I saw the Yardbirds at the Checkmate Club on Route 66 in Amarillo, TX in 1966. Was the most amazing live show I had ever seen. Jeff Beck got pissed at his Vox amps and drove the head of his guitar through the face of the speaker box and destroyed the speakers inside. It was crazy and freeing at the same time! I'm 73 years old now---still one of the best live shows I've ever seen.
Beck was continuously pissed on that tour. After a couple of attempts at intervention he was officially canned in October 1966. Page's first ever US Show was in my hometown, Minneapolis, on August 5, '66. Google yardbirdsdaytons1966 for photos and an interview with Jimmy.
71 here - we had our jr high rock band back then and i knew a guy that bought a vox super beatle amp. he blew the speakers out of it inside of a month. always liked the vox teardrop 6 string though - very cool looking guitar that you never see now. i envy you for seeing them back then - must have been awesome
Hats off to ALL OF THEM. They did at least three albums without the big name guitar players and McCarthy, Dreja, RELF And others deserve respect also @@marktevault57
I think they have gotten plenty of recognition, primarily because of the band that was born out of them, and the great guitarists that got going with them.
Beck joined the Yardbirds in 1965 when Eric Clapton left. Page joined when their bass player left in 1966, and their rhythm guitarist took over the bass. You can also see them in the movie “Blow Up”. Beck left in late 1966, but his year and a half with them changed rock forever. The Yardbirds deserve more recognition for being true pioneers.
I was never a fan of the song. For several reasons, including the fact that it reduces 2 of the greatest guitarists to basically play their guitars like washboards.
I take your various points, but it's still an exciting bit of psychedelia, however pre-recorded it is. A lot of us back then didn't much mind, it was the crisp, visceral sound we loved to hear in these video clips, the rest was just window dressing.
They had a progressive sound that was different than most bands plus Page and Beck. I’m surprised they had hits as well. Thanks UA-cam and to whoever uploaded this rarity. This is what YT is for!
The term that was used at the time was Psychedelic or Acid Rock. Later in 1970, the term Progressive Rock became a term applied to bands like Jethro Tull, Yes, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," was in fact, one of the first Psychedelic songs ever to enter the charts. Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" is sometimes claimed to be first, as well as "Hurdy Gurdy Man" which amazingly featured 3/4 of Led Zeppelin as they were session musicians at the time. If you listen to that, you can hear LZ two years earlier, but with Donovan in place of Robert Plant.
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Your timing is off, fella. The song, "Hurdy Gurdy Man", was recorded just 5 months before Zeppelin's debut album was recorded. Not two years. Also, there is a major dispute over whether or not Bonzo played on the track. It doesn't sound like proto-Zeppelin, but still, it's a cool, trippy song.
They actually had quite a few hits. Most of them when Jeff Beck was the lead guitar player. I don't think they recorded anything in the studio with both Beck and Page but I could be wrong about that. And of course For Your Love was the one big Yardbirds hit with Eric Clapton playing lead guitar.
The song that blew open FM radio. This footage is so cool! I've never seen it before! Too bad The Yardbirds were so badly mismanaged. They had 2 of the most inventive guitar players of the era, and Keith Relf was a criminally underrated frontman!
Me too with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on bass . I also saw the Yard Birds as an audience member on a T.V. show called SHIVEREE. I had my hands on the stage and said something stupid to Beck and he looked down at me like he wanted to kick me in the face.
You're lucky he didn't, he had quite a temper back then. Never saw him live but he always seemed to make whomever he was playing with sound better. Beck's in my top 6 all-time, saw 2 of the 6 last year, Hackett and Metheny.@@stephenhensley5631
this was well ahead of anything most british bands were doing at the time. a real signpost to the next few years. you can see how this transitioned to zeppelin almost seamlessly.
@@michaelharrington75 More than a songwriter they need a producer. When Paul Samwell-Smith quit the band in '66 they not only lost a fine bassist, they lost a co-writer, musical director and producer. Great tunes including 'Over Under Sideways Down', 'Shapes of Things', 'Still I'm Sad', 'Lost Woman' and 'Happenings 10 Years Time Ago' were penned by the band. But with Samewell-Smith out, Beck getting fired and with a change of management - Simon Napier-Bell sold the band's contract to the team of producer Mickie Most and manager Peter Grant - by the time of 'Little Games' the band was lost and the magic gone.
At 8 years old I had a 45 single of Heart Full of Soul. I followed Jeff until his death. Jimmy held my ears from 7th-9th grade. But then came McLaughlin & Corea. They've held my ears through adult life.
Saw the same show in Louisville. Unfortunately, the SRV portion was ruined by the sound man, in my opinion, by him cranking up the bass to the point of almost drowning out the guitar. And I'm a bass player!
And many don’t realize Jeff and Jimmy were buddies as teenagers. They lived near each other and would basically learn from hard to find records that Beck’s older sister brought back from the States. It was Jimmy who brought Jeff into the band. (Page was more or less “old” by this time, having been a decade-long studio musician, playing on albums by many artists of the day from Tom Jones to the Goldfinger soundtrack). It’s fascinating how they both became gods in their own right, and had very distinct ways of playing.
The reason I started playing guitar in the mid 60s. Underrated at the time and ever since. And I for one, really loved this tune. Thanks Mark for the flashback.
Just discovered this cool rare video. Didn’t know they’d ever performed it on TV, let alone with both Beck and Page on board. Yikes. Thanks SO much for uploading this. Brings back a lot of memories. I still have my 45rpm of this, now over 50 yrs old. Sheesh. I found it back in 1971 sitting in a _huge_ bin of totally random overstock blowout ‘singles’ in an upstate NY department store. College town. Got it for 25c too, IIRC. Hmm, maybe less. lol. My UK single still has the center piece intact for playing without the 45rpm adapter we use in the US. Huh, I’d never even heard of the songs before, but I snapped it up cuz I knew immediately that it was a rare treasure. Boy, did it get played a lot, both sides. ‘The Nazz Are Blue’ was the flip side, also very cool with both legendary guitarists being so inventive. Fun times. :-)
That is a Very Cool find.! I had sort of similar. I found a or the last album of LED zeppelin In through the out door, Sealed in a garage sale box, unopened as it appears, $1.00, After I bought it , I asked what or why it was never opened, The older lady didn't know, strange. Thanks for your story.
