Starting in January, members from Beach House, Grizzly Bear, the Walkmen and Fleet Foxes are going to team up for a tour honoring The Byrds' Gene Clark. They will cover Clark's album No Other at four different shows.
The musicians will start their cover tour in Philadelphia on Jan. 22, then head to Baltimore on Jan. 23, Washington D.C. on Jan. 24 and Brooklyn on Jan 25. As Rolling Stone reported: "Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand of Beach House have tapped Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, Hamilton Leithauser of the Walkmen, Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Iain Matthews of Plainsong and Fairport Convention as part of a band and chorus to re-create the ex-Byrds member's "lost classic" note-for-note onstage."
Tickets for the shows are available on the Beach House website. At each show, audience members will get to view a special edited version of the documentary The Byrd Who Flew Alone: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Gene Clark.
Back in 1964, Clark was a founding member of the Byrds and wrote a lot of the songs that made the group famous, including "Eight Miles High" and "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better." Clark was a part of the band on and off the following years until 1973. During that time he put together solo albums from 1967 to 1977, and then he joined back up with bandmates Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman in the late Seventies.
Clark struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout his career, suffering from ulcers and eventually needed surgery. But after his long challenge with drinking and his health issues, he died at age 46 in 1991 from "natural causes."
The musicians slotted for this tour in his honor will pay tribute to the songwriter and the contribution he had in the music industry.
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