I prefer the BBC version, a slight edge. This song, like many Yardbirds studio cuts, was in a big hurry (probably to satisfy the club dance rhythms). I just prefer the slower time on the BBC one, it seems more natural. Sounds great, though!
thats cus it is the same solo, page used it for both tracks, just like he used the same stuff he wrote for "knowing that im loosing you" - yardbirds and "tangerine"- zeppelin
I like them both, but I have to say the intro in this version is better. It always causes me to zone out into a trance like state. Not too many songs can do that for me.
Hmm....both versions have their merits. But speaking only for myself....I give a slight nod to the BBC version. I like Keiths voice better on it and Pages guitar just seems to have a slight more ballsy sound. Or maybe it just because I heard the BBC version first = )
Uhh, Robert Plant? The guy Page brought in to prop up Keith Relf's band? Relf and guys like him (e.g., Jagger, and--more importantly--the black blues and soul artists who actually gave birth to ALL these clowns) are the reason there IS a Robert Plant (whose voice was shot by the time I saw them at Madison Square Garden in '77, by the way). Don't get me wrong, I like Plant more than I like a lot of guys, only disrespecting Relf in favor of an acolyte is getting it backwards. Robert Plant, indeed!
Relf was only a footnote, and even then the journalists got it wrong (dying in a bathtub while playing a guitar?) I give Relf credit for the Yardbirds & other bands (I havent heard Rennasance) Robert Plants voice was once shot, a magazine stated "robert got his high register back"...but I admire the Yardbirds & would want more of there stuff...
I can't see Relf as mere footnote. His voice is far from great, he's asthmatic & probably petulant like most lead singers, yet the Yardbirds are really only a jam band if they don't have songs as their focus. I like jam bands as much as the next guy but it's songs I find most memorable & that to me is most of why Yardbirds songs r still great 2 listen to, not just 4 the comparatively limited space permitted the guitar wizards on all those sub-3 minute tunes.
Relf gets treated like a footnote-albiet incorrect...you should read the book "Hammer Of The Gods" on Led Zeppelin, it misses the mark but makes the point. "go into psychedelia unknown-not make jingles for teenagers" the 3 minute single-micky most specialty-was dead... ect... Yardbirds are great for what they do, but still i keep getting "comps" and that is all I can find usually...
Yeah, he didn't have the voice to market a pop single after, but he had the perfect voice to carry a band playing the psycho blues! His harmonica playing is unrivaled too, nobody comes close to him.
Of course he isn't a great singer...but that doesn't matter at all.
Joey Ramone is a terrible singer, but he's probably one of the best lead singers of all time...
Pete Townshend isn't a great guitarist, but he's one of the best of all time.
well if you read the book hammer of the gods & other book 's ("Book of rock lists") it seems a lot like it- here is a webpage "Yet Yardbirds frontman Keith Relf is little remembered today, largely because he departed this world prematurely, in 1976, when he was just 33. The manner in which he made his exit should alone have ensured him a measure of immortality: A singer harmonica ace not known for his fretboard skills, Relf was electrocuted in his home by an improperly grounded electric guitar
I admire the yardbirds, Keith is good for what he does, but compare: the vocals on "Knowing That I'm Losing You/Tangerine" & the vocals on "Little games"
Page toured around as "The New Yardbirds" continuing the heavy blues rock tradition the band pioneered prior to his being hired. He inherits leadership as the band's sole lead instrumentalist after beginning as an employee--even keeping the original name. If the Yardbirds weren't Keith Relf's (and Dreja's and McCarty's) band I don't know whose it was.Top Topham's maybe? Not J, Page's--an employee who inherited the store when the founders left & only changed the name under threat of legal action.
@dantean - Yes......When the Yardbirds broke up. Keith Relf and Jim McCarty ( original members ) signed over the rights to the name and music(?) over to Chris Dreja and Page. But with Chris also being an original Yardbird perhaps had "more" rights than Page. Since it was Chris who threatened legal action against Page to change the name.
