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Title: The Yardbirds
Post by: Deb on January 24, 2009, 12:11:10 AM
Is anyone here a fan of the Yardbirds?  They are one of my favorites.   They played on the same roster with the Beatles during the Fab's 1964 Christmas concert at the Hammersmith Odeon.....right before Eric Clapton left the band.  

With Eric Clapton:  
yhfuOSHVIow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfuOSHVIow)  

With Jeff Beck:
NrABhokOxTQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrABhokOxTQ)

With Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page in a scene from the 1966 film "Blow Up."  The director wanted them to make like The Who so Beck smashed his guitar:
jSJGEn4FDys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: pc31 on January 24, 2009, 12:50:50 AM
yeah but they kind of changed alot in a quick amount of time...i remember how hard it was some years ago try to buy a copy of the album over under sideways down...a used one i was looking for but most seemed roughed up abit...from like over play.....shape of things to come was cool...that was beck....lot of great tunes there yes i like them...yes i do sam i am..i could listen to them on a boat in a moat.... ;)
clapton was good in there too but he was in a new band every year....and then came jimmy...he was good for them.....the yardbirds finally made it big in america as led zepplin....
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Deb on January 24, 2009, 01:48:29 AM
Quote from: 284
yeah but they kind of changed alot in a quick amount of time...i remember how hard it was some years ago try to buy a copy of the album over under sideways down...a used one i was looking for but most seemed roughed up abit...from like over play.....shape of things to come was cool...that was beck....lot of great tunes there yes i like them...yes i do sam i am..i could listen to them on a boat in a moat.... ;)
clapton was good in there too but he was in a new band every year....and then came jimmy...he was good for them.....the yardbirds finally made it big in america as led zepplin....

I believe Eric Clapton quit the Yardbirds because he wanted it to remain a blues band and their single "For Your Love" was too pop for him.   I forgot about Led Zeppelin being called "The New Yardbirds" before they changed their name to LZ.  I think Jimmy Page wanted to keep the Yardbirds going but Keith Relf and a couple of the others wanted to go in a "softer" direction.   Poor Keith Relf.....another one who died at an early age (33) in 1976.   Some people believe that he was electrocuted while playing his guitar in a bathtub, but he actually died in his basement studio after his guitar developed an electrical fault.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: rikki kesh on January 24, 2009, 02:02:02 AM
Keith Relf had some interesting bands after the Yardbirds.  He started the original Renaissance wuth sister Jane  on vocals , McCarty and John Hawken (Nashville Teens, Strawbs) on keyboards.  It was one of the first post-Moodies Progressive Rock combos melding Rock and Classical rather effectively.  Later on Relf fronted a band called Albatross which really rocked!  If you can find their album or CD (Japanese only) check out "Silver Tightrope", the awesome lead track!  
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Deb on January 24, 2009, 02:21:07 AM
Quote from: 1867
Keith Relf had some interesting bands after the Yardbirds.  He started the original Renaissance wuth sister Jane  on vocals , McCarty and John Hawken (Nashville Teens, Strawbs) on keyboards.  It was one of the first post-Moodies Progressive Rock combos melding Rock and Classical rather effectively.  Later on Relf fronted a band called Albatross which really rocked!  If you can find their album or CD (Japanese only) check out "Silver Tightrope", the awesome lead track!  

I've never heard the Renaissance or Armageddon albums but some of their songs are on YouTube.

Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: tkitna on January 24, 2009, 02:57:36 AM
I love the Yardbirds, but Becks tenure was the best period for them.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: tkitna on January 24, 2009, 03:09:44 AM
Here's one of my favorites from them.

tOSZtCz5K_o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSZtCz5K_o)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: aspinall_lover on January 24, 2009, 04:21:39 AM
The Yardbirds..............Page, Clapton, Beck...............what other group in rock history had the three most prolific guitarist in the group.  I've got "Blow Up" on DVD and it's a "strange" 60's movie.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: aspinall_lover on January 24, 2009, 04:25:37 AM
Kinda funny down here, down South in the States.........."yardbird" is Sunday dinner.........fried chicken with all the trimmin's............
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: python on January 24, 2009, 11:21:20 AM
god,i love The Yardbirds.Happenings is one killer single but only reached no.40 in the uk.Ahead of its time,i think.the Little Games album isnt bad either.Relfs solo singles were interesting.Mr Zero is great.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: rikki kesh on January 24, 2009, 09:31:47 PM

"Albatross?"  It's a bleedin' seabird, not a later day rock combo fronted by Keith Relf!   Thanks for the correction Deb!  Armageddon, now that sounds better!  I don't know what I was thinking!  

