For all those who though it was a Led Zep original here Jimmy just lifted it straight from the Yards to his new Yardbird incarnation bandmates Robert and John Bonham and bassist John Paul notwithstanding making it overall somewhat heavier! Sorry John Paul but a bass is a bass is a bass and fine effort you did but the original here is not far off hey? Plant and Bonham transform it into a another league entirely
From the 1966 movie "Blowup" starring David Hemmings, featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, Sarah Miles and model Veruschka. With Jeff Beck having a fit (unhappy to wreck the guitar it is said). The song "Stroll On" was a movie lyrics re-write of their hit song "Train Kept 'A Rollin'. Notice at the very end of the clip that no one was at all interested in Jeff Beck's discarded guitar. Well Hemmings character does run out carrying the neck and discards it on the street Also note all the Vox amps, which were all used during that period.
featuring it is said (not least by her) Janet Street-Porter
well despite Janet even being on record as saying it IS her and her rate of pay the rest of the daily picked up student extras got £5 a day and she was chosen then to dance so got the princely sum of £35 it is said, she noted exactly what she was wearing too. Even though this looks nothing like her to me but then we were all so much younger then . . . . . . . we’re older than that now!
On the 14 of this month back in 1976, Keith Relf was electrocuted.
"The former frontman and singer with The Yardbirds was in his basement studio when an ungrounded amp resulted in a bizarre almost Spinal Tap-like rock casualty. Relf was only 33.
In the years since the Yardbirds went their separate ways having featured both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck in 1968, Relf stayed musically active; first with the duo Together, then immediately thereafter with the art-prog group Renaissance. Both acts included Yardbirds drummer/multi-instrumentalist Jim McCarty, while the latter act included Relf’s sister Jane. Posted above (see below) is some live footage of the act, prior to Keith’s departure.
In 1974, Keith founded Armageddon with ex-members of Steamhammer and Captain Beyond. They released a single self-titled album in 1975; it was well-received but Relf’s health issues (he was developing emphysema) and managerial issues led to its dissolution before a single tour had been staged, making their high quality work swiftly forgotten (but you can read about it and hear it here:
Keith was making plans to work again with members of Renaissance (in an act eventually called Illusion) at the time of his death. He left a wife and two sons."
Renaissance - Kings and Queens
the link as shared by the source doesn’t play in the UK so this version is equally good and interesting . . . . . .a transitional era for the band and for Relf remained a something of an enigmatic character from the R’n’B source with the Yardbirds (from which Led Zeppelin arose like a phoenix) but Relf never seems to settle and his vocals at time limited (the recording live quality of the sixties letting him down) but that he was a band leader and catalyst is undeniable! Not widely known for his guitar work here he showed forth and why would have previously featuring future stars like Page and Beck!? Extraordinary and at once a tragic end to a man possessed of great creative powers. He was survived by his wife and children
Over Under Sideways Down anyone?
Renaissance - Island [feat Keith Relf and sister Jane Relf]
although there was some dispute on the chat this is clearly The Yardbirds in ’66 with
Keith Relf on lead vocals
Jeff Beck - Les Paul lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar (a 335?) - vastly underrated
Jimmy Page - semi-acoutic bass
Jim McCarty - Drums
tracks
1/ Train Kept a Rollin’
2/ Shapes of Things
3/ Over Under Sideways Down
*wiki notes:
Soon after the release of album 'Roger The Engineer', Samwell-Smith quit the band at a drunken gig at Queen's College in Oxford and embarked on a career as a record producer. Jimmy Page, who was at the show, agreed that night to play bass until rhythm guitarist Dreja could rehearse on the instrument. The band toured with Page on bass, and Beck and Dreja on guitars, playing dates in Paris, the UK, the Midwestern US, and the California coast.
Beck fell ill late in the latter tour and was hospitalised in San Francisco. Page took over as lead guitarist at the Carousel Ballroom (San Francisco) on 25 August and Dreja switched to bass. Beck stayed in San Francisco to recuperate with his girlfriend Mary Hughes, while the rest of the band completed the tour. After the Yardbirds reunited in London, Dreja remained on bass and the group's dual lead guitar attack was born.
A couple of blasts from the past sixties wise from Twilightzone too! This is pretty good quality wise but is a lift from vinyl so pretty much as is on the record and none the worse for that. some stereo tracks included but I’m a back to mono freak! A fascinating history volume as detailed below
...The new lineup recorded a single, "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" b/w "Psycho Daisies," that showed off their new potential, and the Yardbirds made an appearance in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 art house hit Blow Up, playing an instrumental called "Stroll On" that bore a strong resemblance to "Train Kept A-Rollin'.”..
