Hey Joe-The Yardbirds

Recorded live at The 100 Club, London
(1992)
From the album 'Yardbirds Reunion Jam Vol II' Available from www.yardbirds.us

[@kenneth-pc7mf]

I am almost 70.I was a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix and all of the music legends of that ere. I never knew that the Yardbirds did a cover of "HEY Joe". MAN,they did an amazing version!!!

[@ronfisher5259]

Tons of groups covered Hey Joe-I’ve found 35 on U-Tube. I was in high school when I got a record that had the Leaves version, then got the Music Machine version- and it was ‘ off to the races’ 😄

[@dabbydude]

they didn't. This is NOT from the old Ybirds! I have quite a few of their lp's (I'm old:-)), and definetely no Hey Joe.

[@ronfisher5259]

@@dabbydude agree-I had four old Yardbirds LPs ( my fav was Having a Rave-up) but since then I’ve come across a lot of “live” unreleased music by a lot of 60s groups- and if they did a song live and didn’t sell it on record they didn’t have to pay royalties.

[@dabbydude]

@@ronfisher5259 Having a Rav- Up was/is great! Mister You're a Better Man Than I !!! Awesome JB solo! Didn't that have New York City Blues on it too? I think so, Fantastic stuff!!!

[@ronfisher5259]

@@dabbydude no shit! Back in 1966 I was the only one of my high school crowd who liked “Mister Your a Better Man Than I” Great taste dude

[@christinecallahan5512]

Rest in Peace JEFF BECK .....

[@thegardens2144]

RIP Jeff and Jimi Thank you for your nice guitar sound!

[@jimkostan9932]

Jimi didn't write Hey Joe,he copied it....But did a pretty good job...

[@ryw5862]

At least a dozen copies are better than Hendrix’s

[@user-rk4zm3nb5f]

This is as powerful as Hendrix' version. First time I've heard it.

[@user-qs4js9tf7c]

Хендрикс вокалом сильнее был в этой композиции

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

It's very closely copied from Hendrix, down to fine details of the arrangement. Draw your own conclusions.

[@johnbrady1211]

Same here...

[@williamscheer1481]

Agreed

[@gregdelagrange8573]

Simply brilliant performance of a great band and a classic song .

[@joseatavera]

I like this version, I definetely feel the power transmitted in this song!! Super!!!

[@BlueSky...]

John Idan is a fine successor for the lead guitar slot and this track proves it.

[@johnnybsteelriff]

Imagine Jimi and Jeff swapping licks together? Could have been stupendous!!!

[@losbrakoneros8681]

❤❤❤

[@stephenlord2541]

Im 75 this year...I remember seeing these guys at the boat house Kew bridge and Eelel pie island . Richmond was the absolute dogs to be around in the 60s

[@galericulus9736]

Very impressive cover. Glad I've heard it.

[@rogbrown1458]

Just one fabulous rendition.guitar work really different! Rog. Pacific sunset records. RIP Jeff.

[@petecolorado5387]

First hearing for me. I didn't know the Yardbirds did a cover. EXCELLENT.

[@edwardstack7301]

WOWWWWWWWW!!! SUPERBBBBBB VERSION!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@tinsolder9929]

the happy days when effort and joy - and youthful competence - could led to genius.

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

Many have no idea who the yardbirds are but many of your guitar heroes idolized these guys.

[@jonharris2454]

Billy Roberts wrote Hey Joe in 1962. It was a Johnny Cash style country /folk song. "The Leaves" ( a little known hippie band) did the first rock version of it in 1965. The psychedelic band called Love did a version that sounded much like The Leaves in 1966 and so did the Byrds. Jimi Hendrix released his version in 1967. There are many other version but those mentioned are the most significant.

[@craiglouis9416]

Thanks for reminding me of what I’d forgotten. I seem to remember some surf renditions as well that I heard on one of my compilation LPs as a kid.

[@verga8550]

I like the Leaves version best, by far

[@kevinoneill41]

Love this bit of history.well it's easy to see and hear how and what Jimmy was influenced by good job.

