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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:46 pm |
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Do you think of him as "Jim" or "Roger"?
(This could also be considered a poll about whether you prefer McGuinn's earlier or later work.)
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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:52 pm |
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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:02 pm |
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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:18 pm |
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I voted Jim, although I like all his work.
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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:33 pm |
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Interesting, I unconsciously think of him as Roger, and I prefer the Jim Byrds to the Roger Byrds, ha...
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When he originally started with The Byrds, he used the name Jim, which he thought to be too plain. During 1965 McGuinn briefly explored the Subud spiritual association and began to practice the latihan, an exercise in quieting the mind. McGuinn changed his name in 1967 after Subud's founder Bapak told him it would better "vibrate with the universe." Bapak sent Jim the letter "R" and asked him to send back ten names starting with that letter. Owing to a fascination with airplanes, gadgets and science fiction, he sent names like "Rocket", "Retro", "Ramjet", and "Roger", the latter a term used in signalling protocol over two-way radios, military and civil aviation. Roger was the only "real" name in the bunch and Bapak chose it. While using the name Roger professionally from that time on, McGuinn only officially changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger. McGuinn left the Subud spiritual association in 1977, the same year that he met his wife Camilla (they married the next year). Both have become committed Christians since that time.
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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:46 pm |
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Quote: When he originally started with The Byrds, he used the name Jim, which he thought to be too plain. What a jerk.
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Post subject: McGuinn Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:03 pm |
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Used to be Roger, now I think of him as Jim, mostly.
Probably thanks to the dialogue between Kimmy Robertson & Stan Ridgeway on "Car Phone" where she says "His name is Jim McGuinn and he's back from Rio."
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