...However, tensions were beginning to grow, and after a U.K. tour opening for the Rolling Stones and in the midst of a string of American dates as part of Dick Clark's "Caravan of Stars" tour, Beck abandoned the group to visit his girlfriend in San Francisco. They continued on with Page as sole guitarist, and once they finally caught up with Beck, he officially quit the act. (The following year, he formed the Jeff Beck Group.) Reworking themselves as a quartet, Page started showing off new techniques on guitar (including the violin bow trick that would become one of his trademarks), and with Paul Samwell-Smith (who produced most of their sessions as well as playing bass) out of the group, the Yardbirds partnered with Mickie Most, who had produced dozens of hits for Donovan, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, and many others, with an eye toward improving their declining commercial fortunes. However, the pop-oriented tunes that Most insisted the group record were a poor fit for the Yardbirds, and the 1967 album Little Games proved to be a severe disappointment that sold poorly and left fans cold. The Yardbirds put their emphasis on touring, as their new manager, Peter Grant, kept them busy on the road in the United States. Meanwhile, Page took to pointing their music toward a heavier and more experimental direction that would prove to be a dry run for his later work with Led Zeppelin, who, in their initial gigs, were billed as "the New Yardbirds." (In 1971, once Led Zeppelin were firmly established, Epic Records would issue an album called Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page drawn from March 1968 recordings of the band on-stage in New York City. Page, who had not authorized its release, quickly filed suit and the album was promptly withdrawn, making it a much-sought-after collector's item.) However, Keith Relf and Jim McCarty were growing disenchanted with their new sound and wanted to explore a different approach influenced by folk and classical sounds. In June 1968, Relf and McCarty quit the Yardbirds, and after one final U.K. concert, Page dissolved what was left of the band. After the collapse of the Yardbirds, Keith Relf and Jim McCarty would form the arty folk-rock band Renaissance, cutting two albums with them before they moved on. McCarty would go on to form the group Shoot while Relf launched Armageddon, an ambitious fusion of folk and hard rock. Armageddon released their self-titled debut album in 1975, but the group came to a tragic end when Relf died in 1976 in an electrical accident in his home studio. Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Jim McCarty reunited in the 1980s with the group Box of Frogs, who cut a pair of albums for Epic (1984's Box of Frogs and 1986's Strange Land) that included guest appearances from Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. In 1992, the Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and that same year, Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty introduced a new edition of the Yardbirds with a concert at London's Marquee Club. The debut performance was a success, and the Yardbirds would tour regularly in the years to come, with a steady stream of musicians accompanying Dreja and McCarty. In 2003, the Yardbirds recorded an album, Birdland, that included guest appearances from Brian May, Slash, Joe Satriani, and Jeff Beck. In 2013, Dreja dropped out of the Yardbirds and McCarty soon retired the band. However, he had a change of heart, and in 2015, his edition of the Yardbirds returned to duty and continued to play for their fans. Jeff Beck died on January 10, 2023 at a hospital in Southern England after contracting bacterial meningitis; he was 78 years old. Founding guitarist Anthony "Top" Topham died on January 23, 2023 at the age of 75. - by Mark Deming
traxfromwax: 1 Evil Hearted You 2 The Train Kept A Rolling 3 I Ain't Got You 4 What You Want 5 Got To Hurry 6 Too Much Monkey Business 7 Steeled Blues 8 Shapes Of Things 9 Still I'm Sad 0 New York City Blues 11 Heart Full Of Soul 12 I'm Not Talking 13 You're A Better Man Than I 14 Jeff's Blues 15 I Wish I Would 16 A Certain Girl 17 Sweet Music 18 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 19 She's So Respectable 20 I'm A Man 21 A Certain Girl (Live) 22 Smokestack Lightening 23 Here 'Tis 24 Got Honey In Your Hips 25 Boom Boom 26 Pretty Girl 27 Got Love If You Want It 28 Putty 29 Five Long Years 30 My Girl Sloopy 31 For Your LoveFor Your Love (1965)
Fabulous four volume set of The History of the Early Yardbirds from over at Floppy Boot Stomp and a real treat mostly real fine quality and especially the BBC 65/66 and Stockholm being of especial note. These are in four unbroken sets but none the worse for that and if you want to break them into tracks it is relatively easily done these days. The origins of Led Zeppelin, early exploring of the roots of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page
The Yardbirds - In Session BBC 1965 The Yardbirds - Live-in-Stockholm-1967-e.q The Yardbirds - at The-BBC-1966 The Yardbirds - Stadthall-Offenbach-March-15-1967 Beat-Beat-Beat-Hessian-Rundfunk
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Accompanied by a rare performance on YouTube showing the band covering a Velvet Underground track! [I'm Waiting For The Man'!] If anyone thinks people didn't bother daring to do so, there is a precedent reason in Jimmy working with early Nico so he was well aware of what they ended up getting up to! Thanks to Silent Way for this rare gem
Some times it is easy to forget that Beatles' manager Brian Epstein with his company NEMS promoted and put on other bands and their concerts . . . . . . . .
We were used to psychedelic posters coming from the West Coast and American gigs even when they promoted British bands
But these two designs show Brian Epstein promoting British bands in the UK and poster designers like The Fool (Applestore?) and Hapsash and The Coloured Coat, Martin Sharp and others did us proud in that respect
Friday, June 15, 2018
The Yardbirds
Question of the day . . . . . How come Jeff Beck looks absolutely as cool as, in every shot he has ever been in? The other guys are getting there (sort of) and Keith Relf is so close and cool of sorts but Jeff . . . . ? Nailed it!
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Some really greats posts this past day or so . . . . . .this is a treat! over at