@asmorgan88 - fraid not. Page did not have the exclusive rights to the name Yardbirds....Page was only a memeber of the YD birds for little over a year...While Chris Dreja was and "original" member from the beginning. Relf and McCarty signed over their rights to Dreja and Page. Besides if I'am flat out wrong as you state......then so is Chris Dreja..... or are you saying he doesn't know the facts or is a liar. Then again......maybe you know more about this than Chris.
Chris Dreja claims that Page had stated in an interview that he had "a little piece of paper" signing the rights over to him. Dreja then said that "this is a load of bollocks", and "quite the opposite in fact"...
This is drawn from Greg Russo's "The Ultimate Rave Up". He's recalled as the greatest & most accurate historian of the band, & I'll take his word for the history of it rather than yours'.
@asmorgan88 - Interesting, did not realise I was relating "my" history. While Russo's book is good.... Still I would rather rely on words of actual member who was there, viz, Chris Dreja.The "history" I quote is from Chris's 2001 interview w/ Will Shade. Russo's book came out in 1997 & he did not interview any of the YB. I care not what Jimmy says...I 'm only interested in what Chris says. And it is because of Chris that Page "had" to change the name.
Well, Russo's book is revised up until February of 2009...so, it's not accurate to the point of 1997. It goes well beyond that.
The Dreja bit I posted was from the interview you're talking about...where he claims that Page has NO ownership of the songs, the name, etc., and that his claims are the "bollocks" ...
And yeah...in the same interview, Dreja says : "They were the Yardbirds for a very short time, and then they were Led Zeppelin shortly thereafter".
@asmorgan88 - So........back to your original post.....how was my comment as you put it ...."flat out wrong" then? Since I am quoting from the same interview? Chris would or should of had more "rights" to the YB...since he was an original member even if Page had "some" rights. Bottum line......Chris( legal action against Page ) was reason for the changing of the name from New Yarbirds to Zep.
They were never called "The New Yardbirds"...but that's something different.
You were wrong in saying that Dreja had "more rights" to the name than Page did...Page had none, and that's why legal action was used for him to stop using the name. And, you were wrong in saying that Relf & McCarty signed over the rights...in the same interview, it is said that was never the case. Nobody singed anything over to anybody.
The Yardbirds are The Yardbirds. Not the "new" ones, or Zeppelin.
@asmorgan88 - Even in Will Shades article concerning his interview he states "Now back to the name "Yardbirds itself. McCarty and Relf signed a document, which authorized Page and Dreja to fill out a Yardbirds group to satisfy the Scandinavian dates only. Page and Dreja had the name, even when Dreja left the band to pursue his passion for photography. Chris Dreja cleared up matters in a 2001 interview with this author.
@asmorgan88 - if it is as you are stating and not as Will Shade stated above concerning a "document"......i,e: nothing signed by anyone giving the rights to nobody......Then what could Chris do "legally" to prevent Page from using the name Yardbirds?? Since it was Chris "through his lawyer" that went to Peter Grant.
@asmorgan88 - to quote Chris ""I do remember through my own lawyer just remind Peter that I had in no way given up moral rights to the name itself whether I was a photographer or dentist or whatever. I certainly didn't hand it over to Jimmy Page," Dreja said. "I wasn't going to give up the moral rights to my status and what the band was. And through my lawyer I informed them of that. It was nothing heavy, but it's interesting they became Led Zeppelin fairly quickly
@asmorgan88 - I know exactly what I said and what I meant. My main point was and is Chris was the reason for the name change.....whether or not Page had any rights to it...you seem to have ignored the quotedof Will Shade said ( not what "I" said ) what Chris told him of the document signed over by Keith and Jim in his 2001 interview....that you said did not exist.
