you look to the origins of that riff it's actually like the Yardbirds' 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' and/or the fast part of the Stooges' 'I'm Sick of You'." When Jimi Hendrix first met Beck in London in 1966, he asked him how he got the song's feedback sounds. Beck recalls that Hendrix told him, "You know that lick you did on 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago'? I swiped that." Di Perna writes: In the late 1960s, prior to joining Big Star, Chris Bell performed "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" in concert. To approximate Beck's sound going into the instrumental middle section, a pre-recorded slowed-down sound of an explosion was used as Bell went into his guitar solo. Daryl Easlea writes in his biography of the American rock duo Sparks: "It [the song] was three minutes of surreal, psychedelic aural imagery. [The Mael brothers] Ron and Russell would listen to it and marvel at its wonder and it was to become something of a touchstone for their early work." Todd Rundgren, who produced Sparks' first album, recorded the song for his album Faithful (1976). In an album review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls it a "re-creation, with Rundgren 'faithfully' replicating the sound and feel of the Yardbirds [original]". Personnel Musicians Keith Relf – vocals Jeff Beck – guitar Jimmy Page – guitar John Paul Jones – bass Jim McCarty – drums, backing vocals Production Simon Napier-Bell – producer Dave Siddle – recording engineer Footnotes References Bibliography External links 1966 songs 1966 singles The Yardbirds songs Songs written by Jeff Beck Songs written by Jimmy Page Songs written by Keith Relf Songs written by Jim McCarty Columbia Graphophone Company singles Epic Records singles