The Jeff Beck Group Live in Dallas [19-7-1968] - Full Show 

You werent lucky to see him no = but blessed -YES !Good job.

Who is that Chap on bass?

I was there for every one of their shows. There was a lot of hype about the band before they came over. My friend and I were in Headquarters East and WBCN was on (everywhere you went!) and they played a cut off Truth. I ran over to my friend and said “That’s them! The Jeff Beck Group ! We are definitely going to the Tea Party this weekend!!” We used to go to the Plum Island Rez a lot and we had a tradition that we had to start Truth on the 8 track while driving in. Those were the days!

Sure was,I wish the world was still like it was back then...Life was simpler and most people were much happier and more peaceful.

Hey Mr. Marco {also my late bros name!} your words are spot on -in 500 yrs. they will still be talked about!!!!l

And Rod cannot sing ! REALLY!

CapAnson12345 Imagine being 16 and being absolutely shredded by this band in The Marquee! I came out feeling like I'd been beaten up! It took me days to recover! I've seen a lot of bands in the past 45 years. Few could hold a candle to these guys!

Andy Thomas Even in England?!!

obbor4 Yes, even in England. I kid you not, the original Jeff Beck Group had no pears!

Andy Thomas I never saw them live, but the 'Truth' album (and the performance heard here) backs up what you say, in spades. You must have a great backlog of memories of being a young rocker, at that time, and in that area of the world. I certainly envy you for having seen all of that great stuff up close.

obbor4 My first job was in advertising working at Marble Arch in London. I started it at the beginning of August '67. At the end of August I went to the NJF Festival at Windsor (my first festival). That's were I first saw them. The bill over the three days included everything from Fleetwood Mac's playing their debut gig, to Cream topping the bill on the sunday night! I began to go to The Marquee 2 or 3 nights a week. That December I went to Christmas On Earth Cont. An All-Niter at O'lympia. No Jeff Beck that night. Instead we had to make do with Sam Gopal's Dream/The Move/Soft Machine/Eric Burdon And The Animals/Tomorrow/Traffic/Pink Floyd & Jimi Hendrix. I came out of the place at just after 6am into a cold grey London morning. I realized at that point that this 'music thing' wasn't something I was gonna grow out of, but something I was gonna grow in to! I left my job after Christmas and got a job in the record business, were I worked for the next 45 years! Now, at 63 years old I don't regret a minute. Some things stay with you forever. Some gigs I can remember as if they were last night! Sitting on the side of the stage at The Marquee watching 'Yes' for the first time. Being mezmerised by Bill Bruford's footwoork! I'd gone to see The Nice and 'Yes' were the support act! Ditto watching Cream at St. Mary's College in Twickenham! There is some footage of Hendrix and Traffic at Christmas On Earth (Cont.) elsewhere on here. It's well worth a look! Hendrix was simply astonishing that night! Imagine the effect it had on an impressionable 16 year old. I mean....I used to be a nice boy! Happy Daze indeed!

+ken harck Your Music has stood the test of time. So many Giant Supergroup Records came out that year..The vocals and lyrics and texture was great! Thanks

+ken harck I liked Badfinger's "Beatlesque" sound similar to Oasis years later.

+ken harck Met him in Miami Bch, he was playing with Gene Clark of the Birds. Very cool guy.

+japonaliya Oasis never sounded like The Beatles......not ever. The Beatles went from She Loves You to Tomorrow Never Knows in three fucking years!. What the fuck did Oasis go. They were irrelevant! Both of The Gallaghers are dipshits! And guess what? Noel thinks Frank Zappa was crap. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Great band .... love your stuff

He is certainly one the baddest motherfuckers ever.

And fucking prolific. Page , nothing new since when ? Beck.. consistently fucking brilliant ..outlived them all.

@George Email Page was a visionary. Musically, he had almost everything over Beck, except guitar playing.

Jimmy has always had high praise for Jeff. He said he was the best

I do believe i heard back in the yardbird days jeck showed page how play a lot of licks, evident thru out this recording....

Mike Saunders Agreed

think about this one, jb is the only one to do what james marshall hendrix would have done, if the medical treatment would have been rtight at theexact moment. i ask myself since 1970 ,, what happened to jimi in the back of an emergecy car, why let him suffocate from vomit? my guess was and is still: we´re only in it for the money. the ultimate was about to be established, think about this one, ELP + jimi on guitar, complete change of direction . possibly maybe to far out for immediate commercial use

Jeff had the benefit of living. Hendrix had it all over him when it came to composing and singing. Jimi was the whole package.

