Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuireis an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of contemporary Christian music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 October 1937
CityOklahoma City, OK
CountryUnited States of America
green statements
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
considered gave saying second time
I never gave it a second thought. In fact, you saying it right now is the first time I've ever considered it. No, not at all. Not for me.
gonna matter report
There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
best bit discovered hear left listen track
If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
fred might seemed
I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.
four
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
buddies crying sung worked
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
concerts cutting generate money next united
I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
bunch calculate guys
I've never been much of a musician. I'm kind of like, you've got a bunch of guys out on surfboards. Well, some guys really calculate the waves.
answer everybody personal
For me, it was a whole search. There was an undercurrent. And this is only my personal perspective. I can't say everybody would answer the same way.
fred great hang neil recording sit
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
christy clark david gene roger together
Gene Clark was in the Christy Minstrels. He left. And so when Gene and David and Roger got together with Chris, and then off they went.
booked heard hired musicians
He was an entrepreneur. He was the one who hired the musicians and booked the sessions and he had the ear. He heard the Mamas and Papas and said yes, immediately, yes! And so he did have, I guess, that producer's gift.
song travel monsters
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.