Roger showed so much class...a real nice person....I was so impressed by the way he did the interview....

Roger is a gentleman!

Country doesn't deserve Roger McGuinn's music.

I loved how Roger just kept on smiling as Ralph made himself out to be the aggrieved party around the 6:30 mark. I think time was going by verrrry slowly for everyone on that sofa.

I've seen a couple of odd interviews with Roger, this being one of them, in which he exercised a lot of restraint.

Though polite, you can see the contempt in McGuinn's eyes. Ralph Emery defined condescending.

Roger showed a lot of class there, Emmery deserved a long overdue punch in the face.

Roger he is my favourite person He my guitar player

Thanks Roger,miss ya Gram.

Otis Gibbs' story got me here.

Glad you all enjoyed it.

Ralph showed his true colors that day.

Rogers all class

Wow a side of Roger we normally do often see......A really cool clip!!!

The country music establishment at the time couldn't acknowledge the fact that Parsons and McGuinn could make a great country album. Same with Bod Dylan and his Nashville Skyline LP some years later.

Great exchange between Ralph Emory and Roger. I am aware of their history

Great interview. Nice to see those two talk about the elephant in the room and come together.

Wow what an awkward interview. God bless Roger McGuinn he truly is a gentleman and holds his own against an antagonist bitter old man.

Emery is the DJ in "Drug Store Truck Driving Man"

I wish Roger would have said, “We brought you the fucking record, jackass”.

"I didn't have any Byrds records," is such B.S. They brought him the record. That was the whole point in them visiting.

Having now listened to the interview, it seems like the song (DSTDM) nailed him pretty accurately.

Hilariously awkward. Roger is the man

It appears Roger and Ralph are good sports about the old 'country vs. rock' and roll' thing. The excellent 'Byrds Under Review' documentary has some revealing anecdotes about The Byrds at CBS studios in Nashville around 1968 too.

Ecclisiastes, 3rd chapter: vs's 1-8. Pete Seeger added the Title, "Turn, Turn, Turn, and made some word shifts, but other than that, it's the Word of God alright!! Been learning this song since I was around 19, still ain't got it right at 68! God bless ya Roger. bg

"He is a drugstore truck driving man, he's the head of the Ku Klux Klan," -Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn.

"For the Times They are a Changin"

The Byrds with Gram Parson wrote some good country songs like Hickory Wind and I can see the hurt and disappointment in Mcguinn’s eyes!

Ralph..always condescending, trying to dominate and more than a bit of a prick as most narcissists are, tried to pay the victim and never admitted he was a jerk. He could have been humble and acknowledged how great and admired Sweetheart is and how wrong he was...but his ego wouldn't let him. This one's for you, Ralph.

I can't believe Roger went on that dirt bags show. 17 years later that Klansman still didn't do his homework.

This one's for you, Ralph..... ha ha

Shame there's no recording of the 1968 interview.

One nice thing about the Internet is that great musicians like Roger McGuinn and Gram Parsons (and Chris Hillman, the Byrds' bassist at that time) don't have to go crawling to short-sighted self-appointed "tastemakers" like Ralph Emery anymore to get their records heard. Interesting to note that Emery was still the same jerk in 1985 as he had been in 1968. Some things never change. Thanks for sharing this.

Tightly closed Country minded Nashville is a too tough shell of a nut to crack for a Rock outsider, possibly with the exception of the Allman Brothers; Duane having been a Muscle Shoals' session player. Original voice of the Byrds', Gene Clark easily transitioned to Country; owing to his genuinely poetic gift of feeling and writing from and for the soul, key to winning over the beatin' heart of Nashville, if not being beaten off the Country road to success and out of the Grand Ole Opry for no other reason than snobbish exclusivity.

Hey I had John York talking about this experience on a video. Thanks for posting the "Roger" side of the same conversation. Cool history on the Byrds....YOU ROCK!

that was an awesome video - never caught that one originally

This interview is pretty tame as far as beef goes. Not sure why everyone is all hot n bothered

I hope and am sure that roger Mcguinn and the "byrds" make millions. I just hope I am not related. I am irish and always believed from my dad we were cousins! Good look! Nora Mcgwynne galway/louth

ralph checking to see roger knew if turn turn turn was from the bible..asking him the verse!!..ralph was a condescending prick ; rock "costumes" ..things didnt cross over in 1968 because of people like ralph emery..to him it was the hair, the lifestyles etc..it should have been about the music..i wonder if he listened to byrds sweetheart of the rodeo album before his 1968 interview....writers below are correct, roger now a christian,,is a class act

It’s all The sound of roger

Ralph is the Drug Store Truck Driving Man

Well-handled.

Ah, the mighty Rickenbacker.

Roger gran músico!!!?

This is new to me. So, Vern has recorded with Chris Hillman (Scotsville Squirrel Barkers / Hillmen), and Gene Clark (GC with the Gosdin Brothers which included Mike Clarke). Has he ever recorded with David Crosby, to complete his Byrds association?

Interesting: Roger's Rick has Hi Gain pickups on it, instead of the old chrome bar/toaster top pickups that Rickenbacker prior to the 70's. I guess he must have swapped them out at some point, as I'm sure I've seen photos and video footage where he's got toaster top pickups in there.

Loved this...love Roger! Obviously Emery didnt know anything about country music...the Byrds covered the Louvin Brothers on Sweetheart of the Rodeo??

I asked Roger about his uncomfortable interview with Ralph.He had no idea T

Roger sure resembles the actor James Cromwell.

you know the clips at the Opry still exist somewhere - there are a lot of other clips (in color - no less) from 1968 Opry episodes.....has anybody ever asked? - recently?

