Yardbirds - Videos & LIVE 1963-68
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The Yardbirds were one of the greatest live rock and pop bands of the 1960s. Their mix of pop and rhythm and blue songs allowed for development of an unprecedented live performance reputation, especially in the United States during the period when Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were leading the guitar attack, from the end of 1965 through to the middle of 1968. This followed on the relatively brief 15 month Eric Clapton period during 1963-5 limited to British performances, apart from a single Swiss residency during August 1964. A number of documentaries and Sixties music retrospectives have discussed the band's career, either singularly or in context. One of the former is 1995's My Generation - The Yardbirds, a 30 minute presentation by Granda TV for its Without Walls series. That program includes extracts from numerous contemporary clips of the band, many of which are available in full on open access streaming services such as YouTube and Vimeo.
My Generation - The Yardbirds from Len Brown on Vimeo. Duration: 25.05 minutes. Granada TV, Channel Four, premiered 21 November 1995.
The following is a list of known and available videos and other film of the original Yardbirds, both live and mimed, produced between their formation in May 1963 and disbandment in July 1968. It is arranged chronologically and features both live and mimed performances, in concert, out of doors and in television studios. All items are black and white, unless otherwise indicated. The quality of both the audio and visual elements varies. In addition, significant online live material without visuals is also included, as are known references to filmed events and television appearances. For a precise listing of events in the life of the band, including filmed sessions and concerts, refer the Chrome Oxide site.
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1963
[20 October 1963 - Top Topham leaves and Eric Clapton joins the band.]
* 8-9 December 1963, Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds, Crawdaddy Club, Richmond, audio only. LIVE in concert. Tracks include: (1) Smokestack Lightning, (2) Let It Rock, (3) Honey in Your Hips, (4) I Wish You Would, (5) You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover, (6 ) Who Do You Love?, (7) Baby Don't Worry, (8) I Don't Care No More, (9) Bye Bye Bird, (10) Mister Downchild, (11) The River Rhine, (12) 23 Hours Too Long, (13) A Lost Care, (14) Pontiac Blues, (15) Take It Easy Baby, (16) Out on the Water Coast, (17) Western Arizona.
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1964
* 28 February 1964, Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds, 1st British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Birmingham Town Hall. Tracks include: (1) Slow Walk / The River Rhine, (2) Highway 49 / Pontiac Blues, (3) My Little Cabin, (4) Bye Bye Bird. LIVE in concert.
* 20 March 1964, Five Live Yardbirds, Marquee Club, London, audio only, duration: 42.11 minutes. LIVE in concert. Tracks include: (1) Too Much Monkey Business, (2) I Got Love If You Want It, (3) Smokestack Lightnin', (4) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, (5) Respectable, (6) Five Long Years, (7) Pretty Girl, (8) Louise, (9) I'm A Man and (10) Here 'Tis. LP recordings released in December 1964. Highlights - Eric Clapton guitar.
* 22 July 1964, (1) Louise and (2) I Wish You Would, English TV show Go Tell It On The Mountain, duration: 5.51 minutes. LIVE in the studio. Eric Clapton on guitar.
* 7 August 1964, Live Blueswailing Yardbirds, Macquee Club, London, audio only, duration: 31.22 minutes. LIVE in concert. Tracks include: (1) Someone To Love Me, (2) Too Much Monkey Business, (3) I Got Love If You Want It, (4) Smokestack Lightning, (5) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, (6-7) She Is So Respectable / Humpty Dumpty and (8) The Sky Is Crying. Highlights - Eric Clapton guitar.
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1965
[3-4 March 1965 - Eric Clapton leaves and Jeff Beck joins the band.]
* 16 June 1965, For Your Love, promotional clip, duration: 3.10 minutes. Mimed outdoors. Highlights - everything! Band members dressed in medieval clothing, harpsichord. Includes French introduction. Filmed for US television. Remastered in black and white here.
* 9 July 1965, Heartful of Soul, UK TV show Ready Steady Go, audio only, duration: 2.24 minutes. LIVE in the studio, run through. Highlights - rare live performance by the band, Beck guitar fills. This is the earliest known live recorded performance by the band with Jeff Beck.
* 6 August 1965, (1) For Your Love and (2) Hang On Sloopy, 5th National Jazz and Blues Festival, Richmond, England, duration: 7.59 minutes. Program: Shindig! Goes to London, US TV program. LIVE on stage at the festival. Highlights - striped shirts and striped set, Beck on acoustic and Telecaster with big amp stack, screaming girls, multi-racial audience, extended workout on Sloopy.
