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Asked whether it’s better, Hillman muses: “I’m not sure. The band were crushed to discover that their contract with CBS stipulated that the track could not be released because it had been cut at a non-Columbia studio.įor better or worse, Eight Miles High was promptly re-recorded with Allen Stanton producing. The Byrds originally recorded Eight Miles High at RCA’s Victor Studios, with Jim Dickson producing and Dave Hassinger as engineer. It was also around the time of Eight Days A Week, so that was another hook.” But Gene said eight miles sounds better than six, and it did sound more poetic. Forty-two thousand feet – or about eight miles high – is the altitude reserved for military aircraft. “We started it as Six Miles High,” guitarist Roger McGuinn recalls, “because that’s the approximate altitude that commercial airlines fly. That same flight also prompted the song’s title.
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The reference to ‘ signs in the street that say where you’re going’ was revealed as a dig at the random placing of street signs around the English capital, while ‘nowhere is there warmth to be found among those losing their ground’ was a nod to the hostility they encountered from The Birds, a British mod group who accused the band of stealing their name.
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An Introduction to the Byrds The Collection Untitled There Is a Season The Essential Byrds Free Flyte Voyage America's Great National Treasure Very Best of the Byrds Fifth Dimension Greatest Hits 36 All-Time Favorites Collection Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 Very Best of the Byrds Playlist: The Very Best of the Byrds Mr.When The Byrds’ Eight Miles High was released in December 1965, it took little delving to identify the ‘rain-grey town, known for its sound’ as the London that Clark had observed from the plane.
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1 (1965-1967) From the Earth to the Moon The Byrds' Greatest Hits Super Hits The Byrds' Greatest Hits Fifth Dimension Full Flyte (1965-1970) The Essential Byrds Mojo Presents. Reason:ĭefinitive Collection History of the Byrds 20 Essential Tracks from the Boxed Set: 1965-90 Original Singles, Vol. If I'm ever in a situation where I know I'm near the end, I'll put on this song, or maybe the Leo Kottke version. Sorry if that seemed unnecessarily morose, but I've always found this offbeat interpretation beautiful in its own strange way. This could frighten him and inspire second thoughts, although he knows he cannot turn back that could cover the "Nowhere is there warmth to be found/Among those afraid of losing their ground" stanza. Whatever these visions are, the dying individual can only wonder whether those "shapeless forms" will become tangible and he will at last "touch down" in this foreign land when he closes his eyes to sleep (and to die) or whether they will simply fade as the last of his thoughts slip away. When I hear this song, I think of a depressed person attempting suicide, probably through inhaling gas like nitrous oxide that might at first induce a "high." When the gas is starting to reach dangerous levels and the user is nearly unconscious, the lyrics describe the faint visions that are just beginning to take shape in the suicidal person's mind, perhaps mere hallucinations (they certainly seem fragmented enough to be the inventions of an oxygen-starved mind!) perhaps distant memories, or perhaps remote visions of heaven, hell, or glimpses of an afterlife too strange for the living mind to comprehend.
I'm pretty confident that this song was originally about a mere psychedelic experience, but to me it represents something a little different, although possibly related.
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