YARDBIRDS Part One 1963-1965 |
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- The Yardbirds are arguably responsible for crafting hard rock. Their guitar virtuosos paired with their desire to push boundaries made them one of the most progressive bands of the mid-1960s. This part one video outlines the formation of the band through the end of 1965.
Band members: Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, Anthony "Top" Topham, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page.
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The Yardbirds broke the mold . They brought in the innovative guitar that had never been done before . Very exciting in person with Keith Relf , the lead singer with a howling blues harp .
I saw the Beatles in Paris in June of 1965 and this group I'd never heard of, The Yardbirds, was their warmup band. Great show.
Wow, what a great show that must have been!
Lucky you!
Jon ham and I was Robert Johnson party partner ...yeah right
@@cazamilfs8945 I went to high school in Paris. Check out June 20, 1965, a-hole. www.concertarchives.org/bands/the-yardbirds?page=2#concert-table
I love going to yard sales and to my Christian
outlet store in Peoria,il. Looking for older Aldums and particularly old rock bands .
I have a very first album b4 they were a
star albums . Of head singer for Metallica.
One of the most important bands of all time
I’ve said this for years. I know they’re really remembered for their triumvirate of guitar gods. But? Keith Relf and his harmonica are what I really dig. I know once they started to move off traditional blues Clapton bid them adieu. But it was a blessing in disguise. The Beck years were their best output. But again, Relf is my favorite. Without his harp there is no response to their signature call and response style.
When I put on a Yardbirds record I honestly don't care who's playing guitar because it really doesn't matter. All their stuff is great.
Relf had an excellent voice with the benefit of a slightly commercial pop edge to it.
Listen to the recording from France. He sounds tone deaf!
@@jonathanneuhaus4755he was suffering from burnout, exhaustion and playing the same songs since 1963. The original band members were tired. He might have been drunk. The sound and mix was pure crap.
Yessss keith relf made esrly yardbirds that harmonica his voice imma man that build up slow up build up wow ..that was talent
RIP Jeff Beck.
Grew up listening to the Yardbirds.
Talented young men.
I just heard. His is certainly a heavy hitter.
YES! ABSOLUTELY!
I remember getting my first transistor radio when I was a kid and heard "Happening 10 Years Time Ago" on AM radio one day and froze in my tracks until the song was over. I was hooked.
Heard Heart Full of Soul on radio first time and wondered at exotic sound of guitars.
My top 3 favourite guitarists are Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. I'm a fan of the Yardbirds. Cheers! ✌️
Stay tuned for Part Two in a few days!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks! I have The Yardbirds in my music collection. Cheers!
Thank you for crafting this immaculate review.
My pleasure!
The Yardbirds are such an underrated, overlooked band in the history of British Invasion bands. Their sound was unique and transcendent. Clapton, Beck, and Page get all the ink, but the entire band blazed as a cohesive unit despite the changes. Thanks for this primer - looking forward to Part 2.
Thank you Dana! The core of the group was quite strong and no matter what guitarist passed through, they made it work!
Not with me
The yardbirds were unknown in the States but in UK (especially around London) they were huge.
These Guys were incredible.They couldn't write songs like the Beatles,,the Stones or the Beach Boys.
But they ,ould play circles around them
the free, best bass player ever....and the most beautiful atmosphere, any group ever created....❤️❤️❤️
Jeff Becks passing brought me back to this channel just to listen to the Yardbirds history again.
That is a high compliment, Peggy! Thank you!
Evil hearted you, happenings ten years ago, over under sideways down, I'm not talkin', shapes of things, heart full of soul. Those are my favorites
Heart Full of Soul in my opinion is one of the Best 2 min. 30 seconds ever put on vinyl,-to my ears its Perfect!!! (Its in my top 10 of the Greatest songs of the 60's)
Three best guitarists in rock ‘n’ roll, Jeff Beck (RIP), Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton💯%😎🎸
I loved these Guys when I was a Kid.Legendary Band.
R.I.P Jeff Beck.
I feel privileged growing up as a teenager with this music in the sixties.Remember you could only buy the albums and go to the shows to listen to the music. Radio really only played the top twenty hits.
I absolutely love the Yardbirds. Discovered them in high school in the ‘70s.
Exactly the same for me! Five Live Yardbirds still gets blasted a handful of times each year at my house!
Love the Yardbirds, I always felt the super star guitarists somewhat overshadowed the core player, Keith, Chris and Jim. Great band! Thanks for posting this.