* 1965, Heart Full of Soul, US TV, duration: 2.37 minutes. Mimed in TV studio. Highlights - dancers, Beck fingering technique on Fender Esquire, Relf finger pointing to camera.
* 1965, I'm A Man, US TV, duration: 2.45 minutes. Mimed in TV studio. Highlights - dancers, Beck fingering technique on Fender Esquire, Relf finger pointing to camera.
* August 1965, For Your Love, US TV program Shindig, duration: 2.29 minutes. Mimed in studio. Highlights - Relf's dark sunglasses, bongos, Beck on acoustic guitar.
* August 1965, Heart Full of Soul, US TV program Shindig, duration: 2.21 minutes. LIVE in studio with audience. Highlights - Relf's singing and dark sunglasses, Beck on guitar, audience.
* August 1965, I'm A Man, US TV program Shindig, duration: 3.13 minutes. LIVE in studio with audience. Highlights - Everything!, Relf's harmonica, bongos and dark sunglasses, Beck on guitar, dancers, Chris on maracas, call and response guitar and harmonica.
* August 1965, I Wish You Would, US TV program Shindig, duration: 2.26 minutes. LIVE in studio with audience. Highlights - Everything!, Relf's harmonica, and dark sunglasses, Beck on Esquire guitar, call and response guitar and harmonica.
* 6 December 1965, I'm A Man, US TV show Hullabaloo, duration: 2.38 minutes. Mimed in the studio. Highlights - Go-go dancers in cages, band hidden behind loud enthusiastic dancers, suits.
* 1965-65, Yardbirds BBC Sessions, audio only, duration: 78.37 minutes. LIVE in studio. Tracks include: (1) Train Kept a-Rollin', (2) Mister You're a Better Man Than I, (3) The Sun is Shining (excerpt), (4) Jeff's Boogie, (5) My Baby, (6) Smokestack Lightning (excerpt), (7) I'm Not Talking (excerpt), (8) Five On Board, (9) Hushabye, (10) I'm a Man, (11) Steeled Blues, (12) Spoonful, (13) I'm Not Talking, (14) Louise, (15) I've Been Trying, (16) Dust My Blues (excerpt), (17) Shapes of Things, (18) I've Been Wrong (excerpt), (19) Heart Full of Soul, (20) Jeff's Boogie, (21) I'm a Man, (22) I Wish You Would, (23) Love Me Like I Love You, (24) The Stumble, (25) Evil Hearted You, (26) Mister You're a Better Man Than I, (27) Rack My Mind, (28) Heart Full of Soul, (29) Evil Hearted You, (30) Questa Volta (San Remo), (31) Pafff... Bum (San Remo), (32) I Wish You Would (Paris). Highlights - Jeff Beck on guitar for all tracks except My Baby (Jimmy Page).
* 1965-68, Yardbirds Live at the BBC, audio only, duration: 77.37 minutes. LIVE in studio.
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1966
* 3 January 1966, Still I'm Sad, duration: 2.48. Mimed in TV studio. Highlights - band members lined up on stairs in audience.
* February 1966, I'm A Man, French TV show, duration: 2.31 minutes. Mimed in studio. Well edited film clip which captures the call and response elements of the song. Background consists of Maybridge images of naked bodies.
* 17 March 1966, Shapes of Things, outdoors film clip, duration: 2.18 minutes. Mimed outdoors on London street. Highlights - winter clothing. Time stamped, low quality video.
* 17 March 1966, Mister, You're a Better Man Than I, Kensington, London, duration: 3.29 minutes. Mimed outdoors on a London street. Highlights - Beck wearing a coat he brought in Chicago on his last tour there. Time stamped, low quality video.
* 17 March 1966, I Wish You Would, outdoors film clip, duration: 2.16 minutes. Mimed outdoors on London street. Highlights - winter clothing. Time stamped, low quality video.
* 1 May 1966, (1) Train Kept a Rollin' and (2) Shapes of Things, New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert, London, duration: 5.37 minutes. LIVE in concert. Highlights both songs, Beck's guitar playing. Reelin in the Years clip. Best quality video.
* circa May 1966, Over Under Sideways Down, UK TV show A Whole Scene, duration: 2.22 minutes. Mimed in studio. Highlights - white suits, really bad miming. Low quality video.
