The track is influenced by figures such as Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane musically, an in turn, was an important point of reference for upcoming psychedelic rock, raga rock, and psychedelic pop material. The album is titled after their cover of The Byrds Eight Miles. The song seemed to come out of nowhere, as equally magical as Mr. The Byrds released their single, Eight Miles High, which became one of their most famous cuts. Eight Miles High was originally released in 1969 by the Dutch rock band The Golden Earring. “This band is not uptight behind that song at all, having been through similar experiences.” - S.V.L. Without a doubt, the jangling single Eight Miles High was as influential to the counterculture movement of the 60’s as was White Rabbit by The Jefferson Airplane, both amazing anthems that rose out of rather softer folk-rock albums. (Jefferson Airplane, always game for a provocative gesture, went on to cover it the Byrds’ original studio recording of “Triad” wouldn’t be released til years later as a bonus track.) “At least one group of people was very uptight by that song,” Crosby told Rolling Stone’s Ben Fong-Torres in 1970, after he’d landed happily in CSN. EIGHT MILES HIGH b/w WHY - THE RARE RCA STUDIOS VERSIONS ORIGINAL MONO MASTERS ON BLUE VINYL During an action-packed Byrds tour of the UK in August. They fused traditional acoustic folk with electric rock sounds and pioneered. “I love you too, and I don’t really see,” he crooned over the band’s smoky slow-burn, “why can’t we go on as three?” Those words were risqué enough to get him axed from the band in the fall of 1968, after Croz fought unsuccessfully for the song’s inclusion on The Notorious Byrd Brothers amid growing conflicts with bandmates Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman. The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1971) The Byrds were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. Crosby’s relentless drive to push the Byrds into new realms - so effective when he turned his bandmates on to Coltrane and raga for “Eight Miles High” in 1966 - met its limit two years later with this frank threesome proposition.
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