All those years ago the question was asked & people thought it was just a silly little song. WRONG Again. Nothing has changed exce[t we are even more ignorant now than then. Progrress they call it. For Who. I know we all know the answer, yet still we sleep in denial of reality.
@ElliotRocker If you weren't born in the 50's or 60's the chances are less that you would have ever heard this music, so ease up on it IDIOT. Nobody has control over when they were born.
The Yardbirds... tremenda banda!!! subvalorado y eclipsado, aun cuando pasaron por ahi Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck y Jimmy Page... esta cancion en particular es una de mis favoritas, Excelente!!!!!!
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The band at my 8th grade grad party played this song with about a ten minute guitar solo.The gym was hot as hell and the band was loud!!! man what a good time.
If only musicians today would unplug the MIDI and just write, sing and play from the heart and soul.
Maybe if you wonderful folks did that, you'd put out something that really gets noticed.
Don't get me wrong. I appreciate and admire anyone who can master a musical instrument or compose music, and write lyrics intended for melody. The grand total, the chemistry, when it's right, is a miracle of collaborative human artistic expression.
Wow, you should have heard this song when it came out! It sounded so much more beefy! You could really hear a strong bass underneath all the magic!
This song is part of my childhood! The song just came right out of the radio and grabbed you! It was awesome!
I'm gonna be watching for those kids down at the bottom of the page who want to get sheetmusic to it and do a metal trip on it! Very exciting idea! Mr. Samram has the right idea!
"Most Requested" session prodigy Jimmy Page was ready to get the hell out of the studio and show the people what he could do on the guitars! That's right, "guitarS"! Plural!
But he was also- Composer and Producer* of LP record albums
* Being a Producer is a big deal. It takes a lot of time and effort. It's one thing to be a fantastic guitarist; it's another thing entirely to be a gifted Producer as well.
Love the song, love the Yardbirds, whether with Clapton, Beck and Clapton, Beck and Page, or just Page. (All three were never in the band at the same time. FYI)
Oh and, no offense to Yardbirders who'd know better. Anywhoober-doobers, can't believe the director y cameraman showed the drummer's sticks hitting the symbols when he/them could've been showing Jimmy Page in the background playing RHYTHM guitar!
Don't forget that initially, Jimmy volunteered to play bass for/with the Yardbirds.
I know that nobody can bring back this kind of style back to the modern days, thats why its called modern days after all...i listen and i love the music of all fourdecades, but the best think a person can do is to learn about the best that each Era had...and with all of that create an even better Era of great music
To all the people who ask why they don't do songs like this anymore... it's the same reason why we don't do movies like A Hard Days Night or It's A Wonderful Life or The Wizard Of Fucking Oz anymore.
We live in a different world now. Simple as that. We might as well be on another planet. That's how fast this world is changing. This piece ushered in the era of psychedelic music and a new lifestyle that has infiltrated our society for better or worse.
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
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Being born in the 80's has it's ups and downs. I get to look back on all the GREAT music that came before my time, like this song... but most of the current stuff is talentless garbage. Why don't we have songs like this one anymore?!
This song is so amazing, I can't get over it! The Yardbirds are the greatest band ever! I wish they did more. If they didn't exist, just think of what music would be like. It wouldn't be the same.
@enray0514 are you saying that you think it's bad that i listen to classic rock, or it's fine that i do, because i'm never gonna give in to all that retarded rap and hip hop. If you look on my channel, you'll see that i only listen to this. I have an attachment to it because it was all my parents listened to when i was little.
@cooldudebailey I'm so glad I'm not in middle school. There was a period in time when I thought like you. I look back on it, and realize how bigoted and immature I was. In as little as half of a decade, you'll hopefully feel the same way.
What is the reason for all those guys in the background not being Yardbirds?? Was everyone else in bed with a cold?! Those are their guitars, but not the original people WHAT the F IS UP???
I'm a monster Yardbirds and Jeff Beck fan and always felt that this may have been their peak.Actually they never reached their full potential.I also want to give cudos to Rod Stewarts version of this on truth.I'm not a big fan of his but he did tear this song up.
This song,is greatly prophetical : with the atmosphere and the lyrics reflects perfectly the crisis of the world on this days.Pollution, Violence, Apathetic, Self absorbed People, Obsession with Technology but Lack of Culture, Knowledge or Morals, Economic Crisis...
