Roger Bennion's photos with the keyword: Gene Clark

HAPPY FENCE FRIDAY, ALL This is the Aviary in the grounds of Waddesdon Manor. In the 1890's guests of Baron Ferdinand De Rothschild were told that if they did a tour of the garden it was essential to visit this 'must see' Aviary. The Aviary was beautifully restored and it now houses endangered species and there is ongoing conservation work to save these from extinction. Around one third of the species in the Aviary are at risk of extinction to some degree. Many are from Indonesia, where the wild birds are threatened by the rapid rate of deforestation and the illegal trade in cage-birds. Waddesdon participates in captive breeding programmes with the aim of reintroducing birds into their native habitat. Aviaries house 'Birds' which could be spelt as 'Byrds' and this, of course, makes it easy for me to choose a Byrds connection for 'Sight and Sound :-) Gene Clark was a founding member of the Byrds. "She Don't Care About Time" was written by Gene and released on October 29, 1965 as the B-side of Turn! Turn! Turn! Gene was the Byrds' main songwriter between 1964 and early 1966. It was astonishing that "She Don't Care About Time" was not included on the original issue of the Turn! Turn! Turn! album. My personal favourite version of this classic song is Gene's live version on the album "Silhouetted by Light", the album recorded with Carla Olson barely a year before Gene's tragic passing. Added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ She Don't Care About Time - Gene Clark

Explored! Thank you very much :-) SATURDAY SELF-CHALLENGE 28 DEC 2019 UNFOCUSED ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY This started life as a unfocused shot of a digital clock on our Microwave. I then decided to add the Droste effect :-) And, for 'Sight and Sound' ~ 'Time' is involved here so I have chosen "She Don't Care About Time" written by Gene Clark from Gene's 1973 album "Roadmaster". The song originally featured on the B-side of the Byrds 1965 single "Turn! Turn! Turn!". Gene Clark was the Byrds main songwriter between 1964 and early 1966. I love the Byrds version but, for me, Gene's solo version is total magic :-) Vocals: Gene Clark Drums: Michael Clarke Guitar: Clarence White Pedal Steel: "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow Fiddle: Byron Berline Keyboards: Spooner Oldham Added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ She Don't Care About Time ~ Gene Clark

Explored! Thank you very much :-) SATURDAY SELF-CHALLENGE 11 MAY 2019 MUSIC This started life as a photo of a Trisha Yearwood cd and then I completely lost the plot :-) Although somewhere along the line I did use a mirror effect filter :-) And, for 'Sight and Sound' one of my fave MUSIC tracks is "Something's Wrong" by Doug Dillard & Gene Clark. Added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Something's Wrong ~ Dillard & Clark

Explored! Thank you very much :-) It's not often that I get the chance to try some panning shots when sheep seem to be having a race :-)) I was also thinking about my next 'Sight and Sound' upload.......and, for some inexplicable reason, the track "Home Run King" came to mind :-)) This real fun song was written by Gene Clark and featured on Gene's "Two Sides To Every Story" album from 1977. Love the backing musicians on this track. Especially Jerry McGee on lead guitar, Doug Dillard on banjo, Al Perkins on Pedal Steel Guitar and Emmylou Harris on vocals :-) And, for Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Home Run King ~ Gene Clark

Explored! Thank you very much :-) SATURDAY SELF-CHALLENGE 16 MARCH 2019 SIGNS OF SPRING Didn't get out with my camera this week 'cos the weather has been very hit & miss! However, on Monday I was at the Dentist for some unexpected treatment. I was feeling a bit 'bashed about' after lots of drilling and before going back to the car I decided upon a quiet walk in the grounds of a nearby church. I did have my phone with me when I spotted this 'Sign of Spring' :-) And, for 'Sight and Sound' I have chosen "Almost Saturday Night" written by John Fogerty and performed by Gene Clark and Carla Olson. This is because it will soon be 'Saturday Night' here in Aylesbury :-) Added to Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Listen here ~ Almost Saturday Night ~ Gene Clark & Carla Olson

Explored! Thank you very much :-) One from the archives where I got a bit carried away with filters :-)) The track that comes to mind is "Train Leaves Here This Morning". It was written by Gene Clark and Bernie Leadon. It was recorded by The Eagles and featured on their debut album from 1972. Anything by The Eagles is my fave but the version by Dillard and Clark from their 1968 album "The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark" is my absolute fave version :-) Also, the photo (shown in the video) on the cover of the vinyl copy of the album is one of my all time fave photos :-) I still have the vinyl album :-) Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Train Leaves Here This Morning ~ Dillard & Clark Rest in Peace, Gene & Doug.

