The Yardbirds - I'm Waiting For The Man (Live)
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The Yardbirds' cover of The Velvet Underground's I'm Waiting For The Man, bootleg recording, 1968.
In the video: Keith Relf: vocals, harmonica. Jeff Beck: lead guitar. Jimmy Page: bass. Chris Dreja: guitar. Jim McCarty: drums, backing vocals. The audio is from a 1968 Los Angeles gig, after Beck left the band, with only Jimmy Page on guitar. Page often used Waiting For The Man for soundchecks in later years.
This is the first cover ever done of a Lou Reed/Velvet Underground song (by a well-known Rock group, at any rate). The Yardbirds toured the US regularly when The Velvet Underground were touring with Nico as part of Andy Warhol's multi-media show The Exploding Plastic Inevitable in the US and Canada in 1966. As many others, upon arriving in New York City The Yardbirds would visit Andy Warhol's Factory where they discovered The Velvets and heard this new and original song written by The Velvets' Lou Reed, which would appear a year later on The Velvet Underground's debut album: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967).
The Yardbirds elected Jimmy Page to ask Lou Reed for the song's chords and lyrics, and they soon introduced I'm Waiting For The Man in the set-list of their live repertoire. Jimmy Page had already a connection to The Velvets: in 1965 he had produced and played everything (except drums) on Nico's very first single I'm Not Saying/The Last Mile (Immediate Records, 1965) before Nico was introduced to Andy Warhol by Brian Jones in 1966 to then tour with The Velvet Underground and singing 3 songs on The Velvets' debut album, as mentioned above.
The video's footage is from The Yardbirds live in France in 1966, just after bassist Paul Samwell-Smith had left the band in 1966: Chris Dreja would move from rhythm guitar to bass and Jimmy Page joined The Yardbirds - first on bass (as in this footage) to give time to Dreja to learn their songs' basslines, to then move on guitar - creating with childhood friend Jeff Beck The Yardbirds' "twin lead guitars" style.
This video has not been made for commercial purposes. No copyright infringement intended. 
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This completely upends my understanding of rock history. 🤯
Yeah, it’s not too bad. From your comment you were probably not alive at this time!
@@scottlewisparsons9551 I was an infant when this was recorded (born in '67).
@@artturnerjr …and a very good year it was too! I was born in 1951 and was quite into this stuff!
Probably the first band to cover a Velvet Underground song, on stage.
After seeing the VU live, Jimmy Page described them as "phenomenal".
Yes. There's some info in the description-box. Thanks for your comment
The Monkees should have covered Venus in Furs.
You laugh, but supposedly Lou really liked the b-side to “Daydream Believer”
@@roblyman1545 The Monkees may be the kings of bubblegum rock but they're way more punk than many people realize. How many punk bands have covered I'm Not Your Stepping Stone? Plus, Michael Nesmith went on to produce the fantastic punk rock movie Repo Man.
Sister Ray.... took the last train to Clarksville
that is a fantastic movie, crazy tidbit of info.@@Slig1977
Paul Revere & the Raiders did steppin stone first & blisters the Monkees lame version
People are often puzzled when the Yardbirds are mentioned as pioneers of heavy metal. It was journalists who witnessed Yardbirds in concert who described the music as heavy metal. This is evidence of what they were referring to. It’s a shame there isn’t more footage of this lineup, or the short lived period when Page switched from bass to co-lead guitar with Beck, which was apparently pretty awesome.
This was probably extremely loud... Referring to the sound in the building. This kicks ass.
At their best the 1960s Yardbirds could still hang with any band that's come since. Give then credit for trying to expand their boundaries.
MINDBLOWN! 🤯 NO IDEA THIS EXISTED
This has to be one of the only video recordings of the line-up consisting of Jimmy Page on bass guitar along with Chris Dreja and Jeff Beck on guitars
Exactly. And that's one of the reasons while it's been used to make this "video"...
that is Jeff beck on bass
@fluxxus I must be wrong , it was the hair cut that got me thinking it was jeff beck
Wow this rocks. 1966 too. Never knew they even covered the VU! Just caught it on Yesterday's Papers.
Love how it goes into 'How Many More Times' right at the end.
