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The Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things The Best Of (2010)

2011-01-28T09:47:51Z

The Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things The Best Of (2010)

Disc 1
01. For Your Love
02. Heart Full Of Soul
03. Evil Hearted You
04. Shapes Of Things                  play
05. A Certain Girl
06. I Wish You Would
07. I Ain't Got You
08. Boom Boom
09. Good Morning Little School Girl
10. Talking Bout You
11. My Girl Sloopy
12. Jeff's Boogie                     play
13. Train Kept A Rollin
14. Here 'Tis
15. Lost Women
16. Smokestack Lightning (Live)
17. Jeff's Blues
18. The Nazz Are Blue
19. Got To Hurry
20. Too Much Monkey Business

Disc 2
01. Over Under Sideways Down
02. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
03. I'm A Man
04. Stroll On
05. Mister You're a Better Man Than I
06. Still I'm Sad
07. Ever Since The World Began
08. Putty In Your Hands
09. What Do You Want
10. Rack My Mind
11. I'm Not Talking
12. I Ain't Done Wrong
13. Psycho Daisies
14. I Can't Make Your Way
15. Someone To Love
16. Mr Zero - Keith Relf
17. Honey In Your Hips
18. Sweet Music
19. Steeled Blues                        play
20. Louise (Live)

The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid 1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Heart Full of Soul". The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top fifteen of Rolling Stone's 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton as #4, Page as #9, and Beck as #14). A blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, The Yardbirds were pioneers in guitar innovations of the '60s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, backwards echo, improved amplification, etc. Pat Pemberton, writing for Spinner, holds that the Yardbirds were "the most impressive guitar band in rock music". After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, their current lead guitarist Jimmy Page founded what became Led Zeppelin.

The bulk of the band's most successful self-written songs came from bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith who, with singer/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, constituted the core of the group. The band reformed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty, Dreja and new members. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

The Yardbirds – brytyjska grupa rockowa, jedna z tworzących brytyjską inwazję. Najbardziej znana jako wylęgarnia talentów gitarowych. Założona w 1963 przez wokalistę Keitha Relfa, basistę Paula Samwell-Smitha, perkusistę Jima McCarty'ego i gitarzystów Anthony'ego "Top" Tophhama i polskiego pochodzenia Chrisa Dreję. Grupa grała początkowo głównie typowy dla swego czasu rock and roll oraz rhythm and blues. Prawdziwa historia zespołu rozpoczęła się, gdy w miejsce Tophama dołączył do niego początkujący wówczas gitarzysta Eric Clapton, który okazał się wybitnym wirtuozem tego instrumentu. Muzyka zaczęła zbliżać się wtedy w kierunku bluesa z silną dominacją gitary elektrycznej, jako wiodącego instrumentu i Yardbirds stali się jednym z czołowych wykonawców blues rocka.

Grupa wydawała się być skończona, gdy Clapton zdecydował się ją opuścić w 1965. Niespodziewanie z pełnym powodzeniem jego miejsce zajął inny wirtuoz elektrycznej gitary, Jeff Beck, który przejął rolę lidera. Pozostał on w zespole niecałe dwa lata, by ostatecznie zostać zastąpionym przez inną późniejszą sławę, Jimmy'ego Page'a. Przez krótki okres, obaj ci gitarzyści grali razem (Page był wówczas basistą). W 1968 z grupy odeszli Relf i McCarty by utworzyć progresywnorockowy zespół Renaissance. Wkrótce potem odszedł Dreja. Page pozostał sam ze zobowiązaniami kontraktowymi wobec wytwórni płytowych i by je wypełnić, zatrudnił trzech muzyków: perkusistę Johna Bonhama, wokalistę Roberta Planta oraz multiinstrumentalistę i znanego producenta Johna Paula Jonesa, który wziął na siebie rolę basisty. W ten sposób powstała reinkarnacja The Yardbirds, początkowo znana jako The New Yardbirds, która wkrótce potem zapisała się na stałe w historii muzyki rockowej, jako Led Zeppelin. W 1992 grupa została wprowadzona do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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The Yardbirds - For Your Love (1965)

2010-11-15T10:35:32Z

The Yardbirds - For Your Love (1965)