* 8 June 1966, Ravi Shankar interview, London, featuring Keith Relf and Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds, duration: 2.46 minutes. Relf asks a question regarding the use of the sitar sound in British pop music recordings, and Beck asks questions about the age of the sitar and its construction.
* 22 July 1966, Over Under Sideways Down, duration: 2.27 minutes. Mimed. Studio version laid over a live version at a French concert. Highlights - Page on bass, Beck on guitar, white suits. Part of a French TV program, which also included 3 live numbers - see below.
* 22 July 1966, (1) Train Kept a Rollin ', (2) Shapes of Things and (3) Over Under Sideways Down, duration: 7 minutes. LIVE French concert. Highlights - Page on bass, Beck on guitar, white suits. Audio - cannot hear Beck or Dreja's guitars, only the bass and drums and vocal. Improved sound here.
* 1966, I'm A Man, Shivaree, US TV show, duration: 3.31 minutes. Mimed in studio. Highlights - none.
* 1966, Over Under Sideways Down, US TV show, duration: 2.27 minutes. Mimed outdoors. Shot at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey. Highlights - cheesiness, bored look by Beck. Reelin' In The Years clip.
* 24-25 October 1966, Happening Ten Years Times Ago, US TV Milton Berle Show, duration: 3.08 minutes. Mimed in the studio. Broadcast 2 December. Highlights - Beck and Page on guitars. Low quality video.
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1967
* 15 March 1967, (1) Shapes of Things, (2) Happening Ten Years Times Ago, (3) Over Under Sideways Down and (4) I'm A Man, Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany, duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds. Presented on Beat Club TV show. LIVE in concert. Highlights - everything.
The Yardbirds from Anacleto Mitraglia on Vimeo.
(1) Shapes of Things
(2) Happening Ten Years Times Ago
(3) Over, Under, Sideways, Down
I'm A Man
* 30 April 1967, LIVE outdoor concert at Fete du Muguet, Chaville, France, duration: 18.24 minutes. Songs include: (1) Shapes of Things, (2) Train Kept a Rollin', (3) Mister You're a Better Man Than I, (4) Heart Full of Soul, (5) My Baby, and (6) You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine. Highlights - Relf inebriated.
* 7 July 1967, Interview with the band, Canadian TV show Let's Go, duration: 2.45 minutes.
* 25-26 July 1967, Fillmore Auditorium, California, audio only, duration: 75.21 minutes. LIVE in concert. Low audio quality (bootleg).
* October 1967, Strollin' On, from the film Blow Up, duration: 4.01 minutes. Mimed in studio. Highlights - everything!
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1968
* 31 May - 1 June 1968, Last Rave-up in the Big Apple, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, duration: 126.43 minutes. Tracks: (1) Train Kept A-Rollin', (2) Mr, You're A Better Man Than I, (3) Heart Full Of Soul, (4) Dazed And Confused, (5) Shapes Of Things, (6) I'm A Man, (7) White Summer, (8) Smokestack Lightning, (9) Waiting For The Man, (10) Bye Bye Bird, (11) Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, (12) Drinking Muddy Water, (13) New York City Blues (aborted), (14-15) I Wish You Would - Hey Gyp, (16) Train Kept A-Rollin', (17) Mr, You're A Better Man Than I, (18) Heart Full Of Soul, (19) Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, (20-21) I Wish You Would - Hey Gyp, (22) Drinking Muddy Water, (23) New York City Blues, (24) I Ain‘t Done Wrong, (25) Over Under Sideways Down. LIVE in concert. Bootleg.
* 1968, Heart Full of Soul, US TV program, duration: 2.27 minutes. Colour, mimed in studio. Highlights - bright colours, the Dragon Telecaster, Page's aggression, McCarty and Relf stoned, the song.
* 1968, (1) Train Kept a Rollin', (2) Dazed and Confused and (3) Goodnight Sweet Josephine, French TV program Bouton Rouge, duration: 11.56 minutes. LIVE in studio.
* July 1968, Live at the Anderson Theatre, New York, duration: 40.42 minutes. LIVE in concert. Tracks include: (1) Train Kept A Rollin’, (2) Mister, You’re A Better Man Than I, (3) Heart Full Of Soul, (4) Dazed And Confused, (5) My Baby, (6) Over Under Sideways Down, (7) Drinking Muddy Water, (8) Shapes of Things, (9) White Summer, (10-11) I'm A Man (contains Moanin’ And Sobbin’). Restored version. Highlights - everything.
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