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The Flying Burrito Brothers were an early Country Rock band, best known for their massively influential debut album, 1969 's '' The Gilded Palace Of Sin ''. Although the group is most often thought of in connection with country-rock legend Gram Parsons , in fact it endured myriad personnel changes over many years. Ironically, the band best known as the "Flying Burrito Brothers" actually 'borrowed' their name from the original "Flying Burrito Brothers", composed of bassist Ian Dunlop and drummer Mickey Gauvin , bandmates of Parsons from the Boston-based International Submarine Band , plus any of a loose coalition of musicians, including Parsons himself from time to time. In a deliberate choice of focusing on just creating and playing music without the distractions of the Music Industry , in 1968 the original Brothers moved from Los Angeles to New York City . From this base they continued to tour the Northeast playing their eclectic traditional/rockabilly/blues/R&B-oriented version of rock, using the name "The Flying Burrito Brothers East" after Parsons' group became famous. ]] Meanwhile, on the West Coast , Parsons and guitarist/mandolinist/bassist/vocalist Chris Hillman thought this same moniker would be perfectly suited to the band they had been dreaming of since early 1968 , when, as members of Roger McGuinn 's band The Byrds , they created one of the first country-oriented rock albums, '' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo ''. They immersed themselves in their vision in their house in the San Fernando Valley , dubbed "Burrito Manor", even replacing their wardrobe with a set of custom country-Western suits from tailor to the C&W stars, Nudie's Rodeo Tailors (Parsons's had Marijuana leaf embroidery) and began a period of intensely fruitful creativity. At this juncture, the band also included pianist/bassist Chris Ethridge and pedal steel guitarist Pete Kleinow . Their first album ''The Gilded Palace of Sin'' ( European tour, and then began a solo career before forming Firefall with Michael Clarke. As Gram Parsons's influence and fame grew, so did interest in the Flying Burrito Brothers, leading to the release of '' Honky Tonks '' ( 1974 ), a double album, and the recreation of the band by Kleinow and Ethridge in 1975 . Floyd "Gib" Gilbeau , Joel Scott Hill and Gene Parsons (no relation to Gram) also joined, and the band released '' Flying Again '' that year. Ethridge was then replaced by Skip Battin for ''Airborne'' ( 1976 ), followed by an album of unreleased early material, '' Sleepless Nights ''. For the next few decades, the group released albums and toured and had a country hit with "White Line Fever" ( 1980 , a cover by Merle Haggard ) and then became the Burrito Brothers. Through numerous incarnations (including Brian Cadd for a time), the band released albums and toured throughout the 1980s and 90s . Gram Parsons died on September 19 , 1973 . DISCOGRAPHY
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