Cool that The Yardbirds were aware of the Velvet Underground in the 60s.
the Yardbirds and the VU toured together briefly in late 1966 as part of a package tour
@@gordonlyon2351 where are you getting that information from?
@@henrypskowski4496 the 2 bands were briefly together on the Dick Clark "Caravan of Stars Tour". They played on the same bill for at least 1 show, November 17-20, 1966
, at the Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Highland Park, Michigan
@@gordonlyon2351 I can’t find any mention of the VU on those dates
@@henrypskowski4496 it's also in the video description above!
Garage rock at it's absolute best, courtesy of the Yardbirds.
It doesn’t look like they’re playing in a garage.
@@gostrum1 They don't need to be. Just has that feeling like they are.
Incredible jam, mercy. I did see 2 hour show, no warm-up band, of Led Zeppelin in Indianapolis, IN US in about 1969. Years later, The Pretty Things Yardbirds Blues Band performed there, in an old blues & music club/bar. Later, The (new) Yardbirds performed at a venue. I feel fortunate to have seen several original members live. All "local" bands anywhere in Indiana were playing Yardbirds, Chase (Rory Gallagher), Jimi Hendrix, Stones, Animals back in the 1960'S.
They were hanging out at The Factory around this time. Soo Mindblowing how 60's bands became connected to the dignitaries of the time. Far Out !!!
This version is fiery, rowdy and wild. The players are goin' nuts with it. It was invigorating to watch, thank you.
💩💩☝️☝️very well dressed guys the were!
It's a miracle this song never appeared credited to Page
hahahahaha i see what you did there
C'mon wise guy at least the arrangements of said songs were usually Zep's own !!!Agree?
@@carlobabbini6343 Not on Black Mountain Side. That is pretty much a verbatim copy of Bert Jansch’s arrangement Black Waterside.
What a rocking band. Loved it.
White suits and all. What a find. Great version.
Thanks. Glad you liked it (info in the "description-box") 👍
Incredible !!!
What else needs to be said ???
Didn't think so !!!
Magnifique pièce d'archive !
Epic! Loved it!
awesome !
Awesome, a new one for me!
Love it!
Unbelievable! Didn’t know they ever covered this. It’s scrappy but I think Lou would’ve appreciated that
Info in the video's description-box
Wow, classic thanks for posting and the song history with the Yardbirds. I just knew it from the "Banana" album.
There's even a "How many more times" riff at the end of the song. Incredible
Great.
Too cool!
Lucky that didn't become a "Jimmy Page song".
that's funny!
Lou would have had someone cut off the ends ofvsome of Jimmy Page's fingers v
"£6.10s. 0d. in my hand" doesn't quite scan, fortunately
I laughed way too hard at this.
If that had happened I might've liked Zep more!
Fab !!
Ditch that last comment I made. Reading more of the comments I see that this is film of the Yardbirds playing another song, with audio of the VU tune cover.
I like how they tagged it with "How Many More Times" at the end.
@@badtweed2087 You're wrong on both counts.
This may have been the bands' first live show after Paul Samwell-Smith left to become a full time producer.
Whoa, this doesn't even make sense, but I like it! I never would've thought the Yardbirds would cover the Velvets.
And, yes, Jeff Beck was playing an original Les Paul Standard way before Jimmy Page - who is playing bass,,,,backing the master!
Moray Robertson Jimmy thought Beck was best
Here HERE! Hear!
Appears To Be A Gibson ES 335. Not a Les Pauline
This is one of the all timers on YT!!!!!!! Where else could match up the video{ France 1966 } with the audio { L.A. 1968 } & make it so fricken cool -Who ever you are GREAT Job Robert !!!!!! ps only Page is on this romping version !
Thank you. Glad you liked it. This is who I am 🙂 www.robertcaruso.site/
I attended all of the Yardbirds appearances in Los Angeles and they NEVER played any VU song. Never. This audio is not the Yardbirds. Just another stupid internet bs story.
Hey ganjaman sorry but you are WRONG!! I also have them playing it in San Fran. the week before!!!All 3 versions I have are from the middle of their medley of "Smokestack Lightning".Page has even mentioned it an interview he gave !! Never say never bro!!They ALSO toured w/VU !!Nuff said
@@badtweed2087thank fk someone with a brain commented
@@carlobabbini6343you are full of siht
Clarification: they covered this song, before the official release of VU's first album. That was because they shipped a few copies to England a year before the official release in 1967.
