The Byrds - Eight Miles High (Audio)

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  • @wallacegeller2111
    @wallacegeller2111 Рік тому +258

    Im 75 and still digging this song.

  • @TheConchologist
    @TheConchologist Рік тому +75

    Defines the 60’s nothing better. Astronaut stuff

  • @JohnRoberts-wk6rf
    @JohnRoberts-wk6rf Рік тому +138

    I'm with you. I'm 67 and still listen to 60s and 70s music.

    • @liquidsonly
      @liquidsonly 10 місяців тому +3

      I'm 65 and I mostly listen Japanese math-rock and jazz. Gotta move on. Although, here I am.

    • @jamespriest9658
      @jamespriest9658 9 місяців тому +2

      I just did 2 graham. Parsons songs with David Nelson band. 67 as well .

    • @GarryWootton
      @GarryWootton 9 місяців тому +1

      The great graham Parsons and Gine Clark.

    • @dorianesteves6120
      @dorianesteves6120 9 місяців тому +7

      Tenho 62 anos e na minha opinião as músicas dos anos 60 e 70 são as melhores mas também gosto muito do rock and roll dos anos 50. Um abraço do Brasil.

    • @Esixsportswear
      @Esixsportswear 9 місяців тому +3

      It was never topped.

  • @bobbauldock3846
    @bobbauldock3846 2 роки тому +522

    This song is timeless ,I,m 70 and it still sounds fresh............

    • @victormarrotti2575
      @victormarrotti2575 2 роки тому +7

      Man do I remember

    • @martinespinomusic
      @martinespinomusic 2 роки тому +15

      I’m 67 I still get high with this deep tune!

    • @wayneflemmer2607
      @wayneflemmer2607 2 роки тому +12

      Well Bob I'm 73 and it is what it is.............Rest home rock! 😅

    • @harponercam
      @harponercam 2 роки тому +2

      @@wayneflemmer2607 They've all come to look for America.

    • @Kelvin130552
      @Kelvin130552 2 роки тому

      Ditto 👍

  • @jonbailey5697
    @jonbailey5697 2 роки тому +441

    Absolutely one of the best psychedelic - era songs.

  • @ZedP
    @ZedP Рік тому +106

    And Roger is one of the unsung guitar heroes.

  • @Arkraven51
    @Arkraven51 Рік тому +135

    I remember hearing this for the first time back in the 60s I was a fifteen-year-old musician. I'd never heard anything like it before, and it opened the way to a whole new wave of music that was the foundation for the times. Even now when I hear Eight Miles High it evokes feelings of awe at the power and liberation of music.

    • @mixhaelamikovich
      @mixhaelamikovich Рік тому +9

      Love it

    • @ebayerr
      @ebayerr 11 місяців тому +5

      Get down with the get down sound....“Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out”

    • @garycarbone
      @garycarbone 10 місяців тому +6

      @@ebayerr It’s amazing how various sound frequencies (which is all music really is) can mentally take us back to anywhere in the past…….I just enjoy it….I don’t try to figure it out

    • @ebayerr
      @ebayerr 10 місяців тому +3

      @@garycarbone Indeed

    • @garycarbone
      @garycarbone 10 місяців тому +3

      David…..RIP

  • @michaelpopov3103
    @michaelpopov3103 Рік тому +102

    RIP David Crosby. thanks for the music.

    • @markvonmeding4085
      @markvonmeding4085 3 місяці тому

      Crosby looks just like my brother in law Roy. I'm 70 Roy's 4 or 5 years older, a seabee that even did the loading of bags of dead dudes onto the plane for their ride back to the 🇺🇸 from 🇻🇳 Vietnam. Terrible things do for our country but somebody had to do it. Crosby so looked and behaved just like Crosby. Uncanny. But look at it this way. When Dave got that liver transplant though? We got to spend a little more time with that Crosby dude that was kick, effing a 😅 right!

  • @avance1979
    @avance1979 Рік тому +135

    We did live the best years, didn't we.....

    • @GarryWootton
      @GarryWootton 10 місяців тому +8

      60s 70s... Great Albums

    • @patriciamays8244
      @patriciamays8244 10 місяців тому +9

      Definitely YES!

    • @mosheridan7016
      @mosheridan7016 10 місяців тому +9

      Yes very true looking back from 2024

    • @ashleyrigatoni702
      @ashleyrigatoni702 9 місяців тому +12

      No matter what, I cannot think of anything worse than to be young now. Man, what a total rip-off!!

    • @josephbuonfiglio9442
      @josephbuonfiglio9442 8 місяців тому +5

      It seems surreal that we listened to so many great artists 60 years ago.

  • @GasMaskParade
    @GasMaskParade Рік тому +82

    The only harmonious band that broke away from that beatleesque sound everyone discovered and aped grotesquely. The Byrds had a unique,American choral sound that soared and cut deep.

    • @elbuchito2907
      @elbuchito2907 2 місяці тому

      They remind me more of the Buffalo Springfield than the Beatles.

    • @mastermind-2011
      @mastermind-2011 2 місяці тому

      And then The Beatles followed them too

    • @omegajrz1269
      @omegajrz1269 Місяць тому

      @soumilghosh5156 The Byrds followed the Beatles first

  • @warshipsatin8764
    @warshipsatin8764 11 місяців тому +93

    this was one of my favorite songs as a kid. those shimmering chords sounded like the sun coming out after a thunderstorm

    • @patriciamays8244
      @patriciamays8244 10 місяців тому +9

      Good description 😂

    • @patriciamays8244
      @patriciamays8244 10 місяців тому +3

      Yep me on acid

    • @GarryWootton
      @GarryWootton 9 місяців тому +8

      Me as a 8 year old with my ear up against the wall, older brother in next bedroom playing this.

