The man having spoken, I say we give this one a rest. I have no idea how that rumor got started.” Glen Campbell was not on that session, or any other Byrds recording. “I played the lead guitar on Eight Miles High. It all started with transcribing Roger McGuinns iconic. When I dropped him a line, here was his reply: Lesson description: Heres a jangle-fied rendition of the The Byrds classic Eight Miles High. It was my idea to write about the 39000 ft 7 miles high plane ride. David Crosby and I contributed lyrics to it. We can just ask Byrds guitar genius Roger McGuinn, a regular participant in the Usenet newsgroup . According to a post in another thread, the ever-charming McGuinn also tweeted this: 'Gene Clark did not present Eight Miles High to us as fully written as his sycophants made him believe. So Campbell’s studio career was, presumably, finito by the time the Byrds released “Eight Miles High” on Fifth Dimension (1966).īut we don’t need to rely strictly on our powers of deduction. Campbell was soon replaced by Bruce Johnston–a lucky break for Glen but a serious blow to music lovers, since Campbell then signed with Capitol and began churning out the ersatz country hits that infected America’s airwaves for many years thereafter. Roger McGuinn), and David Crosby and first released as a single on March 14. For a few months in 1965, Campbell was a genuine Beach Boy, filling in for Brian Wilson (who had suffered a nervous breakdown) when the group went on tour. Eight Miles High is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a. When Glen Campbell first arrived in Los Angeles, a fresh-faced country boy from (where else?) Delight, Arkansas, he worked as a studio musician for a number of high-powered acts, including Johnny Cash, Dean Martin, and the Mamas and the Papas. The failure of "Eight Miles High" to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban, but some commentators have suggested the song's complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors.Dear Cecil: Did Glen Campbell really play lead guitar on “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds? Phil D., Los Angeles EIGHT MILES HIGH (Written by Gene Clark / Roger McGuinn / David Crosby) Roger McGuinn Golden Earring The Byrds Eight miles high and when you touch down. 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.
radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics. Van Nuys Answer Key: B Question 3 of 17 Score: 5 (of possible 5 Matching: artist/album points) Match Choice 1. Accordingly, critics often cite "Eight Miles High" as being the first bona fide psychedelic rock song, as well as a classic of the counterculture era. Eight miles high and when we touch down You find that its stranger than known Signs in the street that say where youre going Are somewhere just bein. Eight Miles High Answer Key: A Question 2 of 17 Score: 1 (of possible 1 Many folk rock artists lived here in the early 1970s:point) A. The track’s beginning, middle and end feature frenetic flights of modal riffing and improvisation on McGuinn’s electric 12-string. The solo was heavily influenced by the saxophonist John Coltrane. Musically influenced by Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock, raga rock, and psychedelic pop. McGuinn took that sustained Rickenbacker sound, and the Byrds’ music, in a new direction with the group’s 1966 recording Eight Miles High, the lead single from their Fifth Dimension album, released that same year. Roger McGuinn says on his DVD 'The 12-String Guitar of Roger McGuinn' that the solo is based (of all things) on the Blues Scale, which is a Minor Pentatonic with an added passing tone (the flatted fifth).
It was first released as a single on March 14, 1966.
"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a. Roger McGuinn (From the 2022 Album LIVE AT THE FILLMORE 1997) Intro Em Verse 1 Em Fm7 G D C Eight miles high and when you touch down G D C You'll find that it's stranger than known.
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