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  • Wow, wait this was going to be Led Zeppelin?

  • Now I see why Mick Mars cites Jeff Beck as a huge influence...

  • Pat O Brien!!! (yes!!)

    Steve Hartman!

    and Vick "The Brick" Jacobs! (FEELING YOU!!!)

    This is the Loose Cannons on Fox Sports Radio!!

  • @kcrossleKMC was the version you are talking about by SRC? They did bolero but was just a regional hit in michigan in 68 or 69

  • This song is way ahead of its time

  • Back when it came out in Engalnd in '67, we would all go down the pub each night and for months and months dissect the whole "Truth" album. It was truly seminal. When Zep 1 came out a few months later it seemed like top 40 rockpop by comparison. Beck is truly a wonderful musician who has reinvented himself over the years like no other. I had the privelege of sharing the stage with him on his US tours in the 70s and learned an awful lot. Thanks Jeff. You da man.

  • I played this on the Brownsville, Texas TEEN HOUR back when it came out.... and they threw me out ;)

    They said it was too suggestive....hmmm

  • Thanks for the video and the interesting narrative. I saw Zep at the end of their first and second US tours (many tours ended in Hawaii in those days, where I happened to be) and on the second, at the HIC, the opening act (a local group which I loved but can't remember their name) did Beck's Bolero. I thought it was a bit cheeky at the time. But now I understand :-)

  • Wow...never heard the backwards guitar part before....thanks!

  • the last 30 seconds are hypnotic. great tune!

    

  • Brilliant, but created by Jimmy Page!!! Still, what can you say about this generation of musician / men - we won't see their like again. Holy shit......

  • legend

  • HEAVY

  • Man...this was a cool album! I remember playing this til the record pretty much melted. Hahahaha.... really great to hear this again! Sweet post Wilson! ***** ~KStKing

  • You are right the end is different from what I expected, but still what an amazing guitar exclectix mix with lots of folks right in the prime of their carrers.

  • Incredible song!

    ( Or instrumental, actually!)

  • Wasn't Billy Bass, and Jane Temple Hughes, on Cleveland FM WNCR in 1967-68 at first?

  • Jeff Beck is the man, but give credit where it is due: Jimmy Page wrote this tune. I'm glad Jeff finally admitted it after 40 years of bullshitting interviewers.

  • And to think these guys were just kids basically at the time...very seasoned and talented but still quite wet behind the ears. I heard this when I was 12 and started really digging through moms albums to discover the real art of music back in the mid to late 60s. My kids listen to this shit now haha...I brainwashed em proper.

  • I think the group should be called "Lead Zeppelin."

  • I'm only 21, but I prefer this type of music over today's music (that is, if you wanna call it that).

  • Probably the best guitar song that nobody knows anymore. No words, but check out Keith Moon screaming at the break in the middle.

  • Lyrics:

    "RWRAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" 01:39

  • wow..! when this came out......stones were doing 1st and 2nd albums.! PSYCODELIC''''''''''''''''''''­'''' ESPECIALY WHEN HE GOT STEWART GOING.>!

  • Blow By Blow is the record that made me want to play more than Chuck Berry riffs. I think I was 16 when it came out. Blew my mind!

  • ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!

  • And to think, before I heard this one for the very first time in 1967, I was still listening to AM Top Forty. Thank you, Nolan, my great and wasted hippie brother, for turning me onto this fantastic tune! ALSO, thank you, Billy Bass and WMMS (Cleveland)-- back in 1968!

  • @mickeymousebiker1

    Home Of The Buzzard! Hahahahaha

  • @fls13ec Yep! I was listening to WMMS when Billy Bass was playing "underground" music (when the station first aired in 1968). Bands like Max Frost (and The Troopers) The Fugs, The Mothers of Invention, early Steppenwolf, Jefferson Airplane, Fever Tree, The Ultimate Spinach, et al.

  • @mickeymousebiker1

    I didn't move to the area until the mid 70s. MMS and M105 were a pretty good pair of rock stations for awhile.

