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Former Byrds band mates David Crosby and Roger McGuinn recently engaged in a Twitter conversation that led Crosby to ask McGuinn if he’d like to play a couple of reunion dates. McGuinn didn’t respond to Crosby, but Rolling Stone reports that a rep for Roger informed the magazine that neither he nor fellow surviving Byrds member Chris Hillman “entertain the idea of a Byrds reunion.”
Crosby’s plea to McGuinn came after the latter reached out to David to address comments he’d made in his new documentary, David Crosby: Remember My Name, in which Cosby complains that all his former band mates “won’t even talk to me” and “hate my guts.”
During the Twitter exchange, McGuinn — who, unlike Crosby’s post-Byrds band mates Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young, was interviewed for the doc — said, “You’re saying I won’t talk to you and hate you. That’s just not true!”
Crosby responded by saying, “Thanks Roger. Must have mixed you up with those other guys.” He then asked about a possible reunion gigs.
McGuinn’s rep further explained to Rolling Stone, “Roger was just tired of David crying about being hated. DC is not hated but that doesn’t mean anyone wants to work with him.”
Crosby has had a strained relationship with McGuinn and Hillman since the latter two fired him from The Byrds in 1967. The last time all three performed together was when they sang two songs at a 2000 benefit show in Santa Monica, California.
Crosby has noted in numerous interviews in recent years that he’s often told McGuinn that he’d like to do Byrds reunion shows, but Roger has never been interested.
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