@fanzappa I've heard Antonioni originally wanted the Who but fell out with Kit Lambert. Jeff Beck refused to break his Les Paul, so Antonioni got a few cheap guitars from Hofner and had Beck destroy them with the Hofner rep watching! So the story goes...
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@yangyin09u You obviously know nothing about this film and British culture. Antonioni would have asked them to stand still. This is not a real concert.
@abelbokor Yeah, i don't know if the label would n't let them mime to their version of Train or if somebody didn't want to pay for the rights... I even have a comp that has Train and Stroll On (which is pretty much a clone with different lyrics)
Is that Michael Palin of Monty Python standing next to the guy with glasses at 0:40? I've read that he should be seen standing in the crowd in this scene...
The interior scenes were shot inside the Windsor Ricky Tick. The exterior was made up for Oxford Street. (A bit of Antonioni film license) I still have my 1966/67 membership card. Some of the bands we used to see were The Graham Bond Organisation, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers etc. It was the best of times and it was....
Thanks, can't seem to find much info on Ricky Tick club on Oxford street, loads on clubs in Windsor and Hounslow though. I wonder what became of the Ricky Tick ? Was it actually in the 100 club which is still there ?
@mrbillhicks - The interior scenes were shot inside the Windsor Ricky Tick. The exterior was made up for Oxford Street. (A bit of Antonioni film license) I still have my 1966/67 membership card. Some of the bands we used to see were The Graham Bond Organisation, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers etc. It was the best of times and it was....
WTF! Why does everyone look so bored? Beck and Page on the same stage. I know, I know, just a film. But, why would the director want them to act that way?
The crowd seem umoved by the music, but once there is a commodity they can take away (guitar neck) they go wild. Removed from its context it becomes worthless.
I am unclear whether Antonioni approves of the role of context in art, or whether he is arguing for a form of artistic "purity," whereby an art-work can be appreciated in itself. This film raises many questions but does not seek to answer them.
If you would like to hear and see the original distortion guitarist on this song cut in 1956 and covered by these guys..search Paul Burlison..Go to Rock and Roll Trio Part Three..second song recorded in 2000..then go to the 1956 version..search Johnny Burnette-Train Kept Rollin
Did people really stand stock-still at rock clubs in the 1960's? They did in the 70's at punk rock clubs but I was too young for the 60's. Have people really been that cool for that long?
No, it was just to show a very surreal moment in the film by the director Antioni who made a lot of art-house existential movies.. If you watch the whole movie, BLOW UP is just one big "WTF?"
@Mokkari77 This film is no WTF? film - it is very well thought out. You have to abandon the plot though, and consider the meaning of each scene. L'Avventura seems more WTF? to me.
The worst bits are the ones where it tries to break new ground in terms of appearing "advanced" or "shocking." The bit with Jane Birkin and the marijuana smoking look respectively sexist and tame to a modern audience. It does not help that it must have inspired at least two scenes in Austin Powers films.
wonder what that cheapo guitar neck is worth today. In a historically important movie, smashed up by the guy who is second ONLY to Jimi Hendrix? Gotta be worth something.
I could watch this scene forever. This song is so powerful and I love the fact they played it twice. Keith Relf's voice blows my mind. Oh, and I adore that movie.
I'm showing my age but I've been in this exact scene (all except for the guitar smashing part). This is exactly what these "concerts" were like at that time (1966). Nobody dancing, except for the very daring. Everything way up in the head. Entirely cerebral. It took a few years and a lot of dope to reconnect people with their bodies.
@ironpirites Come ON...I know what you mean, some were too "cool"to dance, but this was extreme.
The Yardbirds at this stage deserved a cold crowd ,they were a dying band ,Beck left a month later and with Page(under Mickey Most's guidance) they became a bad pop band ("Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" & "Little Games" excepted) , they did a lousy playback routine anywayzzzzz.
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ah ah ah ah ah in questa scena c'è un falso storico. Antonioni in quel periodo a Londra si imbattè in un locale dove "suonavano"... gli WHO... rimase sconvolto dalla loro esibizione seguita dal fracassamento finale degli strumenti. Li volle per il suo film.I loro manager però chiesero una cifra spropositata, Antonioni assoldò gli yardbirds ma chiese che ricreassero la scena della rottura della chitarra. Chissà come sarebbe stata questa scena con gli WHO di Townshend, Moon,Daltrey, Entewhistler..