I listened and grooved to this song so many times in 1966 that it became an ''earworm'' and it was constantly in my head for 3 months, morning noon and overnight. It got so bad I would be asleep dreaming and it would be playing in the background inside my brain like a soundtrack to whatever story was happening in my dream. I soon started hating the song because I couldn't get rid of it! Hearing it again now after 50 plus years I don't hate it any more, I absolutely love it!
Jeff and Jimmy were both in the Yardbirds for only 4 months and 10 days. Jimmy joined them because all of a sudden they needed a bass player, and Jimmy was there at the show on June 21, 1966. He played bass for a while, but then switched over to second guitar. Playing both rhythm and lead alongside his best friend Jeff. At first Jeff thought it would be different and cool, but then later he said he would look over at Jimmy playing and Jeff said later, "he's playing what I want to play", so by the end of October Jeff felt confused so on Halloween, October 31, he left their tour in Texas to see his girlfriend who lived in Mill Valley, CA., just north of San Francisco, knowing the band will reach California soon. But, when they reached L.A. they decided to let Jeff go from the band instead of taking him back in. He was with them since March 5, 1965, when they played Croydon. Jimmy turned down that opening and refered his friend Jeff. After that show they gave Eric a farewell party in his honor. Then Jimmy stayed with the Yardbirds till March 68, when they disbanded.
amazing one of the best collections of artists ever and the music they turned out in that short period of time they played together truly fantastic and really aww inspiring im so grateful i’ve been abbie to enjoy the music throughout my life thank you gentlemen for truly magical beautiful music JR
👏🏻Ohh wow.😂I was a newborn in 1966 and🔮grew-up to be a⚡️LedZepHead.♥️I love🎼🎓🎸Jimmy Page and the🎶"Yardbirds"🎼🎓🎸Jeff Beck, and I especially♥️love⚡️Led Zeppelin!💭Where'd the⏳time🤦🏻♀️go? 🌹Thanks for sharing. (; 🇨🇦✌🏻🎶🎸✍🏻♥️
This band introduced me to Jeff Beck and Jimi Page and their great musical abilities. I Treasure those junior hi days when music was really coming into a new expression of youthful viewpoinnts about ourselves and the world. It propelled Jimmie and Jeff into what would become iconic performers of excellence in their own expressions of their art form, inspired by what they were hearing in the US by quite a. few R&B, Jazz, and rock legends amoung the black performers they put their spin on what they recognized as greatness and propelled it to the public at large, which only encouraged us to explore more of the sounds of zMotown and such. RIP JEFF, and thanks to the originators of rock and roll to four generations of music lovers and my favorite hard rock guitarist amoung many others James Page !
Billy Gibbons toured with Hendrix before he went to the UK & said Hendrix listened a lot to Becks playing & used to ask "what's he doing, how's he doing that?" Beck's use of feedback on tracks like this & Shapes of Things was incredibly innovative. This is the time that modern rock guitar playing as we think of it, really exploded.
They were my first concert. I was 16 in ‘66. Changed my life. I saw Jeff again in my city 10 years or so ago. My twenty something sons were with me. They were blown away. We all play guitar.
Thanks for posting! I saw The Yardbirds Jan. 1, 1966 at Seattle Colliseum as one of the acts leading up to The Beach Boys, with Jeff Beck on guitar, three or months before Jimmy Page joined. They were incredible...loudest lead guitar I'd heard up to that point! Jeff was a mestro, a true innovator, who changed the concept of electric guitar. His creativity and innovations are still felt today! R.I.P. Mr. Jeff Beck!
I was into the Beatles since ‘64 then ‘66 came when I turned 13 and joined teen club that night and they were playing Shape of Things and For your Love. Yardbirds opened my mind to variety of rock. After seeing Beatles live that year I was hooked on rock n roll forever.
Oh WOW, this is so cool!! I've never seen or heard this before. In that experimental midsection featuring that truly wicked Jeff Beck guitar solo, you can definitely hear the seeds of Led Zeppelin. Thanks to Milton Berle for introducing this Classic British Rock band to American audiences!!!! 🙌🏻 (And thanks to his nephew Marshall Berle for managing Ratt many years later. 😁)
Definitely not one of my favourite Yatdbirds song, but seeing them performing it live - or at least on stage, who knows - is just amazing, what a view!!! Fantastic video, I really love it ✌💖
@@derkommissar785Some bands did a hybrid, where the band's vocalists sang live over a canned instrumental track. Some performances you could hear it straight away. others hard to tell. This one I can't tell, your opinion?
This song! Still to this day… so surreal! Imagine what else could have transpired music wise with Beck/Page! So much progression once Page became involved. Important stuff here! ❤️
@@389383 I may be way off but I believe the producers name was Mickey Most who worked with numerous British bands at the time. He was only interested in pop oriented singles which was a major mistake on the bands part.
This blew my mind at 13 and the kids around me said, what. Over, under sideways, down. Shape of things. As the fella below said ahead of their time and underrated:
My buddy Jon a free lance rock writer told me when the yard birds played the whiskey a Go Go He lied about his age he under 18 tall athletic guy though he saw the Yardbirds perform there he buddied up with ppl that invited him to a private party up in Laurel / Coldwater canyon after the show. He said he was sitting on the living room floor feet away from Jeff Beck Yardbirds jamming in someone's living room ....😳
Saw Beck & Page together in the Yardbirds at the old Fillmore in San Francisco. Page was strictly rhythm, Beck was scary good and I quit college shortly thereafter to become a full-time musician, thereby robbing the world of yet another psychologist. Thank you, Jeff & Jimmy!