That's how David Bowie came to own one of those copies, and fell in love with the band, and then produced Lou Reed's Transformer album in 1972.
I believe it was John Cale himself that brought over recordings to London.
@@jamesfetherston1190 I wouldn't be surprised. Generally, people in England are very open to the unconventional. That's why their rock is better than American rock.
My man...
Plenty rock/roll.
Funnily I also play this song as I wait for MY man. Yeah, he’s always late so you have to wait.
Wow! Big cabs and no monitors. Monitors wouldn't be standard until the tail end of the 60's. Chaotic but a nice surprise as I didn't know ,until recently, they covered this Velvet Underground song. It does have a Blues feel to it, so it fits in their set. Obviously from 1966 as Jeff Beck is still in the band and Page is on bass.
An interesting contrast visually to the Velvet Underground's black stage wear. Jimmy on bass!
the stage? it everyday
104% sure Page is bowing his guitar during the rave-ups!!!
The Dowliners Sect released a Single with a pre-Velvet Underground-Cover "Why dont you smile now" in February 1967!
Why Don't You Smile Now is not a Velvet Underground song. It was written by Lou Reed & John Cale (and the guys in The Primitives) for The All Night Workers in 1965... ruclips.net/video/mCq3kMXV4VA/видео.htmlsi=7U9KU3COpZjOovW6
how many more times close to the end. great seeing page and beck together, although page is playing bass but still this rocks with beck at the helm.
ppaige and beck playing according to Lou Reed patterns is definitely good
I hope to find clapton's cover by the evening on I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME
Wait, Clapton wuuuuuuuuttttttt???
Beck in Yardbirds with a Les Paul!
Did you hear that little bit of Zeppelin in the end 🎸
Nice backline of Marshall stacks.
Wow... on a Sunday morning...femme fatale.... this is weirder than seeing the Stones do White Light-White Heat and knowing nobody would believe.... really
Anyone else out there remember the Stones, LA, 1989, doing... White Light White heat... ?
it would be great to see this re-colorized
Would be nice if the audio was in sync with the video..
Bravo!!!!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😃
Very young Mr. Page.
I had no idea this song was that old. Rough recording but it's probably old as me. Ouch. Yardbirds criminally underrated and unknown in America. The roots of all hard rock, metal, punk are right here. Theres a cleaner version of this by cheap trick recorded live (by cassette) on CHEAP TRICK box set LOVE SEX AMERICA. Good 4 cd set for trick fans. CT Another underrated band. INMHO.
VU, the who, Cream and Lou himself somewhere they laughed to the side
The Yardbirds had already had some big hits in America by 1968, they were actually pretty well known there.
even a band like this can play a wrong chord every now and then. cool
it's not realistic to compare versions, "this band did it better than that one" - but the yardbirds never failed to astound, and they come after this VU number with some real fire. i would play this version (sound quality problems and all) before any other i have heard.
The best version of this song from 1968 until 2022, when Keith Richards showed how to do it proper
And yet the audience remained in their seats, applauding politely
WUT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU......... HOW DOES THIS EXIST ND WHY HAVE I NEVER KNOWN ABOUT IT BEFORE???????? Jimmy's solos on this sound like he was really into what Lou was doiing on Run Run Run too. :O
🙂
The audio is Page only Shrine Aud. 5/31/68 in L.A.
Someone one day needs to clear up the audio from the bootleg album that this was taken from: "Last Rave-up in L.A. ,particularly the medley of Smokestack Lightning/How Many More Times.
Audio is Peachy enough for me, i've heard far worse at gigs depending on where i'm Pogo~ing.
Oh, my goodness!! Who'da thunk it?!
Hope this isn't some AI entertainment job and that, God bless the Yardbirds, it really happened
This predates heavy thrash death metal by 20 years in using big volume distortion for chunky e chord based riffing. These guys were heavy metal pioneers and probably had no clue at the time.
They were Hip to it, not clueless!
