Nels Cline on the Yardbirds' "Over Under Sideways Down" - Hooked
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2020
- The Wilco wizard gets nostalgic adopting the personas of British Invasion faves, including Jeff Beck's gooey drone in G.
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I was 17, and a huge Beatles fan, but the Yardbirds and Jeff Beck were kick ass like no other group.
The difference between Clapton's Yardibirds and Jeff Beck's Yardbirds is simply stunning. It shows how unique is Beck's mind, Clapton never got out of his pentatonic and his blues, he evolved very little, while Jeff Beck got from blues to fusion and then into electronic music, getting better and better with his technique and his feeling.
Beck is just amazing, even so compared to all the other players of his generation: he just stands out head and shoulders from the bunch.
Yeah, but when Clapton got into Cream he started to run laps around Beck and Page.
@@scottandersen4798 don't get me wrong, Cream was an awesome band, one of the best at the time.
I honestly think the Cream era is where Clapton is at his best, willing to experiment a bit and driven by the creativity of Jack Bruce.
Beck was still in the Yardbirds at the time, when he got out he started his own band with Rod Stewart singing and, I am sorry, there's no match for those two albums (Truth and Beck Ola).
Funny enough they never really overlapped since Cream broke up in '68, and Truth came out right in the same year.
The whole point with Beck is that he crashed his car too often, he was too restless and couldn't stick with the same band for long ... otherwise even the Zeppelin would have looked like toddlers compared to that first Jeff Beck Group.
@@RisikoAO Right right of course. Each was a hero in their own category.
@@scottandersen4798 In terms of songs that people remember, definitely.
When it comes to technique and chops Beck will always be above Clapton. The difference is that Clapton can front a band, play rhythm on a Beatles solo album, and collaborate with people like Duane Allman.
By the time Wired came out Jeff had left Eric so far in the dust as a lead player that it's not a comparison.
Does that mean Eric wasn't great? Of course not, but he focused on being a package deal performer; one who can write, sing, and play their own songs.
Jeff is a journeyman guitarist, he went farther down the rabbit hole as time went on. He never reached the audiences his Yardbird peers would, but all he was concerned with was playing with the best people possible and getting as good as he could.
Clapton will tell you himself that he's no Jeff Beck, but nobody ever wanted him to be. Jeff could never do an MTV Unplugged like Clapton where a slow Layla becomes a huge hit and Tears in Heaven makes everyone cry. He could never sit in with the Allmans and sing a D&D tune that will give you shivers.
That being said, Clapton could never come up with anything like Scatterbrain, or ever be able to pull it off with how Vinnie Colaiuta played it.
Clapton brings a graceful, concise sense of authenticity to his guitar playing while Beck brings a fire and fury that somehow still has a sense of humor.
They're just different, and both have influenced my playing immeasurably. I will say though, channeling Jeff Beck is *so much harder* 🤣
@ A.O. Clapton was not in the band long enough to make that comparison.
I loved your remembrances about "Over Under Sideways Down". The summer of "66, I was 10 years old and staying at my Aunts summer house T the beach in Maryland. There was a small boardwalk where I would go after dinner and one night somebody played the song that still sends shivers down my spine. My musical world (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones) was forever altered. Guitarists, kept upping the ante and I gladly followed, but this was the song that started it all.
Excellent! Over Under Sideways Down was also a childhood favorite of mine. Jeff Beck always spoke to me - ever since I heard his solo in Heart Full of Soul.
Truth is an all-time great, great album!
How Jeff Beck made this sounded like a sitar before he started using tremolo bar is just beyond me....
I would love to visit an alternate timeline in which Nels was in Frank Zappa's band.
that would have been awesome.
He’s not good enough.
Let's be honest. He's probably more of a sorcerer at this point.
Nels, you are my biggest inspiration as I begin to learn guitar at 55. Thanks, man.
Nels is, undeniably, the king of everything. 🤘
Love that tune, so glad to see that riff recognized. And that guitar is sweeeeet.
