Born in 1962. A little too late. I remember a lot of cool stuff but have only learned about a lot more. Greatest music of all time! Except maybe OLD blues... :-)
born 1965 and I remember going to the bank with my mom on Saturdays in 1970 to cash my Dad's pay check, and Beatles music was on the radio in the car as we went around Loop 610 in Houston... the radio host would play a commercial where they would sing "the biiiiig 610!" because it was 610 AM radio same as the loop... LoL! and then they would play "Yellow Submarine" and I thought this song was exclusively made for kids just like me!
Pienso exactamente lo mismo!! Fuimos privilegiados de haber vivido estás épocas de gloria. Doy gracias a la vida que me puso en el tiempo perfecto de esta música y está maravillosa juventud También tengo 73 años y sigo escuchando a las mismas bandas de esos años y no lo cambio por nada. . SD. México......!!!
BORN IN 54 LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE BROUGHT UP WITH THIS MUSIC PLAYING IN MY EAR, 69 TODAY AND STILL LISTENING TO IT, BLOODY EPIC. PEACE TO YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. ✌️😎🏴
RIP the three members of The Byrds David Crosby (August 14, 1941 - January 18, 2023), aged 81 Gene Clark (November 17, 1944 - May 24, 1991), aged 46 Michael Clarke (June 3, 1946 - December 19, 1993), aged 47 You will be remembered as legends.
I am 54. I taught my kids music. My 13 year old son is showing promise as a drummer. I have paid for piano and drum lessons for the last 4 years. He plays the drums like a man. He is nothing special on piano. His instructor knows it. My child has a chance at rocking
Born in 51 , class of 69😊 What amazing period of music! Here in Fresno Ca, we assumed as normal to be had the amazing groups that Bill Graham Productions did here on west coast! I’ve gone to and seen every established and up and coming super bands in sixties and seventies! Blues, hard rock etc! People have trouble believing me but it was true! Can’t list em all! What a time for great music and a Buzz lol
When I tell the youngins that back in the Fillmore days we'd stay in our seats.....bopping away....and wouldn't stand up and dance until we were musically compelled to....unlike today's concerts where everyone is standing from start to finish regardless of the level of musical energy....they look at me like I'm nuts. With my aching back nowadays, I yearn for those days where everyone could see without craning. Oh, and the music was much better of course.
The people of our generation were sustained by music like this and I still am. There is very little as good as this being produced these days . There was so much vibrant music about and this track is a great example.
I have to agree. As odious at this is, and as tragic as it is to see a once talented group descend into this, a lot of what is available today is even worse.
I disagree entirely. Bands like Dream Theater, Tool, Opeth, and Devin Townsend, are all producing, IMO, much better music. Better sonically, composition-wise, and other elements. However, because they are not played on mainstream media they are not as well known. As someone born in 1963, I am always amazed at how quickly people write off today's music. I agree, that mainstream, much of it is less than interesting or capable, however, scratching beyond the surface, and some of the best music ever created is being made right now.
I've been seeing more and more comments from young people on music from this era. They think Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy is spooky because they heard it in the soundtrack to a scary movie. Generally, all Donovan's song's comments from the young people think he's spooky. I'm glad they are discovering the music through movie soundtracks and they have a desire to listen to more.
After 70 trips around the Sun this still ROCKS and beats the hell out of most stuff being recorded today. I'm a retired airline pilot and we used to hum the refrain in flight.
What a great thought... thanks for the chuckle ... The hectic intensity of the song is reminiscent of a hectic day in ORD with several runways active and a line of T-storms rolling in rapidly from the west! ;-)
This version is from 1970. The original song was not before 1965. How can this be 70 trips around the sun when you wrote this comment 2 weeks ago? Maybe you are talking in terms of trip around the sun by Venus where the year is less than 300 Earth days long. Lovely version nevertheless. I adore it.
or trippin, not smokin! cheers, man. hour north of north of San Francisco where the fog is clearing. 30-35 degrees @ 850 millbars over oakland. 1st swelter of da summer. takinf an online class @ sejc about the blues and jazz inflluence on modern music. this fits perfectly. best regards, rbdgeologist.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
This music will live forever in my soul..........First generation Rock & Roll !!!! I was born 1948...Had the opportunity to watch music evolve into some the greatest sounds 50's 60's 70's
Right there with ya Richard. The sounds produced in the 60's had never been heard before and it seemed like something new everyday!!! No one can relate that was not there. It was like a new color being born. Hard to describe.
@@larrykarr1968 1949 and I'm sorry for these kids who took maybe the only route they could to learn the music beyond the minor scale. But we drank our fill!
Venues like the Filmore East, and bands like the Byrds are the reason that I had a 19 year span of a radio career. Sadly, there is nothing today that equals the cultural significance that we enjoyed at that time. To God be the Glory.
Yes - and the bass player and the drummer (Skip Batten) are insanely tight together, as if they were united by the same brain. This is such an awesome jam!
I have been listening to this rendition for years, always coming back to this and always feeding off Skip Batten’s bass and Gene parson’s drumming. Absolutely outstanding, it’s a unique and wonderful take capturing the essence of this period of live rock!!! Just love it!!!
This is what drum and bass should sound like. I'm 37 years old I feel like I missed my time I would have loved to have grown up in the 60s and 70s luckily for me my parents were always listening to records so I got introduced to amazing music when I was an infant and as a child growing up. Today's music ain't got the same soul I like that old time rock and roll.
I regularly hear music on TV ads (in the UK) that is taken from rock tunes from the late 60s and the 70s. Presumably the ad creators are younger than me (they must be!) but the music they choose for the ads dates from before they were born. Why? because it really was that good, and memorable, inlike the stuff thwey grew up with. Not just because it was the music of OUR youth, but because it was good in its own right. To echo what other commentors have said, we were so lucky to have grown up with this music as the backgound to our lives. Keep listening, people!
The Drummer and the Bassist, The two most under appreciated people in any band that has ever been. If you doubt that, just listen to this music. It doesn't exist without them.
Yeah, no shit! Of course you know he’s out of his mind on fucking cocaine and that’s why he’s playing so fast. But, the important thing is he’s in time. Another words he’s not slowing down and speeding up. He might be fucked up please he’s fucked up in a good way.
Not really, 'the best', although it is good. After Michael Clarke and Chris Hillman (who were replaced by session guys on the early recordings because they werent quite up to scratch) moved on from the band they got these guys in - Gene Parsons and Skip Battin. Both Gene and Skip were stratospheres above Michael and Chris in playing ability.
