![]() I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I remember once when I was 36 years old, I was at a radio station and they asked me to read the news. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. What is one book you've been meaning to read? What is one thing you have always wanted?ġ8. What gives you hope about the world today?ġ6. What talent would you most like to possess?ĭepends upon the time and place-for Christmas, it's It's a Wonderful Life on the 4th of July, Independence Day on Saturday night, Blast from the Past and on Friday night, Benny and Joon.ġ5. ![]() What characteristic do you admire most in others?ġ1. What is the biggest obstacle you have overcome or challenge you have ever faced?ġ0. Getting out of the music business and traveling the world as a troubadour.ĩ. Which individual has, for better or worse, had the single greatest influence on your life? I open all my concerts with "My Backpages," written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with "May the Road Rise to Meet You," written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.ĭepends upon the time and place-on the 4th of July, it's chili/slaw dogs at Christmas, it's tamales on New Year's Eve, it's caviar pie for a wedding anniversary, definitely lobster and Caesar salad.ħ. My banjo playing had a direct result on how I played the 12-string electric Rickenbacker, which I have been associated with in the Byrds. I was one of the first students and learned to play the six-string guitar, 12-string guitar and banjo. My music teacher explained to me that was "folk music" and I was in luck because a new school had just opened in Old Town called the Old Town School of Folk Music. His banjo playing and storytelling excited me. Then Bob Gibson came to my high school, the Latin School of Chicago. I was 13 years old when I heard Elvis Presley over my transistor radio (the iPod of its day) while riding my bicycle on the streets of Chicago. I made enough money to buy the Martin guitar that I gave to my wife as a wedding present 32 years ago. ![]() I worked as janitor's assistant when I was 15. Have you ever read or written a perfect sentence? ![]() What book had the biggest impact on you? Why?Ģ. It was nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award.īefore he went on the road, we asked him these 20 questions.ġ. Tambourine Man" to the single "Turn! Turn! Turn!" to the critically acclaimed album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, which many attribute as the first full-fledged country rock album, the Byrds were landmark songwriters and musicians.Īs a solo artist, Roger McGuinn has made five solo albums, including his latest, Treasures from the Folk Den, which includes traditional folk songs and duets with Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and more. There, he met Gene Clark and eventually David Crosby-the beginnings of one of the most influential bands of the '60s, the Byrds. In New York, McGuinn began to experiment with merging folk and rock, which led him to Los Angeles and the renowned club the Troubadour. Classes at Chicago's well-respected Old Town School of Folk Music helped make him proficient in both banjo and guitar, and his emergence on the local folk scene soon led to a gig touring with singer Bobby Darin, who asked him to move to New York and work as a songwriter for his music publishing company, TMI Music. Consistently cool in the way only a rock veteran can manage, McGuinn actually is a rock legend-an original member of the wildly successful band the Byrds and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Īfter Roger McGuinn heard Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel," he knew he had to buy a guitar. Roger McGuinn has been a special guest of the Rock Bottom Remainders for so many years now, one wonders why he hasn't become an official member of the band. ![]()
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