  • @fls13ec Yes, they were. I remember MMS from the start. Incredible station for The North Coast. I met Joe Walsh and Brian Ferry through some staffers at MMS. Great crew up there back then! A Merry Christmas 2011 to ya!

  • Jeff weilding the guitar like a Laser Beam.

  • I might be an old git, but, I feel fortunate by having this tune within my cherished memories. To my mind, the Sixties was an era when Rock was at its apex. There were so many different styles which were incorporated into Rock music back then.

  • This one is among the top five on the playlist in Heaven. Thank you, Jeff, Jimmy, and company! This music transcends Space/Time. I'm among the clouds when ever I hear this. We all need to feel that way (especially these days).

  • This is the one and only true rock supergroup, composed of the best of the best.

  • @TheExiledTexan Found this video just playin around on YouTube. You're right. This is absolutely incredible. Time's gone by and I miss this kind of music.

  • Were my mind goes when i hear this!

  • This was used as background music on NFL Films in the early 1970's.

  • Keith scream at 1:39.

    Demon Drummer Mode!!!

  • i can't "Like" this enough!!!!!!!

  • Beck's Bolero, Heart Full of Soul, Dance the Night Away (Cream's tune), Deserted Cities of the Heart (Cream), Open My Eyes (Nazz), Itchycoo Park (The Small Faces) -- all great pyschedelic offerings.

    Oh yeah, least I forget -- Tin Soldier (Small Faces) -- a great sublime and souful Rocker.

  • This is on Han Solo and Luke Skywalker's playlists.

  • May I recommend the book 'A Pop Revolution, the transatlantic music scene 1965 to 1969' by the invisible man. The author is a big fan of this fine instrumental.

  • just wow.

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  • Music is like Muslim religion. So many gods you know. So many gods up there and down here in this world.

  • @rh741 Fuck your Muslim religion, Rocker's don't kill Blue's artists because their genre's coincide with each other, Punker's don't start wars with Jazz artists because they look different and have different theory's on how to play guitar. Music is nothing like Muslim teachings...if that we're the case women wouldn't be aloud to perform and they're would only be one correct music theory. Music is FREEDOM in every single way. FUCK RELIGION. Music is more related to FAITH,

  • @AblueSHADEofMETAL .....In the sense that we always have hope that there will be another talented musician to fill the gap when a Virtuoso/ Master of their trade passes away. Not trying to be rude, but religion has no place in music unless you're into that Christian/religious Genre(it's shit).

  • @AblueSHADEofMETAL

    Not really what i was getting... Just pointing out that theres a lot of guitar gods out there, that was it. So yea...

  • @rh741: I think you are confusing Islam with Hinduism. Muslims would probably not appreciate someone saying that their religion features "so many gods.," especially since their most famous saying is "There is no other God but Allah." Just saying.

    On the other hand, Hinduism indeed features a multitude of gods.

  • Amazing! Just like the first time I heard it 40 years ago.....

  • Such a great track.. I had the truth album, thought it (Bolero) was from 1968. Thanks for the background info on the session.

  • dont even try to argue!.. this is awesome! heaven like !

  • @suzesrc I hope that this tune is on Jesus' top ten. You are right! This IS heaven-like! Sublime/timeless,powerful!

  • Sweeping. Celestial. Majestic. Powerful. One more reason to place the music of the 1960s at the top of the heap. When this tired dog and pony show down here is over, this music will still keep playing somewhere in Space/Time. I'll make sure of that. The Christ and I are mates.

  • What an incredible track always has been and to this day... .. just unreal!

  • How the heck is wilsonmcphert's comment a top comment.

  • May I recommend the book 'A Pop Revolution, the transatlantic music scene 1965 to 1969' by the invisible man. The author is a big fan of this instrumental.

  • Jeff Beck is so far and away the best guitar player to ever come out of the Yardbirds. It's not even close. Clapton and Page are paupers and pawns compared to Beck.