If your a fan of proto-metal check this mindblowingly unreleased 1972 LP (finally released in the 1990s) by UK band Wicked Lady!:
ruclips.net/video/sF6XUflFnvI/видео.html
..and if you've never heard of genius proto-metal pioneers 'Budgie' then check out their first five LPs (1971-1975).
Also, check out these Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page dual guitar heavies from 1966: ruclips.net/video/OJZHnZrUoQ0/видео.html (the guitar on this anti-assholes song was hugely influential on Jimmy Hendrix - first song ever to make electric guitar sound like a police-car siren); and from the deliberate satirical/surreal London Marquee club scene in the movie Blow Up: ruclips.net/video/jHqXWIoYRvA/видео.html (the Italian film director originally wanted ideally an original previously unreleased cutting edge rocker song by the Velvet Underground, then tried for The Who for the scene (primarily for Pete Townshend's smashing a guitar and amplifier trademark), but couldn't get the band, so they tried the band Tomorrow, which didn't work out because the director thought the song they came up with was too lame, so then they more-happily got a Yardbirds 'original' instead); this 1966 rocker is just Jeff Beck on guitar: ruclips.net/video/EPx5qyTn_aU/видео.html (instrumental version).
I heard How Many More Times towards the end of the song
And you heard right. Some people left comments here saying this was "fake" and not The Yardbirds... apart from the fact that it's on a well-known bootleg, that other people posted the audio, that one can found it on the net with Google, etc.. the fact the Page had that riff (here used before he used it for How Many More Times), proves - with all the rest - that this is indeed The Yardies... Thanks for your comment
Marshalls?
The audience has no idea who wrote this song.
The video is not exactly syncing with the sound. Per the beat of the song on the audio, it's a little slower than what is showing on the video. Look closer at the drummer and you see the beat is not exactly what is on the video. Even when the camera showed Beck playing his Gibson, he was raking a faster chord than is what on the audio.
Obviously. The footage's from 1966, the audio from 1968. The point of the "video" is: 1) For people to know that The Yardbirds covered The Velvets' Waiting For The Man. 2) To hear this little-known live bootleg recording of The Yardbirds' Waiting For The Man. 3) It's also the first cover ever of a Lou ReedVelvet Underground song, by a known band with hits, at any rate. 4) To have something to look at while hearing the song, rather than just the audio on its own which others have already posted on YT. 5) This footage was chosen because there isn't much footage of The Yardbirds with both Beck and Page, except for Happenings Ten Years Time Ago from US TV (1966) and Antonioni's Blow Up. This footage is earlier than both, with Page still on bass, before switching to guitar, and because there was enough footage from this gig (in terms of length) to be used in order to try and approximate a "video" for this song; it's not a professional video made by a record company with the aim of winning a MTV video award 🙂 The relevant info is in the description-box
Jimmy Page worked w/ Nico on an album.
Page produced Nico's first single I'm Not Saying/The Last Mile - pre-Velvet Underground - in London, 1965. I'm Not Saying is a Gordon Lightfoot song and Page played everything on it, except drums 🙂
Cool stuff! The audience appear to be in shock
jimmy page tantando no baixo
You understand better where Bowie and Ronson got their inspiration.
Exactly.... Bowie was clearly a big Yardbirds and Keith Relf fan (in some of his early photos one can see that he tried to look just like Relf; musically-speaking, The Jean Genie is a perfect example. Zeppelin's Robert Plant was a big Keith Relf fan too) and apparently when he met Ronson, Bowie said "I found my Jeff Beck"... 🙂
Except bowie had heard the acetate of waiting for the man before this.
@Zozo So you are slow
Really? NOw this is innovative, really experimenting, this is interesssssstinnnnng. THey could've become punk before going all Zeppelin :) hahha
This is good, Keith!! :) Thank you for this video
Oh, to watch these shows back then and be blown away by creative variety!!!! Jim is good with harmonizing, I guess like Jeff too :) Zounds good And that's a good blend into How Many More TImes
Check out these Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page dual guitar heavies from 1966: ruclips.net/video/OJZHnZrUoQ0/видео.html (the guitar on this anti-assholes song was hugely influential on Jimmy Hendrix - first song ever to make electric guitar sound like a police-car siren); and from the deliberate satirical/surreal London Marquee club scene in the movie Blow Up: ruclips.net/video/jHqXWIoYRvA/видео.html (the Italian film director originally wanted ideally an original previously unreleased cutting edge rocker song by the Velvet Underground, then tried for The Who for the scene (primarily for Pete Townshend's smashing a guitar and amplifier trademark), but couldn't get the band, so they tried the band Tomorrow, which didn't work out because the director thought the song they came up with was too lame, so then they more-happily got a Yardbirds 'original' instead); this 1966 rocker is just Jeff Beck on guitar: ruclips.net/video/EPx5qyTn_aU/видео.html (instrumental version).