@Ihy744ppp He's supposedly somewhere in the crowd, but I've never managed to spot him. The girl dancing in the striped-trousers is -shudder- Janet Street-Porter.
Isn't it ironic that, in the concert hall, pieces of Beck's smashed guitar are a prized possession. Outside the concert hall, people could care less. In fact, after Hemmimgs tosses it away, someone else picks it up and discards it. I think that's what the movie is about, Context. Point of view. But what do I know? Anyway, great movie.
Isn't it ironic that, in the concert hall, pieces of Beck's smashed guitar are a prized possession. Outside the concert hall, people could care less. In fact, after Hemmimgs tosses it away, someone else picks it up and discards it. I think that's what the movie is about, Context. Point of view. But what do I know? Anyway, great movie.
Now, for all the guitar spotters out there Jeff Beck wrecks his "stage" guitar. He snaps the headstock off the neck. He later swings a 59 les paul on and continues with the gig. Outside the guy is running away with a guitar neck with the headstock still intact and chucks it away. Is this the headstock from the 1959 les paul Jeff has smashed on a couple of occasions??
@johnnyjblair yes you do know her tall big glasses weird accent POSH...she interviewed THE CLASH and even the PISTOLS in 76 / 77...you know...double-barrel...or long name...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
@ChrislovesKrystal James Brown sang through a P.A. not a guitar amp...James Brown didn't actually need amplification...and he played drums. Petula Clark loved VOX amplification ...so did my grandma
thats JANIS STREET PORTER at 1.20 in the stripey trousers!!!! brilliant song and jeff beck looks so fuckin cool!!! and rest of band,the crowd are just so inndefferent and probably stoned!!!
yay i just runaway from a bunch of people because I got jeff beck's broken guitar and now i just toss it out. :-P I don't understand the point of it, why did he struggle for getting the guitar arm if he was going to toss it out?
It was filmed at MGM studios in Elstree. The exterior of the club in the film is Oxford Street, but it's faked: there never was a Rocky Tick Club there (only in Windsor, Slough, Hounslow...)
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@willruddock i got roger the engineer a couple weeks ago and accoding to the notes exactly what was recorded with beck and page is still a cause for debate
The first time I see the Yardbirds performing in colour!! Keith was sure a cutie with that blond hair...and Antonioni a great director with his philosophy of reality and appearance. Loved his movie and the group enhanced it!
This scene actually demonstrates the contextuality of meaning Inside the concert the neck of the guitar is valuable, but taken out of context it becomes worthless, which is reinforced by the second time it is picked up and discarded. This is related to Antonioni's message that meaning (such as the meaning of the picture of the dead man shown earlier in the movie) has no meaning outside of its social context.
classic!
cabinfeverish 1 month ago
That's Janet Street Porter dancing - she's so coooool!!
yumyummoany 1 month ago
YEAH, BAY-BEE, YEAH!!!!!!
MaidenUtah1 1 month ago
I have a couple of those posters!
ChrisYonts 1 month ago
This was such a fuckin' weird movie!
ChrisYonts 1 month ago
@ChrisYonts
I know. You really have to watch the audio commentary on the DVD to keep up with it.
MaidenUtah1 1 month ago
eléggééééé szeretjük!
davidgoblyos 1 month ago
AND THAT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IS THE FIRST EVER GUITAR SACRIFICE
ZBone12 1 month ago
@ZBone12 me thinks pete townshend did it before 1966 when this movie was made. ever see early who footage?
fanzappa 1 month ago
@fanzappa I've heard Antonioni originally wanted the Who but fell out with Kit Lambert. Jeff Beck refused to break his Les Paul, so Antonioni got a few cheap guitars from Hofner and had Beck destroy them with the Hofner rep watching! So the story goes...
WhitstableWilliams 1 month ago
wow
superduperbard 2 months ago
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DSNTEXST 2 months ago
The zombie like crowd is An Audience as inert watchers..........While the band creates on stage........Same thing happens when we watch a movie ;)
heyrubes007 3 months ago
Love the Brits all standing like proper statues. The Victorian era was still alive then. The needed to steal the blues to regain some soul.
yangyin09u 3 months ago
@yangyin09u You obviously know nothing about this film and British culture. Antonioni would have asked them to stand still. This is not a real concert.