  • Beck's Bolero is one of rock's most important songs.

  • @GreenhouseEffectGE Nothing like this was coming out in 1966. Absolutely ahead of its time and a watershed track in rock history.

  • HYPNOTIZING, BEAUTIFUL!

  • It's in my mp3 player! One of the best rock instrumentals ever! I was15 when it first came out and have Loved it ever since!!!

  • Can you imagine growing up in London back then with all of these great Musicians who all lived near each other, and decide to kick the USAs ass with this Great Invasion? From the Beatles, to Clapton, Yardbirds, Led Zep, Rod Stewart, The WHO<Rolling Stones , and on, and on, and on, and on

  • @ThePhallystorm Yeah and when Jimi came on the scene in London, that was the icing on the cake! There was no other place to be!

  • 1:03 Jimmy page's facial expression: "I'M GONNA GET YOU!"

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  • wrote it , produced it , played on it... that's the truth and i dont give a damn what jeff says! "Jimmy Page"

  • Written by Jimmy Page? Well! Knock me over with a feather. As a writer, that man is a King.

  • @maxcohen13 it's an arrangement of Ravel's bolero

  • @csabaimate Ain't nothing wrong with inspiration. It's what makes rock "rock."

  • Stoned without drugs

  • May I recommend the book 'A Pop Revolution, the transatlantic music scene 1965 to 1969' by the invisible man.

  • The only thing that could have made this better would have been Entwistle on bass,.

  • wilsonmcphert, This is certainly a large chunk of musical history you have brought to light here. I had no idea of the truth behind, "Truth's" Beck's Bolero, as it were. I have owned a copy of Truth since it's release in 1968 and never new this bit of not/so trivia. I will never listen to this song again in the same light. This is the stuff that makes history worth it's "Truth" no pun intended to diminish the integrity of this news (to me) and or this great song.

    Thank you so much for sharing.

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  • I believe that this is one of the finest rock bands ever assembled .... cant touch this ....

  • This song influenced a lot of incredible musicians, probably Duane Allman being the greatest. He claims hearing Beck's slide guitar on this song inspired him to get a corcidin bottle. The rest is history.

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  • Page was such a good looking young man. Then came the heroin...

  • @impellitarian and then the inspiration

  • didnt the yardbirds do Hi Ho Silver Lining

    also jeff beck is said to not really be a singer

    

  • Music for the Stratosphere!

  • Guitar Boogie!

  • WOW! This is one of my favorite tracks on the Truth album. Amazing,I had no idea that this had been recorded in 1966.Thank you for posting this!

  • this would have been an amazing supergroup....

  • best song ever.

    cane di dio

  • The Incomparable Nicky Hopkins...didn't matter who he was playing with, he always upped everybody's game: Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller, Stones, Quicksilver Messenger Service, ad infinitum.

    That boy could rock!

  • @Brillister he was kinda like the secret weapon when he played/recorded with the stones imo

  • they wanted entwistle to play bass on this but he couldn't for whatever reason so they got john paul jones. i would have loved entwistle to do this but at least jones and page met each other

  • This is motherfucking godly.

  • I heard somewhere that Page wrote this song for Beck's birthday?

  • @ZoSoVirtuoso1 Beck is fairly adamant that he wrote it & that Page later ripped it off.

  • @strobelightbeam also keep in mind that beck and page were great mates and page owned all rights to the yardbirds after they collapsed. thats why Zeppelin was originally called the new yardbirds.

  • Marzo 28 hay que ir a verlos a Beacon Theater, estas entradas si hay que comprarlas al tiro, tal vez dos meses antes.

  •  Hay que ir a verlos al Beacon Theater NY.

  • I can only imagine this session...

    "WAAAAHHH"

  • WOW. WAS THAT A REAL PHOTO OF NICKY HOPKINS HALFWAY THROUGH THE SLIDE SHIOW?: IF SO, PLEASE, WOULD YOU LEAVE ME A NOTE VIA YOU TUBE MESSENGES? IT WOULD BE SO MUCH APPRECIATED!F

  • My son's gonna think I've lost my mind when he sees me bouncing to this.