The video's description is misleading. The footage is from 1966 (with Beck & Page), but the audio is from a different concert in 1968 (with Page only). This can be easily confirmed by reviewing the 2 videos which were used as sources for this video:
France 1966 video: ruclips.net/video/HK9rGYUsetM/видео.html
USA 1968 audio: ruclips.net/video/PBRmpNXQF4w/видео.html
The other reason that we know it's fake is that the original version of this song (by the Velvet Underground) wasn't released until March 1967 -- nearly a year after this Beck/Page performance was filmed.
It is confirmed. It's all in the video's "description-box"
Anybody know who the guitarist’s were, on this recording??? 🎸👍🏻😉
Jimmy Page is the only guitarist on it. Apparently, they were listening to the Banana album constantly on the Yardbirds' last tour of the U.S. Page has said he saw the Velvets several times and loved them.
www.interviewmagazine.com/music/jimmy-page-scarlett-sabet-catalyst-led-zeppelin-couple
@@ohpopshop I see Jeff Beck with Jimmy Page in the video
@@patrickreis4499 The question was not about who is in the mishmash video that was put together to go with the recording. The question was who was on the recording. "Only Jimmy" is the correct answer, but thanks for playing. ;-)
@@ohpopshop read the video description
In the tag-out they go into "How Many More Times" - it's almost inaudible because of the poor recording but it's there. Are we sure this is 1967? The film is from the June 26 1966 show at The Weekend Club in Paris -- a week after Page joined the band after the infamous Queen's College show in Oxford, UK. Not sure when exactly the Yardbirds began playing "Waiting for the Man" but it was likely very late in the game, could be March of 1968 when they returned to NY to record and played a few shows.
But at what point were the Yardbirds playing it? I've just not found evidence the Yardbirds were playing this in 1967. The last US tour in spring of 1968, they were playing it as a medley with How Many More Years/How Many More Times - it gets into that. They don't play it at the Anderson Theatre in March 1968, but it's on the set list at the Fillmore West and on the LA Shrine bootlegs a couple of months later.
yardbirds68.blogspot.com/
I personally think that this particular recording is from 1968, after Jeff Beck left the band and The Yardbirds were a 4-piece for the first time, with only Jimmy Page on guitar. They could have started playing it earlier in 1966/'67, of course... Bowie was already doing I'm Waiting For The Man in 1967 too (with The Riot Squad) and he - unlike The Yardbirds, who had several international hits, met Andy Warhol, Lou Reed & The Velvets, etc.. - wasn't known yet, hadn't met Reed, The Velvets and Warhol, and had never been to the US yet. The info was briefly related to me years ago by Page (who over the years often used/played this song at soundchecks for gigs) and Yardbirds Jim McCarty & Chris Dreja when I sang with The (re-formed) Yardbirds in 2009; none of them was 100% sure of the date of this recording. Somebody else posted just the audio on RUclips, with the poster from the original gig - if I remember correctly... Cheers!
A side by side listen of this and the recording from The Shrine in LA, May 31, 1968, (posted by Mr. Eddie) reveals ... This is definitely the Shrine bootleg, May 31. That makes sense, as it's pretty much one of a kind from the Page era of the Yardbirds. According to legend, the bootlegger, Dave Cole, concealed the recording device under his pregnant girlfriend/wife's sweater. Mr. Cole left a couple of comments under the "Mr. Eddie" channel post, so he's still around.
Very good, well done. Thanks for that... : )
Actually they're playin' The train kept a rollin', the Johnny Burnette/Tiny Bradshaw chestnut, not Waitin' for my man
Do the Yardbirds have any idea what meeting "the man" at Lexington and 125th with $26 in your hand means?
