Interesting that you should say that because besides the Beatles, who are probably everybody's favorite British band of that era, THE WHO is my favorite band of all time! I'm very lucky to have seen them live many, many times and they were absolutely rivetting and fantastic beyond words. It's because of the Who that I'm a Rock fan, period.
A very good overview but having lived through it without extensive acknowledgement to the likes of Long John Baldry, the Pretty Things and John Mayall seems rather incomplete...and as far as female artists also Jules & Brian Auger & the Trinity.
I really love all of these bands... the animals, the beatles, the who and of course yardbids, well except for the stones... they ... not too much ( I'm not an english speaker, sorry for mistakes)
Saw the Yardbirds in Oct 66, just after Beck left. Jimmy Page was playing. Same show: Hollies, Young Rascals, Cyrkle, Beau Brummels. Shining stars? Keith Relf was a lead singer Rock God. Jimmy Page knew all of Beck's riffs (no one knew who he was), and Graham Nash & Tony Hicks, of the Hollies, who had the highest tightest harmonies since Lennon & McCartney.
It's pretty funny, I was in H.S. 82-86', and the mod scene re-emerged. Vespas, jackets with british flags etc. I lived in So. CA, and the our local mall had Rocky Horror and Led Zep "Song Remains" etc playing at the midnight movies, like they had been for years. Then sometime around 1983 they added The Who's Quadrophenia to the mix, and the mods and rockers had a big brawl, and after that they closed the midnight movies there for good. The Who vs Led Zep? Long/Short hair tension of the time..
in britain, here in ireland and over in america zep are definetly better known and more popular! but thats just how it goes! dp are much much better in my opinion!
they're totally a live band. their second album is their most professional, the first is just raw, but live is where they shine. how many more times live is really good if you're interested in hearing some magic
yeah thats what i'm saying man. you can't really hear a band until you've actually HEARD the band. ten years gone is a wonderful example of how musically creative page and jones were. bonham was good, but he wasn't trying to be the greatest drummer or fastest or anything. bonham was innovative in making up new beats and stuff. when the levee breaks and the ocean are good examples of this. then plant was just kinda the frontman who could yell like a cat in heat. "sexy". i meant ticket sales btw.
many bands have broke records the beatles set. they were the 1st comercially succesful band so it was bound to happen! they did contribute towards heavy metal with the riff in whole lotta love but there were many earlier heavier influences than that! to be honest i've only listened to the 1st 4 albums and physical grafitti(not a big fan of it)! i find bonham very overrated. page and jonesey however are amazing musicians!
but yeah deep purple was def underrated. their mistake was writing smoke on the water. wah wah... but yeah great band for sure.but hey, atleast now we have the jonas brothers.
even though zep was one of the most popular bands ever, they were still highly underrated as a full band. they went places no one has gone and like, REALLY, if you think about it, all they got credit for was stairway, immigrant, selling out faster than the beatles, and "inventing heavey metal". check out the solo to no quarter in 73. jazz up the ass its incredible. and the rain song is almost untouchable. thats like 30's jazz standard good. the media kinda sucks, dude..
yeh. they are gerat but i do think they are overrated. i think the bast band of their time was deep purple who were always wrongly in the shadow of zep unfortunately (especially because they werent really anything like zep were!
page is a fine fine guitar player but most of the cloud over led zeppelins career about plagarism is down to him rather than plant. the small faces also didnt credit willie dixon for you need loving! (the original by muddy waters simply titled you need love)! but never the less the added their own flavour to the vocals and then plant blatantly ripped it!
i'm not saying hendrix wasn't influenced by those guys. they're obviously how his playing developed. but you only need to listen to the roger the engineer album by the yardbirds to get wat i'm saying. sure hendrix has even said that the only english guitarist he ever learned anythign from was jeff. and he also told jeff he used his lick at the start of the solo in happenings ten years time ago at the start of the foxey lady solo(and that lick is commony refered to as the "hendrix lick"!
hendrix def. looked into the history of what the mods were doing. buddy guy was hendrix's idol until he discovered django. django should be EVERYONE's idol, or atleast lonnie johnson.
they were years before beck. do you think music just grew leaps and bound and hendrix exploded out of nowhere? nuh uh uhh. a lot of hendrix lead style comes from becks playing! the yardbirds with beck were the first proper "rock" band!
no jeff influenced hendrix which in turn makes him more influential. and page has done nothing original. he's just in one of the biggest bands going so is overrated. just like kirk hammett from metallica!
Jeff beck is THE MOST influential guitarist of all time. Original licks, heavy riffs for the time, Pychadelic pioneer,very fast lead playing for the time, an amazing blues guitarist and in later years a jazz fusion pioneer! He's the only british guitarist that Jimi Hendrix said he ever learned anything from! The Yardbirds & The Kinks were the most original and musiclaly importand bands of the 60's. (NOT THE BEATLES)
Lol! You know that as soon as Jimmy joined, he was the one really rocking, look at the other ones here, nothing, while look when it Jimmy... Jimmy Page was moving! LOL!