I have to Agree with @MyJellyJunglein1967... This IS the must F-ed Up Generation I have ever witnessed... It's a Shame they never Realized tht they were all subjects of a "Mind Control Experiment"... Implemented by the U.S. Government, proliferated by the media and the State Controlled Schools... They have been Raised to be a bunch of Apathetic Morons, Clueless about Everything and Anything... Especially anything that is Happening in the World all around them, Lamers that THINK they are "Cool".
i listened to them in 1968 and i still enjoy thier music in 2010 . i lived haight/ashbury scene in san francisco . look up san francisco nights by the animals . also where do you think cisco systems stole thier name . cross out san&fran
It is about the sixties. Come tomorrow?? a question that ran through many minds with viet nam coming on strong. The Yardbirds - more talent than the Beatles? food for thought!!!
great and a fine example of the amazing leap in pop music from the general dross from 1960 to 63 before the Beatles and others came along, interesting to think this is only 8 or so years after rock around the clock!! the 60's an astonishing period of music never even remotely equaled since.
haha! poor guys at the end, they had to sync 3 guitars to make a delay effect, never thought of it that way :p wicked, I guess they were literally shocked when they found out amps can do it alone when the first amp that came out with that effect aired :)
@ElliotRocker Agreed. I bought the 45 of this when it first came out and played it incessantly on my little teen player. It still has meaning and sounds great today. Would love to hear Green Day, Pearl Jam, or some other major act cover it just for the exposure.
@ElliotRocker Amen to that! Such an intelligent and contempative song. Many try today to sing about such depth, but they lack the melody. The tune. The heart and soul.
Like maybe James Franco the actor, The Yardbirds are the most underrated band of all time. (IMO.)
@ElliotRocker - I totally agree about the (almost total) dross in the pre-Beatle 3 years. Also think about this: It was only about 15 years from the electric guitar to the Beatles. But I will put in a good word for the early-to-mid 1980s as the second best period.
The way the Big Four corporations control music exposure, groups like the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, and many more might not even be heard today. How many great groups exist now, that we don't get exposed to? We may never know.
@ElliotRocker No it doesn't.... unless you've been living under a rock or have gone senile. Or maybe your just another young bitching idiot who refuses to offer something better than Gaga or Bieber.
its good music, dont say youre age, u not cool cause u listen to music from the 60s, and not lived there, the old rocks that l ived there are cool, we are just wa nna bees
@asmorgan88 dude calm down just because you got sand in your vagina doesnt mean you have to take it out on other people and punk started with the kinks and the kingsmen louie louie, the stooges,mc5
Well, The Kingsmen & The Stooges are fucking years apart...so I don't know how you could say that.
I think saying that The Who "starting" punk rock would be more accurate...but, in the end, everybody knows that "punk" didn't surface until the late 70's...regardless of all the prototype bands & predecessors, "punk" started in the late 70's, not with "Louie Louie" or "My Generation" or "All Day & All of the Night", or "Raw Power" or "Kick out the Jams" or in 1965 or 1971...
@asmorgan88 The Stooges 1st album was definately punk not proto punk or whatever and if your saying Raw Power isn't punk as well you don't know what your talking about! Yeah 1969 isn't a punk song.....*rolls eyes*
Well, "punk" as a genre didn't surface until the late 70's, & you know this too.
So, say whatever you want.
The Stooges are not a "punk rock" band - they were around years before the genre was even coined. And don't give me some bullshit about Lenny Kaye calling garage bands "punk" in the 60's - nobody called anything "punk" until the late 70's.
It's like saying The Beatles were a "metal" band for putting out 'Helter Skelter'.
@asmorgan88 Hey assmorgan, I think you might have too much free time. I see "your opinions" on almost every Yardbirds related video. Now you've gotten to the point where you're responding to your own rhetoric. Calm down man. Remember that opinions are just like A-Holes we all have one!
@asmorgan88 Aww how cute, assmorgan is a verbal terrorist here on You Tube! Making threats and assumptions from his safe & cozy hiding place. For someone who is a self-appointed expert on 60's music you sure know how to perpetuate bad vibes and negativity! As anyone here can see by scrolling down, you are responding to you own douchey comments! I see why you're attracted to Beck as he was known to be an asshole! Stop performing Felatio on Jeff Beck and get a real job! Have a great day brother!
@asmorgan88 Punk has nothing to do with ANY 60s music. Calling someone a punk in the 60s would have gotten you punched out. The Stooges were an Acid band, originally the Psychedelic Stooges. You have all these revisionist blowhards running around trying to legitimitize the sheer crap that most punk was by attempting to connect it to groundbreaking acts of the 60s. The MC5 guys have pointedly stated they weren't punk. Even Johnny Thunders didn't consider himself a punk and despised that label.
I was stressing that whole point to somebody else.
I never said The Stooges were punk...I said "punk" wasn't a genre until the late 70's...so acts like The Stooges, MC5 & NYD weren't punk bands, as the genre/phenomenon hadn't even happened yet.
Punk is very much related to acts of the 60's...all those bands were heavily influenced by the British Invasion, & the American garage bands of the decade...that's pretty well known & documented.
Nice music, but the clip, c'est la tipique nouvelle vague, trop Français, the drums, only the cymballs, one guitarist on his knees, mon Dieu!!! Qui est le metre-en-scene, Godard? Mas eu adoro esta banda!!!!
I'm glad you're honist...He was an outstanding presence and A voice...an e3xcellent harmonica player but a shit with electrix...May his soul rest in peace...
Will time make men more wise? It may be too late. I love this song. I was a little boy when I started hearing this song during the Vietnam bullshit war. I have not trusted the government since. And it gets worse every day. Come tomorrow?
