The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1971)
another version of the instrumental jam ‘Eight Miles High’ by Dave Crosby here celebrating the double album ‘untitled’ which at the time struck me as the most brave and usual title (sic! guess you had to be there!) Instrumental I presume after it being banned in the USA and reaches the first verse after about 12 mins, poor Jim never looks quite at home to me but Skip Battin and Parsons (Gene), White and McGuinn are having fun with this and it went on to 16 minutes on the album so be grateful for small mercies. Not their best attempt of jazz and raga inspired jam version. The fifth member here is percussionist is their roadie Jimmy Seiter
Gosh this period and these sets really divide Byrds fans and jamming fans too! I grant you this isn’t the best version and I have posted better but the version on ‘untitled’ at 16 minutes and a full side of the double vinyl album was legendary at the time . . . .
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