The Byrds - 8 Miles high video free download


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Uploaded: 2010/06/08

The Byrds...a rare one of them, miming "Eight Miles High" on American Bandstand. The last TV appearance with a soon-to-be fired David Crosby...

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8 years ago

C Ace

Studio version lip sync such as was the necessity due to prevailing copyright law. Still a great fake! Love it! Thanks.

8 years ago

Arthur Goodlad

In places Small Faces..... There's a lovely anecdote in Ian McLagan's autobiography where years after this was filmed, he bumps into, I think, Crosby at an airport. When Crosby realised who he was he let Ian know: when The Byrds were in Britain they'd heard the Small Faces on the radio everywhere, loved their sound and added the line in this song as a tribute to them.

9 years ago

Smile892011

I always wondered why Chris decided to grow that 'fro.

9 years ago

Drew Grow

What a great song. 

9 years ago

Scott Campbell

I just wish it was in COLOR and with more footage of McGUINN but I'm grateful for this!

9 years ago

MissingLinkUS

So no Gene Clark? 

9 years ago

bernard piat

Guitars unplugged, no mike anywhere, fuckin'TV set! At that time, the producers didn't mind fooling their tv attendance ;) at least, they could have given'em the mikes and plugs, "to do as if", even though the band was miming :) .. This number is very iconic of a time when " it was all possible" ...

9 years ago

Alyssa Kelley

love it feels just right

9 years ago

zepbigfoot bearcove

great tune but they look like they just got through kicking each others asses

9 years ago

Ron Scroggin

*CB DISPATCH #7 - *21C Knowledge Expedition #2* * WELL MAYBE NOT EIGHTEight miles highAnd when you touch downYou'll find that it'sStranger than knownSigns in the streetThat say where you're goingAre somewhereJust being their own+John Kellden +Henk Hadders +Terry Brown +Susan Cox +Farinaz Parsay +Joachim Stroh +Ron Scroggin 

9 years ago

lotanddaughters

What a GREAT fucking tune.

9 years ago

Jose Antonio Hernandez Garay

Interesting door to other kind of things......Great!!

10 years ago

Rick Mileske

This great song makes me feel quite groovy!

10 years ago

Geoff Hoare

I feel another holiday in San Francisco beckoning. How do we apply for green cards to stay permanently?

10 years ago

buyandby

I Heard this song for the first time... well REALLY HEARD IT at 40,000 feet flying first class with my sister, an American Airlines employee, and I was three sheets to the wind, and not a care and listening to the beginnings of what would become .... well psychedelic!! Amazing how music can transport you!

10 years ago

Mario Solis

Harold Eugene Clark (November 17, 1944 – May 24, 1991), known professionally as Gene Clark, was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band The Byrds. Clark was The Byrds' dominant songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, penning most of the band's best-known originals from this period, including "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Set You Free This Time", and "Eight Miles High". He created a large catalogue of music in several genres, but failed to achieve solo commercial success. Clark was one of the earliest exponents of psychedelic rock, baroque pop, newgrass, country rock and alternative country.Clark was invited to join an established regional folk group, the Surf Riders working out of Kansas City at the Castaways Lounge, owned by Hal Harbaum.[8] On August 12, 1963, he was performing with them when he was discovered by The New Christy Minstrels. They hired him for their ensemble and he recorded two albums with them before leaving in early 1964. After hearing the Beatles, Clark quit the Christys and moved to Los Angeles where he met fellow folkie/Beatles convert Jim (later Roger) McGuinn at the Troubadour Club. In early 1964 they began to assemble a band that would become The Byrds.Gene Clark wrote or co-wrote many of The Byrds' best-known originals from their first three albums, including: "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "Set You Free This Time", "Here Without You", "You Won't Have to Cry", "If You're Gone", "The World Turns All Around Her", "She Don't Care About Time" and "Eight Miles High". He and McGuinn also composed "You Showed Me", which was recorded but not released by the Byrds, and became a hit for the Turtles when they recorded it in 1969. He initially played rhythm guitar in the band, but relinquished it to David Crosby and became the Byrd's tambourine and harmonica player. Bassist Chris Hillman noted years later in various interviews remembering Gene: "At one time, he was the power in the Byrds, not McGuinn, not Crosby—it was Gene who would burst through the stage curtain banging on a tambourine, coming on like a young Prince Valiant. A hero, our savior. Few in the audience could take their eyes off this presence. He was the songwriter. He had the "gift" that none of the rest of us had developed yet.... What deep inner part of his soul conjured up songs like "Set You Free This Time," "I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better," "I'm Feelin' Higher," "Eight Miles High"? So many great songs! We learned a lot of songwriting from him and in the process learned a little bit about ourselves."A management decision delivered the lead vocal duties to McGuinn for their major singles and Bob Dylan songs. This disappointment, combined with Clark's dislike of traveling (including a chronic fear of flying) and resentment by other band members about the extra income he derived from his songwriting, led to internal squabbling and he left the group in early 1966. He briefly returned to Kansas City before moving back to Los Angeles to form Gene Clark & the Group with Chip Douglas, Joel Larson, and Bill Rhinehart.

10 years ago

woohoo5473

It's a fur hat, probably bear.

10 years ago

somethinelse1

Are those coonskin caps or hairdos?

10 years ago

Chad Petersen

Firing the most talented person in the band...Brilliant idea.

10 years ago

Dianne Collier

The cameraman probably doesn't know the difference!

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