  • It's all history now and even though there are some really good present day bands and some really good guitar players History will not repeat itself, so sad, it's a good thing we have Youtube

  • Tele van a tököm a sok angol nyelvű kommentárraI. Igenis komoly kultusza volt itt a Yardbirds vonalnak. Liversing, Dogs, ... sokan. A kissé gyengébb amatőr bandák is megtették a magukét. És 67-től beindult a honi underground. (Új Rákfogó, Sakk-Matt, Tűzkerék). Semmivel nem volt ez rosszabb, csupán - a szerelés különbségéből adódóan - nem ugyanúgy szólt. Pénz, pénz és pénz. A zene ,... ? Most már tudjuk: születni kell valahová. És ez nem csak a zenére érvényes !!!

  • Very hard to believe this was created back in 1966. This is so futuristic and visionary, which also was "Shapes of Things". It still sends chills down my spine. Not to compare but Beck was way out front of everybody on this stuff.

  • Awesome!!!!

  • i saw Beck play this 10 feet in front of me in 68, i saw Page play 10 feet away from me the whole first first album TWO nights in a row in 69, i saw the Who 2x's play their hearts out 10 feet away in 68-69..and i saw Cream play,,10 feet in front of me at the Whiskey in 68. AND, i saw Hendrix..3x's...a little farther away (to be honest)...To all you punk wet-nosed kids who wanna say who is best?..ur all wasting your time...you have no idea how unique each experience is/was....trust me.

  • @CHUCKLOVES1969 no way I can improve your perspective my friend...peace xoxo

  • People. Honestly. Shut the hell up on who's better.

    Jimmy Page is a godly guitarist.

    Jeff Beck is another godly guitarist.

    John Paul Jones is a godly bassist among other things.

    Keith Moon "The Loon" is a god in drumming!

    And Nicky Hopkins is great at the piano.

    It is what it is. Enjoy the music since it'll never be like this again.

  • @luigikicksass but Eric Clapton is God.

  • @erscott13 That's why I said godly.

    There is only ONE god, and that shall only be Clapton.

  • @luigikicksass :D I hope no one from my church sees this!

  • @erscott13 Better they do to know the truth hahah

  • @erscott13 peter green ate his lunch

  • @luigikicksass I like how everyone's a god until you get to Nicky Hopkins. "And he is great." Hahaha

  • @luigikicksass I agree with you

  • Played Jeff Beck Truth until it was worn out!

  • i feel like keith moon can bring emotion into anything

  • A true forerunner recorded years ahead of its time. It is a tribute to the vision of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page that this track is the timeless landmark it is. There's a sense of the infinite on this track quite unlike anything else.

  • I ove Beck as much as the next guitar enthusiast, but I have read enough about him to know that in person he is a cockey, moody, and arrogant, which is why nearly everyone he's jammed with ditched him. Jimmy could have done what Beck did 10 times better, Jimmy's Bolero for me.

  • A great 'lost classic' track that's hardly ever played on mainstream FM classic rock stations today. Thank you for uploading this track...otherwise, one must listen to Sirius, XM, or other subscription satellite music service (and pay a monthly fee!) to hear this and other great 'lost classics' these days!

  • I didn't know the history of this track. I thought it was The Jeff Beck Group, so I presented it to Ron Wood to sign. He said, "What is this?" I explained what it was and he signed it anyway. It was produced by Mickie Most.

  • yes, although I was referring to beck on both parts electric and Page on 12 string acoustic on single or when they first got the idea to do the song.

  • Well put GaryMilnes!

  • This sound's like a Yardbirds song

  • extremely cool, top notch, pics of Moon bring a tear to the eye...

  • saw beck at filmore east in 67 had truth album it is a ground breaking amazin piece of music zep copied beck group became more commercially successful but there is no denying J.B.is the greatest guitarest of his or any time period what he does now is so fuckin far ahead of anyone else.

