The Yardbirds - I'm A Man Live - Shindig 1965

Shindig - August 1965 - Pre Cream and Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck was most innovative guitarist in the mid 60's. Need to watch to the very end to see the virtuosity.

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[Gratefulman]

Had to come back and check this out after listening to Kenny Vaughan and Otis Gibbs talking about this segment. This came out the year I was born (1965) My name is Jeff as well. Jeff died on 1/10/2023 two days before my 58th birthday. From one Jeff to another, I will never forget you Mr. Beck. You were here my whole life and now you’re gone. You are missed greatly!

[bradparker]

Jeff Beck DEFINING the phrase "ahead of his time."

[bigbass]

1/10/23 Rest in Peace, Jeff. I watched this on Shindig as a teenager in 1965. You were the best.

[bobblehead]

Just watched an interview with Superlative guitarist Kenny Vaughan gushing about this performance of Beck's. Staggering for the times.

[ricjan]

If this wasn't the coolest thing on tv in August of '65, God only knows what was.

[AngusKrock]

This may be my favorite of all the Youtube Yardbirds videos I've seen (and I've seen a lot - if not all - of them). Everything is fresh and the boys are absolutely on fire. Beck here shows why the Beck Yardbirds are to me the best version of the group.

[tinabraxton]

I saw this show. Never been the same since.

[GuiitarBilly]

And this is why Jeff Beck is the greatest rock guitarist. No one else was doing this in 1965… Hendrix, Townshend (and Clapton) were all watching and listening to Jeff Beck show them the way. And Beck only got better and better.
The great rock guitarists of later decades took queues from these OG sixties guys

[kynyrdskynyrd]

Incredible Jeff was doing that in 65, what an icon

[pleiadian]

WOW‼️ I’d meet KR in spring 1975 St Petersburg FLA. I was just a kid then.

[jimtabor]

Man, that was a truly kick-ass group!!

[Beefheartfreak]

A truly ground-breaking performance.  Compare Mr. Beck's guitar solo with any other from that era.  You won't hear that on a Herman's Hermits record.  Trust me.

[andyinoregon]

I was 14 watching this show the night it aired in 1965, and then hoped to see Beck play it live with Jimmy Page on Dec. 4, 1966 at Lima, Ohio's Springbrook Gardens Teen Club (you can Google the show poster). But Beck was so upset with conditions on "Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars" winter bus tour that he returned to England before the Lima show. What I didn't know until 50 years later watching YouTube interviews was that NYC native Elliott Randall, then a 19 year-old guitar teacher at Lima's Custom Percussion Music Store, was also at that Yardbirds show where he introduced himself to Jimmy Page. Six years later Randall would compose and play the lead solos on Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years" -- which Page would famously rate "12 on a scale of 10!" in late 1972.

[brucehazen]

The moment modern rock guitar was born.

[chrisconlan]

The Yard Birds were truly a great band, they don't get the recognition that they deserve, a few of the greatest guitarist were in The Yard Birds (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page). Imagine if all three of them were members at the same time in the Yard Birds, wow... To me, they were truly one of the best bands of that era. They were ahead of their time. The first band to really jam/rave...

[jonlen]

Radical tune, radical times, real rock, Beckola

[sharonjackle]

I can see my uncle Eddie standing in the driveway smiling big, and neighbors all around as my brother played lead guitar to this song in his garage band. The No Parking Zones!

[petrslivinski]

Too bad the band's main players walked away to form their own bands. If the band had continued with the original members perhaps they would've been as popular as The Rolling Stones. The lead singer, William Keith Relf, was a terrific singer; it's too bad that he had that accident in 1975, electrocution, and departed us too soon..
RIP Keith.

[ttexastomjohnnycat]

J. Beck still looks like this 50 yrs. later. Love Page, but Beck can't be beat on this.

[dirknollet]

1965 is my year of birth, nice music was made already :)