Yes, they did. That's why they covered the song. There were no songs about hard drugs & street life before Lou Reed (except for Blues from the '20s and '30s, like Charley Patton's Spoonful Blues or The Memphis Jug Band's Cocaine Habit Blues).... 🙂
It's about selling and buying heroin on the street corner. Robert Caruso is inaccurate about it being the first white pop song about buying drugs (or opiates), there were many from 1964-1966, but before 1968 they mostly used colloquialisms and inferences that went over the heads of most censors or even record producers. 'I'm waiting for my man' (a Velvet Underground mid-1966 song) however, was not the first overt white pop song about opioids that I've ever come across was oft rock-band covered Buffy Saint Marie 1963 song Cod'ine (codeine): ruclips.net/video/PuFjA_-A0hc/видео.html. Up and coming SF Bay Area garage band The Standells' song 'medication' (about narcotics), recorded in mid-1965 for their only hit LP, was banned from radio airplay in most of the US and got them partially black-listed, as similarly happened for garage-psych band John's Children in the UK in late-1966 (with their 'overtly' sexual and drug lyrics), most bands however didn't have such bad consequences (by mid-1967 censorship about 'drug songs' had practically ended in the US and Europe). The first song about LSD was composed by the Pretty things in autumn-1965 (though the song is ostensibly referring to British currency (prior to decimalization in the late 1960s) i.e. £ =[livre] a.k.a. pounds, s = shillings, and d = [denier] a.k.a. pence: e.g. £1, 1s, 1d), by the time the song came out on LP the drug LSD had been in the news for six months, but still a rare commodity until late-1966. In 1964 The Yardbirds, like among many UK bands at the time, were prolific users of methamphetamine, the then drug of choice besides alcohol (check out their live 1964 EP 'Five Live Yardbirds', the original-speed version, as the original 1960s vinyl version was literally slowed down since it was considered "too fast" for 1964 audiences!), as were The Beatles prolific users of methamphetamine in their 1960-1962 Hamburg days, and The High Numbers (a.k.a. The Who) in 1964.
@@wrzzelwraherisstoszewraher4309 Yeah, and there were songs about cocaine like Cocaine Habit Blues by The Memphis Jug Band or a Spoonful Blues by Charley Patton in the '20 and '30s or Junker Blues by Champion Jack Dupree, Ray Charles' Let's Go Get Stoned, etc... The Velvet Underground - mostly because of Heroin - became notorious for it, that's all. It's also the graphic realism of Reed's song-writing and drugs are a recurrent theme in many of his songs: Waiting For The Man, White Light/White Heat, Sister Ray, etc... together with drag-queens, S&M, etc.. A lot of people identified Reed & The Velvets with that stuff more than any other act. I mean, the people you mention didn't shoot up on stage like Reed in the '70s, etc... lol!
Check out these Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page dual guitar heavies from 1966: ruclips.net/video/OJZHnZrUoQ0/видео.html (the guitar on this anti-assholes song was hugely influential on Jimmy Hendrix - first song ever to make electric guitar sound like a police-car siren); and from the deliberate satirical/surreal London Marquee club scene in the movie Blow Up: ruclips.net/video/jHqXWIoYRvA/видео.html (the Italian film director originally wanted ideally an original previously unreleased cutting edge rocker song by the Velvet Underground, then tried for The Who for the scene (primarily for Pete Townshend's smashing a guitar and amplifier trademark), but couldn't get the band, so they tried the band Tomorrow, which didn't work out because the director thought the song they came up with was too lame, so then they more-happily got a Yardbirds 'original' instead; this 1966 rocker is just Jeff Beck on guitar: ruclips.net/video/EPx5qyTn_aU/видео.html (instrumental version).
