Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby

by David Crosby

John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn’t stopped. I don’t think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.

Coltrane

So indirectly you can say it was Miles Davis who got the Byrds started.

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