I saw The Yardbirds January 1st, 1966 at the Seattle Center Colliseum when I was 12 yrs old as one of the acts leading to the headliner, The Beach Boys. The line up at the time was all four originals and Jeff Beck (who replaced Eric Clapton a few months previous). This was approx. three months before Jimmy Page joined and by Summer '66 Jeff had left the group. They were fanatastic, inspite of the comparatively primitive PA system in those days (the metal sports announcer's speaker box at the apex of the Colliseum's ceiling was the source of the sound projection for the music shows during that period...The Beatles had used the same system in Summer '64 and Summer '66 at that venue). I witnessed an extremely important part of music history that night!! I met Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty many years later and they remembered the tour and the show.
This is great. You can REALLY hear Jim McCarty's FOOT. Finally. On most of the studio sessions you can only hear his snare drum and cymbals, mostly. Another thing is, this is September of 1968 - pretty late in the game for this incarnation of the band. I mean, the first Led Zeppelin album was only about four months away. Think about that.
This was March 9, 1968. I think in Europe they put the day number first and the month number second. Jimmy Page: On this day 9 March in 1968, I played French TV show Bouton Rouge with the Yardbirds in Paris and Dazed and Confused was performed. That night we played at the Faculte D’Assas.
Classic. Recently started listening to the Yardbirds catalog of music. They really did write an amazing amount of great songs, and it's so interesting with the all the different guitarists that now and forever will be musical legends.
Christopher Wallenty Dreja He is masterfull, genius, fabulous, fantastic, magnificent, ambassador, huge ambassador, domineering, unparalleled, incomparabled, eligibled, stupendous, a maximum, a maximum, dominant in the lines in the notes of his sound, a tamer in his talent and in his gift, with all his enthusiasm, enthusiastic, dedicated, full of joy, full of happiness, a slowed-down bass player, a musician full of color, and full of life, proactive, active, with a level of intellect, of intellectuality too precocious for him on his own, owner of stupendous, magnanimous, admirabled, effective and efficient wisdom, an extraordinary bass player too!!! This is doubled-bassist Christopher Wallenty Dreja!!!.
Brilliant and well recorded performance capturing the musicianship and energy of the band! There is no substitute for authentic, period performance providing a time capsule of the late sixties ethos.
Jimmy Page made every band he played in great. He"s second to none, GOAT! When he and Plant became Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll was born, imo. Plant's range, tone and improv during the songs have never been matched! Dazed and Confused belongs to Plant👍
I think it was probably filmed in colour; a Fairport Convention gig on this show from earlier in '68 is in colour; maybe it doesn't survive that way, or it's still in the archive..... th-cam.com/video/oBUrcRYiYU8/w-d-xo.html
Say what you will about the goofier aspects of Robert Plant's singing, you have to admit that he really draws in the listener with the timbre and flexibility of his voice. Relf, god bless him, was such an unexceptional singer. He's like a guy you'd see singing a free show with a dad-rock band in the downtown plaza of some mid-sized city. He might have made a good punk rock singer had he been 15 years younger--he had the energy and the drive, and singing off key all the time could really work well in punk! Page really got lucky when putting Zeppelin together--he found a couple of unknowns in Plant and Bonham who turned out to be a great match for what he and Jones were cooking up. Here, six months earlier, he's working with three musicians who were on the surface a bigger deal--they had real hits and a solid reputation within the U.K. pop scene--but none of them who were left in the band at this point are really at his level.
Keith Relf suffered from emphysema and asthma almost all his life. You could say he shouldn't have been singing rock & roll, or you could cut him a little slack and say "he did pretty well, considering."
Interesting that when Zeppelin came along, John Bonham actually kept a lot of Jim McCarty's original drum fills. Unsurprising really, 'cause they're bloody great!