@dantean If you think "all these guys are clowns" then go listen to "black" singers and their boring-assed vocal gymnastics instead of the massively innovative creations of the Yardbirds. Black singers were seminal for blues, but this ain't the blues. I'll take the Brit-Invasion vocals of the Y-Birds, Animals, etc. over 'em any day as they cultivated some incredibly magical moments that their predecessors couldn't have POSSIBLY come up with. R'nR is black; rock is white. 2 diff. animals---
They're both great--believe that the guitar in the commercial version is tighter than the BBC version, but everything cooks just fine in either one...
ooopps i ment this is the break that Jimmy used on,,Communication Breakdown. with Zeppelin...who i saw do 4 shows in two nights up so close my ears hurt...all for 7 dollars total...and on "green barrel".
thanks for the correction..it's been a few years, i'm a little dazed and confused meself.. also,,in the movie Blowup,,where the Yardbirds blast train kept a rollin,.the actual band that was suppose to be in the film was The Who....cuase thats who the director had seen destroying their equipment,,,and wanted them in the film doing that,,,but they weren't available,,, for either legal reasons or touring....and Hendrix saw them too...so the burning of his guitar at Monterey....those were the day's.
wow I always thought areosmith were creaters of this tune. I actually like this version better. I lik e tylers vocals better but I like the music in this version better. the guitar and bass sound alot better
I'm from Boston & Steve Tyler was on some radio station talking, & he said it was The Yardbirds & Led Zeppelin that were their main influences, "not necessarily The Rolling Stones".
Cool...nice to hear them playing it. I know this from an Aerosmith Cover, so its great to hear a 'proper' version. Mind, Aerosmith's cover (from 1979's "Night In The Ruts") stands up quite well in comparison.
Where the hell do I get this song or album? They aren't on iTunes nor my local music shop, was it only released in the UK? I live in Canada please help.
I love how close this solo is to Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused solo. Jimmy's tone here is fantastic as well. He's using the Dragon Tele, Tone Bender MKII, and an Arbiter Power 100...brilliant setup.
The way Jimmy played Dazed and Confused with the Yardbirds was almost exactly like this, so it's not much of a stretch to do the same for Zeppelin's version either I guess. I love it in all its forms.
Gotta say the Live at The BBC Version is better - which is to say the album version is fantastic and the BBC version utterly mind blowing. Pagey already had the Zep process down. Lay the track in vinyl and then blow people's mind with an even better live performance.
I like Aedrosmiths version better
TheHonkcat 1 month ago
... and that's how Dazed and Confused was born! :-)
BradleyVolk3 1 month ago 2
I prefer the BBC version, a slight edge. This song, like many Yardbirds studio cuts, was in a big hurry (probably to satisfy the club dance rhythms). I just prefer the slower time on the BBC one, it seems more natural. Sounds great, though!
minastirith121 2 months ago
thats cus it is the same solo, page used it for both tracks, just like he used the same stuff he wrote for "knowing that im loosing you" - yardbirds and "tangerine"- zeppelin
tritown19 5 months ago
the solo sounded like the one in dazed and confused
dino8192 6 months ago
Listen to the main Guitar Riff in the middle of the Riff You can hear the Think about it riff Middle to the end
Both Great Songs.
TL250Rider 7 months ago
Jimmy Page's solo in this tune is almost the same solo he played on "Dazed and Confused."
theShowStopper321 7 months ago
1:58 dazed and confused
MichaelHansenFUN 8 months ago
Listen to the main Riff It comes out in Led Zepp's Dased and Confused.
PRICELESS
TL250Rider 9 months ago
@TL250Rider when this riff appears in Dazed and Confused?
Luxmaxnike 7 months ago
I like them both, but I have to say the intro in this version is better. It always causes me to zone out into a trance like state. Not too many songs can do that for me.
heaven6torn6asunder6 9 months ago
The Dazed and Confused solo! yum yum yum
diocanuhearme 10 months ago 4
for some reason this song reminds me of Them Crooked Vultures
Hellblazer344 11 months ago
was this Led Zeppelin as the yardbirds yet?
hobodoboify 1 year ago
@hobodoboify
Led Zep formed in June-August 1968
in this recording, you can hear Page's hard rock sound with his famous Fender Telecaster (a gift from Jeff Beck)
saemikneu 1 year ago
This is better than the BBC take
alexdroogie100 1 year ago
Speaking of Aerosmith, the rhythm has shades of "Rats in the Cellar" from Rocks...
stratorat79 1 year ago
Been Dazed and Confused so long it's not true...
