I saw this same tune/solo in 1972 - the band was McGuinn, Battin, White with Gene Parsons on drums. Parsons was one of my favorite Byrds - his 2 tunes on the Easy Rider album were exquisite…..Gunga Din was stunning.
I saw The Byrds five different times between 1969 and 1971, every time they did Eight Miles High live, in that jam, it was a different and amazing experience every single time.
I didn't enjoy it as you did. This is a competent band that should not be using the Byrds name (even with McGuinn leading the group), on an extended and mostly undistinguished jam session for fun and to rev up a crowd without even playing the song itself. As you said, they've abandoned the song in favor of a jam. Boring.
The original Eight Mile High is from 1966 Album "5th Dimension". It was a completely different version of the band. As the name of the song and the album might tell you, this was one of the Psychedelic Rock masterpieces. Another famous song of the album is Mr. Spaceman. There is also a great video of this song on yotube, where they are playing in an UFO. The original 8 miles high is only 3:40 long. Member back then was the late David Crosby. In 1970 the band had changed. There were more country and Jazz influences in the music. The new guitarist was Gram Parsons, who also played with the flying burrito brothers and had a fantastic solo album called "Grievous Angel". Unfortunately he passed away in 73 aged 26.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Actually, he's mixing things up a bit. This band onstage contains only one of the original Byrds' lineup, Roger McGuinn (nee Jim McGuinn), and by the time this was recorded I don't consider the band to be deserving of the name. They are competent musicians, maybe even better backing musicians for McGuinn if all you want is a steady, reliable group of guys around you. Clarence White is on lead guitar, and is definitely a great guitarist, so I have no issue with him being there; in fact, he was recording with The Byrds before they began to splinter and did a number of nice contributions to songs on albums like "Younger Than Yesterday" and "The Notorious Byrd Brothers". (Gram Parsons was not a primary guitarist in his short stint with the band but did push them further into country music for that period.) Anyway, this is NOT The Byrds in a lineup I think is worthy of the name, when their signature sound, instrumentally and in gorgeous harmonies, and songwriting was in peak form. This is mostly live performance jamming that largely obliterates the classic song they're supposedly playing here. Some think this is so cool. I think it's boring and a desecration of the original recording. Listen to that from the "5D" album and you'll experience the song as it should be.
I like it all. The OG version is really great a d this live performance is great as well. Dont be so close minded man. Especially when it comes to the music of that era.. Cream made every song they had better when playing live. 🤟👹❤ And i love their studio recordings as well.
Yeah that’s Gene Parsons. This was a later lineup of the band, but Gene is a very talented man. He also plays banjo guitar harmonica and is a decent singer. He’s a craftsman and a mechanic, invented the b-bender guitar, builds banjos and even steam whistles. Dude is an amazing human being.
I burned up the motor in dad's 1962 Chevy Belair station wagon when 3 of us drove to Lincoln Nebraska to see the Byrds at the Pershing Auditorium on September 12th 1969. We were so excited to see them that fact I was going to be dead meat didn't detract from the music at all. By the time we got back to Omaha we were burning more oil than gas and there wasn't a live mosquito within 10 miles. My dad took it better than I expected. The fact it didn't have a functioning oil idiot light was probably the only thing that saved me.
The drummer is Gene Parsons.He is a little more famous for being the creator of the B-Bender guitar which I urge you to google. The Telecaster you see Clarence White playing here is a B-Bender. Love your channel man!!
This is a legendary session at Fillmore with Gene on drums 👏👏👏👏great recommendation 👏👏👏👏yes concerts in the 70’s were the real deal….. I remember Mick asking the audience what to play next while Billy Preston just riffed in the background 👏👏👏👏👏thanks for the memories 🥂
As you said, an experience. There's lots of bands that wouldn't get away with a jam like this, but on the other side of the coin, so many would draw the crowd in. Thanks Dr Rooney
Love or current era, where everything is recorded and available forever. We'll never see Mozart playing live, but thankfully since approximately a century or so, we now have all this.
Wooohooooo 1st comment.... Love the channel and content Roooooneyyyyy. Greetings from VA Talking about snare tone the bass tone is pretty good and that guy is totally killing it..
