THE YARDBIRDS in Blowup (Train Kept 'a Rollin')

From the 1966 movie "Blowup" starring David Hemmings. With Jeff Beck having a fit. 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. Also note all the Vox amps, which we all used during that period.

[@patton303]

A lot of people wish they could go back in time to America in the 80's. I want to go back in time to the UK in the 60's. 🇬🇧

[@ssonghaii]

Thoroughly agree. The '50s & '80s to present bite the bum wad hard in yank land (shitty as hell!). The '60s to mid-'70s was musical nirvana----even in yank land! heh

[@patton303]

@@ssonghaii Yup. LA in the 60’s would have been amazing too. So much music and good vibes.

[@robertacolarette1594]

Jimmy Page smiling, just happy to be there. Beck mad at the world.

[@monikaszymanowska5142]

No, he was was just mad at the equipment not working and at the worried manager. That's the core of this scene. No showing off.

[@thediminutiveword]

Jeff didn't want to do it. Director made him. 🙂

[@dogsquadindia]

Well right away you know Jeff's guitar will be smashed bc it's just a piece of shit hollow body

[@paulkramer9666]

The equipment couldn't handle the volume levels. It shorted out the tubes in the amp with all the vibration. That's the general idea anyway.

[@davidrichter9164]

Watched this many times and always enjoy it. Still love to have that guitar neck.

[@ENGlishJELLo-yk7up]

The audience is hypnotized under the state of "Rock and Roll"

[@GeeCeeWU]

Beck and Page together on stage, amazing.

[@philipbrackpool-bk1bm]

The girl in the stripy trousers is Janet street porter.

[@monikaszymanowska5142]

I love how Keith Relf has such cool theatricals here, the core of rock vocalists! They say Antonioni didn't understand the counterculture but I see he captured both its impact and irony.

[@taratownsend6408]

Out of curiosity, who has written about Antonioni not understanding the counter-culture? Blow-Up and Zabriskie Point personify the later 1960's counter-culture, in my opinion.

[@monikaszymanowska5142]

@@taratownsend6408 By "them" I meant mostly Americans because it was USA where Antonioni sort of ruined his image making the awesome Zabriskie Point. I guess what he saw as an ousider, got opposed by insiders. If you read Pauline Kael , Roger Ebert and some others from those times, you will be astonished by their choice of words: "A pathetic mess", "A movie of stunning superficiality", "Trying to make a serious movie and hasn't even achieved a beach-party level of insight". I always lol because I feel like those were stories about some other movie, not the one we love:-).

[@somestupidwithaflaregun7149]

@@monikaszymanowska5142 Jimmy Page said he hated all the movie people.

[@monikaszymanowska5142]

@@somestupidwithaflaregun7149 Poor Jimmy, I hope they shot the gig scene quickly🙂

[@jackal59]

@@monikaszymanowska5142 Err, _Zabriskie Point_ was a bore then, and it's bore now. Maybe Antonioni was personally profound, but his film are completely inarticulate. "Stunning superficiality" sums it up nicely.

[@FLAMENCO961]

it surprises me that no one point out that the point of the scene and the entire movie is so well explained here, for the crowd that piece of the guitar was very valuable, while in the street nobody cared, just the difference between reality and perception

[@daniellepollastri327]

The simply godlike Yardbirds. How great was Keith Relf sounding as good live as he did on record.

[@adriantyler6911]

After Beck smashes his guitar I bet he would still have still sounded better than most other guitarists!

[@michaellorenzen8200]

Jeff Beck just looked at a guitar and it would start to wail

[@ssonghaii]

...better than ALL pop-act "guitarists' from '80s to present.

[@1223jamez]

Jeff Beck 1944-2023. Sad!

[@michaelcorrigan5580]

Great! Got all his albums and the Yardbirds - saw him live with Jan Hammer!!! fight between 2 xcellent, creatives!

[@elijahbey3366]

He died? I didn't even know he was sick.

