1. Roger McGuinn was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as a member of the band.
34 Facts About Roger McGuinn
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Roger McGuinn's parents worked in journalism and public relations, and during his childhood, they had written a bestseller titled Parents Can't Win.
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Roger McGuinn became interested in music after hearing Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel", and asked his parents to buy a guitar for him.
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In 1962, after he ended his association with the Chad Mitchell Trio, Roger McGuinn was hired by Bobby Darin as a backup guitarist and harmony singer.
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When Roger McGuinn saw George Harrison play a 12-string Rickenbacker in the film A Hard Days Night, it inspired him to buy the same instrument.
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Roger McGuinn gave rock style treatments to traditional folk tunes and thereby caught the attention of another folkie Beatles fan, Gene Clark, who joined forces with McGuinn in July 1964.
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Roger McGuinn compressed the heck out of my 12-string, and it sounded so great we decided to use two tube compressors in series, and then go directly into the board.
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Roger McGuinn performed a cover of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma " for the Easy Rider soundtrack.
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In 1968, Roger McGuinn helped create the groundbreaking album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, to which many attribute the rise in popularity of country rock.
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Roger McGuinn originally conceived the album as a blend of rock, jazz, folk and other styles, but Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman's bluegrass-western-country influences came to the forefront.
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Roger McGuinn toured with Bob Dylan in 1975 and 1976 as part of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, cancelling a planned tour of his own in order to participate.
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Since 1981, Roger McGuinn has regularly toured as a solo singer-guitarist.
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In 2018 he embarked on a tour with Chris Hillman, a fellow original Byrd, backed by Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo album, after which Roger McGuinn returned to touring solo.
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In 1987, Roger McGuinn was the opening act for Dylan and Tom Petty and he performed at Farm Aid.
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Roger McGuinn returned with a live band featuring John Jorgenson, George Hawkins and Stan Lynch.
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Roger McGuinn stated that he was receiving 50 percent royalties from MP3.
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In July 2013, Roger McGuinn co-authored an interactive ebook, Hard Listening, with the rest of the group.
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Roger McGuinn has used the Internet to continue the folk music tradition since November 1995 by recording a different folk song each month on his Folk Den site.
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In November 2005, Roger McGuinn released a four-CD box set containing one hundred of his favorite songs from the Folk Den.
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When Roger McGuinn started with the Byrds, he used the name Jim, which he thought to be too plain.
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Roger McGuinn became involved in the Subud spiritual association in 1965 and began to practice the latihan, an exercise in quieting the mind.
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Roger McGuinn changed his name in 1967 upon advice from Subud's founder Bapak.
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Roger McGuinn was the only "real" name in the bunch, and Bapak chose it.
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McGuinn officially changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger and has used the name Roger professionally from that time on.
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Roger McGuinn married Susan Bedrick in 1963; however, the marriage was annulled.
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Immediately following their divorce, Roger McGuinn married a third time, to Linda Gilbert in November 1971; this marriage ended in divorce in June 1975.
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Roger McGuinn left Subud in 1977, the same year that he met his fourth and current wife and business manager, Camilla; they married in April 1978.
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Roger McGuinn contributes electric 12-string to one track on Skip Battin's 1972 self-titled solo album.
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Roger McGuinn appears on Willie Nile's 1991 Places I Have Never Been album.
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Roger McGuinn appears on the 1994 Arthur Alexander tribute album Adios Amigo: A Tribute to Arthur Alexander, performing a cover version of "Anna ".
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Roger McGuinn contributed two tracks, "Banjo Cantata" and "Ramblin' On", to a compilation of banjo pieces released by Davon as Banjo Greats, re-issued on CD by Tradition in 1996 as Banjo Jamboree.
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Roger McGuinn has performed the songs "It's Alright, Ma " and "Ballad of Easy Rider" which were included on the soundtrack of the film Easy Rider.
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Roger McGuinn performed "Shoot 'Em" which appears on the anthology album Byrd Parts 2, released on Australia's Raven Records label in 2003.
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Roger McGuinn contributed 12 string electric and harmonies to Will Dailey's track "Peace of Mind" from Torrent, Volume 1: Fashion of Distraction.