This was excellent!! Now I want to watch this whole concert, Filmore East 1970. Live rock concerts were really cooking back then and when Rooney is reacting to classic rock artists and drummers, I am there with a "thumbs up!" I love it when we are introducing Andy to all this great classic rock and for his first time listens. Now we need to make sure he hears the actual 8 Miles High hit by The Byrds...this was an extended jam and not the actual core of the song, with all of its great vocal harmonies, etc. This is different than modern concerts and music, that's for sure...I am going to go ahead and say it....not only different, but better.....there I said it for ya Andy....took the heat off of you, ha ha....it was all about the music and jamming and getting into a groove and feel, ready to take chances...Woodstock is a great example. Or even the first famous Pop Festival, Monterey Pop, 1967.
This is somewhat of a hidden gem. Searching UA-cam only yields a few people reacting to this particular performance which is a shame because that’s some top tier live playing right there. Hopefully people searching for reactions will be more likely to land on your channel and get an opportunity to see this and more of the concert.
I believe the acts that night (in alphabetical order but not in order of appearance) were The Allman Brothers Band, The Byrds,The Elvin Bishop Group, The Flock, Albert King, Van morrison and Sha Na Na.
Apparently when this was written in ‘65 the band had been listening to John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar. You can definitely hear that both here and on the original single.
Wild version! I never knew they played this way live. I do know that the intro guitar on the original was played by Roger and he wanted to play something "Coltrane" like so I guess this makes sense 👍
I have this long version on a thumb drive which I plug into my trucks radio when on the road. This song along with 498 other songs since radio music is crap these days. September 1970, I was in College. The video has been edited to remove the vocals out unlike the copy I have on the thumb drive. I also have a vinyl with this song complete and it runs about 14 plus minutes.
Wow ! OK , I'm old enough to remember when this was big , and The Byrds wren't really that big a deal for me ,But holy shit man live , this is some thin' else , like the man said "thank god it 's been preserved".
Andrew, I think you need to check out John Densmore of The Doors. Very similar to this in many ways, lots of jazz, call and response, all the good stuff. I promise it would be as much a rabbit hole as Bill Ward.
That NewOrder shirt hits different. I've always wondered what could have been if Ian held out a little longer, if Joy Division made it to their US tour...
I grew up in this era. Seems to me that audiences were WAY different back then. Respectful of the music and really listening. Not alot of whoopin and hollerin and talking during the songs
“A little taste of” … seems to be just a jam, based on the core of Eight Miles High. Pretty awesome, tho! I never thought of the Byrds as anything like a jam band. Very cool! Best I can figure, assuming this holds true for this performance, is that Gene Parsons was their drummer from 68-72.
concerts of the day, 60s and 70s , you sat down and be quiet, it was about the music. The only time you stood was in arena - stadiums setting.. no chairs but still be quiet.
interesting...it's a completely different song than Eight Miles High but it's a good jam anyway. I like the original lineup with David Crosby when they made their best stuff. For that brief time they were almost as big as The Beatles. Interesting comment about bands these days not really being able to jam like this, which I agree. Back then young people in the 60's wanting to rebel and listen to something exciting and new with any edge at all had such a limited supply of options in terms of rock and jazz, so many people had similar tastes, along with the psychedelic experimentation which was taking off for the first time ever. magical time
That's not the Byrds. The only guy I recognize is Roger McGuinn in this group. Here's the original you need to be discussing: ua-cam.com/video/NxyOhFBoxSY/v-deo.html
@@simond1574 Because...this lineup is the Byrds: Roger McGuinn - lead guitar/vocals David Crosby - rhythm guitar/vocals Gene Clark - vocals Chris Hillman - bass guitar/vocals Michael Clark - drums And they sounded like this not the music on this vid: ua-cam.com/video/PnstCrL1_e0/v-deo.html No David Crosby...not the Byrds
@@Mikheno I'm quite sure Roger and Gram Parsons would disagree. And yes, they sound different. But Pet Sounds or Carl and the Passions did also not sound like early Beach Boys. It's fine to evolve
@@aidanmcguire1369 Thank you for the education! I’ve been a drummer for 60 years and a session drummer for 40years. I guess I thought I knew every drummer that ever lived. 🤪🤪
As I said in another comment here, responding to a previous post, this is NOT faithful to the original "Eight Miles High" but instead is a rather lame and tuneless jamming derived from that original. Yeah, the musicians are good enough and maybe some folks will dig this extended jam, but I find it boring and a bit insulting to the original. The only original member of The Byrds on stage here is Roger McGuinn playing the 12-string Rickenbacker. I highly recommend you listen to the original recording of "Eight Miles High" from the "Fifth Dimension" album by The Byrds. It is so much better than this undistinguished jam session that leaves the song's melody, lyrics and other classic elements in ruins. By the way, The Byrds' drummer for many years was Michael Clarke, and you probably wouldn't be that interested in analyzing his drumming. He was a competent, sometimes more inspired, drummer who was the least noteworthy of the original members.