Unlike most here who were teens or adults when listenednto the byrds . I was 5 yrs old mexican immigrant child curious at my freak neighbors & music they played in Redondo Beach in 1976 when i kept hearing the byrds. It eventualy lead me to the other acid rock outhere in my teens to become bohemian, the music made me who I am!...yet inwas not even there.
We from the post WWII era have been so lucky to hear everything from Elvis on up! We have had the best songs and music writers in history! Seen it done it! Music today has nothing on Our GenGenGenGeneration!
@@tomtrana3449 that's interesting, I thought he said "jam it" and they connected pretty well at that point. But I haven't listened with headphones yet.
RIP David Crosby you are truly missed. The drummer is incredible! I was born in 1958, so I have listened to the most incredible rock n' roll music their is and it live on.
I'm one of those people who went to Woodstock 69 and am still alive to cherish this iconic outrageous music 🎶 as often as I can. So far I'm surviving my hospital stay of 5 1/2 weeks by listening to this caliber of music. How lucky am I 💞!
Deborah Wagner, covid? Something else? Prayers....Lord Jesus, please fill this woman with Your Holy Spirit and unleash all the healing power He possess. I ask in Your Holy Name, Jesus, in the posture of the Servant, amen
I was born in 56! This was a time when Rock was Real My first outdoor concert was in Corpus Christi Texas Brownsville Station opening up for Grand Funk Railroad I was never the same.
Saw the Byrds in 1965 at a local community College in Southern California. I was 13 y/o and in true hippie fashion pink mini dress and knee high white go- go boots chased their car out of the parking lot. I was screaming, "Chriiiis!"
@230968 Yes, they're all on fire here. I've always liked the Byrds yet was never a die hard fan, but this is amazing. I've never heard them jam like this. Not exactly sure which incarnation or lineup this was. If I remember correctly, Crosby left them for awhile then returned.
I highly recommend you check out bands like Dead Meadow, Earthless, and a ton of other current-generation "stoner rock" bands. I think you'll be pleased.
The Grateful Dead was known for their “long rock jams”. You could be watching them at the old Fillmore, go catch whoever was playing at the Avalon Ballroom, come back to the Fillmore and the Dead would still be jammin’ !! Lol 💐 🤩
Radio figured out all that time lost in a jam cost them money in potential ad sales. And thus radio shot itself in the foot and has slowly been bleeding out every since. Jamming every hole with advertisers to stop the cash flow, but the only ones available are car dealers and furniture outlets.
Nah......these extended jams became everything that was wrong about 70's corporate rock . Few exeptions were Iron Butterfly , Pink Floyd and "Get Ready" by Rare Earth . This was also one of the few acceptable ones , mainly because it wasn't that long. Although would've appreciated if McGuinn actually sang here .
Another great recording, from the engineer's standpoint (Tomoo Suzuki), was Mountain's "Twin Peaks" release. Nantucket Sleighride is simply magnificent. Those boys were on the money that night. Felix Pappalardi, Bob Mann, Alan Schwartzberg, and Leslie West.
Many people overlook the byrds of this era due to many of the original members being gone. But at this point they were arguably the most solid for their live performances and had the best musicians. Me personally, I love all the variations the byrds went through and love all the members. I just know that two years prior to this lineup, there was a lot of turmoil within the band.
Never, ever gets old...we old folks were SO BLESSED with great music. at the perfect time.....STAY HOME, STAY SAFE and PARTY to old tunes well played!!!!!
23 years old here , quarantined & trippin with the byrds , jimbo ,grace slick , quicksilver , frank zappa , Hendrix , beatles , ravi shankar and so on , wish you all people safe & keep this music alive
@@alantjs5 i wish you safe too yonder , i mean to listen beatles pyschadelic like Within you without you , Norwegian Wood , Inner light & sgt pepper ..peace Billy Baxter
Skip was the oldest of the Byrds and is the same Skip that had 50's-early 60's hits like "It was I" with Flip (Gary Paxton) as Skip and Flip total transformation. I guess he found his groove here but I like his 50's hits.
Reading the comments... I agree 100% about the virtues of fine and proper musicianship. On the other hand, I also must respect those kooks who, not even knowing how to play an instrument, had the raw nerve to get up on a stage and make a go of it. The mid-70s to about 1983 was also a magical time for music. It was in 1983 I noticed a sudden change in the music, the dance clubs, and so forth. It was not a change for the better. We used to go to clubs and find people, mostly complete strangers, with whom to dance, flirt, drink (of course), and have long and often very worthwhile conversations on any of a large number of topics. We smiled, laughed a lot, did a little making-out, and so on, the emphasis being here that we smiled a lot - we were mostly happy and thankful to be alive. Then one day the Peppermint Lounge moved to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street, in the basement. What immediately jumped out at me was the crowd. Everyone was dressed in black, dour of countenance, holding up the walls rather than wearing out the dance floor, and doing their level best to look more disaffected than the next guy. I am grateful to have been born when I was. We were stepping out from the traditional edges of the culture, but not so far that we lost ourselves to the rot and misery of morbid cynicism. I will be 66 on 2/1 and would not trade places with the currently up and coming generation for love or money.
I didn't see this show but from 1968-1971 I attended over 30 shows at the Fillmore East. Great bands such as The Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Big Brother with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and more. Tickets were usually $3.50 - $4.50. It is a great memory of my youth.
Ah yes. The days of long jams! When joints were being freely passed around by a totally Divine and loving crowd of beautiful people.. Thank you to all who made this being kept alive possible UA-cam deserves a lot of credit but needs to learn etiquette when it comes to ad placement during performances😮
I think you had to be a child of the 60s to understand the power of this and other songs like it . . . it literally takes you to another place while ur @ the stage high as a kite w/ur eyes closed; and dancing by yourself . . . you just leave and then come back.
I have always been making the same point you are making. If you weren't there than all you have is your accumulated facts. I was born in july of 1949. So if I have anything to say about the 60's I am talking about what I suffered through. Thanks .
What on earth has happened. I have true respect for these guys, they knew what they were doing. Musically creative and absolutely honest in their endeavours. Nothing these days comes close. I accept I’m probably alone in my thoughts just now but I’d rather that than dissolve into something worthless.
I'd like to know what happened too. It may be before your time, but I remember the Byrds when they were a really talented group, before they descended into this offensive madness.
Man is movement. Man is music. Man is consciousness, sights, sounds, textile touch, taste and palate. Most of all, man is listening!Hearing, audio and the manipulation of sound and fury. " Rock is dead they say...long live rock... LONG LIVE ROCK!!!
