(Scott Johnson) Chris Hillman was a teenage bluegrass star on the Los Angeles music scene in the early '60s. Within a few years he had moved from mandolin to bass and become one of the founding members of the Byrds together with Roger (then Jim) McGuinn, David Crosby and Gene Clark. The Byrds brought McGuinn's jangly 12-string guitar and their brilliant Beatles harmonies to the music of Bob Dylan, turning both themselves
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