This is Rare! I’ve never seen any live footage of Page playing the Bass and Jeff Beck on guitar 🎸! This is great! I didn’t even know this footage existed. Keith Reif is fantastic here! I really like his Harmonica playing. He was a good frontman. Dynamic, fun and good looking! RIP Keith Thanks for uploading this rare show! As the saying goes better late than never!
I saw them in August 1966 at Daytons department store in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 8th floor auditorium, and Yardley of London was one of the sponsors, and Daytons gave everyone a grab bag with O de London cologne, lipstick, make up, etc. I thought it was Paul Samwell-Smith on bass. Many years later, I was told by people who were also at that concert that it was session man Jimmy Page on bass! And it’s on his FaceBook page that that was the first time he ever played in America. Still to this day, one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen!😊 Here’s what Jimmy Page stated on the caption of his post: “On this day in 1966, I played Dayton’s Auditorium with The Yardbirds. This was the first date of any American tour for me, and on this day I played with The Yardbirds on bass. In fact, although having had two visits to the States prior to this, this was the first time I ever played a show there. The first date here in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 5th of August was at Dayton’s Department Store, 8th Floor Auditorium and the surroundings felt quite surreal.”
This is an incredible video catching Page smoking the bass up and the whole group putting on a fantastic show! Audio is not so good, but amazing none the less.
Such amazing footage; the energy is incredible! Thanks as ever, Msr. McCarty, for posting these clips, keeping alive the YBs legacy, and maintaining their rightful place in Rock history. As a drummer, I'd be keen to know more about your association w/ Premier Drums, one that seemed to last through to Renaissance at least. Thanks much!
Back in the days when the vocals were fed through an inadequate PA, with no onstage monitors ,until 1969, and the band's amps not being mic-ed up. The drums are heard through a vocal mic. I can see mixing this for TV, radio ,and other media, being a challenge, especially without isolation to hear what you're mixing, and in mono. BBC technicians mixed The Yardbirds at the NME Poll Winners show in 1966. The mix was chaotic too. The guitars being obviously loud as hell, so they were mixed back, as they were obviously overloading on the board. hahahaha But the fact that footage of shows like this exist in the first place is a treat.
Fantastic concert! The Yardbirds were really special; Keith on vocals, Jeff on lead, Jimmy on bass! A R n B band that stood apart from the rest! In my opinion the best London based band of the 60s! Thank you so much for loading this little treasure, a reminder of the good old days!!! 🙂🌞🌻💛🙏
thankyou ive never seen this clip (thought i had them all ) on that dvd boot called LATEST MOD SOUNDS its ALL yardbirds,oh well im just glad its here now
this is great! this is actually inside the ramparts of a medieval village in france called Provins! PROVINS is MAGICKAL. I had no idea they had rock concerts here. I wish they would again!!!
Jimmy,thanks for another great post. Your drumming on the first song blew me away, not to pass over the fact that you looked so totally HOT (always, but especially in this vid)!!! Thanks again for sharing
También no hay que olvidar a los otros tres integrantes de esta genial agrupación. Jim McCarty en la batería, Chris Dreja en la guitarra de acompañamiento y Keith Relf con su maravillosa voz y tocando la armónica, que lo hacía increíble.
Extraordinaria presentación de Los Yardbirds interpretando tres de sus grandes éxitos, pero lo maravilloso fue ver juntos a dos de los mejores guitarristas lideres del rock de todos los tiempos. Solo que en esta presentacion Page toco el bajo y Beck la guitarra lider.
WoW Jimmy! I was just talking about you today...when we went to see "Camelot" in Hollywood (with my mom) in 1968! Looks like you are doing great. Glad to see your 'channel' on youtube. I'll see if I can find you on Twitter or facebook...
Jeff Beck said more than once that they just couldn't go on this way, Chris Dreja and Jimmy Page just had to switch instruments... apparently Page was terrible on bass, as much as he was (and still is, of course) great as a guitarist... Great upload, classic stuff, thanks for the post
Jimmy Page said in an interview that he had never played a bass guitar but when he joined The Yardbirds Chris Dreja and Jeff Beck were both guitarists and he needed money so he took the job. He eventually convinced Dreja to play bass so he could play guitar. Of course he ended up being one of the best guitarists in the world in Led Zeppelin.
