"Their first recording, and eventual signature song, was ironically not one written by Jeff, but an obscure cast-off from David Crosby that had been passed over for release by his own group, The Byrds.
"Strangers in a Strange Land" was a riff upon the heightened conciousness espoused in Robert Heinlein's forward looking sci-fi novel of the same name, and perfectly in sync with the questing zeitgeist of the new generation" ( Alec Palao )