  • How is it that I have never heard this song until now? This is awesome!

  • oh man it doesn't get much better than this. two of the best guitarists ever and the best drummer ever. pretty good bassist too.

  • when this came out kieth moon was the out of control drummer we all loved and in this take you can hear killing those skins and cymbals

  • GOD BLESS KEITH MOON.!.!.!

  • this IS guitar Religion. Jeff, so fine.

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  • @flaxonx3

    As stated in the background above, the song was recorded in 1966, released on the B side of the single Hi Ho Silver Lining in 1967 and on the album Truth in 1968. These dates can be verified by doing an internet search.

  • @wilsonmcphert Correct - I bought this record in 1967, so it is difficult to see how flaxon3 gets to his / her concusion.

  • @flaxonx3 geez flaxonx3 - get much wrong?

  • @flaxonx3 sorry,but you're wrong. According to liner notes in JB box set,recorded in late 66,early 67. bought this album in 67.

  • @flaxonx3

    Recorded during Beck's time with the Yardbirds... Management had Page put something together to keep Jeff entertained. Added to Truth album... but no mention Page produced it. Keith Moon said the line-up would go down like a lead ballon (positively!) in America, but when the Who m'ment threatened Moon if he left the Who... The idea opened up for Page to launch Led Zeppelin.

  • @MrCherryJuice Great example of Page's production, his greatest talent, and Beck's playing both guitar's and his initial foray into song wrtiing/ probably with JP and or JPJ. On 'Truth' the credit is J. Page which is not Jimmy Page as wone would think, but beck/page (j. stewart is beck/stewart etc. Beck is scroupulous in giving credit even when not recquired while Page is notorious for not giving credit. IMO best work Page ever did is last Yardbirds album and First LZ had total control on ea.

  • @giacblanc - You say 'Beck's playing both guitars...'. I you mean also the acoustic rhythm, that is Page. And yes, Jeffrey Rod (as appears as credit for Rock My Plimsoul) was Jeff + Rod (in this case 'stealing' the King/Josea tune, 'Rock Me Baby. Even by that point Page had stolen a number of tunes to do the Yardbirds' Little Games album. ('Drinking Muddy Water', for exampe, is a musical life from 'Rollin' & Tumblin', which Cream covered about the same time (w/appropriate credits) at same time.

  • Who the hell recorded this... can't hear the drums...

  • DON'T FORGET STEVE HOWIE HE STILL TODAY A BAD ASS PLAYER

  • caspita se si sente la presenza di Moonie. con il suo ritmo rende il tutto più eccitante

  • When I heard this song in the sixties, around 67 or 68, I was totally blown away... Lightyears ahead of the lot! Another timeless masterpiece. 100 years from now they will be listening to this as we listen to Beethoven and Mozart!!

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  • See last sentence in info under video.

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  • Gotta love moonie. "WAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  • Jeff Beck has always been one of my favorite guitarists around period. He never gets the recognition like a Jimmy Page or a Eric Clapton. When I hear songs like this one....It always makes me ask the question?........How can this guy NOT be better recognized as a talented musician? Blows my mind..

  • @pluckhutma Beck was not much of a song writer or song stealer for that matter. Also instrumental groups are judged differently.Cream with no vocals would been just as great, but not commercial. Best Beck singer Bob Tench once you get used to him.

  • at least they didn't steal from ravel, this sounds nothing like namesake.

  • @Baileygeep7

    The rhythm is similar, hence the name.

  • @Verbeke1992 the first 1:30 has a nice ring to it, the rest they spent maybe 2 minutes on.

  • @Baileygeep7 Can't steal something that's traditional a rythmn or beat; only melodies and lyrics.

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  • @giacblanc I don't know if credit was properly given in these instances, but just for fun, look up ray price's "you done me wrong" and holy modal rounders "if you want to be a bird"...same song, or Aaron copland "hoedown" and bonapartes retreat.

