of my true heroes thank you Chris!

Andy Gossard

2y↑1

Chris your singing on Farther Along on Deluxe is inspirational.. it makes me want to try my hand again in a group and with some singing.. and I suck at singing.

Rick Alexander

2y↑1

Saw him play solo at a small music hall in Eugene, Oregon around 1976 or so. Great show and was always a fan, especially his time with SHF band.

joe bloggs

2y↑2

Gene Clark and Doug Dillard were the ones that brought " country rock" to the forefront....

Ben Dummitt

2y↑5

Chris is allowed an opinion. It's his right. He was there. Great interview.

Vlad Ivostok

GREAT INTERVIEW! Thank you so much for this!

Benjamin Mitchell

2y↑2

There is hardly a week goes by when this mans music doesnt play through my system

Tim J

Interesting interview with a few revelations and stories that I had not heard before. I do agree with Chris Hillman that "Sweetheart..." was not The Byrds' best album, not by a long shot. It was pioneering in its forceful statement about country fusing with rock. But the songs were uneven in quality, and it doesn't come close to matching their earlier albums, including "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" that preceded it and had quite a lot of country influence in several songs as well.

marty mathews

2y↑1

Legend and Loved! Thank you for the wonderful tunes and memories.

jay luciano

2y↑8

Byrds or birds they all sing beautifully.. perfect pitch!!!

Dennis DeMark

2y↑1

@Michael Rose Yes Mike I have the same book, "Timeless Flight" biography of the Byrds" which I purchased in London, while visiting a friend.
It's absolutely a great book by the late Johnny Rogan.

Michael Rose

2y↑1

@Dennis DeMark Thanks Dennis, l remember now, l do have a few books on The Byrds, The best being Requiem for the timeless by Johnny Rogan, there are a few volumes and they are thick with information.

Dennis DeMark

2y↑2

@Michael Rose Yes Mike , Michael Clarke was a member of Firefall but he'd had since left the group by that time, he was performing concerts billed as "Michael Clark's
Byrds concerts" which the other founding members disapprove of, therefore having
each other sue one another... sadly 😔

Michael Rose

2y↑1

@Dennis DeMark That's great particularly Roger and Gene, and Michael Clarke was he in Firefall or had they been and gone by then?

Dennis DeMark

2y↑2

@Michael Rose That's great Mike, I have seen Mcguinn
In concert in 1994 and drummer , the late Michael Clarke in concert in 1990 and the main songwriter the late Gene Clark in 1987.
Long live the Music and Legacy of The Byrds!

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Alex Hamilton

2y↑1

Mr. Hillman's bass solo introducing EIGHT MILES HIGH is, in my opinion, the greatest intro in rock history.

Phil

Yeah, but you must add in what David, Jim(!) and Michael give to that intro to continue buildup of such a legendary sound.

Jeffrey Bank

"Eight Mile High" is on my "Favorites" playlist on my iPhone, and it gets played on my car's Apple Carplay all the time.

Mark McIntosh

God Bless you Chris - love all your music great career. Love listening to all your journeys Byrds to present . I am just discovering FBB and post Byrds music🎸

Samuel Fugarino

Love this guy. It's funny, as time goes by, that third FBB album has become my favorite (sometimes, lol). To me, the Eagles don't sound like the Gram Parsons FBB, they sound like that third album. Regardless of what the critics say, that was a great album.

Brian Korbelik

I grew up in the Los Angeles area, and in 1977 when an incarnation of the Byrds appeared my friends and I used to go see them. That was McGuinn, Clark and Hillman. Some really beautiful nights. They sounded like the late Byrds mixed with the early version in their song selection. Ahhhhhh Then in January of 1990 I believe the Bryds reformed with MCGuinn, Hillman and Crosby, and I saw them in Ventura, CA. They played 3 shows and that was it. I feel very lucky to have seen any incarnation of the Byrds with Roger and Chris. Thank both of you, I'll never forget.

jacques Cousteau

2y↑1

Great interview. I do take issue with a couple of things . Poco in my opinion was the creme de la creme not only as great players,great singers,great harmony,and GREAT SONGS ! I think Epic destroyed Poco.
Next .
Chris didn’t mention Souther,Hillman, Furay band . Fallen In Love should have been a hit .
Richie ,and me were talking about starting a group about fifteen to twenty years ago .
He ran by me other musicians he thought would work well . Chris Hillman was one he brought up a couple of times .
True story . I love Richie’s writing,and singing both are much underrated ,and he plays a very good rhythm guitar player .

