Dazed And Confused - The Yardbirds

Here's quite a little nugget, Dazed and Confused by the Yardbirds.



The Yardbirds are one strange little band. They weren't all that good, as this version of the song some other band made famous a year or two later (see first video here), shows. But they had quite an impact. Their original guitar play was a guy named Eric Clapton. When he quit, somebody named Jeff Beck came in. A short time later, they added a bass player named Jimmy Page. The band realized that this Page guy could actually play guitar, so he switched to guitar and the band had both Page and Beck for a time. Beck then left and the band started going in a harder direction. When the band burned out and broke up, the name fell for some reason to Page who had to put a band together to fill some Yardbirds obligations. His new band went out as the New Yardbirds to fulfill those obligations. Then they changed their name to, oh I forget, something about a lead balloon? Oh yeah, Led Zeppelin.

So this crappy little band gave rise to three of the guitar gods of the 60's, and ultimately to Led Zeppelin.