I feel lucky to have recordings like this from back in my teen days. I am reminded of school and my first friends and so much more 😊 Such great memories.
no, it shows you forgot how to find new music because you got old. THere is plenty of great music in the world now and then. SPeaking as a 62 year old life ling multi instrumentalist and producer. Music is fine. People are always the problem.
Whether you were in to music or not, back in those it was the sound track of the culture. I graduated high school in 1966 and lived in Southern California.
@@morbidmanmusic I think OP's point is: this used to be POP music. It's isn't that there isn't "good" music today, in fact there is more than ever. But what is promoted and readily available is engineered, pre-packaged crap. I say this to my college-aged children (who have great musical taste overall and often introduce me to new acts) all the time. Imagine a world where Led Zeppelin or U2 was considered popular music and promoted heavily by record companies and was Top 40. Those days are in fact LOOONG gone.
My sister, who was several years older than me, went to see The Yardbirds in concert while Jimmy was in the band, I think Jeff had left by that time. She took pictures of the band, Jimmy's hair was quite a bit longer than it was here, had to be around 67/68. I haven't seen those pics in years, I think they were lost during one of her moves to one of the places she lived.
Uncle Miltie! He was huge at one time! People who grew up in the 80's will recognize him from the Ratt video "Round and Round" although he was playing two roles( hilariously!) As he used to dress in "drag" for laughs!❤😂👍
Holy cow! I can't believe these guys were on The Milton Berle Show of all places and did a psychedelic song like that! Insane! Many hosts from that era had their beginnings in Vaudeville and the Big Band era, so to hear "noise" like that must have been quite the culture shock! They must have thought they were listening to pure garbage.
Until now, I didn't know Milton Berle had his own show. I grew up during that time. He was probably trying to get his ratings up so he wouldn't be cancelled.....apparently it didn't work.....his show must have only lasted a few weeks ...
Amidst a huge publicity blitz by ABC-TV (including an iron-clad, long term contract) and considerable speculation as to whether he could win over the Baby Boomers as he had their parents, entertainment legend Milton Berle attempted a prime-time TV comeback with this comedy-variety series taped at the Hollywood Palace theater. Unfortunately, high budgets and big-name guest stars couldn't lure viewers away from competing shows, primarily the hugely successful "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." The program was cancelled after one season, and Berle, despite numerous guest appearances on other shows over the ensuing three decades, never had a regular series again. -Bob Sorrentino This explains why I never heard of this show....I was watching "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." . lol
@@alpha-omega2362 in that era, "variety shows" in prime time slots were a dying breed, soon to be replaced by syndicated drama type shows like Star Trek, Lost In Space, Man From U.N.C.L.E. etc, which were all family friendly. Variety was for the older generation and was pushed back to later slots in the evening where Jack Par soon became Johnny Carson and the like. Smothers Brothers and Laugh In were probably the last of the comedy / variety shows for prime time... and those were aimed at a younger audience.
@@alpha-omega2362 I was 9 in 66, but do not remember Berle having that show. He was actually the first huge TV star, he was the host of the "Texaco Star Theatre" in the late forties into the fifties, but his star faded after the show folded up. This was actually his last shot at hosting his own show, but it crashed and burned after one year. Despite that, he was still a legendary entertainment figure, he was a guest on every show under the sun when I was growing up.
So glad i was around during this amazing time in musical history. Was s teen then in a rock group and i remember "Im a Man" being so cool. The raveup was so awesome! Never heard this awesome tune! If I could tutn back the hands of time it would certainly be then! ❤❤❤
I saw this performance on TV and I couldn't remember what show it came from. I was barely 16. I got my 1st guitar on the 25th of December and this song is the one that made me want to learn how to play. You can also hear some stuff that Jimi borrowed from the lead guitar portion, as he had just arrived in England about a week before this song was released.
I saw this version of the Yardbirds at the Stockton Civic Auditorium Sept 3, 1966. I was 14. My mom dropped me and my best friend Steve off and picked us up when show was over. Good times.
My dad dropped me off and picked me up when I was 14. But is was for Led Zeppelin in Ft. Worth... I asked my friends to go and they wouldn't or couldn't. But I went solo anyways...
Thanks! markzep! A Blast from the Best past Ions! Beautiful Muses! Ha!:)), Jimmy & the yardbirds the Rthym has A Whoa rockn! Feel!! Mm bk in the sixties! Love how they appreciated All styles Of fabulous fantastic musica! All the way Across the world! Heysocool Rad! Cheers!
I don’t care how obscure you try to go, the fact is The Yardbirds were to psychedelic music what The Byrds were to folk-rock, and The Beatles and The Beach Boys were to pop. All incalculably, and seminally influential. And great.
Totally agree. So many now-major players cite the Beck-era Yardbirds as a major influence. And lets face it, the wild weirdness of 'Shapes of Things' and 'Over Under Sideways Down' opened up the doors for the acceptance of more experimental music. Listen to Paul McCartney's guitar solo on 'Taxman' - he's attempting to make like his friend Jeff Beck. But after the departure of Paul Samwell-Smith, the firing of Jeff Beck and Simon Napier-Bell selling of the Yardbirds to Mickie Most and Peter Grant the band lost its way.
@@MrCherryJuice Yep, the Beck-era was my favorite, too. Love it all, but ‘Roger the Engineer’ is incredible. Also, fwiw, if you listen to ‘Taxman’ closely, you can hear the seeds of (I am convinced) Hendrix’ inspiration for his ‘Purple Haze’ riff, courtesy of McCartney’s guitar on the verses.
This song was incredibly edgy and advanced for its time. And it was 100% written by Jimmy Page. It’s almost a precursor to what would come in “Dazed and Confused.” The chromatism, the tri-tone lead, the pausing for great effect… It’s all in there.
Except Jake Holmes wrote Dazed And Confused. And Happenings was totally not written by Page alone! It was written by Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, then Page and Beck worked on the guitar parts.