Lucher3 2 months ago
@Lucher3 You're too kind, taking time out of your busy day, to point out the obvious. Thank you.
yangyin09u 2 months ago
another masterpiece(Beck and Page)
Poloniothx 3 months ago
who is the hottie smashing his guitar?
gotrawmilk 3 months ago
@gotrawmilk Jeff Beck
rappy90 3 months ago
@gotrawmilk DIO PORCO.
gremby 2 months ago
what's the name of the song? :)
abelbokor 4 months ago
@abelbokor Yardbirds - Train Kept A Rollin'
abelbokor 4 months ago
@abelbokor Technically, it's Stroll On not Train Kept A-Rollin'
juepucta 4 months ago
@juepucta Alright, thankies. hmm Stroll On - Ramble On, what a coincidence.
abelbokor 3 months ago
@abelbokor Yeah, i don't know if the label would n't let them mime to their version of Train or if somebody didn't want to pay for the rights... I even have a comp that has Train and Stroll On (which is pretty much a clone with different lyrics)
juepucta 3 months ago
Jeff Beck is so cool. Always a Mod. He did not dress like a stupid hippy like the other guy. Relf looks like a young Daltrey here.
NormanStansfield1 4 months ago
One of the best bands EVER!!!!
68generation 4 months ago
DL the audio from this video at speedyconversion doht cohm.
LeonidaEllison800 5 months ago
Notice how Jeff Beck is playing a Les Paul when you first see the stage and a Hofner hollow-body the second time...
Verbeke7 5 months ago
what nobody knew how to move in the 60s??
ResonanceFan11 5 months ago
Is that Michael Palin of Monty Python standing next to the guy with glasses at 0:40? I've read that he should be seen standing in the crowd in this scene...
0PERAT0RPLEASE 5 months ago
@0PERAT0RPLEASE
Yes it is.
Verbeke7 5 months ago
jimi page antes de led zeppelin
naditales 5 months ago
one of my favourite film scenes of all time, period.
jenzeppelin 6 months ago 2
@jenzeppelin Absolutely! Every time I watch this film it is always a lead-up to this scene.
TaraTownsend 5 months ago
focus
Dav0Aus1 6 months ago
The interior scenes were shot inside the Windsor Ricky Tick. The exterior was made up for Oxford Street. (A bit of Antonioni film license) I still have my 1966/67 membership card. Some of the bands we used to see were The Graham Bond Organisation, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers etc. It was the best of times and it was....
Georgie2047 7 months ago 2
Does any one think that the club could be the 100 club on Oxford street ?
mrbillhicks 7 months ago
@mrbillhicks It's very close; it was shot just round the corner on a street just off Regent St.
Useless2112 7 months ago
@mrbillhicks It's the Ricky Tick. The sign is shown at 3:32.
GlassOrchidAftermath 7 months ago
@GlassOrchidAftermath
Thanks, can't seem to find much info on Ricky Tick club on Oxford street, loads on clubs in Windsor and Hounslow though. I wonder what became of the Ricky Tick ? Was it actually in the 100 club which is still there ?
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@mrbillhicks - The interior scenes were shot inside the Windsor Ricky Tick. The exterior was made up for Oxford Street. (A bit of Antonioni film license) I still have my 1966/67 membership card. Some of the bands we used to see were The Graham Bond Organisation, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers etc. It was the best of times and it was....
Georgie2047 7 months ago
@mrbillhicks Shure!
directedby29 7 months ago
@directedby29 Shure... They make microphones don't they ?
mrbillhicks 7 months ago
what was the song they played after this?
griff9899 7 months ago
Un capolavoro.
goback3spaces 7 months ago
Best film about the Swinging London Ever !!! no doubt about that Dude!!!!
redtorso 8 months ago
That's what you called H.I.P.
dirtynuke 8 months ago
Ready Made
porcesarea 8 months ago
This was a beautiful world of people using LSD.. man .. playing guitars... getting chicks...
youtubbeisshit 8 months ago
LSD ... LSD LSD... all this movie means.. and man, this is good
youtubbeisshit 8 months ago
WTF! Why does everyone look so bored? Beck and Page on the same stage. I know, I know, just a film. But, why would the director want them to act that way?
geridg 8 months ago
Jimmy PAge is here too
emanuelpoliveira 8 months ago
jeff and jiimy together
coltrainification 8 months ago
Unbelievably stylish film!