[@lopezb]

But see this: from Billy Roberts link (great acoustic guitar work!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqvMmoGwe7yNpck&ab_channel=Ikerbustovillate "billy roberts stole this song to an old girlfriend called niela miller and copyrighted it," • Niela Miller - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHauY3h6pt2jmbs&ab_channel=DaveWood

[@rogerslemer7682]

Jon Harris, Billy Roberts stole Hey Joe from his girlfriend. Niela Miller “Baby, Please Don’t Go To Town”

[@swichtieharsent9507]

Im a MOD and guitarist, and always will be my sister was a MOD in the sixties!! And gave me her old records, i remember her telling me about the band's they sore! And one of those was the yardbirds!!! My first album i bought ove them was live at the marque in 64 i believe? I was and still am hooked for ever 🎸👍🤟😎yours swichtie

[@patrickclune3600]

I think that this version is the best. When listening to the guitar work, I don’t hear in any way shape or form of a pedal/pedals being used. I just hear GOD given talent tearing it up on a guitar. This is what it was like back in the day. I think the Stones started it with a fuzz tone on Satisfaction. I remember in school all of us guys in bands trying to beg for $$$$ from mom and dad to get one ! Lol

[@cmerton]

You DO understand that what you are hearing was recorded in 1992, don't you?

[@carrieberry8846]

"Billy [William Moses] Roberts [Jr.] (b. 1936, Greenville, SC) is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960's rock standard Hey Joe, the best known version of which is by The Jimi Hendrix Experience)." the first version I remember hearing on the radio was by the Leaves. it was a great version too, recorded in 1965, then re-recorded as a single in '66. The Standells did it, too.

[@DucksDeLucks]

In the mid to late sixties all the Greenwich Village bands used to do this song, slow and heavy, like the Hendrix version but thicker.

[@p.m.konijn2532]

There is a good version of the marmelade too, worth while listening to !

[@crimsonwolf9099]

LOVE did a killer version akin to The Leaves version and so did the Byrds on "5D". The slow versions suck. The whole song until then was the monster bass riff!

[@5091fisherman]

love the sound of the sixties

[@neilgordon8145]

So do I. This isn't it though!

[@ziggy2434]

Thanks guys an awesome version ,RIP Jimmy and Jeff

[@blackcargo]

This is a very cool version and it rocks !

[@rafferty246]

fantastic version of this classic song

[@martindowney8737]

For some reason we had a history teacher for English and he gave us Gorky.s My Childhood. It was a lovely move.

[@raymondtonns2521]

never heard this yardbids cover, where have i been!

[@FIERO871]

Excellent cover!!!!!!!

[@micchaelfearn5163]

Fantastic take on that song, never heard the yardbirds do that, too young! !!

[@Marilynastro1]

The revolutopm of music had begun...ahead of thier time..still!!

[@miguelmenendez8335]

Temon y que gusto sentir estás guitarras y estos clásicos y por algo hoy en día no sale tanta creación y tantos talentos musicales pero estoy perduran para siempre

[@user-mw8ld6mf2h]

Великая группа с гениальными гитаристами, но со всеми ими пел и играл классный Keith Relf, RIP.

[@claudiomagi5375]

Bella bellissima versione, non l’avevo mai sentita da loro, un capolavoro assoluto ❤❤

[@tomscience274]

We miss you Jeff. Rest peacefully.

[@sararichmond8476]

I get your sentiment, but I can't help feeling that Jeff, never willing to stop blazing out blistering and original guitar solos, will be tearing it up in heaven and God will continue having His mind blown just like the rest of us down here!

[@videomaniac108]

I like it, but then how could I not like a rock classic like this. I don't think that there's any version of this song that I don't like. I fell in love with this song when I first heard the Leaves perform it in 65 or 66.

[@Beatle849]

+Jim Nesta Was thinking the same thing. Got the Leaves version on a 45. Excellent. Jimi Hendrix sings it great. This is great,also.

[@videomaniac108]

+Howard Speizer Yeah, I love the Jimi Hendrix version also. The tempo is slower than the Leaves version but the combination of slower tempo and his phrasing make it great. The Byrds have also done an interesting cover on this song.

[@1blastman]

Check out Love's version.

[@videomaniac108]

1blastman Thanks, I didn't know that they had covered it. I'm going to check it out now. BTW: I've always been a great fan of Love, and Jim Pons bass tone.

[@1blastman]

Love's version has a lead bass riff that knocks me out.

[@SMG706]

Great version 👍

[@deanjericevic8912]

This rendition by the Yardbirds is as good as any that I have heard.

[@rogbrown1458]

Agree. Rog. P s records

[@thedolphin5428]

Agreed, it's great. But there's been 101 incarnations of the Yardbirds over time (1963 - 2015). Look it up. You're comparing from numerously different players, so this rendition is merely a slice in time of certain players present on the stage that night!!! -- NOT REALLY a group called "The Yardbirds". A lot of bands change members and keep the name until barely anything is left of who we once knew. I think of The Yardbirds as just an infamous vessel whose liquids are constantly changing.