1. For Your Love 
2. I'm Not Talking 
3. Putty (In Your Hands)    play
4. I Ain't Got You 
5. Got to Hurry             play
6. I Ain't Done Wrong 
7. I Wish You Would 	
8. A Certain Girl 
9. Sweet Music [Take 3] 
10. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 
11. My Girl Sloppy 
12. Baby What's Wrong 
13. Boom Boom                 
14. Honey in Your Hips 
15. Talkin' About You 
16. I Wish You Would [Long Version]
17. A Certain Girl [Alternate Take]
18. Got to Hurry [Take 4]
19. Sweet Music [Take 4]
20. Heart Full of Soul [Sitar Version]
21. Steeled Blues            
22. Paff...Bum [German Issue]
23. Questa Volta 
24. Paff...Bum [Italian Issue]

Personnel
* Keith Relf – lead vocals, harmonica
* Eric Clapton – lead guitar on all tracks except as indicated below
* Jeff Beck – lead guitar on "I'm Not Talking", "I Ain't Done Wrong", and "My Girl Sloopy"
* Chris Dreja – rhythm guitar
* Paul Samwell-Smith – bass, vocals
* Jim McCarty – drums, vocals
* Giorgio Gomelsky - backing vocal on "A Certain Girl"
* Brian Auger - harpsichord on "For Your Love"
* Denny Pierce - bongos on "For Your Love"
* Ron Prentice - bowed bass on "For Your Love"

The quasi-progressive "For Your Love," dominated by guest artist Brian Auger's harpsichord, is juxtaposed with hard-rocking blues-based numbers, almost all of which featured departed lead guitarist Eric Clapton (who is mentioned nowhere on the LP), with current lead guitarist Jeff Beck on just three tracks. The Clapton cuts, although primitive next to the material he was soon to cut with John Mayall, have an intensity that's still riveting to hear four decades later, and was some of the best blues-based rock & roll of its era. The three Beck sides show where the band was really heading, beyond the immediate success of "For Your Love" -- "I'm Not Talking" and "I Ain't Done Wrong" were hard, loud, blazing showcases for Beck's concise blues playing, while "My Girl Sloopy" was the first extended jam to emerge on record from a band on the British blues scene; the source material isn't ideal, but Beck and company make their point in an era where bands were seldom allowed to go more than four minutes on even an album track -- these boys could play and make it count. The 13 bonus tracks are mostly blues-rock and are mostly scintillating, and the Repertoire CD has the best sound that any of this music has ever displayed.

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Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer (1966)

2010-05-23T21:18:04Z

Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer (1966)


01. Lost Woman – 3:12
02. Over, Under, Sideways, Down – 2:21
03. The Nazz Are Blue – 3:00
04. I Can't Make Your Way – 2:22
05. Rack My Mind – 3:11
06. Farewell – 1:27
07. Hot House Of Omagarashid – 2:41
08. Jeff's Boogie – 2:21
09. He's Always There – 2:12
10. Turn Into Earth – 3:03
11. What Do You Want – 3:20
12. Ever Since The World Began – 2:02
Bonuses:
13. Psycho Daisies (Bonus Single) - 1:47
14. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Bonus Single) - 2:54

Personnel:
- Keith Relf – lead vocals, harmonica
- Jeff Beck – lead guitar, bass (2), vocals (3, 13)
- Chris Dreja – rhythm guitar
- Paul Samwell-Smith – bass
- Jim McCarty – drums, percussion
+
- Jimmy Page - guitar (14), bass (13)
- John Paul Jones - bass (14)

Once Jeff Beck joined the Yardbirds, the group began to explore uncharted territory, expanding their blues-rock into wild sonic permutations of psychedelia, Indian music, and avant-garde white noise. Each subsequent single displayed a new direction, one that expanded on the ideas of the previous single, so it would seem that Roger the Engineer -- Beck's first full album with the group and the band's first album of all-original material -- would have offered them the opportunity to fully explore their adventurous inclinations. Despite a handful of brilliant moments, Roger the Engineer falls short of expectations, partially because the band is reluctant to leave their blues roots behind and partially because they simply can't write a consistent set of songs. At their best on Roger, the Yardbirds strike a kinetic balance of blues-rock form and explosive psychedelia ("Lost Woman," "Over, Under Sideways, Down," "The Nazz Are Blue," "He's Always There," "Psycho Daisies"), but they can also bog down in silly Eastern drones (although "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" is a classic piece of menacing psychedelia) or blues tradition ("Jeff's Boogie" is a pointless guitar workout that doesn't even showcase Beck at his most imaginative). The result is an unfocused record that careens between the great and the merely adequate, but the Yardbirds always had a problem with consistency -- none of their early albums had the impact of the singles, and Roger the Engineer suffers from the same problem. Nevertheless, it is the Yardbirds' best individual studio album, offering some of their very best psychedelia, even if it doesn't rank among the great albums of its era. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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Yardbirds - Little Games (1967)