Most of the concerts I went to in those days were outdoors, where I could sneak in for free. There is just no such thing as good acoustics in the Great Outdoors--sorry, but there's not. But we got into the spirit of live music in those days. We didn't worry about having everything perfectly balanced. Music was up close and personal, and being there made us feel like part of it. It was wonderful. I think people today may be missing something. Technology can make music sterile, and audiences have forgotten what live performances are all about.
+Tina Braxton The Grateful Dead had a sound system in the late 80s that could handle outdoor concert in stadiums. 7/4/89 was a perfect sounding show, It's on you tube. I remember it like it was yesterday.
@@denniscampbell2255 with all due respect, huge advancements were made between 66 & 89. I'm agree with Tina: sound just sort of came and went on those outdoor concerts, no big deal. I saw Dylan & Dead in 87 in Eugene, and yes that was good sound. In 66 it's amazing they got this at all
Thanks for saying that - I was having a hard time picking out which guitarist was Jeff Beck, but when the camera focused on the wrong guitar for the solo in Shapes of Things, it all became clear! 😎
The soundboard IS the PA; the way it works is, the soundman is working to achieve a balance in the room, not for recording. In a lot of cases, drums and vocals are louder in the recording because they're being miked up and ran through the PA. Bass and guitars are usually cranked via onstage amplifiers, so the drums and vocals are pumped up in the PA to achieve a balance. When you record off the PA (soundboard) without having any room or ambient mics to pick up the balance, you get a recording with the loudest things being what is miked and turned up the loudest- drums and vocals
I'm sure the band was so loud the tv audio man was having a hard time mixing, what little you were able to mix back then. I spotted one amp mic on the floor about four feet from the amps.
Before I saw this I never really realised how hard Keith Relf pushed himself in these live shows. Couldn't sign so well, but top marks for sheer hard graft, and one of the best harp players of the 60's. Is it true the poor bloke had just one lung?
John Brown It's true that Keith Relf had one lung. Asthma was the culprit. I heard this issue happened when Eric Clapton was in the band. Considering his health issues, Keith Relf was a great harp player. Sadly, he was killed by electrocution, from playing on an improperly earthed electric guitar.
@Kashmir0109 Hey Kashmir, no apology necessary here . Assmorgan88 seems to be the self proclaimed expert on 60's music, even though the first "artists" he list as favorites on his home page are Lady Ga Ga and GG Allin! Not to mention his over use of the word fuckstick. This guy is pure negativity!
Typical dreadful tv sound for a rock group like The Yardbird,but still,isnt it just fantastic to see this line up,reminds me of when I saw them.They were sinply the best.Great people all.
wrong, guess again. Jimmy Page had stated that Jeff played notes that were even on the guitar. Beck kept getter better& evolving until he passed. Page never evolved after 1980. Jeff Beck is the original guitar slinger 🎸🎸🎸🎸
This is Rare! I’ve never seen any live footage of Page playing the Bass and Jeff Beck on guitar 🎸! This is great!
I didn’t even know this footage existed. Keith Reif is fantastic here! I really like his Harmonica playing. He was a good frontman. Dynamic, fun and good looking! RIP Keith Thanks for uploading this rare show! As the saying goes better late than never!
I saw them in August 1966 at Daytons department store in Minneapolis, Minnesota
on the 8th floor auditorium, and Yardley of London was one of the sponsors, and Daytons
gave everyone a grab bag with O de London cologne, lipstick, make up, etc. I thought it
was Paul Samwell-Smith on bass. Many years later, I was told by people who were also at
that concert that it was session man Jimmy Page on bass! And it’s on his FaceBook page
that that was the first time he ever played in America. Still to this day, one of the best concerts
I’ve ever seen!😊 Here’s what Jimmy Page stated on the caption of his post:
“On this day in 1966, I played Dayton’s Auditorium with The Yardbirds.
This was the first date of any American tour for me, and on this day I played with The Yardbirds on bass. In fact, although having had two visits to the States prior to this, this was the first time I ever played a show there.
The first date here in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 5th of August was at Dayton’s Department Store, 8th Floor Auditorium and the surroundings felt quite surreal.”