Gram said he was a prick. Looks like he was right.

I think this was a good interview, Ralph is being truthful, it was a different time, everyone is grown up and matured now. I don't know why everyone is so negative here

Nice hairpiece Vern

Looks like Brenda Lee is headed to small-town prom after the show.

I saw Roger on his tour in 2011 in Kewaskum, WI. During the concert, he told us all about the 1968 interview with this guy before singing the song written in response. So I don't get your post.

Considering how much The Byrds were treated like utter shit by the country music scene in Nashville back in 1968 when the group was recording Sweetheart of the Rodeo there, I am surprised that McGuinn elected to appear on this show. Maybe it was for vengeance because he made Emmery look and sound like utter shit here lol.

I forgot about this re-make, nice, but sort of pointless. And yes, Emery was an insufferable jerk. This was actually a great time for him to deliver a heartfelt apology. Clueless about the connections between genres.

what had happened was that years earlier Emery had slammed the Byrds and Sweetheart of the Rodeo,publicly. Very rude and shortsighted.

Luckily for Ralph, Roger had been born-again by then, so he wasn't going to deliver the literal or figurative punch in the mouth that Emery was asking for.

Nice! The chubby guy on acoustic guitar in the back center is Ricky Scaggs!

sounds alot like damage control for Ralph Emory

Man, is there any bigger a-hole in the world than Ralph Emery? I love that Roger discussed Drug Store Truck Driving Man with him. Although to his credit, Ralph wasn’t nearly as much of a bastard here.

I think the interview was very respectful.

I saw Rodger singing on the 700 Club once, a Christian show with Pat Robertson. I am guessing he grew up as a Christian and is familiar with The Bible.

And look what happened to "Country" music. 🙄 Remember when MTV had long hair and CMT had shaved heads, and then CMT had long hair and MTV had shaved heads? 🤠

Is that host drunk or something????

lol, vern gosdin got ignored!

Where is the Still Dead Ralph

You can redo a great.

This is a terrible interview. Ralph Emery sounds like a crotchety old man.

I am not a big fan of leftist rock n rollers but, McGuinn shows once again that he is a class act. I tip my hat to Roger McGuinn.

Ralph is lying through his teeth.

I like the Byrds version much better.

Roger? the guys name is jim.. did he change his name? he needs those square glasses

This is one of the saddest things I've seen in a long time. To see the legendary Roger McGuinn sing high harmony to this hillbilly. Check out the Byrds' videos from the 60s and skip this musak.

Turn turn turn that is the Byrd’s

Emery was very arrogant! Roger showed a lot of class! If Emery going to bring him on and be condescending he would’ve been better off not to bring him on at all

The thing that jumps out is "Why give up/ ruin the solo by handing it off to the seated guy?" That makes absolutely no sense because his tone is terrible (an old Sears Silvertone is what it sounds like - and that's giving Silvertones a bad name) and whether he's in tune is an open question. The song was going great and then.... splat!! Everyone else sounds good, but the seated guy needs to do 4 things- new guitar, new amp, appropriate tone, plenty lessons re: the preceding.

It's easy to blame the conservative Nashville establishment for that whole 68 fiasco, but the truth is Gram was the one that screwed that one up. Roger is a gentleman about it, and wouldn't want to talk about a man that has passed away. Tompall Glaser went out on a limb to help get them on the Opry and the Opry tried to set up the performance for it to be successful. It was agreed that they would do a Haggard song that the audience was familiar with with the expectation that this would win over a skeptical middle aged country crowd. Then once that was accomplished do one of theirs. Everything was set and it was a good plan that might well have worked, remember this was 1968. Glaser introduces them telling the crowd the song they were going to do and the Opry band was ready to accompany them. Gram, without telling any of the other Byrds, (Gram wasn't even a full member, but a hired hand) steps to the mike and says, they weren't going to do that, and instead would do Hickory Wind. The Opry band doesn't even know the song, the show schedule (remember this is a live radio show) is thrown off, and Glaser is made to look the fool. Privately you might imagine that Hillman, McGuinn and the other band members were pissed as well, but what do you do at that point? Imagine if things had gone as planned and they won over the crowd. I expect the Emory interview would have gone better (if it was after the Opry show? I'm not sure about that.) But even if it hadn't, the gains made by a youth oriented Folk-Rock band in gaining acceptance could have had a profound affect. Instead we have to wait a few more years for the NGDB to come to town and win over a reluctant and once burned Nashville by helping to revive the careers of important but more or less shunned more traditional artists. Make no mistake, I really enjoy Gram's work with the Byrds, FBB and solo but he was his own worse enemy and he took other down with the ship on more that one occasion. And yes, Emory could be a real jerk.

6 guys playing guitar shaped instruments...didn`t sound like it....don1`t know why the byrds wanted to play country music in 1968...always thought they were one of the best musical bands.

Why is this country guy singing on Rodger's song at all on this??

The host is really drunked. Or he smoked something very strong.

They sure hicked that song up.

Zeer zwakke uitvoering van het origineel, kan er niet aan tippen!

Yikes! I think that Brenda Lee's dress and hair style was outdated by 1985!

I don't understand how Ralph Emory was able to make a living doing this. He was awful.

Why rerecord this. It all pales next to the Byrd's. Waste of tape

Not a great performance

Absolutely terrible. This ain't no hick song its a folk rock song and Vern Gosdin really screwed it up.