[@parmec1875]

FOR 218maryland: I love Page very much and I recognize that from 1967 to 1968 he really contributed to the sonic innovation of the electric guitar and that he was a skilled virtuoso (even if his technique wasn't perfect). However, we cannot gloss over the correct chronology, who he did before and what. Undoubtedly, Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend and also Lou Reed, in the purely acid rock field, were the real revolutionaries especially in the search for electric sounds never heard before, and even in the production of pure noise with the electric guitar, already in 1965 (Townshend actually began in late 1964). Thus, they clearly preceded not only Hendrix, but also Jimmy Page, who at the time was only the session man for other people's pop songs. Furthermore, if we go from guitarists who acquired some fame to those who remained semi-unknown, we must remember the guitarists of bands such as Oxford Circle (Live 1966), Fifty Foot Hose (demo 1966), Red Krajola (listen the Live 1967, with noisy jams of 30 minutes!), Electric Prunes (1965-66) and other minor groups, who used fuzz, distortion, tremolos and other extremely acid effects, always before Hendrix (and even Page). Not to mention experimental and avant-garde soloists and bands like Keith Rowe from AMM (prepared guitar like John Cage did with the piano...), Derek Bailey (free improvisation totally without chords), Bjorn Foongard (chamber music composer with totally atonal prepared electric guitar from which he made any sound and noise), Sonny Sharrock (experimental free-jazz-rock electric guitar) and many other semi-unknown ones, unfortunately! You can read up on KZbin, you can find everything! Some of these guitarists (like Fongaard and Rowe) began experimenting already in the late 1950s, or early 1960s, so even before Jeff Beck and all the electric acid rock guitarists of the 60s, and in any case in a different field than rock, but with a notable influence on following psychedelic and experimental rock (Keith Rowe, for example, was a model of inspiration for Syd Barrett). Yes: "we are more alike than different"... Thanks for your very polite answer and I wish you a good life.

[@philthemod]

The Oxford circle, what a band

[@dgetzin]

Yes, by all rights they should have booked The Who for this part, except Keith Moon would have left his teeth marks all over the scenery and put a bomb in his drum or something.

[@lameduck3630]

Keith and Jeff were so cool and Chris.

[@christopherseat9871]

Thankyou

[@KH6DAN]

The director, to all the extras, before he yelled ACTION. "OK folks. Remember. As badass as the music is, everyone do not move. The first person who starts dancing, or begins to tap their toes, will NOT get paid."

[@lauracook8203]

Except the totally groovy chick in the silver raincoat & her partner! Far out! I miss the days when u could just express urself & dance like an idiot instead of the gymnastics ,& simulated sex acts they call dancing. Damn I feel old 😒

[@taratownsend3015]

@@lauracook8203 That is a very young Janet Street-Porter.

[@dgetzin]

Just struck me how dangerous that was to film: that was really Jeff Beck and really Jeff Beck’s guitar and actual Yardbirds fans going genuinely hysterical over a sharp piece of splintered wood while women on stiletto heels got pushed over the front of the stage. That guitar neck today would probably be worth a few million.

[@ashharkausar413]

You mean to tell me this wasn't just theatrics but reality being portrayed as theatrics?

[@dgetzin]

@@ashharkausar413 that’s part of the thematic point of Blow up - meta referentiality - but pro wrestling is more staged than this was. And also more dangerous. - throwing heavy broken wood into a packed crowd - not likely film studios and the actors/extras would let that happen these days.

[@christopherseat9871]

ROCK N ROLL MOTHERS....‼❤🖤🍄🍒💯✌🤘✊✊🤘🤘🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🍄🍄🍄🍻🍻🍻1966.......JIMMY'S JAMMING AND BECK IS PISSED

[@lolcaat]

the crowd be like: wow, yardbirds. anyways

[@sdwill66]

The movie "Blow Up" has a Yardbirds performance with Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page in the line up. If you want to understand Swingin' Sixties London this movie has that vibe.

[@wildmorrison]

you're right!!!! love the vibe

[@jailbreak852]

apparently the audience wants skiffle

[@taratownsend6408]

Good one!

[@melvynobrien6193]

THE FIRST HEAVY-METAL BAND.