@Jackamole I'm sorry, but I have to point it out... Music is music. Age doesn't matter, the song remains the same. Good to know you are 20, and all, but there are plenty of people of all age groups who enjoy this fine music, but the music is the groove.
Better late than never...I appreciate the brilliance and influence of Jeff Beck's guitar work and the place this group holds in Rock history. Can't get enough of it! Thanks for posting!
They ARE hot. I must of played this song 10 times first time I heard it. Agreed, flamesounds, they were WAY ahead of their time. This song is incredible. (It IS funny, though, seeing Jeff Beck on his knees...) My guess: recorded in 1965.
When I here them I think of when I was a kid at the beach and no one can explain what great music was out or even the way things were, Dancing, clothes,etc. I miss it.
Cracks me up that Jeff Beck was on his knees during the song. This song was the birth of heavy experimental rock. Note the cool solo with feedback going on that Beck recorded in what....1965 -66?
Hendrix is mentioned because this song used a lot of sonic devices he used several years later...For instance, the fuzz power chords and Jeff Beck's solo with the guitar feedback weaving in and out.......If you play guitar, as I do, it's obvious this is one of the songs Jimi was influenced by .The Yardbirds were considered the first Psychedelic band. They were truly ahead of their time. I recall hearing this the first time in the 60s and thoiught it sounded very futuristic and surreal..
mammoth, you are totally correct! I love both versions absolutely, but Gary Moore's 1986 version from the LP you stated brings it to a whole new level. YARDBIRDS!!!!!!
Its Jeff Beck in this video, and I know it is hard to tell. I saw in a documentary when Jeff came in The Yardbirds they made him get a hair cut and new clothes. I thought it was very funny.
This could be blashphemous but if you've never heard Gary Moore's cover of this song you should check it out. The studio version is off the "Victims Of The Future" LP.
AGREED...as far as "ahead of their time" is concerned.
This was a song, and they* were an ensemble **WAAAY** ahead of their time!
When I was a kid in the 1970's & I'd first heard this, I'd assumed it was *new* back then in 1971, 'cause of the *so ahead of the curve riffs* and all.
It's too bad this doesn't get more attention on "Classic Rock" radio stations in The States, eh?
I remember. This was a favorite. These guys were really great and way ahead of their time. Imagine hearing this in '65. Do any of you guys remember what we were hearing on the radio in the early to mid 60's? This was mind blowing! Thanks for this video.
Great song! I didn't know there was a video. Thanks for sharing. The Yardbirds are amazing having 3 of the best guitarists in the world at various times and the forerunner to one of the biggest bands in the world. I guess Zeppelin would have been inconceivable without them.
The Yardbirds Live At the BBC is worth picking up.
All those years ago the question was asked & people thought it was just a silly little song. WRONG Again. Nothing has changed exce[t we are even more ignorant now than then. Progrress they call it. For Who. I know we all know the answer, yet still we sleep in denial of reality.
KeepEmStraight 3 weeks ago
I should've discovered the yardbirds earlier!!!!
luisadrian72579 3 weeks ago
If you were born in the 50's this is really COOL . This is when some of the greatest rock and roll music was coming out.
frog23988 1 month ago 2
@ElliotRocker If you weren't born in the 50's or 60's the chances are less that you would have ever heard this music, so ease up on it IDIOT. Nobody has control over when they were born.
nebur59 1 month ago
Why is he standing in a hole in the middle of a baseball field?
kenkram1 2 months ago
@kenkram1 It is a race track.
anakina1 1 month ago
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Fans of this great band might like an interesting cover I just posted: "Rosetta West - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago."
mielazul 2 months ago
low budget awesomeness
Hellthrasher 3 months ago
ChrisMansencr - explain your erudite comment (if you are capable). I suspect that you were drunk (or worse) when you posted your inane comment.
earlyyardbirdsfan 3 months ago
Keith Relf was a dumbass.
ChrisMansencr 3 months ago
Look how Andy Mitchell in the begining of the solo do Pete Townshend's windmill.
Felipe
Mr27Mod 4 months ago
I don't care if they don't show Jim McCarty at all, cause I know how sexy he is :)
MissLoveHarryPotter 4 months ago
This song was ahead of it's time and in many ways timeless.
VonTheEric 4 months ago
The Yardbirds... tremenda banda!!! subvalorado y eclipsado, aun cuando pasaron por ahi Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck y Jimmy Page... esta cancion en particular es una de mis favoritas, Excelente!!!!!!
claudiafloyd 5 months ago
Very awesome ! Great band that started so much important music !
GreenhouseEffectGE 5 months ago
r.i.p keith relf...
daveuk655 5 months ago
6 people were so amazed they accidentally clicked dislike
TheMatm12345 5 months ago
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AbsoluteZeroMusic 5 months ago
no wonder they all quit, every seat in the house was empty!
largelester 6 months ago
u suck
rickycrazy100 7 months ago
highly compelling and fresh as hell.
lancetop 7 months ago
The band at my 8th grade grad party played this song with about a ten minute guitar solo.The gym was hot as hell and the band was loud!!! man what a good time.
moluvsage 7 months ago
For a stellar version of this check out "black stone cherry"s cover!
rocknronnie1952 7 months ago
where the heck is Jimmy page ?.. great song !
blica1 7 months ago
@blica1 He didn't join until a little later...