  • "... WHEW...!! " There are.....in the opinion of Many, Many Musicians, Hearers,

    Propriertiers,Commercial Marketeers....etc., etc., Absolutely NO QUALITY MUSICIANS with this Much " PENACHE " in Existence in Our ERA and Universe !!

  • "Listen to this guy called John Bonham that I've got." I said ok, and my heart just sank when I heard it. I looked at him and said "Jim, what?" and the tears were coming out with anger. I thought "This is a piss-take, it's got to be." I mean, there's Truth still spinning on everyones turntable, and this turkey's come out with another version. Oh boy I realised it was serious, and he did have this heavyweight drummer, and I thought "Here we go again" - pipped at the post kind of thing.-J Beck

  • beck's so superior to page , even hendrix copied beck

  • @flappospammo you obviously dont know what youre talking about

  • @rockled54321queen

    actually , when hendrix was interviewed in his early days , they noticed loads of yardbirds recordings and beck stuff in jimi's flat , jimi admitted he was hugely influenced by jeff beck

    google it

  • @flappospammo ya except you were trying to say beck was superior to page. well thats flat out wrong. they knew eaxh other when they were kids and beck always looked to page and viewed him as is mentor becuase he could not touch his guitar playing. this song was actually arranged by page and page was the prominent figure in the studio while they were making the track so hell no 

  • @rockled54321queen

    beck is the best , ask people like evh , brain may , dave gilmour etc

    live especially , look at page's terrible performances at live aid and the atlantic 40th anniversary , both times he messed up simple riffs and looked like he was on another planet

    while beck - his dvd / bluray of live at ronnie scotts is superb in every way

    check it out , you might learn something

  • @flappospammo for starters page was just a sloppy guitarest, but his sloppiest never sounded bad its just the way he choses to do things and starting in 76 page had a horrible heroin addiction which hindered his performance. he wasnt that he was playing bad it was the drugs. listen to page from 68 to 75 and try to tell me beck can beat that because no way. or watch the reunion concert or the page and plant concerts were page was drugged out. jeff beck cant touch that.

  • @rockled54321queen

    lol

    page has already admitted about beck that 'when he's on , he's the best there is' google that

    in 1975 jeff beck released an album called 'blow by blow'

    try listening to that , google it , read up on it

    that album wipes the floor with anything page did with zep or outside it

    i rest my case

  • @flappospammo watch?v=wrvfMSYNqBg but put the youtube . com before it. nobody can touch that not even hendrix

  • @rockled54321queen --I'll tell ya who can "touch" that ...anything by Paco de Lucia.

  • @rockled54321queen Albert Lee rips him a new one

  • @flappospammo NOTHING beck ever done can compare to ANY of the the material of the 1st 6 zep albums

    i have sessioned blow by blow and in my opion its severly over rated

  • @SwanSong2156

    except beck didn't rip anyone off , did he ?

    do you know what you're talking about , somehow i doubt it

  • @flappospammo

    fair enough. alot of his songs are covers tho

    tell me why u think i dont know what im talking about?

  • @SwanSong2156

    zep admitted ( eventually ) that all their stuff was copied from the early blues men

    the riffs , the lot

    even on presence in 76 nobodys fault but mine was a rip off of an old blues standard

    they just cant help themselves

  • Took my speakers to the next level in 1968 and beyond.....while breaking the mold with a classic not seen before or since........looks like it will never be replicated......Beck and Page are legends of the 1st degree.

  • LOL

  • Tasty.

  • Someone misclicked here.

  • why all the arguments about Beck, Page and Plant?? all three musicians show a lot of respect for each other, so why would any of our comments matter? simple fact is, its a classic track, its damn good to listen to, end of story...

    Zeppelin cant be compared to beck, much the same as Beck cant be compared to Zeppelin... unless your all tone deaf... we are talking about two very different kinds of music here, and honestly, beck is a master at what he does, and zZppelin. well they were untouchable