Dave Heath

2y↑2

Really like Chris Hillman and enjoyed this interview . would liked to have heard a little about his time in the band the Hillmen with the Louvin brothers and Don Parmely . Anyway thanks for doing this interesting interview .

Rick Krause

So wonderful…thank you Aaron 🙏

milfordmkt

Great life lessons here. You can see how in life there are "catalysts or mentors" who can be important in shaping what you become.

Joe Stephan

Gram Parsons is the founder & king of Country Rock. He's the one who brought it to them.

gerry marks

Seems like a nice guy.loved him with the byrds.

Keith Scott

2y↑5

Great interview! Thank you!

Jim Allison

Love his music.

channingchills

2y↑1

This should have way more views. The Mount Rushmore of bassists: Phil Lesh, Geezer Butler, Chris Hillman, Paul McCartney.

David McCaffery

Jack Bruce anyone?

Brett Banta

Don't forget John Entwistle

Leahflower

2y↑1

Love his music room 💕

DrITunes

2y↑5

rip gram and the burrito brothers rock

Steve McCurry

2y↑1

Legend🙌🏻

TenBroeck

2y↑1

I love Chris Hillman and I'm so glad that he lived through the crazy era, then went on to form the Dessert Rose Band and had yet another phase of big success. What a humble man. When I hear Turn, Turn, Turn I sometimes get tears in my eyes. One of my top 10 favorite artists.

Dennis DeMark

I feel you TenBroeck.

KenTeel

Well said, Chris. It was just country music. It was done by guys who looked like hippies (long hair), but it was just basically country music.

Mark Chronister

Have always liked Chris and whatever he was playing!

Viking Dave

2y↑4

Great interview

james morett

2y↑1

The Beat Farmers were from San Diego / Riverside
and they never received the recognition they deserved
for those incrediblly well written songs

William Derick Johnson

Bernie Leadon and the banjo on early Eagles was awesome. Dang it… I’m going surfin’

Ettoredipugnar

Great Interview !

Walter Evans

2y↑1

Hillman is the man. It's no coincidence that every band was better when Hillman was there.

Walter Evans

@joe bloggs In Flying Burrito Brothers? In Manassas? In Desert Rose Band? I love Gene Clark, but my point was everywhere Hillman went, a band was pretty awesome.

joe bloggs

2y↑1

Gene CLARK had a huge hand in that

Gene myers Myers

2y↑1

Interviewer is a real a trip and that is puting it mildly.

Acevedomedia

Nice interview. I think you meant to say, "One would guess that if you co-founded a band once called the “American Beatles;”

Sinner Train

2y↑1

No one person invented country rock. Gram Parsons gets a lot of credit, but Chris Hillman was doing this before it became a thing. I love Parsons and Hillman. Of course when I say country rock, that music is MORE country than country music these days,

joe bloggs

Gene Clark

TommyCat

2y↑3

Awesome 👌 👏 👍

Kevin Haley

I could listen to Chris talk about any subject at all, like to take another bike ride with him, yet I won’t be going to Tennessee and I doubt he wants to come here to north Idaho. Course if he did, he should bring Connie and we could ride or go sailing here on Pend Oreille. Didn’t know his dad had taken his life, my dad and my brother both did that as well and know how Chris must have hurt from it, I think I knew why my dad did what he did, and I know for certain why my brother did, they each had what I call a valid reason……I just don’t have that kind of nerve.
Hope you have kept in touch with Monte and Judy, as well as Bobbie and Tammie. Take care and g_d bless

Paul Mc

Thanks for that. So great

Living a Dream Life

Clarence White’s wife sold his Bender B Telecaster guitar to Marty Stuart who honors Clarence every time he performs.

David Conley

Nice guy!!

NICK E. STEEZ

2y↑9

Great to find out that he is an Orthodox Christian! ☦️☦️☦️

john cummins

Love Hillman but Furay started Country Rock.

James P Murray

2y↑1

I've always been a fan.

darkspar72

I would imagine that the original 1849 gold rush brought southerners and their southern music influence into CA as well

darkspar72

beat some spoons and tin cans

darkspar72

put their picks down and strummed some strings

darkspar72

crusty dudes from Georgia and Cornwall and Wales and New Brunswick probably rocked some tunes out in the diggings

Bret Hazlett

77 years old ? Damn!