I saw the new Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin at the kinetic playground in Chicago when they first came over, I wondered what Robert Plant was screaming about….😂
Would it be safe to say that the Yardbirds, especially after Page joined them were the beginning of what would become heavy metal, even before Black Sabbath? Interestingly many of these guys got their very first exposure to rock and roll or rock music in March 1958 when Buddy Holly and his band toured England. Supposedly Mick Jagger, Dick Taylor, Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Lemmy Kilmister, Jon Lord and others saw them live.
Where's the heavy metal? No, Buddy Holly may have influenced a new beat, but Jimmy Plant actually plays and writes his music with a purpose. His classical blues take you on a journey, Page will get you there 🎸
@@julesrose4452 The comment about some British musicians seeing Holly live when he was there was a side note. What I meant by the Yardbirds and heavy metal was that Led Zeppelin has been called heavy and this last incarnation of the Yardbirds was proto Zeppelin. Also, for 1966 I think Page's riffs are pretty heavy. Anyway, just my opinion.
@@jeanroberge8251 Yeah, and that makes more sense than month/day/year format that is so common in the USA. It annoyed me so much I stopped using it and now use the format 03 FEB 2024 for everything. As for the Yardbirds, they were touring in France in MAR 1967, which made me think it might be a year typo.
I am a massive fan of Zep, granted Percy is a better vocalist than Keith Relf but I get a bit pissed off with Percy keep singing baby baby baby baby baby baby baby.Could someone not tell him they have had enough of his baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby’s
Definitely a cooler band than Zeppelin. Im piggy back off another comment because uts true 👍🏻 again not just page. The whole band. To bad keith relf died so young from being electrocution...smh.. talk about ironic. Bloody hell...🙏🏻rest easy mate.
The studio version (particularly "version 2") is funny because the song is so insipid, and then 2/3 of the way through, Page starts ripping a solo with that nasty overdriven Telecaster tone we all know and love from the Stairway to Heaven solo, including a couple of passing licks you'd recognize from "Stairway". It's like "where did THAT come from?"...then it quickly returns to sounding like a poor imitation of The Monkees.
I think The Yardbirds biggest fault is they didn't write enough good songs in house. The second biggest fault is they didn't have the balls to say no to songs like Josephine.
I saw them at the Belly Up, n. of San Diego. They weren't that great. In between songs ,all they did was put down Jimmy Page. I was gonna get their autographs, I left early. PAGEY 4EVER !
.. lol ... the worst band of the 60s. The Stones, Herman's hermits, the Pretty Things, Spencer Davis G, Fleetwood Mac and many more were better than that.
Hardly! I heard them play at their first Yardbirds concert in the US. Steve Tallarico (Later called Steven Tyler) opened for them. I got together with Steve after the show, and neither one of us had ever heard a guitarist like either Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck, and we got together after the show to discuss it. My freshman year I had played with Ted Nugent, who later opened for Aerosmith, so I had heard a few good guitarists. - and even played with them, although I wasn't in the same class of any of them.
Chris Dreja doing just great on bass after being rhythm guitarist!
coulda sworn that was Jimmy Page on bass
The Yardbirds was the kernel of just about every great British band that emerged after that period from Cream, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Group etc...
Aaaand...
💖RENAISSANCE💖
Relf's greatest contribution to future generations and Western Civilization.
Don't you notice the Yardbirds singing Dazed and Confused, and Jimmy Page using the famous bow,lol.
Tengo 73 años!!
Sigo escuchando esta maravillosa música ..
Jamás me cansaré de tanto talento, harmonía y belleza...
Saludos desde México..
The singer c’est Keith Relf, non?
I saw The Yardbirds January 1st, 1966 at the Seattle Center Colliseum when I was 12 yrs old as one of the acts leading to the headliner, The Beach Boys. The line up at the time was all four originals and Jeff Beck (who replaced Eric Clapton a few months previous). This was approx. three months before Jimmy Page joined and by Summer '66 Jeff had left the group. They were fanatastic, inspite of the comparatively primitive PA system in those days (the metal sports announcer's speaker box at the apex of the Colliseum's ceiling was the source of the sound projection for the music shows during that period...The Beatles had used the same system in Summer '64 and Summer '66 at that venue). I witnessed an extremely important part of music history that night!! I met Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty many years later and they remembered the tour and the show.
