Yardbird Jim McCarty interview (September 9th, 2015).
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- 'Get Ready To Rock!' www.getreadytorock.com/ chats with Jim McCarty, drummer and founder member of The Yardbirds about the band in the 60's, funny anecdotes, as well as more recent projects! Enjoy! ;-)
Interview conducted by Mark Shaw.
Filmed and produced by Rowan Smith.
(C) 2015 Get Ready To Rock!
YARDBIRDS were epic in America in the mid60s. They certainly are not forgotten not if you're a BOOMER.
I can´t get enough of The Yardbirds... Awesome.. Thanks Jim.
Jim Mc.Carty says it is incredible the band's music lasted 50 years! What else is amazing is that 50 years after the beginning, he is telling us what we never knew, when such bands were NEW!
Met Jim in Peoria,Illinois at a show with a revamped Yardbirds.He and they were great! Met them afterwards and they signed my shirt.Great guys!!
God, how I love this band! Whenever I hear them, I'm transported back to my six year old self hearing those fantastic sound played, with the lights down low, while my older brother and sister had their make out parties. The 60's, for me, never lose their magic. So much great music, and so many great bands and songs...
dude !! your brother and sister made out to the yardbirds, that's sick !!! Lol
The 1960's "Boomer" generation produced a disproportionate amount of good music. BUT they also produced a disproportionate amount of JUNK.
@@jnagarya519 no, they used a disproportionate amount of junk...we were right about the war, wrong about drugs.
@@johniorio7951 This remains the fact: the "Boomer" generation produced a disproportionate amount of good music. BUT they also produced a disproportionate amount of "music" JUNK.
We were right about the war, but "we" were wrong about SOME of the drugs beginning with LSD. Ian MacDonald, in _Revolution In the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties_ wrote in effect that the flowers of "flower power" died on a mound of methamphetamine and heroin.
Ending song?
Jim McCarty is a such a pleasant soft spoken person. He seems like he would be a good friend to those he encounters. He's made a nice living in musci over the decades. It would be fun to see the Yardbirds originals have a one night reunion, but this interview was 9 years ago now. i don't remember ever hearing of one. I suppose they must have done something when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but that was 1992. Cool interview of the drummer of the iconic Yardbirds, that I never knew much about.
I have liked this group for a long time and I don't expect to ever stop. I only wish that Mr McCarty knew this. I only wish to thank him. When I was four years old, the Yardbirds came to Kilgore Texas where I live, they stayed at the Crim home in their guest cottage, the year was 1965
I really like his Yardbirds' drumming.
Excellent! Nice to hear from Jim about The Yardbirds' band members and the history of their band.
Fantastic drumming throughout The Yardbirds Jim. Great interview. Thanks.
Jimmy has been talking about some unheard of Yardbirds tracks he found in the vaults as he was sorting through things while doing the anthology Led Zeppelin editions, etc. So many fans want him to make new music with JPJ but why not join forces with Jim and Chris, do a new release with these unheard tracks and few other latter day Yardbirds gems, play a few shows here and there? Jim sure sounds open to it when he mentions how Page has "spoken highly" of the band and "there's more possibility that [Jimmy] would do it."
Keith Relf harmonica and vocals on having a Rave Up! Jeff Beck- the fuzz tone guitar. "Jitterbug" music of the highest order.
So many real treasures from our generation. What an incredible, magical Renaissance for music. No doubt to never be repeated. Thank you!
Danke für das Interview.
This is a great interview! Thanks!
Jim it was great to hear your personal recollections about The Yardbirds. I have a live bootleg LP that has The Yardbirds covering The Velvet Undergrounds, Waiting for the man. Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles May,31 1968. Nice version! Best of luck on you plans to tour again, maybe I will see you.
Great drummer.
How lucky I am to get the first view and comment ! I am also very lucky to have found a double CD of the band ILLUSION....Jim's 2 albums as Illusion feature Jane Relf on vocals with Jim and the keyboard legend John Hawken...beautiful Prog-Psych-Folk that deserves a place at the top of the heap in this genre ! Well done Jim !!!!
A very nice interview, Jim! Cannot wait to see you, John, and the current ineup in November!
Georgio Gomelsky sang baritone backing vocals on “Still I’m Sad”, written by Paul Samwell-Smith and Jim McCarty.
Best drum Jim Mccarty
coming to Detroit in October 2016 for the Grande Ballroom 2016 !
