Dylan’s voice divides listeners. Some find it ‘mesmeric’ and others have likened it to that of ‘a dog with his leg caught in ...

The funny thing is that Geffen and our A&R man Tom Zutaut had heard us play our Dylan ala Byrds covers at our shows and pushed us to record them. Of course they came out flat and slick.

While Bob Dylan was known in the national folk scene, mostly for his protest songs, The Byrds were the ones who soared to the top of the charts with their cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man".

Then you got booted out of The Byrds. What were The Byrds working on at that point? The one where they put a horse’s ass on the cover in place of me! I don’t know what they meant! Moi?