Yardbirds, The - I'm Not Talking Lyrics






I'm not talking
Well that's what I got to say
If I said things were splendid
Our mom might be offended
If I said things were awful
It may just be unlawful
That's one thing I can do without

I'm not talking
Well that's what I got to say
Used to think I knew it
Man I sure outgrew it
Things like idle chatter
Ain't the things that matter
Don't call me baby, I'll call you

I'm not talking
Well that's what I got to say
If I said things at midnight
I ain't gonna say 'em in daylight
I reached the final conclusion
And all this persecution
Don't call me, baby, I'll call you





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  1. G.... D....

    Begins with the ending, and ends with the beginning. When a band played this song at a UMass dance in Amherst in 1968, I overheard a guy leaving the floor after it saying to his lady dance partner "Wow, that was hard to dance to!"

  2. P.... S....

    Keith Relf great vocalist here as always. Beck and Smith's playing outstanding! Joined by Dreja and McCarty incredible!

  3. B.... L....

    Probably my all-time favorite Yardbirds record - It's a given that Beck's Esquire playing is incredible, but as a bassist, I am blown away with McCarty's drums and Smith's interwoven bass lines (especially in the second break)! Back in the '70s when I was much younger and playing clubs, this was a song we wanted to cover like an organic juke box (note and lick for note - drums too)! Still gives me goosebumps when I listen to this record!

  4. B.... T....

    Why Clapton left? They still play blues with Beck

  5. A.... A....

    This is their best tune...
    https://g.co/kgs/1d2BvD

  6. A.... A....

    Well second after ‘stroll on’

  7. A.... A....

    This is their best song... finally found it!!!!

  8. M.... M....

    This tune rocks. I don’t remember it like the Yardbirds other tunes in the US. I found it looking up more familiar Yardbirds’ hits. Glad I found it.

  9. M.... S....

    Now THIS is music!

  10. D.... W....

    Mose Allison's version sounds like a Dave Brubeck recording. Interesting but boring. This version KICKS ASS!!!

  11. B.... S....

    best guitarist from the yardbirds what a legend

  12. A.... G....

    Moby dick?

  13. A.... ....

    The Stooges took a lot of inspiration here for "I got a right"...

  14. J.... G....

    #throwbackthursday

  15. i.... l....

    isn’t this moby dick 45rpm?

  16. J.... G....

    Throwback Thursday turn up!

  17. c.... ....

    RIP, Mose Allison

  18. t.... w....

    Great pics of Jeff, Jimmy, Keith, etal...RIP Keith....Had the demo albums back in the day....amid my Boston Years, '63-'71....who could've known?

  19. T.... H....

    The greatest band ever ...

    T.... H....

    First heavy metal band first sure.

    T.... H....

    @LostTrack01 Much of blues rock turned heavy metal.

    T.... H....

    @jtrack01 Precursor,a long with Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Cream.

    T.... H....

    um...no

  20. J.... H....

    compare the Beatles to the YB around the same period.  YB win in every possible category in creativity and innovation.

    J.... H....

    The Beatles went from Help to Rubber Soul to Revolver to Sergeant Pepper in that period. Playing up-tempo and rocky doesn't equal creativity and innovation per se, this song in fact sounds pretty straight forward to me. The Beatles were constantly changing, exploring what they could do differently, trying out different sounds, different instruments. That defines innovation.

    J.... H....

    Jim Hoerr: The Yardbirds were an extremely influencial an innovative band. However The Beatles went from She Loves You to Tomorrow Never Knows in three years!!!! Creative enough for ya????

    J.... H....

    Jim Hoerr: No question The Yardbirds were an innovative band but nowhere near as innovative as The Beatles. Revolver came out in '66. The Yardbirds 2nd Album didn't come close. For sheer scope Revolver left everybody standing!

  21. n.... ....

    birth of heavy metal? beck inspired a lot of bad imitators.

    n.... ....

