Aww wow im totally floored, man i did not know that the Yards had a go at this ! EXCELLENT ! I LOVE IT ! Keith may not have the vocal dexterity of Robert Plant and that's because he's not suppose to right. He brings and wields his own unique talents. Keith Relf I hope somehow this message can reach you wherever you're at and know you are still loved and missed. RIP !
Years ago I had a music teacher and one week he gave me a piece of music to learn and I played it according to the written notes and what I had previously heard and it was pretty good. Then the next week he said, "now, make it your own". And that was probably the single most important thing any music teacher ever said to me. My point being that a few years later Robert Plant totally made this song his own.
Not a few years later, a few months later. Thiscwas March 68, the Zeppelin version was recorded in October that same year. Things were moving very quickly.
I put a lot of work into an English assignment. So much work that I deserved an A for effort, but the teacher gave me a D and said: "All you have told me is what you have read. I had not come up with anything new. I just repeated what had already been written. In no way had I related what I had learned to the real world. For example: In economics I learned that a company with a monopoly over a product can reduce the price of the product and sell more of the product and make a greater profit by lowering the price. Well, I say that that has a lot to do with the cost of cigarettes in the old days when a pack of smokes cost less than a dollar, and the smoker bought more than he or she actually needed or maybe wanted.
And I always tell my students, if you love a song and want to play it your way, fantastic! But first you must learn it note for note the way it was written first. Make it second nature...THEN you can change it to reflect your own personality. But until you actually learn the song the way it was intended, you cannot possibly think you can improve it.
In 1964, 3 YRS before Jake Holmes wrote/recorded this song, he was in Jim, Joan, & Jake, a short-lived comedy trio w/ actor Jim Connell & a struggling comedienne named...JOAN RIVERS!!!! They played Greenwich Village coffeehouses. HOLMES went on to write commercials, like "Be All That You Can Be" for the Army & the "I'm a Pepper" thing for Dr Pepper.
Ironically the "New Yardbirds" had already changed their name to Led Zeppelin but were contractually obligated to close out the contract as the "New Yardbirds."
@@cspaikido That’s really interesting-didn’t know, thanks. While I’m a bird lover, and have feeders, the word “Yardbirds” doesn’t really evoke power or grandeur to me, LOL. Then again the “Beatles” isn’t much better 🤣, but at least by going with “Beatles” instead of “Beetles”, they got out of the small creature motif, and had something that related to music (The “Beat”). 🙂
This was actually performed on French TV in 1967, there is also a color version of this performance. The lyrics are actually the original by Jake Holmes. 🎸🎻
I grew up during that era and always thought "Dazed and Confused" was a Led Zeppelin original. Jimmy Page on guitar... I had no clue, thanks for posting.
@@tedspradley809anyone can sound good in a studi. Keith couldnt sing, his voice was weak, he had little control, virtually no range. Often flat. Sorry bud
He is a real gent in person too. I got to chat with him a bit in Toronto ages ago, hanging around after a set that included John Hawken of The Strawbs on keyboard. I was doing photography and radio spots for PR. All of us with our healthy mops of grey hair by that time.
This record is important for us to understand how behind the musicians were if compared to Jimmy Page. Jimmy explained the type of sound that he wanted, but the musicians wanted to be Beatles, they wanted to be Hendrix, etc. They just didn't want to be innovative, unique, creators. So, Jimmy Page never gave up or surrendered to the standard sound format. He found Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones, and changed the history of world music. Some are born to be copies, others are born to be ETERNAL.
Utter nonsense - the musicians in the Yardbirds -including Beck - were so afar ahead of Page/Plant/Zep that they made Zep look as if they were standing still!
Opinions are what they are, but head-to-head there’s no comparison, honestly. McCarty did a great job with what he was working with. Great sense of time, and had some power also, but he could never play what John Bonham played… nor can 99% of other drummers, for that matter. 🙏🏼 He did justice to this song though.
@@fzarro9947 Oh boy, I love the internet... My comment was very short and all, but if you had some goodwill, you would read the word "here" and "for me" more carefully. "Here" means "in this presentation", and it clearly states that McCarty did a great job on this piece, not that he is a better drummer. By contrasting with the initial statement that Bonham was skilled "like a machine", you can understand that I'm not talking about McCarty skills, but style, hence the "for me". Just go easy on the internet, will ya?
@@promark5317 Dude just posted a reply to something I never claimed, why should I just let it go? And no, it wasn't condescending, it was hostile. I tend to do that when annoyed by someone for something stupid like "appreciating the wrong drummer" on RUclips. Just let people enjoy things ffs
@@MsAppassionata He really was, but, you know, bass player and all that.🤨 Worse yet, he was the keyboard player, too. 🤦♂️😂🤣😂 To be clear, I love every member or the greatest Rock band ever.😉
@@vaughnvaughn9965 I would imagine that Jonesy probably wrote most of his own bass lines. Jones also contributed to some of the songwriting. “Black Dog” is one example.