[@emanuelapagani5786]

Hendrix ❤❤❤vissuto troppo poco ma ha lasciato un'eredità immensa 😢

[@winfriedbauer7417]

still living with that stuff of music . . .

[@tomislavvudan5051]

Neću moju ženu nikad iznevjeriti !makar se svadamo !!

[@humbertomadrid3046]

Ojalá se volvieran a reunir todos los Yardbirds que todavía viven. Se extrañaría a Keith Relf y Jeff Beck y algún otro que no tenga conocimiento si ha fallecido. Pero si con Clapton y Page y los demás.

[@jamieselko2203]

I am a 100% Yardbirds, fan, but I agree. Guitar greats came and went in the YBs without missing a beat, but it was Relf who made them the YBs

[@Mr22thou]

I'm inclined to agree. I understand why they still use the name and I don't blame them at all. And, as good as it is it just isn't "The Yardbirds." Page and Plant make Led Zeppelin but McCarty and Dreja do not make the Yardbirds. Even if Clapton or Beck were on guitar, it wouldn't be the same. glad it was uploaded tho. Thanks a lot.

[@ChrisSmith88love]

HaHaHAAH!

[@ChrisSmith88love]

Saw the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and may have been doing the Liquid Light Show. Collossal.

[@kennyblackbird5674]

Relf was wack compared to even Rod Stewart and singers like Robert Tench.

[@thijswieringa5372]

@@kennyblackbird5674 Then you don't understand the essence of music.

[@arlingtonevans4825]

I saw Jimmy Hendrix at the Laguna Rock Festival in 1970 the Woodstock of the West it was the greatest Concert ever maybe Led Zeppelin at Quasar Statuim in San Francisco in 1973 I was at that one both are way up there

[@a5pnt02go]

Kezar

[@56BUICKRiviera]

I saw this version of the yardbirds a while back at Moes alley in Santa Cruz. Drummer and rhythm guitar original members.

[@swittle]

A 'fur, teeth and claws' take on the 60s revenge tune that achieved omnipresence in the 60s.

[@Bruce15485]

How good is this !!!! Excellent !

[@MrMarkar1959]

awesome version!! i will jam with it later! favorite

[@montbob100]

that lead is raw power.

[@jimmuncy5636]

It's too thin and trebley: very disappointing. The rhythm guitar sound works well.

[@argantebozzi7729]

E che vuoi commentare! È il più bel brano di vintage rock mai sentito.....

[@rareone2369]

My favorite version of this song

[@richardosborne2067]

Gary Moore the best

[@webdesignerandrew6957]

@@richardosborne2067 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYiceJJvo7-fia8

[@kenneth-pc7mf]

Jeebus!! This was a great cover of a great song.

[@darrellcarter2469]

Best music ever made

[@AmeliaEllis101]

relf was incredible! i love his voice and will always be one of my favorite singers of all time--i saw the yardbirds a few years ago with chris dreja and jim mccarty as the only original members playing and the lead singer and bassist john idan...wow! he captured relf's voice so well! still, as much as he totally made the concert all the more authentic sounding, nothing beats the real deal.

[@babsieann]

Very well done account of the Yardbirds over the years.The Crawdaddy now that was some time ago!Great stuff.........

[@gumersindoreguera4757]

Buenisima la versión...ya la habia escuchado excelente del tema de Biily Roberts..que jimi.hizo famosa

[@ronster6017]

Wow,that's superb!!

[@monterix2]

super wykonanie

[@colinbennett3470]

When I first heard Hey Joe, 1966 I think music was never the same,when I heard that opening it was a musical orgasim it changed how the guitar should be played.This version is great too, not as good imho but good, their are so many good versions, listen to Roy Buchanan.

[@tomislavvudan5051]

Kad slušam! Ovu pjesmu !vezu me uspomene! *???

[@zincChameleon]

For sheer angst, you can't beat Roy Buchanan's version, especially live from Austin Texas. Unbelievable guitar work.

[@kurtkish6970]

Although I LOVE RB- he’s kinda nd of a one trick pony.

[@zincChameleon]

@@kurtkish6970 True. Unlike Hendrix, he was not comfortable in the studio, and so he didn't analyze his licks, which you need to do in order to expand them.

[@johnthonig8832]

Frank Marino

[@myoldmate]

@@johnthonig8832 overlooked and under appreciated.

[@georgemoore8832]

I was fortunate to witness Roy Buchanan in the late 70ies and I agree He just owned this song and Cowgirl in the sand.

[@badge03]

song's so good no one can do a bad cover of it!! ha

[@drowningman]

Check out Cher's version ^^

[@brianfergus839]

It’s awful

[@neverforget6523]

It is one more brilliant version by the Yardbirds and a tribute to Jimi, too.

