I watch this video loads of times (Yardbirds Content)

hollywoodrox · July 25

Not a very. Lively audience
Until Beck throws the guitar neck to them
Protagonist gets neck ,escapes then discards it
I know it’s a statement on the value of an item is only fleeting etc & once he’s away from the band
It seems worthless.

I would t mind that neck though
Wonder how ma y on here would too

isnt that rhythm absolutely great though it literally chugs along
Jimmy is digging it

https://youtu.be/69pBlCd9ZSk?si=_lkjg4R8Ic5QLBRB

Brio · July 25

Great film. Loved Jagger and Hemmings in it

Edit: ignore grandad. I was conflating Blow Up with Performance. D'Oh!

hollywoodrox · July 25

Brio said:

Great film. Loved Jagger and Hemmings in it

Edit: ignore grandad. I was conflating Blow Up with Performance. D'Oh!

I remember Jagger in Freejack , I should have seen Ned Kelly but I don’t think I have

maharg101 · July 26

"Give em the song again"

I absolutely love this track. Likewise @hollywoodrox I've watched it many, many times. I have the same performance of the song on vinyl somewhere...

Neil · July 26

It's so '60's and brilliant.

Note that Beck has some cheapo semi acoustic to bust up.

hollywoodrox · July 26

maharg101 said:

"Give em the song again"

I absolutely love this track. Likewise @hollywoodrox I've watched it many, many times. I have the same performance of the song on vinyl somewhere...

It really chugs along , bloody great

hollywoodrox · July 26

Neil said:

It's so '60's and brilliant.

Note that Beck has some cheapo semi acoustic to bust up.

Yeah I wasn’t sure what it was a harmony or something

scrumhalf · July 26

hollywoodrox said:

Brio said:

Great film. Loved Jagger and Hemmings in it

Edit: ignore grandad. I was conflating Blow Up with Performance. D'Oh!

I remember Jagger in Freejack , I should have seen Ned Kelly but I don’t think I have

Jagger's accent in Ned Kelly is atrocious.

The director of Blow Up wanted Beck to smash his Les Paul. Beck told him where to go so someone got in touch with, I think, Vox who sent down a teachest of brand new guitars to be trashed

Yardbirds - hugely underrated.

Edit: autocorrect stuffed up "teachest'.

hollywoodrox · July 26

scrumhalf said:

hollywoodrox said:

Brio said:

Great film. Loved Jagger and Hemmings in it

Edit: ignore grandad. I was conflating Blow Up with Performance. D'Oh!

I remember Jagger in Freejack , I should have seen Ned Kelly but I don’t think I have

Jagger's accent in Ned Kelly is atrocious.

The director of Blow Up wanted Beck to smash his Les Paul. Beck told him where to go so someone got in touch with, I think, Vox who sent down a teacher's of brand new guitars to be trashed

Yardbirds - hugely underrated.

Cool good old Vox eh , the amps took a walloping too lol

Tannin · July 26

Utterly pointless. Crap music, pointless video. Pass.

koneguitarist · 10:33AM

Tannin said:

Utterly pointless. Crap music, pointless video. Pass.

If you actually listened to the guitar playing you realise how far ahead of the time Beck was technically, great music, yes typical 60s film but as they say it’s of a time.

FelineGuitars · 11:36AM

playing an altered version of "train kept a rollin"

Audience are like Zombies though in the film

Still Aerosmith's biggest influence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJM6iWNYhPY

hollywoodrox · 12:23PM

Someone said that’s Janet street porter in the striped trousers dancing , the most animated of the lot of them

Philly_Q · 12:40PM

Tannin said:

Utterly pointless. Crap music, pointless video. Pass.

All opinions are valid, but I have to question the "pointless video" when it's not a video but a scene from a well-regarded film.

p90fool · 2:52PM

I haven't seen Blow Up for years, it would definitely be worth watching almost as an historical document.

The best version of that song is from 1977 however...

Jimbro66 · 3:50PM

scrumhalf said:

The director of Blow Up wanted Beck to smash his Les Paul. Beck told him where to go so someone got in touch with, I think, Vox who sent down a teachest of brand new guitars to be trashed

The director, Antonioni, wanted The Who for that part but couldn't get them due to contractual restrictions, so with the help of Melody Maker editor Sinclair Traill he auditioned a few different bands for the part. None were what he wanted (i.e., none of them smashed up their gear like The Who, unsurprisingly). He ended up with the The Yardbirds, who were already well established in their own right but Antonioni still wanted them to 'do a Who'.

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