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.
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👍
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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Love this band!! All of them = brilliant musicians. Sounds cool and fresh half a century later! Amazing.
Chris Dreja doing just great on bass after being rhythm guitarist!
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
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.
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👍
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.
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.
Props to the rhythm section. Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty are great here.
Dazed and Confused, classic.
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
Awesome!
Right outta the gate Page was banging out Dazed & Confused the way it would be in Zeppelin!
Zep was still playing TRAIN KEPT AROLLING in 1980 .
Jimmy during "Dazed and Confused": "Maybe I should meet this Robert Plant they all tell me about..."
Shame that this wasn't filmed in color! Such a great archive from their last few months together
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.
There are at least four different lyrics to this song as sung by Keith....
Amazing to hear the embryonic seeds of Led Zeppelin here. I wonder if Jimmy knew he was getting close...to BLAST OFF!
Only a stone's throw from becoming Led Zeppelin.
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
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 ?
Squeak that harp, baby!
The cameraman doesn't get it
"They" never do!
Frustrating as hell but don't blame the cameraman, blame the director and editor
McCarty is underrated
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….😂
Oh boy ....That presenter sees himself as part of the band ?
Not tonight Josephine....................
Harp is calling me
02:12 Chug history
... ¡¡¡ TLAZOKAMATI !!! ...
Au suivant, Led Zeppelin
jimmy page uz tam ukazal svoje kvality vyborneho gitaristu,ten spevak trochu je zvlastny,ale na tu dobu to malo grady.
I like kieth relf but he doesnt belong within 5 miles of robert plants version of this song
Early Daze. I don't think Jimmy wanted to be playing this last song.
C'est PPDA le présentateur ? mais non ? ça serait super
Pierre Lattés
speak french too i think he does
Probably 03/09/1968
I think it might have been 09 MAR 1967.
In french it's date/month/year
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.
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 🤣
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😂😂😂
The host is a French version of Chevy Chase lol
The New Yardbirds soon to be Led Zep.
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???
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
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.
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...