@@MsAppassionata - I would also imagine he wrote "most" of his bass lines. What we do know is that he did not write some of the most famous emblematic ones, which were guitar lines composed before he was introduced to the compositions.
@@sharidacox3581 the other way around. Robert plant told Jimmy " we need to write our own stuff". Page that rapist stole everything from everyone and passed it on like it was his....the violin bow technique against the gituar stings... Eddie Phillips invented that. He's a musician. Great song. The yard birds were great. Jimmy's bullshit..
This is from an episode of a French TV program, "BOUTON ROUGE", filmed Saturday, March 9, 1968. Also played on that show were Train Kept A-Rollin' and Goodnight Sweet Josephine.
It really is shameful that it took Page so long to give Jake Holmes a credit. He should have done it when the song was released. Certainly after Holmes contacted him.
Yeah everyone else is saying nobody can keep up with Page here, IMHO the vocalist and keyboard player are the only two somewhat lost. Bass player ain't doing anything fancy but he's serving his function. 💯
" 'Dazed and Confused is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jake Holmes in 1967...the Yardbirds reworked it with a new arrangement...several recordings of which have been released. In 1968 'Dazed and Confused', with new lyrics and vocal line, was recorded by Page's new group... "
This is the first time I've actually listened to this song...I've heard about it, knew that The Yardbirds was a like a launching pad for great guitarists...Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck...I really didn't hear Jimmy Page play, except on Sunshine Superman from Donavan, and really didn't know he was the one playing lead guitar on that song until just a few years ago...I probably heard Sunshine Superman not long after it came out in 1966...so I would have been around 5 or 6 years old when I first heard that song. But when I really heard Jimmy Page's guitar work, and knew it was him, was when my cousin bought Led Zeppelin III...Whole Lotta Love...scary...Thanks for posting this performance.
Wonderful footage of this recording taken only 12 months before Led zeppelin . Jimmy's guitar work is as it would be and to be fair , the drummer was pretty good . I think Keith was sadly killed in a bizarre electrocution "For your love " was one of the first singles l ever bought . Thankyou for this .
I remember hearing the Yard Birds for the first time back in 1967. It was their song « Ha, Ha, Said the Clown ». It was while sitting in my dad’s car outside a rural church in Iowa where he was the minister. It was a transformative experience.
It was recorded by session musicians and Keith Relf's voice was later dubbed over that recording. No members of the Yardbirds played any musical instrument on that recording. With that taken in consideration, I am surprised it was a "transformative experience" for you. :)
From Wikipedia: In August 1967, Holmes opened for the Yardbirds at a Greenwich Village gig in New York.[7] According to Holmes, "That was the infamous moment of my life when 'Dazed and Confused' fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page."
Siempre escuché y me deleité con la versión de Led Zeppelin. Éste vídeo de The Yardbirds,y su versión jamás lo había visto y escuchado! Es una versión más psicodélica/pop,no obstante sigue siendo una maravilla. Y no podía faltar Jimmy Page tocando su guitarra con el arco de violín!⚡⚡
Rock and roll...raw , rugged , exciting . Usually wish i was younger except for being a little older to have drunk the late sixties. Thanks for puting this here.
Imagine if Page and Holmes would have worked together on this instead of going to court over it. A combo of both amazing versions would have been God-tier music.
@Tyler Gold Is there actually evidence of that? I did just read that Holmes contacted Page after Led Zeppelin’s version came out (about not receiving songwriting credits), but Page didn’t respond to him, so he filed suit… understandably. Love Zeppelin but they could have avoided court if they just gave the man song credits (and thus royalties) from the beginning.
Holmes himself didn't seem to really give much of a damn about it for 30 years. Just like Zeppelin didn't give a damn about all those bands who blatantly took from them. They never sued anyone.
I prefer Jakes recording, It was his song and he performed it better than those that borrowed ;) from him. I'm surprised they didn't also cover his excellent " leaves never break"
I had no idea this was created nearly verbatim before zep!!? This is amazing, drums bass and harmonica etc are excellent… vocals too just lower octave and different style
The Yardbirds of 1965 thru 1968 with personnel changes in between, were the first Progressive Rock band in history (with The Beatles a close second) and were quite literally lightning in a bottle. Amazing band, excellent musicians and singers (RIP Keith Relf and Jeff Beck). They blurred the lines between Rock and Blues and even Jazz, with incredible precision. They inspired Fleetwood Mac (the original late 1960s Blues Rock band) so they must have really made an impression on the entire music industry. I suppose everyone knows their influence on the band Cream (Eric Clapton's spinoff group from the 'Birds). Suddenly, as if overnight, there were at least 20 or more new Progressive Rock bands all competing for some chart territory and finding their audiences, all with original unique sounds. Some took the Blues Rock approach, like Procol Harum, while others set out for fresh artistic territories like Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues. Wish I could have seen The Yardbirds live in concert in the 1960s, but I was in high school in 1965 and then in college in 1966-67 in Los Angeles so I could only buy their records and see them on TV shows.
This is my first exposure to Yardbirds handling this tune. I heard Led Zeppelin perform it in January 1969, as the warm-up band to Vanilla Fudge. Fascinating.