Good guitarist but Jimmy Page never wrote anything. Much to easy to clip it off someone else. Yardbirds had some great hits but suffered from an overall lack of writing ability. Sorry but true.@@KevyNova
Someone in the band probably had saw 'The Pink Floyd' at the UFO club. I watched a video of 'Under Over Sideways Down' earlier and the guitar had silver mirrored discs on it, just like Syd's!
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I saw the Yardbirds at the Checkmate Club on Route 66 in Amarillo, TX in 1966.
Was the most amazing live show I had ever seen. Jeff Beck got pissed at his Vox amps and drove the head of his guitar through the face of the speaker box and destroyed the speakers inside. It was crazy and freeing at the same time!
I'm 73 years old now---still one of the best live shows I've ever seen.
Beck was continuously pissed on that tour. After a couple of attempts at intervention he was officially canned in October 1966. Page's first ever US Show was in my hometown, Minneapolis, on August 5, '66. Google yardbirdsdaytons1966 for photos and an interview with Jimmy.
71 here - we had our jr high rock band back then and i knew a guy that bought a vox super beatle amp. he blew the speakers out of it inside of a month. always liked the vox teardrop 6 string though - very cool looking guitar that you never see now. i envy you for seeing them back then - must have been awesome
Must have been right before he quit the tour.
I'm 73 also and these guys were the absolute best for me!
You are a lucky man to have seen them in person. I am 61 and love the Yardbirds but they had already broken up before I discovered their music.
Page just turned 80, RIP Jeff Beck.
Yes
Scsry
NO peace...too late.
Goes by faster and faster. I was 16 when they did this. RIP Keith and Jeff.
Hats off to ALL OF THEM. They did at least three albums without the big name guitar players and McCarthy, Dreja, RELF And others deserve respect also
@@marktevault57
The Yardbirds deserve more recognition than they have received, Truly front runners, way ahead of the times, fabulous musicians 🎶
Well two legacies were yet to be forged into the annals of late twentieth century culture!
Heart full of soul,love that song
They pretty much invented psychedelic music.
The Yardbirds have gotten plenty of recognition over the years.
I think they have gotten plenty of recognition, primarily because of the band that was born out of them, and the great guitarists that got going with them.
This is Great, touches my old Hippie soul, which isn't buried too deep!!.....
A far-out and groovy comment Tony. Hey man, can I cop a smoke?
Would be happy to pass it to you Man!
But have smoked it all!!
Am waiting for the next score!!
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Glad you guys are finding it again 😉
🤔….far out man.
AGREE, Take out the Electric Prunes , Blue Cheer lp's etc and take a no acid trip..😀
Beck joined the Yardbirds in 1965 when Eric Clapton left. Page joined when their bass player left in 1966, and their rhythm guitarist took over the bass. You can also see them in the movie “Blow Up”. Beck left in late 1966, but his year and a half with them changed rock forever. The Yardbirds deserve more recognition for being true pioneers.
They could have used (hired) a songwriter.
Agreed, their songs were lacking with a few exceptions. @@EndWach-gi1nh
Hogwash
Graham Gouldman ( future 10cc member) wrote some of their best songs.
@@EndWach-gi1nhI like Relf but...
Finally! The full version of this song which we've only hitherto seen in a fragment. What a revelation.
Lip sync and air guitars. Pre-recorded!
This is true. Plus, the camera work is terrible so you can’t even see them pretending to play. Still, I’ll take it.
@@johnsieff2921 Yes but the Keith Relf vocals might be live with echo added. These vocals are not identical to the studio version.
I was never a fan of the song. For several reasons, including the fact that it reduces 2 of the greatest guitarists to basically play their guitars like washboards.
I take your various points, but it's still an exciting bit of psychedelia, however pre-recorded it is. A lot of us back then didn't much mind, it was the crisp, visceral sound we loved to hear in these video clips, the rest was just window dressing.
Mercy... This music is as powerful today, as it was 50+ years ago!!! Absolutely timeless, thank you Yardbird's!!!
They had a progressive sound that was different than most bands plus Page and Beck. I’m surprised they had hits as well. Thanks UA-cam and to whoever uploaded this rarity. This is what YT is for!
The term that was used at the time was Psychedelic or Acid Rock. Later in 1970, the term Progressive Rock became a term applied to bands like Jethro Tull, Yes, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," was in fact, one of the first Psychedelic songs ever to enter the charts. Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" is sometimes claimed to be first, as well as "Hurdy Gurdy Man" which amazingly featured 3/4 of Led Zeppelin as they were session musicians at the time. If you listen to that, you can hear LZ two years earlier, but with Donovan in place of Robert Plant.
Awesome loved it!!
I hear a lot of Syd in the Yardbirds@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Your timing is off, fella. The song, "Hurdy Gurdy Man", was recorded just 5 months before Zeppelin's debut album was recorded. Not two years. Also, there is a major dispute over whether or not Bonzo played on the track. It doesn't sound like proto-Zeppelin, but still, it's a cool, trippy song.
They actually had quite a few hits. Most of them when Jeff Beck was the lead guitar player. I don't think they recorded anything in the studio with both Beck and Page but I could be wrong about that. And of course For Your Love was the one big Yardbirds hit with Eric Clapton playing lead guitar.
The song that blew open FM radio. This footage is so cool! I've never seen it before! Too bad The Yardbirds were so badly mismanaged. They had 2 of the most inventive guitar players of the era, and Keith Relf was a criminally underrated frontman!
3 of the best guitarists.
@@mechanic6682 And with Godfrey Townsend in the current lineup they have another killer player.
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"Cool footage".....?......this looks like a foggy lipsync.
@@mechanic6682 Clapton quit the band early.
Many boob tube producers, totally clueless regarding the music scene of the 60's. Let's add some "groovy" "psychedelic" video noise to the broadcast.
I remember watching this and being totally transfixed. The song is still mind blowing after all these years.
I've heard it before, it is very familiar.
Did it inspire you to play a musical instrument?
I saw Jeff Beck back in the late 70's....Such an amazing guitarist.....Legend.... He will be forever missed and remembered.....😞🎸🔥💪👊🙏
Me too with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on bass . I also saw the Yard Birds as an audience member on a T.V. show called SHIVEREE. I had my hands on the stage and said something stupid to Beck and he looked down at me like he wanted to kick me in the face.