This lead off track "Buzzard" rocks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_z_Irh5AFU&feature=related

And here's Keith playing guitar in early Renaissance with sister Jane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_z_Irh5AFU&feature=related




Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Deb on January 25, 2009, 12:30:14 AM
Quote from: 1867
"Albatross?"  It's a bleedin' seabird, not a later day rock combo fronted by Keith Relf!   Thanks for the correction Deb!  Armageddon, now that sounds better!  I don't know what I was thinking!  

This lead off track "Buzzard" rocks!

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_z_Irh5AFU&feature=related[/url]

And here's Keith playing guitar in early Renaissance with sister Jane:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_z_Irh5AFU&feature=related[/url]



Well, they both start with an "A"!   ;)

Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: HeyJude18 on January 26, 2009, 01:40:40 PM
Clapton talks about his Yardbird years in his book.  I don't have it with me right now but there's a chapter dedicated to that time.  But I believe Deb is right for the reason why Clapton left them...  I'll look it up and let you guys know :)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hombre_de_ningun_lugar on August 24, 2012, 03:04:36 PM
The Yardbirds are one of my top favorite bands. I think no one else but the Beatles and the Byrds were as experimental as them during the mid-60's. As many people know, the Yardbirds were famous for having probably the three greatest British guitarists in rock history: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. I agree with tkitna that the Beck's period was their best. They had a good string of US Top 40 hits: "For Your Love" (#6), "Heart Full Of Soul" (#9), "I'm A Man" (#17), "Shapes Of Things" (#11), "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" (#13) and "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (#30). However, some things didn't help them: most of their best songs from 1964-1965 were covers or written by outside authors like Graham Gouldman; they only released two proper albums (Roger The Engineer in 1966 and Little Games in 1967) as their early material was included just on singles and EPs in UK (they were the source of two bastard US albums); they were allowed to write their own songs since 1966, but even though they had a great technical ability and were very experimental, their songwriting was not very good. These problems don't stop me from enjoying them a lot.

Here are some of my favorite songs from each guitarist period:

Eric Clapton

I Wish You Would-Yardbirds (w/Clapton) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNC2_Q1MTv8#)

Jeff Beck

Yardbirds - You're a better man than I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jj2R69qRxU#)

Jimmy Page

Think About It- The Yardbirds- 1968- ( Album Version ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UseyCdGNfaY#)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Ovi on August 24, 2012, 03:14:02 PM

Jimmy Page

Think About It- The Yardbirds- 1968- ( Album Version ) ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UseyCdGNfaY#[/url])


I am a big fan of this tune, although I know it only because Aerosmith covered it. Funny thing, the song's guitar solo also appeared later on Led Zeppelin's 'Dazed and Confused', which is also my favourite song of theirs.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hombre_de_ningun_lugar on August 24, 2012, 03:36:03 PM
I am a big fan of this tune, although I know it only because Aerosmith covered it. Funny thing, the song's guitar solo also appeared later on Led Zeppelin's 'Dazed and Confused', which is also my favourite song of theirs.

Yeah, Jimmy Page not only stole others, he even stole himself!
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Ovi on August 24, 2012, 03:50:16 PM
Yeah, Jimmy Page not only stole others, he even stole himself!

 ha2ha
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 13, 2014, 10:12:09 AM
Friday is Soho day and yet another (once you've passed all the punters getting royally ripped off with ultra-expensive vinyl!) CD purchase.

This time £8 got me the Australian 27-track 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' '64-'68' (on Raven) and it's one of the few Yardbirds' compilations to include all the eras of the group.

The group's back catalogue truly is a minefield and this CD appears to be just about the best one-stop option, although even then I think I'd prefer a straight As and Bs approach (10 45s, 2 European only 45s, one 3-track EP = 27 tracks).
Still, beggars can't be choosers!
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 14, 2014, 10:13:33 AM
Just noticed that the 50th Anniversary of The Yardbirds' first L.P. ('Five Live Yardbirds') was on 4th December, the same day that 'Beatles For Sale' was released.

