Signal said:

BTW, I think I remember reading once that for some business or personal

reasons, The Byrds couldn't make it to the recording studio, so most of

the people on that song are studio musicians, including Larry Knechtel
(later of Bread) and Leon Russell. The following confirms this:


http://ebni.com/byrds/lpmtm.ht=ADml


http://ebni.com/byrds/relassoc=ADiates16.html


Don't know about the rest of the musicians from the Byrds, but McGuinn
played on all of their stuff AFAIK. I base this on an interview I saw
the band do on TV. It seems in those days virtually all rock bands had
studio musicians playing for them as a matter of record label policy.
McGuinn, on the other hand, was irreplaceable, and they could find
nobody who could cover his playing.