Same guitar tone and everything. Must be a Tele into a Supro amp.
tjcoffey 1 year ago
love the outro...
alexdroogie100 1 year ago
yardbirds 4ever!
WhoTheRollingBeatles 1 year ago
great song
shanehenning26 1 year ago
Licks later to be recycled on Zep's 'Dazed and Confused'.
Never my fave Aerosmith tune, and I'm sorry to say I like the Yardbirds original much less. Sorry. Ineresting to hear for historical context anyhow.
ironbuttermilk 1 year ago
Hmm....both versions have their merits. But speaking only for myself....I give a slight nod to the BBC version. I like Keiths voice better on it and Pages guitar just seems to have a slight more ballsy sound. Or maybe it just because I heard the BBC version first = )
Yardbird68 1 year ago
In the first cover of the video Jeff Beck is in the picture, the guitar in this song is jimmy Page!
The Aerosmith cover is amazing.
Anyway, great upload!
periorock 1 year ago
The end of this song is the coolest part. And for a song full of cool, that's saying a lot.
bws1971 1 year ago
Relf rules!
willbgood65 2 years ago
Nunca tinha ouvido essa versão.muito boa !!
lincolnSince1987 2 years ago
in hearing this song, Keith Relf doesnt hold a candle to Robert Plant.
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Uhh, Robert Plant? The guy Page brought in to prop up Keith Relf's band? Relf and guys like him (e.g., Jagger, and--more importantly--the black blues and soul artists who actually gave birth to ALL these clowns) are the reason there IS a Robert Plant (whose voice was shot by the time I saw them at Madison Square Garden in '77, by the way). Don't get me wrong, I like Plant more than I like a lot of guys, only disrespecting Relf in favor of an acolyte is getting it backwards. Robert Plant, indeed!
dantean 2 years ago
Relf was only a footnote, and even then the journalists got it wrong (dying in a bathtub while playing a guitar?) I give Relf credit for the Yardbirds & other bands (I havent heard Rennasance) Robert Plants voice was once shot, a magazine stated "robert got his high register back"...but I admire the Yardbirds & would want more of there stuff...
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
I can't see Relf as mere footnote. His voice is far from great, he's asthmatic & probably petulant like most lead singers, yet the Yardbirds are really only a jam band if they don't have songs as their focus. I like jam bands as much as the next guy but it's songs I find most memorable & that to me is most of why Yardbirds songs r still great 2 listen to, not just 4 the comparatively limited space permitted the guitar wizards on all those sub-3 minute tunes.
dantean 2 years ago
Relf gets treated like a footnote-albiet incorrect...you should read the book "Hammer Of The Gods" on Led Zeppelin, it misses the mark but makes the point. "go into psychedelia unknown-not make jingles for teenagers" the 3 minute single-micky most specialty-was dead... ect... Yardbirds are great for what they do, but still i keep getting "comps" and that is all I can find usually...
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Relf is just a footnote?
He was their singer...?!
Yeah, he didn't have the voice to market a pop single after, but he had the perfect voice to carry a band playing the psycho blues! His harmonica playing is unrivaled too, nobody comes close to him.
Of course he isn't a great singer...but that doesn't matter at all.
Joey Ramone is a terrible singer, but he's probably one of the best lead singers of all time...
Pete Townshend isn't a great guitarist, but he's one of the best of all time.
m0dsar3us 2 years ago
well if you read the book hammer of the gods & other book 's ("Book of rock lists") it seems a lot like it- here is a webpage "Yet Yardbirds frontman Keith Relf is little remembered today, largely because he departed this world prematurely, in 1976, when he was just 33. The manner in which he made his exit should alone have ensured him a measure of immortality: A singer harmonica ace not known for his fretboard skills, Relf was electrocuted in his home by an improperly grounded electric guitar
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
I admire the yardbirds, Keith is good for what he does, but compare: the vocals on "Knowing That I'm Losing You/Tangerine" & the vocals on "Little games"
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
he had a good enough voice for what he does, i will give him credit for that.
