[MeganC]

It’s a darn shame that I won’t read Rolling Stone because that looks like an interesting article. I simply have a hard time patronizing people who openly and unapologetically hate my country.

[Tau Food]

Jeff Beck has always been very special.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Sorry. Will not click the link and give them hits.

[Red Badger]

Eric Clapner has always been my fav.......................

[Chuzzlewit]

yep... sorry will not give them a click..

too bad... love the Yardbirds... always did, always will. “Shapes of Things”... amazing song... “Becks Bolero” blew my mind as a young boy... that was the one that opened it up for me.

add in The Kinks.. and the Hollies... those were bands I was going crazy over.. over course the Stones and Beatles go without saying..

[Southern Magnolia]

Still boggled that any band would call themselves “The Chickens” essentially. Guessing they had no idea that’s what a “yardbird” is.

[PATRIOT1876]

Finally! Rolling Stone writes about something that they know about.

Note to the people with the leaking brains at Rolling Stone:

Leave politics to sentient adults, people with IQ’s higher than 30, and other people who actually understand what they're talking about.

[W.Lee]

While a lot of my friends were going crazy for the Beatles in the mid 60s, I was listening the Yardbirds. With Clapton, then Jeff Beck, then Jimmy Page on guitar with Page and Beck together in the band at one point. Their music still sounds fresh today. They led me to the Bluesmen like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, etc. whose music they covered. The Yardbirds were so much more than a top 40 group. Their versions of “Train kept a rollin” and “Smokestack Lightning” will still rock the house.

[Stevenc131]

Love the Yardbirds, but the Kinks need some mention too. ‘You Really Got Me’ was released August 1964 and sounded way different than most of the other rock/pop songs at the time. It kind of set the tone for a lot of the hard rock bands that followed.

[AppyPappy]

Rolling Stone came to believe their own hype. They went from being anti-establishment to a mouth organ for the Democratic Party. If the 60 and 70’s writers knew the current writers were such suckups to the White House, they would be appalled.

[Jim W N]

Nobody seemed to know about the Yardbirds then and now, but I thought they were pretty cool. I was in a few bands at the time but it wasn’t always easy to play their stuff because they had a lot going on in their songs and they were pretty talented. Felt like cutting-edge at the time.

[MAKOTHEDOG]

I have always been a huge Yardbirds fan and I don’t consider myself that old....yet.

Sadly, I won’t visit the RS article either.

[rockrr]

I loved the Yardbirds but I have to laugh at the insinuation that they were the singular driving force of R&R. How can anyone be objectively certain about an entirely subjective topic?

[drjimmy]

There's no question the Yardbirds were great performers and innovators, and don't get the attention in rock history that they deserve, but I don't find compelling evidence of their singularity in these takes from the BBC.

My vote goes to The Who, who early on brought together the voice, bass, drums and guitar better than anyone to create a pure sonic explosion. From their BBC Sessions, the May 1965 performance of Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere and November 1965 performance of My Generation blow the other contenders away.

[newfreep]

I was definitely a "Beatles guy" but....always thought the Yardbirds was the better group. By a LARGE margin.

"For Your Love" is an underrated classic with its bongos. Jeff Beck was easily the best guitarist they had in the group - "Over Under Sidways Down" GREAT guitar work!

[vladimir998]

Keith Reif died too damn young and in so easily avoidable a way as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Relf#Personal_life_and_death

[Squawk 8888]

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