She seems to have the moral convictions, tenderness, and loyalty of a rabid feral cat, but God love her, she sees the whole damn world. with the Rolling Stones, and spends years on the road with a former München pimp. Uschi grows tired of the endless, pointless “serious issues discussions” and weed smoking, and thus she flies off to London for a party thrown by the Rolling Stones.Īfter a couple weeks, she comes back to Kommune 1 long enough to collect her patchouli-reeking belongings, and the activists watch her famous, perky, well-traveled ass walk out of their hovel.Īnd thus, Uschi embarks on a life of modeling and doing whatever the hell she wants. Seriously, she’s really gorgeous and photogenic, and the rest of the freaks seem to have a phobia of combs and soap.
Even more damnable, she’s mounting the head hippie protest guy, and-when they do get into an actual riot-all the newspaper pics show her. Many of the activist/hippies don’t like her because she wears makeup and doesn’t seem earnest enough about solving the world’s problems with sitar music.
Long story short, Uschi stays there awhile. She has a fight with her mother, who discovers photos in Ushi’s bedroom-topless, fashion shoot photos-and Uschi gets mad and hitchhikes away with her friend.įorsooth and behold, a hippie-looking VW van picks the two girls up, and they end up in Kommune 1, a radical group of hippie-types who are going to solve Earth’s problems with bad conversations, worse leaflets, and even more horrible sitar music. He does, and she becomes a popular fashion model. One night, a photographer from Twen magazine sees her, and asks if he can photograph her. Uschi (pronounced “hell-brat”) is bored with her life, as are nearly all teenagers, and begins hanging out in clubs. “Eight Miles High” is a German film telling the true, debaucherous adventures of Uschi Obermaier, an amazingly beautiful, stunningly self-obsessed girl living in late 1960’s suburban München. However, Netflix lists it as “Eight Miles High,” so my silly imaginary game can continue with a clear conscience)
The good thing is that the film’s American release title is “Eight Miles High.” I didn’t notice till after that the original German title is “Das wilde Leben” (The Wild Life). As such, the song is often cited by critics as being the first psychedelic rock song, as well as a classic of the counterculture era.(note: I chose to watch “Eight Miles High,” because it dawned on me that I’d watched movies with the number Eight in their title two consecutive nights. Musically influenced by Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane, “Eight Miles High”, along with its McGuinn and Crosby penned B-side “Why”, was influential in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock, raga rock and psychedelic pop. The failure of “Eight Miles High” to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban, but some commentators have suggested that the song’s complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors. The band strenuously denied these allegations at the time, but in later years both Clark and Crosby admitted that the song was at least partly inspired by their own drug use. radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics. Top 20 hit, and also their last release before the departure of Gene Clark, who was the band’s principal songwriter at the time. “Eight Miles High” became The Byrds' third and final U.S. The single managed to reach the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 30 of the UK Singles Chart.The song was also included on the band’s third album, Fifth Dimension, released on July 18, 1966. Roger McGuinn), and David Crosby and first released as a single on Ma. “Eight Miles High” is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a.
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