J P

I remember watching his group open for Hag

Hames McK

2y↑3

At 28:34 Chris mentions another band who came out just after them and that they were a great band, but who is he talking about? I'd love to hear them!

Colin Dant

2y↑3

Google Poco (band)

Henrik Sørensen

2y↑3

The king is Gram Parsons

hollywood fats

he's old AF!

Robert Cross

The interviewer looks a lot like Amir Arison, the FBI computer geek on "The Blacklist" TV series.

jon pope

Intro left out SHF band!

Larry Zink

2y↑1

Let him talk, dude.

Contact Info

2y↑10

I get what your saying about Gram, Chris and he couldn't be Hank Williams if he didn't struggle with a trust fund, but no, Gram struggled and had heart and most importantly, he delivered. He delivered with making the music, soulful that most cannot. Song, money doesn't matter, at least in his case. He did feel sorry and loss, so your oversimplification and grudge against Gram for not being in his band with Emmy Lou makes you bitter.

David Murray

2y↑2

@Margaret Ross I'd read that Chris was in tears when he heard the final version of Hot Burrito #1. That's probably the truest picture of what he thought of Gram. Hillman always seemed the "sanest" of The Byrds. Shame he carries a grudge because together he and Gram created the best by far alt country album ever with The Burrito Bros' Gilded Palace of Sin. That's something you'd think he'd take great pride in and he couldn't have thought that with Gram's health sapping habits that he'd be around for the long haul.Take care, Margaret.

Margaret Ross

@David Murray Great analysis of my favourite band! I appreciate what a fine musician Chris is and what he's given us. Nice to see him so relaxed on stage now. However, he has tarnished his legacy with his nasty stories about Gram Parsons, who obviously suffered the results of a miserable childhood. Hillman's wife once asked him if he'd like to trade places with Gram. I'll keep trying to think positively about him.

David Murray

2y↑2

Hillman's resentment towards Gram is well placed but not healthy. Chris's "problem" was he was always more country than urban. He was/is a serious musician and, to my mind, mastered the bass guitar to the same level as McCartney. Unfortunately for him The Byrds, along with producer Gary Usher, from 5D thru Notorious Byrd Bros were quickly evolving into a technologically driven studio band distilling many musical influences into their music, jazz to World music, really a precursor to music that would emerge from Britain mostly, a decade and a half later. Like The Beatles, their music could not at that time be duplicated in live performance. Anathema for a country/alt country player. Those original Byrds had the ability to take their creativity a lot further. Unfortunately they were undone by personal animosities they could not, or would not, overcome. Part of Gene Clark's genius was he was comfortable in any musical genre. Crosby was never country. He was a "futurist", and to a slightly lesser degree, so was McGuinn. Chris found great success in the musical space where he belonged and partnering with Gram, to me, was some kind of great reward for the time it lasted and nothing to hold a grudge about. McGuinn of course, insisting on keeping the group's name to the detriment of the legacy, couldn't decide if he and his musicians were alt country or arena rockers. They proved to be uncomfortable in both and succeeded in neither. Personally, even with Chris leaving after Notorious, the four remaining guys with session players could have continued the melding of technology with their vast musical creativity that would set The Byrds far, far ahead of all others in the field. Alas, very few rock groups establish solid personal relationships on the level of say REM. PS. Hillman provided so much towards making the original Byrds the iconic band they were and remain. Don't get me wrong on that!

Margaret Ross

2y↑2

@Harry Bogaev "Set in amber." What a beautiful image!

Margaret Ross

2y↑10

Well said. Chris can't get over the fact that although he himself is respected, Gram is loved, and it will be ever thus.

rock n roll

He I s a great musician but I do not consider him country rock whatsoever. T he Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers were not country rock. Desert Rose band fit the description a little bit. When I think of country rock I think of Skynyrd, Hznk Jr and Marty Stuart etc. In this interview Hillman called himself a folk singer

Margaret Ross

2y↑1

@MrPhilfridge Gram had a way with words.

MrPhilfridge

2y↑4

Skynyrd, southern rock ! Hank Jnr ands Marty Stuart just country ! The post 'notorious' Byrds, Burritos, Poco , New Riders, NGDB, Pure Prairie League, Commander Cody , all country rock. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils often deemed southern rock but regarded themselves country rock. That's the main bands plus of course and i quote Gram here, the plastic dry fuck ! Eagles.

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