Yardbirds videos

Where is the Happenings clip from, does anyone know? Is it U.S. TV? There is also a German "Beat Beat Beat" appearance for the same song existing. In addition, there are promo films made for several songs including For Your Love. Doesn't one of the two surviving Whole Scene Goings feature them as well? No doubt there are other appearances too. A DVD retrospective is overdue.

Thanks for the list. Some of these haven't got the name of the show alongside them - do you happen to know where they all come from? Cheers.

It was released on VHS in the early 90s and Warner re-released it on DVD a few years back with no extras. Most of the songs listed are featured but in there, theres only one virtually complete performance and thats "Heart Full Of Soul" from "Hullabaloo". You do get over half of The Milton Berle Show clip with Beck and Page miming to "Happenings" (from the beginning of the song to the end of the manic solos) which is the undoubted highlight. The rest are clips, some briefer than others.

It does feature one clip not in the list above and thats a manic live performance of "I Wish You Would" on Dutch TV shortly after Jeff Beck joined.

Its a nice documentary with all surviving members contributing interview material and has Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty visiting a couple of old haunts. Jeff Beck is very chatty and lively and theres one nice sequence where we see Beck alongside McCarty, Dreja and Paul Samwell Smith reminiscing about the infamous Oxford Ball gig where Keith Relf got ridiculously drunk.

Clips of the Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page footage was used in the 1995 Without Walls - My Generation documentary and featured some Beck comments unused in this VHS.DVD documentary.

Thanks for listing the existing shows. I couldn't believe that there is so much stuff floating around. I got a bootleg DVD, which can be found here -
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But it's missing the considerable amount of stuff listed above. Are there any other bootleg DVDs floating around?

More Yardbirds clips not on list above. Any info?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTejm8WJIPc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOheWvkjq78

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PU3lhOsoH4

The first and third are from Belgian TV.

The second is the most fascinating Yardbirds video find in a long time since it features what must have been one of Jimmy Page's first appearances with the band. It was filmed at the end of June 1966, just shortly after original bassist Paul Samwell Smith quit the band... Samwell Smith can be seen with them at the beginning of the month on "A Whole Scene Going" and he walked out after a debacle at the Oxford Rag Ball or whatever it was called midway through the month. This french footage is also the only LIVE footage (and audio) that has so far surfaced of the Beck/Page line up though Page was on bass at this point... his switch to joint lead guitar occured in either late July or August 1966.


As for the Richmond Jazz and Blues festival footage, all thats left is the 2 part "Shindig Goes To London" which had highlights from that festival. Unfortunately as wonderful as that material is, it was ruined by ridiculous screaming overdubs. Sadly, it also seems that the colour footage and original videotapes were not kept. The Who have used this footage several times over the years and if they haven't been able to uncover outtakes or colour footage then its doubtful anyone will. A real shame - colour, uncut and undubbed footage from that event would be priceless!