wrote:
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,

To clarify my previous comment above, I'm pretty positive that McGuinn
did play on that song.

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

BTW, part of the reason people like Leon Russell (the top US touring
act in 1973) became popular was that more people became aware of all
the great recordings they'd already made as studio musicians and got
interested in these musicians. A lot of solo acts who became popular in
the late '60's/early '70's had already been successful behind the
scenes, but had received little or no public fame. Examples would
include Russell, Carole King, Glen Campbell, etc.

In several cases in rock music, I've read of studio musicians being
used when band members were unavailable, touring, etc.