Eight Miles High - Gene Clark & 1985

Gene Clark and his "dream team band" (sometimes dubbed the New Byrds) comprised by Rick Roberts (Flying Burrito Brothers, Firefall), Michael Clark (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Firefall), Rick Danko (The Band), Blondie Chaplin (Beach Boys), John York (Byrds and late collaborator with Gene).

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[bondee63]

It's nice to see Gene Clark, and he had quite a band here. I never knew that Blondie Chaplin was such a good guitarist.  This band was light-years ahead of Mike Clarke's later "Byrds". By the way, Gene Clark co-composed this song with McGuinn and Crosby.

[mattyman1969]

This is fantastic. I saw Gene live two years later. This is just great, despite the quality.

[abata15]

Can you tell me what venue this was taken from?

[GeorgieWise]

@gittahfiend I think this looks and sounds 100% better than the nothing I saw before I saw it. Keep on the Sunny Side, always on the Sunny Side until it is over 100 degrees, then move to the Shady Side.

Besides, it sounds like Jimi Hendrix.

[gittahfiend]

This fucked up tape is hard to enjoy.the band is cool but the tape....

[zammammaro]

Groove!

[Jiffxx]

Thanks for the memory. Saw this band in '86. Great show, just wish they would have played more of their own songs instead of so many Bob Dylan covers.

[LMD33]

Gene Clark, in an interview, stated that he was in a hotel room with Brian Jones, and the two of them composed it.

[MrBruceBarham]

ONLY thing i dont like abou this, is that when Gene wrote the tune in the hotel room, along comes the rest of the band making suggestions and such and they all got credit as writers and gene complained about that, that the final wasnt how he wrote it...yet...here he is doing the "BYRD" version which he supposedly despised so much..he would complain and say so " i used the byrd musicians on this new stuff and guess what it sounded like" so I dunno , id rather hear what he intended originally.

[leamanc]

@bondee63 True, the songwriting credits are Clark/McGuinn/Crosby, but make no mistake this was mostly Gene's song (as if we all couldn't tell by his trademark lyrical style!). McGuinn's guitar solo earned him credit and, as the story goes, Crosby got a credit for contributing only the lines "Rain grey town/known for its sound."

[tomthefunky]

I love the drums. It gives the song a whole new vibe.