Saw there! Met Rod recently and reminded him of his pink crushed velvet bell bottoms!

Yes I agree... when you boil it down the greatest two are Jimi and Jeff. Jeff had several decades to evolve his style and technique whereas Jimi's time was painfully short.

Aye

Its perfect. These 2 look like Led Zeppelin some years later.

Most lead guitarists are lousy bassists. Bass is physically a lot harder to play and it's a different mindset, you gotta love bass. Ron was great at both, i like him better on bass in fact, he had a great tone.

@@G8GT364CI ℹ'll 2nd that

@Mike Thompson - By the time he joined the stones his best years were behind him.

peter green ❤

Check out Rory Gallagher with Taste.

@@konradbenz7110 I totally agree, who said a white man can't play the blues? They were dead wrong!

@@leeroberts8114 🤜🤛🏻

💔 Truth

Deppel57 too bad he was reduced to being a cab driver somebody should have appreciated his drumming and hired him

NO! Sorry- I was the cab driver- just awestruck by meeting a childhood hero

Picasso had no trouble getting NY cabbies to take his money but he preferred to give them checks, knowing they wouldn't cash them since they had his autograph on them.

Mickey Waller became a lawyer

+Chris Bct I saw this tour in NYC at the Fillmore East, the energy level, cohesion, unparalleled. Rod Stewart oozed stardom. Wood and Waller steam-rolled ! Beck, my hero from the first ,of all those great ones. That sound, so unique! I was sixteen. When they came through to support newly released album 2, they sounded wooden, indifferent to each other , you could taste the friction. Beck stood as far right as he could lookin slick and the rest of the guys were definetly thinking of other places. Mick Waller looked like he was worried where his next gig was gonna be. I was up in the first 10 or 12 rows for both shows.

Same! They're one of those perfect vocal/guitar duos for me, like Jagger/Richards, Plant/Page or Axl Rose/Slash. Shame they rarely ever worked together after this.

Jeff n Rod were great together. It's a shame their egos clashed.

Should have stayed with that instrument. When Bill Wyman left the Stones he should have taken up the bass so they could bring in a better guitarist.

@sean matth My choice would have been Dick Taylor from the very early days.

@sean matth No but his work with The Pretty Things show that he was working the same musical genre as the Stones. They just didn't have a lead singer like Mick and not the great writers that Mick and Keith were.

They'll not understand that until one day they turn around and it's 50 years later.

I seen them in 65 and the largest amp was 50 watts. When I seen them in 66 with Beck and Page on bass they moved up to 100 watts. This did not overpower the single reel to reel recording. Which was later mixed in the studio in cutting edge sound called stereo.

Mr. 1954 knows what he's talking about.

Waller is the real deal.

Very musical and creative drummer. Played on Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story" album.

Woody played through a 200 watt guitar Marshall.

@@Dougdenslowe714 That's 2 100 Watt marshalls

john Richardson are you sure? Read in his autobiography he got a 200 watt head built for him as well as an 8x12 cab!

he played a PLUSH amp for a while ... a forgotten amp from New York that was no joke

Reel to Reel from the AUDIENCE !!!!!!

LuAnnes

Jeff Beck CRUSHES both Clapton and Page COMBINED. Check out "The Yardbirds'" "Roger the Engineer". It sounds like it was recorded TOMORROW.

Wow! It sounds like they were on fire. Wish I'd been there.

John he was my favorite drummer. Rod's music without him and never had that beat. Love him on Mountain Dew!!!

@@movingtrain1 Mountain Dew? TSOK, I know what you meant.

@@vondumozze738 It is a name of a song from the Beck group. Walk me out to Morning Dew...Actually it is an ecology song. Great vocals by Rod.

@@movingtrain1 Walk me out in the morning dew my honey is a romantic old Scots folk song! Of course you can play it anyway you like. If someone's found a way to make it an ecology song good for them!

@@jillfryer6699 Tim Rose

Too bad Bill Graham's children or whoever inherited the tapes of the Fillmore performances refuses to release any of many great concerts taped there.If someone does get ahold of a performance and it gets into the public hands,his Wolfgang's Vault also puts it on their playlist.I hope that one day they let the public hear some of the great groups that played Fillmore Auditorium,Fillmore West and Winterland.I think they are hoping that they can collect huge amounts of money if the groups and their record companies decided to release a Live at the Fillmore recordings.