    • @alexfinamore4204
      @alexfinamore4204 8 місяців тому +1

      That’s exactly what I picture too, back when I was like 8

    • @eileenmaryomalley740
      @eileenmaryomalley740 7 місяців тому +1

      Perfect comparison

  • @davehunt9441
    @davehunt9441 Рік тому +64

    I like to dedicate this song to David Crosby.
    R.I.P brother.

  • @glennweaver3014
    @glennweaver3014 3 роки тому +391

    Some songs never grow old. Eight Miles High by the fabulous Byrds is one of them.

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 роки тому +4

      Listening to BBC Radio early this afternoon - Reported the Music Inductry had been really surprised that streaming services (think Spotify etc) were getting more uptake on older material than modern stuff.
      Didn't really have to think about it all that long to work out:
      A hell of a lot of modern stuff is written to a formula - How long it must be how brief the instruments before singing comes in, how limited the range of what can be sung about is etc etc etc - Mainly apparently because music - and some streaming 'radio' - is really just filler between adverts and the advertisers are strict in their demands.
      Which, ironically, is loosing them listeners (but maybe the listeners they loose are the more discerning who wouldn't believe the adverts anyway?)
      Sure there *is* good music being made now same as always.
      Its struggling to break through the advertisers' fog 'though.

    • @SDsailor7
      @SDsailor7 2 роки тому +4

      @@Farweasel There is an article about what you are talking about in the Atlantic magazine, I read it on line. On how the old music is outselling the new music. Hmm, i wonder why.

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 2 роки тому +2

      @@SDsailor7 I hope The Atlantic gave this channel an acknoweledgement and my contribution a listing in the sources.
      I bet they didn't ;-p

    • @SDsailor7
      @SDsailor7 2 роки тому

      @@Farweasel Nope, they did not.

    • @SDsailor7
      @SDsailor7 2 роки тому

      @@Farweasel Nope, they did not.

  • @dmedia111
    @dmedia111 2 роки тому +287

    It's impossible to listen to this song and not be transported back in time, if you lived through it or you didnt, it conjures up an amazingly bittersweet feeling of yearning, discovery. All that we had, all that we lost, what survived, what didn't. A truly magical time-- In a modern Renaissance Lost.

    • @scronx
      @scronx 2 роки тому +8

      Now that's well put. Are you a writer or poet by chance? The era was heady with possibilities and has an incredibly rich (if often decadent) musical legacy, but also left us with massive crippling plagues of drug abuse.

    • @scronx
      @scronx 2 роки тому +2

      @@samuelfoster8615 Except for those stuck with HPPD.

    • @scronx
      @scronx 2 роки тому +3

      @@samuelfoster8615 Comparisons are irrelevant -- LSD has greatly damaged lives and today's doping is totally because of that lawless era. I remember pre-drug America and have watched the whole country go to the dogs on the basis of hippie idiocy, indeed almost the whole of western civilization.

    • @scronx
      @scronx 2 роки тому

      ​@@samuelfoster8615 How old are you?

    • @nathalialorella3179
      @nathalialorella3179 Рік тому +8

      I hope, and I pray, that all is not lost. Perhaps, the cosmic wheels are still turning? That beautiful Process and Ascension that began in the 60s,.... oh my God, I really hope it's still out there somewhere alive somehow!

  • @garycarbone
    @garycarbone 11 місяців тому +15

    Eight Miles High…futuristic 55 years ago….still “futuristic”

  • @timcarroll490
    @timcarroll490 Рік тому +18

    R.I.P. David Crosby

  • @СтаниславКлих
    @СтаниславКлих Рік тому +37

    best song! from Kiev with love

  • @IndianOutlaw1870
    @IndianOutlaw1870 2 місяці тому +21

    That 12-string guitar really defined their sound.

  • @spaepenbertrand7403
    @spaepenbertrand7403 2 роки тому +40

    First psychedelic song ever. Best psychedelic song ever

    • @LudgerBW
      @LudgerBW 4 місяці тому

      How do you reckon this is the first ever psychedelic song?

    • @spaepenbertrand7403
      @spaepenbertrand7403 4 місяці тому +1

      @@LudgerBW I don't of another truly psychedelic recorded before this one. I may be wrong. Do you have another idea ?

    • @LudgerBW
      @LudgerBW 4 місяці тому

      @@spaepenbertrand7403 Somebody to Love by Grace Slick and The Great Society was released in February 1966 a month before The Byrds Eight Miles High (March 1966).

    • @LudgerBW
      @LudgerBW 4 місяці тому

      Just need to add, you use the term 'truly psychedelic' You may not agree this version fits your definition of 'truly' but the Jorma Kaukonen's guitar solo at the end was described by music critic Brett Milano at the time as psychedelic. In my mind that makes it psychedelic enough for me to regard it as an example of psychedelia. Obviously Eight Miles High and Jefferson Airplane's version of Somebody to Love are a lot more psychedelic.

    • @LudgerBW
      @LudgerBW 4 місяці тому

      @@spaepenbertrand7403 I don't know what happened to my previous reply which seems to have gone missing but I did suggest Someone to Love by The Great Society which was released in February 1966 while Eight Miles High was released in March 1966.

  • @stratoleft
    @stratoleft Рік тому +18

    I've never heard a 12 sting used in this creative way for lead guitar, and I never have since.

  • @roughbeast
    @roughbeast Рік тому +84

    I cry every time I hear this recording. The jangle, the harmonies and trippy meanderings evoke so much.

    • @rw8733
      @rw8733 Рік тому +2

      I agree. It is just beautiful 😢

    • @GarryWootton
      @GarryWootton 10 місяців тому +3

      It's just got that sound... Hairs standing up on arms.

