Accounts vary as to what actually happened. … Of course, we all got really tired, and some people cope with it better than others.”īy the end of October 1966, following multiple absences and arguments, it was over. “We’d be playing somewhere every night and traveling or doing a recording session or doing interviews or photo sessions. “We all went through quite a bit of exhaustion it was very hard work,” McCarty later explained. That was it, as far as we were all concerned.” Not the best decision for us, as the other bands were all so different – Gary Lewis, Sam the Sham? Jeff couldn’t take it and disappeared after the first show. “We were contracted to do a Dick Clark tour, which meant playing about 30 nights in a row, maybe more than one show a night, traveling in a bus with all the other bands. “Jeff Beck was a great addition to the band after Eric had left, and it was he mainly who was responsible for taking those blues ideas into a different world of crazy sounds, feedback and irreverence,” McCarty told Something Else! in 2015. the Yardbirds were regarded as a pop group, part of the British invasion, and were pressed into service in that manner, something that drummer Jim McCarty said the “very highly strung and unpredictable” guitarist struggled to deal with. I’m gonna do what I think is best.’ … The mechanics of what I was doing was making all the weirdest noise I could.”īut in the U.S. “I thought, ‘You can be a purist, and you can be poor. “I vaguely remember Keith being a purist,” he told Rolling Stone in 2018. But while Clapton retained a classic approach, Beck was far more experimental. While Beck's style was different from Clapton’s, they both regarded the blues as a musical form to be respected. Watch Jeff Beck at the Yardbirds’ Rock Hall Induction Within a week, we were down in Chicago looking at Howlin’ Wolf.” That was our holy grail, going to America to see the blues players. I think he was hankering after going there – like we all were. Two months after that, things took off in the States, which pissed Eric off big-time. “At my debut with the Yardbirds at the Marquee, I showed them what was what, and I got a standing ovation, so that was the end of that. “The general buzz of the band was that they though they were finished when Eric left,” Beck told Classic Rock in 2021. On paper, replacing Clapton seemed like a great move, and Beck’s more experimental approach to playing made a massive difference to the band’s sound, as evidenced on Over Under Sideways Down (titled Roger the Engineer in the U.K.), the only LP to include his work. Beck’s tenure was brief but remains notable for three things: his experimental influence pushing the Yardbirds to the vanguard of the psychedelic movement, the fact they had most of their hits when he was there and how his time in the group had nearly ended his career.
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