Nels, your favorites are my favorites. I don't like to date myself but I too was 11 in '66. Music scene was exploding from the seismic british invasion starting with the Beatles a few years back. In '67 I picked up dad's ES 125 and started a band in the next year. End result I still love to play.
You don't look a day over 40!
Always loved this riff but favorite was "Heart full of soul"
There was a ton of great songs/music in the mid to late 60s.
"The Anything Goes Year"... what a great comment. Yeah, love that riff. Cheers.
Oh...that Wilco wizard.
Love it!! Love The Nels:) There's a guy from the Bronx that nails Jimmy Page tones and his playing. Chris Carusos Ensemble. I saw him at a restaurant in Westchester County with a bass player and drummer and they were killer! He covered Over Under Sideways down and it was flawless. Older patrons went nuts. Even young people were like: " what did I just hear??" and asked him about the tune while I was complimenting his rendition of it. He said he's going to record it with a very Beck, Page feel. Can't wait ti hear it.
Thank you... It's My Life by The Animals is my favorite
Nels is a badass no matter what he's playing
Cool, digging the fuzz , give us more !
Love it!! Such a great riff, Jeff has always been a madman... With or without his guitar!! Lol
A few years back I saw Nels playing with Jim Campalongo at a tiny club in NYC. Maybe 50 people in the place. One of the best shows of my entire life. AMAZING guitar playing.
I've been playing guitar for over 40 years. whatever Nels is doing is different than just playing guitar. one of the best musical magicians ever!
Nels harnesses noise better than any guitarist I’ve seen live, and I’ve seen thousands (no lie).
A magical time in rock n roll history !!!!!
The Last Time, Over Underside ways down, 19th nervous break down, , Paint it black were my 1st guitar riffs I learned !
Great! BTW, I was doing the HEYS in my head as you were playing. They seem intrinsically linked to the music.
Small Faces can also satisfy your "Hey" habit.
'Heys' were just as much of a hook as the riff. Two great hooks in a song is rare these days.
I have all those tracks in common with him. I already learned 'em on the guitar as a teen too. Great minds think alike haha
Sweet mutant tele-oid axe & costume changes
That brought back some fond memories
I was 14 yrs old, and it's still a fantastic riff!
I’ve got one or two Yardbirds compilations from the 90s. This is one song I haven’t gotten around to yet though. Still Mr. Cline, it’s great listening to your demonstration of the riffs.
Fuzz pedal just spittin’ glorious trash. Love it!
Very cool--I had not heard that tune for a long time either--but of course, Beck, Clapton and Page were among my greatest influences back then as well, and really the reason I never stopped playing guitar. Seems we had all the same inspirational influences but not surprising given that was the era when so much was happening. Not long afterwards Pink Floyd hit my turntable too!
I too agree that it is a Monster riff. It is hard to nail Beck's quirky style in his playing. Years ago Jerry Donahue told me Beck would play/record with little regard to perfect tuning. Perhaps this factored as well. Funny coincidence. Jerry showed me the correct way to play Clarksville when I got to hang out with him. That was my dream come true 💗 Thank you Jerry.
Makes sense , Mr. Beck is very elusive or he is just a guitar master. Duuuhhh.
I saw a recent clip of Jeff Beck playing the song and even he does not seem to play it as well as he did on the original studio recording. Maybe it was just one of those nights or something. Strange. Still, he will always be one of my favourite guitarists.
Sound IS magic.
I believe you've nailed it...
Always loved this track! I remember bringing home "Roger the Engineer" which had the Happenings Ten Years Time Ago / Psycho Daisies single added, and just the ENERGY that flew off that album was astonishing! Such a rush, that became one of the "source tones" of guitar for me.
Keep Rocking Nels!👍👍🎸😎
Oh Gawd..'Apache' by the Tornado's, Ventures, or who ever that was in the day. Robert at 69. Great hit in the day as a kid.
Great job, Nels, you've inspired me to go learn this one.....