    Mister Jeff Beck still plays only the right notes, not all the ones between like the shredders do. He is stylish.
    You can copy him but never predict. You can outplay him on your Youtube channel but never on stage. When challenged, he goes to eleven. It is great when he does that...he does stuff nobody's ever made the Strat say or do before.
    With a smile. I wish his hair keeps on growing forever and that I die before him.

  22. T.... K....

    no compromises= YARDBIRDS!
    Damn it they were sooo good.

  23. C.... B....

    Paul Samwell-Smith's walking bass underneath Jeff Beck' second guitar solo on this is really out there. It's a forerunner of what Jack Bruce would do at length underneath Eric Clapton's solos in Cream, for example, on "Crossroads."

    C.... B....

    This is rock and roll!

    C.... B....

    Charles Buxton uuuuuuuujjkjjjjkkkk

    C.... B....

    YAWN, I AM SO SICK OF CLAPTON.

    C.... B....

    Good call, Charles. That's exactly right.

    C.... B....

    Charles Buxton I remember my Yardbirds Anthology album I think it was. The one that shows all the bands in the way of a family tree of the bands that came from them. My God. Add in my other favorite band, Cream which is in the YB tree but you add in Cream an all the bands they help start and it's just unbelievable between the two. When you look at both you get the feeling they started every band an so on from the 60s an 70s.

  24. B.... ....

    This the best version of this song. I like Mose Allison's original version as well, but this Yardbirds cover is great,

    B.... ....

    The Misunderstood's cover of this from their Gold Star Sessions album kicks this version to death! See also The Sons Of Adam's cover of Mr. You're A Better man Than I.

    B.... ....

    search Whiskey Howl. Im not talkin.

  25. R.... M....

    We used to open with this song...loved it!

  26. l.... ....

    jimmy page is about to eat your soul in that photo ;D

    l.... ....

    but he is not on it

    l.... ....

    @Robert Ommundsen yes he is

  27. T.... S....

    Nice Rock song

  28. H.... ....

    the version with jimmy page is better

  29. o.... ....

    But i think he looks absolutely badass here..

  30. E.... ....

    It's Beck on guitar.

  31. v.... ....

    It IS great indeed (esp. that vibrato), and even more astonishing given that it was recorded in early '65.

    v.... ....

    vampyros1: Cheap fuzz boxes were about it as far as effects go. This is pre Wah Wah!

  32. W.... F....

    Take the 5th to this one. Let the music do the talking. Play this loud, kids.

    W.... F....

    turn it up to 11.

  33. W.... F....

    It's been a good while since I heard this one. Thank you, Little Steven, for playing this one on The Underground Garage last night. This is king tone!

  34. r.... m....

    ...AND THAT'S WHAT I'VE GOT TO SAY ! ! ! !

  35. B.... O....

    Mr. Page always looks excellent. No homo..... Maybe no homo....

  36. s.... r....

    Who plays lead on this? Ace playing young man!

    s.... r....

    sniff rat Jeff Beck.

  37. M.... ....

    This isn't pop dude.

  38. D.... H....

    He was mean, On that guitar Yuck yuck

  39. j.... p....

    the jam

  40. k.... 2....

    They got a late start because their singer went insane.

    k.... 2....

    kathy 2trips: I see the trips haven't worn off yet! Their singer electrocuted himself accidentally in the bath!

  41. t.... ....

    As far as I'm concerned...its like The Birth of Rock n' Roll. And Mayall, don't forget Mayall.

  42. t.... ....

    No, it's Beck.

  43. G.... O....

    Seems like everyone forgets Paul Samwell-Smith, Chris Dreja & Jim McCarty. Those guys were great also.

  44. p.... ....

    Notice the similarity to "Watch Your Step" by Bobby Parker?

  45. A.... A....

    what a song!

  46. G.... W....

    I'd even say The Twilghts is punk. Sex Pistols could have done 10 years later but not better it.

  47. G.... W....

    The Twilights version actually buries this. It was one of the first truly hard rock songs. This is good but their version smokes it. Even Terry Britton's solo beats Beck even though he followed the notes and style pretty close.