WhitstableWilliams 7 months ago
If only musicians today would unplug the MIDI and just write, sing and play from the heart and soul.
Maybe if you wonderful folks did that, you'd put out something that really gets noticed.
Don't get me wrong. I appreciate and admire anyone who can master a musical instrument or compose music, and write lyrics intended for melody. The grand total, the chemistry, when it's right, is a miracle of collaborative human artistic expression.
MrSamram3 9 months ago 2
Jeff Beck did not fill Eric Clapton's shoes, He is Eric's equal
PatrickNM57 10 months ago
Wonder what the point was ,behind this little performance.
Beck on his knees...maybe feeling humble about filling Clapton's shoes ?
And, to the man at 2:32....too much think, get's you a "missirli", as the sign at 0:06 says.
PAULLONDEN 10 months ago
@PAULLONDEN Beck humbled? Highly doubt that.... more like bored. ;)
funkster007 6 months ago
Wow, you should have heard this song when it came out! It sounded so much more beefy! You could really hear a strong bass underneath all the magic!
This song is part of my childhood! The song just came right out of the radio and grabbed you! It was awesome!
I'm gonna be watching for those kids down at the bottom of the page who want to get sheetmusic to it and do a metal trip on it! Very exciting idea! Mr. Samram has the right idea!
66LifesMistress77 10 months ago
@66LifesMistress77 check out black stone cherrys version of this. its not exactally metal, but its awesome as fuck
PureFuckinHeavyMetal 10 months ago
@PureFuckinHeavyMetal Another truly great version of this song is on Nazareth's "'SNazz" live album. Awesome.
Bbbbriannn 9 months ago
Wow, you should have heard this song when it came out! It sounded so much more beefy! You could really hear a strong bass underneath all the magic!
This song is part of my childhood! The song just came right out of the radio and grabbed you! It was awesome!
I'm gonna be watching for those kids down at the bottom of the page who want to get sheetmusic to it and do a metal trip on it! Very exciting idea!
66LifesMistress77 10 months ago
Sam's blathering continued:
"Most Requested" session prodigy Jimmy Page was ready to get the hell out of the studio and show the people what he could do on the guitars! That's right, "guitarS"! Plural!
But he was also- Composer and Producer* of LP record albums
* Being a Producer is a big deal. It takes a lot of time and effort. It's one thing to be a fantastic guitarist; it's another thing entirely to be a gifted Producer as well.
MrSamram3 10 months ago
Love the song, love the Yardbirds, whether with Clapton, Beck and Clapton, Beck and Page, or just Page. (All three were never in the band at the same time. FYI)
Oh and, no offense to Yardbirders who'd know better. Anywhoober-doobers, can't believe the director y cameraman showed the drummer's sticks hitting the symbols when he/them could've been showing Jimmy Page in the background playing RHYTHM guitar!
Don't forget that initially, Jimmy volunteered to play bass for/with the Yardbirds.
MrSamram3 10 months ago
sorry you missed it
cousinarty 10 months ago
prefiero la versión de rod Stewart...
rodfanj 11 months ago
two qestions
1) Where can I buy the sheetmusic for this song?
2) can the yard birds be brought in to traditional Metal?
Freyja1133 11 months ago
I saw in this song the future of music!
1qaz2wsx3edc5753 11 months ago
Back when it was all fun and new.
songwritervideos 1 year ago
I always wondered what kinda mischief the cymbals were up to....
mrbubbleman 1 year ago
lol at epic cymbal crashing at 0:48
LFrithable 1 year ago
Always liked this song. I have to say, Nazareth did this song justice, also.
line6guy 1 year ago
Always liked this song. I have to say, Nazareth did this song justice, also.
line6guy 1 year ago
Where was this filmed? Inside what stadium?
huskyjerk 1 year ago
Atleast thats my mindset
xtremerockomaniac 1 year ago
I know that nobody can bring back this kind of style back to the modern days, thats why its called modern days after all...i listen and i love the music of all fourdecades, but the best think a person can do is to learn about the best that each Era had...and with all of that create an even better Era of great music
xtremerockomaniac 1 year ago
timeless
Rickctg 1 year ago
Great video, thanks for posting
bowler3329 1 year ago
Amazing music. Ahead in style and lyrics.
70sGuy100 1 year ago
Does anyone know why Jeff Beck is kneeling/on his knees?
Freyja1133 1 year ago
@Freyja1133... hes not.. he forgot his prosthetic legs at home..stepped in a hole...is really short?....probably to fit in the shot of the group....
johncartelli 1 year ago
@Freyja1133 Sink hole
Smokeater717 1 year ago
To all the people who ask why they don't do songs like this anymore... it's the same reason why we don't do movies like A Hard Days Night or It's A Wonderful Life or The Wizard Of Fucking Oz anymore.