Very cools Nels Mine was the wind out part of the lead solo on Black Dog Not the fast part but about three quarter's of the way through At that point I was interested in the drums but when I heard Led Zepp 4 and that.particular of the solo I was hooked Never learned a single chord till I was a year into playing but was getting a good handle on phrasing and bends by listening to Zepp Free Lynyrd Skynyrd ABB Deep Purple Sabbath Man all the good stuff 👍 to learn lead work from I was Truelly Blessed The 70s was a great time for guitar players Thanks Nels 😁
Very cool
Man, Niles, you nailed it! Beck is a genius... Anything (guitar) still goes as far as I'm concerned. If you throw in the rift in Mitch Ryder's "Devil With A Blue Dress" and the Beatles "I Feel Fine", then our "Hooked" lists are interchangeable. :-)
I was 13 back then and that song got me hooked on the Yardbirds and Jeff Beck RIP. Lookup Blow Up on youtube. The yardbirds do a different version of Train. Kept A Rolling with both Page & Beck.
When I heard this way back. I had no idea what a sitar was, I thought what the hell, “bag Pipes” on a pop record!! I’m “Jeffrey Arnold Beck”, thank you and goodnight!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏
oh yes. FUN stuff.
Excelente 👌
Another fuzztone magic moment is "Blues Theme" by Davy Allen and the Arrows. Same riff over and over again with no vocals, but they do have the sound of a Harley Davidson in there.
I remember about that time in 65 building my own Fuzz Tone out of a Norelco Continental 200 battery operated reel to reel tape recorder. It wasn't exactly fuzz and it wasn't exactly distortion. It was somewhere in between. But man the sound was glorious ! Played with my 1958 Gretsch 6120 into a Magnatone 460 !
He's talking about being 11 years old in 1966... I was born in that year!😂 But yeah, that song hooked me as well.🤘
Just one more reason to love Nels Cline. You either get it, or you don't. For those who don't, I feel sorry for you.
He's Always There is great too!
I think Jeff Beck played an Esquire in the Yardbirds,
Yep
I was 17 not 11 but boy we share some special moments, especially Last Time and Manic Depression. Can't name another rock 3/4 song. I started with Hound Dog when I was about 8, but he just named the classic Beatle riffs except for maybe Taxman. Beck and the Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul, Train Kept a Rollin', Over Under.. Let's not forget What A Shame on the Stones Now for a killer riff
Just stopped by because although I'm not a Nils expert I'm a Nils admirer. Thanks. I'd like to see you/him dissect Manic Depression. That would be fun.
What’s the guitar? Nice mix of Tele/P90/Epiphone Coronet?
This is what I’m after - what is THAT !?
Roger the Engineer, .......no thanks, I'd rather not😁.....but seriously.... what an excellent album 👍 Great songs, brilliant fuzzed up guitar riffs, blues to psychedelia, and Gregorian chants. Loved it ever since I got the reissue on Edsel in 81 I think. Been a major influence on my guitar playing🎸
Same here Nels
Even Nels's finger snaps were musical
I just bought a Tone Bender Mk2, think I’ll give this a bash.
It seems like nobody ever plays this song correctly. The g string bend needs vibrato at the peak of the bend to give it that exotic sound.
What guitar is that. Looks lovely.
Probably found in a pawnshop...
Does anybody know which guitar is the one on the cover?
yeahh Jeff Beck has the strangest style of guitar riffs.
Yard birds 🐦 🦅 .. I miss my fuzz pedal 😢
Wow what fuzz is that?
Is that a NOVO?
I guess you had to be there.........
Dude is 65? 😮
I always forget he's a fair bit older than the rest of the band.
Unbelievable
as if we needed more reasons to be jealous of Nels.
I'm even jealous about Yuka
Nels has been playing forever but he kind of had a late break, as in Wilco 2004, already well into his 40s. But I always thought that was cool about him, first half of his career was that of an underground hero and he got this major break in the second wave of his career while still actively pursuing everything hes always done
Mk 1 Tonebender? Anyone?
Yes please, I actually prefer some of the modern takes on the later iterations if I'm using it with other pedals though.
Those old fuzzes just always sound best to me cranked through a high wattage vintage amp😇
Sorry dude that's a fail on Last Time.
Great player, but that sound is god awful