I was there!!!
so nice and modest man
I an American and thanks to the British blues boom, and my personal faves- John Mayall, early Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, Yardbirds, Stones and ultimate Fave Savoy Brown, I was able to latch on to their blues faves, Chicago Blues- Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Along with B.B. King,etc.
All hail rock and roll, by way of the blues!
Good ol’ Macca!
yay! Hi Jim. Robin from fb.
JIM rules!!!!
There were great guitarist in 1960 era. Maybe it's just me but but those 3 names that were given the title of gods or greatest guitarist that spawned from the Yardbirds seems to not only diminish the Yardbirds but all the other greats the people have set them on high as though it's no one else
Mr. You're a better man than l
Jeff's to busy with his cars. .. it would be cool if Jimmy did some shows especially since Robert won't do a zeppelin tour bring Jones along too if you need to he'd love playing that old stuff
I'm just now realizing how great this band really was what a important time in rock they paved the way for what we now call heavy music.
Clapton Beck Page !!! enough said
Yea that would be great but Jim will never get them back together.
Luckily I saw the Yardbirds on a number of occasions and with luck saw the band with Eric, Jeff and Pagey at different times. Ah those were the days. Still see Jim and Chris playing sometimes
He never mentioned Chris dreja ...?
+Julie Strauss I noticed that as well. Strange. I hope they haven't fallen out.
That cos like himself, no-one gives a fuck about them.
Joe Rock ,,Mr Mcarty is a life long musician who has had and continues to have input to his art..your a fellow who wallows in his Zeppelin albums,talking about (the greatest)this man played with them..and is an artist on a level of his own design. . surely due some respect from the likes of a arm chair music afficianotto
It's unfortunate that "The Yardbirds" never achieved a stable lineup.
To J Nagara, actually, many people think it is GOOD the Yardbirds didn't have a permanent line-up - because therefore they introduced many more newcomers!
@@nygelmiller5293 "many people""? Name ONE.
The problem, as said, was that they never were a stable band, the closest they came was when Jeff Back lead it.
@@jnagarya519 you say "how many people LIKE the different musicians that cut their teeth as members of the YARDBIRDS.Nane ONE - actually, I think that I MYSELF add up to ONE for a start! (Always was good at maths!) Incidentally, AFTER the Yardbirds, I've discovered a group called BOX OF FROGS, featuring the amazingly characterful, gruff - voiced singer Roger Chapman. You really should get a re-make of the song HEART FULL OF SOUL up on the internet, and listen to THAT!
@@nygelmiller5293 Check out "Roger the Engineer" by The Yardbirds. Still stands up today. But that's because Jeff Beck CRUSHES Clapton and Page combined.
@@nygelmiller5293 I didn't say "permanent"; I said STABLE. And I never pretend to speak for an imagined "many".
" Yes Page joined us on Bass first. I think he stole it, then he stole a few bass lines from a better player, probably Jamerson, then he borrowed my cigarette lighter and scraped off the color then claimed it was his , then he stole"Drinkin muddy water" from Muddy Waters, then Tangerine from Relf, Then Dazed and confused from Jake Holmes, then Black Waterside from Bert Jansch now he was set for a start. oh he did write one of our tunes " Stealin, stealin' i think ."oh yeah he borrowed " she moved through the fair " from Davey Graham and said hey Davey, I'll return it in White summer Davey only understood later what he meant .
To silence 418 there was the strange case of Zeppelin getting sued for perhaps ripping off Stairway To Heaven, from a song by SPIRIT. Unfortunately, I don't remember the title of their song, but I did hear it, and find it incredible the judge didn't acknowledge that Stairway comes from the first part of the song! However it is an act of genius how it has been built out into something significant, like Stairway obviously is!
on you dumb fuck- wake up- every artist takes something from another song- were the fuck do you think songs come from-how many bands have takin from zep,1000?? get a life
Great interview from this Canadian. It takes one back to intimate times amongst this famous and accomplished group. A few enduring songs and of coarse the stars from it.
It shows it was small circles and how easy it was to do better then American or black artists.
I don't agree Yardbirds was blues. it was rock and roll. The only thing is they learnt some riffs from blues but they rocked it up. This is a error of British kids in those days. They missed the point about what rock was and blues was not.
Blues was terrible music and tightly ignored in North America.
Blues was ignored in the US because the musicians were black.