You're lucky he didn't, he had quite a temper back then. Never saw him live but he always seemed to make whomever he was playing with sound better. Beck's in my top 6 all-time, saw 2 of the 6 last year, Hackett and Metheny.@@stephenhensley5631
@@stephenhensley5631Me too, with the Jan Hammer band 1976. Awesome!
I saw him in Chicago in October 2022 on that last tour. I will never forget it. Im still in shock at his passing
@@jamesanderson348 Same here, both times with the Mahavishu Orchestra, on tour for both Blow by Blow and Wired
Saw them in Beaumont, Texas during the Caravan of Stars tour. 1966. Only found out much later I was watching Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. WOW!
this was well ahead of anything most british bands were doing at the time. a real signpost to the next few years. you can see how this transitioned to zeppelin almost seamlessly.
They needed a songwriter in the band.
@@michaelharrington75 More than a songwriter they need a producer. When Paul Samwell-Smith quit the band in '66 they not only lost a fine bassist, they lost a co-writer, musical director and producer. Great tunes including 'Over Under Sideways Down', 'Shapes of Things', 'Still I'm Sad', 'Lost Woman' and 'Happenings 10 Years Time Ago' were penned by the band. But with Samewell-Smith out, Beck getting fired and with a change of management - Simon Napier-Bell sold the band's contract to the team of producer Mickie Most and manager Peter Grant - by the time of 'Little Games' the band was lost and the magic gone.
Relf doesn't suit this music. He sounds like an art rock singer.
I saw them in 1966 at Indiana Beach, only Jimmy was on bass! Simply awesome!
Not very many people on the planet can say they saw Jimmy Page play the bass live!
I bet many people don't believe you when you tell them.
@@andyharman3022I've only seen one rare photo of Jimmy playing bass. It was an Epiphone semi-hollow. Very cool.
At 8 years old I had a 45 single of Heart Full of Soul. I followed Jeff until his death. Jimmy held my ears from 7th-9th grade. But then came McLaughlin & Corea. They've held my ears through adult life.
No one seems to appreciate the singing talent of Kieth Relfs. He was heart full of soul in this band !
He's a flat singing dud.
Correct, sir - his contribution to their sound was huge.
I agree. He did have a heart full of soul. You could feel that in his voice. Plus he was cute.. 😆. R.I.P. Kieth Relf 💔
That would make me no one. He was consistently bad with a cute haircut.
Thanks!! I was wondering who the singer was 😊
Saw Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughn at a show in Ann Arbor... awesome show...rip to both
Saw the same show in Louisville. Unfortunately, the SRV portion was ruined by the sound man, in my opinion, by him cranking up the bass to the point of almost drowning out the guitar. And I'm a bass player!
I saw the same tour too. But I also saw Beck blow Page's doors off at the ARMS show in NYC in 83
And at this moment in time, none of us realized we were seeing two guitar gods performing in the same band .
One need only listen.
Jeff my guitar god
And sooo young. How fun.
And many don’t realize Jeff and Jimmy were buddies as teenagers. They lived near each other and would basically learn from hard to find records that Beck’s older sister brought back from the States. It was Jimmy who brought Jeff into the band. (Page was more or less “old” by this time, having been a decade-long studio musician, playing on albums by many artists of the day from Tom Jones to the Goldfinger soundtrack). It’s fascinating how they both became gods in their own right, and had very distinct ways of playing.
Well, performing ... this is playback. For an actual live performance check the movie Blow Up.
I bought "Over Under Sideway Down " at age 11 for my older brother who was 17. That was 1966. A long time ago.
The year I was born 10/66. I turned 58 😭
The reason I started playing guitar in the mid 60s. Underrated at the time and ever since. And I for one, really loved this tune. Thanks Mark for the flashback.
Just discovered this cool rare video. Didn’t know they’d ever performed it on TV, let alone with both Beck and Page on board. Yikes. Thanks SO much for uploading this. Brings back a lot of memories.
I still have my 45rpm of this, now over 50 yrs old. Sheesh. I found it back in 1971 sitting in a _huge_ bin of totally random overstock blowout ‘singles’ in an upstate NY department store. College town. Got it for 25c too, IIRC. Hmm, maybe less. lol. My UK single still has the center piece intact for playing without the 45rpm adapter we use in the US. Huh, I’d never even heard of the songs before, but I snapped it up cuz I knew immediately that it was a rare treasure. Boy, did it get played a lot, both sides. ‘The Nazz Are Blue’ was the flip side, also very cool with both legendary guitarists being so inventive. Fun times. :-)
That is a Very Cool find.! I had sort of similar. I found a or the last album of LED zeppelin In through the out door, Sealed in a garage sale box, unopened as it appears, $1.00, After I bought it , I asked what or why it was never opened, The older lady didn't know, strange. Thanks for your story.
I listened and grooved to this song so many times in 1966 that it became an ''earworm'' and it was constantly in my head for 3 months, morning noon and overnight. It got so bad I would be asleep dreaming and it would be playing in the background inside my brain like a soundtrack to whatever story was happening in my dream. I soon started hating the song because I couldn't get rid of it!
Hearing it again now after 50 plus years I don't hate it any more, I absolutely love it!
Never fails....the cameraman covering the wrong player during a guitar solo.
Ya got that rite. They usually show the bass player during the guitar solo.
@@larryzink8978Or a tight shot of the drummer's face
Yes or a guy in the crowd pick in the nose…ridiculous direction..show the stars being stars
Directors during that era were clueless.
Since they’re just miming to the record it doesn’t matter too much.