Haha! Man stop expressing stupid opinions, and try to read more if you like a band!!! When the video was made Clapton had already left the group!!! The lead guitar (that does the intro riff) is Jeff Beck! Paul Samuel Smith (bass) looks nothing like Clapton, and neither does Chris Dreja (acoustic) look like Page!!!! So inform yourself!!!!!!
lol... I thought Jimmy was in the Yardbirds since 14... Oh... YEAH... It's true, he left it for studies, but gave up on that, then went back to music industry, and as soon as the bassist got out, Jimmy went in with his friend Jeff...
Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are not in this video. Jimmy and Clapton were part of the Yardbirds at another time. In this video the line-up is: Keith Relf - vocals; Jeff Beck - lead guitar; Chris Dreja -rhythm guitar; Paul Samwell-Smith - bass; and Jim Mcarty - drums. The Yardbirds went through many changes in musicians. :-)
3:39 is Jeff Beck 2:42 are Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I just can't point them out now, they're just too young... And I'm not kidding you... When the band separated, they all went their own path, Jeff Beck became a soloist, Eric Clapton went in Cream and etc... Jimmy Page, kept staying with Yardbirds, until the Yardbirds transform into Led Zeppelin, because of many events...
The Who (especially in those early years) had such a unique, powerful presence that no one could touch them.
You are so right!
Interesting that you should say that because besides the Beatles, who are probably everybody's favorite British band of that era, THE WHO is my favorite band of all time!
I'm very lucky to have seen them live many, many times and they were absolutely rivetting and fantastic beyond words. It's because of the Who that I'm a Rock fan, period.
Perfect description for Keith!
1:09 I think Keith just revolutionized drumming at that point, look at him... Holy shit!
"I Can't Explain" (Great song!)
Keith Moon's hands are a blur! Unbelievable....
I had never heard about this, so thanks for the info.
Cheers! :-)
"Heart Full of Soul" by the Yardbirds.
"I Can't Explain" by the Who.
A very good overview but having lived through it without extensive acknowledgement to the likes of Long John Baldry, the Pretty Things and John Mayall seems rather incomplete...and as far as female artists also Jules & Brian Auger & the Trinity.
The Who (Pete Townshend) and the Yardbirds (Jeff Beck) - dyanmite!
I am at Part 9 and no mention of female artists...is this accurate?
whats a mod?
And the Kinks earlier, distinctly British sound?
I really love all of these bands... the animals, the beatles, the who and of course yardbids, well except for the stones... they ... not too much ( I'm not an english speaker, sorry for mistakes)
the who drummer looks like lionel messi
the who didn't play my generation :(
Saw the Yardbirds in Oct 66, just after Beck left. Jimmy Page was playing. Same show: Hollies, Young Rascals, Cyrkle, Beau Brummels. Shining stars? Keith Relf was a lead singer Rock God. Jimmy Page knew all of Beck's riffs (no one knew who he was), and Graham Nash & Tony Hicks, of the Hollies, who had the highest tightest harmonies since Lennon & McCartney.
@noky88noky The 7 ages of rock is the complete program. This section, the birth of british rock is just part of it.
@Mick342 No ever has. Ever.
Does anyone what is the full name of this documentary, who made it, and when it was released for the first time?
English
I refer to your sentence: "It was only your stupid joke I meant to deify." It's nonsense.
So you don't know what a deify means then.
Keith Relf was not a singer. Vocalist, yes, but not a singer.
the who rocks, they transform the rock music and took it to another level.
It's pretty funny, I was in H.S. 82-86', and the mod scene re-emerged. Vespas, jackets with british flags etc. I lived in So. CA, and the our local mall had Rocky Horror and Led Zep "Song Remains" etc playing at the midnight movies, like they had been for years. Then sometime around 1983 they added The Who's Quadrophenia to the mix, and the mods and rockers had a big brawl, and after that they closed the midnight movies there for good. The Who vs Led Zep? Long/Short hair tension of the time..
Pete Townshend needed a lot of money to support his nose.
jon lord,ian paice,ritchie blackmore,roger glover,ian gillan,david coverdale,glenn hughes,tommy bolin....All geniuses..PURPLE-GODLIKES
they have 9. 13 or 14 including live stuff.
in britain, here in ireland and over in america zep are definetly better known and more popular! but thats just how it goes!
dp are much much better in my opinion!
I think Deep Purple were always much more popular in Europe than Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin certainly didn't get much airplay.
yeh i've seen it on the lost bbc recordings!
they're totally a live band. their second album is their most professional, the first is just raw, but live is where they shine. how many more times live is really good if you're interested in hearing some magic
well only have wat 7 albums? and i have 5 so. i've hear most of their stuff. i like them but i wouldnt rate them anywer near my top 20 bands!
yeah thats what i'm saying man. you can't really hear a band until you've actually HEARD the band. ten years gone is a wonderful example of how musically creative page and jones were. bonham was good, but he wasn't trying to be the greatest drummer or fastest or anything. bonham was innovative in making up new beats and stuff. when the levee breaks and the ocean are good examples of this. then plant was just kinda the frontman who could yell like a cat in heat. "sexy". i meant ticket sales btw.
