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Eight Miles High (Original Post) hobbit709 Mar 2015 OP
Great tune! marym625 Mar 2015 #1
I never thought of the Byrds as a jam band, but there it is. Tobin S. Mar 2015 #2
They got "the Coltrane thing" on Top 40 radio Tom Ripley Mar 2015 #4
Here's a different take... Throd Mar 2015 #3
Or this version by my favorite guitarist DFW Mar 2015 #5
Leo Kottke! Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #9
My alltime favorite DFW Mar 2015 #10
I remember you posting about that. with pictures, right? Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #11
I have a great photo of a matching pair (6 & 12) he made for me 15 years ago. DFW Mar 2015 #13
The first time I heard that song was by Golden Earring chknltl Mar 2015 #6
A nice version by Chris Hillman... greendog Mar 2015 #7
Another Byrds performance with lyrics pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #8
The back-story is interesting. Thanks In_The_Wind Mar 2015 #14
Huge K&R cyberswede Mar 2015 #12

DFW

(54,051 posts)
10. My alltime favorite
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:11 AM
Mar 2015

He inspired me to take up the 12 string guitar, which I still play today. I even sought out the guy who made his guitars back in the seventies "to find once again that Student Prince sound."

DFW

(54,051 posts)
13. I have a great photo of a matching pair (6 & 12) he made for me 15 years ago.
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 05:46 AM
Mar 2015

Most of the other guitars he made for me were made made in the mid-to-late 1970s.

I have not played a 6 string made by Božo that I consider truly spectacular

I have rarely played a 12 string made by Božo that I DIDN'T consider spectacular.

greendog

(3,127 posts)
7. A nice version by Chris Hillman...
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 09:05 PM
Mar 2015

....who was a member of the Byrds when the song was written ( though not a co-writer ) before going on to co-found The Flying Burrito Brothers.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
8. Another Byrds performance with lyrics
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 09:53 PM
Mar 2015


Eight Miles High Lyrics

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 goin'
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

Songwriters
GENE CLARK, DAVID CROSBY, ROGER MC GUINN



The song was subject to a U.S. radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics.[5][6] The band strenuously denied these allegations at the time, but in later years both Clark and Crosby admitted that the song was at least partly inspired by their own drug use.[5][7] The failure of "Eight Miles High" to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban,[8] but some commentators have suggested that the song's complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors.[5][9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Miles_High

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