Were you there in ??? 1969 when Paul Revere opened for the Beach Boys. I was 16 in '66. Remember the Seattle Teen Fairs?
You freaking lucky dog! Dang! You saw Jeff Beck, too?! OMG
Wow ♡ amigo , that is some RnR memory 🍀🕉
This is great. You can REALLY hear Jim McCarty's FOOT. Finally. On most of the studio sessions you can only hear his snare drum and cymbals, mostly. Another thing is, this is September of 1968 - pretty late in the game for this incarnation of the band. I mean, the first Led Zeppelin album was only about four months away. Think about that.
This was March 9, 1968. I think in Europe they put the day number first and the month number second.
Jimmy Page: On this day 9 March in 1968, I played French TV show Bouton Rouge with the Yardbirds in Paris and Dazed and Confused was performed. That night we played at the Faculte D’Assas.
You can also see and hear him playing a Premier kit on the Renaissance session for Beat Club ca. 1969.
Props to the rhythm section. Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty are great here.
Jimmy during "Dazed and Confused": "Maybe I should meet this Robert Plant they all tell me about..."
Love this band!! All of them = brilliant musicians. Sounds cool and fresh half a century later! Amazing.
Dazed and Confused, classic.
Classic. Recently started listening to the Yardbirds catalog of music. They really did write an amazing amount of great songs, and it's so interesting with the all the different guitarists that now and forever will be musical legends.
It's easy to see why Jimmy upgraded to Robert Plant over Keith Relf
These guys were underrated as a live act.
He originally wanted Terry Reid, but Reid turned him down. @@njhampster
@@rayjr62 They were underrated period.
@@njhampster Keith only had one lung. And probably only one harmonica.
Zep was still playing TRAIN KEPT AROLLING in 1980 .
5:46 The fifth Yardbird. This guy was the key to their sound.
He's directing the other members with his telepathic abilities. Truly a talented man.
👍😂
Jimmy page would have been nothing without French music host
Christopher Wallenty Dreja He is masterfull, genius, fabulous, fantastic, magnificent, ambassador, huge ambassador, domineering, unparalleled, incomparabled, eligibled,
stupendous, a maximum, a maximum, dominant in the lines in the notes of his sound, a tamer in his talent and in his gift, with all his enthusiasm, enthusiastic, dedicated, full of joy, full of happiness, a slowed-down bass player, a musician full of color, and full of life, proactive, active, with a level of intellect, of intellectuality too precocious for him on his own, owner of stupendous, magnanimous, admirabled, effective and efficient wisdom, an extraordinary bass player too!!!
This is doubled-bassist Christopher Wallenty Dreja!!!.
Awesome!
Brilliant and well recorded performance capturing the musicianship and energy of the band! There is no substitute for authentic, period performance providing a time capsule of the late sixties ethos.
Squeak that harp, baby!
Jimmy Page made every band he played in great. He"s second to none, GOAT! When he and
Plant became Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll was born, imo. Plant's range, tone and improv
during the songs have never been matched! Dazed and Confused belongs to Plant👍
Shame that this wasn't filmed in color! Such a great archive from their last few months together
I think it was probably filmed in colour; a Fairport Convention gig on this show from earlier in '68 is in colour; maybe it doesn't survive that way, or it's still in the archive..... th-cam.com/video/oBUrcRYiYU8/w-d-xo.html
Right outta the gate Page was banging out Dazed & Confused the way it would be in Zeppelin!
Well maybe not right out of the gate.
Check your Page history, I think you ditched that day.
Boy oh boy you know who the star is here!!!!
Yep. lol
I didn't know the Yardbirds had recorded Dazed and Confused before Led Zeppelin...so cool!
Pretty amazing. I have never seen this. Thanks for sharing.
This is so cool, I didn't even know they toured in France!!
