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[Tangled up in Blue]

Too modern for you Grandpa? :cricko::Grandad: Their early stuff is heavily influenced by The Byrds.

How so?Don't see much influence of Eight Miles High in Losing my religon(and btw I saw The Byrds live twice in the same week, back in the day, at The Albert Hall and the Lincoln Folk Festival).Give me Nick Drake any day.:zzzzz:

 

[MK Shrimper]

How so?Don't see much influence of Eight Miles High in Losing my religon(and btw I saw The Byrds live twice in the same week, back in the day, at The Albert Hall and the Lincoln Folk Festival).Give me Nick Drake any day.:zzzzz:

That's the mid-part of their career. Check out Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.

[video=youtube;Ac0oaXhz1u8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0oaXhz1u8[/video]

 

[Supernaut]

How so?Don't see much influence of Eight Miles High in Losing my religon

The Byrds comparison is mainly down to Peter Buck's use of a jangly Rickenbacker 12 string on the early REM albums, but there are definitely other similarities. You only have to listen to something like Gene Clark's 'She Don't Care About Time' - the riff and chord changes were undoubtedly recycled by REM...

[video=youtube;rZj7LITXD44]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZj7LITXD44[/video]