Hearing this tune by The Yardbirds for the first time, although I've listened to the Led Zeppelin version many times. Couldn't help noticing that the LZ version uses the same melodies and drum parts/feel, but amped up by Plant and Bonham. Never really thought about Bonzo not completely creating his own drum parts, but his playing was remarkably faithful to the older version of the song.
@@slouhendRight you are. Eddie Phillips of the Creation was the first to use the bow on a guitar technique on “Making Time” and others. The Creation were a great band.
Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012.
Just remember Jake's guitar playerTeddy Irwin and Music Director played so powerfully,using a Guild Jazz box (,Artist Award,)thru an Ampeg B 15 and a volume pedal with a Fuzz tone , .Teddy could make it sound like a horn section Jake sang with more skill than Plant could ever scream.
JUST INFO. "Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012." ruclips.net/video/pTsvs-pAGDc/видео.html
Love Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin, but Jake Holmes should get writing credit on "Dazed And Confused" since Holmes' original version is CLEARLY the basis for the Page written song of the same title.
Well, there is not much difference between an "honest" Telecaster and an "arrogant" Gibson Les Paul (rather than a double neck one). Maybe the outfit of Page...
@@Shaun.Stephens what I mean is that if are Jimmy Page on stage you don't need a place to hide, whatever guitar you play. By the way I have to admit that Telecaster sounds good (if not better) than Strato, always considered (incortectly, imho) better for hard'n'heavy, perhaps for the shape, more aggressive and impressive. Lots of hm bands have a Strato (I should write "had" because today Jackson and other marks have taken over) but I still keep in my mind Mick Mars and Carlos Cavazo roaring very loudly with a simple and soft Telecaster.
Telecasters are very limited and not even relevant after like 1990. Les Paul’s are not only a work of art, but a vastly superior instrument. Telecasters have nothing on a Paul.
@@nichilistamilitante6418the LES Paul Is a different Beast with 2 volumes 2 tones and the Page's One had a special wiring with 2 push pulls to give about 32 different sounds. I know as I have done the same on my LES Paul and I can't tell you I worked months to do this mod as I'm lefty and to do It reverse added complexity😬
I have to say I am genuinly very confused (no pun intended). To hear Dazed and Confused deconstructed without Robert Plant kind've trips me out. I thought this was one of those joke videos at first.. I've never seen this nor knew this existed. Jimmy Page's sound is amazing... I need some time to process this...LOL
The Yardbirds would reorganize right after this tour and become known as Led Zeppelin, with an amazing Rock vocalist to complement their incredible instrumentation. This song morphed into the definitive Led Zep version in early 1969 with Robert Plant belting out his amazing raw blues vocals.
Always excellent with Keith Relf on lead vocal. Also great footage for our more worshipful Zeppelin fans, who get a chance to tell us how bad this is without Plant (it's actually quite good) .
When I went to a Zeppelin concert in my town in 71, Robert Plant couldn't even hit the notes John Bonham was so drunk he couldn't even play. Jimmy Page was so stoned out of his mind. He was on another planet. The only one they held it together was John Paul Jones. Studio recordings are one thing. Playing live is another, Jethro Tull was there opening act . Zeppelin was so bad that during their set, everyone kept on chanting Tull Tull Tull.😅
They weren't saying "Tull", they were chanting "rule" as in "Led Zeppelin rule!" Trivia note: in the 1970s Jethro Tull was commonly referred to by rock fans as Jethro Dull.
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This is like a rehearsal for even more greatness to come.
la versione originale è di Jake Holmes, la sua voce è molto più alta e tagliente di quella di Plant
One could say the shape of things to come, right?
I like this version better
@@rattusscarer3087 yes it is very good, the first Led Zeppelin album borrowed a lot from the Yardbirds, I love both bands.
It's a rehearsal for more musical ripoffs to come ...
posted 15 years ago and this just shows up in my algorithm now?
And today in my....
@@morusalba1518 Same here.
Ditto.
ikr lo same
Same, 10-7-24 Apparently, Jimmy Page had copyright. Also, my first time hearing, or, knowing about this version. 59yo
The difference is so huge. Goes to show how unbelievably incredible RP’s voice is.
And the drumming !
Just finish watching the Royal Albert hall. Performance which actually is led zeppelin what a massive difference. Robert's voices is incredible.
And sounds way different without Bonzo's huge aggressive drum fills.🥁
Plant has one of the most incredible voices ever guys a god!
This is the Yardbirds, not Led Zeppelin
The shot of the host doing a “musically pointing around” dance is priceless
ah, yes the famous French musical point dance
I do that same dance at the club, when they play certain club Bangerz.
Chevy Chase!
The pointed finger is insured for $250,000.
I'm digging that fancy console he's surrounded by with all the tape machines and whatnot.
Aww wow im totally floored, man i did not know that the Yards had a go at this ! EXCELLENT ! I LOVE IT !
Keith may not have the vocal dexterity of Robert Plant and that's because he's not suppose to right. He brings and wields his own unique talents.