Explored! Thank you very much :-) HAPPY FENCE FRIDAY, ALL :-) I am also adding my photo to 'Sight and Sound'. The narrowboat on the right hand side of my photo is named "Echoes". This, of course, makes it very easy to have a musical link to "Echoes" by Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers :-) Another of my all-time faves :-) This track is from the 1967 album "Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers". Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Echoes ~ Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers Extract from Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Clark_with_the_Gosdin_Brothers "Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers is the debut solo album of Gene Clark, released in February 1967 on Columbia Records, catalogue CS 9418. It was his first effort after his departure from folk-rock group the Byrds in 1966. Though the album was a critical success and it established Clark as a talented singer-songwriter, it appeared very close to the scheduled release date for the Byrds' album Younger Than Yesterday in both the United States and the United Kingdom, hampering its possibilities for commercial success. The musicians on the album include: former bandmates Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke; Wrecking Crew session musicians Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole, Jim Gordon, and Leon Russell; future Byrd Clarence White; and Clark's future collaborator Doug Dillard. The folk/country vocal duo the Gosdin Brothers added backing vocals, and subsequently received co-billing." Indigo Mariana uploaded the music/video and Indigo is working really, really hard to get Gene Clark inducted into The Songwriters Hall of Fame. If you wish to sign the petition just let me know and I will provide details. Thank you :-)

Explored! Thank you very much :-) This is kinda on the side of the Waddesdon Manor roof. So, "Out On The Side" by Dillard & Clark comes to mind :-) This track comes from their 1968 album "The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark". One of my all-time fave albums :-) Doug Dillard was one of the founding members of The Dillards and Gene Clark was one of the founding members of The Byrds. Extract from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Expedition_of_Dillard_%26_Clark - Music critic Matthew Greenwald, writing for Allmusic, called the album "perhaps [Clark's] most brilliant recording... Graceful, spellbinding, and tasteful all at the same time. Absolutely essential." But, we musn't forget Doug Dillard, Bernie Leadon, David Jackson, Donald Beck, Andy Belling, Chris Hillman & Joel Larson. Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ "Out On The Side" ~ Dillard & Clark Possibly view on black, please :-)

Explored! Thank you very much :-) If you look closely there is a fence in the background here, honest :-) HAPPY FENCE FRIDAY, ALL :-) And, I have previously said I will find any excuse to use a Gene Clark track in 'Sight and Sound' :-) Also, Karen has previously encouraged me to use pretzel logic :-) So, here goes - If you take some of the letters out of the surnames Clark and Olson you get - CLAROLS Re-arranging these letters gives 'COLLARS'. There are quite a few 'collars' in my photo :-) Gene Clark and Carla Olson recorded the album "So Rebellious A Lover" back in 1987. I have chosen "Del Gato" from this album :-) Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Del Gato ~ Gene Clark & Carla Olson

If this is an original ceiling in the Examination Schools in Oxford it dates from 1882. On this basis the lights are some 130 years more recent :-) The lights are circular and there are circles in the ceiling. So, that makes it easy for me to link my photo to "Full Circle" by Gene Clark from his 1973 album "Roadmaster" :-) Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Full Circle ~ Gene Clark Also, until just t'other day, I didn't know that Dan Fogelberg recorded Gene's song :-) ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Full Circle ~ Dan Fogelberg Funny how the circle turns around First your up and then your down again Though the circle takes what it may give Each time around it makes you live again Funny how the circle is a wheel And it can steal someone who is a friend Funny how the circle takes your flight And if it's it right it brings it back again Funny how the circle turns around You think your lost and then you're found again Though you always look for what you know Each time around it's something new again

Explored! Thank you very much :-) If I can find a tenuous link, any tenuous link, to use with a Gene Clark track I will :-))) So, when Helen and I were in Stowe Landscape Gardens on 6 November I thought I would 'try so hard' not to take another photo of the Palladian Bridge and the Gothic Temple. But, temptation got the better of me and I can now link my photo to "Tried So Hard" written by Gene Clark. It features on the 1967 album "Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers". The lead guitar player on this track is the late, great Clarence White. Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Tried So Hard ~ Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers I would fully recommend the 2013 'Four Suns Productions' feature length documentary, 'The Byrd Who Flew Alone' exploring the life and work of Gene Clark. In my opinion it is absolutely the best ever music documentary.