BlackRaven156 8 months ago
lovelovelove!
gabynbrad 9 months ago
The crowd seem umoved by the music, but once there is a commodity they can take away (guitar neck) they go wild. Removed from its context it becomes worthless.
I am unclear whether Antonioni approves of the role of context in art, or whether he is arguing for a form of artistic "purity," whereby an art-work can be appreciated in itself. This film raises many questions but does not seek to answer them.
MidoriNoSaru 9 months ago
Nobody wear white jeans ntil that single day!!!!
skifiles 9 months ago
If you would like to hear and see the original distortion guitarist on this song cut in 1956 and covered by these guys..search Paul Burlison..Go to Rock and Roll Trio Part Three..second song recorded in 2000..then go to the 1956 version..search Johnny Burnette-Train Kept Rollin
dburlison1 9 months ago
original hipsters
Plain182 9 months ago
Great scene and perfect song for it. Beck is such a punk in this.
BrownBrown90 9 months ago
briliant Jimmey Page
MrBlueeffect 10 months ago
Its a testament to how fashion repeats itself that I thought this was filmed recently until 2 minutes in!!!!
vdeferens 10 months ago
crap
clydagh 10 months ago
Did people really stand stock-still at rock clubs in the 1960's? They did in the 70's at punk rock clubs but I was too young for the 60's. Have people really been that cool for that long?
jtab4994 10 months ago
@jtab4994
No, it was just to show a very surreal moment in the film by the director Antioni who made a lot of art-house existential movies.. If you watch the whole movie, BLOW UP is just one big "WTF?"
Mokkari77 10 months ago
@Mokkari77 This film is no WTF? film - it is very well thought out. You have to abandon the plot though, and consider the meaning of each scene. L'Avventura seems more WTF? to me.
The worst bits are the ones where it tries to break new ground in terms of appearing "advanced" or "shocking." The bit with Jane Birkin and the marijuana smoking look respectively sexist and tame to a modern audience. It does not help that it must have inspired at least two scenes in Austin Powers films.
MidoriNoSaru 9 months ago
Things improved for Jeff after he discovered stratocasters :)
lastman2008 10 months ago
wonder what that cheapo guitar neck is worth today. In a historically important movie, smashed up by the guy who is second ONLY to Jimi Hendrix? Gotta be worth something.
alexdroogie100 11 months ago
Is Michael Palin the serious looking one behind the guy with long hair at the left?
TheNEWfilmfanatic99 11 months ago
the crowds in a trance ! !!!
lyndloo 11 months ago
I could watch this scene forever. This song is so powerful and I love the fact they played it twice. Keith Relf's voice blows my mind. Oh, and I adore that movie.
cristytovar 11 months ago
FREEZE IT 0:40 Michael Palin!!
morgantown1 11 months ago
@morgantown1 I can't find him!!! D: I only see birth control glasses. T-T
99whatever99 10 months ago
Jimmy ! Led Zep soon....
tartinovich9 11 months ago
LED ZEP SOON
tartinovich9 11 months ago
Why do the crowd look bored shitless?
The6thSimpson 11 months ago
Blow up ist der Film meines Lebens. Ich habe ihn gut 20mal gesehen. Sehr geheimnisvoll und ein Meisterwerk.
Kunstdirektor 11 months ago
Very nice picture of 60'th and London.
Strandnorebo88 11 months ago
Love this movie, love this scene, love the band and time it portrays.
klepzo 1 year ago
3:47 Looks like Jeff's double, destroys it a second time...wowie,that Antonioni...full of 'hidden' messages.....
PAULLONDEN 1 year ago
pish. staged obviously. herry baws.