Haven't you missed out Eric Clapton on here??
A guitarist I played with opened for them in Worcester, Mass at a club called The Comic Strip in 1966 with Page on bass.
Rare footage of Jimmy on bass with Beck on lead. Keith looks like Davy Jones here. Thanks for the post.
These guys were my very favorite band. Way ahead of their time.
I feel so good knowing I'm not the only one who has felt this way for years.
Tina Braxton I saw two former members of this band live. Eric Clapton once and Jeff Beck twice. I also met Jeff Beck.
I'm 14 and thay are my favorite band
Keith was a great singer and one of the best harp players I have ever heard.
For my money he was as good on blues harp as Brian Jones.
Well he had hard time staying in key or tune singing. But super great on harp,later played with Renaissance.
@@richardmeszaros303 He was fair as a lead singer.
@@alonenjersey I actually did a double take thinking that was Brian Jones with that haircut.
@@gastondeveaux3783 Good point sir.
This is an incredible video catching Page smoking the bass up and the whole group putting on a fantastic show! Audio is not so good, but amazing none the less.
The coolest looking lineup. Page really drove that rhythm section.
Awesome!! My favorite band of all time!! I was only 6 years old when this was recorded
I myself was two.
Such amazing footage; the energy is incredible! Thanks as ever, Msr. McCarty, for posting these clips, keeping alive the YBs legacy, and maintaining their rightful place in Rock history.
As a drummer, I'd be keen to know more about your association w/ Premier Drums, one that seemed to last through to Renaissance at least. Thanks much!
Back in the days when the vocals were fed through an inadequate PA, with no onstage monitors ,until 1969, and the band's amps not being mic-ed up. The drums are heard through a vocal mic. I can see mixing this for TV, radio ,and other media, being a challenge, especially without isolation to hear what you're mixing, and in mono. BBC technicians mixed The Yardbirds at the NME Poll Winners show in 1966. The mix was chaotic too. The guitars being obviously loud as hell, so they were mixed back, as they were obviously overloading on the board. hahahaha But the fact that footage of shows like this exist in the first place is a treat.
Fantastic concert! The Yardbirds were really special; Keith on vocals, Jeff on lead, Jimmy on bass! A R n B band that stood apart from the rest! In my opinion the best London based band of the 60s! Thank you so much for loading this little treasure, a reminder of the good old days!!! 🙂🌞🌻💛🙏
Wow! Thank you Jim! 💗
no conocia este concierto, gracias por subirlo, en muy importante tenerlo presente.....
thankyou ive never seen this clip (thought i had them all ) on that dvd boot called LATEST MOD SOUNDS its ALL yardbirds,oh well im just glad its here now
This is a new one on me!
Thank you. Sharing 🖤
this is great! this is actually inside the ramparts of a medieval village in france called Provins! PROVINS is MAGICKAL. I had no idea they had rock concerts here. I wish they would again!!!
Jimmy,thanks for another great post. Your drumming on the first song blew me away, not to pass over the fact that you looked so totally HOT (always, but especially in this vid)!!! Thanks again for sharing
This is fantastic! Thank you!
Great live footage . . . lots of energy! Yardbirds!
También no hay que olvidar a los otros tres integrantes de esta genial agrupación. Jim McCarty en la batería, Chris Dreja en la guitarra de acompañamiento y Keith Relf con su maravillosa voz y tocando la armónica, que lo hacía increíble.
Claro que si fueron la base gracias a ellos salieron tres guitarristas excelentes, Clapton, Jef y Page
woww!!!
The Yardbirds concert in France (1966)
cool music - luv these guys !
RIP Jeff😢
Even on Bass, Jimmy sounds like a fantastic bassist should sound... listen to that RUMBLE at beginning of Over under....
Please...... that guy is the sloppiest "Most Famous Guitarist of All Time"...... of all time. AND, the least prolific. Hahahahahahahahha!!!
@@whiskeyriver4322 lol you obviously know nothing about music
Extraordinaria presentación de Los Yardbirds interpretando tres de sus grandes éxitos, pero lo maravilloso fue ver juntos a dos de los mejores guitarristas lideres del rock de todos los tiempos. Solo que en esta presentacion Page toco el bajo y Beck la guitarra lider.
so wonderful...can't believe I haven't seen this before---keep it coming
This was filmed in the Medieval walled city of Provins, France (A Unesco World Heritage site)
Amazing!