Other soon-to-be anniversaries are 'The Rolling Stones No. 2', 'People Get Ready' by The Impressions, 'A Love Supreme', 'The Beatles '65' (U.S.) and 'The Zombies Begin Here'.
That's my listening menu for the first couple of months of 1965.....sorry, 2015.....sorted.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Klang on December 14, 2014, 10:48:50 AM

It was a very good year.

 :)

Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 16, 2014, 01:01:47 AM
It was a very good year.

 :)



Frank Sinatra - "It Was A Very Good Year" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJ3iZpfBRI#ws)
The Voice

He made that look so easy.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 16, 2014, 06:40:35 AM
Have a heart HG.
Illustrating '65 with a Sinatra song is like asking Vinnie Jones to do a voice-over about the Brazilian team of Pele, Alberto and Jairzinho!
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 16, 2014, 10:19:31 PM
Have a heart HG.


I do, oldbrownshoe...


Frank Sinatra - Young At Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61HW8uxzEZs#ws)


Don't you know that it's worth
Every treasure on earth to be young at heart
For as rich as you are
It's much better by far to be young at heart

And if you should survive to a hundred and five
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
And here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart



 ;)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 16, 2014, 10:35:53 PM
Yikes, that guy couldn't have looked more dated in the mid-60s if he'd got out a lute and started playing odes from Tudor times.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 16, 2014, 11:50:27 PM
Yikes, that guy couldn't have looked more dated in the mid-60s if he'd got out a lute and started playing odes from Tudor times.



(http://i59.tinypic.com/2iswkd5.jpg)

It’s time…for time!




YesSongs #2: YES - I've Seen All Good People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNh8ldETEQ#ws)
1973



(http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/starsabre86/yeshh/PDVD_003.jpg)



;)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 17, 2014, 07:25:44 AM
Now that's more like it, they're far more comfortable bedfellows.....
Sinatra in black and white - Yes in the colourless 1970s.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 18, 2014, 07:27:11 AM
Hey oldbrownshoe, let's go back to the good old days...the 60's, Where The Action Is!


Where the action is part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeD4cHMNk8#)





Reality Check


Paul Revere & the Raiders "Action" 2013 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ximd2sUi9FE#ws)



 ;D
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 18, 2014, 07:40:37 AM
Didn't really get that (?!), but then (a) Paul Revere & The Raiders didn't sell a bean in Britain, and (b) I was hardly going to click on a link dated 2013, now was I!

My point is how out of sync with the 60s Sinatra was and, if someone can find it/post it, there is no better example than an issue of 'Record Mirror' from 1967 which has a wonderful colourful/psych picture of The Pink Floyd as the cover story with, next to it, a crusty old black and white portrait of Sinatra advertising his new single.
They were happening at the same time (sort of) but they might as well have been hundreds of years apart.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 18, 2014, 08:00:55 AM
Didn't really get that (?!)

Well, we're Americans.  And that was a California show.  I'm from the East Coast so even I didn't get it.


...but then (a) Paul Revere & The Raiders didn't sell a bean in Britain, and (b) I was hardly going to click on a link dated 2013, now was I!

(a)  That's because you lost that war.
(b)  I bet you did!   ;D

Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Badgirl66 on December 18, 2014, 08:15:14 AM
It was a very good year.

 :)

naja es ging
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: ibanez_ax on December 18, 2014, 01:17:43 PM
Frank was a colorful guy in 1962!

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Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 18, 2014, 06:52:04 PM
I'm a rock 'n' roller and you can't like Frank Sinatra AND Chuck Berry.
Sorry, no can do, ain't gonna happen.....ever.
It would be like supporting Manchester City AND Manchester United.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: ibanez_ax on December 18, 2014, 07:02:00 PM
I'm a rock 'n' roller and you can't like Frank Sinatra AND Chuck Berry.
Sorry, no can do, ain't gonna happen.....ever.
It would be like supporting Manchester City AND Manchester United.


I call BS on that.  8)  I like Sinatra and Berry.  Not the same as City and United.   More along the lines of me liking American Football and the Premier League.  Totally different entities, like Frank and Chuck.

I also like Beethoven and The Beatles. ;yes

To each his own.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: KelMar on December 19, 2014, 04:54:04 AM

I call BS on that.  8)  I like Sinatra and Berry. 