THIS IS BASICALLY A SHOWCASE OF SKIPP BATTEN ON BASE. WHAT A GREAT BASE PLAYER, AND HUMAN BEING. HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE DIED AT AGE 69. RIP SKIPP. MISS YOU.
The Byrds always had their own Unique Sound!!!...from "Tambourine Man" to "Eight Miles High" it doesn't get much better than this when it comes to Classic Rock 'N Roll !!..
I didn’t grow up listening to the Byrds but I am going back and listening to all the 60’s bands I missed and the Byrds have really caught my attention. I really love “Wasn’t Born to Follow” which I first heard when watching “Easy Rider”. What an era to live in!
I was born in 1958,and I started listening to rock& roll at an early age. I loved the psychedelic 60's music so much. I still listen to it everyday☮️💙🎸I wish all of you peace, love, rock& a long healthy life, I wish I had been old enough to go to Woodstock. It's almost the 53td anniversary next week.
I hear you Sandy. I'm about the same age and I remember the lead up to Woodstock and then how the news coverage focused on everything bad. My first concert was tagging along with my older brother to see Grand Funk Railroad, with Billy Preston opening. Closer to Home was the tour.
Whenever I feel tired I think of this session of high energy drumming by Gene Parsons back in 1970. Gene is truly inspirational back then. Thank you Gene and the Byrds.
Hard to believe, but this line up of the Byrds was together longer than the original line up. The original Byrds were songwriters, but these guys were musicians. Amazing jam!
I don't know where you're from, but, in Detroit, we are the epitome of organized chaos! We jam with the music, then, send the energy back to the musicians! We're up out of our seats and dancing. ...and, back then, there were no screaming fools, no cell phones, just folks dancing and singing along to the music! (We still kinda do that dancing and singing there here!)
You can't compare though. There were no cell phones back then, and what do you mean by 'paid teens?' Also, even back then there were bands whose fans would be screaming up front. It's just that The Byrds drew a different audience.
@@five-clawdragon Aw...someone has TDS after all these years. I would think you would be happy now but even you know that the Dims are dirty scoundrels and Gropin' Joe didn't win dog catcher, let alone POTUS.
Around 1972, aged 18, I took a chance and bought a Byrds double vinyl, as I already owned a couple of studio albums. Sides 3 & 4 are live recordings including Eight Miles High all of side 4. When I first heard it, I was not sure, but kept coming back to it. It soon became, and remains, my favourite track on the whole album.
Holy cow, these guys were tight. Heard the song probably hundreds of times, but never seen a video of them, spectacular. That drummer with the small drum kit, makes a hell of alot of sound, and perfect beat. I think he could have given Buddy Rich a run for his money, IMO.....
Our drummer back in the days (early 1970's) had a single mounted tom and one floor tom. Depending on where he hit them... center, towards the rim, right at the rim... he could come up with an UNLIMITED number of sounds. According to him, the ONLY reason a drummer needed more toms was... he wasn't well training or was lazy and didn't want to "work" for all the different sounds...................................
@@donf3877 Big drum kits only really took off in the 1970s when budgets allowed huge trucks to transport tons of equipment from city to city big stadia. Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, Gene Parsons, and all the drummers of that era managed with human-sized kits - and all the better for it. Had the Untitled double LP from when it came out. Byrds were extremely popular here in the UK
Good gracious, we were blessed to have this music. I'm having a out of body experience flashback to seeing them play Fillmore West, SF in early 70's. This bass.................amazing.
Was in a home in the Hollywood Hills and they were making in their house in the patio. Man, I can still hear them in my mind and feel the warmth of a February afternoon, in '69.💡777🎸
Lots of the old snare drums especially the Ludwigs sound just fantastic. I have a 2012 Ludwig Supraphonic and I just can't seem to get a good sound out of it until the batter side is really worn in.
@@dirtydave2691 I used to have an old brass, chrome plated Ludwig snare, it came with my first kit which was an old 60's gold sparkled Gretch four piece. That whole kit sounded so good but as a kid in the 1980's I destroyed the whole thing by painting it and selling off the snare for some modern piece of junk. Oh the mistakes I've made..
pbstratocaster The snare appears to be a Slingerland - probably chrome over brass. The stick saver hoops are a dead giveaway, plus there’s one pretty clear shot of the oval badge.
The intro to this song without the legendary build and fall is "their best"? Go watch some stoned bands at a local college, there will be three or more that can jerk off like this, though with less virtuosity. I love this song. This was impressive masturbation without the climaxes
$5 to get in and sit anywhere, that beautiful old venue, I saw everybody, so lucky....my gggggggggggeneration - everyone was the same...you cannot imagine what the young were capable of ....ARISE ARISE ARISE
I saw the Allman Brothers there, Zappa and the Mothers, Arlo Guthrie, James Taylor, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers...I will have those memories forever. East is the most iconic venue of all time.
As a college student, I did not have the money. I remember standing outside the Filmore East one cold day in winter listening to Hendrix through the building walls.
There are strong jazz influences in there too. John Coltrane’s “India” album had been a staple on The Byrd’s tour bus during a US tour and the band were keen to bring some of the sounds they’d heard from John Coltrane into the pop world. 2:56 [Medium]
I saw the Byrds twice, in '65 and '66, in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. In the days when bands like this would play church dancehalls in small towns. You could stand right in front of the stage to watch them. Think it cost a buck. First year they were a typical clean-cut rock band, the next they were this, not what we were used to, but great.
Yeh, born 1953. Grew up with Beatles, Stones, Deep Purple, Yes. Watched music become something amazing. What a long strange trip its been.
51,I know what you mean brother,still rainin'.
Born in 54, and yes the music was that good, and better then people today, who weren't around, can imagine.
Born in 1962. A little too late. I remember a lot of cool stuff but have only learned about a lot more. Greatest music of all time!
Except maybe OLD blues... :-)
born 48, played all this stuff in a band. wonderful.
born 1965 and I remember going to the bank with my mom on Saturdays in 1970 to cash my Dad's pay check, and Beatles music was on the radio in the car as we went around Loop 610 in Houston... the radio host would play a commercial where they would sing "the biiiiig 610!" because it was 610 AM radio same as the loop... LoL! and then they would play "Yellow Submarine" and I thought this song was exclusively made for kids just like me!