Jeff and Jimmy were both in the Yardbirds for only 4 months and 10 days. Jimmy joined them because all of a sudden they needed a bass player, and Jimmy was there at the show on June 21, 1966. He played bass for a while, but then switched over to second guitar. Playing both rhythm and lead alongside his best friend Jeff. At first Jeff thought it would be different and cool, but then later he said he would look over at Jimmy playing and Jeff said later, "he's playing what I want to play", so by the end of October Jeff felt confused so on Halloween, October 31, he left their tour in Texas to see his girlfriend who lived in Mill Valley, CA., just north of San Francisco, knowing the band will reach California soon. But, when they reached L.A. they decided to let Jeff go from the band instead of taking him back in. He was with them since March 5, 1965, when they played Croydon. Jimmy turned down that opening and refered his friend Jeff. After that show they gave Eric a farewell party in his honor. Then Jimmy stayed with the Yardbirds till March 68, when they disbanded.
Thank you Alan- a fine job tying together the timelines for the sequence of the band's transition of Beck to Page
Fantastic. For guitar players, this is pure gold.
amazing one of the best collections of artists ever and the music they turned out in that short period of time they played together truly fantastic and really aww inspiring im so grateful i’ve been abbie to enjoy the music throughout my life thank you gentlemen for truly magical beautiful music
JR
Not a Yardbirds fan, but the amount of epic guitar talent that passed through that band was phenomenal. Three that set rock and roll alight.
Amazing footage that the song was played on American tv show with this lineup the song they pioneered pychedelic rock and dual guitar solos
Seriously fun stuff they blasted out back then. Classic anthem. Flawless sync.
👏🏻Ohh wow.😂I was a newborn in 1966 and🔮grew-up to be a⚡️LedZepHead.♥️I love🎼🎓🎸Jimmy Page and the🎶"Yardbirds"🎼🎓🎸Jeff Beck, and I especially♥️love⚡️Led Zeppelin!💭Where'd the⏳time🤦🏻♀️go?
🌹Thanks for sharing. (;
🇨🇦✌🏻🎶🎸✍🏻♥️
I'm a zepp head too
That one, single group could contain the talent of Beck, Clapton and Page, as well as the other stellar talents is amazing.
Albert Lee is one of those “ other”. Always playing with the best rock and country guitarists.
I'm pulling up Smokestack Lightning now.
@@1badhaircut Albert Lee is awesome, but he was never in the Yardbirds.
So great to view this piece of important history. Well, important to what would be known as classic rock. Love it❤
This band introduced me to Jeff Beck and Jimi Page and their great musical abilities. I Treasure those junior hi days when music was really coming into a new expression of youthful viewpoinnts about ourselves and the world. It propelled Jimmie and Jeff into what would become iconic performers of excellence in their own expressions of their art form, inspired by what they were hearing in the US by quite a. few R&B, Jazz, and rock legends amoung the black performers they put their spin on what they recognized as greatness and propelled it to the public at large, which only encouraged us to explore more of the sounds of zMotown and such. RIP JEFF, and thanks to the originators of rock and roll to four generations of music lovers and my favorite hard rock guitarist amoung many others James Page !
Milton Berle allowed psychedelics on his 1966 show, Nice!
And he didn't disrespect them either, like Dean Martin disrespected the Rolling Stones!
@@f.w.2054 Exactly.
Milton Berle would be in a Ratt video.
Oh yeah. He was always a visionary. He was the first major celeb to embrace TV.
@@brianholihan5497 That's debatable.
Hear the 'Foxy Lady' lick in the solo?
Yup, Hendrix told Beck he nicked it from this song.
Beck was floored that Hendrix knew him and was a fan.
👍🙏👍🙏
I think the bomb sounds and sirens in this 1966 song somehow found there way into an 1969 August Upstate New York performance too.
Yep. Beck didn't think anyone listened to his music.
I've heard that lick a lot over the years. I call it the "Uh Oh!" lick.
Billy Gibbons toured with Hendrix before he went to the UK & said Hendrix listened a lot to Becks playing & used to ask "what's he doing, how's he doing that?" Beck's use of feedback on tracks like this & Shapes of Things was incredibly innovative. This is the time that modern rock guitar playing as we think of it, really exploded.
Hendrix was in awe of Beck
They were my first concert. I was 16 in ‘66. Changed my life. I saw Jeff again in my city 10 years or so ago. My twenty something sons were with me. They were blown away. We all play guitar.
Sweet!👍
I was 6 in 1966 and the Beatles had just exploded on radio and TV then, back then it seemed like great songs were coming out everyday.
Beatles exploded two years before, but beatlemania hadn't died down much by 1966.
They were!
And you knew this, because you were... six.
Just dropping by to watch again since Jeff passed away today at 78 😭
Thanks for posting! I saw The Yardbirds Jan. 1, 1966 at Seattle Colliseum as one of the acts leading up to The Beach Boys, with Jeff Beck on guitar, three or months before Jimmy Page joined. They were incredible...loudest lead guitar I'd heard up to that point! Jeff was a mestro, a true innovator, who changed the concept of electric guitar. His creativity and innovations are still felt today!
R.I.P. Mr. Jeff Beck!
I was into the Beatles since ‘64 then ‘66 came when I turned 13 and joined teen club that night and they were playing Shape of Things and For your Love. Yardbirds opened my mind to variety of rock. After seeing Beatles live that year I was hooked on rock n roll forever.
Oh WOW, this is so cool!! I've never seen or heard this before. In that experimental midsection featuring that truly wicked Jeff Beck guitar solo, you can definitely hear the seeds of Led Zeppelin. Thanks to Milton Berle for introducing this Classic British Rock band to American audiences!!!! 🙌🏻 (And thanks to his nephew Marshall Berle for managing Ratt many years later. 😁)
Wow The yardbirds
long time ago great sound.
Definitely not one of my favourite Yatdbirds song, but seeing them performing it live - or at least on stage, who knows - is just amazing, what a view!!! Fantastic video, I really love it ✌💖
It's my favorite Yardbirds song.
@@lilajagears8317 My favorite as well. This was their peak.
Lip synced. Not live. In England called miming
One of the best Yardbirds songs ever.
@@derkommissar785Some bands did a hybrid, where the band's vocalists sang live over a canned instrumental track. Some performances you could hear it straight away. others hard to tell. This one I can't tell, your opinion?