[@hellboywithhorns9576]

just saw this movie yesterday on local cable.....now sadly jeff beck has passed away

[@michaelcorrigan5580]

Got better as time goes by...at the last stage playing with the fantastic female bass players AMY____________

[@robstrange93]

This segment also records the exact history of the real life yardbirds, as Beck started flaking out, leaving Jimmy to take the reins, and then magically transform it into Led Zeppelin

[@michaellorenzen8200]

I highly doubt that JB was "flaking out" he just needed to get out of this group to explore waaaaaaaaaay more styles than Jimmy could ever dream of

[@mattgehringer7292]

I personally am a huge fan of both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

[@michaellorenzen8200]

@@mattgehringer7292 yep RIP J B "a guitarists guitarist"

[@gregoryhurst8483]

Yes, that’s Jimmy Page playing rhythm guitar. Just before he took over and made it Led Zeppelin

[@gregoryhurst8483]

And Jeff Beck as the destructor lead guitar

[@lwplwp]

I'm thinking Jeff left during the US tour and Jimmy played another tour before starting Led Zeppelin..

[@julianjv7325]

No, they both plays lead guitar.

[@KH6DAN]

Blow Up was '66. Zep formed in '68.

[@arno-luyendijk4798]

I did not give this song any attention until watchings this film part. What amazes me is that the fuzz sound from the guitars is actually rougher than the sound of the Who in the same period. Maybe this was why Pete Townshend came into Jim Marshalls shop and asked: "JIm, I need bigger weapons!" ??

[@zew1414]

Man look at how much energy that crowd is bringing! I'm waiting for a Pit to erupt! Edit: 1:10 there IT IS!!!! HAHAHA

[@Factory_Muff]

You’re average kid in London had to blow a month paycheck on one of those trendy outfits minus the shoes. They really weren’t trying to fuck up their clothing. My mom would have been like 9 years younger than these birds but even in the early 70’s a nice dress like that was like 25-30 quid.

[@gregoryhurst8483]

Rockin blues on Carnaby street

[@lameduck3630]

It was filmed at Elstree.

[@philthemod]

It’s a Mod Mod world

[@freddiemiranda9325]

Wow I never seen a zombie audience..

[@yurdp]

The mod scene during that time was wonderfully odd.

[@michaellorenzen8200]

the 2 Vox amps against the wall

[@larryflanagan8799]

The old Vox Beatle basher amp is what broke but he takes it out on his guitar. Jimi smiling thinking hey dude, were are you going with that guitar neck in your hand.

[@MrRlwiley]

so funny beck with the obviously prop guitar to smash up. ha ha ha

[@markforster2794]

A very young Janet Street Porter grooving at the back in silver coat and striped trousers @ 1.19

[@Richard-pt4vf]

The PPL set amazed like they never heard uv Rockin- Roll until they cut loose😂😂😂😂😂

[@dmitrydd5506]

And I am remembering the Rory's Strat - how did he get it and how it served him...

[@rogermurray9058]

Director of Blow up Wanted The WHO Yardbirds Was available 1966

[@socalbeeremovalandrelocation]

I love Harold

[@pablotorres7436]

Jeff Beck como parte de The Yardbirds en 1966 y en una escena de la película Blow Up, basada en un cuento de Cortázar, y con la dirección de Michelangelo Antonioni... la movida londinense de esa época y los Yardbirds tocaban más agresivo que cuando estuvo Clapton. Claro, si el otro guitarrista era Jimmy Page, que le trajo 'peso' a los Yardbirds. Un blues rock agresivo para 1966, y lo que destaca es que a Beck's, cuando no le responde bien el amplificador, lo destroza con su guitarra muy enojado, y, a lo Pete Townshend, también hace añicos a su guitarra... Beck tenia su carácter y esto estuvo libretado pero sustentado en Beck's... muy muy pleno verlos a Page y Beck juntos. Jeff ingresó A los Yardbirds en reemplazo de Clapton por recomendación del propio Jimmy. DEP Beck's * no creo que les haya caído muy en gracia la escena a los Yardbirds, por ser la rutina original de The Who, de destruir guitarra, amplificadores y batería. Pero era una película de Antonioni y le hicieron al requerimiento

[@orlandonostagiafever1964]

Early punk rock in 1965 !!