AustinMcsherry 1 year ago
I want that Zoot Money T shirt - never noticed that before!
beeches2009 1 year ago
Let me take you down......where nothing is real.......
tonkehar 1 year ago
A crowd of people stood and stared!
tonkehar 1 year ago
AMAZING, ALL OPINIONS ARE WRONG. ..
PLEROMAZERO 1 year ago
I'm showing my age but I've been in this exact scene (all except for the guitar smashing part). This is exactly what these "concerts" were like at that time (1966). Nobody dancing, except for the very daring. Everything way up in the head. Entirely cerebral. It took a few years and a lot of dope to reconnect people with their bodies.
ironpirites 1 year ago
@ironpirites Come ON...I know what you mean, some were too "cool"to dance, but this was extreme.
The Yardbirds at this stage deserved a cold crowd ,they were a dying band ,Beck left a month later and with Page(under Mickey Most's guidance) they became a bad pop band ("Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" & "Little Games" excepted) , they did a lousy playback routine anywayzzzzz.
PAULLONDEN 1 year ago
@PAULLONDEN I realize that it is hard to believe, but for me this portion of the film is documentary footage. There is no "art" involved whatsoever.
ironpirites 1 year ago
I think I finally found Palin. TOOK FOREVER!
AshillaBeige 1 year ago
@AshillaBeige at 0:43?
Ihy744ppp 1 year ago
@Ihy744ppp Yep. Damn, he was kinda cute in his day....
AshillaBeige 1 year ago
@AshillaBeige Who's that besides him?
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Cindee2090 1 year ago
Jeff shouldn't have been playing that old piece of shit anyways!
johnfright 1 year ago 2
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Jard7346 1 year ago
ah ah ah ah ah in questa scena c'è un falso storico. Antonioni in quel periodo a Londra si imbattè in un locale dove "suonavano"... gli WHO... rimase sconvolto dalla loro esibizione seguita dal fracassamento finale degli strumenti. Li volle per il suo film.I loro manager però chiesero una cifra spropositata, Antonioni assoldò gli yardbirds ma chiese che ricreassero la scena della rottura della chitarra. Chissà come sarebbe stata questa scena con gli WHO di Townshend, Moon,Daltrey, Entewhistler..
eleonorage65 1 year ago
Wow! My two loves, Jimmy Page and Michael Palin, in the same room! And one of my favorite songs playing! Awesome!!!
FreakaZoidInatorTron 1 year ago
@FreakaZoidInatorTron Michael Palin?
Ihy744ppp 1 year ago
@Ihy744ppp He's supposedly somewhere in the crowd, but I've never managed to spot him. The girl dancing in the striped-trousers is -shudder- Janet Street-Porter.
Useless2112 1 year ago
@Useless2112 Great trivia mate, keep searching!
Ihy744ppp 1 year ago
@Useless2112 Is it him at 0:43 at the right?
It look like him...
Great film!
Ihy744ppp 1 year ago
Hi folks,
Jimmy was preparing his great performance with zeppies and that was nice to see.
Beck was good too but enough. //w love.
Strandnorebo88 1 year ago
Great film, great director, great music. Thanks for uploading.
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Isn't it ironic that, in the concert hall, pieces of Beck's smashed guitar are a prized possession. Outside the concert hall, people could care less. In fact, after Hemmimgs tosses it away, someone else picks it up and discards it. I think that's what the movie is about, Context. Point of view. But what do I know? Anyway, great movie.
copyboyrc 1 year ago
Isn't it ironic that, in the concert hall, pieces of Beck's smashed guitar are a prized possession. Outside the concert hall, people could care less. In fact, after Hemmimgs tosses it away, someone else picks it up and discards it. I think that's what the movie is about, Context. Point of view. But what do I know? Anyway, great movie.
copyboyrc 1 year ago
i LOVE how no one is dancing. they are just standing around looking bored. except for 2 people. that girl in the striped pants is so funny
thebjm1967 1 year ago
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TheFairygirl304 1 year ago
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yes,ahahahah :) they move just for taking the guitar...that shows how people is material..and this film was turned in 60's!!!!
TheFairygirl304 1 year ago
@thebjm1967 yes,ahahahah :) they move just for taking the guitar...that shows how people is material..and this film was turned in 60's!!!!