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Prop up Keith Relf's band?!
The Yardbirds & Led Zeppelin are nothing alike, and by the time Page was casting for Zeppelin, Relf had no interest in continuing with the band.
Robert Plant was also somewhat of a last resort for Page, as Steve Marriot, & Terry Reid had declined the offer...
Robert Plant was also probably more directly influenced by Steve Marriot than the people you listed....like Jagger, and blues & soul artists.
Also, Plant's voice is nothing good...it's quite bad actually.
m0dsar3us 2 years ago
Page toured around as "The New Yardbirds" continuing the heavy blues rock tradition the band pioneered prior to his being hired. He inherits leadership as the band's sole lead instrumentalist after beginning as an employee--even keeping the original name. If the Yardbirds weren't Keith Relf's (and Dreja's and McCarty's) band I don't know whose it was.Top Topham's maybe? Not J, Page's--an employee who inherited the store when the founders left & only changed the name under threat of legal action.
dantean 2 years ago
@dantean - Yes......When the Yardbirds broke up. Keith Relf and Jim McCarty ( original members ) signed over the rights to the name and music(?) over to Chris Dreja and Page. But with Chris also being an original Yardbird perhaps had "more" rights than Page. Since it was Chris who threatened legal action against Page to change the name.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@Yardbird68
You have that a bit...WRONG...there's no other way to put it...you're not slightly off, you're flat out wrong.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - fraid not. Page did not have the exclusive rights to the name Yardbirds....Page was only a memeber of the YD birds for little over a year...While Chris Dreja was and "original" member from the beginning. Relf and McCarty signed over their rights to Dreja and Page. Besides if I'am flat out wrong as you state......then so is Chris Dreja..... or are you saying he doesn't know the facts or is a liar. Then again......maybe you know more about this than Chris.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@Yardbird68
Calm down there, Charlie.
Chris Dreja claims that Page had stated in an interview that he had "a little piece of paper" signing the rights over to him. Dreja then said that "this is a load of bollocks", and "quite the opposite in fact"...
This is drawn from Greg Russo's "The Ultimate Rave Up". He's recalled as the greatest & most accurate historian of the band, & I'll take his word for the history of it rather than yours'.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - Interesting, did not realise I was relating "my" history. While Russo's book is good.... Still I would rather rely on words of actual member who was there, viz, Chris Dreja.The "history" I quote is from Chris's 2001 interview w/ Will Shade. Russo's book came out in 1997 & he did not interview any of the YB. I care not what Jimmy says...I 'm only interested in what Chris says. And it is because of Chris that Page "had" to change the name.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@Yardbird68
Well, Russo's book is revised up until February of 2009...so, it's not accurate to the point of 1997. It goes well beyond that.
The Dreja bit I posted was from the interview you're talking about...where he claims that Page has NO ownership of the songs, the name, etc., and that his claims are the "bollocks" ...
And yeah...in the same interview, Dreja says : "They were the Yardbirds for a very short time, and then they were Led Zeppelin shortly thereafter".
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - So........back to your original post.....how was my comment as you put it ...."flat out wrong" then? Since I am quoting from the same interview? Chris would or should of had more "rights" to the YB...since he was an original member even if Page had "some" rights. Bottum line......Chris( legal action against Page ) was reason for the changing of the name from New Yarbirds to Zep.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@Yardbird68
They were never called "The New Yardbirds"...but that's something different.
You were wrong in saying that Dreja had "more rights" to the name than Page did...Page had none, and that's why legal action was used for him to stop using the name. And, you were wrong in saying that Relf & McCarty signed over the rights...in the same interview, it is said that was never the case. Nobody singed anything over to anybody.