[@richarddewitt2072]

This is a movie, the director is building the tension for the climatic scene, if the crowd was moving around it would ruin the scene. 2:51

[@chrisbyars4422]

The girl at 1:33 is Darcy Frey

[@StratBurst92]

Jeff Beck would not had that problem if his amps were Fenders.

[@melvynobrien6193]

LOL. Wouldn't have sounded as good.

[@MacDisel1]

The song is called “Stroll On” 🎶🎸👍🏼

[@fs.pureblood]

No it's not. It's called The Train kept a rollin. Originally by The Johnny Burnette trio.

[@clinteastwood6875]

@@fs.purebloodYes but they couldn’t use Train in the movie so Relf wrote new lyrics and called it “Stroll On”.

[@pallhe]

The historic moment when Jeff Beck stopped playing archtops and picked up the Les Paul.

[@srujan00]

Vox amps? Hendrix and Page used Marshall. Clapton used Fender.

[@parmec1875]

Jeff Beck, well in advance of Hendrix, starts the song with a very long feedback, makes the amplifiers sizzle, manages to produce real electric discharges from the guitar distortions (listen from minute 1.40). He is the real innovator of the electric rock guitar, the one who invented a thousand electric effects, together with Pete Townshend, certainly not Jimi Hendrix!

[@218maryland]

Mmmmmmm... No. Chuck Berry invented the electric rock guitar. Had he not discovered what he did when he did, there wouldn't be jimmy page playing. I believe Page would even admit this.

[@parmec1875]

@@218maryland I didn't say that Jeff Beck "invented" the rock guitar, but who he was a really "innovator" of rock guitar, one of the first (certainly before and more than Hendrix), and that "invented" a lot of sound electric effects. It seems to me that you have misinterpreted what I said.

[@218maryland]

@@parmec1875 You are CORRECT. I apologize. I 100% agree about Beck innovating prior to AND more than Hendrix. Hell, even Hendrix himself admitted that Beck had been getting the sounds (Feedback play, early distortion play, etc.) before him. It seems we are more alike than different, friend :) Cheers

[@tundratunes]

@Parme C This whole thread of who did what "first" is insulting to Jimi. London in 1966 is where Jimi arrived already fully formed as a unique guitarist, miles ahead of his contemporaries in terms of hard years of touring experience night after night in deep southern US, often in segregated audiences, with Curtis Knight, Little Richard, etc. Jimi's use of feedback, in whatever month it came in late 1966 or early 1967 live or on record (e.g. Foxey Lady) is irrelevant. Pete, Jeff, Hendrix, Clapton, Jimmy were ALL in absolute awe of each other, and everyone was learning from each other. That is just how it works. When Jimi joined Cream onstage to play Killing Floor at the Royal Albert Hall he blew Eric out of the water. But that is not the point here. They all went on different paths with their use of feedback. Personally, I don't care who did what first. I care deeply when I listen to all of their records, how they feel and sound. Not sure what @Parme C is going on about here... who gets credit for "discovering" feedback? It is a rubbish argument. Just appreciate what each person did and stop trying to rank them in terms of who did what when... otherwise you fall into the Rolling Stone syndrome of endlessly ranking everyone. What bullshit! We all know what we like. Any anyone reading this know exactly what I mean. I never saw Jimi, but I have seen the Who many times, Jeff Beck sadly but once, Clapton a few times, Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter many times... they all do what they do. Stop harping on who is "best" or "first" - I am sure Jimi and Jeff would also find this a useless argument.

[@218maryland]

@@tundratunes This is the comment section on KZbin. My advice is don't read comments, it gets far worse than two music fans discussing early inventors of electric guitar techniques. You'll give yourself a stroke reading comments on other videos. Godspeed sir

[@siypic]

I bet the after party on Blow Up was rather good.....