2010-05-23T16:23:20Z

Yardbirds - Little Games (1967)


01. Little Games
02. Smile on Me
03. White Summer
04. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
05. Glimpses
06. Drinking Muddy Water
07. No Excess Baggage
08. Stealing, Stealing
09. Only the Black Rose
10. Little Soldier Boy
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11. Puzzles [1991 U.S. Stereo Mix]
12. I Remember the Night [1991 U.S. Stereo Mix]
13. Ha! Ha! Said the Clown
14. Ten Little Indians [1991 U.S. Stereo Mix]
15. Goodnight Sweet Josephine [Version 1 -- Unphased]
16. Think About It
17. Goodnight Sweet Josephine [Phased U.S. Single
Version]
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (I'll Go Mine) [BBC
Sessions]
19. Little Games [BBC Sessions]
20. Drinking Muddy Water [BBC Sessions]
21. Think About It [BBC Sessions]
22. Goodnight Sweet Josephine [BBC Sessions]
23. My Baby [BBC Sessions]
24. White Summer [BBC Sessions]
25. Dazed and Confused [As The New Yardbirds] [BBC Sessions] 

Personnel:
- Chris Dreja – bass
- Jim McCarty – drums, percussion, backing vocals 
- Jimmy Page – guitar
- Keith Relf – harmonica, percussion, vocals
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- Nicky Hopkins – keyboards
- Clem Cattini – drums
- John Paul Jones – bass, cello on "Little Games", and string arrangements

If almost any group other than the Yardbirds had released Little Games, it would be considered a flawed but prime late-'60s psychedelic/hard rock artifact instead of a serious step backward, and even a disappointment. Not that it's a bad album -- it just lacks the cohesion and polish of the group's preceding album, The Yardbirds (aka Over Under Sideways Down aka Roger the Engineer). And well it should -- although they were nominally the same group they'd been a year earlier, in reality the Yardbirds had undergone a massive shift in personnel since the release of The Yardbirds. The departure of original bassist Paul Samwell-Smith in June of 1966 set off a sequence of personnel shifts, bringing guitarist Jimmy Page into the lineup, first on bass and then on lead guitar in tandem with Jeff Beck (while rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja switched to bass), until Beck's exit in November 1966 for a solo career left Page as their lone guitarist. At the same time, the band was forced -- by the failure of its single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" -- to accept a new producer in the guise of Mickie Most, who was currently enjoying huge success with Donovan and had a formidable string of hit singles to his credit with Herman's Hermits, the Animals, et al. the Yardbirds' blues roots and progressive tendencies clashed with Most's pop/rock preferences, and the two sides never did reconcile, much less mesh for more than a few minutes on the finished album. To top it off, the bandmembers were finally seeing some serious money for their live performances (ironically, just as they were hanging on by their fingertips to a recording contract), courtesy of their new manager, Peter Grant, and so were committed to lots of stage work. The overall result was a hastily done and uneven LP with flashes of brilliance. Apart from the title single -- one of the better compromises between where the group had been and where Most wanted to take them -- the two best cuts were "White Summer" and "Drinking Muddy Water," excellent showcases for the experimental and bluesy sides of the band, respectively; both, curiously, were also virtually thefts, "White Summer" lifted from Davy Graham's arrangement of the 300-year-old "She Moves Through the Fair" and "Drinking Muddy Water" a rewrite of "Rollin' and Tumblin'," a blues standard usually attributed to McKinley Morganfield (aka Muddy Waters). The best of the rest included "Only the Black Rose," a strangely beautiful, moody acoustic psychedelic piece; "Stealing, Stealing," an unusual (for this band) pre-World War II-style acoustic blues complete with kazoo; and "Smile on Me," a hard, bluesy number that could have come from any part of the group's history. The attempt at a catchy rocker, "No Excess Baggage," however, needed more work and better involvement from vocalist Keith Relf; the power chord-laden "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" was a great piece of psychedelic pyrotechnics, but it also sounded more like the Who than the Yardbirds, though it did introduce Jimmy Page's violin bow discourses on the guitar; and "Little Soldier Boy" was a silly psychedelic pop piece more appropriate to the Monkees than the Yardbirds. The album was unintentionally revealing, in hindsight, of the growing schism within the band, as Relf and drummer Jim McCarty's growing embrace of flower power and hallucinogenic drugs came to be reflected in the trippier numbers such as "Glimpses," whereas Jimmy Page was starting to take his blues slower and flashier, and into wholly new territory with that violin bow. One more album or a proper concert might've sealed the deal for the Yardbirds, but instead one more tour sealed the fate of the band. ---Bruce Eder, Rovi

