It doesn't look like they wanted to talk so Jimmy made sure they were recognized.

It's a must

He's quite classy.

Absolutely. The Master has a heart and soul of pure gold. No one can touch him.

That's so Jimmy Page. I've had the privilege of working with a number of geniuses, not just in music but in engineering and physics, and with very rare exceptions, they don't recognize their own genius because what they do is NORMAL to them. It's no surprise that Jimmy simply deflects the spotlight from himself to Keith. These people are priceless. And yes, the Yardbirds changed all of rock and roll. Certainly the most influential band in rock history.

First guy that sang Dazed and Confused with him( though the song was previously done by others)

You forgot Renaissance.

@@M.Robespierre3691 Yes. Jim McCartney

@@garylester8621 and Keith Relf!

@@M.Robespierre3691Absolutely, Keith was great. Loved his harmonica too. He died WAY to young.

You forgot Armageddon and Box of Frogs

keith relf was / is everything mick jagger wishes that he was/were.

keith relf is the REAL mick jagger.

Thanks for the jimmy

Keif Ralph the best frontman.

Wow!! Wish U could've seen that show!!!

How did your life really change? People who claim their life changed are full of poop de poop. You're collecting Social Security, your grandson is gay, and you haven't had a solid bowel movement in ten years. And nothing's changed.

Saw one of their shows in Chicago and Clapton joined them on stage. 1 hour of delight.

Matt Walker Go fuck yourself

Wow, the rare Beck and Page lineup in Iowa in 1966! Of all places. Wow again!

I love Jeff beck speech. T.k.f.

They should call these awards the Jann Wenner Popularity Contest Awards because basically that's what they are. That said, the Yardbirds deserve any honors bestowed.

Where is it'Eric Clapton??

looking in a mirror @@giagnorio86

@@jppage3292...🤣👍🤣

Clapton is a great guitarist and a douche. He wouldn’t share the spotlight with anyone other than himself.

Hillarious!

lol. Took another 17 years, but they finally recognized him for his “other” music.

@Robert Kelly lighten up. It was a joke amongst friends. Jimmy and Jeff have joked about it since then. Jimmy had no part in kicking out Jeff. Jeff has explained that he understood why it happened.

@Robert Kelly Don't get uptight with me, man. Cos if you do, I'll have to give you a dose of medicine. And if I spike you, you'll know you've been spoken to.

@@anthonygill5621 shut up noob dog

Yeah well ' sometimes it just takes longer to get at the roots

25 years is the minimum and this induction was 25 years after their peak. Technically they could have gotten in a year or two earlier, but not much more than that.

Eric Clapton also left before their first hit--and because of it. They were deverting from the true path of the Blues into pop and, at least at that point in his life, he was a purist.

which is funny because he eventually became what he dreaded being.

@Nelson Robert Willis Really? name one fucking hit that Page had? Beck played on all the god damn songs Page was a no load.

Yes he was. The "Clapton is God" started in the Yardbirds.

Jeff Beck was the guitar genius that I loved listening to in The Yardbirds, and he is still the most adventurous and inventive of the three today. I never knew that they kicked him out though. Jeff Beck was, in my opinion, the only British guitar player who could match and often outplay the great American psychedelic guitarists of the 60s. He was edgy and daring, and they kicked him out!! I can't believe it. What a revelation!

Beck top 5

Page for me

He doesn't seem proud of them though. He once said The Yardbirds was overprovided in the guitar department and under provided in the song-writing department and others have said he left of his own volition.

Anf for some reason, they won't nominate Deep Purple, The Moody Blues or Yes, but they'll admitted those no talent bums Kiss!

Bill Sellers Deep Purple???????The Moody Blues????????? You need a day off Bill!

Well Andy, everyone's tastes are different but as far as musical talent goes, the bands I mentioned had it "in spades"!; Kiss..... not so much.

obbor4 The last time I saw Deep Purple was at The Roundhouse in London. They were previewing the imminent release of 'In Rock'. If ever they had a peak period.....that was it! As for The Moodies. I saw them at The Royal Albert Hall around '70. They were doing Threshold' stuff. I left after twenty minutes I'm afraid. A nagging voice in my head kept saying 'What the fuck are you doing here'? I first saw Zappa the night he was pushed off of the stage at The Rainbow Theatre. After that I never missed a UK tour right up to the very last one! I've worked in records since 1969. There isn't much I haven't heard, but I have to say, after Zappa....................everything else is Just Rock Music!!