More authentic than the stones who always seemed to be posing.
agreed, smokes the poser stones by mile
es bueno ver tocar el bajo a page, es una energia poderosa en las canciones que interpretan...ho yeah........
ジェフベックとジミーペイジが同じステージに立ってる奇跡の映像！40年以上ファンだったので感激！
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏
Рок 🎸 навсегда
Relf was trooper, by gosh!
Love it!!!!
WoW Jimmy! I was just talking about you today...when we went to see "Camelot" in Hollywood (with my mom) in 1968! Looks like you are doing great. Glad to see your 'channel' on youtube. I'll see if I can find you on Twitter or facebook...
Jeff Beck said more than once that they just couldn't go on this way, Chris Dreja and Jimmy Page just had to switch instruments... apparently Page was terrible on bass, as much as he was (and still is, of course) great as a guitarist...
Great upload, classic stuff, thanks for the post
Jimmy Page said in an interview that he had never played a bass guitar but when he joined The Yardbirds Chris Dreja and Jeff Beck were both guitarists and he needed money so he took the job. He eventually convinced Dreja to play bass so he could play guitar. Of course he ended up being one of the best guitarists in the world in Led Zeppelin.
Bloody brilliant just as good as the beetles they r all brill ❤😂
Bring back the 80 s god they were good days it’s shit now 😢
I was 17 in the service this when this first came out was my theme tnes
Smile :)
It sounds like Jeff's amp isn't working. I noticed in one part of the video it looks like he is trying to adjust the amp.
Most of the concerts I went to in those days were outdoors, where I could sneak in for free. There is just no such thing as good acoustics in the Great Outdoors--sorry, but there's not. But we got into the spirit of live music in those days. We didn't worry about having everything perfectly balanced. Music was up close and personal, and being there made us feel like part of it. It was wonderful. I think people today may be missing something. Technology can make music sterile, and audiences have forgotten what live performances are all about.
+Tina Braxton Best post on you tube - perfection is boring
+Tina Braxton The Grateful Dead had a sound system in the late 80s that could handle outdoor concert in stadiums. 7/4/89 was a perfect sounding show, It's on you tube. I remember it like it was yesterday.
@@denniscampbell2255 with all due respect, huge advancements were made between 66 & 89. I'm agree with Tina: sound just sort of came and went on those outdoor concerts, no big deal. I saw Dylan & Dead in 87 in Eugene, and yes that was good sound. In 66 it's amazing they got this at all
Brilliant.
This is such a great clip of the Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page era lineup...It's just too bad that Becks' solo guitar is buried in the sound mix...
saw them in OKC later that year
THE Best Yardbirds line-up.
Wow Jimmy and Beck great
Killer vid!
camera men in those days had no idea of a lead guitarrist or a solo on guitar.
Forgive them for they know not what they did.
Thanks for saying that - I was having a hard time picking out which guitarist was Jeff Beck, but when the camera focused on the wrong guitar for the solo in Shapes of Things, it all became clear! 😎
Awesome band...
LMAO!!!!!! The cameramen have no clue Jeff is shredding the lead riffs........and the ever-sloppy Jimmy, even with only four strings. Glory be!!!
Jimmy was constrained by the bass guitar. His body posture screams lead guitar lol!
I dont think so at all in fact i think he's quite enjoying himself, remember he had been living in recording studios for the previous 3 years.
he played the bass as a lead instrument (and of course, could note compete with Jeffrie...)
well onHappenings 10 years time ago he competed very well playing a 6 string guitar
This must have been a bit intense for the kids in that year. Regular people weren't getting loaded yet!
The sound system was good, it is just the recording equipment picked up too much vocal and not enough lead guitar in the mix.
Lord Maynard the soundboard was recording through the P.A. Instead of wherever it should have been!What a missed opportunity but better than nothing!
Notice the drums are well recorded due to being miked through the P.A.