We live in a different world now. Simple as that. We might as well be on another planet. That's how fast this world is changing. This piece ushered in the era of psychedelic music and a new lifestyle that has infiltrated our society for better or worse.
49kasey 1 year ago
@49kasey I Agree with you.. Being born in the early 60s ..I missed this entire era!
Along with the rolling stones, the Yardbirds also ushered in a new genre of rock music...Heavy metal !
Freyja1133 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
Being born in the 80's has it's ups and downs. I get to look back on all the GREAT music that came before my time, like this song... but most of the current stuff is talentless garbage. Why don't we have songs like this one anymore?!
jennparr88 1 year ago
Keith Relf, I love you. Rest in peace, love.
This song is so amazing, I can't get over it! The Yardbirds are the greatest band ever! I wish they did more. If they didn't exist, just think of what music would be like. It wouldn't be the same.
ThePsychedelicLemon 1 year ago
i was 11 and this song was all over AM RADIO IN THE BOSTON AREA
sheddski 1 year ago
Actually there is a really cool record shop in pittsburgh that still sells this stuff on the original 45s.
dirkstorm 1 year ago
@enray0514 are you saying that you think it's bad that i listen to classic rock, or it's fine that i do, because i'm never gonna give in to all that retarded rap and hip hop. If you look on my channel, you'll see that i only listen to this. I have an attachment to it because it was all my parents listened to when i was little.
cooldudebailey 1 year ago
16 and loving this band :D
olliesmith132 1 year ago
I'm a 12 year old, and this is all I listen to! Rap can suck chubbaca's hairy, sweaty, ball ----!
cooldudebailey 1 year ago
@cooldudebailey I'm so glad I'm not in middle school. There was a period in time when I thought like you. I look back on it, and realize how bigoted and immature I was. In as little as half of a decade, you'll hopefully feel the same way.
enray0514 1 year ago
What is the reason for all those guys in the background not being Yardbirds?? Was everyone else in bed with a cold?! Those are their guitars, but not the original people WHAT the F IS UP???
raiphdude7 1 year ago
I'm a monster Yardbirds and Jeff Beck fan and always felt that this may have been their peak.Actually they never reached their full potential.I also want to give cudos to Rod Stewarts version of this on truth.I'm not a big fan of his but he did tear this song up.
tonysuss 1 year ago
That is not Jeff Beck playing guitar kneeling on the ground.
091053JG 1 year ago
@091053JG -- 'fraid it is. 8-)
flibideegibbit 1 year ago
This song,is greatly prophetical : with the atmosphere and the lyrics reflects perfectly the crisis of the world on this days.Pollution, Violence, Apathetic, Self absorbed People, Obsession with Technology but Lack of Culture, Knowledge or Morals, Economic Crisis...
ElliotRocker 1 year ago
I have a dozen Yardbirds songs on my MP3 player, but not a single Beatles song. Here's why.
LlamasWithAtaris 1 year ago
The Yardbirds,the Who, and Jimi Hendrix were the watershed of metal music. Sorry Beatles and Stones fans.
BBQFanNo1 1 year ago
who the the 7 stupid gits who voted thumbs down? i think they just wander through Youtubeland putting thumbs down on everything.
flibideegibbit 1 year ago
one of the great guitar solo's of all time in this song!!!!!!!!!!!
belleek20 1 year ago
May I be bolder.......then Guitar Heaven. Great song. Love these chaps.
SunnyDays951 1 year ago
way ahead of their time for sure
rob99rst 1 year ago
I have to Agree with @MyJellyJunglein1967... This IS the must F-ed Up Generation I have ever witnessed... It's a Shame they never Realized tht they were all subjects of a "Mind Control Experiment"... Implemented by the U.S. Government, proliferated by the media and the State Controlled Schools... They have been Raised to be a bunch of Apathetic Morons, Clueless about Everything and Anything... Especially anything that is Happening in the World all around them, Lamers that THINK they are "Cool".
MRG2112MGV 1 year ago
i listened to them in 1968 and i still enjoy thier music in 2010 . i lived haight/ashbury scene in san francisco . look up san francisco nights by the animals . also where do you think cisco systems stole thier name . cross out san&fran
darjern1 1 year ago
It is about the sixties. Come tomorrow?? a question that ran through many minds with viet nam coming on strong. The Yardbirds - more talent than the Beatles? food for thought!!!
mlony1 1 year ago
great and a fine example of the amazing leap in pop music from the general dross from 1960 to 63 before the Beatles and others came along, interesting to think this is only 8 or so years after rock around the clock!! the 60's an astonishing period of music never even remotely equaled since.
thatwilldonicely 1 year ago 14
@thatwilldonicely Dickhead, there was LOTS of cool music before the Beatles. Your ignorance is everybody else's ignorance.