    • @patriciamays8244
      @patriciamays8244 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes, it's the trippy meanderings that makes this song!

    • @kevinbrucestevens7747
      @kevinbrucestevens7747 8 місяців тому

      Same here

  • @Frankcastlepunisher74
    @Frankcastlepunisher74 Рік тому +380

    Rest in Peace, David. You wrote some of the best songs ever!

    • @rickysmith3214
      @rickysmith3214 Рік тому +19

      Amen. I am here for the same reason. Doing a deep dive into his immense and memorable catalog. RIP

    • @SlowRide723
      @SlowRide723 Рік тому +10

      Yep he sure did . RIP

    • @bernicehenry9738
      @bernicehenry9738 Рік тому +9

      I am so saddened by his passing. In Australia we had our Queen Renee Geyer pass this week too. Lately so many musos which make me evermore grateful for their contribution to the best music ever!!! RIP HEROES xx

    • @crestonmckenzie7814
      @crestonmckenzie7814 Рік тому +1

      Whoever as a African American done 8 miles

    • @crestonmckenzie7814
      @crestonmckenzie7814 Рік тому +7

      1985 age 14 years old African American I love it

  • @philvaclavik6890
    @philvaclavik6890 2 роки тому +27

    Chris’ bass playing on this just blows me away.

  • @GeorgeDoughty-m8e
    @GeorgeDoughty-m8e 8 місяців тому +27

    A twelve string guitar solo that makes no sense could ONLY happen in the 60's.

    • @barbh6987
      @barbh6987 8 місяців тому +2

      You had to be there!

    • @artb99
      @artb99 8 місяців тому +3

      First it made sense to John Coltrane with his India and Africa recordings, and the Byrds listened to him, and then they did this magic with that.

    • @kennethfrazee2540
      @kennethfrazee2540 7 місяців тому +1

      Thank you, this one's a pita to learn 😅😅😅

    • @raymondzuppa-hn6es
      @raymondzuppa-hn6es 6 місяців тому +1

      Love that solo. Always have. Eastern influence. No refrain or theme. Just goes off.

    • @terryhb7594
      @terryhb7594 5 місяців тому

      @@kennethfrazee2540 yum! 🥙

  • @gremlinz5873
    @gremlinz5873 Рік тому +26

    Just saw Roger tonight playing and telling stories in Newark Ohio! He still sings like an angel!

  • @johnmcintosh7784
    @johnmcintosh7784 Рік тому +40

    One of the great rock tunes of all time.

  • @geoffreysutton9944
    @geoffreysutton9944 2 роки тому +22

    I used to sit outside the Whiskey a Go Go on Sunset Blvd when i was about 15yo, i lived in Hollywood at the time,Fri nights were a trip [literally] lots of bikers parked opposite the Whiskey,cops cruising looking for runaway girls[kids],i just turned 70yo, just memories but a great time to grow up in. Adios PS the Byrds jogged my memory.

    • @alegria1883
      @alegria1883 10 місяців тому +6

      @geoffreysutton9 Lucky you, lucky me. I was born on Sunset Blvd off of Grand Ave, downtown L.A. People find it hard to believe that once-upon-a-time Los Angeles was beautiful. My older sis and her Catholic school girlfriends hung out at the Whiskey as well as the Trubador. I'm 67 but she is 8 years my senior. There was a restaurant across the street from Tower Records, kitty-corner, called Old World and some French restaurant across from that. Do you remember that? Anyway, the best food there and everywhere else and inexpensive. Such fantastic times to be young and alive. How good we had it and did not even fathom that it could ever deteriorate or devolve to the pathetic state we find ourselves. Still, onward and upwa👊. Keep on rocking in the free world✌️

    • @alegria1883
      @alegria1883 10 місяців тому +3

      Onward and upward👊✌️

  • @robertmncnaughto623
    @robertmncnaughto623 Рік тому +19

    rip david thanks for the music fly hi me boy

  • @ferdinandbayer6488
    @ferdinandbayer6488 2 роки тому +11

    Have a good trip

  • @proud098
    @proud098 4 роки тому +153

    Eight miles high
    And when you touch down
    You'll find that it's stranger than known
    Signs in the street
    That say where you're going
    Are somewhere, just being their own
    Nowhere is
    There warmth to be found
    Among those afraid of losing their ground
    Rain-gray town
    Known for its sound
    In places small faces unbound
    Round the squares
    Huddled in storms
    Some laughing, some just shapeless forms
    Sidewalk scenes
    And black limousines
    Some living, some standing alone......

  • @michaelhaydn3493
    @michaelhaydn3493 8 років тому +286

    what beautiful balance of hip, folk rock, pointing to eastern meditation, clever dissonance, and wonderfully ' tight ' production. Columbia! How could it NOT be? Rock on, Byrds, clever groove!!!

    • @milesjolly6173
      @milesjolly6173 5 років тому +9

      Michael Haydn it’s a masterpiece.

    • @BlyGuy
      @BlyGuy 5 років тому +6

      Thanks to Gene Clark and the Wrecking Crew studio musicians, otherwise the Byrds were pretty damn talentless, though Parsons was allegedly talented, but died too young for us to really know. Crosby was a glorified backup singer with major jealousy issues. If it weren't for Vito Paulekis and his dancing freaks, the Byrds don't ever take off, facts.

    • @kaymuldoon3575
      @kaymuldoon3575 4 роки тому +7

      Miles Jolly I absolutely agree, it’s a masterpiece. 👍

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +3

      @@kaymuldoon3575 yes - nothing like it had come before - defined mid 60's - the twang was what Dylan described as that mercury sound and for me it was the soul of it's time

    • @dmcd3895
      @dmcd3895 3 роки тому

      Beautifully put mate

  • @bakfixx
    @bakfixx Рік тому +17

    When music had soul.