Explored! Thank you very much :-) I think the data shows that this photo was taken in the afternoon whereas I thought it was taken in the morning. But, no matter, for the purposes of 'Sight and Sound' we'll have to imagine it was taken in the morning :-) And, because there is some mistiness in the background this will then allow me to link my photo to "In A Misty Morning" by Gene Clark :-) One of my many all-time faves by Gene :-) Added to ~ Sight and Sound : Pictures & Music ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ In A Misty Morning ~ Gene Clark To quote one of the YouTube comments - "RIP Gene Clark, Never Forgotten"

This is a Wind-Catcher. I previously used a shot of part of this structure. For an explanation of its purpose please see following ~ www.ipernity.com/doc/292367/41450056 I am linking my shot to "Hear The Wind" by Gene Clark. 25 years ago (May 24, 1991) we, tragically, lost Gene. He was only 46 years old. Gene was buried at Saint Andrews Cemetery in his birthplace of Tipton. His headstone is simply inscribed "Harold Eugene Clark – No Other". Added to ~ Sight and Sound ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Hear The Wind ~ Gene Clark There is currently a Petition to Induct Gene Clark into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. "During Gene's time with The Byrds he penned many of their most beloved and influential works including “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” “Set You Free This Time” “Here Without You” “She Don’t Care About Time” and was the main composer of “Eight Miles High” considered by many to be among the greatest singles of the 1960s." Rest in Peace, Gene.

I have been in hospital for an operation but am now back home :-) I have to take things very steady so it is going to be some while before I catch-up here on ipernity.. So, please bear with me. This is Lord Cobham's Monument in Stowe Landscape Gardens. It rises to some 32 metres. Off to the left of the monument there is a splodge of colour!! I didn't add this :-) It is actually a hang-glider.....honest :-) So, here comes a tenuous link for 'Sight and Sound' :-) One of Gene Clark's double albums is entitled "Flying High" and the intrepid person was surely 'flying high' :-) One of my fave tracks on the album is "Set You Free This Time" and I guess you could say the guy or gal has been 'set free' :-) Added to ~ Sight and Sound ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Set You Free This Time ~ Gene Clark To repeat one of the YouTube comments ~ "I can't believe anyone could have written so many beautiful, perfect songs and not be known to everyone. Love to Gene".

Explored! ~ Thank you very much :-))) "Take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind Past the foggy ruins of time, far past the twisted leaves Of the haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow I wanna dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands With all memory of fate driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow." I think there are enough references to frightened trees :-) the beach, the sea, the sands, the waves to use my Studland Beach photo. The arrangement of this 1984 piano based version came to Gene when he was in Hawaii recuperating from exhaustion. It is the final track on the double album “Gene Clark ~ Flying High”. Apparently, harmony vocals were by Chris Hillman and Chris was also playing bass. Of course I have original versions by Bob Dylan and by The Byrds. They are forever all-time classics. But, in my humble opinion there will never ever be anything better that Gene's version. Some of the YouTube comments say it a lot better than me - “This is the strongest version ever recorded, to be honest... Gene Clark - No Other” “Just discovered the high priceless diamond ever found! Simply haunting!!!!!!!” “I love the tempo, the harmonies, and Gene's voice, oh my goodness. Beautiful. So glad he decided to sing the extra verses” “This is simply an awesome version. The hauntingly plaintiff quality of his voice is just perfect for this song. Talk about goose-bumps” Added to ~ Sight and Sound ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Mr Tambourine Man" ~ Gene Clark

I figure that finding another road where you've never been and singing that two-wheeled symphony allows me to link my motorcycle photo to “Gypsy Rider” by Gene Clark and Carla Olsen :-) "Crank her over once again Put your face into the wind Find another road where you're never been. Sing that two-wheeled melody The highway symphony You know she'll never understand." This track comes from the 1986 album “So Rebellious a Lover"........another of my all-time faves :-) Added to ~ Soundtrack to Life Listen here ~ Gypsy Rider ~ Gene Clark & Carla Olsen

~ Explored! ~ Thank you very much :-))) Have been stressed and totally side-tracked by a serious water leak at our house. Contractors have been here for last two days and, hopefully, have now fixed the leak after digging up the driveway and the garden!! I am now desperate to catch-up here on ipernity and it looks like it is goin' to take me quite a while :-) This shot was taken thru' a music shop window in Oxford and I think it links pretty well to the the classic "Strength of Strings" by Gene Clark but here performed by 'The Gene Clark No Other Band'. Added to ~ Soundtrack to Life Listen here ~ Strength of Strings ~ The Gene Clark No Other Band

An easy link today methinks :-) “Train Leaves Here This Morning” written by Gene Clark and Bernie Leadon comes from the legendary album “The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark”. Gene passed away May 24, 1991 at only 46 years old Doug passed away May 16, 2012 at 75 years old RIP Gene & Doug From Wikipedia - “The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark is a country rock album by Dillard & Clark. The album was recorded in 1968, shortly after Gene Clark departed The Byrds for the second time, and Doug Dillard left The Dillards. The album is hailed by critics and musicians as a masterpiece of the country rock genre.” Added to ~ Soundtrack to Life Listen here - Train Leaves Here This Morning ~ Dillard and Clark