+Billy Packard What an unforgettable experience that must have been, wow! You lucky devil ;)

Look for The Fillmore '68 stuff.

+Phil Rey Or imagine being a 14 year old in the western suburbs of Sydney in 1969 listening to Truth for the first time. I'm still trying to recover from the experience!

+Phil Rey Imagine seeing the Truth band at the NJF Festival in Windsor in August '67 and being pinned to the back wall of The Marquee by them a couple of weeks later! I wasn't even old enough to be in there at the time!

Keef comes nowhere near Beck's ability and guitarmanship. Keef relies on his old tired riffs which were actually stolen from Americans like Chuck Berry. Jeff just keeps evolving, getting better with time. A true master of his craft.

@@andrewsandoz8005 Keith made his career ," borrowing" Chuck's "lick's".

Yeah,too bad when he fronted the best band in the world,this one,he couldn't get along with anyone.What a crying shame,we were left to only fantasize what could have been........

+Sergio Alunan Beck was the only guitarist besides Hendrix that truly changed the sound of rock guitar.

A guy did a note for note copy of that performance; It's on the net somewhere.

Speaking of Page on rhythm, who's playing rhythm guitar on this version of Beck's Bolero. Listen to it again ! Woody's still on bass, so is it Rod or a roadie playing Page's rhythm part. It's not Beck, he's playing slide, etc. Anybody know this one ?

sam bone Rod is playing rhythm, saw them at the Fillmore in 68, unforgettable!

+sam bone Rod Stewart

I hope you taped the Yardbirds show.

I wouldn't call Vanilla Fudge of Grand Funk 'Jeff Beck Copyists'! Not remotely as far as the Fudge go. Beck himself was astonished by their 'Near The Beginning' album! So much so, he wanted to play with Appice and Bogert way back then! He was floored by their version of 'Shotgun'! As for Grand Funk.....they Wish! They were three brainless oiks with instruments and no imagination! They wished they were Cream! They came over to play Hyde Park, but we were putting up some shelves!

Agreed. My notion was that Beck's example triggered many heavy metal players - none near his standard. He did play with Appice and Bogert - the combination yielding a far better result to my ears. Also, I erred on the line up for Beck-Ola. Tony Newman was brought in on drums. Just get the 2004 Re-master of Beck-Ola. The additional 4 songs aren't that great but the superior production values yield a much more in-depth, detailed sound of the band.

There's some fantastic footage of the band in the studio recording Plynth elsewhere on here. For me both Truth and Beckola are best heard in Mono! Like The Stones 'Decca' catalogue, all The Balls and sheer power of the band is lost in stereo.! Beckola in Mono is as close to their 'Live' sound as you could get. Only with a decent PA!

I saw them at the NJF Festival at Windsor in August '67 and they were bloody awesome. In The Marquee a couple of weeks later they were devastating! I had to queue up from 3pm to get in too! I had my ribcage well and truly rattled! Decades later, imagine my amazement when I found a bootleg CD of that very gig! It's not complete but Hey......it misses out a great cover of the Four Tops' 'Lovin' You Is Sweeter Than Ever' and The Temptations 'Losin' You'! Oh, and Sam Cookes 'Some Kind Of Wonderful'........ but who's complaining? As far as I'm concerned Truth is still The Daddy, no matter what followed! Truth/The Beano Album/Fresh Cream/Are You Experienced...........they were the templates for 47,675,832 electric guitar players that followed. And lets not forget Peter Green! (1967-71)

Hey! You can't mention Grand Funk on a Jeff Beck page and expect to get clean away with it! They came to England! We were putting up shelves!!!!!

I only saw the Floyd once in '67. It was at an all-niter called Christmas On Earth (Cont.) at the London Olympia. They were terrible! They should have cancelled! Syd was tripping! Check the gig elsewhere on here for further info on them. Luckily, the rest of the bill for that night.....Paper Blitz Tissue/Sam Gopal Dream/Soft Machine/Eric Burdon And The Animals/The Move/Tomorrow/Traffic and Jimi Hendrix.....were all nothing short of astonishing!!! Tickets cost £1. I never caught up with SRV, much to my chagrin!

