Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35824 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-08-20
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Colour, DVD-Video, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 193 minutes

Synopsis
In this documentary program, several music critics turn their ears to the music of the Byrds. While the band's career is extensively profiled and recreated with the help of interviews and rare footage, experts offer their insights into the band's work and legacy.

Customer Reviews

A Fascinating Insight into a Unique Phenomenon
I have just spent an entire afternoon viewing this. If you are in any way interested in the The Byrds then you will find this attractive little package to be truly enthralling. If you are a Beatles fan as well and you enjoyed the 'Anthology' DVDs then this certainly will not disappoint. It begins with a highly intelligent analysis of the ferment that mid 60s America experienced. From then on all the Byrds albums (except the reunion one from 1973 on Asylum)are examined in some depth. Throughout all this, the highly knowledgable experts consider just what it was that made this wonderful band so special. A most welcome quality is the way it gives roughly equal time to each phase in the group's history - and so the second disk is devoted almost entirely to the post 1967 period. To this end there are lengthy and extremely thoughtful insights from latterday Byrds, John York and Gene Parsons. To top it all the extremely versatile Mr York has written and performed on 12 string guitar, a most engaging little score that initially has you wondering which early Byrds album it comes from. Up to now the best biography has been Johnny Rogan's 'Timeless Flight Revisited'. This latest release would serve as a superb companion piece to that. I've been a Byrds'devotee ever since first hearing them on Radio Caroline in the summer of '65 .... but I learnt a great deal from this.

recommended!
We here at Byrds Flyght have just received the brand new double DVD called THE BYRDS - UNDER REVIEW - A DOCUMENTARY FILM

With 3 hours and 13 minutes dedicated to The Byrds, it allows some people who were involved with the Byrds (including ex-members John York and Gene Parsons) to express their points of view for the first time on such a release.

Five minutes into watching, and already incredible exerpts from live performances by The New Christy Minstrels with Gene Clark!

We've spent the last 3 and a half hours viewing these DVDs, and there's no other thing like that for true Byrds fans. It goes deep into details of all eras of the band's career.

Recommended!!!

An incredible find
As i'm sure any Byrds fan who has seen this dvd has come to conclude, it is a fine piece of work. There is a serious lack of material concerning the career of the Byrds, one of the most influential and important bands of our time I believe. This dvd takes a close look at their music, and how it was recieved at the time it was released. A brilliant piece of documentation.