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''Farther Along'' is the 11th album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in November 1971 on Columbia Records (''see'' 1971 in music). For the most part, the album was recorded and produced by The Byrds themselves in London, England, over the course of five work-intensive days in July 1971. It was quickly released as a reaction to the commercial failure of The Byrds' previous album, ''Byrdmaniax'', and as an attempt to stem the criticism that album was receiving in the music press.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=ByrdWatcher: A Field Guide to the Byrds of Los Angeles )〕 ''Byrdmaniax'' had suffered from excessive and inappropriate orchestration, which producer Terry Melcher had applied to the album, allegedly without the band's consent.〔〔 As such, ''Farther Along'' can be seen as the band's answer to Melcher's over-production as well as an attempt to prove that they could produce an album superior to ''Byrdmaniax'' themselves.〔〔 Unfortunately, the rapidity with which The Byrds planned and recorded ''Farther Along'' resulted in yet another uneven LP, which the band themselves were unhappy with and which failed to undo the damage to their reputation inflicted by ''Byrdmaniax''. Upon release, the album only managed to reach #152 on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart and failed to break into the UK Albums Chart altogether. A single taken from the album, "America's Great National Pastime", was released on November 29, 1971 but failed to chart in the United States or in the United Kingdom.〔 ''Farther Along'' has the dubious honor of tying with ''Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde'' as The Byrds' album to have spent the least amount of time on the ''Billboard'' album chart. In addition, it was almost the lowest charting album of The Byrds' career in America, being beaten only by ''Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde'', which charted at #153, one place lower than ''Farther Along''.〔 ==Overview== Following the release of the ''Byrdmaniax'' album, The Byrds' producer and manager, Terry Melcher, resigned amid accusations of overdubbing strings, horns, and a gospel choir onto that album without the band's consent. The Byrds' annoyance over Melcher's additions to ''Byrdmaniax'' prompted them to try to rectify the situation by quickly recording a new album, this time produced by themselves. Despite a heavy touring schedule—resulting from the band being an in-demand fixture on the live concert circuit—The Byrds were eager to release another studio album as soon as possible.〔 Upon arriving in England for an appearance at the Lincoln Folk Festival on July 24, 1971, The Byrds booked into a London recording studio with engineer Mike Ross to record their next album.〔〔 The band's decision to produce the album themselves was almost certainly an attempt to show Melcher that they could do a better job than he had done on ''Byrdmaniax''.〔 During five days of recording between July 22 and July 28, 1971, The Byrds recorded all eleven songs that would appear on ''Farther Along'', with no other songs known to have been attempted by the band during the sessions.〔 The tapes were then brought back to the U.S., where they were mixed by Eric Prestidge at Columbia Studios, Hollywood in August 1971, with the song "Bugler" receiving additional Mandolin and lead vocal overdubs from the band's lead guitarist, Clarence White.〔〔〔 Overall, ''Farther Along'' had a much less cluttered sound than its predecessor, as guitarist and band leader Roger McGuinn noted to journalist David Fricke in 2000: "It was as live as you can get in the studio. We didn't do a lot of overdubs, mostly just the vocals."〔 Nonetheless, while the album succeeded in countering the over-production present on ''Byrdmaniax'', the band themselves weren't particularly satisfied with the finished product.〔 In a 1997 interview, bass player Skip Battin expressed his dissatisfaction with the album by saying "When we finished it, I didn't think we had anything, I thought the stuff was rotten - it didn't sound good, it was scattered and there was no unification."〔 Drummer Gene Parsons concurred with Battin's assessment of the album, stating "I felt that ''Farther Along'' was a good album, but it was under produced. It was done really rapidly and it suffered in under production as a reaction to ''Byrdmaniax''."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Farther Along (The Byrds album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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