I saw this same tune/solo in 1972 - the band was McGuinn, Battin, White with Gene Parsons on drums.
Parsons was one of my favorite Byrds - his 2 tunes on the Easy Rider album were exquisite…..Gunga Din was stunning.
I saw The Byrds five different times between 1969 and 1971, every time they did Eight Miles High live, in that jam, it was a different and amazing experience every single time.
Loved the jam but it’s interesting they played “Eight Miles High” without playing “Eight Miles High.”
Well said. I kept waiting for the vocals but I was not disappointed ✌🏼
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I didn't enjoy it as you did. This is a competent band that should not be using the Byrds name (even with McGuinn leading the group), on an extended and mostly undistinguished jam session for fun and to rev up a crowd without even playing the song itself. As you said, they've abandoned the song in favor of a jam. Boring.
The original Eight Mile High is from 1966 Album "5th Dimension". It was a completely different version of the band. As the name of the song and the album might tell you, this was one of the Psychedelic Rock masterpieces. Another famous song of the album is Mr. Spaceman. There is also a great video of this song on yotube, where they are playing in an UFO.
The original 8 miles high is only 3:40 long. Member back then was the late David Crosby.
In 1970 the band had changed. There were more country and Jazz influences in the music. The new guitarist was Gram Parsons, who also played with the flying burrito brothers and had a fantastic solo album called "Grievous Angel". Unfortunately he passed away in 73 aged 26.
Wow thank you for the info Simon
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Actually, he's mixing things up a bit. This band onstage contains only one of the original Byrds' lineup, Roger McGuinn (nee Jim McGuinn), and by the time this was recorded I don't consider the band to be deserving of the name. They are competent musicians, maybe even better backing musicians for McGuinn if all you want is a steady, reliable group of guys around you. Clarence White is on lead guitar, and is definitely a great guitarist, so I have no issue with him being there; in fact, he was recording with The Byrds before they began to splinter and did a number of nice contributions to songs on albums like "Younger Than Yesterday" and "The Notorious Byrd Brothers". (Gram Parsons was not a primary guitarist in his short stint with the band but did push them further into country music for that period.) Anyway, this is NOT The Byrds in a lineup I think is worthy of the name, when their signature sound, instrumentally and in gorgeous harmonies, and songwriting was in peak form. This is mostly live performance jamming that largely obliterates the classic song they're supposedly playing here. Some think this is so cool. I think it's boring and a desecration of the original recording. Listen to that from the "5D" album and you'll experience the song as it should be.
I like it all.
The OG version is really great a d this live performance is great as well.
Dont be so close minded man. Especially when it comes to the music of that era..
Cream made every song they had better when playing live. 🤟👹❤
And i love their studio recordings as well.
WOW what a video! Thanks Eric. I know this song well....at least I thought I knew this song well. What a groove. Gd morn from NY, Andrew!!
Yeah that’s Gene Parsons. This was a later lineup of the band, but Gene is a very talented man. He also plays banjo guitar harmonica and is a decent singer. He’s a craftsman and a mechanic, invented the b-bender guitar, builds banjos and even steam whistles. Dude is an amazing human being.
He plays pedal steel and writes songs too. Dude is a machine
I burned up the motor in dad's 1962 Chevy Belair station wagon when 3 of us drove to Lincoln Nebraska to see the Byrds at the Pershing Auditorium on September 12th 1969. We were so excited to see them that fact I was going to be dead meat didn't detract from the music at all. By the time we got back to Omaha we were burning more oil than gas and there wasn't a live mosquito within 10 miles. My dad took it better than I expected. The fact it didn't have a functioning oil idiot light was probably the only thing that saved me.
😂🤣😂🤔we had a Ford Falcon….memory lane 🥂
The drummer is Gene Parsons.He is a little more famous for being the creator of the B-Bender guitar which I urge you to google. The Telecaster you see Clarence White playing here is a B-Bender. Love your channel man!!
