Byrds co-founder and folk rock pioneer Roger McGuinn is 73 today. Here’s the original video of the band performing the 1966 McGuinn-Clark-Crosby composition “Eight Miles High” that featured McGuinn’s Coltrane-inspired improvisation on a twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar, eventually leading to the “jangle rock” style associated with the Byrds and many later acts.
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York. More by Ed Kilgore