The soundboard IS the PA; the way it works is, the soundman is working to achieve a balance in the room, not for recording. In a lot of cases, drums and vocals are louder in the recording because they're being miked up and ran through the PA. Bass and guitars are usually cranked via onstage amplifiers, so the drums and vocals are pumped up in the PA to achieve a balance. When you record off the PA (soundboard) without having any room or ambient mics to pick up the balance, you get a recording with the loudest things being what is miked and turned up the loudest- drums and vocals
Jim do you remember when the yardbirds toured New Zealand 1965 played in dunedin
What kind of bass is Jimmy Playing. A Hohner?
Real rockin roll here!
@generatrix999
Hah! Look at Page @ 2:14 He's rippin on the bass on Over/Under
In 1966 they all came to see Keith R.
I'm sure the band was so loud the tv audio man was having a hard time mixing, what little you were able to mix back then. I spotted one amp mic on the floor about four feet from the amps.
Keith looks like Brian Jones
Such a shame audio is so poor...(not unusual though for live Yardbirds shows back then)Looks great though.
lOve it
Sounds like it's in mono right
Before I saw this I never really realised how hard Keith Relf pushed himself in these live shows.
Couldn't sign so well, but top marks for sheer hard graft, and one of the best harp players of the 60's.
Is it true the poor bloke had just one lung?
Sadly yes. But as far as I'm concerned, he played blues harp & harmonica as good as Mick Jagger or Brain Jones did during that same period.
Definitely.
John Brown It's true that Keith Relf had one lung. Asthma was the culprit. I heard this issue happened when Eric Clapton was in the band. Considering his health issues, Keith Relf was a great harp player. Sadly, he was killed by electrocution, from playing on an improperly earthed electric guitar.
Dwayne Wladyka
Considering all that he was Brilliant!
A good singer and a great Harp player! And he looked so damn Cool! 😎
@@alonenjersey beyond jagger & jones by miles
Great to see and hear this. Was the whole concert recorded? Were they allowed to do more than this?
Odd stage setup.
Jim McCarty is got his hi hat wide open must of been a loud concert great performance
Truly at their peak with Beck and Page in this short-lived line-up!
No Yardbirds no Zeppelin!
those suits
OUSD just burns.
Μόνο τα φωνητικά ακούγονται
Η φανταστική κιθάρα του Εric Clapton δεν ακούγεται σχεδόν καθόλου
WAS A CHILD AT GIVEN TIME
MY HIPPIE AUNT WAS THE
ONE i NJOYED BEING WITH
Weed Me
Jimmy no baixo demais
Breaking a sweet
Shame no mics on guitar amps - Beck & co barely audible - the days of vocals only PA. Good historic clip tho'
i knew of a band that recorded the lead singers mic and used that as a demo tape. every thing else bleed in.
Je découvre les yardbirds, fantastiquement bon
@Kashmir0109 Hey Kashmir, no apology necessary here . Assmorgan88 seems to be the self proclaimed expert on 60's music, even though the first "artists" he list as favorites on his home page are Lady Ga Ga and GG Allin! Not to mention his over use of the word fuckstick. This guy is pure negativity!
Typical dreadful tv sound for a rock group like The Yardbird,but still,isnt it just fantastic to see this line up,reminds me of when I saw them.They were sinply the best.Great people all.
ベーシストが変わったのが残念😢
気持ち良く観れないし､聴こえない！
The crowd don't look very interested 🤨
Keith ah Keith
These dudes were (after the Stones) the epitome of cooL.
This after Blow up not Best Performance Yardbirds 😒Good See 😁Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck
Page ain’t that bad on bass .
Worst live recording, or mix, ever - vocals and a little bit of the drums, that’s it.
Most over qualified base player ever.
Too much pressure for Jeffy having the master mad-dogging him for the lead position!
wrong, guess again. Jimmy Page had stated that Jeff played notes that were even on the guitar. Beck kept getter better& evolving until he passed. Page never evolved after 1980. Jeff Beck is the original guitar slinger 🎸🎸🎸🎸
Dreadful!
Kaum zu glauben, daß ich von so einem Mist vor 50 Jahren mal begeistert war - meine armen Eltern tun mir jetzt noch leid.
This after Blow up not Best Performance Yardbirds 😒Good See 😁Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck