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Old 01-03-2018, 03:01 AM   #14656 (permalink)
Chula Vista
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan View Post
Are you serious? The Byrds released the single on March 14th '66. Steve Howe left the Syndicats in '65 and was in the band Tomorrow at the time the song Eight Miles High came out. And I am pretty sure no one in Boston heard of Tomorrow or Steve Howe in '66. Unless you were at the UFO Club in London or were listening to John Peel's Perfumed Garden radio show you would have no idea of Tomorrow or who Steve Howe was at the time, but that stuff was like a year after Eight Miles High was released.
Settle down son.

All I said was that the first time I heard it, and really listened (1971-ish) it made me think of Howe. (I own this single on vinyl)

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