Agreed. The core was a true core and it shows how solid they were that guitar players could come and go and they still held up. Thank for commenting, Bill!
Listening to them even in the context of the amount of talent making music at that time, you just knew they were doing something transcendent
This is excellent.
Great band that influenced me as a budding player but unfortunatly I couldn't afford a fuzz pedal when I was 16. Cheers and thanks for another great video Matt.
Saw them at Watford Trade Hall with Eric Clapton when he broke a guitar string. No guitar tech in those days he changed the string himself. Along with Pretty Things best blues r&b band around.
Great choice for a video! For whatever reason, the band has been overlooked for decades. The music they recorded deserves to be mentioned just as much as what the Stones, Kinks, Beatles and Who did at the same time. Don't forget to note the band's appearance in Antonioni's film _Blow Up_ in the next segment ;)
Blow Up is AWESOME!!! Love that movie!!!👍
They were always in that same class of groups in my house!
Loved this group -any lineup. Drummer is great
Around 1964 I remember waiting outside the LJS building in Kennington ( London ) & seeing this light coloured van parked up covered in graffiti ( some of it in lipstick ) on the side of the van in big letters was the name The Yardbirds. Had no idea what Yardbirds meant as I was only about
5 at the time but I’ve never forgotten it.
Great story! I do have a photo of a light colored van with the Yardbirds logo on the front and girls chasing it. I'll try to incorporate that into the Part Two video.
@@popgoesthe60s52 that’ll be good. I did hear Jeff mention that when he arrived at the Audition for the Yardbirds, their van covered in messages
was parked outside.
Thats awesome! Still I'm Sad supposedly was one of those songs chanted in the van.
The Yardbirds are still one of my favorite bands.
Keith Relf is one of the greatest singer. Their best album was Having a Rave Up. The band had 3 legendary guitarists who played garage rock, psychedelia, blues rock, hard rock and a good sort of heavy metal - not the lousy heavy metal to come in the 70s. They did some great originals and did some great covers like no other band could. They always improved on earlier versions, too, despite the nonsense we still hear. Just listen to Smokestack Lightning - so much better than Howlin' Wolf - of course better technology but they were just better.
Keith's cool, commanding, and slightly spooky voice are part of the "why" we dig him, and he is shockingly underrated.
Their best: Heart Full of Soul/ Smokestack Lightning/ For Your Love/ I'm a Man/ Shapes of Things to Come/ Over Under Sideways / Train Kept A Rollin'/ Evil-Hearted You/ I'm Not Talking/ I Ain't Got You.
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I also ❤ "Mister, You're a Better Man than I" -- a great 1960s anthem by Mike & Brian Hugg.
Most underrated Brit band from the 60's and I was so glad to see a video on them.. Thanks for the presentation
Fantastic. Big Yardbirds fan back in the day but of course we did not know all of this info in your video. Thx for promoting them.
My pleasure. Thank you for watching!
@@popgoesthe60s52 I watched part two and subscribed to your channel. Great stuff! Thanks for your content. Even on AM and the transistor radio ‘over under sideways down’ was my favorite as well as the other songs. I saw zeppelin live in the 70s in Chicago and Beck has always impressed me, as he grew in his talents, and he always had great drummers and the other musicians and Clapton and Cream was always on my “record player.”
Great time for music back then as you would hear Aretha Franklin on WLS and the next song would be Three Dog Night and then the next song would be the Troggs and the Yardbirds and then Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and then the Kinks and I could go on and on. I’m glad I grew upin that era.
Now Japan is on fire with hevy metal and rock and most of them are female bands like Band-Maid and BabyMetal and Lovebites and Trident and Scandal and Nemophilia and others.
@@popgoesthe60s52 zepp was one of my top bands back in the 70s when I saw them live and I only paid $7.50 for the best tickets but back then that didn’t mean much. I always held a grudge against them (sort of lol) because Robert Plant didn’t really hit the high notes, and I didn’t know that the reason for that was because he was sick until I bought the Led Zeppelin book 10 years ago so for 30 years I kind of held a grudge even though I saw them again but it wasn’t like the recorded sessions. Now Deep Purple live sounded a lot better. Blackmore is definitely excellent when playing live and Ian Paice with MarkII. But I’m not gonna compare the two because I wore out so many albums and even 8 tracks by Zeppelin and Deep Purple it is ridiculous. Again, thanks for your content. Sorry for rambling, but the memories are great. You brought them back to life for me, so thanks.