  • @muffs55mercury61
    @muffs55mercury61 Рік тому +116

    Playing in honor of David Crosby who passed away today. Of the original lineup only Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman are still with us.
    This song was going hot and was at #14 when some radio stations refused to play it due to references of getting high and thus the song didn't go higher. I never did drugs but the song's melody and the playing were nothing short of terrific.

    • @IAmWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings
      @IAmWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings Рік тому +4

      I’m currently listening to it while high, which somehow I’ve never done before, and I can tell you it sounds just as mindblowing as it did the first time I heard it, almost 30 years ago when I was 10 and first discovering ‘60 music. So yeah, you don’t have to actually *be* high to *feel* it in this song- The Byrds captured it perfectly.

    • @bobbauldock3846
      @bobbauldock3846 Рік тому +1

      If I could only remember my name. This was the beginning, i,m sure you don,t get it......................BB

    • @public.public
      @public.public Рік тому

      @coogan8825 Believe what you like.
      What goes around comes around.

    • @emiledarraghbarry
      @emiledarraghbarry Рік тому +1

      ​@coogan8825It was inspired by acid.

    • @emiledarraghbarry
      @emiledarraghbarry Рік тому +1

      @coogan8825 It was derived from LSD use. You don't get how LSD affects the brain. That's why it's so trippy. Clark and Crosby have both stated it was about drugs i.e. LSD-25.

  • @pale_saint
    @pale_saint 8 років тому +250

    One of the best songs ever written, my favorite band and still as fresh as ever.

    • @glennweaver3014
      @glennweaver3014 8 років тому +5

      Agree 100%.

    • @richardtoy1600
      @richardtoy1600 8 років тому +8

      I could not agree more.
      I still do this in one of the bands I play with. I sing the Crosby harmony and try to the McGuinn 12 string lick on a 6 string!

    • @arthurharris6510
      @arthurharris6510 8 років тому +4

      Tony Arcieri
      My iPod is engraved "Byrdmaniac - 8 miles high and still flying". Best group and best song. Can't believe it's 50 years old.

    • @keithclelland1636
      @keithclelland1636 7 років тому +3

      Tony Arcieri agreed 100%. listened to it in 66, still listening. one of the great songs and albums of my lifetime.

    • @marydodge5699
      @marydodge5699 7 років тому

      Yes! Thank you!

  • @gwynnielsen5081
    @gwynnielsen5081 2 роки тому +42

    I had forgotten just how talented this group was. The guitar work is really amazing on this tune. And of course, the harmonies can't easily be beaten. I love the "California sound."

    • @marshhill9720
      @marshhill9720 Рік тому +1

      If you haven't read it, check out Michael Walker's book about Laurel Canyon. It made me wish I'd been a fly on the wall. Such an amazing collection of artists!

    • @gwynnielsen5081
      @gwynnielsen5081 Рік тому +3

      @@marshhill9720 I saw the documentary about it in the movie theater. The Byrds, CSN, etc. have really influenced me as a singer-songwriter. Here's one of the tunes: ua-cam.com/video/59FrTlhBH9g/v-deo.html. Let me know what you think. Thanks and take care, Maria.

    • @marshhill9720
      @marshhill9720 Рік тому +2

      @@gwynnielsen5081 Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

    • @gwynnielsen5081
      @gwynnielsen5081 Рік тому +1

      @@marshhill9720 Thank you so much for listening! My next single will be released on February 24th: "Smile: You've Sure Got What It Takes." It is a tune about hope, confidence and the will to survive. Take care!

  • @charlesoliva8174
    @charlesoliva8174 4 роки тому +175

    What’s truly amazing is they went from Mr. Tambourine Man to this in literally 12 months. Talk about astounding growth in a short space of time!

    • @Bryant.Defiant
      @Bryant.Defiant 4 роки тому +51

      Its called dropping acid

    • @hotajax
      @hotajax 4 роки тому +32

      Nothing wrong with Mr. Tambourine man. A classic for the ages.

    • @sunkintree
      @sunkintree 4 роки тому +15

      @@Bryant.Defiant Listening to Coltrane obsessively won't hurt either

    • @sunkintree
      @sunkintree 4 роки тому +16

      @@Bryant.Defiant Don't forget a ton of serious practice with their instruments instruments

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +8

      @@hotajax yeah they were all good - I think Hillman's bass on Rock and Roll Star sounded like what came years later for Hendrix and Clapton's bass olayers

  • @johnhenni2808
    @johnhenni2808 2 роки тому +81

    The Byrds' Eight Miles High is one of most evocative of the Acid experience. The sound recording by the Byrds is a stroke of genius.

    • @patricias5122
      @patricias5122 Рік тому +4

      It wasn't so much about taking acid, it was about the coldness of London, where they had gone to tour and record music. "nowhere is there warmth to be found"

    • @cori1302
      @cori1302 Рік тому +2

      Acid is a state of Mind. Nowhere is warmth to be found, hits on a couple different Levels...

    • @yvesturgeon9585
      @yvesturgeon9585 Рік тому +4

      Actually ..the song is about the fear of flying..Gene Clark had a massive panic attack on the plane going to their first tour in England and ended up leaving the band soon after

    • @jimferris9447
      @jimferris9447 Рік тому +2

      Roger and others insist that it purely is about the experience of flying at the height of cross-Atlantic travel, with the melody influenced by Coltrane. Nothing more.