"We all wanted to be the Yardbirds," said Alice Cooper. And Alice was right.
I used to watch them (Alice Cooper) play at the VIP in 1967 and it seems like half their playlist was the Yardbirds, big fans.
This included John Lennon who was said to be very friendly with the band....I mean...very friendly.
Fools beget fools and pass it on for they have no clue where it all began.
Gotta love the trippy camera work and tech directing here. They put some work into this in the control room for the day.
Wow, Jeff and Jimmy in 1966! This is precious. Jimmy had a baby face, so cute 😊
IN 1966!
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My bad! Thanks for correcting me (and now I’m crying for Jeff, so sad to hear he’s gone) 😔
I just found a picture on the internet with all the guys when they were kids. Look it up. It's really neat.
OMG! I use to watch this show and had no memory of seeing them on this show. This was HISTORY!! Thanks to whoever found and saved it!!
Great group ! Lot of talent !
This song! Still to this day… so surreal! Imagine what else could have transpired music wise with Beck/Page! So much progression once Page became involved. Important stuff here! ❤️
If only. The Little Games album was such a disappointment following this great record.
@@389383 I may be way off but I believe the producers name was Mickey Most who worked with numerous British bands at the time. He was only interested in pop oriented singles which was a major mistake on the bands part.
@@389383 The single flipside, "Think About It," was stellar, though. Maybe even better than "Happenings..."
@@389383Little Games does contain a few gems, tbf. But yeah, Beck was a huge loss, as was Samwell-Smith - and hiring Mickey Most was a mistake.
Hey man, I'm freaking out.
Finally, a complete upload.
Rock history.
😎
Wow! They are fine AF! 😍 I was only 9 years old in 1968 but I remember them!
This blew my mind at 13 and the kids around me said, what. Over, under sideways, down. Shape of things. As the fella below said ahead of their time and underrated:
I caught this line up live 👍🙂
My buddy Jon a free lance rock writer told me when the yard birds played the whiskey a Go Go He lied about his age he under 18 tall athletic guy though he saw the Yardbirds perform there he buddied up with ppl that invited him to a private party up in Laurel / Coldwater canyon after the show.
He said he was sitting on the living room floor feet away from Jeff Beck Yardbirds jamming in someone's living room ....😳
Saw Beck & Page together in the Yardbirds at the old Fillmore in San Francisco. Page was strictly rhythm, Beck was scary good and I quit college shortly thereafter to become a full-time musician, thereby robbing the world of yet another psychologist. Thank you, Jeff & Jimmy!
omg Jimmy and The yardbirds 😱
I feel lucky to have recordings like this from back in my teen days. I am reminded of school and my first friends and so much more 😊 Such great memories.
Thanks Mark Zep!
I still have my 45 of this song. Richard in Dallas
Me, too! :-)
This shows what a sad sad world we live in now musically speaking.
no, it shows you forgot how to find new music because you got old. THere is plenty of great music in the world now and then. SPeaking as a 62 year old life ling multi instrumentalist and producer. Music is fine. People are always the problem.
@@morbidmanmusicthank you
Whether you were in to music or not, back in those it was the sound track of the culture. I graduated high school in 1966 and lived in Southern California.
@@morbidmanmusic I think OP's point is: this used to be POP music. It's isn't that there isn't "good" music today, in fact there is more than ever. But what is promoted and readily available is engineered, pre-packaged crap.
I say this to my college-aged children (who have great musical taste overall and often introduce me to new acts) all the time. Imagine a world where Led Zeppelin or U2 was considered popular music and promoted heavily by record companies and was Top 40. Those days are in fact LOOONG gone.
Tnx, there is good music out there but it's seriously under the radar.@@brutusduran8592
One of the best songs of the Yardbirds, 1967👍
Priceless.
My sister, who was several years older than me, went to see The Yardbirds in concert while Jimmy was in the band, I think Jeff had left by that time. She took pictures of the band, Jimmy's hair was quite a bit longer than it was here, had to be around 67/68. I haven't seen those pics in years, I think they were lost during one of her moves to one of the places she lived.
Thank you for this seriously 🙌🏼
Uncle Miltie! He was huge at one time! People who grew up in the 80's will recognize him from the Ratt video "Round and Round" although he was playing two roles( hilariously!) As he used to dress in "drag" for laughs!❤😂👍
Holy cow! I can't believe these guys were on The Milton Berle Show of all places and did a psychedelic song like that! Insane! Many hosts from that era had their beginnings in Vaudeville and the Big Band era, so to hear "noise" like that must have been quite the culture shock! They must have thought they were listening to pure garbage.
Until now, I didn't know Milton Berle had his own show. I grew up during that time. He was probably trying to get his ratings up so he wouldn't be cancelled.....apparently it didn't work.....his show must have only lasted a few weeks ...
Amidst a huge publicity blitz by ABC-TV (including an iron-clad, long term contract) and considerable speculation as to whether he could win over the Baby Boomers as he had their parents, entertainment legend Milton Berle attempted a prime-time TV comeback with this comedy-variety series taped at the Hollywood Palace theater. Unfortunately, high budgets and big-name guest stars couldn't lure viewers away from competing shows, primarily the hugely successful "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." The program was cancelled after one season, and Berle, despite numerous guest appearances on other shows over the ensuing three decades, never had a regular series again.
-Bob Sorrentino
This explains why I never heard of this show....I was watching "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." . lol
@@alpha-omega2362 in that era, "variety shows" in prime time slots were a dying breed, soon to be replaced by syndicated drama type shows like Star Trek, Lost In Space, Man From U.N.C.L.E. etc, which were all family friendly. Variety was for the older generation and was pushed back to later slots in the evening where Jack Par soon became Johnny Carson and the like. Smothers Brothers and Laugh In were probably the last of the comedy / variety shows for prime time... and those were aimed at a younger audience.