[@iainmcclure416]

My band did. Years ago.

[@rothcam2]

Wow great version!

[@hamsterdangler]

Oh Memories, I was a frequent Eel Pie and Richmond athletic club punter, it was always so much more immediate, and I miss the Newcastle Amber ale, so many great groups before everything got so much more complicated.

[@Bonavil1]

Thank you!!

[@alarconsantos4894]

Super banda maravilha(Brasil)

[@jaelge]

Well, whoever the guitarist was I think he did a splendid job.

[@jimix8575]

Maybe Jimmy Page?

[@finylvinyl66]

Nope. I saw the Yardbirds and Vanilla Fudge in March '17 in St. Pete. The Yardbirds' guitarist was one Johnny A. who was damn good.

[@AngusKrock]

In 1992 it would probably have been John Idan.

[@cliffjenkins6419]

The MAN Is Jeff Beck agurably the greatest all round guitarist of all time!! Could play any style and showed Hendrixs a lck or two! RIP Jeff.

[@bobcabo4509]

The Guitarist is John Idan

[@herbertluthe6850]

stunning version!

[@amoruzz]

Great stuff 👍👍

[@shangobunni5]

Great version!

[@marineveteranm4]

Fantastic!!!!

[@DixiDick]

Yes, I found the personnel: Jim McCarty-drums Chris Dreja-rhythm guitar John Idan-lead guitar/vocals Rod Demick-bass

[@SkipWay]

great version!

[@user-ne8fr1br4h]

одне слово класичний рок найвищої якості

[@michaelwebster8389]

Great - kind or reminds me of another guitar legend - Roy Buchanan's version of it.

[@ingeeisenhut9864]

PHANTASTIC, GRANDIOS.

[@emanuelapagani5786]

Bellissima versione di un pezzo favoloso ❤

[@kujo8rockly]

Whole Lot of Love reminds me of this song.

[@kbickston]

Begins back memories

[@stephendistaola434]

Great guitar work

[@susanclark6987]

Yard birds...so good....

[@zbaby82]

That is a good version.

[@dartagnan1960]

Grandioso!!! Per tutt'a la vita!

[@ChrisSmith88love]

Just listened again to Randy California's "I Got A Line On You". Man really had Pipes! Worth looking for a LIVE show on YT. Lets change Band topics.

[@tommyboyindy1157]

Wow, those riffs

[@vanmanrick1]

and those raffs!

[@theclassicrock69]

Great version.

[@gatobelcha]

Excelente!!

[@Pece17]

awesome cover

[@mystro810]

strange, I was going to use Beethoven as an example of simple music that is amazingly wonderful. It doesnt have to be complicated and cluttered up to be great. examples of simple and great songs; Moonlight Sonata, Hey Jude, Something (Beatles), Smells Like Teen Spirit, Communication Breakdown, Canon in D, Greensleeves, Walking in the Air, Fur Elise, Just Like Heaven... there are so many songs that are wonderful and simple. Some songs are pure and the sum of the instuments merely serve the song

[@nickrice7535]

So Excellent. 👍

[@zenonzaniewski3212]

jesteśmy we Wrocławiu i gramy utwór czarnego mistrza

[@mikeharrison4659]

This tecorded in 1992 at their Réunion

[@lesterjohnston8888]

That is ace

[@Fouterosholygrail]

the song is originally from the 50s.old school blues.hendrix did his version of it and made it popular

[@weltschmerz100]

Oh yesss!!!!!

[@user-ug6te2hn1t]

what to say ? it's a great history !

[@Graciasholmes]

Anyone taking in that bass? Damn!

[@kenneth-pc7mf]

Oh,I forgot to mention that the Yardbirds could play circles around the Beatles,Rolling Stones and any other band of that era.

[@pwilliamsp4110]

only 1 rolling stone...Brian Jones...RIP

[@Bonavil1]

SUPER! Nagyon jó!

[@ingeeisenhut9864]

The best version

[@DucksDeLucks]

I just hope he got the royalties from the Hendrix version. In 1966 in NY every long hair band had to play Hey Joe, almost always slow and heavy.

[@fingers002]

First time hearing this by YB. Hot drummer here and like guitar solo (raw, intense, clean tone maybe little "crunch")

[@debiedog1]

Hardly the Yardbirds !!!!!!!!

[@bhd201]

+debiedog1 Exactly. Not the Yardbirds at all

[@BubbaZen10]

Jeff was too busy working on his car, and Jimmy was too busy counting his money.