Thanks, man. 1) Happenings Ten Years Time Ago is one my favourite songs ever, way ahead of its time. John Paul Jones plays bass on it. It's a shame that it's the only Yardies single with Beck & Page (they recorded only 3 songs with that line-up: Blow Up's Stroll On - here's the whole track: ruclips.net/video/adbGT8Rg9OE/видео.html - and b-side Psycho Daisies. I made a video for it ruclips.net/video/elPlidNTeog/видео.html ). I included footage of b-movie actress Mary Hughes about whom the song is about. She was gorgeous 🙂 ; Beck left the heavy touring schedule of The Yardbirds to stay with her in California (as he sings in the song). The Yardbirds did 4 US tours in 1966 alone, but each tour lasted 2-3 weeks. They travelled by coach & played 3 shows per day; one was a matinee' (3 o'clock in the afternoon, usually in cinemas or small theatres), and 2 shows in 2 different clubs at night (one at 9, one at 11, for instance; each show was half-hour long in the '60s). 2) I'm not an Antonioni fan (neither is Jeff Beck! 🙂) who originally wanted The Velvet Underground. In 1966 everybody talked about them because of their connection to Andy Warhol; they were very "art-rock", but they couldn't get UK working permits in time for the film's shoot. Antonioni then asked for the trendiest London band at the time and was told about The Who (hence the guitar-smashing scene that Beck reluctantly performed), but they were on tour. I didn't know about Tomorrow. Anyway, in the end Antonioni went for The Yardbirds. They couldn't use the title Train Kept-A-Rollin' for some copyright issue, hence Relf made up some lyrics and they called it Stroll On. 3) That's a mix of What Do You Want from the Roger The Engineer album, with Relf's vocals edited out. Great track from a great album, one of their best. Again, thanks
@@RobertCarusoOfficial Thanks for the correction on the Velvets cf. Blow Up film (I completely forgot that part of the story).
The band 'Tomorrow' (1966-1968) (morphed from 'The In Crowd', 1965-1966) and in turn morphed into the short lived mind-blowing genius band of musician flat-mates called Bodast (1968-1969), who's amazing slightly ahead of it's time LP was never released partly because the band had already broke up as lead guitarist Steve Howe had already left to form the band 'Yes' in 1969, it is arguably one of the best 'unreleased' rock LPs of all time:
Bodast 1968/1969 unreleased LP and released single:
ruclips.net/p/PLGkeRiGAYgavtqPFYrVql7UfD23SAHP4i
Meanwhile:
Arguably my fave Tomorrow track, 'Now Your time Has Come' (late-1967):
ruclips.net/video/K4TKIgvtPnk/видео.html
The song 'Blow Up' by Tomorrow that was submitted for the movie Blow Up, was a much inferior late-1966 demo version of this late-1967 track, re-titled 'Real Life Permanent Dream':
ruclips.net/video/8_WrPdRr8Qk/видео.html
The 'In Crowd' raver - Things She Says (late-1965 single B-side):
ruclips.net/video/u4oAEPL5-Hw/видео.html.
Clapton didn't have to "wait." Always special delivery.
Shame he didn't OD and spare us.
The Yardbirds in their nice matching white suits don't match up with the grittiness of the song or their performance! In my VU covers playlist with 8 other versions (including an earlier one by Bowie). Thanks for the upload!
Jimmy Page on bass.
They WERE one of my favorite bands but sure did murder this song.
Gary P it’s fake
Your comment is "fake". Don't you know that Page often played this song? Haven't you read the info in the description box? Didn't you read the comments? Didn't you see this track posted by others on YT? Like this one? ruclips.net/video/PBRmpNXQF4w/видео.html
kidcalabria lol I didn’t know I would get a reply so fast. Baited.
: )
So Keith Relf must have been one of those people who bought the first velvets album
The Yardbirds were Velvet Underground fans even earlier than that. They got ahold of an early demo tape that was circulating around the UK.
That audio is not the Yardbirds. Singer doesn't sound like Relf, drummer doesn't play like McCarty and the guitar playing is way too simple for either Beck or Page to be playing without any extra embellishments. This audio has been debumked many times before only to have it pop back up over and over again. And of course the video of the YBirds is from an entirely different event and the audio for that video is out there and is sonically much different. duh. Lou reed fans wouldn't know the difference however.
The info is in the video's "info-box". Robert Caruso sang with The Yardbirds, spoke with Page, McCarty, Dreja and Relf's son Jay about it and the audio, from a well-known bootleg, is bona fide. Relf was drunk and McCarty sang in unison with him and Relf's vocals and harmonica are unmistakable. Moreover - as many, more discerning viewers have noticed - Page even plays the How Many More Times riff toward the end of the song... and the abbreviation for The Yardbirds is "The Yardies" (not YBirds), "debunked" is spelled with a "n" and Reed with a capital "R", if we really want to be pedantic about the obvious... 🙂
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And the band apparently never heard the original.
they replaced vu in blowup
I think the drummer is singing on this track too...