    • @steeltownfan8901
      @steeltownfan8901 Рік тому +2

      Lyrically, it is about the disappointing experience in England after having been billed as the American response to the Beatles. They Byrds arrived in England exhausted, they had equipment issues, unrealistic fan expectations and an experience that was dampened by all of this. While flying back across the Atlantic 7 miles high, they reflected on their experience and put it to words. Allegedly they went with 8 miles high (not 7) as the Beatles had a hit with 8 Days a week. There has been some rumor the Brian Jones contributed to it as well. Musically you can clearly hear the influence of John Caltrain and maybe some Ravi Shankar.

  • @gabrieli4734
    @gabrieli4734 2 роки тому +39

    The Rickenbacker guitar played by McGuinn made this and many other of the Byrds songs....immortal.....timeless....no just damn good...

    • @artb99
      @artb99 8 місяців тому +1

      Without that sound he invented, there's no REM, there's probably no Tom Petty and the heartbreaker's, there's no Teenage Fanclub, and surely no If I needed Someone or several other nice songs from that British band. A great sound.

    • @Cap683
      @Cap683 4 місяці тому

      McGuinn's Rickenbacker sound was a sort of happy accident. While recording, the engineers put compression on the guitar to protect their recording equipment. This resulted in a more punched up sound on the Rickenbacker. In addition, at the suggestion of Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, McGuinn added a tremble booster to the signal giving the Rickenbacker a brighter than normal sound.

  • @MrLoaded2012
    @MrLoaded2012 3 місяці тому +10

    This song is so good, it's almost unbelievable.

  • @d.s7741
    @d.s7741 10 місяців тому +5

    I dig the vocals

  • @williamhickey5296
    @williamhickey5296 3 місяці тому +9

    Rickenbacker heaven! This and I Can See For Miles and Miles really got me!

  • @DEALERSHIPCOFFEE
    @DEALERSHIPCOFFEE 4 місяці тому +17

    shout out to my dad who was born in 68 for getting me into acid rock

    • @bagoquarks
      @bagoquarks 2 місяці тому

      Since I was born in '50 I must be your 12-string grandfather.

  • @jerryhoward8133
    @jerryhoward8133 2 роки тому +121

    One of the very best songs to come out of the 60’s. McGuinns Rickenbacher makes the most beautiful sound. True pioneers in opening new musical portals.

    • @coreyzimmerman9782
      @coreyzimmerman9782 2 роки тому +4

      RMs solo was influenced by John Coltrane....great guitarist. Session musicians were sometimes used but he was on everything.

    • @nazretsel
      @nazretsel Рік тому +5

      I was 16 and Roger McGuinn's guitar playing drew me to the electric guitar and music in general. His guitar descant running a layer beneath the melody throughout the song is mesmerizing.

    • @judgegarry
      @judgegarry Рік тому +2

      The secret sauce, according to Roger, was the very heavy use of compression. He described it as "squashing the signal". There's nothing that can mimic analog signal processing, or what I call soaking the tubes. I've missed the sound I got from my stolen Hiwatt Lead 30 combo. I could see the tubes so bright it looked like they were going to melt.
      Thanks Roger, you were with me in the beginning of my path to the stage, and you remain deep in my heart and soul...
      I'll meet you on the other side Brother!

  • @mikewatson9676
    @mikewatson9676 Рік тому +19

    This song, one of the absolute best songs of all time. My remembrance was of my Dad loading up our station wagon in 1966, and I was helping him. I was holding a cassette tape of the Byrds, and he asked me what I had in my hand.... I told him I had a tape of the Byrds... He thought I was talking about Alfred Hitchcock and the movie 'The Birds', needless to say, he was very confused. I clarified the conversation by saying that "Alfred's Birds' don't get that high, but these BYRDS DO!!!!!

    • @butters395
      @butters395 7 місяців тому +2

      cassette tapes in 1966 ? 🤔

  • @trevortomah8508
    @trevortomah8508 6 місяців тому +15

    The song of the day, a timeless classic, y'all know this song, have a great 2024

  • @edarrow65
    @edarrow65 8 років тому +100

    The quintessential 60's song...

    • @Harriet1822
      @Harriet1822 4 роки тому +3

      This aged hippie could name a few others: White Rabbit, I Just Dropped In, Kicks.

    • @jimgleeson98
      @jimgleeson98 4 роки тому +1

      Saw them in London 1968! ROCKIN!

    • @brianallancobb
      @brianallancobb 4 роки тому +2

      Came out one year before the Summer of Love.

    • @jimgleeson98
      @jimgleeson98 4 роки тому +2

      @@brianallancobb I remember it well. Saw them in London 1968, Deep Purple were support. Happy times.

    • @andrewjwheelerjr3414
      @andrewjwheelerjr3414 4 роки тому

      This sounds so beautiful when they're singing it and they play it so flight fully brilliant love them so very much because of it too well peace everyone.

  • @cliveclerkenville2637
    @cliveclerkenville2637 Рік тому +7

    This is THE 60s tune bar none

  • @bblaylk
    @bblaylk Рік тому +22

    Roger McGuinn always credited the harmonies on this to David Crosby. Crosby was a master--and he'll surely be missed. One sad day.

    • @kevinb3812
      @kevinb3812 2 місяці тому

      Harmonies were always on-tap with Davis Crosby around! Some of the best examples in rock are with Crosby playing a part.

  • @bgandjsco1
    @bgandjsco1 4 місяці тому +21

    This is the Birth of psychedelic music.