FuckngBastard 3 months ago 2
gibson sound. its that good
rob99rst 1 year ago
haha! poor guys at the end, they had to sync 3 guitars to make a delay effect, never thought of it that way :p wicked, I guess they were literally shocked when they found out amps can do it alone when the first amp that came out with that effect aired :)
prokk4eva 1 year ago
I'm in heaven. Thanks.
learn54 1 year ago
this song is so thrilling and prophetic...and still sounds fresh after 44 years
ElliotRocker 1 year ago 27
@ElliotRocker Agreed. I bought the 45 of this when it first came out and played it incessantly on my little teen player. It still has meaning and sounds great today. Would love to hear Green Day, Pearl Jam, or some other major act cover it just for the exposure.
curiousnomad 1 year ago
@ElliotRocker Amen to that! Such an intelligent and contempative song. Many try today to sing about such depth, but they lack the melody. The tune. The heart and soul.
Like maybe James Franco the actor, The Yardbirds are the most underrated band of all time. (IMO.)
MrSamram3 10 months ago
@ElliotRocker - I totally agree about the (almost total) dross in the pre-Beatle 3 years. Also think about this: It was only about 15 years from the electric guitar to the Beatles. But I will put in a good word for the early-to-mid 1980s as the second best period.
The way the Big Four corporations control music exposure, groups like the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, and many more might not even be heard today. How many great groups exist now, that we don't get exposed to? We may never know.
TravelerDiogenes 7 months ago
@ElliotRocker
"Prophetic?" I love the Yardbirds, but come on.
madtiger111 6 months ago
@ElliotRocker No it doesn't.... unless you've been living under a rock or have gone senile. Or maybe your just another young bitching idiot who refuses to offer something better than Gaga or Bieber.
FuckngBastard 3 months ago
fuckin kick ass
Jimpsterz 1 year ago
great
trombetna6 1 year ago
I love this. It is so clever and cool.
trombetna6 1 year ago
I love the guitar starting at 1:36
bluecatky 1 year ago
No, time certainly hasn't made man more wise.
obscurebandfan 1 year ago
The Yardbirds rock long island on thursday may 27 at the boulton center bayshore ny.
suffolkrocknroller 1 year ago
its good music, dont say youre age, u not cool cause u listen to music from the 60s, and not lived there, the old rocks that l ived there are cool, we are just wa nna bees
smartijn 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 dude calm down just because you got sand in your vagina doesnt mean you have to take it out on other people and punk started with the kinks and the kingsmen louie louie, the stooges,mc5
Traydon3211 1 year ago
@Traydon3211
Well, The Kingsmen & The Stooges are fucking years apart...so I don't know how you could say that.
I think saying that The Who "starting" punk rock would be more accurate...but, in the end, everybody knows that "punk" didn't surface until the late 70's...regardless of all the prototype bands & predecessors, "punk" started in the late 70's, not with "Louie Louie" or "My Generation" or "All Day & All of the Night", or "Raw Power" or "Kick out the Jams" or in 1965 or 1971...
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 The Stooges 1st album was definately punk not proto punk or whatever and if your saying Raw Power isn't punk as well you don't know what your talking about! Yeah 1969 isn't a punk song.....*rolls eyes*
Sandbagger300 1 year ago
@Sandbagger300
Well, "punk" as a genre didn't surface until the late 70's, & you know this too.
So, say whatever you want.
The Stooges are not a "punk rock" band - they were around years before the genre was even coined. And don't give me some bullshit about Lenny Kaye calling garage bands "punk" in the 60's - nobody called anything "punk" until the late 70's.
It's like saying The Beatles were a "metal" band for putting out 'Helter Skelter'.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88
If The Stooges are "punk", then so must be the MC5, The Who, The Kinks, The Kingsmen, Love - fuck, the early Stones too.
Is Zeppelin a metal band?! They were around before Sabbath, who many consider to be the first...
Is Hendrix metal?!
No - I don't care if they're predecessors or what-have-you, "punk rock" wasn't a genre until the late 70's.
With what you're saying, every driving, loud, fast, garage type band of the 60's is "punk rock".
Is Blondie rap? Disco? Punk?
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 Hey assmorgan, I think you might have too much free time. I see "your opinions" on almost every Yardbirds related video. Now you've gotten to the point where you're responding to your own rhetoric. Calm down man. Remember that opinions are just like A-Holes we all have one!
BurleyFuzz 1 year ago
@BurleyFuzz
Calm down, Charlie...exactly.
Nobody is forcing you to read or comment on anything either, fuckstick.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 Aww how cute, assmorgan is a verbal terrorist here on You Tube! Making threats and assumptions from his safe & cozy hiding place. For someone who is a self-appointed expert on 60's music you sure know how to perpetuate bad vibes and negativity! As anyone here can see by scrolling down, you are responding to you own douchey comments! I see why you're attracted to Beck as he was known to be an asshole! Stop performing Felatio on Jeff Beck and get a real job! Have a great day brother!