Not quite. It was Clarence White and Gene Parsons created the B-Bender.
This is a legendary session at Fillmore with Gene on drums 👏👏👏👏great recommendation 👏👏👏👏yes concerts in the 70’s were the real deal….. I remember Mick asking the audience what to play next while Billy Preston just riffed in the background 👏👏👏👏👏thanks for the memories 🥂
This version is epic! This is a very timely reaction as well, given the recent passing of the song's co-writer David Crosby. RIP.
OH NO! Sad to hear that
As you said, an experience. There's lots of bands that wouldn't get away with a jam like this, but on the other side of the coin, so many would draw the crowd in.
Thanks Dr Rooney
Love or current era, where everything is recorded and available forever. We'll never see Mozart playing live, but thankfully since approximately a century or so, we now have all this.
I think this was just the jam that led into "8 miles high"
Wooohooooo 1st comment.... Love the channel and content Roooooneyyyyy.
Greetings from VA
Talking about snare tone the bass tone is pretty good and that guy is totally killing it..
Drummer Gene Parson brilliant drummer & multi talented musician.
This was excellent!! Now I want to watch this whole concert, Filmore East 1970. Live rock concerts were really cooking back then and when Rooney is reacting to classic rock artists and drummers, I am there with a "thumbs up!" I love it when we are introducing Andy to all this great classic rock and for his first time listens. Now we need to make sure he hears the actual 8 Miles High hit by The Byrds...this was an extended jam and not the actual core of the song, with all of its great vocal harmonies, etc. This is different than modern concerts and music, that's for sure...I am going to go ahead and say it....not only different, but better.....there I said it for ya Andy....took the heat off of you, ha ha....it was all about the music and jamming and getting into a groove and feel, ready to take chances...Woodstock is a great example. Or even the first famous Pop Festival, Monterey Pop, 1967.
Yeah I'm loving this classic rock education
This is somewhat of a hidden gem. Searching UA-cam only yields a few people reacting to this particular performance which is a shame because that’s some top tier live playing right there. Hopefully people searching for reactions will be more likely to land on your channel and get an opportunity to see this and more of the concert.
Yes this is an absolute gem
Goes straight on my CD shopping list
BOOM
Roger(Jim) McGuinn was trying to do Coltrane on the 12 string. Check out the Album The Byrd's "Untitled" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I believe the acts that night (in alphabetical order but not in order of appearance) were The Allman Brothers Band, The Byrds,The Elvin Bishop Group, The Flock, Albert King, Van morrison and Sha Na Na.
DAYUM!
Apparently when this was written in ‘65 the band had been listening to John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar. You can definitely hear that both here and on the original single.
Wild version! I never knew they played this way live. I do know that the intro guitar on the original was played by Roger and he wanted to play something "Coltrane" like so I guess this makes sense 👍
I have this long version on a thumb drive which I plug into my trucks radio when on the road. This song along with 498 other songs since radio music is crap these days. September 1970, I was in College. The video has been edited to remove the vocals out unlike the copy I have on the thumb drive. I also have a vinyl with this song complete and it runs about 14 plus minutes.
Never heard this before, nice find!
Wow ! OK , I'm old enough to remember when this was big , and
The Byrds wren't really that big a deal for me ,But holy shit man
live , this is some thin' else , like the man said "thank god it 's been preserved".
Yes Paul!!!
The only thing I knew about the Byrds was Roger McGuinn’s amazing playing (12 string Rickenbacker). This was remarkable.
Andrew, I think you need to check out John Densmore of The Doors.
Very similar to this in many ways, lots of jazz, call and response, all the good stuff.
I promise it would be as much a rabbit hole as Bill Ward.
If you loved this, you should check out the one they played at Royal Albert Hall in 1971. It's twice as long!
I'd be all over that
I love that one, but this version is more exciting.
The guy kneeling down you mentioned looked to be the camera assistant
That NewOrder shirt hits different. I've always wondered what could have been if Ian held out a little longer, if Joy Division made it to their US tour...
I heard the The Byrds flew off with a fallout shelter....Eight miles high and falling fast....? Peace!
Hi Andrew
You should also watch " what makes John
Bonham such a good drummer" by
Polyphonic.
Have a Nice day.
Clarence White was know as a bluegrass guitarist but obviously much much more
Phish is the only band I know that still jams like this. Great video! 👍😎
Gene Parsons at this moment.