The Yardbirds are The Yardbirds. Not the "new" ones, or Zeppelin.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - Even in Will Shades article concerning his interview he states "Now back to the name "Yardbirds itself. McCarty and Relf signed a document, which authorized Page and Dreja to fill out a Yardbirds group to satisfy the Scandinavian dates only. Page and Dreja had the name, even when Dreja left the band to pursue his passion for photography. Chris Dreja cleared up matters in a 2001 interview with this author.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - if it is as you are stating and not as Will Shade stated above concerning a "document"......i,e: nothing signed by anyone giving the rights to nobody......Then what could Chris do "legally" to prevent Page from using the name Yardbirds?? Since it was Chris "through his lawyer" that went to Peter Grant.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - to quote Chris ""I do remember through my own lawyer just remind Peter that I had in no way given up moral rights to the name itself whether I was a photographer or dentist or whatever. I certainly didn't hand it over to Jimmy Page," Dreja said. "I wasn't going to give up the moral rights to my status and what the band was. And through my lawyer I informed them of that. It was nothing heavy, but it's interesting they became Led Zeppelin fairly quickly
Yardbird68 1 year ago
You seem to be tripping over yourself, & I think you've forgotten what you initially said.
You said that Page had rights to the name, songs, etc.
I said he didn't, & referenced Chris Dreja's statements...
You said McCarty & Relf "signed over the rights" (they sent a letter announcing their departure from the group, actually) to Page & Dreja.
I said that's not true & referenced Dreja again.
And yes, "Led Zeppelin" was "The Yardbirds" for a very short tour...& then became Led Zeppelin.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 - I know exactly what I said and what I meant. My main point was and is Chris was the reason for the name change.....whether or not Page had any rights to it...you seem to have ignored the quotedof Will Shade said ( not what "I" said ) what Chris told him of the document signed over by Keith and Jim in his 2001 interview....that you said did not exist.
Yardbird68 1 year ago
@Yardbird68
You're out of your mind.
I never claimed it didn't exist, I claimed that the context was announcing Relf & McCarty's departures...not a "sign off" to the rights of the band.
This isn't my opinion.
I'm getting this information from a book that was printed in February of 2009...I have it right in front of me & am repeating it word for word.
Whatever...
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 hahahahahaha what a nob
rugbyoholic 1 year ago
It's really not
PlatinumJestar 1 year ago
@dantean If you think "all these guys are clowns" then go listen to "black" singers and their boring-assed vocal gymnastics instead of the massively innovative creations of the Yardbirds. Black singers were seminal for blues, but this ain't the blues. I'll take the Brit-Invasion vocals of the Y-Birds, Animals, etc. over 'em any day as they cultivated some incredibly magical moments that their predecessors couldn't have POSSIBLY come up with. R'nR is black; rock is white. 2 diff. animals---
vampyros1 1 year ago
i tried to post a comment about DAZED & CONFUSED but it went backwards
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Great, but I prefer the BBC version by miles.
speedygonzales121 2 years ago
They're both great--believe that the guitar in the commercial version is tighter than the BBC version, but everything cooks just fine in either one...
pieyedapple 2 years ago
BBC Live.
HarvestmanMan 2 years ago
They still play it live and it's an awesome song.
maida1982a 2 years ago
SHIT - It's a tough one...
I really like the guitar solo in this version a lot better...
Though, I like how raw, live, and fast the BBC version is.
asmorgan88 2 years ago
Though One...think the B.B.C. one... THX anyway. Timeless & Priceless...
gillesbertacco 2 years ago
That break, the Dazed and Confused one, is one of the best ever in my opinion.
60spastlife 2 years ago
As a judge, either version is OUT OF SIGHT!!
alonenjersey 2 years ago
ooopps i ment this is the break that Jimmy used on,,Communication Breakdown. with Zeppelin...who i saw do 4 shows in two nights up so close my ears hurt...all for 7 dollars total...and on "green barrel".
CHUCKLOVES1969 2 years ago
Dazed and Confused, mate. Not Communication Breakdown.
LordSupro 2 years ago
thanks for the correction..it's been a few years, i'm a little dazed and confused meself.. also,,in the movie Blowup,,where the Yardbirds blast train kept a rollin,.the actual band that was suppose to be in the film was The Who....cuase thats who the director had seen destroying their equipment,,,and wanted them in the film doing that,,,but they weren't available,,, for either legal reasons or touring....and Hendrix saw them too...so the burning of his guitar at Monterey....those were the day's.
