Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High or the Miles High Club? Both phenomena have certain characteristics that take you to higher spheres! Just as Bob Dylan left folk electrically in 1965, The Byrds transformed themselves from folk to self-invented psychedelia in a flick of a switch with their hitsingle “8-Miles-High” a year later.

Banned from the radio for alleged drug references. Nonsense said Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn. It just came out of our musical minds at 6 miles height in an airplane, somewhere over the ocean. With its throbbing opening bass line, strange dreamy jazz-like Rickenbacker guitar riffs, and harmonies only angels could sing, we don’t blame you if it brought you into higher spheres. Like a plane high above the clouds! Prepare for Take-off!