+MrWitchman1967 Jim McCarty did indeed sing backing vocals on this... it's in the video's description/info-box... : )
Well, serves me right for not reading the whole thing. :P
Thanks for the scoop...
Fake! This video is from the Yardbirds playing on French TV where they played "Train Kept A Rollin'", "Shapes Of Things", and "Over, Under, Sideways, Down". They never played "I'm Waitin' for The Man" until years after Jeff Beck left the band. This is a poorly edited lip synch of something that never happened.
So what? It's all in the video's description box. If you see this video of Hendrix's Are You Experienced with footage from all kinds of sources, does it mean it's "fake"? ruclips.net/video/KDIvdZK5YY0/видео.htmlsi=o0uH2LYZmWJ6HN-z Don't you know what a video is? And why do you keep deleting and then leaving the same comment over and over again? You're a cretin! 😂
This is PUNK!
This video doesn't go with this audio . The audio was Yardbirds at Shrine in LA...Page only., bootleg. (Which I recorded in 1968) The Video is yardbirds in Scandinavia I think. Someone made this video for fun.
Ditto this (among others) and yet nobody complains that audio & video come from different sources: ruclips.net/video/elPlidNTeog/видео.html . Btw, the relevant info IS in the video's "description-box". And of course videos are not made "for fun" or entertainment, but to resolve global warming, wars, civil liberties, political elections, workers' rights, transgender issues, capitalism, etc.. etc.. 🙂
I dont quite believe that they would have to ask for the chords! This is a super simple song, everyone could play this by ear, especially such great musicians as them! I think that part of the story is pure bollocks
i ? that.
Your dumb
i suspect it meant that Page asked Lou for his permission or blessing for the Yardbirds to cover it. As a professional courtesy, like the musicians' unspoken code or something. It's just showing respect. Besides, the Velvet's surely seemed like the kind of band you would politely ask to cover their songs or they might shiv you in an alley. Hahaha.
I had no idea, thought Lou Reed wrote this.
He did. This is a cover.
I’m not convinced. Looks like an imposter
5 of them. Exact humanoid copies of Keith Relf, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Chris Dreja & Jim McCarty. Made so well that at the end the Page one plays the How Many More Times riff before he started Zeppelin... 🙄
I don't think so
"Think"? How about "know"? 🙄
1) ruclips.net/video/PBRmpNXQF4w/видео.html
2) faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-yardbirds-the-velvet-underground-cover/
3) aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/01/15/the-yardbirds-im-waiting-for-the-man-vu-cover-live-1968/
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Almost Sex Pistols like
Inventing the Stooges.
Yeah, it's got that stooges feel going on.
I don't think they'd have had to ask for "the chords", it's really simple and players of Beck's and Page's experience would figure it out in one play through. OTOH, the lyrics might have been harder to decipher.
They heard the Velvets jamming, in the middle of a party, among people, talking and dancing and stoned. Relf, who was drunk, noticed the song and they asked Page to ask Reed. I'm Waiting For The Man would not be released until a year later, there was no record of it. In that situation are you absolutely sure that you'd remember the song exactly 100%? The main point was to ask for permission, who had written it, the exact title & lyrics, etc.. and hence also the chords to be absolutely sure. It's called being professional
Sounds like the blueprint for The Stooges.......though Iggy needs a jolt.
Definitely not footage of them playing the song. Beck would have been out of the band by then
All the info is the description box.... It must be the 100th time we say it in the comments...
This seems fake. The band is real on film, but the music is someone else and it doesn't match.
Audio from bootleg, LA, 1968 [ ruclips.net/video/PBRmpNXQF4w/видео.html ], rare footage (with both Beck & Page) from France, 1966. The 2 put together to have something to look at while hearing the first cover ever of a Reed/Velvets song. It's in the "description-box" & repeated in the comments ad nauseam... Strange how it's not "fake" when the same thing has been done with "videos" of The Velvets, The Stooges, Lou Reed, John Cale, The Yardbirds' Psycho Daisies, etc.. on this same channel... 🙂