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Nice variety.
The Yardbirds were popular in collections in the late 70s. I have a 2LP set released on Bomb records titled Shapes of Things. Later I purchased a Boxset put out by Charley's records. It had the individual albums. Sadly Roger the Engineer was missing. I had collections of later stuff that contained some horrible pop tracks like Ten Little Indians. Then to greatness with Pages White Summer. Production got hit or miss also. The Jeff Beck years are the most promising in growing as a band in general. Such a short period in time they went from straight blues to great rave ups to my favorite Still I'm Sad. To this day I get goose bumps when I here the opening riffs to Heartful of Soul. The flood gates of heaven open for me when I here that song.
Fantastic & interesting. Thanks for this. Learned a lot I never knew about them
I have always been fascinated by the Yardbirds. They always seemed to be on a course of their own without any relation to the other bands of the time such as the Beatles, the Kinks, the Who etc. They were an entirely different entity. Great band.
Thank you for this essential history, and the diligent care to be precise.
Thank you, Bill!
Was there at the Crawdaddy at the start the Stones then Yardbirds and met my wife there you had a feeling this was something big going on and lived it all. At the time the Yardbirds were my favourite but am a staunch Stones fan,wasn’t happy when Clapton left when the music changed commercially. But what a musical tree to follow with Page and Beck, Beck was a magician RIP Jeff.
Thank you was at the Marquee for the Sonny boy gig got the album and have two copy’s of five live Yardbirds (ones the wife’s) apparently original mint copy’s fetch big money sadly ours aren’t
YES Matt!!! I Love the Yardbirds!!!👏👏👏👍
ive always loved the yardbirds learned alot
Thanks for commenting, Andrew.
Born in 53' here and your channel is such a blessing. Top notch work.
Thank you, Michael - More to come.
such a great band. jeff beck, baby
Thanks for your great videos. I was born in 1950 and grew up with this great music. Saw the battles live, but in my opinion the yardbirds were superior!! Keep doing these videos please!
Great stuff, thanks for posting. -Just so you know, Clapton didn’t get “disenfranchised” with The Yardbirds, he got “disenchanted”.
Everything seems to piss Clapton off.
Really excellent video Matt. Thank you. I haven't heard some of those B sides for many a year! What a great band. Looking forward to part two.
Thank you, Mike!
Matt, thanks so much for taking on the Yardbirds story. As a fan of 60's garage rock it was impossible not to notice the influence their sound had on American bands in the mid 60's. They are also one of my favorite bands since I was 14 years old and I think Keith Relf was a fantastic singer and a totally underrated harp player. Can't wait for the next part.
Yes, his harp playing is some of the finest of all the rock bands. Thanks for watching, Martin.
Amazing group. Also (OT) Relf and McCarty helped birth Renaissance a much loved prog band.
It’s about time you covered Yardbirds
Where you been, Tim - these are 6 months old already!
Once again...my hero! Thanks!!!
Wow. Just wow! I love the Yardbirds!
I like your narration. You have a good speaking voice.
I love these guys even though they were a generation before my time, my mom and my uncle schooled me about all the best music that was happening before i was around. Its given me a lifelong appreciation of so much excellent music!
Thank you for the comment, Rhonna!
The For your Love album is the one I grew up with and played over and over. I never get tired of that record.
Great video! I love your observation that the UK rock n roll usually pulled from traditional blues while US usually pulled from folk. I never saw it like that but it makes so much sense.
I think that's why the guitarists from England were generally better players - the blues education.
My favorite U.K. band of the 60s! I’ve got all the US releases in Mono. PLAY LOUD
I love mister your a better man than i.
#Me2!
I was born in '68 so I missed these bands playing but the older I got the more I throughly enjoyed them. Now at 53 I am collecting as many used records for The Yardbirds, Cream, Rare Earth, Humble Pie, Iron Butterfly, Faces, and others from that Era. No music since then can hold a candle to the sounds of the 60s to the early 70s.
I agree, Michael! Thank you for commenting.
@@popgoesthe60s52 when will part 2 come out?
Just found it! I thought I knew all their records to look for but you are showing records I didn't know about. Awesome!
These are great videos you make and I'm hoping one of the aspects of the Yardbirds you'll cover is their HUGE influence on American garage rock of the middle sixties. There are countless cover versions of their songs by obscure teenaged bands of that time. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
So true. 'Psychotic Reaction' by the Count V was a complete Yardbirds pastiche. A great song, but it wouldn't have ever been written if it hadn't been for the Yardbirds, particularly their version of 'I'm a Man'.
