I am a big fan of “ Eight Miles High ” besides the original by the Byrds (the song was written by bandmembers Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn and David Crosby ), Golden Earring recorded a side-long extended treatment of “ Eight Miles High ” that I simply love, and past UARB Index covered “ Eight Miles High ” on their first album.Īccording to Wikipedia : “ John Einarson has noted that the influence of ’s saxophone playing and, in particular, his song ‘ India ’ from the Impressions album, can be clearly heard in ‘ Eight Miles High ’ - most noticeably in McGuinn ’s recurring twelve-string guitar solo. Anyway, the link to the Rolling Stone quote no longer pointed to anything, so now the introduction says this (I think the caveat “ bona fide” was my idea): “Accordingly, critics often cite ‘ Eight Miles High ’ as being the first bona fide psychedelic rock song.” My comment started a discussion with another Wikipedian about this I noted that the 13th Floor Elevators were advertising themselves as a psychedelic rock band the year before, and he countered that this doesn’t mean they were playing true psychedelic rock songs. I changed the intro and wondered how the RS guy could have thought that. One day not so long ago, I was looking at the Wikipedia entry on “ Eight Miles High ” by the Byrds – a song like this has its own article that (among other things) talks about various versions and covers of the song – and there was a quote in the introductory section from someone at Rolling Stone saying that this was the first psychedelic rock song.
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