The Byrds -- "Eight Miles High"
3:38 of the most adventurous sonic experimentation ever recorded. Roger McGuinn trying to do John Coltrane on the electric guitar.
The Byrds kept constantly changing -- the style of their music, the band lineup -- but the constant theme of the band was musical adventurousness, sometimes looking backward to repurpose old traditions, sometimes lookng forwards to invent new ones, but often both at the same time. Whether it was drug-fueled or not is beside the point. What matters is that they were willing to take music to places where it had never been.
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