I also like Beethoven and The Beatles. ;yes

To each his own.

I'm with you George. There are lots of people here with eclectic music tastes. That's something I like about this place. It's really broadened my musical palate. But if someone likes just one certain genre that's cool too.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 19, 2014, 05:18:25 AM
Yeah!  Even The Beatles liked genres other than rock n' roll...

Paul McCartney - Eleanor Rigby Eleanor's Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjqSkAr2cY#)


Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - Act Naturally (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmDwvZSlPw#ws)


The Beatles - Act Naturally (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-07qmTUi9A#)


Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: oldbrownshoe on December 19, 2014, 07:28:10 AM
I get delivered a specialist Rock 'n' Roll magazine called 'Now Dig This' and the day anyone in there has a good word to say about Sinatra or any of the Rat Pack I'll be sure to report it.
To many, those two styles of music are still mutually exclusive.

As for this 'liking all kinds of music' line, when stuff like 'Wonderwall Music' and 'Electronic Sound' has been discussed, such a liberal attitude has been found COMPLETELY lacking on this forum, so don't give me that 'I like all kinds of music' line!
That's the kind of thing I expect to hear on 'xFactor'.....they always 'like all kinds of music', you can set your clock by it!
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: ibanez_ax on December 19, 2014, 10:05:32 AM
I get delivered a specialist Rock 'n' Roll magazine called 'Now Dig This' and the day anyone in there has a good word to say about Sinatra or any of the Rat Pack I'll be sure to report it.
To many, those two styles of music are still mutually exclusive.

As for this 'liking all kinds of music' line, when stuff like 'Wonderwall Music' and 'Electronic Sound' has been discussed, such a liberal attitude has been found COMPLETELY lacking on this forum, so don't give me that 'I like all kinds of music' line!
That's the kind of thing I expect to hear on 'xFactor'.....they always 'like all kinds of music', you can set your clock by it!



I never said I like "all kinds of music".  I don't think that's possible.  I have no use for hip-hop, metal, opera, modern country, modern top 40, to name a few.

Your magazine specializes in rock and roll, which is fine.  A lot of people who like rock and roll like other genres.  You don't, I get it.

You cherry-picked 2 albums to say that people don't have liberal attitudes towards music.  Whatever.

I'm done here.  You will never be persuaded about certain genres and I will never stop listening to jazz, classical, Sinatra/Bennett/Julie London, Johnny Cash, etc.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: KelMar on December 19, 2014, 05:55:46 PM
so don't give me that 'I like all kinds of music' line!

I don't believe anyone did, but even if they did so what? What someone likes or doesn't like in no way diminishes my enjoyment of anything I happen to enjoy.
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Klang on December 19, 2014, 10:37:42 PM

Sinatra had a lot of hits in the 60's. They weren't rock 'n' roll, but they were well placed in the American top 40.

I turned my nose up at it the time, but looking back now it's part of the "soundtrack of my life" - to cop a cliche.

He was the undeniable master of that genre.

And I adore daughter Nancy. A very cool lady, still going strong.

Why, here's the kids now...

NANCY SINATRA something stupid - 1967 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWZoL_luxo#)

 8)

Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 20, 2014, 12:24:11 AM
^

Nancy adored her dad...


Frank & Nancy Sinatra - Something stupid (HQ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f48fpoSEPU#ws)




Be careful what you say about her dad, oldbrownshoe...


Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin' (1966) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnQcExGaEvk#)

Ha!
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Klang on December 20, 2014, 12:34:43 AM

One of my fave Bond themes...

Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFtQPgHyek#)

 8)

Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: Hello Goodbye on December 20, 2014, 03:13:16 AM
Yes!  It's an honor to sing a Bond title song...


Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (HQ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8uYxTJ530#ws)



(http://obsessiveviewer.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/yolt7.jpg)


(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hDK_u8mwNUw/T1_B5ZVUI5I/AAAAAAAACxw/1TP69ibKVzw/s1600/You-Only-Live-Twice-Kissy-Suzuki-Mie-Hama-James-Bond-Sean-Connery.png)
Title: Re: The Yardbirds
Post by: KelMar on December 20, 2014, 05:01:00 AM
Why, here's the kids now...

By golly it is them! What a great video Klang. I remember loving this song when I was just a little kid back then and The Smothers Brothers too. Thanks for sharing it!