“I took the Rick apart and installed it in the guitar,” McGuinn said.Ĭompression, a key element to his sonorous guitar sound, was added liberally in the studio, although McGuinn never found an outboard compressor that he liked well enough to use in performance. Not until Rickenbacker designed my signature guitar with the built-in compressor did I find one that worked for me Roger McGuinn He added a Vox Treble Booster to his setup in 1966 at the suggestion of Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner, who also played a Rickenbacker 12-string. McGuinn’s guitar for much of this classic era was his Rickenbacker 360/12 (opens in new tab), which he purchased after seeing George Harrison play one in A Hard Day’s Night (opens in new tab). The following year he sent this famous Rickenbacker 360/12 back to the factory to have a third pickup added. I hate the name-dropping title, but this is McGuinn's best since his solo debut, including a tongue-in-cheek version of Dylan's mystical-romantic "Golden Loom," a psychedelic reminiscence, and good-to-great covers from George Jones, Tom Petty, and-the conceptual triumph-Peter Frampton.Roger McGuinn pictured at Columbia Studios in L.A., 1965. And the song that's actually about Rolling Thunder is pretty sickening. Imagining how Dylan might sing "Up to Me," which sounds like a forerunner of "Simple Twist of Fate," you begin to miss the quavery McGuinn or yore. The factitious folk songs about piracy and the Holy Grail make fewer contemporary connections than the real folk song "Pretty Polly." Ditto the previously unrecorded donations from fellow Rollers Mitchell and Dylan. Unfortunately, it's more confusing than astonishing. I'd written him off before Rolling Thunder, too, but this record, produced by fellow Roller Ronson and featuring various tour buddies, rocks wilder than anything he ever did with the Byrds. Usually, when we play Eight Miles High in Getty Township, I just use the 'India' theme, and after that I. It was first released as a single on March 14, 1966. Roger McGuinn says on his DVD 'The 12-String Guitar of Roger McGuinn' that the solo is based (of all things) on the Blues Scale, which is a Minor Pentatonic with an added passing tone (the flatted fifth). When Charlie Rich sings "God ain't gonna love you" (in the title tune, which Rich wrote), the blasphemy comes as a shock. ' Eight Miles High ' is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a.
But real country singers have more of a knack for such things. McGuinn seems to have done a whole album about breaking up with his wife or somebody. And it does worry me that Levy worked on all the good cuts: the ones about highjacking, love in Vietnam and "my new woman," and especially "I"m So Restless," the best state-of-the-music song since "All the Young Dudes." B Jacques Levy plays the Gram Parsons catalyst, but since Levy only writes lyrics the chemistry is a good deal less powerful. Their early line up with Roger (Jim) McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark produced a defining song of the era, Eight Miles High. session men to Charles Lloyd eight-miles-high to Bruce Johnston ooh-ooh to Clark, Clarke, Crosby, Hillman & McGuinn, Roger's solo debut sounds more coherent than any Byrds album since Sweetheart of the Rodeo, which must prove he's an auteur. Roger Mcguinn Eight Miles High Eight miles high and when you touch down. One of the bands that really helped define the Psychedelic Sound of the Sixties was The Byrds. Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, David Crosby - Eight Miles High, 4:24. Roger Mcguinn Live In New York - Eight Miles High Format: Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release Country: Cyprus Released: 2017 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country. Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Michael Clarkeįrom L.A. Last modified on Thu 06.51 EST Roger McGuinn, singer-songwriter/lead guitar Eight Miles High has been called the first psychedelic record.
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