@@alpha-omega2362 I was 9 in 66, but do not remember Berle having that show. He was actually the first huge TV star, he was the host of the "Texaco Star Theatre" in the late forties into the fifties, but his star faded after the show folded up. This was actually his last shot at hosting his own show, but it crashed and burned after one year. Despite that, he was still a legendary entertainment figure, he was a guest on every show under the sun when I was growing up.
Maybe also because he was an egotistical jerk.
So glad i was around during this amazing time in musical history. Was s teen then in a rock group and i remember "Im a Man" being so cool. The raveup was so awesome! Never heard this awesome tune! If I could tutn back the hands of time it would certainly be then! ❤❤❤
How cool were these boys. Legends
Too cool!!! I was 9 when this was on television. We watched Uncle Milty every week, mom was a big fan. 🕊💖🎸
I saw this performance on TV and I couldn't remember what show it came from. I was barely 16. I got my 1st guitar on the 25th of December and this song is the one that made me want to learn how to play. You can also hear some stuff that Jimi borrowed from the lead guitar portion, as he had just arrived in England about a week before this song was released.
Bought this single, and it was my favourite track by them. Quite advanced for its day.
The cameramen have no idea where to go during the guitar solo
Not surprising,since they were lip syncing here
Incredible band, twin lead guitars😊😊😊
Iconic with continued staying power and relevancy nearly 60 years later.
amazingly rare. Thank you.
Everybody's a poet everybody's a singer everybody has something to say.
Shut up and let the musicians play.
Never saw this. Kinda rare. Jimmy and jeff.
Kinda?
So cool to have this old time, amazing music to enjoy.
The Yardbirds were 🔥
The first rock concert I attended was a double bill with The Yardbirds and The Animals, in Dallas, TX.
I saw this version of the Yardbirds at the Stockton Civic Auditorium Sept 3, 1966. I was 14. My mom dropped me and my best friend Steve off and picked us up when show was over. Good times.
My dad dropped me off and picked me up when I was 14.
But is was for Led Zeppelin in Ft. Worth... I asked my friends to go and they wouldn't or couldn't. But I went solo anyways...
What an incredible archive UA-cam is
abraham lincolns first son robert is in a video on youtube .. 1922 the opening of the lincoln memorial... he died in 1926
Nice!!! I had never seen this!!
Ahhh what a great year !!! I was born😊🤘🏻🔥🇺🇸
Thanks! markzep!
A Blast from the Best past Ions! Beautiful Muses! Ha!:)), Jimmy & the yardbirds the Rthym has A Whoa rockn! Feel!! Mm bk in the sixties! Love how they appreciated All styles Of fabulous fantastic musica! All the way Across the world! Heysocool Rad! Cheers!
My bandmate and I saw Jeff in San Jose last year, thinking "he may not come back around". Amazing show, and sadly, soon after, he was gone... RIP, JB!
I don’t care how obscure you try to go, the fact is The Yardbirds were to psychedelic music what The Byrds were to folk-rock, and The Beatles and The Beach Boys were to pop. All incalculably, and seminally influential. And great.
WTF is psychedelic music? Bwahaha ha ha ha
Totally agree. So many now-major players cite the Beck-era Yardbirds as a major influence. And lets face it, the wild weirdness of 'Shapes of Things' and 'Over Under Sideways Down' opened up the doors for the acceptance of more experimental music. Listen to Paul McCartney's guitar solo on 'Taxman' - he's attempting to make like his friend Jeff Beck.
But after the departure of Paul Samwell-Smith, the firing of Jeff Beck and Simon Napier-Bell selling of the Yardbirds to Mickie Most and Peter Grant the band lost its way.
The Beetles were not pop. At least not when they played Elinor Rigby, Rocky Racoon, Happiness is a warm gun, A day in the life, and Hey Bulldog.
@@MrCherryJuice Yep, the Beck-era was my favorite, too. Love it all, but ‘Roger the Engineer’ is incredible. Also, fwiw, if you listen to ‘Taxman’ closely, you can hear the seeds of (I am convinced) Hendrix’ inspiration for his ‘Purple Haze’ riff, courtesy of McCartney’s guitar on the verses.
Considering the guitar power here, and the pioneering sound, this should rank as one of the top rock performances ever. Hooray Uncle Miltie!
Masters!
Thanks for sharing this, Mark
You can hear their uniqueness from back then😎
I have this 45 with picture cover I bought back then. It was the most radical guitar sound for me! Always loved Becks playing the best!
I like the sound of that white Fender Guitar!
That's Jeff's '54 Esquire Jimmy is playing.
@@erics.6349 and Jeff is playing his first LP Sunburst, while it still had it's finish.
Mind-blow! I never seen this before or even heard about it!!
This song was incredibly edgy and advanced for its time. And it was 100% written by Jimmy Page. It’s almost a precursor to what would come in “Dazed and Confused.” The chromatism, the tri-tone lead, the pausing for great effect… It’s all in there.
Except Jake Holmes wrote Dazed And Confused. And Happenings was totally not written by Page alone! It was written by Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, then Page and Beck worked on the guitar parts.
Good guitarist but Jimmy Page never wrote anything. Much to easy to clip it off someone else. Yardbirds had some great hits but suffered from an overall lack of writing ability. Sorry but true.@@KevyNova
It even features John Paul Jones on bass.
Wow. I haven't heard this song since the 60's! Thanks.
wow ' catchup little tomato
Love this song. Kind of sounds like they drank a pint of Pink Floyd Kool-Aid before they wrote it…❤🎵
Someone in the band probably had saw 'The Pink Floyd' at the UFO club. I watched a video of 'Under Over Sideways Down' earlier and the guitar had silver mirrored discs on it, just like Syd's!
@@jamesjohnson-vj6uu love it. Thanks for replying to my post. 😀
Not sure what I enjoyed more, seeing Jimmy rock that legendary Tele, or seeing David St. Hubbins on vocals.
was this song used in a movie or show? it seems very familiar
heart full of soul should have been played or was it??
The Yardbirds created the 60's psychedelic sound. They were so ahead of their time that they left the Beatles and the Stones in the dust.
...I think that it was Great Society with Grace Slick,1965...