The Tour That Made Jeff Beck Walk Out On The Yardbirds

[@derekstocker6661]

Thanks for this, some of the greatest sounds in music created by some of these guys and still sound amazing today. RIP Keith Relf and Jeff Beck.

[@JimCim]

Jeff continued to innovate till the very end. It cost him financially to abandon having a “front man”, or looking for hit records … But it gained him the respect and admiration of all of his pears. A singular talent.

[@mjh5437]

Peers

[@ImYourOverlord]

*peers, but yeah 🙂

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

One of my favorite quotes from an American Musician was from Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators.. he said they were jamming in 1965 working on their material with Tommy Hall and that when Yardbirds or the Kinks came on they all looked at each other and said "THEY'RE IN ON IT" - Roky was mostly referring to the non 'standard' blues electric thing, and the revereration / feedback styles.

[@ausderscheierei5460]

Never heard of that, do you have a Source?

[@vicweast]

Good history lesson here, thanks! That era of music was absolutely amazing. Almost-alien cultural influences entering rock 'n roll from all directions, the innovation in technique... 100 years of music crammed into a few decades fueled by psychedelic mind-bending spices and foreign musical languages.

[@vincevega0]

02:53 From the movie Blow Up (1966) Beck would never break a guitar on stage. He prizes them too much. The director insisted he break one. The guitar being broken was more of a cheap movie prop guitar.

[@seabertotter4325]

I think it was a Harmony. Now they fetch a lot more money than before.

[@larrywprice2]

The story goes that the Who was going to do it, & the Yardbirds manager tricked their way into it instead.....

[@iamgumbydammit2217]

Jeff Beck is the most famous unknown guitarist in rock history. Incredible player and yet mostly unknown to today’s generations and even many folks back in the Rock Generation. When Clapton was hanging with Delaney and Bonnie (Beginning of the end for his Blues), Delaney told him “if you don’t learn to sing, you’ll always just be ‘the guitar player’”. So Clapton took up singing and became who he is. Jeff Beck never went that route. He was happy to just be a guitar player beyond all measurement. But his fame suffered accordingly.

[@lazur1]

Re 4:13: Beck played an Esquire & Les Pauls w/the Yardbirds; no 'whammy-bars' yet. In the JBG, he sometimes used Stratocasters, ie: 'whammy-bars', but even then, on the first 2 JBG US tours, he used only Les Pauls.

[@mosriteminioncause7741]

Jeff beck was to 1960's guitar playing is what Claude Monet was to 1800's oil painting.... two out of control geniuses...similar to each other in so many ways.

[@ericbgordon1575]

I wasn't aware until shortly before we lost him how unsettled Jeff Beck really was.

[@briankeenan4901]

Jeff Beck could be described as playing " Ethereal". We miss you Jeff.

[@Dan-zq5wt]

Beck wasn’t playing in that no pick whammy bar, Fender style at all back in that day. He was a Les Paul player who brought a lot of rockabilly and distorted blues and aggression to the table. He didn’t pick up those other techniques until after his Wired phase in the late 70s

[@gregshirley4471]

Telecaster

[@Dan-zq5wt]

@ is that right? I thought he was a Les Paul guy. Maybe that was after in the early 70s

[@lazur1]

@@gregshirley4471 Beck origially used an Esquire, the cheaper, single-pickup version of a Telecaster. Never a Telecaster,(he had one, but was never seen playing it). Soon after he used Les Pauls. On Jeff Beck Group recordings, he used Les Pauls & Strats, but toured w/Les Pauls only. As a solo act, mostly Strats, a Jackson for one record. The last couple decades, only Strats.

[@lazur1]

Beck sometimes used whammy-barred Strats on Jeff Beck Group recordings, but was still touring only w/LesPauls. During his VERY short rockabilly period, he played a Gretsch. As a solo act, his % of Strat-time increased until it was his only choice, for at least the last couple decades.

[@gj8683]

@@lazur1 Yes on the Strats earlier than Wired. For example, there's a KZbin video of the group playing "Definitely Maybe" on the Beat Club in 1972, and he's using a Strat.

[@praxismobius6037]

Imagine being so talented that you get called a 'maverick' and a 'force of nature' when you have a tantrum?

[@iamgumbydammit2217]

It’s like when the rich are mentally bonkers but harmless and they enjoy the luxury of being called “eccentric”. Jeff Beck was so talented that no one would call him out for his behavior - it’s justified via artistic grace.

[@iamgumbydammit2217]

Anyone else catch Beck playing left-handed in a couple scenes in the last 10 seconds of the video?

[@RileySP-j7n]

Talk talk talk

[@FuturePast2019]

Beck is in a class of his own. Never wrote a famous song or riff.

[@ImYourOverlord]

Thank God for that, indeed! 😁

[@TheFlutecart]

Ego? - none of this happens without ego. Never once.

[@lazur1]

The Yardbirds never 'got by' as a 4-piece: Jimmy Page joined on bass when Jeff was still on guitar. Soon Page & Beck were playing dual lead-guitar, w/Chris Dreja on bass. The so-called 4-piece band was "The New Yardbirds", soon re-named Led Zeppelin.