Keith Relf I hope somehow this message can reach you wherever you're at and know you are still loved and missed. RIP !
Me too.... I had no idea. And the lyrics are completely different. Wow, listen to the spooky breakdown.
I thinks a bit of reverb and a better mix balance would have made Keith Relf sound a lot better.
keith lacked the PASSION that robert plant had when singing.
@@fransmith8992He did pretty well, considering he only had one lung.
@@jessesundvall2392 he lacked the passion plant had
This is why I love RUclips
the way back machine
Exactly what I thought. This is why I wade through this bullshit.
Right
alternate reality...
Me too !
Years ago I had a music teacher and one week he gave me a piece of music to learn and I played it according to the written notes and what I had previously heard and it was pretty good. Then the next week he said, "now, make it your own". And that was probably the single most important thing any music teacher ever said to me.
My point being that a few years later Robert Plant totally made this song his own.
Not a few years later, a few months later. Thiscwas March 68, the Zeppelin version was recorded in October that same year. Things were moving very quickly.
I put a lot of work into an English assignment. So much work that I deserved an A for effort, but the teacher gave me a D and said: "All you have told me is what you have read. I had not come up with anything new. I just repeated what had already been written. In no way had I related what I had learned to the real world. For example: In economics I learned that a company with a monopoly over a product can reduce the price of the product and sell more of the product and make a greater profit by lowering the price. Well, I say that that has a lot to do with the cost of cigarettes in the old days when a pack of smokes cost less than a dollar, and the smoker bought more than he or she actually needed or maybe wanted.
And I always tell my students, if you love a song and want to play it your way, fantastic! But first you must learn it note for note the way it was written first. Make it second nature...THEN you can change it to reflect your own personality. But until you actually learn the song the way it was intended, you cannot possibly think you can improve it.
Jim McCarty on drums. A massively underrated drummer. He needs more recognition.
In 1964, 3 YRS before Jake Holmes wrote/recorded this song, he was in Jim, Joan, & Jake, a short-lived comedy trio w/ actor Jim Connell & a struggling comedienne named...JOAN RIVERS!!!! They played Greenwich Village coffeehouses. HOLMES went on to write commercials, like "Be All That You Can Be" for the Army & the "I'm a Pepper" thing for Dr Pepper.
Had no idea Joan Rivers had a connection to dazed and confused. That’s a wild little piece of zeppelin trivia.
juicy tidbit thank you very much ❤
I believe he wrote the "At McDonald's, we do it all for you" as well.
@@ChrisLawton66 And a jingle for Burger King, British Airways, many others.
that just dazed and confused me!
This is amazing! I had no idea he did this before Zeppelin!
Ironically the "New Yardbirds" had already changed their name to Led Zeppelin but were contractually obligated to close out the contract as the "New Yardbirds."
Also most of the members left by the time Led Zeppelin became their name.
@@cspaikido That’s really interesting-didn’t know, thanks. While I’m a bird lover, and have feeders, the word “Yardbirds” doesn’t really evoke power or grandeur to me, LOL. Then again the “Beatles” isn’t much better 🤣, but at least by going with “Beatles” instead of “Beetles”, they got out of the small creature motif, and had something that related to music (The “Beat”). 🙂
@@cspaikidoIt's correct my friend.
Jake Holmes is the original writer and performer of this song.. both this and LZ are covers.
This was actually performed on French TV in 1967, there is also a color version of this performance. The lyrics are actually the original by Jake Holmes. 🎸🎻
The entire song is by Jake Holmes, stolen by Led Zeppelin...who were notorious thieves.
A real hidden gem! Love it!
I saw them do this in Anaheim, CA at a venue called Melodyland, across the street from Disney Land.
I was there as well! The Troggs and a local band called Genesis were also on the bill. Might have been the last show the Yardbirds played in So Cal.
@@badtweed2087 Genesis was a San Fran band, I actually had their LP.
@@samspencer6556 I have a copy
you’re old
@@Georgejetson7 70+ creaky and proud! Nigh to deaf with tinnitus too. lol
I grew up during that era and always thought "Dazed and Confused" was a Led Zeppelin original. Jimmy Page on guitar... I had no clue, thanks for posting.
Jake Holmes original
@@chickenflavor9880 Two levels of cluelessness... Thanks for posting. I just found the original Jake Holmes version.
Not a lot of Zeps music was original. You'll be surprised by a little searching.
@@uspatriot7484 most of their music is orginal
So Fabulous in every way.
RIP Keith Relf 🖤🖤🖤
Not much of a singer though, what a sleeping pill.
I'll tell you What's fabulous is the Royal Albert hall Performance with actually Led Zeppelin. Now that's a gem.
The singing sucks...sounds amateur
@@acajutla That's the mixing for the TV show; they're not lip-synching. Listen to the original studio recordings.