TheFairygirl304 1 year ago
@thebjm1967 Haha yeah it's so unrealistic. But it's kinda hard to pull focus on our guy without keeping the audience still.
vegetablet 1 year ago
best movie of EVER...everybody should study this at school
TheFairygirl304 1 year ago 19
@TheFairygirl304 yes!!!
thebjm1967 1 year ago
@TheFairygirl304 I'm doing it right now.. :D
bgscheiss 1 year ago
@TheFairygirl304 were studying this film in ou renglish class
AlbanianGuy 9 months ago
@TheFairygirl304 we have :D
hitchinaride94 5 months ago
Geeeeeeênio!!!!
gzilli 1 year ago
Now, for all the guitar spotters out there Jeff Beck wrecks his "stage" guitar. He snaps the headstock off the neck. He later swings a 59 les paul on and continues with the gig. Outside the guy is running away with a guitar neck with the headstock still intact and chucks it away. Is this the headstock from the 1959 les paul Jeff has smashed on a couple of occasions??
gixertrickster 1 year ago
Now I'm really lost.
johnnyjblair 1 year ago
@ The columnist? That one I don't know. The trivia runs deep.
johnnyjblair 1 year ago
@johnnyjblair yes you do know her tall big glasses weird accent POSH...she interviewed THE CLASH and even the PISTOLS in 76 / 77...you know...double-barrel...or long name...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
i just... cant... get it... loud enough...
trevable 1 year ago
Jimmi Page on guitar
nolllllexija 1 year ago
@nolllllexija jeff beck more like mind you page looks good...that's before all the excess...excess notes I meant
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
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TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
I love those old VOX amps. Those are the kinds of amps James Brown used.
ChrislovesKrystal 1 year ago
@ChrislovesKrystal James Brown sang through a P.A. not a guitar amp...James Brown didn't actually need amplification...and he played drums. Petula Clark loved VOX amplification ...so did my grandma
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
the fashion in the crowd is awesome
Remington61189 1 year ago
The first riff my brother taught me on guitar. Yardbirds. This video is CoOl!
lillykimchi 1 year ago
@lillykimchi it's actually a scene in a movie. NOt a video
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
@PoireauMan68 No doy
lillykimchi 1 year ago
@lillykimchi sorry I don't speak chinese
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
@PoireauMan68
Eat a bag of dicks, snob. HAhahaa!
lillykimchi 1 year ago
Nobody seems to be enjoying themselves as the Yardbirds go pyrotechnic, ennui, malaise,
jacobsimon 1 year ago
@jacobsimon it's scripted....could be the 124th take as well
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
besides being the most awesome guitar player ever, Jeff Beck was also the cutest. I'd totally do him.
schultz970 1 year ago
Pretty Jeff Beck was here ♪
gomame67 1 year ago 4
hahah oh my gaaawd What the fuck!
flegolas 1 year ago
poor VOX! hahah. Love Jimmie Page's hair here. I love this movie. Best era movie.
lensjockeyvideo 1 year ago
Fantastic isn't it?
DorrisDiaz 1 year ago
Jimmy looks so cute!♥
TheBlackQueen1974 1 year ago
@TheBlackQueen1974
yeah he is really cute,love what he's wearing too
DeeandraRose 1 year ago
Don't forget the young pre-"Monty Python" Michael Palin
as one of the audience onlookers as the camera passes
over the crowd scene.
thesurpriseshow 1 year ago
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaalrightttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
MrDeathrace3000 1 year ago
this movie is pretentious as fuck but this scene is sweet.
PassTheKoolAide 1 year ago 4
@PassTheKoolAide It's not pretentious at all
sclapione 7 months ago 2
God, look how young Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were!
ChrislovesKrystal 1 year ago
thats JANIS STREET PORTER at 1.20 in the stripey trousers!!!! brilliant song and jeff beck looks so fuckin cool!!! and rest of band,the crowd are just so inndefferent and probably stoned!!!
thesyd1975 1 year ago
Heavy metal!
dev3n 1 year ago
my film and my music !!!!!!!
monsieurdino1 1 year ago
beck pwns lol
randommoosebrains 1 year ago
The Yardbirds with Original members Chris Dreja & Jim McCarty will rock Long Island on May 27 at The Boulton Center Bayshore NY.
suffolkrocknroller 1 year ago
Was this shot in the Metro Club?