[@badtweed2087]

Bull shit. They were a four piece after Beck left and until they disbanded. Led Zep came a bit later and tried to use the New Yardbirds moniker but soon decided against it.

[@lazur1]

@ The band you refer to recorded and lipsynced tv shows. By the time they played a real show it was de facto Zep .

[@johncrow5006]

I've always understood that Page called the band The New Yardbirds so that Zeppelin could play the tour dates that were already booked rather than going out as an 'unknown' new group.

[@brakeme1]

Stewart Copeland unhinged was great!

[@BruceEEvans1]

Thank you for the effort, but it bothered me that you showed so many reversed images. If a person watches this video it is because they are a guitarist or at least a guitar aficionado. Jeff Beck was not left handed at any time of his life.

[@ericmccarty9656]

A great talent

[@f0urstr1ng]

Love Jeff Beck but there is more than a hint of Nigel Tufnell about him 😂

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

ridiculous last paragraph to summarize

[@badtweed2087]

Clapton was a nimrod with delusions of grandeur.

[@JohnDoe-xu2vx]

How's your musical career going?...do tell

[@bartmix8994]

@@JohnDoe-xu2vx Doesn’t make Badtweed wrong. Clapton carelessly allowed his own toddler to fall out of a high-rise window. Not the best guy.

[@jono1457-qd9ft]

Delusions of grandeur? So you're not familiar with his work from 1966 onwards?

[@robinjoynes1040]

I'd like some of Clapton's grandeur in my bank account or guitar prowess

[@robinjoynes1040]

You should get that bad tweed amp fixed

[@gerardbyrne7929]

I love Jeffs playing by the way but do find a lot of repetitiveness in it.

[@cu6454]

Eric was maybe a little snotty but he was very convicted about his playing he had already moved on in his mind he wanted to do a new thing he did he changed guitar in the Blues Breaker's then formed Cream he didn't play it safe he was inventing rock guitar 🎸👍 that's music history he was the man to bet 🙂👍

[@GiacintoGia]

Mary Hughes, she ended up marrying Lee Michaels .

[@kingslaphappy1533]

That Dick Clark tour was a pile of cr@p for the bands in it. 3-4 songs each, same hits over and over and terrible touring conditions…its no wonder he got fed up. I think Jeff got a bad rap for being over the top based on this one incident that didn’t reflect his true personality. Remember, back then Hendrix burned his guitar, Townsend smashed guitars and amps… it was a thing.

[@gerardbyrne7929]

I have to laugh at people critisising eric clapton. Saying he's not true to the blues Check out his history you idiots before you crucify God.

[@mbrgarage9682]

75

[@robstimson4234]

l admire Jeff Beck. l admire Neil Young. They both ditched bands or walked out on tours at the most inopportune times. l don't admire that in the least. 'Mercurial' is not something l've ever aspired to. JB was going to do a tour in the 90's [?] with Rod Stewart. Abandoned it just before it was to start. lf l suspected a band member was likely to abandon ship at the drop of a hat l would pre-emptively bounce them. That's just me.

[@lazur1]

Sitar? For years, Albert King had already been playing melodies by merely bending one string, & Beck knew that.

[@ubuhubbub]

Clapton a blues loyalist, my ass! Layla?! Jeezuz! A contender for the worst song of the last century. Clapton is laughably overrated. He was a solid blues guitarist, at his best when he was playing for Mayall and when he could have been fairly described as a "blues loyalist". He AND his guitar quickly devolved after the Bluesbreakers into a so-so, somewhat tiresome, rock guitarist and a dismal songwriter. Layla is fucking bad pop. As for Beck, well, he went on after the Yardbirds to become the GOAT.

[@ImYourOverlord]

Correct on all counts!

[@jamesward4191]

I must concur😊

[@johnwattdotca]

You forgot to mention that Clapton was the fifth Beatle. I suggest learning a musical instrument yourself.

[@therealxunil2]

You suck.

[@MaritSderlund]

@@johnwattdotcaWas he the fifth Beatle ? Never heard that before .

[@leemason4024]

Beck is a spoiled egomaniac! Keith Relf was a much better musician than Beck, and Keith didn't bring a load of mood swings and temper tantrums with him. "Shapes" never sounded as good as when Keith was singing and playing it!

[@aaronsinger]

Just tell the stories without the hyperbole about their talent. It gets so tiresome. Everyone does it. Hero worship is an epidemic.

[@theesperanzacompromisebyja9044]

Clapton never quite clicked with Paul Samwell-Smith.

[@andrewbowen6875]

Never liked the Yardbirds for some reason. Just sounded too contrived to me but one of my favourite albums is Beckola .

[@bartmix8994]

Jeff Beck could play guitar well, but he couldn’t write any hits.

[@هانيا_ت]

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[@lazur1]

A real Jeff Beck fan, I see:^)

[@scottblakey1603]

All gods are fake made up bull. Never existed. Religion is the worst thing man did to himself.