@@tedspradley809anyone can sound good in a studi. Keith couldnt sing, his voice was weak, he had little control, virtually no range. Often flat. Sorry bud
😮😮😮😮 I was today years old when I found out about this, and this video was posted 15 years ago!! I swear I learn something new every day😮😮😮
I can hear my uncle in 1968 yelling, “That ain’t music!” 😂
Mein Vater hat immer gesagt Urwaldmusik
@@Gruselinchen-hx2rs😂
My dad use to day drugged people
Well Rap is definitely not music.
@@mreppen1 ok boomer
This is like watching a raging pit pull held back by a leash
Drummer Jim McCarty’s playing is superb.
He is a real gent in person too. I got to chat with him a bit in Toronto ages ago, hanging around after a set that included John Hawken of The Strawbs on keyboard. I was doing photography and radio spots for PR. All of us with our healthy mops of grey hair by that time.
It really is the star of this performance really
He’s doing a decent job. But he’s no John Bonham
This record is important for us to understand how behind the musicians were if compared to Jimmy Page. Jimmy explained the type of sound that he wanted, but the musicians wanted to be Beatles, they wanted to be Hendrix, etc. They just didn't want to be innovative, unique, creators. So, Jimmy Page never gave up or surrendered to the standard sound format. He found Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones, and changed the history of world music. Some are born to be copies, others are born to be ETERNAL.
Si però l uso dell' archetto di violino non l ha inventato lui ma Eddy Phillips dei Creation ...
this is the best comment ive ever heard.
Couldn't have put it any better
But they are copiers they led Zeppelin stoled music from other black musicians.
Utter nonsense - the musicians in the Yardbirds -including Beck - were so afar ahead of Page/Plant/Zep that they made Zep look as if they were standing still!
Bonham was a machine, but McCarty here for me is just golden.
Opinions are what they are, but head-to-head there’s no comparison, honestly. McCarty did a great job with what he was working with. Great sense of time, and had some power also, but he could never play what John Bonham played… nor can 99% of other drummers, for that matter. 🙏🏼 He did justice to this song though.
@@fzarro9947 Oh boy, I love the internet... My comment was very short and all, but if you had some goodwill, you would read the word "here" and "for me" more carefully. "Here" means "in this presentation", and it clearly states that McCarty did a great job on this piece, not that he is a better drummer. By contrasting with the initial statement that Bonham was skilled "like a machine", you can understand that I'm not talking about McCarty skills, but style, hence the "for me".
Just go easy on the internet, will ya?
@@promark5317 Dude just posted a reply to something I never claimed, why should I just let it go? And no, it wasn't condescending, it was hostile. I tend to do that when annoyed by someone for something stupid like "appreciating the wrong drummer" on RUclips. Just let people enjoy things ffs
That was fantastic. Love this version. Great drumming. Sure, he's no Bonzo. But then Bonzo ain't as trippy a drummer as Mitch Mitchell.
😂😅😂
Page was already going off on this performance. the rest of the band didnt really get where he would take it. Plant was the perfect mix. Bonham to.
And Jonesy! Why do people always forget poor Jonesy?! He was an extremely important member of Zep.
@@MsAppassionata He really was, but, you know, bass player and all that.🤨 Worse yet, he was the keyboard player, too. 🤦♂️😂🤣😂 To be clear, I love every member or the greatest Rock band ever.😉
@@MsAppassionata - Was he? Didn't Page write many of his bass lines?
@@vaughnvaughn9965 I would imagine that Jonesy probably wrote most of his own bass lines. Jones also contributed to some of the songwriting. “Black Dog” is one example.
@@MsAppassionata - I would also imagine he wrote "most" of his bass lines. What we do know is that he did not write some of the most famous emblematic ones, which were guitar lines composed before he was introduced to the compositions.
Been dazed and confused 'bout this song it is true
Don't know who the writers are, maybe there's two
jimmy page, who told robt plant, "dude we have to write our own stuff."
Hahaha
@@sharidacox3581 the other way around. Robert plant told Jimmy " we need to write our own stuff". Page that rapist stole everything from everyone and passed it on like it was his....the violin bow technique against the gituar stings... Eddie Phillips invented that. He's a musician. Great song. The yard birds were great. Jimmy's bullshit..
Lol...👍🏻🇬🇧
@@Professorkenneth If Jimmy Page had been born in 2000, all he would do today is sample music and call it original (something like POGO).
1960s was a profoundly experimental decade. Certainly not for everyone. But it was. And not just the music and the arts.
Yup, the Tavistock Institute we're busy beavers.
This is from an episode of a French TV program, "BOUTON ROUGE", filmed Saturday, March 9, 1968. Also played on that show were Train Kept A-Rollin' and Goodnight Sweet Josephine.
Thx v much for this info. It's amazing how quickly these facts are forgotten or changed - & younger folks won't know the difference.
Page's playing is mesmerizing.
It really is shameful that it took Page so long to give Jake Holmes a credit. He should have done it when the song was released. Certainly after Holmes contacted him.
Amazing, just shows how good music was at this time. ❤❤❤
Really good drummer. So good Bonzo copped his whole thing. Respect.
Yeah everyone else is saying nobody can keep up with Page here, IMHO the vocalist and keyboard player are the only two somewhat lost.