SteffanLlwyd 1 year ago
Footnote: A young Janet Street-Porter is also in the audience.
orchidtender 1 year ago
yay i just runaway from a bunch of people because I got jeff beck's broken guitar and now i just toss it out. :-P I don't understand the point of it, why did he struggle for getting the guitar arm if he was going to toss it out?
tooken 1 year ago
This was filmed, I believe, at the Ricky Tick club in Windsor...
keithmartinames 1 year ago
It was filmed at MGM studios in Elstree. The exterior of the club in the film is Oxford Street, but it's faked: there never was a Rocky Tick Club there (only in Windsor, Slough, Hounslow...)
roroldam 1 year ago
I believe this was filmed at a Riki Tik club in either Windsor or Hounslow...
keithmartinames 1 year ago
Bec-O-LA
longhorn2615 1 year ago
Great group, great song, great scene, great actor, great director, great film.
Antonioni viva!
shirleystemple 1 year ago
The Yardbirds are playing boulton center bayshore ny on may 27. saw them last year at westbury and they were excellent man.
suffolkrocknroller 1 year ago
I really like the blond girl wearing blue/green at 1:27
Does anyone know who she is?
EdiblePlanets 1 year ago
@EdiblePlanets Does it matter? she would be in her 60s by now.
EICHOLZtheEXPERT 1 year ago
@EICHOLZtheEXPERT Well, yeah. I'd like to know if she was in any other movies, or if she was a model. Besides, she might have a daughter . . .
EdiblePlanets 1 year ago
@EICHOLZtheEXPERT Does it matter ? 60s is a great age
sclapione 7 months ago
Apparently the woman dancing is the yellow and red stripe trousers is Janet Street Porter.
PadrethePio 1 year ago
this very very cool espeicialy as im 70 and still stoned! and also strollin on!
beatlesmasters 1 year ago
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Jimmy Page looks absolutely gorgeous.
11967lovepunk 1 year ago
Jimmy Page looks absolutely gorgeous.
11967lovepunk 1 year ago 3
I think it says more about the state of the Yardbirds that Beck brakes his guitar and it cuts to Page bangint the riff out - welcome Led Zeppelin!!
gingermule 1 year ago
The Yardbirds with original members chris dreja & jim mccarty will tour us in 2010; may 21 montgomery college robert parilla pac rockville md; may 22 chesapeake blues festival annapolis md; may 23 tangiers akron oh; may 25 sellersville theatre sellersville pa; may 26 bb kings new york ny; may 27 ymca boulton center bayshore ny; may 28 showcase live foxbourgh ma; may 30 remember the music remember the heroes festival virignia beach va.
sixitiesking 1 year ago
Question: On the album Roger The Engineer aka Over Under Sideways Down, is that just Jeff on lead guitar or do he and Jimmy both play on that album?
willruddock 1 year ago
@willruddock i got roger the engineer a couple weeks ago and accoding to the notes exactly what was recorded with beck and page is still a cause for debate
lowaces 1 year ago
The first time I see the Yardbirds performing in colour!! Keith was sure a cutie with that blond hair...and Antonioni a great director with his philosophy of reality and appearance. Loved his movie and the group enhanced it!
68generation 1 year ago
That audience is like every band's dream!!!
LEGIONARIO1970 1 year ago
The younger generation as passive spectators and hysterical consumers.
MrMarxwasright 1 year ago 35
@MrMarxwasright if you look at it without that moralizing "indictment of youth culture" crap, its really a beautiful scene...
seintzeit 1 year ago
crowd going rabidly for bit of broken guitar but not the performance
'I love Harold '
Wilson indeed
sunvana 1 year ago
This scene actually demonstrates the contextuality of meaning Inside the concert the neck of the guitar is valuable, but taken out of context it becomes worthless, which is reinforced by the second time it is picked up and discarded. This is related to Antonioni's message that meaning (such as the meaning of the picture of the dead man shown earlier in the movie) has no meaning outside of its social context.
voltairian3 1 year ago 17
@voltairian3
that is an excellent analysis - the vapididy of his life is demonstrated by his struggle for a worthless object that he discards immediately
ffionaffiona666 1 year ago