I'm a big fan of Zappa as well. Saw him in 80" and 82." One of the most talented and influential people ever to form a band, but because of all the controversy that surrounded him those turds in Cleveland will never let him in. But being the kind ant-establishment person he was, Zappa wouldn't want to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame anyway; Beefheart neither.

Vero!! Per me la stessa cosa

I was a seventeen year old kid learning bass and singing harmonies in a band.

that was cool!

No, Sir Paul would have made it all about Sir Paul.

Before the Yardbirds, they were described as "combos", after Yardbirds, they were bands.

Clapton, Beck, and Page were all, famously, excellent guitarists. And you guys don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, for instance, was #1 in the U.K. in 1964.

In most critically recognized music circles, the Yardbirds were seminal, crucial and pivotal just like Edge said. They’re easily in my top 10.

Nah.

@@kathy2trips Who were, "combos"?

*thug life*

Is it true?

Lol, pissed myself laughing!

Shut up and introduce the yardbirds

Beck was too too funny. Awesome band.

At first I thought it was horribly rude...but I think he meant it with a bit of humor - so, agreed.

beatlesrutles That's Jeff! And didn't he light the place up! He's pretty light hearted most of the time. But he speaks the truth, and in the same vein as what happened to him, 26 years before, it's the reason we have Led Zeppelin; legally they weren't allowed to call themselves The New Yardbirds anymore, so they had to come up with a new name; maybe part of why Jimmy's smiling; he's been there too ... and I thought The Edge's introduction was very respectful and insightful .. and you know I just now realised, as I'm writing, that years later, he got to be in a film with one of his heroes, Jimmy; in 'It Might Get Loud', wherein that very same work ethic, and lonely striving, for something ethereal, is very much in evidence ... hundreds of years from now .. longer I'm sure .. musicians will continue to be inspired by those on stage this particular evening .. just as we still are today by Bach and Beethoven ...

Beck doesn't hold grudges. But he does make fun of everything. Jimmy Page clearly got it....

@@vibekeschneidermann689 - He should, Page engineered the firing.

@@justafanintexas7913 A fan who think he really knows. You don't know.

@@Ram44 - I worked directly for Clapton from 2001-2019 and have been around Beck enough to have had conversations with him. Page engineered his firing - per Beck. I think he'd know his business better than you, eh?

@@justafanintexas7913 well, they still seem to be friends

Plenty of 60’s bands that don’t sound dated today.

@@vgr112261 The Kinks were better.

@@arturbello4213 The Kinks were infinitely better. The Yardbirds were more in the tier of British bands like The Pretty Things.

@@arturbello4213 Kinks and Yardbirds were in completely different bags. Kinks had nothing to do with Chicago blues; they were class song-writers and lyricists closer to the Music Hall tradition. It's apples to oranges.

Jeff and Jimmy are childhood friends from when they were 13 years old. Can you imagine those two kids when they were that young, and the world had no idea what was coming. I can just imagine some of their conversations.

See the two of them at Beck’s solo RaRHoF induction

@@andrewcrosthwaite3976 I watched it and they were both marvelous. True friends, obviously.

And Edgar Winter on sax.

IKR!

indeed

+alphadogstudio Clapton was probably playing a boring blues solo at some blues jam. Before Clapton, the Yardbirds were cool, experimental, cutting edge. He turned them into a boring blues jam band.

Clapton was before Page and Beck...

I mean't was he at the event?

+photographerjonathan YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN, GOOD COMMENT PHOTOGUY!!

I think the stealing accusations come from keeping most of the lyrics and chord progression and song structures of the originals and then crediting your band for writing the songs on your albums.

yu are exactly right just more from the unwashed millennial snowflake crowd.....ugh gee----BB King remarked once that those British cats just did it better they really took it to new levels!!!! snowflake detractors you know the ones that upset campuses

Yup it’s known fact that bring it on home which zeppelin covered of sonny boy , the band didn’t pay him royalties till they were sued for using his song without paying , then couple of willie Dixon songs to they stole without paying till they were sued .Lots of there song s they made there own style like the song from Otis rush I can’t quit u babe , but they should of made sure there record label paid the royalties first not after they were sued

yea its warn out

Tim Allbritton Yeah Brian May

Christopher Byrne could be!

relax dude maybe his playing is not your style but just like Page Beck and Clapton you cannot deny he is still an innovator at what he did-. I remember when U2 just came out in early 80's everyone I knew was so awestruck by his beautiful sounds. Anything played on the radio after one of their songs played sounded stale in comparison, even to my idol being Page.

@@vracan relax.