Oh right! Thank you
Gene Parsons is Bill Ward's doppleganger
I grew up in this era. Seems to me that audiences were WAY different back then. Respectful of the music and really listening. Not alot of whoopin and hollerin and talking during the songs
It was fresh and new. And an experience. Now it's a full production/entertainment
I'm guessing you never saw a Beatles concert, then.
@@theDesync Yeah man. You got me. But concerts ARE way different now. Cheers
@@lawrencesmith6536 It was just strange. I never saw somebody refer to dancing at a concert as a bad thing.
@@theDesync I didn't say anything about dancing
For a great drum version accompanying the original song check out "Sina's" performance of "8 Miles High" also on UA-cam...
Sounds great. Thanks Scott
Heck of an intro 😄
you should react to soil the stillborn
Thanks for the tip
As my dad use to say Thats good shit
“A little taste of” … seems to be just a jam, based on the core of Eight Miles High. Pretty awesome, tho! I never thought of the Byrds as anything like a jam band. Very cool!
Best I can figure, assuming this holds true for this performance, is that Gene Parsons was their drummer from 68-72.
I love you as the voice of Bluey’s dad
You should check the The Birds from England.
His kit gave me Peart vibes......Kinda like this is where Peart got his idea for a wrap-around kit.....At least that is my impression.
Why not review “Eight Miles High” next? Studio recording
concerts of the day, 60s and 70s , you sat down and be quiet, it was about the music. The only time you stood was in arena - stadiums setting.. no chairs but still be quiet.
interesting...it's a completely different song than Eight Miles High but it's a good jam anyway. I like the original lineup with David Crosby when they made their best stuff. For that brief time they were almost as big as The Beatles.
Interesting comment about bands these days not really being able to jam like this, which I agree. Back then young people in the 60's wanting to rebel and listen to something exciting and new with any edge at all had such a limited supply of options in terms of rock and jazz, so many people had similar tastes, along with the psychedelic experimentation which was taking off for the first time ever. magical time
Jazz band? By this time they were a country band, or at least after they had invented country rock
Skip Battin on bass...
AMAZING
where the fuck was the song?
I’m sure this version contains every note of the original in there somewhere.
Theres 2 bands you are getting mixed up
The Byrds
The yard birds
That's not the Byrds. The only guy I recognize is Roger McGuinn in this group. Here's the original you need to be discussing: ua-cam.com/video/NxyOhFBoxSY/v-deo.html
Off course it's The Byrds. Why would this lineup not be the Byrds?
@@simond1574 Because...this lineup is the Byrds:
Roger McGuinn - lead guitar/vocals
David Crosby - rhythm guitar/vocals
Gene Clark - vocals
Chris Hillman - bass guitar/vocals
Michael Clark - drums
And they sounded like this not the music on this vid:
ua-cam.com/video/PnstCrL1_e0/v-deo.html
No David Crosby...not the Byrds
@@Mikheno I'm quite sure Roger and Gram Parsons would disagree. And yes, they sound different. But Pet Sounds or Carl and the Passions did also not sound like early Beach Boys. It's fine to evolve
Golden Earring Version is as good try it
Definitely not very similar to the studio recording. A great jam nonetheless.
Just a big jam here
The drummer's name is Michael Clarke.
Hey man,,,this drummer is gene Parsons,,Michael Clarke had left the band a few years previous to this concert....peace and happiness to you...
@@aidanmcguire1369 Thank you for the education! I’ve been a drummer for 60 years and a session drummer for 40years. I guess I thought I knew every drummer that ever lived. 🤪🤪
As I said in another comment here, responding to a previous post, this is NOT faithful to the original "Eight Miles High" but instead is a rather lame and tuneless jamming derived from that original. Yeah, the musicians are good enough and maybe some folks will dig this extended jam, but I find it boring and a bit insulting to the original. The only original member of The Byrds on stage here is Roger McGuinn playing the 12-string Rickenbacker. I highly recommend you listen to the original recording of "Eight Miles High" from the "Fifth Dimension" album by The Byrds. It is so much better than this undistinguished jam session that leaves the song's melody, lyrics and other classic elements in ruins. By the way, The Byrds' drummer for many years was Michael Clarke, and you probably wouldn't be that interested in analyzing his drumming. He was a competent, sometimes more inspired, drummer who was the least noteworthy of the original members.