many bands have broke records the beatles set. they were the 1st comercially succesful band so it was bound to happen! they did contribute towards heavy metal with the riff in whole lotta love but there were many earlier heavier influences than that!
to be honest i've only listened to the 1st 4 albums and physical grafitti(not a big fan of it)! i find bonham very overrated. page and jonesey however are amazing musicians!
but yeah deep purple was def underrated. their mistake was writing smoke on the water. wah wah... but yeah great band for sure.but hey, atleast now we have the jonas brothers.
even though zep was one of the most popular bands ever, they were still highly underrated as a full band. they went places no one has gone and like, REALLY, if you think about it, all they got credit for was stairway, immigrant, selling out faster than the beatles, and "inventing heavey metal". check out the solo to no quarter in 73. jazz up the ass its incredible. and the rain song is almost untouchable. thats like 30's jazz standard good. the media kinda sucks, dude..
yeh. they are gerat but i do think they are overrated. i think the bast band of their time was deep purple who were always wrongly in the shadow of zep unfortunately (especially because they werent really anything like zep were!
yeah it was down to him cuz he was the leader and pretty naive about plagiarism and such. but man, the live recordings are brilliant. so many idea's
page is a fine fine guitar player but most of the cloud over led zeppelins career about plagarism is down to him rather than plant.
the small faces also didnt credit willie dixon for you need loving! (the original by muddy waters simply titled you need love)! but never the less the added their own flavour to the vocals and then plant blatantly ripped it!
plant stole eevrything steve marriot ever had lol. its awful to listen to whole lotta love when robert plant comes in. page is fucking awesome though
yeh the small faces were very influential.
zeppelin stole a lot of their style!
you should check out some of the small faces stuff. hendrix used aLOT of their stuff, as well.
i'm not saying hendrix wasn't influenced by those guys. they're obviously how his playing developed.
but you only need to listen to the roger the engineer album by the yardbirds to get wat i'm saying. sure hendrix has even said that the only english guitarist he ever learned anythign from was jeff.
and he also told jeff he used his lick at the start of the solo in happenings ten years time ago at the start of the foxey lady solo(and that lick is commony refered to as the "hendrix lick"!
hendrix def. looked into the history of what the mods were doing. buddy guy was hendrix's idol until he discovered django. django should be EVERYONE's idol, or atleast lonnie johnson.
they were years before beck.
do you think music just grew leaps and bound and hendrix exploded out of nowhere? nuh uh uhh. a lot of hendrix lead style comes from becks playing!
the yardbirds with beck were the first proper "rock" band!
jimi hendrix learned everything from buddy guy and django reinhardt. jeff beck is kinda boring dude...
no jeff influenced hendrix which in turn makes him more influential.
and page has done nothing original. he's just in one of the biggest bands going so is overrated. just like kirk hammett from metallica!
Jeff beck is THE MOST influential guitarist of all time.
Original licks, heavy riffs for the time, Pychadelic pioneer,very fast lead playing for the time, an amazing blues guitarist and in later years a jazz fusion pioneer!
He's the only british guitarist that Jimi Hendrix said he ever learned anything from!
The Yardbirds & The Kinks were the most original and musiclaly importand bands of the 60's. (NOT THE BEATLES)
Lol! You know that as soon as Jimmy joined, he was the one really rocking, look at the other ones here, nothing, while look when it Jimmy... Jimmy Page was moving! LOL!
Thanks for the info!
Though as soon as Paul Samuel Smith left the band, jimmy came in...
Haha! Man stop expressing stupid opinions, and try to read more if you like a band!!!
When the video was made Clapton had already left the group!!! The lead guitar (that does the intro riff) is Jeff Beck! Paul Samuel Smith (bass) looks nothing like Clapton, and neither does Chris Dreja (acoustic) look like Page!!!! So inform yourself!!!!!!
the great Keith Relf who sang despite being born with only one lung
Right on !!!
lol... I thought Jimmy was in the Yardbirds since 14... Oh... YEAH... It's true, he left it for studies, but gave up on that, then went back to music industry, and as soon as the bassist got out, Jimmy went in with his friend Jeff...
Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are not in this video. Jimmy and Clapton were part of the Yardbirds at another time.
In this video the line-up is: Keith Relf - vocals; Jeff Beck - lead guitar; Chris Dreja -rhythm guitar; Paul Samwell-Smith - bass; and Jim Mcarty - drums.
The Yardbirds went through many changes in musicians.
:-)
I didn't knew Eric used top play with the bass, but wait... Jimmy played the bass at this band... So um... What do you have to say?
2:50 looks like Clapton more... And also Jimmy doesn't sing, and also Jimmy was at acoustic in this song... So it would make sense...
FaNtAsTiC !!
3:39 is Jeff Beck
2:42 are Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I just can't point them out now, they're just too young...
And I'm not kidding you... When the band separated, they all went their own path, Jeff Beck became a soloist, Eric Clapton went in Cream and etc... Jimmy Page, kept staying with Yardbirds, until the Yardbirds transform into Led Zeppelin, because of many events...