Bass player ain't doing anything fancy but he's serving his function. 💯
@@Louis-qt5qb Keyboard player?
@@uhclem50 meant to say his harmonica playing lol oops
Bonzo didn't rip it off, he ripped it out at Jimmy's request.
JB fills are wayyyyy better!
Wow 😳 never seen this video before thank you very much.
😎👍👍🍻🎸
I must say that Jimmy Page is so amazingly guitarist with The Yardbirds before he departed from them
Uhhhhhh..... he didn't depart from them. JAJAJA
The Yardbirds disbanded leaving Page as the only remaining member. Led Zeppelin were originally called The New Yardbirds.
@@cakraft24 how would you know that were you there
@@kirkharrington2821 YES, I was! JAJAJA
No Jimmy Page was the last man standing
" 'Dazed and Confused is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jake Holmes in 1967...the Yardbirds reworked it with a new arrangement...several recordings of which have been released. In 1968 'Dazed and Confused', with new lyrics and vocal line, was recorded by Page's new group... "
I love the diversity in all these guys skills
This is the first time I've actually listened to this song...I've heard about it, knew that The Yardbirds was a like a launching pad for great guitarists...Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck...I really didn't hear Jimmy Page play, except on Sunshine Superman from Donavan, and really didn't know he was the one playing lead guitar on that song until just a few years ago...I probably heard Sunshine Superman not long after it came out in 1966...so I would have been around 5 or 6 years old when I first heard that song. But when I really heard Jimmy Page's guitar work, and knew it was him, was when my cousin bought Led Zeppelin III...Whole Lotta Love...scary...Thanks for posting this performance.
The drumming is soooo great, recon jb learnt a little from this!!!!
It's surprising that it's almost complete at this stage.
Wonderful footage of this recording taken only 12 months before Led zeppelin . Jimmy's guitar work is as it would be and to be fair , the drummer was pretty good . I think Keith was sadly killed in a bizarre electrocution "For your love " was one of the first singles l ever bought . Thankyou for this .
Love the bit when Chris Dreja increases the tempo with his bass at 3.13
I remember hearing the Yard Birds for the first time back in 1967. It was their song « Ha, Ha, Said the Clown ». It was while sitting in my dad’s car outside a rural church in Iowa where he was the minister. It was a transformative experience.
Haha said the clown was Manfred Mann
@@andyham2115 Yes, he did a song by that title, but so did the Yard Birds. Don’t believe me, just search for it on RUclips.
It was recorded by session musicians and Keith Relf's voice was later dubbed over that recording. No members of the Yardbirds played any musical instrument on that recording. With that taken in consideration, I am surprised it was a "transformative experience" for you. :)
Real… real classic. Love this find.
Years ago there was a comment here that said, “even in black and white you could tell the drummer had the shiniest jacket ever made”
Wow - I never heard this! Thanks for posting!
The birth of it all
The birth happens when John Paul Jones. John bonham and robert plant joined the band, And then nothing was the same ever again.
Oof... This feels like that one rehearsal where your band mates talk about auditioning new singers afterward. 😅
And then they break up 🎉
Stunning performance!
The great Jimmy Page playing Dazed and Confused by Jake Holmes
Most of what Jimmy is playing hasn't got anything to do with Jake Holmes.
why does Jimmy cop it when there’s 3 other guys up on stage? in particular Keith Relf who’s actually singing the same lyrics as Holmes?
Yes this has been known since jp did it with YB
Nothing new here these tapes have been shown on YT for years
From Wikipedia: In August 1967, Holmes opened for the Yardbirds at a Greenwich Village gig in New York.[7] According to Holmes, "That was the infamous moment of my life when 'Dazed and Confused' fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page."
Outstanding performance!
Siempre escuché y me deleité con la versión de Led Zeppelin.
Éste vídeo de The Yardbirds,y su versión jamás lo había visto y escuchado! Es una versión más psicodélica/pop,no obstante sigue siendo una maravilla. Y no podía faltar Jimmy Page tocando su guitarra con el arco de violín!⚡⚡
Rock and roll...raw , rugged , exciting . Usually wish i was younger except for being a little older to have drunk the late sixties. Thanks for puting this here.
Imagine if Page and Holmes would have worked together on this instead of going to court over it. A combo of both amazing versions would have been God-tier music.
@Tyler Gold Is there actually evidence of that? I did just read that Holmes contacted Page after Led Zeppelin’s version came out (about not receiving songwriting credits), but Page didn’t respond to him, so he filed suit… understandably. Love Zeppelin but they could have avoided court if they just gave the man song credits (and thus royalties) from the beginning.
@@fzarro9947 You think a bunch of cokeheads that stole blues music is going to be good people? XD Zeppelin fans are funny
@@keithgraham8588 I never thought about that. Most of these musicians are cracked out or either on drugs. Yet we worship them. Sad world we live in
Blame Jimmy for that one. Maybe give credit where due.
Holmes himself didn't seem to really give much of a damn about it for 30 years.
Just like Zeppelin didn't give a damn about all those bands who blatantly took from them. They never sued anyone.
Ahhh, Jimmy❣
Originally done by Jake Holmes released in 1967
I prefer Jakes recording, It was his song and he performed it better than those that borrowed ;) from him. I'm surprised they didn't also cover his excellent " leaves never break"
@@TheSpecialCostumeShoplmao cmon bro, Robert Plant sang dazed and confused miles better than this "talk singer" in the video.
@@absoluteunit8628 That’s Keith Relf from the Yardbirds in the video though, not Jake Holmes…
Is that Keith Relf on vocals in this performance?
No way. It's my mother in law.
It's crazy that they split up shortly after when they were on this kind of form.
A damned good thing too… otherwise we might not have heard of John Bonham, Robert Plant or John Paul Jones, and would have no Led Zeppelin!!!
That's why Led Zep, before Kieth Moon named them, were called the New Yardbirds when they toured in the states......
well, if he sung it like this I'd quit too
Yes but Jimmy had Led Zep and Keith and Jim had Renaissance which was a very original and great band. Have a listen to Kings and Queens by that band
Naw, they just weren't grooving together here. Something was always off with the Yardbirds sound for me.
Page’s guitar mastery is evident from this video. Unbelievable!
From 04:30 they sound like Black Sabbath before Black Sabbath sounded like Black Sabbath.
No shit this is literally the paranoid riff in a different key
The Animals- A girl named Sandoz
same key!
Paranoid is inspired both from Dazed and Confused and Communication Breakdown.
@@gusttavoberger Considering they wrote Paranoid as a filler for the album in only 25 minutes, this checks out!
I had no idea this was created nearly verbatim before zep!!? This is amazing, drums bass and harmonica etc are excellent… vocals too just lower octave and different style
Jimmy Page stole the song from Jake Holmes originally
Prince is looking good on the guitar 😁
😅
Yeah baby! Shagadelic! 😂
🤭
The Yardbirds of 1965 thru 1968 with personnel changes in between, were the first Progressive Rock band in history (with The Beatles a close second) and were quite literally lightning in a bottle. Amazing band, excellent musicians and singers (RIP Keith Relf and Jeff Beck). They blurred the lines between Rock and Blues and even Jazz, with incredible precision. They inspired Fleetwood Mac (the original late 1960s Blues Rock band) so they must have really made an impression on the entire music industry. I suppose everyone knows their influence on the band Cream (Eric Clapton's spinoff group from the 'Birds).
Suddenly, as if overnight, there were at least 20 or more new Progressive Rock bands all competing for some chart territory and finding their audiences, all with original unique sounds. Some took the Blues Rock approach, like Procol Harum, while others set out for fresh artistic territories like Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues.
Wish I could have seen The Yardbirds live in concert in the 1960s, but I was in high school in 1965 and then in college in 1966-67 in Los Angeles so I could only buy their records and see them on TV shows.
I enjoy Chevy Chase as the host.
Oh hell. Why didn't noticed that? Back in the "WEEKEND UPDATE" days
I had no idea this existed and in my teens I considered myself the worlds #1 Zeppelin fan. Wow.
Wow! Never knew that the Yardbirds played this. ❤ 1:36
Nearly Zeppelin 😂🎉
Same
This is my first exposure to Yardbirds handling this tune. I heard Led Zeppelin perform it in January 1969, as the warm-up band to Vanilla Fudge. Fascinating.
Hearing this tune by The Yardbirds for the first time, although I've listened to the Led Zeppelin version many times. Couldn't help noticing that the LZ version uses the same melodies and drum parts/feel, but amped up by Plant and Bonham.
Never really thought about Bonzo not completely creating his own drum parts, but his playing was remarkably faithful to the older version of the song.
Never?! Led Zep stealing something? Unheard of surely.
The original song was written and recorded by Jake Holmes in 1967, descending bass line 'n all
And I though this was a Led Zeppelin original. 😮 Wonderful to have discovered this clip of Yardbirds.
It is a Jake Holmes original
Has to be one of the first times Jimmy was filmed using his bowing technique.
His technique?
@@slouhendRight you are. Eddie Phillips of the Creation was the first to use the bow on a guitar technique on “Making Time” and others. The Creation were a great band.
Ignorance at high alert
Best thing I have seen on RUclips all year.
This is a great song in all its permutations. If you want to talk about Zep's cover, go a video of them performing it instead.
This is Led Zeppelin 😂🤣
@@OriginalKingRichTv No 🤨
@@OriginalKingRichTvI think they were called the New Yardbirds
Are you trolling or do you really think people aren't going to notice bloody obvious similarities to the famous version he recorded 6 months later?
Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012.
Just remember Jake's guitar playerTeddy Irwin and Music Director played so powerfully,using a Guild Jazz box (,Artist Award,)thru an Ampeg B 15 and a volume pedal with a Fuzz tone , .Teddy could make it sound like a horn section
Jake sang with more skill than Plant could ever scream.
@@intuneorange Spot on with the gear specs! and yes, Jake was a monster.
JUST INFO. "Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012." ruclips.net/video/pTsvs-pAGDc/видео.html
Randy California knows exactly what you mean.
You know your future is bright when the band that is great, but kinda holding you back...
...is the Yardbirds.
Love Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin, but Jake Holmes should get writing credit on "Dazed And Confused" since Holmes' original version is CLEARLY the basis for the Page written song of the same title.
Jimmy in typically understated attire there! God bless the Yardbirds...
Dazed and confused, Heart full of stone, Under over sideways down, For your love, Train kept rolling. Easy to forget how great they were.
Heart full of soul
Wow! I have never seen this. What a treat. The Zeppelin version is one of my top 20 songs probably.
The good old days when Jimmy player an honest guitar - a Telecaster. There's nowhere to hide when you play a Tele.
Well, there is not much difference between an "honest" Telecaster and an "arrogant" Gibson Les Paul (rather than a double neck one). Maybe the outfit of Page...
@@nichilistamilitante6418 You mean other than pickup type (single coils Vs Humbuckers), scale length (25.5" Vs 24") and neck width?
@@Shaun.Stephens what I mean is that if are Jimmy Page on stage you don't need a place to hide, whatever guitar you play. By the way I have to admit that Telecaster sounds good (if not better) than Strato, always considered (incortectly, imho) better for hard'n'heavy, perhaps for the shape, more aggressive and impressive. Lots of hm bands have a Strato (I should write "had" because today Jackson and other marks have taken over) but I still keep in my mind Mick Mars and Carlos Cavazo roaring very loudly with a simple and soft Telecaster.
Telecasters are very limited and not even relevant after like 1990. Les Paul’s are not only a work of art, but a vastly superior instrument. Telecasters have nothing on a Paul.
@@nichilistamilitante6418the LES Paul Is a different Beast with 2 volumes 2 tones and the Page's One had a special wiring with 2 push pulls to give about 32 different sounds. I know as I have done the same on my LES Paul and I can't tell you I worked months to do this mod as I'm lefty and to do It reverse added complexity😬
I have to say I am genuinly very confused (no pun intended).
To hear Dazed and Confused deconstructed without Robert Plant kind've trips me out.
I thought this was one of those joke videos at first..
I've never seen this nor knew this existed. Jimmy Page's sound is amazing...
I need some time to process this...LOL
Man, that takes me back to the hippie G.I days in the Army during Vietnam. We got stoned many a nights on these jams.
There never was, nor will there ever be, anyone hotter, or cooler, than James Patrick Page
Pure gold!
I love that the announcer guy is "on stage" with them! 😅
I like the light saber sounds at the end.
The Yardbirds would reorganize right after this tour and become known as Led Zeppelin, with an amazing Rock vocalist to complement their incredible instrumentation. This song morphed into the definitive Led Zep version in early 1969 with Robert Plant belting out his amazing raw blues vocals.
Electrifying performance!
Beautiful performance
Robert Plants vocals to this song is Soooo much better!
Totally different singers, both Plant and Relf had amazing voices!
So what
Keith Relf did pretty well with the vocals considering the multiple lung issues he had. It's sad that he died so young.
But the music is mesmerizing.
Always excellent with Keith Relf on lead vocal. Also great footage for our more worshipful Zeppelin fans, who get a chance to tell us how bad this is without Plant (it's actually quite good) .
The drummer is also good here, not Bohnam, but still good
The drummer and bass player are really good!! Plant was the big difference. Interesting vid!!
Good stuff. It’s interesting, though, how Zep made it even better.
My mind has successfully been blown.
Lots a people Talkin... Few of them know...A Soul of a Woman..was Created Below 😮😮😮😮
I'm taurus ♉ born may 13 I love blues rock and hard rock muisc Jimmy page is master good music my name is latrell
Keith Relf
Jimmy Page
Chris Dreja
Jim McCarty
Thank for giving lineup. Was hoping someone would enlighten me.
@@nandisaand5287
Exactly 🎉
Thanks
And Pepe LePew, the understated GoGo Dancer.
Great great drummer WOW
Evolution at its best 5 years later it evolved into the song we all know.
More like five months.
Trafiła na Led Zeppelin 1
Same year actually.
I´m 15 yrs late. This was a treat.
When I went to a Zeppelin concert in my town in 71, Robert Plant couldn't even hit the notes John Bonham was so drunk he couldn't even play.
Jimmy Page was so stoned out of his mind. He was on another planet. The only one they held it together was John Paul Jones.
Studio recordings are one thing. Playing live is another, Jethro Tull was there opening act . Zeppelin was so bad that during their set, everyone kept on chanting Tull Tull Tull.😅
typical
They weren't saying "Tull", they were chanting "rule" as in "Led Zeppelin rule!" Trivia note: in the 1970s Jethro Tull was commonly referred to by rock fans as Jethro Dull.
@francoamerican4632 . Not in San Antonio, Texas, in 1971, you are wrong.
Plants screaming really elevated the song.
Ay que lindo programa!
Wow! Robert Plant really made this song something worth listening to. Bonzo too!