There are at least four different lyrics to this song as sung by Keith....
Nearing the end .... early July 1968 The Yardbirds were no more. They were brilliant, with talent to burn.
First time I've seen this. Excellent
This was only a few months away from the inception of Led Zeppelin. By the turn of the year, there was a whole lotta new sound around.
Say what you will about the goofier aspects of Robert Plant's singing, you have to admit that he really draws in the listener with the timbre and flexibility of his voice. Relf, god bless him, was such an unexceptional singer. He's like a guy you'd see singing a free show with a dad-rock band in the downtown plaza of some mid-sized city. He might have made a good punk rock singer had he been 15 years younger--he had the energy and the drive, and singing off key all the time could really work well in punk! Page really got lucky when putting Zeppelin together--he found a couple of unknowns in Plant and Bonham who turned out to be a great match for what he and Jones were cooking up. Here, six months earlier, he's working with three musicians who were on the surface a bigger deal--they had real hits and a solid reputation within the U.K. pop scene--but none of them who were left in the band at this point are really at his level.
Keith Relf suffered from emphysema and asthma almost all his life. You could say he shouldn't have been singing rock & roll, or you could cut him a little slack and say "he did pretty well, considering."
@@i.marchand4655 I would even say that he was just perfect to sing this song
Ya Plant was a powerhouse especially those first 4 years up to 72 (live).
RELF > PLANT
Stolen song
Only a stone's throw from becoming Led Zeppelin.
Lol now I know why Clapton and Beck quit. Page was this band's savior.
Beck was fired.
Clapton didn't like their biggest hit "For Your Love" he thought it was to Pop ?
Amazing to hear the embryonic seeds of Led Zeppelin here. I wonder if Jimmy knew he was getting close...to BLAST OFF!
Oh boy ....That presenter sees himself as part of the band ?
Not tonight Josephine....................
Interesting that when Zeppelin came along, John Bonham actually kept a lot of Jim McCarty's original drum fills. Unsurprising really, 'cause they're bloody great!
I saw the new Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin at the kinetic playground in Chicago when they first came over, I wondered what Robert Plant was screaming about….😂
Les Formidables 🎼🎸🍀😎
1992 RRHOF❤
02:12 Chug history
I like kieth relf but he doesnt belong within 5 miles of robert plants version of this song
I guess the French really take their sound seriously. Not bad for a TV show performance.
Au suivant, Led Zeppelin
Harp is calling me
The cameraman doesn't get it
"They" never do!
Frustrating as hell but don't blame the cameraman, blame the director and editor
More hip than Zep any day
OUCH !❤❤
McCarty is underrated
Early Daze. I don't think Jimmy wanted to be playing this last song.
feel like a mouse and you act like a cat😅 --- soul of a woman was created below 😮🔥
Probably 03/09/1968
I think it might have been 09 MAR 1967.
In french it's date/month/year
C'est PPDA le présentateur ? mais non ? ça serait super
Pierre Lattés
Would it be safe to say that the Yardbirds, especially after Page joined them were the beginning of what would become heavy metal, even before Black Sabbath?
Interestingly many of these guys got their very first exposure to rock and roll or rock music in March 1958 when Buddy Holly and his band toured England. Supposedly Mick Jagger, Dick Taylor, Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Lemmy Kilmister, Jon Lord and others saw them live.
Where's the heavy metal? No, Buddy Holly may have influenced a new beat, but Jimmy Plant actually plays
and writes his music with a purpose.
His classical blues take you on a journey, Page will get you there 🎸
@@julesrose4452 The comment about some British musicians seeing Holly live when he was there was a side note.
What I meant by the Yardbirds and heavy metal was that Led Zeppelin has been called heavy and this last incarnation of the Yardbirds was proto Zeppelin. Also, for 1966 I think Page's riffs are pretty heavy.
Anyway, just my opinion.