    • @jcedwards8363
      @jcedwards8363 3 місяці тому

      close ...... The Beatles 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is the Crown

    • @bgandjsco1
      @bgandjsco1 3 місяці тому +3

      @@jcedwards8363 Sorry but EIGHT MILES was released March 15,1966 and the BEATLES Tomorrow Never Knows Aug 5 1966 Rush drummer NEIL PEART said ' The Beatles were reactionary not revolutionary

    • @elbuchito2907
      @elbuchito2907 3 місяці тому

      ​@bgandjsco1 I'm sorry brother but that's the stupidest comment by Peart if he ever did comment that wow. The Beatles set the stage for everyone else in rock . So much that the band we are hearing was a direct answer to the Beatles as were the monkeys.

    • @bgandjsco1
      @bgandjsco1 3 місяці тому

      @@elbuchito2907 Yes he did say it. We've already learned that they DID not invent Psychodelia music. They did not invent Guitar rock. They didn't have the first double record or the first concept record. More specifically what Peart said was They (the Beatles) were great at catching on to emerging trends and quickly capitalizing on it.

    • @elbuchito2907
      @elbuchito2907 3 місяці тому

      @@bgandjsco1 Who sounded like the Beatles in 1963 ? Please ,please me ?

  • @rocketmentor
    @rocketmentor 6 місяців тому +48

    60's and the 70's were the best in music and Hollywood, been downhill since with few exceptions.

    • @omegajrz1269
      @omegajrz1269 3 місяці тому

      The 80s and 90s also have amazing music.

  • @marshhill9720
    @marshhill9720 Рік тому +86

    This song evokes so many memories for me - the turmoil (Vietnam, assassinations, the cruel resistance to civil rights) and the hope (the Vietnam protests, the strength and determination of the civil rights advocates, the strides we made together), and the mixed impact of the drug culture. (I was about 9 when this came out and wasn't into drugs, but I understood the influence and the contradictions.) I think I must have been channeling another human even then because this time and this music resonated with me at a cellular level. Rest in peace, David Crosby!

    • @DavidfromBA
      @DavidfromBA Рік тому +6

      Great comment, Marla.

    • @christopherdutro168
      @christopherdutro168 Рік тому +1

      Great comment except for Vietnam

    • @crestonmckenzie7814
      @crestonmckenzie7814 Рік тому +1

      I were 14 listening to this song in 1985 I am A African Americans

    • @crestonmckenzie7814
      @crestonmckenzie7814 Рік тому +2

      African American love this song were 14 when I listened to this song

    • @ndotl
      @ndotl Рік тому

      At that time a 9 year old did not know what drugs were. Today they are convinced to steal cars and carry a gun.

  • @JFS3
    @JFS3 11 місяців тому +28

    The ringing overtones from McGuinn's Rick during the verses are absolutely sublime.

    • @1viva
      @1viva 10 місяців тому +3

      Totally!!!!!!!!!!!! 💜

    • @warshipsatin8764
      @warshipsatin8764 10 місяців тому +4

      its just an amplified piece of wood and some strings but the sound he makes comes from heaven

  • @Thundergod-
    @Thundergod- Рік тому +3

    I heard this tune was written while returning from Europe on tour on a jet airplane and also tripping on acid, hence the double-entendre of Eight Miles High....

  • @Classic.Hits-335.artists
    @Classic.Hits-335.artists 2 роки тому +4

    Banning this song on radio was utterly ridiculous. It should have been left alone to become a #1 song.

  • @youandwhosearmy6339
    @youandwhosearmy6339 3 роки тому +70

    0:01 The bass is rattling on the snare... We mean business. Phenomenal, innovative record. Love The Byrds.

    • @IanIsrael
      @IanIsrael 2 роки тому +7

      A fantastic song recorded by a real band in one room together using analog technology. The sounds they got will never be heard again.

    • @buckeyeschmave
      @buckeyeschmave 2 роки тому +2

      The first 11 seconds are just amazing. The entire song is awesome but what an intro.

    • @kennethsteffens6745
      @kennethsteffens6745 3 місяці тому

      Chris Hillman...enough said

  • @timages
    @timages Рік тому +19

    The story goes that the Byrds touring bus was where they listened to their one tape which had Ravi Shankar on one side and John Coltrane's " A Love Supreme" on the other. Those incredible guitar interludes here were inspired by Coltrane's soaring modal saxophone masterpieces on his iconic album. The result is one of the greatest songs to come out of an era of truly groundbreaking innovative music.

    • @petev6543
      @petev6543 Рік тому

      Coltrane's "India" I think but definitely!!
      ua-cam.com/video/G3w35yvUFPU/v-deo.html

    • @EricMLopez
      @EricMLopez 4 місяці тому

      "Impressions" and "Africa/Brass" were Coltrane pieces, but yes. It's nice to see people acknowledge where they drew inspiration from

  • @andrewbrown5759
    @andrewbrown5759 4 роки тому +82

    What i feel when I hear this stuff goes far beyond just nostalgia.

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +2

      Xactly - there was nothing like it before - it was like the Twang and combination of Harmony and Rythem was the soul of it's time -
      Always brings back a flood of memories - the sound is a hot August night and I would do anything to go back so I wouldn't have left her - I just didn't know -
      but you are Spot On - that's not just nostalgia - that's God works in most mysterious ways

    • @nature.rbeauty2255
      @nature.rbeauty2255 2 роки тому +3

      That it does kiddo 👶 that it does so beautiful 😍 and so very groovy 🎹🎼♥️❤️👍🏿💪🏾🎸🎻🪕.

  • @Farrah300
    @Farrah300 6 років тому +115

    One of my favorites by The Byrds.

    • @hotajax
      @hotajax 4 роки тому +6

      I can play this song 10 times in a row and not get tired of it. That's how I know it's my fav.

    • @hotajax
      @hotajax 3 роки тому +4

      Farrah: Hope you're still lovin' it in 2021. I know I am

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +2

      @@hotajax yes the twang and the rythem combined were the soul of it's time - I was there and the sound still brings a shaking of emotional memories

    • @johnsullivan2652
      @johnsullivan2652 3 роки тому +1

      Mainly because there would be nothing to relate it to

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +1

      @@johnsullivan2652
      did you hear it at the time of release because if you weren't there at the time I'm impressed cause your comment is SPOT On

  • @thomasrobinson182
    @thomasrobinson182 4 роки тому +93

    Probably the best, most unified recorded performance of the original 5 Byrds.

  • @howardkoor9365
    @howardkoor9365 Рік тому +15

    What an era of music!

  • @kalihiwarhomes2177
    @kalihiwarhomes2177 4 роки тому +70

    They could never produce anything as fabulous as this today.

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +2

      For me this sound defined the 60's - nothing like it had gone before - that twang was the soul of the time

    • @brandonlewis5135
      @brandonlewis5135 3 роки тому +2

      The Wonder Years

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому

      @@brandonlewis5135 there was never anything like it before especially if you weren't there to hear it -

    • @brandonlewis5135
      @brandonlewis5135 3 роки тому

      @@vince2346 ya i hear it. The stones

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому +2

      @@brandonlewis5135
      I hear McGuinns 12 string electric
      of Coltrane Jazz /Shankar Sitar Fusion and Crosby's Rythem Xplosion Cascading into some incredible Twang and winding out into some soulful Harmony
      I'm not trying to define or compare it cause THAT sound stood alone and defined mid 60's and all too briefly at that since some fool music critic banned it from AM Radio Stations for the Word "High" which had nothing to do with the lyrics
      It was all too brief as was Crosby's time with the band but that's what made the sound legendary - I have no idea what the Stones were doing in 1966 Xcept maybe a poor imitation

  • @mainmaam
    @mainmaam 2 роки тому +49

    This song gives me chills.

  • @lovehandles4193
    @lovehandles4193 Рік тому +11

    RIP, David Crosby. Thank you.

  • @tdeb79
    @tdeb79 2 роки тому +13

    That 12 string Rickenbacker sound..that's what makes this song (and most songs by The Byrds in general) irresistable.

    • @warshipsatin8764
      @warshipsatin8764 10 місяців тому

      truly an iconic sound in the history of rock and roll

  • @michaelbruns449
    @michaelbruns449 2 роки тому +39

    Dazzling and Revolutionary, Hypnotic and Mesmerizing, this Radiantly Awesome song sounds like the dawn of Psychedelic Rock.

  • @timbrown1834
    @timbrown1834 2 роки тому +55

    The Byrds put out 6 great albums between 65 and 68. And if you count all the b sides and outtakes, thats a lot of great songs. It's crazy how they are somewhat underrated in the pantheon of 60s bands.

    • @jeff7764
      @jeff7764 2 роки тому +9

      But they’re not underrated at all…

    • @kyliekylie5547
      @kyliekylie5547 2 роки тому +3

      I agree and was so glad Hillman and Gram Parsons went on to make the Flying Burrito Brothers. Great Great music. Gram and the Burritos influenced so many- the Stones/Keith Richards. His work with Emmylou Harris is really good as well.

    • @1337owers
      @1337owers 2 роки тому +1

      Even my dad who was born in '48 from a tiny village in Holland had all those records from the 60's.

    • @jimmytgoose476
      @jimmytgoose476 Рік тому

      Tim "Chinny" Brown ....?

    • @timbrown1834
      @timbrown1834 Рік тому +2

      @@jimmytgoose476 had to look that up. A skater? Nah. I'm the Tim Brown that was a wide receiver for the Raiders

  • @ranchobob48
    @ranchobob48 3 місяці тому +4

    this is why I bought a 12 string in 1966 and still own it!

  • @MatthewHillMusician
    @MatthewHillMusician Рік тому +2

    I’ve been a fan of The Byrds since I was seven years old.

  • @Mistertbones
    @Mistertbones 2 роки тому +46

    Roger McGuinn's 12 string is killer!

  • @IAmWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings
    @IAmWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings Рік тому +41

    I think every one of us remembers exactly when and where we first heard this song. I’ll never forget how it felt. Rest In Peace, David Crosby.

  • @transmitterdown1670
    @transmitterdown1670 Рік тому +15

    RIP David. Thanks for the great music!

  • @SHAKAWANA511
    @SHAKAWANA511 Рік тому +12

    Some of the best music from a 60's child! Rest In Peace David Crosby!! Thanks for the good music!!

  • @paulcooper-n2v
    @paulcooper-n2v 3 місяці тому +3

    Man i could imagine what this was like hearing for the first time in the 60's it must have been mind blowing.

    • @kevinb3812
      @kevinb3812 2 місяці тому +1

      It still moves us all these years later... it is a potent song.

    • @paulcooper-n2v
      @paulcooper-n2v 2 місяці тому

      @@kevinb3812 I can understand that.

  • @bryonhogg485
    @bryonhogg485 6 місяців тому +9

    8 miles high blows me away every time I listen to it . . .

  • @dasirrsinn1152
    @dasirrsinn1152 Рік тому +6

    RIP David Crosby

  • @orionpaddington7527
    @orionpaddington7527 2 роки тому +11

    That Rickenbacker 12 strings... simply wonderful!

  • @KennethLeary-q1p
    @KennethLeary-q1p 11 місяців тому +2

    By the time this song was released here in the States,on March 14,1966,distortion and feedback had been pretty well establishe on the guitar.
    Roger McGuinn said that the played the 12 string parts the way he did,because he wanted it to sound "trippy".

  • @markkendrick7547
    @markkendrick7547 Рік тому +23

    We lost one of the very best guitarists, singer , songwriters, to ever grace a stage.....From The Byrds to Crosby ,Stills , Nash and Young , he showed his mastery....RIP David Crosby...You will be forever missed and remembered....😞🎤🎸🔥💪👊🙏

  • @Nebris
    @Nebris Рік тому +8

    Gonna get stoned later, listen to this and shed some tears for my lost youth....

    • @theotheorie4941
      @theotheorie4941 Рік тому +1

      yourth never gets lost .. by the way

    • @joelapera6676
      @joelapera6676 7 місяців тому +1

      i hear you guy i get stoned like a H.S. kid all day every day not much left in this world for old timers tg mother nature still affordable ive been around since1932

    • @paulcooper-n2v
      @paulcooper-n2v 3 місяці тому

      Dance instead don't cry.

  • @lazyrrr2411
    @lazyrrr2411 2 роки тому +10

    Allegedly the Byrds prefer their original RCA recording ... all due respect ... but i'm glad Columbia made them clean up the mess and re-record it like this

    • @gaspersignorelli3724
      @gaspersignorelli3724 2 роки тому +2

      The RCA cut had a raw rough appeal. The Ric sounds like ice cracking, but I agree the Columbia take is clearly better.

  • @loopwithers
    @loopwithers Рік тому +7

    Dedicated to every passenger on an intercontinental flight, courtesy of The Byrds

  • @kimdurig1322
    @kimdurig1322 Рік тому +11

    For me this song is the anthem for the sixties ....... RIP David

  • @bluebellbeatnik4945
    @bluebellbeatnik4945 Рік тому +7

    RIP David Crosby. So sad. He's probably the most inspirational musician for me. Gutter.

  • @bellasinister5743
    @bellasinister5743 3 роки тому +43

    In the late 60s, watching televised US space program events, particularly the moon landing, this song always went through my mind, during early earth-launch.

  • @LauraStafford-r6z
    @LauraStafford-r6z 6 місяців тому +8

    Remembering the first time I heard this song in 1966 ,feel in love with the Byrds

  • @monicabardot2492
    @monicabardot2492 Рік тому +14

    RIP David. I have many fond memories from my youth listening to your songs. You will not be forgotten.

  • @larry7124
    @larry7124 Рік тому +18

    R I P David you and Gene and Mike, soaring eight miles painting the universe thanks for the journey

  • @mitchkenvin259
    @mitchkenvin259 3 роки тому +15

    Quite possibly, the world’s most perfect rock song

    • @vince2346
      @vince2346 3 роки тому

      ABSOLUTELY - there was nothing like it before and the twang and combination of harmony and rythem was the soul of it's time - always brings a flood of memories - this sound was a hot August night and if I could go back l would have never left her - God works in most mysterious ways

    • @brandonlewis5135
      @brandonlewis5135 3 роки тому

      The Wonder Years

  • @robertthacher
    @robertthacher Рік тому +9

    Such an awesome beginning. And the rest of it is rich with great Byrds harmonies. From 68! MgGuin puts the Rickenbacker 12 string on the map! The ending is as impressive as the beginning!

  • @johnyuma1459
    @johnyuma1459 2 роки тому +5

    1966 what a great year to be alive! 12 years old and absorbing all these cool ass vibes!

    • @peterfallowell6833
      @peterfallowell6833 Рік тому +2

      I was 12 too.. also loved Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Revolver -Beatles.......Loved Psychedelia........still do :)

    • @daviddietz206
      @daviddietz206 Рік тому

      Me too.

  • @TheBebelehaut
    @TheBebelehaut 11 місяців тому +3

    We've had fun in Muzungu land. Listening to his songs.

  • @joeybenoit6269
    @joeybenoit6269 2 роки тому +7

    I was born in the mission district 1955 I was nurtured by the San Francisco sound! My favorite track from the Byrd's!

  • @robertbright947
    @robertbright947 2 роки тому +9

    I was just starting school when this came out but I enjoyed for many years on the radio in So Cal and Hawaii - I even once had the 45rpm single - it reminds me of the last golden years of California.

  • @viggosimonsen
    @viggosimonsen Рік тому +10

    This song has stood the test of time. It still gives me goose pimples.
    I believe it was on the Sound Track of the film Easy Rider
    R.I.P Croz

  • @josephlemko3027
    @josephlemko3027 5 років тому +47

    A Classic song! McGuinn's guitar work is magnificent. One of the best groups ever.

  • @marceibel1131
    @marceibel1131 2 роки тому +19

    Masterpiece..
    The drumming..

  • @anthonycarter7920
    @anthonycarter7920 4 місяці тому +2

    After I heard that guitar solo for the first time, I became ab instant Byrds fan!!!

  • @stevenstearns3344
    @stevenstearns3344 Рік тому +29

    Great song for the 1960's. This is one of Crosby's greatest moments. RIP David.

  • @alp-1960
    @alp-1960 Рік тому +8

    RIP David Crosby ❤ Thank you.

  • @WilliamMarkovitch
    @WilliamMarkovitch Рік тому +3

    Remember....this was 1965......we lived
    In a different world. Than the one we know in 2023. Alot of the 1960s idealism
    Have been lost. We should get back to
    The very idea of equality. And fairness
    This is largely missing in 2023.

    • @patriciamays8244
      @patriciamays8244 10 місяців тому +1

      Good idea. I believe if we think positively and desire peace and beauty we're far more likely to i fect others to do the same eventually creating a new mentality.

    • @heaven-is-real
      @heaven-is-real 3 місяці тому

      They lost their way. They were coopted by evil and are now wallowing in communism globalism satanism and other wide roads leading to darkness and death.