It wasn't The Nice's Bass player it was their guitarist Davey O'List. He didn't play Christmas On Earth because The Nice were playing somewhere else that night! O'List replaced Syd several times. O'List could easily have replaced Syd permanently. Equally psychedelic, O'List was also a proper musician.Studied at the RSM!

I saw the original Spirit at The Lyceum in London in 1969-70? It was their first and only visit to the UK. It was one of the best gigs I've ever been too. And I've been to quite a few! They were so tight! They were playing stuff from the first three albums. On the subject of Floyd, Davey O'List stood in for Syd on several occasions when Syd was too out of it to function. He would have been the obvious replacement as far as I'm concerned.

Actually both Plant and Page were huge fans of the first Spirit album. Plant has referenced it along with the first Moby Grape album, on more than one occasion! At the Lyceum '69 gig they referenced the riff from Uncle Jack too! I remember it well!

On the contrary, both Page and Plant were and still are collectors. They were well away of All of the stuff coming out of the west coast. Including Spirit. Page was a big fan of Kaleidoscope. He referenced Beacon From Mars as one of his favourite albums at the time in more than one interview. Plant was a massive Moby Grape fan! Weren't we all. I speak as someone who saw Spirit's UK debut concert at London's Lyceum Theatre back in 1970! Incidentally, they were quite incredible! There were more Fender Amps behind them than there were in the rest of the UK. The sound was breathtaking.

I would LOVE to see a recording of me on stage w/Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, mid July 1969 at Pirates World or Cove, Fort Lauderdale area. 2 night concert. I was on stage an entire concert, mostly sitting as the groovy chick. I have autographs from back stage (inside a tent.) and hung with them all at their Hotel's bar. And then I went back to Miami for summer school classes. Rod Stewart was not real famous quite yet.

​@@jannaxon pirates world,Dania Florida,I saw Johnny Winter there and they did record "Still Alive and "1973

That's, "acquit". :)

+Heather Hawthorne it should be jeff ron and rod jeff and ron added rod and the 3 made magic

+Kevin Taylor It was REAL back then. Now its just all so contrived!

+Andy Thomas , contrived-good word. Joe Bonomassa is a good player & I know he is trying to reproduce this kind of stuff but it's too contrived. First albums were usually the best cause guys put heart & soul into it. e.g. ZZ's First Album, early Skynyrd-great!, etc...

***** Bonamassa's roots are most definitely in the late '60s English Blues Scene! His version of 'So Many Roads' for example owes more to the Mayall/Peter Green version than the Otis Rush original. The entire sound of it, not to mention the arrangement and the vocal are virtually a straight lift. I guess back then it was All new. Maybe that's the difference. I spent more time in The Marquee between 1967-68 than I did at home. Sometimes you connect with a particular player. For me it was Peter Green. He made my hair stand on end....more than once!

+Kevin Taylor Joe Bonomassa has the speed and dexterity of a master but he has no soul. There's something basic and spiritual that's just not there in his playing. I believe that many people believe he is great based strictly on his athletic ability on the fret board and, don't get me wrong, that is exciting to see and impressive to hear but as far as I'n concerned his expression is just sterile, Even with the occasional slip, Beck and Page have that undefinable quality in spades. Maybe it's Bonomassa's relative youth ... although Beck, Page and Clapton had it in their very early twenties but I think it's the fact that those guys grew up in the staid, black and white and mostly gray, rationed world of post WWII Britain. They were born artists and when Rock & Roll happened their souls just exploded when they got their hands on a guitar. That was their ticket to heaven and they've been riding that train to get there ever since. By contrast Bonomassa grew up in comfortable middle class America and when he picked up a guitar at a young age he had that basic athletic ability and everyone around him encouraged him and told him how great he was. His motivation was probably mostly external whereas the motivation for these British masters came strictly from within. What they were dedicated to when they were young was as odd and alien as could be for their time and place. For Bonomassa the idea of being a guitar player wasn't any more strange than being a doctor. It's that big difference that explains Joes lack of genuine soul in his playing and the fact that Beck and Page have it in spades. Bonomassa is basically a mimic with fantastic dexterity and musical memory while these other two transformed what they heard into something all their own, making it the new standard. Don't forget that what Bonomassa does, we've all heard before whereas no one ever played quite like Beck, Page and Clapton before they came along.