BurleyFuzz 1 year ago
@asmorgan88 Punk has nothing to do with ANY 60s music. Calling someone a punk in the 60s would have gotten you punched out. The Stooges were an Acid band, originally the Psychedelic Stooges. You have all these revisionist blowhards running around trying to legitimitize the sheer crap that most punk was by attempting to connect it to groundbreaking acts of the 60s. The MC5 guys have pointedly stated they weren't punk. Even Johnny Thunders didn't consider himself a punk and despised that label.
flamesounds 1 year ago
@flamesounds
...I think you're confused...
I was stressing that whole point to somebody else.
I never said The Stooges were punk...I said "punk" wasn't a genre until the late 70's...so acts like The Stooges, MC5 & NYD weren't punk bands, as the genre/phenomenon hadn't even happened yet.
Punk is very much related to acts of the 60's...all those bands were heavily influenced by the British Invasion, & the American garage bands of the decade...that's pretty well known & documented.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
Yardbirds are jammin at Tangiers Akron Ohio on May 23.
DooWoppOh 1 year ago
@DooWoppOh
Do you post this information on every Yardbirds video on YouTube?!
Jesus fuck...
asmorgan88 1 year ago
Nice music, but the clip, c'est la tipique nouvelle vague, trop Français, the drums, only the cymballs, one guitarist on his knees, mon Dieu!!! Qui est le metre-en-scene, Godard? Mas eu adoro esta banda!!!!
mcuiabano 1 year ago
The Yardbirds are at boulton center bayshore ny on may 27.
suffolkrocknroller 1 year ago
anyone heard Black Stone Cherry's cover? its a bit heavier but good none the less :)
jakeblandjk47 1 year ago
nice video direction.. snare shot, singer shot, snare shot, singer shot, band shot with guitarist on his knees shot
MetalWolfReaper 1 year ago
whos' kneeling on the green grass? George Harisson with a sitar?
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
@PoireauMan68 The great George Harrison.
obscurebandfan 1 year ago
@obscurebandfan Don't know why I typed Harrison, it's Jeff Beck.
obscurebandfan 1 year ago
I'm glad you're honist...He was an outstanding presence and A voice...an e3xcellent harmonica player but a shit with electrix...May his soul rest in peace...
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
I love the tone on the guitar...kick ass!!!
terry2tone 1 year ago
Will time make men more wise? It may be too late. I love this song. I was a little boy when I started hearing this song during the Vietnam bullshit war. I have not trusted the government since. And it gets worse every day. Come tomorrow?
TheBigcity61 1 year ago 5
for me this is the best that it gets. the yardbirds were british legends
cujo9 1 year ago 2
These gusy were so ahead of the time, and polished. so nice to see footage, and not just hear audio
gk10002000 1 year ago 2
this might be just before the "mod" era,im a mod dude.
jonnyasprin 1 year ago
Dude...this is DURING it.
asmorgan88 1 year ago
@jonnyasprin This is towards the end of the mod era.
hawkmoon03111951 1 year ago
@hawkmoon03111951 tks for the insight hawkmoon,i was really drunk when i typed that comment,lol
jonnyasprin 1 year ago
They don't play songs like this anymore.
slummly123 2 years ago 3
Some People do, They just done sell anymore :-(
Its so sad, this is the coolest era of music ever! (and im 20!)
Jackamole 1 year ago 22
@Jackamole I'm sorry, but I have to point it out... Music is music. Age doesn't matter, the song remains the same. Good to know you are 20, and all, but there are plenty of people of all age groups who enjoy this fine music, but the music is the groove.
MrArdvarkz 1 year ago
@Jackamole cool. you're twenty. feel special now?
kinghorst 1 year ago
@Jackamole Yes, it was quite fun.
circle43cm 1 year ago
@Jackamole
sorry you missed it..never saw the stones live. the best live concert i ever saw were the ramones in boston in 76
cousinarty 10 months ago
they do BUT on acetate (NO! it's not a drug)
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
In my opinion,whatever that's worth, the Yardbirds were the BEST when JEFF BECK was in the group.
waynedanberry 2 years ago
i agree
Coppola63 1 year ago
Sharp
1Samh666 2 years ago
Better late than never...I appreciate the brilliance and influence of Jeff Beck's guitar work and the place this group holds in Rock history. Can't get enough of it! Thanks for posting!
AR15Doggie 2 years ago
Timeless -- I remember it from 1965and knew then it will be among the greatest songs ever. Great video, too -- thanks for posting.
theREALonekev 2 years ago
They ARE hot. I must of played this song 10 times first time I heard it. Agreed, flamesounds, they were WAY ahead of their time. This song is incredible. (It IS funny, though, seeing Jeff Beck on his knees...) My guess: recorded in 1965.
SwedeProof 2 years ago
"my eye's just hurt my brain"!!!! thats great!
KIDRED56 2 years ago
Wow I didn't know Beck was so short?
Orion579 2 years ago
Anyone know where this was filmed ?
a bit or a nurdy question I know.
BeppeSapone 2 years ago
@BeppeSapone I don't think it's a nerdy question at all. Actually, I'm curious myself.
