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Post by tzarine on Jan 12, 2023 3:38:43 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 12, 2023 14:02:18 GMT 2
He would do his own thing and didn't much care who like it and who don't .
Here he is with Jimmy Page in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up", in one its typically bizarre moments.
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Post by trentt on Jan 15, 2023 1:48:30 GMT 2
He was exceptional, one of a kind.
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Post by trentt on Jan 15, 2023 1:54:08 GMT 2
slowcoach - great clip, great film, great band, great song, much better than Aerosmith's version a few years later (though I don't mean to disparage them, just The Yardbirds were better!).
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 15, 2023 11:56:57 GMT 2
As a babe in arms, I saw the Yardbirds in 1964/5 not long before the Clapton/Beck switch. People marvel at their stellar role call of musicians but perhaps it was their instability made good.
When the documentary series "Dancing in the Street" dealt with the Page/Beck US tour, they passed off bits of the Blow Up footage without an on screen credit as if it were from a live show.
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Post by trentt on Jan 15, 2023 22:04:00 GMT 2
Beck showed Townshend and Simonon the proper way to destroy a guitar; perhaps not so much Wendy O. Williams, who used a chainsaw when I saw her and the Plasmatics in concert. Talk about ear-splitting noise!
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