I should have guessed that about you, Mick--I have to say that I'm in the same place--

One of my recent favorite CD's is Sweetheart of the Rodeo(which I listened to to death when it came out, some thirty five years ago), with bonus tracks that include Gram Parsons as the lead vocal--as you probably know, due to contractual conflicts, the Sweetheart Album featured Roger singing lead, though most of the songs were recorded with Gram as the lead--Roger imitated Gram's voice so well that even listening to them back to back, you can get confused--

Musically, the Byrds had more to do with what bands sound like today than just about anybody else--if you listen to the college "alternative" stations, a lot of the LoFi bands build their sound just the way the Byrds did--

Roger recorded with synthesizers first--and he dicovered Tom Petty--