Hotrodd100 2 years ago
Thanks for the post.
ekalaka1 2 years ago
he [along with keith moon and keith richards!] is the reason my first son will be named keith (:
talktalk3 2 years ago 2
this is the type of musiic thats the best ,it really makes you happy, and want more...
60srecords 2 years ago 9
@60srecords
When I here them I think of when I was a kid at the beach and no one can explain what great music was out or even the way things were, Dancing, clothes,etc. I miss it.
SuesDaytona 1 year ago
oh my god!!! they are so fuckin hot, i love these guys!! god they´re sins. they´re great,i love Keith!!!
CarolSanem 2 years ago
Cracks me up that Jeff Beck was on his knees during the song. This song was the birth of heavy experimental rock. Note the cool solo with feedback going on that Beck recorded in what....1965 -66?
spyguys 2 years ago 3
They were so far ahead of their time.....This was 2 years before the first Jimi Hendrix album........Amazing.
flamesounds 2 years ago
That's the second Jimi Hendrix reference I've heard when talking about the Yardbirds. What am I missing? Not being a wiseass, I just don't get it.
xplund 2 years ago
Hendrix is mentioned because this song used a lot of sonic devices he used several years later...For instance, the fuzz power chords and Jeff Beck's solo with the guitar feedback weaving in and out.......If you play guitar, as I do, it's obvious this is one of the songs Jimi was influenced by .The Yardbirds were considered the first Psychedelic band. They were truly ahead of their time. I recall hearing this the first time in the 60s and thoiught it sounded very futuristic and surreal..
flamesounds 2 years ago 2
I was very young when i heard of Keith Reif's death but I was shocked.
stellaviolens 2 years ago 2
I used to play this over and over on my record player when I was about six,
baggins20050 2 years ago 2
Great song.Not many at the gig though.
tegmills 2 years ago 4
Damn i love this band!60' and 70' are best decade for music!!!One love that I can be sure-rock n' roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
MsScarlettWoman20 2 years ago 2
what is the singers name. i always forget
jrwall100 2 years ago
Keith Relf.
as400techman 2 years ago 3
thanks
jrwall100 2 years ago
Was this with Beck, Clapton, or Page?
awsomethingsmax2 2 years ago
Beck.
Sointula2 2 years ago
Jeff Beck is playing the Les Paul.
irondragsportster 2 years ago
Beck
lightshifter2 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Thank you so much! This song was an experience to a long ago era I was part of. HAD to add it to my Channel!!! Thanks again.
WearsTheFire 2 years ago
mammoth, you are totally correct! I love both versions absolutely, but Gary Moore's 1986 version from the LP you stated brings it to a whole new level. YARDBIRDS!!!!!!
voluntaryistguy 2 years ago
That Gary Moore version is horrid...
He literally ruined this song.
asmorgan88 2 years ago
I have to agree with you on the Gary Moore version. One of the worst songs ever. It should have made one of the top worst songs of all time.
earjams1 2 years ago
Where is that ?
stellaviolens 2 years ago
Its Jeff Beck in this video, and I know it is hard to tell. I saw in a documentary when Jeff came in The Yardbirds they made him get a hair cut and new clothes. I thought it was very funny.
Yardbirdsfan 2 years ago
This could be blashphemous but if you've never heard Gary Moore's cover of this song you should check it out. The studio version is off the "Victims Of The Future" LP.
mammothusasbestband 2 years ago
classic music from a classy british era , victory !
cujo9 2 years ago
time make men more wise///////
bilbobagins1951 2 years ago 2
Note to Banghouseisaphony:
AGREED...as far as "ahead of their time" is concerned.
This was a song, and they* were an ensemble **WAAAY** ahead of their time!
When I was a kid in the 1970's & I'd first heard this, I'd assumed it was *new* back then in 1971, 'cause of the *so ahead of the curve riffs* and all.
It's too bad this doesn't get more attention on "Classic Rock" radio stations in The States, eh?
Thanx fer this, m8...
BadNews88 2 years ago 3
I remember. This was a favorite. These guys were really great and way ahead of their time. Imagine hearing this in '65. Do any of you guys remember what we were hearing on the radio in the early to mid 60's? This was mind blowing! Thanks for this video.
Banghouseisaphony 2 years ago 3
Great song! I didn't know there was a video. Thanks for sharing. The Yardbirds are amazing having 3 of the best guitarists in the world at various times and the forerunner to one of the biggest bands in the world. I guess Zeppelin would have been inconceivable without them.
The Yardbirds Live At the BBC is worth picking up.
sgk1967 2 years ago 2
Is that Clapton singing lead?
beth5481 2 years ago
That's Keith Relf, the Yardbirds' singer...
anthrax2525 2 years ago
He was accidently electricuted back in 1976 at the age of 33. That's jeff beck on his knees hammerin the riffs.
mfinnster24 2 years ago 2
Yikes - it's Keith Relf, dude. Dead of electrocution in '76. EC would've been playing a guitar, y'know
slide4180 2 years ago
Amazing what great bands used to be able to fit into 2 1/2 minutes of music...
blindcommisioner 2 years ago 13