[@guilhermespironelli]

Stroll On*

[@DSAK55]

the crowd was stoned

[@kalbininkas]

That blond dude looks like I imagine Stewie Griffin would look like when he grows up.

[@karenpato1]

They should do a flashback on Family Guy...when someone was a guitar tech for Jeff Beck, then they get a guitar smashed over their head.

[@Penfold-zr2be]

Directors 1st choice for this segment was The Who but they passed it up.

[@bbb8997]

so glad they did, yARbirds kickin' ass & takin' names !!!!

[@jackal59]

According to IMDB, the Yardbirds' manager Simon Napier-Bell talked to Kit Lambert, who managed The Who, and convinced him to ask for far too much money and for final edit of the scene. After Antonioni turned Lambert down flat, Napier-Bell called him and sympathetically offered the Yardbirds for far less. What I read said that Antonioni likely realized what had happened but appreciated Napier-Bell's chutzpah.

[@cinezurdo]

How the hell is no one going crazy in the crowd? Barely anyone bumping their heads too. Everyone just watching like if its a poetry recital

[@michaelcorrigan5580]

They're STONED!!!

[@lwplwp]

They wanted the Who...But got this instead...Thus the guitar smash...From.what I've read they considered the whole thing a big joke...

[@jackal59]

Page laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. Apparently Beck's guitar was borrowed from Steve Howe (later of Yes); I hope they paid him for it.

[@Wldnzhrn]

Indo sendiri

[@hughtierney9109]

Jeff Beck thought that the film Blow Up was rubbish. The director wanted to use The Who, but they were not available, or didn't want to do it.

[@geoff082947]

Beck was probably ashamed of his tantrum.

[@julianjv7325]

Jimmy is god.

[@bbb8997]

Jeff was & still is, just ask jimmy

[@isaiasmartinez5033]

Clapton is god.

[@robertduffy5576]

Eric

[@kojo68]

I don’t know what this movie is about but that is one dead crowd

[@Sebas_Mendez_Kinoman]

Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni, a radiography of the uncertainty of life, the film is set within the mod subculture, the broken guitar means that in the correct context one object is priceless but in another is just a piece of crap..

[@davidmoran5431]

you should watch the whole thing

[@michaelcorrigan5580]

Watch it! with patience - a special time THE 60S

[@KevTheImpaler]

Jeff Beck broke a guitar. That's just not right.

[@desertrock1036]

This is a Cover of Honey Hush …Johnie Burnette…back in the early 50s….the vocals are different…I think it’s a better version…50s version

[@bbb8997]

train kept a rollin', tiny Bradshaw, later the rock'n'roll trio

[@pavelsolovjov289]

For god's sake Jeff, just use a different cable man

[@MrThomyorkey]

So John Lydon stole the look from Keith Relf

[@billhaleyrock2471]

Die Version von Johnny Burnette ist um ein vielfaches besser.

[@davidmoran5431]

neurasthenic comedy

[@johnhanman4722]

That guitar Jeff smashed up was just a cheap arch top he didn't use, he wouldn't smash his regular guitar that the film producer wanted, he had more sense!!

[@user-ox1dr9ct1z]

I hate to be that guy but, as much as I like this version, Aerosmiths version is a trillion times better

[@alanstowing1]

While true in comparison the movie Blowup from 1966 , they the the Yardbirds I suppose, did not have the always changing musical or iindividual instrumental technology when it came to the quality and development of the guitars, amplifiers , mixer boards during that time in 1966. Aerosmith on the other hand's first studio recording of "Train Kept a Rollin'" was in 1973 then released in 1974 on their album " Get your Wings " . I like both versions myself . But Steven Tyler had been to the side of the stage watching Jimmy Page during the earlier years and said " That song blew his tits off while Jimmy Page was playing lead guitar as Jeff Beck had left the band.

[@terrykrall]

With Jimmy there, don’t need Jeff anyway.

[@charlesneyando5722]

Pretty dead crowd

[@V8Deuce]

Nothing compared to Johnny Burnette

[@johngalush8790]

Not very good

[@julianjv7325]

Stroll on, not The Train Kept Rollin.