Nope, that's a common misconception. The Wrecking Crew played most of the instruments during the January 20, 1965, session for "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's No Use", but after that the Byrds took over.

Not at all = pure Byrds.

That’s awesome, Dave. Are you sure it wasn’t 1967? I have not found any contemporary newspapers which mention them playing the Yale Bowl in 1968, but I see they played there on August 5, 1967, with Simon & Garfunkel. That would have been just over a month after Jerry Yester replaced Zal.

@@JumpStartation It's entirely possible . I know Yester had JUST replaced Zal, and I think JB even made a short mention of it at the beginning of the concert. I was a young teen camper at a sleep away camp perhaps 30 mins away from New Haven and I saw several big acts at Yale Bowl when I went to the camp (I was there from 1963-1972 first as a camper and later a counselor and group leader) I saw Chicago, Peter, Paul & Mary, a DOUBLE Bill of Gary Puckett & the Union Gap AND The Association! (still the best concert ever ) and yes, Simon and Garfunkel, BUT My gut tells me that S&G were a totally separate act at that point because they were so big ( I think "The Graduate" had just come out. I KNOW "Sgt. Peppers" had been released because Paul Simon was joking to the crowd at one point and played the beginning of "Sgt. Peppers" and the crowd laughed. I had a counselor (later to become a newspaper reporter in CT who wrote about his awful summer with us - well, his fellow counselor ) who, when I was 13, (1966) played the Lovin Spoonful. I think it was the first time I ever heard them. We were lucky enough to have an AM radio in our bunk so the (AM) hits just kept coming! That Summer I think I really got hooked on AM Music forever (and of course later FM, mainly early 70s). Ended up writing a whole bunch of songs which I recorded in New Caanan in1978 I think and sent around to various publishers in NYC but no bytes. Se la Vie. But in 1966 I'd never heard the Spoonful before. I think their hit that Summer was (appropriately) "Summer in the City" which this one counselor played non-stop. But I think while we were slated to see them, the camp owner suddenly announced that he had cancelled for whatever reason which was never explained, or perhaps explained to murmured "Boos!" Oh, and here's one bit of expo facto personal nostalgia I just recalled - - I never met the camper myself, but this is that the camp drew it's campers mainly from CT/NY as well as MA and RI. And I think it was the following year, (?) someone told me there was a camper who had attended with the last name of "Yanowsky" NOT a very common name and we always speculated whether this camper was actually related to Zal or not. s ADDENUM: Met someone else many years later as a fellow counselor who said that his cousin in England ended up playing for Bowie. Another benefit of being at a large camp for two months, you become friendly with and meet tons of people. This counselor was a rather quiet, non-bragging type and he mentioned it only in passing. Said that his cousin, (whoever he was) wasn't Bowie's first choice and that Bowie liked his playing, but didn't initially use him in his recordings until he apparently did some session work for other musicians who Bowie respected, and then only afterwards did Bowie begin to work with him. I also was in Boston from '1971-1973 and was fortunate to see a lot of top notch acts who came through town back then. In hindsight, I wish I'd taken advantage of my location and seen even more, but was fortunate to see all the groups I did see. Was sad to see and read about John Sebastian's voice issues. But felt lucky to have seen him and the LS at the height of their musicality and popularity. Best Regards, DJ

Great picks. I just uploaded "Eight Miles High".