CHUCKLOVES1969 2 years ago
also the song was re-written.
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
this is the break jimmy used for DAZED an CONFUSED people...learn your history.
CHUCKLOVES1969 2 years ago
wow I always thought areosmith were creaters of this tune. I actually like this version better. I lik e tylers vocals better but I like the music in this version better. the guitar and bass sound alot better
smithdsmit 2 years ago
Aerosmith loved the Yardbirds they even covered Train Kept A-rolling
kellybeen 2 years ago 14
@kellybeen
I'm from Boston & Steve Tyler was on some radio station talking, & he said it was The Yardbirds & Led Zeppelin that were their main influences, "not necessarily The Rolling Stones".
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 But beatles is their most influence. i think second is The yardbirds
Aerosmissive 1 year ago
Cool...nice to hear them playing it. I know this from an Aerosmith Cover, so its great to hear a 'proper' version. Mind, Aerosmith's cover (from 1979's "Night In The Ruts") stands up quite well in comparison.
mayhemfunkster 2 years ago 8
The bbc version is better. But this is great too!
heyalohola 2 years ago
Awesome song! this is what everyone should listen to!
Aarodin 2 years ago
Actually the Yardbirds were playing Dazed
about the same time this SINGLE came out..
This was never on an original, official album. it was a flip side.
This studio version is far better then the BBC recording IMO. hard for me to listen to the BBC recording because this one is so deeply engrained.
rialcnis 2 years ago
Tbethey are both good versions but I think Keith sings this one better...
68generation 2 years ago
Where the hell do I get this song or album? They aren't on iTunes nor my local music shop, was it only released in the UK? I live in Canada please help.
zaxjackson636 3 years ago
I got this on The Little Games & More album at Amazons. Be sure it says & More & you get some bonus tracks!
68generation 2 years ago
I love this song, but the live version is better
lovedungeon 3 years ago
BBC version has a way better guitar tone to it.
Corpsefucker666 3 years ago
yes it is the dazed and confused riff/solo on this at 2:08 or starting at 2:00... its been a long time
TEMPmichaelhansen 3 years ago
Ok chief? Don't like something I said? Tell me where I went wrong then.
Priole2000 3 years ago
I love how close this solo is to Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused solo. Jimmy's tone here is fantastic as well. He's using the Dragon Tele, Tone Bender MKII, and an Arbiter Power 100...brilliant setup.
Priole2000 3 years ago
a lot of it is the dazed and confused solo
AM007009 3 years ago
The way Jimmy played Dazed and Confused with the Yardbirds was almost exactly like this, so it's not much of a stretch to do the same for Zeppelin's version either I guess. I love it in all its forms.
Priole2000 3 years ago
Sounds like Led Zeppelin actually !
rockeverybody 3 years ago
thats what u get when u mix clapton page and beck
High5150Roller 3 years ago
I love both versions! but I think the studio version has a better guitar solo, while the BBC version has a better groove
beardbear31 3 years ago
Great tune..
yaiknowscrewme 3 years ago
you gotta dance or bang your head when youre listening to that tune .. how awesome ! how heavy !
danielpeterpresberge 3 years ago
Gotta say the Live at The BBC Version is better - which is to say the album version is fantastic and the BBC version utterly mind blowing. Pagey already had the Zep process down. Lay the track in vinyl and then blow people's mind with an even better live performance.
P38Jim 3 years ago
Wow, this was the song that I heard live on WNEW years ago, when they did a Jimmy Page special.
Thanks so much for posting.
witchman67 3 years ago
Now you see where Page used this lead solo first, before he used it on Dazed And Confused.
yourtubesteak 3 years ago
This is a good track. 8)
djscanman 3 years ago
The Yardbirds own the land of weird...it's a surreal landscape and you captured it....nice one!
languagedancer 3 years ago
this great ..thanks for the post
ELECTRICSHAMAN13 3 years ago