I was living up Richmond Hill nr Keith Relf's house when he electrocuted himself,it affected us quite a bit at the time.He liked a drink did Keith I don't know if it played a part in the accident.I think his time with the Yardbirds was concluding,he was a big hero to me and my peers.
Syd Barrett was an art student and also heavily inspired by blues music.
Who cares about Sid Barrett ?
@@jeanmenard3060 Me.
So was nearly every member of most bands in the sixties, so what's your point ?
@@jonathansteadman7935 Not all of them were art students. Jokes aside, it happens to be that the person who founded the most famous *progressive rock* band was inspired by the blues. Not every band inspired by the blues from the '60s formed an entirely new form of music. It isn't as trivial as you make it seem, and your antagonistic attitude isn't necessary regarding a comment as simple as mine.
Syd was very influential and unique
Regardless of what Jack Karoak may have said, the term, "yardbirds," came from USN shipyards. It meant civilians who worked repairing Navy ships. The other moniker for these personel was, "sand crabs".
“Still I’m Sad” was released as the B-side of “I’m A Man” on Epic in the U.S.-so, in essence, it WAS released as/on a single… which you had stated otherwise, Matt. Great job, nonetheless!🙂🎶😎
The Yardbirds were one of my biggest influences growing up. The showcasing of the individual talents of Clapton, Page and Beck gives us a lot to be learned from. One question though; why did they have problems obtaining a Visa?
The visa issue seems to stem from AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) who had their hands full with all the British bands coming to the US. It was a long process and manager Gomelsky failed to obtain visas for a late summer Dick Clark Tour. An Ed Sullivan appearance fell through because the English Musicians Union demanded an American band went to England on an exchange basis. The Department of Labor also held up the airing of some of their TV appearances once they did get to the US, so it was a rough entry.
"One question though; why did they have problems obtaining a Visa?"
Maybe they had a bad credit rating.
@@sd31263 The visa issue seems to stem from AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) who had their hands full with all the British bands coming to the US. It was a long process and manager Gomelsky failed to obtain visas for a late summer Dick Clark Tour. An Ed Sullivan appearance fell through because the English Musicians Union demanded an American band went to England on an exchange basis. The Department of Labor also held up the airing of some of their TV appearances once they did get to the US, so it was a rough entry.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Unbelievable! 😯
The Yardbirds are one of my all-time favorite groups! I just acquired a genuine mono copy of the "Little Games" album as opposed to the copy I've had for decades with mono album cover and mono record labels but stereo record (per XSB prefix shown on the labels; genuine mono copies indicate XEM)
As any die-hard Yardbirds fan knows, that wasn't the only boo-boo Epic made with their U.S. output
Love your channel....I believe they got the name from Charlie Parker, who's full nickname was yardbird, and, as happens with nicknames, was shortened to "bird"....Yes, this was considerably before the publication of "On the Road"....
Yardbirds is also a term for jailbird ( jail yard ).
Yes, the name came from Charlie Parker who was nicknamed "Yardbird" because of his appetite for chicken. A domestic chicken is called a yardbird colloquially in the South.
This band was waaaaay before their time , Sad what happened to Keith , great piece here
Thank you for this excellent introduction to a band I don't really know a lot about. I'll enjoy digging into their stuff after seeing
This.
'Ain't Got You' was the UK A-side for their first UK Columbia single. I saw them mime it on Ready Steady Go in June '64. I loved it.
Excellent as always Matt. Your production on these vids blows everyone else doing similar stuff out of the water!
Thank you Trunk! My production values do slow down the process a bit but the graphics allow me to condense and tell a fuller story. I appreciate the kind comment!
Hello Matt, Here's some information on the recording of "For Your Love".
Personnel ~
Keith Relf ~ Lead Vocal
Jim McCarty ~ Drums
Various Yardbirds ~ Backing Vocals
Ron Prentice ~ Bowed Bass
Denny Piercy ~ Bongos
Brian Auger ~ Harpsichord
Eric Clapton ~ Guitar ~ Middle Break Only
Chris Dreja ~ Guitar ~ Middle Break Only
Thank you, Raul for this important addition to the video.
Awesome! Bring on part 2. Thanks Matt.
This is great stuff. I never knew much about the Yardbirds. Can't wait for pt. 2.
