Yes I think "Tomorrow Never Knows" is the first truly "psychedelic" song, but I was trying to explain I think "You're Gonna Miss Me" is more appropriately in the garage band category even though the band itself was notorious in the days when acid was still legal.
It was kind of a cross-over era and the later post '66 "psychedelic" hits were much more informed by the
Revolver influence.
Take "Psychotic Reaction" for example: users knew exactly what the band was talking about but the instrumentation is pure garage band, fuzz-tone lick courtesy Stones; harmonica, ties, and rave-up ending courtesy of the Yardbirds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTT3VPriV8
Dig the Vox teardrop electric 12-string, BTW.
:smile:
I also got a similar gripe with folks who say "Born To Be Wild" was the first heavy metal song due to the lyric.
Nope.
Love the crunch of the Fender Esquire but the Yardbirds were doing heavy metal before anybody knew what the hell to call it with "Mr. You're A Better Man Than I" and "Shapes of Things" and then "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Happenings 10 Years Time Ago", both from '66.
And Page foreshadowing Zeppelin on the previously cited final Yardbirds album
Little Games, especially with the cut "Think About It":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UseyCdGNfaY
There's also a school that believes "Beck's Bolero" is the first true heavy metal tune, although, even though recorded in '66, never released until appearing on
Truth in '67.
I know you're a Page fan but for those discovering this for the first time, the session group for "Beck's Bolero" consisted of Jeff beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins, and some guy named Keith Moon who was about to kicked out of his band and needed the work
glee
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmO0OZC6Ifk