  48. m.... j....

    yeah you're right - realised straight after I hit the button.

  49. G.... O....

    Jeff Beck

  50. m.... j....

    I don' tknow why people are talking about Jeff Beck either - this is Eric Clapton surely.

    m.... j....

    Nope.  This is Beck. Listen to the fuzz, man. Clapton always more bluesy.

  51. j.... p....

    rock and roll

  52. s.... b....

    sounds like a zepplen riff this band was so good they said we got anouth talent for 3 bands

  53. V.... ....

    on rythm too, i don't know why people is talking about Page. He joined The Yardbirds later

  54. T.... K....

    Very well said!!!+

  55. T.... K....

    cult. Yardbirds tearing the riff apart.

  56. e.... p....

    better than the rolling stones! that that mick~

  57. e.... p....

    That is funny! i hope you dont mind. but im gonna borrow that line.

  58. m.... ....

    other females usually refer to yardbirds jimmy as 'sensual' and 'dead sexy'

  59. J.... C....

    Ahh, the days when ROCK & ROLL had that element of danger, pure wreckless
    abandon that scared MIDDLE AMERICA.........THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN
    BANDS "KICKED OUT THE JAMS, WITH NO APOLOGIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THE YARDBIRDS................PRICELESS!!!!!!

  60. B.... I....

    Jimmy is the man!

  61. k.... ....

    @MrSamram3 Its actually Jeff Beck on solo

  62. R.... M....

    Saw the Yardbirds in 1965 at local amusement park here in Oklahoma City. Jeff Beck was lead and Jimmy Page had just joined them. Concert cost $5 and was by far the best I had ever seen to date. Wow I'm 61 and still love that music.

  63. c.... ....

    THIS IS NOT MOBY DICK. THIS IS WATCH YOUR STEP - BOBBY PARKER
    LED ZEPPLIN AND YARDBIRDS BOTH ARE SIMILAR. SO IS I FEEL FINE- BEATLES. I'M NOT TALKING IS AN EXACT COVER

  64. M.... M....

    @pucksaver95 Yeah, It is. I just noticed that, thanks for pointing it out :)

  65. M.... M....

    @pucksaver95 Yeah, It is. I just noticed that, thanks for pointing it out :)

  66. W.... D....

    GREAT Version of this Song!!!! YAY!!!! btw, this Song is NOT a Yardbirds 'ORIGINAL',.... it's a Cover-Song. The Yardbirds are 'COVERING' "I'm not Talking" which was written by and Originally Recorded by MOSE ALLSON!!!!

  67. D.... ....

    damn this picture of Jimmy Page really makes me think of Ritchie Blackmore for some reason... both great guitarists, who brought a lot to the world of music =)

  68. G.... G....

    Mal charger au départ ont ne ne peux rien lire !!

  69. G.... E....

    Why cant anyone just fucken enjoy the music?!

  70. u.... ....

    @iCHUCK69 pink floyd doesn't even register?

  71. t.... d....

    @iCHUCK69 Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Yardbirds, Who.

  72. 8.... ....

    @iCHUCK69 really no room for zeppelin in there?

  73. h.... ....

    @Slaxl18 No. Yardbirds =Jimmy Page. No Bonham. No Plant. No John Paul Jones. Not Zeppelin.

  74. a.... c....

    @iCHUCK69 Too bad Hendrix punked all of them.

    a.... c....

    alex chaidez: You think Hendrix wasn't aware of The Yardbirds?

  75. M.... R....

    @Kubeksfriend Led Zeppelin created a decade. So... there ya go.

  76. M.... R....

    @iCHUCK69 Led Zeppelin?

  77. F.... G....

    YEAH MAN.

  78. 1.... ....

    Thanks for the great cover of Mose Allison. A newer version of the Yardbirds does a killer cover of this on the album Birdland.

  79. F.... ....

    @iCHUCK69 Beatles-Stones-Who-Yardbirds-Kinks. They had more power and musical fuck you than the kinks. But still, thumbs up.

