Harvey Gerst

Harvey Gerst had a peripheral part in the Byrds’ profession like a co-writer of two of their early tunes. In 1964 the music group, still referred to as the Aircraft Set, documented a track he published with Jim (afterwards Roger) McGuinn and Gene Clark, “Make sure you Let Me Like You,” and one he had written with McGuinn just, “AVOID BEING Long.” These early but likable folk-rock music were issued being a flop one by Elektra, which transformed their name towards the Beefeaters for the reasons of this 45 just. Gerst most likely generated some unforeseen royalties, nevertheless, when the music group revived “AVOID BEING Long,” retitled it “IT WILL NOT Be Incorrect,” provided it a far more electrical and forceful folk-rock treatment, and wear it the next Byrds album, Switch! Turn! Turn! It had been also a little hit one in early 1966. Gerst was a pal of McGuinn’s who understood him through the Troubadour, the membership at which the near future Byrds fulfilled one another and crystallized their eyesight. He later became a member of the 13-piece folk group the Males, and experienced an ancillary part in the profession from the eclectic late-sixties Southern Californian rock and roll group Sweetwater, with whom he was included as guitarist and street supervisor, although he wasn’t the official member.