Just noticed the Yardbirds used the sitar 6 months before the Beatles Norwegian wood.
Lovely, lovely summation of their early career. Man, your channel deserves a far bigger audience! Well done.
Thank you, Pat!
Such a fascinating and seminal band. Especially Jeff Beck breaking the sound barrier.
Beck deserves the most credit but probably gets mentioned the least.
These guys were so influential it isn't even funny.
Without a doubt the best of the invasion
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! Just came upon this important Great video ....so well presented. Thank you again. The Yardbirds and its various members and their histories had an enduring profound effect on my life and my joy...and with thrie passing considerable sadness. 'Still I'm Sad' but just as their music lives on eternal so will they in God's new world.
Thank you, Robert. Doing the Yardbirds series was very satisfying for me. Thank you for watching.
Just watched parts 1 & 2. Again, very well done. I was maybe a bit young to fully appreciate The Yardbirds in their heyday. I was 10 in 1965. But when I was 15 and really started to get better on guitar I was totally into them. And of course "Beck's Boogie" became one of my favorite things to play. I remember when I was 12 I got my first electric guitar and amp. I remember sitting in my garage playing and a kid from my neighborhood walked up and asked "Can you get Yardbird feedback?" I didn't know what it was, but I soon learned.
Thanks for watching Dennis!
Thanks for the Yardbirds videos! Excellent! Really enjoyed them!
There were a few American blues/rock bands before the Beatles hit big in the US, like Paul Revere and the Raiders, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Kingsmen!
Slow hand is a guy that's the last one to pay for drinks.
Thank you so much for your next covering to be the Yardbirds. This is a band I’m getting into right now and I have two of there earliest recordings so far which are Five Live Yardbirds and Clapton’s Cradle: The Early Yardbird Recordings!
The Yardbirds are the most influential band of the 60's in my opinion. Keith Relph also formed Armageddon which was very heavy metal .
Yes for me they started moving away from the blues, pushing the envelope and experimenting even before the Beatles, the Byrds, Grateful Dead, Hendrix, the Kinks, the Who and Cream did. They were real pioneers.
@@jimmycampbell78they he.
@@dennisholst4322 what do you mean? Well if I understand you correctly from a guess, I would rather give credit to the entire band rather than just Jeff Beck.
@@jimmycampbell78 I guess the Song for your Love they Sang it
So influential they're seldom mentioned and you can't even spell Relf correctly. Sure.
I ❤️ The Yardbirds.
Very informative
Great job researching! I never knew most of this even though I was a fan. Three great British guitar players out of one band!
Love your videos!! Thank u for posting them! Always so entertaining and informative.
Thank you for the positive comment!
I never owned a Yardbirds album. Every hit they had on L.A. radio was fantastic. Maybe five hits, total, 66 or so. I came to believe they had five good songs. Yes, I play blues. And everything else.
Sonny Boy (Rice Miller) was also dying of tuberculosis at the time and was drinking heavily for the pain.
Great video! What amazing rock n roll history! *SALUTE!*
Thank you, Isaac!
Fascinating! Good stuff man.
Another great video on one of my favorite bands! Talk about musical trendsetters!
1:28 Stones and Stu at the Crawdaddy Club, hard to believe those crowded gigs took place on Sunday afternoons.
Isn’t it just amazing that The Yardbirds were denied lodging because of their hair!...Good detailed analysis Matt!
Thanks Jackilyn!
Whats funny is they were not allowed in to Disney Land because of their long hair, -And now fast forward Disney is behind the Beatles Get Back project.
For Your Love doesn't have "different time signatures." It has different tempos.
Fascinating. I lived through all this but so much I never knew. You make great documentaries!
Thank you for watching!
Giorgio is the one that dubbed Clapton 'Slowhand'.
So much I didn't know. This channel is my favorite college class I never got to take.
When I was in college, I dreamed of teaching a class like this - I never thought I'd actually do it!
Tremendous Matt!
I first got into the Yardbirds in the late eighties when I was exploring the roots of heavy metal. I think Jeff Beck really helped bring that heavier, harder guitar style, and the songs he was on had the biggest influence on hard rock bands of the seventies, more than the Clapton and Page songs.
And don't forget Graham Gouldman, wrote great songs for the Yardbirds.
Graham was a massive songwriting talent in the 60's.
Thank you. I enjoy your videos. Very professional. Love music history and documentaries.. Especially 60s and 70's
Well you came to the right channel! Thank you for commenting.