The erstwhile Byrds man on his life, his music and why he doesn’t need a Byrds reunion
SINGAPORE - Roger McGuinn, the former front man for The Byrds, is soft-spoken and clearly has a big love for folk music. When he talks about that, his eyes light up and you can just about see all that enthusiasm bubbling under. He was also in town recently for a quick holiday before heading back to the United States to start his next tour.
“We go to work in April. We start working in the States and then we’re going to Europe to do three months there,” he said.
The “we” is Roger and his wife/manager Camilla. And Roger’s solo storyteller-style shows, a la those old troubadour gigs, has been drawing crowds the world over. And if you can’t catch any of his shows, don’t worry, there’s always the CD/DVD set, Stories, Songs & Friends, a recording of a concert he did in 2012, which was released in February.
Q: Stories, Songs & Friends was just out, but the concert featured is from 2012. Why did it take so long?
A: It was a recording in 2012, when my mother turned 102. It took us all that time to assemble the audio, and the DVD took a long time to do too. We had all these people on the DVD, and I wanted to make it look good, so I got Final Cut Pro on my Mac and put it together myself. I did pretty much everything. We had directors for the video, and we worked with an engineer for the audio recording.
Q: For those who haven’t seen the show, give us a sneak peak.
A: I tell stories and the songs all run together and it becomes one big story of my life. And we have different modules that we can put in different places. It’s a lot of fun. It’s very organic.
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