Tambourine Man: The Story of the Byrds' Gene Clark that he was sober throughout the Mendocino years and was disinclined to experiment for the sake of his children. Contrary to rumors that many of the album's songs were conceived under the influence of mescaline and other drugs, Clark's wife Carlie stated in Mr. Retreating to his coastal home in Mendocino, Clark began to compose songs for his new album for over a year. Gene Clark, on the gestation of No Other. In most instances, after a day of meditation looking at something which is a very natural force, I'd come up with something." I would have a pen and paper there, and a guitar or piano, and pretty soon a thought would come and I'd write it down or put it on tape. I would just sit in the living room, which had a huge bay window, and stare at the ocean for hours at a time. "The whole album was written when I had a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Northern California. They were getting signals from it that they said were about 100 years ahead of our technology". They said they couldn't figure out where it came from. Of the song's composition, Clark said in a 1976 interview: "It actually came about from a news story that was about some satellite, or something, they had discovered. session player Danny Kortchmar on No Other. During an engagement at The Troubadour in Los Angeles with McGuinn, he introduced a song that would remain in his repertoire for the rest of his career, "Silver Raven" it would be recorded in an arrangement featuring longtime Clark collaborator Jesse Ed Davis and L.A. While preparing to record, Clark briefly joined the backing group of former Byrds colleague Roger McGuinn the two even shared a home together during the period in the Hollywood Hills. By the strength of his contributions to the album, Clark was signed to Asylum as a solo artist by David Geffen. Although nominally organized and produced by David Crosby, the resulting album evolved into an inadvertent showcase for Clark, who sang lead on two Neil Young covers and two original songs. In late 1972, Clark was invited to join a reunion of the original Byrds line-up on Asylum Records. Then in the early 2000s, No Other was reissued a second time in its entirety to positive critical reappraisal publications have referred to it as "a lost masterpiece" and "one of the greatest albums ever made." A highly praised, newly remastered reissue campaign by 4AD was launched on November 8, 2019, with the album reissued as a standard CD, vinyl LP, deluxe double-CD set, and an expansive super deluxe box set with three SACDs, one Blu-ray disc, a silver-colored LP, and commemorative 80-page book. In 1993, an Australian CD compilation entitled American Dreamer 1964–1974 included two songs from No Other, while in 1998, a double disc compilation, Flying High, was released with three songs from No Other. ![]() ![]() Just prior to Clark's death in 1991, No Other was reissued in its entirety on CD. Clark never recovered from the failure of the album. ![]() The record label, Asylum Records, did not promote the album, and by 1976 had deleted it from their catalog. Released in September 1974, it was largely ignored or lambasted by critics and was a commercial failure the studio time and cost were seen as excessive and indulgent. No Other is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Gene Clark.
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