Also, don't forget the influence he had with introducing the sitar, the 12-string Rickenbacker--there wouldn't have been a Byrds if it weren't for this one guitar alone. The backwards solos-he would play a solo that he wanted to record backwards, listen to it backwards, and then memorize it and play it forward so the backward recording turned out just so. No easy feat (if any of that made sense). He took a dive into electronic music. He was 'cutting edge' (there's that phrase again) all the way, even if he didn't get 1/2 the credit he deserved/deserves.