  80. F.... G....

    They were always best with the blues...

  81. B.... R....

    @iCHUCK69 Oh no - Yardbirds always comes first :-) Saw Jeff in Copenhagen last night - WOW - worth waiting 45 years for :-))

  82. N.... K....

    @iCHUCK69
    Right on bro, saw them all from the start. A great music time!

  83. L.... C....

    Pure blues at its best :)

  84. H.... ....

    @asmorgan88 Hehe, I didn't say that..
    Brilliant song, really really great band
    Roll one up and try to relax the nerves , you angry man :P (or women)

  85. H.... ....

    @asmorgan88 You're talking too much
    Listen to Keith Relf
    He's not talking
    And it's great.

  86. v.... ....

    kinda sounds like moby dick

  87. S.... C....

    One of my favorite Yardbird tunes. I too saw them at Melodyland (Anaheim) in early 68' with Page. A classic concert. Top notch!

  88. Z.... T....

    @SKINmodHEAD OK ForeskinHead. You are obviously Assmorgan's buddy. Why do you guys have to include some kind of homosexual reference w every response? Wow I thought I could keep up, but you guys are far more NEGATIVE than I could ever hope to be! You guys have to be filled w hatred if you actually take the time to type out your hatred for others! You guys win !!!

  89. Z.... T....

    @asmorgan88 Aww how sweet, the exact response a 15 yr old would give. Ok I'll leave you alone now. I originally thought I had an intelligent debate opponent. I see now that you're just an insecure little boy looking for approval w your "know it all" comments. But I think people have already figured that out! Don't be afraid little bunny rabbit, it's a big world out there!

  90. Z.... T....

    @asmorgan88 Yeah that's it man, sure The Ramones are better than the Beatles. What dimension are you from? Oh wait , I remember you put Lady Ga Ga first on your list of favorite "music" on your homepage. Just so you know , constantly calling everyone a fuckstick just lets us all know that you are the original fuckstick! Don't forget to look for a real job today! Have a great day Brother!

  91. O.... ....

    One of my faves by them, too, debsue. Thanks for uploading this great-sounding, hard-to-find gem! Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)

  92. t.... ....

    @asmorgan88 i still buy beer and dont need to rent a car if i own a truck.

    and i fully agree with every thing you just said this time. we make up our own music and i am the one who comes up with riffs and all that but i am heavily influenced by classic rock, rock and roll, and blues rock. people tell me they can hear that in our music and i like the fact that i can make music that isnt fully punk so to speak. but what you said couldn't be more true. i think i'll quote you on the subject too! ha

  93. t.... ....

    @asmorgan88 ok first of all, im not a fuckin little kid. im 4 years younger than you.

    second, i dont listen to punk and i'm only in the band because my friend didnt know any other guitarist and asked if i could help him out and so i am.

    third, the reason they dont give it a chance is because the band is a punk band and only wants to play punk. as much as i'd like to play covers of music i like, they only know how to play punk since its so easy and its what they like.

  94. r.... ....

    .......... That's what I got to say

  95. t.... ....

    i want to do a cover of this song, its so bad ass. but im in a punk band who wont give anything else a chance. lame =[

  96. D.... ....

    Even though this is a YB vid... I"ll chime in on the WHO Chat... remember as a teen in the 60's seeing them here in Dallas for the first time... Keith Moon demolishing his drumset and Pete cracking his axe too right on stage... during an encore finish up with My Generation. Still remember that and saying WTF!!!!!!!

  97. s.... m....

    Youtube is great cos it gives us access to music we could never actually see, but ur right theres nothing like being there.
    Last summer I saw Nick Cave, Elbow, Neil Young,McCartney and Brian Wilson all from the comfort of leaning on the barrier with 20,000 people behind wishing they were where i was - oh and Van Morrison, but nowadays you have to search for when they are playing. Back in the 60/70s it must have been difficult to choose which (great)group to see.

  98. R.... C....

    There is no comparison,they are guitar gods