Think About It@@ianarchibald1423
jimmy page uz tam ukazal svoje kvality vyborneho gitaristu,ten spevak trochu je zvlastny,ale na tu dobu to malo grady.
speak french too i think he does
Great band. It's a shame they couldn't seem to hang on to any decent guitarists. 😉
Wrong date: they broke up sever months prior
Zep was already forming in September
Yeah, The New Yardbirds in September of 1968. I wonder if this was actually in 1967?
@@bms9144 prob
In french it's date/month/year
@@jeanroberge8251 Yeah, and that makes more sense than month/day/year format that is so common in the USA. It annoyed me so much I stopped using it and now use the format 03 FEB 2024 for everything.
As for the Yardbirds, they were touring in France in MAR 1967, which made me think it might be a year typo.
@@jeanroberge8251 titles in English 🤣
... ¡¡¡ TLAZOKAMATI !!! ...
I am a massive fan of Zep, granted Percy is a better vocalist than Keith Relf but I get a bit pissed off with Percy keep singing baby baby baby baby baby baby baby.Could someone not tell him they have had enough of his baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby’s
😂
Would have loved to see Zeppelin do this song
The host is a French version of Chevy Chase lol
Johnny Hallyday
Baton Rouge? Where? Not Louisiana. In France?
go back to the title. It's one that originally fooled me as well. But, it's Boutin Rouge.
Not Baton rouge but bouton rouge (red button). It was the name of the show.
Indeed, it's right there in the title. Thank you. Now it all makes sense.
Yes, France
When music was organic, and clothes was synthethic. Now it is the opposite.
It's too bad that the recording of great bands was so bad back then at live concerts .
And the stolen how many more times, Jimmy page was good at that😂😂😂
That emcee is quite full of himself with his drum stick and fake sci-fi console!
Definitely a cooler band than Zeppelin. Im piggy back off another comment because uts true 👍🏻 again not just page. The whole band. To bad keith relf died so young from being electrocution...smh.. talk about ironic. Bloody hell...🙏🏻rest easy mate.
That Josephine song is crap and is holding Jimmy Page’s playing back. Totally beneath his talent.
Different days - rock was still in its infancy but the Yardbirds were still breaking new ground.
The studio version (particularly "version 2") is funny because the song is so insipid, and then 2/3 of the way through, Page starts ripping a solo with that nasty overdriven Telecaster tone we all know and love from the Stairway to Heaven solo, including a couple of passing licks you'd recognize from "Stairway". It's like "where did THAT come from?"...then it quickly returns to sounding like a poor imitation of The Monkees.
I think The Yardbirds biggest fault is they didn't write enough good songs in house. The second biggest fault is they didn't have the balls to say no to songs like Josephine.
Imagine Led Zeppelin performing Sweet Josephine😁
Why would they not play "Shapes of Things" or "Over Under" instead???
I saw them at the Belly Up, n. of San Diego. They weren't that great. In between songs ,all they did was put down Jimmy Page.
I was gonna get their autographs, I left early.
PAGEY 4EVER !
Poor singer just couldn't keep up..
He only had one lung!
Dazed and Confused better than the Led Zep version
Yeah OK bud
lol
I agree as it sounds much more raunchy and almost punk in it's crudeness.
No way Led Zeppelin did it the best!
WTF, it needed JPJ on bass, Plant on vocal and Bonzo on drums. If you missed that then...
.. lol ... the worst band of the 60s. The Stones, Herman's hermits, the Pretty Things, Spencer Davis G, Fleetwood Mac and many more were better than that.
Hardly! I heard them play at their first Yardbirds concert in the US. Steve Tallarico (Later called Steven Tyler) opened for them. I got together with Steve after the show, and neither one of us had ever heard a guitarist like either Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck, and we got together after the show to discuss it. My freshman year I had played with Ted Nugent, who later opened for Aerosmith, so I had heard a few good guitarists. - and even played with them, although I wasn't in the same class of any of them.
WTF is bouton rouge?
French TV show from the sixties.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouton_rouge_(%C3%A9mission_de_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision)
False.