I'm 88 guys, so can remember the dire state of music before the sixties. Keeps me going, stuff like that. Peace and love
Beautiful you
@@geoffreysutton760
With all reverence to the older Boomer generation, I think he meant to say,
I'm 88 years old, Guys, so...
88? Cool.
Good on ya sir. This is shear quality music.
You an icon at 88; i bet you've seen some goodies😮
Happy 88 ❤
Now this drummer is a bass player's dream. Amazing interaction with the bass player. The bass player has amazing stamina.
Just so tight!
This might just be the finest bass/drum rhythm section ever
too far man@@mikemissry8025
Turn up the base players amp It is barely heard here
You are right good stuff😂
Hearing this again I have to think about, at 73 and holding on now, how blessed I was to have lived in those days.
72 yrs here....ya had to be there...
Me too. Saw them very close up at the Fisher Auditorium on the IUP campus in ‘73. Tom Rush opened!
We saw them twice, I think 1966 and 1967. I could be wrong on the years, but it was before I went into the service in July 1969.
Pienso exactamente lo mismo!!
Fuimos privilegiados de haber vivido estás épocas de gloria.
Doy gracias a la vida que me puso en el tiempo perfecto de esta música y está maravillosa juventud
También tengo 73 años y sigo escuchando a las mismas bandas de esos años y no lo cambio por nada. .
SD. México......!!!
Great time to be alive
BORN IN 54 LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE BROUGHT UP WITH THIS MUSIC PLAYING IN MY EAR, 69 TODAY AND STILL LISTENING TO IT, BLOODY EPIC. PEACE TO YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. ✌️😎🏴
Right on!
Best Generation
Hell yeah Brother!
Yes!!! 56 model here. Good year for Chevy too. 😂
69 next week 🎉🎉🎉❤MAGA FROM IRELAND 🇮🇪
RIP the three members of The Byrds
David Crosby (August 14, 1941 - January 18, 2023), aged 81
Gene Clark (November 17, 1944 - May 24, 1991), aged 46
Michael Clarke (June 3, 1946 - December 19, 1993), aged 47
You will be remembered as legends.
Who would've guessed that Crosby would out live the other two?
What the hell happened to Gene & Michael that took 'em out so young?
@@onetrueslave Gene died from a heart attack and Michael died from liver failure.
@@Frequentfoul Croz did for sure.
WHAT ABOUT CLARENCE?
So, thankful to have been a teenager during this era.
20s, but same thing.
Dang right. What a time. I miss it so (almost 70).
I know you miss the excitement of the bands, but you can listen to it anytime and go back. Love our Ara.
I might be just an old lady hippie...but I still rock and love this band...gosh we really did have some GREAT music....rock on kids...
It was a golden age of music and we all kind of knew it , especially when it faded.
The kids aren't rocking on, they are Taylor swift-ing.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 The kids are alright, but when the corporate grip takes music in hand, it isn't going to produce 8 miles high like this.
I am 54. I taught my kids music. My 13 year old son is showing promise as a drummer. I have paid for piano and drum lessons for the last 4 years. He plays the drums like a man. He is nothing special on piano. His instructor knows it.
My child has a chance at rocking
Rock on grandma!
I’m 78 and been listening to this since it came out and it still blows my mind, amazing bass line..
77, this music of 60s/70s will never be bettered, not even close.
Born 78 ,60s definitely 70s are my jam ,better than all the other decades to sleep bar 50s obviously when music was getting found bye all
Pffft these guys are a poor choice to set your musicianship bar too.
@@vJackaRoo Pffft!
oh cmon
Radiohead and BCNR might have something to say about that ;)
Born in 51 , class of 69😊 What amazing period of music! Here in Fresno Ca, we assumed as normal to be had the amazing groups that Bill Graham Productions did here on west coast! I’ve gone to and seen every established and up and coming super bands in sixties and seventies! Blues, hard rock etc! People have trouble believing me but it was true! Can’t list em all! What a time for great music and a Buzz lol
Fresno, and it was amazing.
Born in '51, class of 68. I too feel I grew up with and saw many of the greats of that era. I can never be replicated.
Me, too. From CO. Great music, oh my heck. We are so lucky.
When I tell the youngins that back in the Fillmore days we'd stay in our seats.....bopping away....and wouldn't stand up and dance until we were musically compelled to....unlike today's concerts where everyone is standing from start to finish regardless of the level of musical energy....they look at me like I'm nuts. With my aching back nowadays, I yearn for those days where everyone could see without craning. Oh, and the music was much better of course.
Oy', with my bulging discs and spinal stenosis, it's a wonder I could write my will!
it was my job to make sure everyone stayed in thier seats! /
The people of our generation were sustained by music like this and I still am. There is very little as good as this being produced these days . There was so much vibrant music about and this track is a great example.
I agree 100%-
I have to agree. As odious at this is, and as tragic as it is to see a once talented group descend into this, a lot of what is available today is even worse.
I disagree entirely. Bands like Dream Theater, Tool, Opeth, and Devin Townsend, are all producing, IMO, much better music. Better sonically, composition-wise, and other elements. However, because they are not played on mainstream media they are not as well known. As someone born in 1963, I am always amazed at how quickly people write off today's music. I agree, that mainstream, much of it is less than interesting or capable, however, scratching beyond the surface, and some of the best music ever created is being made right now.
and it didn't cost $1200 to see them.
I've been seeing more and more comments from young people on music from this era. They think Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy is spooky because they heard it in the soundtrack to a scary movie. Generally, all Donovan's song's comments from the young people think he's spooky. I'm glad they are discovering the music through movie soundtracks and they have a desire to listen to more.
After 70 trips around the Sun this still ROCKS and beats the hell out of most stuff being recorded today. I'm a retired airline pilot and we used to hum the refrain in flight.
What a great thought... thanks for the chuckle ... The hectic intensity of the song is reminiscent of a hectic day in ORD with several runways active and a line of T-storms rolling in rapidly from the west! ;-)
Just so long as you weren't smoking 'herbal' to stay in the vibe....
This version is from 1970. The original song was not before 1965. How can this be 70 trips around the sun when you wrote this comment 2 weeks ago? Maybe you are talking in terms of trip around the sun by Venus where the year is less than 300 Earth days long. Lovely version nevertheless. I adore it.
or trippin, not smokin! cheers, man. hour north of north of San Francisco where the fog is clearing. 30-35 degrees @ 850 millbars over oakland. 1st swelter of da summer. takinf an online class @ sejc about the blues and jazz inflluence on modern music. this fits perfectly. best regards, rbdgeologist.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
@@sh230968 He's talking about his age, not the song.
This music will live forever in my soul..........First generation Rock & Roll !!!!
I was born 1948...Had the opportunity to watch music evolve into some the greatest sounds 50's 60's 70's
Right on brother I seen a lot of these groups in there prime I'm 65 now and these kids now a days have no idea of what good music is like
!950 here. And yes, there has never been a musical era that equals those three decades!
Never anything like it before or since!
Right there with ya Richard. The sounds produced in the 60's had never been heard before and it seemed like something new everyday!!! No one can relate that was not there. It was like a new color being born. Hard to describe.
@@larrykarr1968 1949 and I'm sorry for these kids who took maybe the only route they could to learn the music beyond the minor scale. But we drank our fill!
That dude with the bow tie, suspenders & sunglasses was really tripping hard. Great jam. It's one of my favorite Byrds tracks & even better live here.
I was at this concert. This song was the culmination of the concert. It was amazing. What else needs to be said.
I’m jealous
You can tell us about bowtieman. He's famous now!
How about, did they ever actually come in & sing the bloody song?
Oh so true. Nothing else could be said. Except this ;;;;;;;;;;; LONG LIVE ROCK-N-ROLL !
Lucky you.
Venues like the Filmore East, and bands like the Byrds are the reason that I had a 19 year span of a radio career. Sadly, there is nothing today that equals the cultural significance that we enjoyed at that time. To God be the Glory.
At least we have survivers like WMMR.
The Beatles were way more popular than Jesus.
@@geraldsobel3470 I think it must have seemed that way to John Lennon when he made that quip, but we are very fortunate that simply is not true.
@Karma Mechanic Like so many today, Stefani is a nice girl who is misguided.
Which God?
That bass line is intoxicating. My God!
Yes - and the bass player and the drummer (Skip Batten) are insanely tight together, as if they were united by the same brain. This is such an awesome jam!
It's cleansing
@@louise_rose is "Skip Battin" not Batten.😊 was also a member of Flying Burrito Brothers and The New Riders of Purple Sage.
Skip Battin was just fantastic! RIP Skip! Couls see him LIVE in the City Groningen/Holland, I was 15 years old.....never forget.
Early fifties ..what a decade to be born in experiencing the hippie era and such fantastic musician’s. Age is all in the mind
The Bass player and drummers interaction is incredible. Superb, Thank you.
I have been listening to this rendition for years, always coming back to this and always feeding off Skip Batten’s bass and Gene parson’s drumming. Absolutely outstanding, it’s a unique and wonderful take capturing the essence of this period of live rock!!! Just love it!!!
Is the the same Byrds as, C Hillman & D Crosby?
@@Mike-oz5pp Only one in this configuration is Roger McGuinn
This is McGuinn giving the old middle finger!🤣"Here's some Eight Miles High..."
@@garthkolbeck8674 - Why would he feel compelled to give the middle finger?
Mona Lisa aint sh!t...those two jamming is real ART
This is what drum and bass should sound like. I'm 37 years old I feel like I missed my time I would have loved to have grown up in the 60s and 70s luckily for me my parents were always listening to records so I got introduced to amazing music when I was an infant and as a child growing up. Today's music ain't got the same soul I like that old time rock and roll.
Young people like you renew my faith in mankind.
I regularly hear music on TV ads (in the UK) that is taken from rock tunes from the late 60s and the 70s. Presumably the ad creators are younger than me (they must be!) but the music they choose for the ads dates from before they were born. Why? because it really was that good, and memorable, inlike the stuff thwey grew up with. Not just because it was the music of OUR youth, but because it was good in its own right.
To echo what other commentors have said, we were so lucky to have grown up with this music as the backgound to our lives. Keep listening, people!
73. Born in 51. Pop and rockabilly, and then the whole universe opened up. Wow man.
Same here
Ditto
That's what is called a JAM SESSION !
The Drummer and the Bassist, The two most under appreciated people in any band that has ever been. If you doubt that, just listen to this music. It doesn't exist without them.
Shame about the guns. Peace, man.
Absolutely agree 👍...
100%
Your exactly right !! They're the foundation,the core sound of the band..
agree! without them the guitars just sound like noodling!
The bass and drumming on this song is amazing.
I Agree they WERE Tight
The bass is random. The drummer is working furiously, but he’s not really connecting with anyone else.
They are all amazing. The camera is just focusing on the bassist and drummer, that's all.
Bass player must be from Boston.
@@jeffryphillipsburns k
What a great drummer.
De los más grandes bateristas de esa época de oro del Rock.
Yeah, no shit! Of course you know he’s out of his mind on fucking cocaine and that’s why he’s playing so fast. But, the important thing is he’s in time. Another words he’s not slowing down and speeding up. He might be fucked up please he’s fucked up in a good way.
This has to be one of the best bass/drum combo's of all time!
This is very cool
Awesome
Not really, 'the best', although it is good. After Michael Clarke and Chris Hillman (who were replaced by session guys on the early recordings because they werent quite up to scratch) moved on from the band they got these guys in - Gene Parsons and Skip Battin. Both Gene and Skip were stratospheres above Michael and Chris in playing ability.
Absolutely! Second only to Geddy/Neil!
I agree!!
Unlike most here who were teens or adults when listenednto the byrds . I was 5 yrs old mexican immigrant child curious at my freak neighbors & music they played in Redondo Beach in 1976 when i kept hearing the byrds. It eventualy lead me to the other acid rock outhere in my teens to become bohemian, the music made me who I am!...yet inwas not even there.
2:10
WHERE IN REDONDO????
Even as I have grown old this music NEVER gets old!
We from the post WWII era have been so lucky to hear everything from Elvis on up! We have had the best songs and music writers in history! Seen it done it! Music today has nothing on Our GenGenGenGeneration!
That drummer is on fire!
Gene Parsons
no Ginger Baker.....
Gene parsons is a fucking legend!
@@judebandstra2484 Parsons and Clarence White on guitar: developed the B'String Bender for Telecaster. DEFINITELY LEGENDARY
@Jimmy ~ Makes B Benders. Those are bad ass guitar implements.
The drummer and bassist are PHENOMENAL!!!!!!!😍
Diane Kennedy that’s all I heard
Gene Parsons
Phenomenally BAD!!--TOO MUCH ACID-read Dinky Dawson's book
@@maxroyle6750 Dinky Dawson. Helluva shortstop. All field. No hit.
U ain't lied...but they what keep the time and what really matters wink wink
The tempo, drumming and bass are absolutely unbelievable.
If I'm hearing it right, drummer Gene Parsons shouts at bassist Skip Battin, "Limit" at 4:56 - 4:57 (so push your limit)
correction: Gene Parsons
The tempo is amazing? What is that supposed to mean?
@@jeffryphillipsburns It's the speed of the music, this song moves along amazingly fast.
@@tomtrana3449 that's interesting, I thought he said "jam it" and they connected pretty well at that point. But I haven't listened with headphones yet.
RIP David Crosby you are truly missed. The drummer is incredible! I was born in 1958, so I have listened to the most incredible rock n' roll music their is and it live on.
recording from 1970 - no David Crosby with the Byrds at this time...
Skip Battin on basso is amazing, a big rocker.
All of them are huge.
I'm one of those people who went to Woodstock 69 and am still alive to cherish this iconic outrageous music 🎶 as often as I can. So far I'm surviving my hospital stay of 5 1/2 weeks by listening to this caliber of music. How lucky am I 💞!
Absolutely agree and you are in my prayers
Deborah Wagner, covid? Something else? Prayers....Lord Jesus, please fill this woman with Your Holy Spirit and unleash all the healing power He possess. I ask in Your Holy Name, Jesus, in the posture of the Servant, amen
@@rileymcintosh4852 hey thanks for responding
Just watched a video of Traffic.. Low Spark of High Healed Boys. So damn good. Always. Winwood etc
I am a Survivor so far. Thanks for your support everyone
@@deborahwagner-tudor7643 winwood is so damn talented
Legends. No drum machines, no sequencing, no bull shit. Just good tight musicianship.
You got that damn right, brother!
thomas grim You know thats right everything now is all run through a frickin computer. Musicians back then actually knew how to play.
yes sir!!
Imagine how much better they would have been without taking drugs
Absolutely!!
I was born in 56!
This was a time when Rock was Real
My first outdoor concert was in Corpus Christi Texas
Brownsville Station opening up for Grand Funk Railroad I was never the same.
Saw the Byrds in 1965 at a local community College in Southern California. I was 13 y/o and in true hippie fashion pink mini dress and knee high white go- go boots chased their car out of the parking lot. I was screaming, "Chriiiis!"
I'll bet your hot too!
Wow!!! Great story! And memory.
This is just a true Rock & Roll Classic song by all means.
The drummer is just something very special.
Fabulous performance.
This song was in a double-album by the Byrds.
same impression of drummer.
Not just the drummer but also bassist and the lead guitarist.
@230968 Yes, they're all on fire here. I've always liked the Byrds yet was never a die hard fan, but this is amazing. I've never heard them jam like this. Not exactly sure which incarnation or lineup this was. If I remember correctly, Crosby left them for awhile then returned.
@@kensellers4082 Is it the no title one that someone mentioned before and is it this version or the song version please?
I wouldn't have missed this era for the world, how blessed are we...
Look how close their standing, making eye contact, so so tight with one another. Proper band
My first live Rock concert @ 15 was The Byrd's. I'm 71 now. That 15 yr old is still inside of me. ☮️✌️🏵️
Born in ‘50. Love the time period. We were so damn lucky. ❤
I miss the long rock jams in the middle of songs from the late 60s & early 70s.
I highly recommend you check out bands like Dead Meadow, Earthless, and a ton of other current-generation "stoner rock" bands. I think you'll be pleased.
The Grateful Dead was known for their “long rock jams”. You could be watching them at the old Fillmore, go catch whoever was playing at the Avalon Ballroom, come back to the Fillmore and the Dead would still be jammin’ !! Lol 💐 🤩
Radio figured out all that time lost in a jam cost them money in potential ad sales. And thus radio shot itself in the foot and has slowly been bleeding out every since. Jamming every hole with advertisers to stop the cash flow, but the only ones available are car dealers and furniture outlets.
Nah......these extended jams became everything that was wrong about 70's corporate rock . Few exeptions were Iron Butterfly , Pink Floyd and "Get Ready" by Rare Earth . This was also one of the few acceptable ones , mainly because it wasn't that long. Although would've appreciated if McGuinn actually sang here .
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After or Leslie West and Mountain to name a couple more great jam bands
How did I miss all of this? So appreciate these extended versions with intros
Solid! Far out! Outa sight! Groovy!
Right on man! Keep on truckin’
He know his base!! Best i ever heard...❤ I was born in aries 53 ,the year of the water-snake...happy to get 63-70 and 80ies music..
I AM A 71 YEAR OLD ROCKER WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF HIPPIED PEACE AND ALL THE REJECTION OF VIETNAM
This is the best recording of a live song in the early '70s that I've ever heard
I agree, and I've heard quite a bit
Another great recording, from the engineer's standpoint (Tomoo Suzuki), was Mountain's "Twin Peaks" release. Nantucket Sleighride is simply magnificent. Those boys were on the money that night. Felix Pappalardi, Bob Mann, Alan Schwartzberg, and Leslie West.
There are no words to express how awesome this it.
How about how the title is euphoric, as in 8 Miles High?
Sure there are. Read more. Expand your vocabulary. Develop your style, your voice, your sense. You too can say words.
i sure hope thats a joke! @@drsteele4749
I just a pup 47yr old but this is a total jam awsome awesome tune
Many people overlook the byrds of this era due to many of the original members being gone. But at this point they were arguably the most solid for their live performances and had the best musicians. Me personally, I love all the variations the byrds went through and love all the members. I just know that two years prior to this lineup, there was a lot of turmoil within the band.
You nailed it. This is a worthy progression in many ways.
Never, ever gets old...we old folks were SO BLESSED with great music. at the perfect time.....STAY HOME, STAY SAFE and PARTY to old tunes well played!!!!!
23 years old here , quarantined & trippin with the byrds , jimbo ,grace slick , quicksilver , frank zappa , Hendrix , beatles , ravi shankar and so on , wish you all people safe & keep this music alive
@@heartbreakkid5757 Skip the beatles but go wiv the rest,,take care out there ..
@@alantjs5 i wish you safe too yonder , i mean to listen beatles pyschadelic like Within you without you , Norwegian Wood , Inner light & sgt pepper ..peace Billy Baxter
@@alantjs5 ua-cam.com/video/TDwJqy0N63g/v-deo.html
@@heartbreakkid5757 67 here, you rock! Peace!
Absolutely killing it. Reminds me of the improvisation of the Allman Brothers
More like Iron Butterfly.
@@patrickreilly7256 no more like Allman Bros in the drumming./ bass lines.
Great jam from the days when it was all about jamming and improvisation. Love that time period of music!
In the middle of this jam I was thinking, is this rock or jazz? Elements of both, I guess. Exceptional display of talent!
Rest in peace Skip Battin, one of the greatest bass players/ singer/ song writers known...
When did he buy the framer?
He's off the chart on this one, my wrist is aching just watching it.
The man was in the Byrds, the New Riders of Purple Sage, AND the later Flying Burrito Brothers! Really awesome dude.
Skip was the oldest of the Byrds and is the same Skip that had 50's-early 60's hits like "It was I" with Flip (Gary Paxton) as Skip and Flip total transformation. I guess he found his groove here but I like his 50's hits.
yes...Skip is Immortal
Reading the comments... I agree 100% about the virtues of fine and proper musicianship. On the other hand, I also must respect those kooks who, not even knowing how to play an instrument, had the raw nerve to get up on a stage and make a go of it. The mid-70s to about 1983 was also a magical time for music. It was in 1983 I noticed a sudden change in the music, the dance clubs, and so forth. It was not a change for the better. We used to go to clubs and find people, mostly complete strangers, with whom to dance, flirt, drink (of course), and have long and often very worthwhile conversations on any of a large number of topics. We smiled, laughed a lot, did a little making-out, and so on, the emphasis being here that we smiled a lot - we were mostly happy and thankful to be alive. Then one day the Peppermint Lounge moved to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street, in the basement. What immediately jumped out at me was the crowd. Everyone was dressed in black, dour of countenance, holding up the walls rather than wearing out the dance floor, and doing their level best to look more disaffected than the next guy. I am grateful to have been born when I was. We were stepping out from the traditional edges of the culture, but not so far that we lost ourselves to the rot and misery of morbid cynicism.
I will be 66 on 2/1 and would not trade places with the currently up and coming generation for love or money.
Genau so ist es.👍
I didn't see this show but from 1968-1971 I attended over 30 shows at the Fillmore East. Great bands such as The Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Big Brother with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and more. Tickets were usually $3.50 - $4.50. It is a great memory of my youth.
Ah yes. The days of long jams! When joints were being freely passed around by a totally Divine and loving crowd of beautiful people.. Thank you to all who made this being kept alive possible UA-cam deserves a lot of credit but needs to learn etiquette when it comes to ad placement during performances😮
I think you had to be a child of the 60s to understand the power of this and other songs like it . . . it literally takes you to another place while ur @ the stage high as a kite w/ur eyes closed; and dancing by yourself . . . you just leave and then come back.
I have always been making the same point you are making. If you weren't there than all you have is your accumulated facts. I was born in july of 1949. So if I have anything to say about the 60's I am talking about what I suffered through. Thanks .
Please don't take my use of "you" personally. I just mean it generally like a universal indication. Peace.
What on earth has happened. I have true respect for these guys, they knew what they were doing. Musically creative and absolutely honest in their endeavours. Nothing these days comes close. I accept I’m probably alone in my thoughts just now but I’d rather that than dissolve into something worthless.
I'd like to know what happened too. It may be before your time, but I remember the Byrds when they were a really talented group, before they descended into this offensive madness.
You aren’t wrong
They took in jazz influences and are like Allman Bros lite.
😢 Sad what happened to our music?
Man is movement. Man is music. Man is consciousness, sights, sounds, textile touch, taste and palate. Most of all, man is listening!Hearing, audio and the manipulation of sound and fury. " Rock is dead they say...long live rock... LONG LIVE ROCK!!!
THIS IS BASICALLY A SHOWCASE OF SKIPP BATTEN ON BASE. WHAT A GREAT BASE PLAYER, AND HUMAN BEING. HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE DIED AT AGE 69. RIP SKIPP. MISS YOU.
Drums and bass are locked tight. Perfect. Guy in another comment that it high school amateur level....must have taken the brown acid.
Looking for one song and one band, ended up with a garage Almond Brothers jam, the one real musician McGuire is barely audible.
2003,Alzheimer.Sadly.
Incredible trip, BEAUTIFUL
Skipp was apparently ,a good guy ,nice🕊️human and a terrific music talent 😄
The Byrds always had their own Unique Sound!!!...from "Tambourine Man" to "Eight Miles High" it doesn't get much better than this when it comes to Classic Rock 'N Roll !!..
DUH!
Too bad that this is not the real Byrds.
@@chrissygerwitz520 Everyone knows this, genius
@@lewisc215 Except for you and the OP, evidently.
@@chrissygerwitz520 learn to read, Dork.
I didn’t grow up listening to the Byrds but I am going back and listening to all the 60’s bands I missed and the Byrds have really caught my attention. I really love “Wasn’t Born to Follow” which I first heard when watching “Easy Rider”. What an era to live in!
This folks, I'm sure you know, are master craftsmen/musicians at work.
Nothing's better than an old classic rock!
I was born in 1958,and I started listening to rock& roll at an early age. I loved the psychedelic 60's music so much. I still listen to it everyday☮️💙🎸I wish all of you peace, love, rock& a long healthy life, I wish I had been old enough to go to Woodstock. It's almost the 53td anniversary next week.
I hear you Sandy. I'm about the same age and I remember the lead up to Woodstock and then how the news coverage focused on everything bad. My first concert was tagging along with my older brother to see Grand Funk Railroad, with Billy Preston opening. Closer to Home was the tour.
This is one of the best recordings,I ever seen of the byrds
Born in 56 with three older siblings. Music has always been part of my life. Rock on!
proper musicians who can sing and play their instruments 👌 RIP David Crosby ❤️
No David Crosby in this clip... he left the band in 1967
David Crosby was kicked out of the band before this was recorded. They did not like the best thing about David (his ideals and openness).
@@sh230968 He left in 1967 and this was 3 years later...
Hilarious!! No Crosby here dude.
Also, session musicians were used on some of their biggest hits. LOL
I wish we had true musicians again, I miss their talent Soo dang much.
When rock and roll became an art form. Unfortunately now a lost art form.
@@chuckunplugged check out a band called Trouble - their album called Manic Frustration
This was art. Rap is thuggery.
@@chuckunplugged In what way? Because you personally don't have any ongoing interest in music?
@@damianb2374 what?
Whenever I feel tired I think of this session of high energy drumming by Gene Parsons back in 1970. Gene is truly inspirational back then. Thank you Gene and the Byrds.
And how great duet he did with Skip Battin from 4:00 !
@@CountKoski that’s Clarence White on bass
@@therealhousewifeofballtown no it’s not 💀
@@iwilliamq2154 you’re right I was mistaken
Hard to believe, but this line up of the Byrds was together longer than the original line up. The original Byrds were songwriters, but these guys were musicians. Amazing jam!
Everyone sitting down and loving the performance. No cell phones, no paid screaming teens up front yelling.
I don't know where you're from, but, in Detroit, we are the epitome of organized chaos! We jam with the music, then, send the energy back to the musicians! We're up out of our seats and dancing. ...and, back then, there were no screaming fools, no cell phones, just folks dancing and singing along to the music! (We still kinda do that dancing and singing there here!)
You can't compare though. There were no cell phones back then, and what do you mean by 'paid teens?' Also, even back then there were bands whose fans would be screaming up front. It's just that The Byrds drew a different audience.
Like paid Trump rallies.
@@five-clawdragon Aw...someone has TDS after all these years. I would think you would be happy now but even you know that the Dims are dirty scoundrels and Gropin' Joe didn't win dog catcher, let alone POTUS.
@@lemurianchick We pity all of the anti-fact/anti-science flock, who drank the Trump/FauxNews coolaid.
50 Years Later....A Half a Century Later... Cannot be Equaled.
That really blows your mind, doesn't it??? This music that is still relevant, that still ROCKS! Is 50 years old! *FIFTY YEARS OLD!!!*
We all just witnessed a master class in timeless Rock
Around 1972, aged 18, I took a chance and bought a Byrds double vinyl, as I already owned a couple of studio albums. Sides 3 & 4 are live recordings including Eight Miles High all of side 4. When I first heard it, I was not sure, but kept coming back to it. It soon became, and remains, my favourite track on the whole album.
Saw Roger play tonight in Thousand Oak, CA. Dude still sings like an angel.
Holy cow, these guys were tight. Heard the song probably hundreds of times, but never seen a video of them, spectacular. That drummer with the small drum kit, makes a hell of alot of sound, and perfect beat. I think he could have given Buddy Rich a run for his money, IMO.....
Our drummer back in the days (early 1970's) had a single mounted tom and one floor tom. Depending on where he hit them... center, towards the rim, right at the rim... he could come up with an UNLIMITED number of sounds. According to him, the ONLY reason a drummer needed more toms was... he wasn't well training or was lazy and didn't want to "work" for all the different sounds...................................
A great drummer for sure but to say he could give Buddy a run for his money is absurd
Mcguin and Mcguire
@@donf3877 Big drum kits only really took off in the 1970s when budgets allowed huge trucks to transport tons of equipment from city to city big stadia. Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, Gene Parsons, and all the drummers of that era managed with human-sized kits - and all the better for it. Had the Untitled double LP from when it came out. Byrds were extremely popular here in the UK
sharp fkrs
Don't argue in the comments, just listen to a classic 🔥
Wouldn't it be grand if we could go back in time and experience this concert again? I mean live.
Good gracious, we were blessed to have this music. I'm having a out of body experience flashback to seeing them play Fillmore West, SF in early 70's. This bass.................amazing.
Was in a home in the Hollywood Hills and they were making in their house in the patio. Man, I can still hear them in my mind and feel the warmth of a February afternoon, in '69.💡777🎸
Epic and the drums and bass are killing it! Good gracious! Bring this back!!!!!
Louise X they were very close friends. In the Flying BurritoBrothers together.
Still holds up after all these years.
Great drumming. The kit sounds perfect. Especially the snaredrum,, PERFECT.
Lots of the old snare drums especially the Ludwigs sound just fantastic. I have a 2012 Ludwig Supraphonic and I just can't seem to get a good sound out of it until the batter side is really worn in.
@@dirtydave2691 I used to have an old brass, chrome plated Ludwig snare, it came with my first kit which was an old 60's gold sparkled Gretch four piece. That whole kit sounded so good but as a kid in the 1980's I destroyed the whole thing by painting it and selling off the snare for some modern piece of junk. Oh the mistakes I've made..
He's the only one working.
pbstratocaster The snare appears to be a Slingerland - probably chrome over brass. The stick saver hoops are a dead giveaway, plus there’s one pretty clear shot of the oval badge.
HORRIBLE JUNIOR HIGH 'DRUMMING-ATROCIOUS-POOR CLARENCE! HUMILIATION++++++++
Amazing to think that record companies once employed people who could actually produce music.
Just saw Roger McGwinn perform last night and man is that man gifted and talented! Amazing guitar player.
Sounds like you've fossilized! Plenty of amazing music is produced every year. Reawaken....
@@yogadr6 You may be right but its hard to find. Glad we have UA-cam.
Drum machines should be illegal, confiscated & destroyed.
The Fillmore put out the best performances ever. Every band brought their best
The intro to this song without the legendary build and fall is "their best"? Go watch some stoned bands at a local college, there will be three or more that can jerk off like this, though with less virtuosity. I love this song. This was impressive masturbation without the climaxes
Thanks for this, by the way! I had no idea a Byrds show had this kind of instrumental energy. And I was born in '55!
Mind blowing duet of drummer and bass player
Sorry, but the best musician on that stage is Clarence White!
$5 to get in and sit anywhere, that beautiful old venue, I saw everybody, so lucky....my gggggggggggeneration - everyone was the same...you cannot imagine what the young were capable of ....ARISE ARISE ARISE
I saw the Allman Brothers there, Zappa and the Mothers, Arlo Guthrie, James Taylor, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers...I will have those memories forever. East is the most iconic venue of all time.
As a college student, I did not have the money. I remember standing outside the Filmore East one cold day in winter listening to Hendrix through the building walls.
Solid. Organic. Real. This is called MUSIC
There are strong jazz influences in there too. John Coltrane’s “India” album had been a staple on The Byrd’s tour bus during a US tour and the band were keen to bring some of the sounds they’d heard from John Coltrane into the pop world. 2:56 [Medium]
I saw the Byrds twice, in '65 and '66, in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. In the days when bands like this would play church dancehalls in small towns. You could stand right in front of the stage to watch them. Think it cost a buck. First year they were a typical clean-cut rock band, the next they were this, not what we were used to, but great.
This is an absolutely killer jam. Batten and Parsons are sensational.
One of the great rock intros, pure patience,
and execution
We need bands to produce music like this again. They just rip it up beautifully.
Timothy so right.
greta van fleet
Alcohol, weed, psychedelics, what a time to be alive. Still sounds so good today.
Born 1957. Everything grew in those days.
1951 here - damn right!