+mrfester42 Interesting commentary, enjoyed it. I "rarely" meet a person in this age that knows & likes old Beck & such(guess I never met many that knew it ever-:)). The part of Bonomassa I sincerely enjoy is the short guitar lick videos he does to show off a guitar or amp. He can wail! He has endless leads and can display school book play & theory which enables this(in my opinion). I do like that Joe knows good music and desires to be in the class of these true music underground icons. Some I watch over & over because he can do what I never will be able to, although I haven't really appreciated his covers, Maybe cuz I never liked covers(maybe a few)His rendition of "Lazy", lacked what you describe as soul - I agree 110%; the most impressive thing in it was Brad Whitford's licks which weren't covered in the video, aside from soul, may a little loss of respect as well?. What I haven't seen/heard yet is an original Bonomassa song that impresses me. I can watch his covers but sitting thru an entire concert might be a little taxing. Being 52, I don't spend the time listening to music anymore but as I happened upon the "Tour De Force" album recently late one night I was captivated by its heavitity(sorry my own original). I did listen to some of these years ago but didn't know about this recording. In my opinion, the greats of that era did blues+ better than the blacks that started it. Hahaha, such a non-politically correct statement. Sorry, Truth hurts. Extending your comment on Joe's upbringing lacking the true brew effect that the 60's pot did to so many is a Bingo! If he had grown up post WWII/Korean War era, he'd probably be in this same class. Gosh, I put on the headphones and am listening to this Jeff Beck Group album as I write, "WWWWWOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! Spontaneous eruption of soul! Have always wondered why Stewart/Beck didn't do more. Probably afraid of spontaneous human combustion from the intensity. Now that I'm done I just reread your post to see if mine is comparable. Nope, yours was a Beck original and mine like a 2016 copy.

No one had heard of Stewart. He fell out of the sky. Ronnie Wood was the leader and lead guitar of a band called The Birds.I didn't know the drummer but he didn't look like the rest of the group and played like Mitch Mitchell. And Beck was the most famous for his Yardbirds work with Jimmy Page and Keith R. and that lot.When I saw them first in LA they blew away every other act; they were all great and Stewart and Wood they brought this new visual style to the USA: haystack hair, high heels. Page saw them and wanted a power trio and sexy lead singer and formed a kitschy band with the stupid name from that stupid old joke, Led Zeppelin.

jblacktree Yes, I was a big Jeff Beck fan from years of Yardbirds records. I saw the Jeff Beck Group first at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in (probably) summer of 1967, close up and personal, in your face and loud. Ron Wood blew me away as a bass player, Mickey Waller was incredibly jazzy and non-rock & roll looking, and I immediately loved Rod's Sam Cooke voice. Perfect! If Rod wasn't such and ego maniac and Beck wasn't so bloody moody, they might have made a big dent in America...BUT...Jimmy Page and Robert Plant could write (and rip-off), and Page was an incredible producer, so the Jeff Beck Group floundered and changed personnel endlessly until Jeff finally fell into progressive jazz rock. He was always an instrumentalist first anyway. He was too moody for huge fame like Page. But Jeff is still the better guitarist, IMO.

Fine. Ta very much

David Dennard There wasn't a Fillmore "West" in 1967. That came later. The original hall, where I played in 1967, was named the Fillmore Auditorium...on Geary street.

Peter Grant managed the Beck group then and, according to a Yardies insider, it was the big boy who invited Page to accompany the tour for a few dates during July. Pagey already had Plant and Jones on board at the time, though still with an unoccupied drum chair. The insider claimed Jimmy carefully registered the audience's reaction to the JBG's rock and blues numbers. If this Beck show is truly from the 19th of July 1968 then it's historically relevant that Page first heard Bonzo play with Tim Rose's trio less than two weeks later on July 31st. The so-called 'new' Yardbirds performed their first and second shows at teen clubs in Scandinavia five and a half weeks later on September 7th and, by October, were recording tracks at Olympic for Led Zeppelin numero uno. Because of their hyper awareness AND mastery of dynamics Page's bombastic new band would blow the Beck group off the stage even in the short run despite Beck's crew obviously being motherfuckers. Listen to the polite applause these poor guys get after every song on this recording---it's so unbelievably restrained it's criminal. You can hear Beck ask the Dallas audience, "Is this a library?" Beck told an interviewer how much it burnt his ass to have Jim drop by his house to play an acetate of Zep's soon-to-be-released You Shook Me saying, "Listen to this guy I got, John Bonham." LOFL.

I second that opinion.

He's touring with Buddy Guy in the new year. The New album is pretty gobsmacking!