Which group does this sound like?

[factor-fiction]

We've had no music threads for a while so I thought I'd post this.

This is The Yardbirds from 1966, but when I heard it again recently it struck me that this sound, particularly the vocal style, seems to have influenced another group over 20 years later. Which group am I thinking of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFKdO1X3vO8&feature=related

[MarkRae]

Stone Roses, maybe...?

[factor-fiction]

Yes, it sounded to me very much like their early stuff- from the days of Sally Cinnamon through to their first album

[VHG]

This single features half Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page was in the band, and John Paul Jones played bass as a session musician.

And as the Yardbirds broke up they sort of morphed into Led Zeppelin as Plant came into the Yardbirds as singer, and he brought in John Bonham. Jimmy Page had played with John Paul Jones as a session bass on some "pop" songs so then he joined as well.

As someone who grew up in the 1960s I remember bands jumping on the psychedelic bandwagon as it became more popular.

The Yardbirds started as a jazz / blues band (hence the name) but soon decided to join in the psychedelic boom (as did the Rolling Stones with their "Satanic Majesties" album).

This single is an example of a psychedelic single, though I have to say the song sounds a bit of a mess and was not a hit in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds

[VHG]

And Keith Relf, the lead singer on this song, died in 1976 when only 33 after he got an electric shock from his guitar while rehearsing at home.

[factor-fiction]

Thanks Mark and VHG. I liked some of the Yardbirds stuff- For Your Love, for example

[andy-hughes]

Indeed - there is little that is really original in my beloved art form.

BTW - Neil Tennant, Al Stewart wants is voice back, and Mr Weller, if you;ve finished with your riff for 'Start' - Mr Harrison's 'Taxman' is missing it.