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Yardbirds – Zeppelin Presentation Stockholm 1966-1967

2010-03-01T14:53:26Z

The Yardbirds – Zeppelin Presentation Stockholm 1966-1967


01. Shapes Of Things
02. Heart Full Of Soul
03. Mr. You're A Better Man Than I
04. You Go Your Way
05. Over Under Sideways Down
06. Little Games
07. My Baby
08. I'm A Man
09. Shapes Of Things
10. For Your Love
11. Hang On Sloopy

Personnel: 
Jimmy Page :: Jeff Beck :: Eric Clapton :: Keith Relf :: Jim McCarty :: 
Chris Dreja :: Paul Samwell-Smith.

April 1967, Stockholm feat. Jimmy Page 
+ Live 1966, location unknown feat. Jeff Beck.

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The Yardbirds – Blue Eyed Blues (1972)

2010-01-31T21:12:50Z

The Yardbirds – Blue Eyed Blues (1972)


1. 23 Hours Too Long 
2. Out on the Water Coast 
3. Five Long Years 
4. I Ain't Got Out 
5. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 
6. Little Red Rooster (Rehearsal) 
7. Little Red Rooster 
8. Higway 49
9. Wang - Dang - Doodle 
10. I'm Max 
11. Jeff's Blues 
12. I See a Man Downstairs

Musicians:
Brian Auger - Organ
Jeff Beck - Guitar
Ricky Brown - Bass
Jeffrey M. Carp 	- Harmonica
Eric Clapton - Guitar, Vocals
Chris Dreja - Composer, Guitar
Howlin' Wolf -Guitar (Electric)
Lafayette Leake - Piano
Jim McCarty - Drums
Jimmy Page - Guitar
Keith Relf - Harmonica, Vocals
Paul Samwell-Smith - Bass
Alan Skidmore - Sax (Alto)
Ian Stewart - Piano
Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
Mickey Waller - Drums
Charlie Watts - Congas, Drums, Percussion
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Composer, Harmonica, Vocals
Steve Winwood - Organ, Piano
Bill Wyman - Bongos, Shaker

A hodgepodge of tracks, mostly pulled from the Yardbirds' catalog. Over half the disc is devoted to Clapton, bringing together two songs of the band backing up Sonny Boy Williamson, "Five Long Years" and "I'm a Man" from the Five Live Yardbirds album, two studio tracks from their first album, and three tracks from the Howlin' Wolf London Sessions. Jeff Beck is represented with "New York City Blues," "Steeled Blues," "The Train Kept A Rollin'," and a band-track-only outtake of "The Nazz Are Blue," under its original working title of "Jeff's Blues." The final two tracks with Page are taken from a London studio session backing Sonny Boy Williamson. If you have a decent Yardbirds collection, you probably have most of these elsewhere. ---Cub Koda

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The Yardbirds - Leverkusen, Germany (1997)

2010-01-13T18:08:48Z

The Yardbirds - Leverkusen, Germany (1997)


00. Radio Intro 
01. Train Kept A Rolling (3:30) 
02. I Got Love If You Want It (3:32) 
03. Heartful Of Soul (2:46) 
04. I'm Not Talking (3:10) 
05. I Ain't Got You (2:13) 
06. I Ain't Done Wrong (5:16) 
07. You're A Better Man Than I (3:48) 
08. Sitting On Top Of The World (5:06) 
09. I'm A Man (4:53) 
10. Back Where I Started (6:57) 
11. Over Under Sideways Down (3:03) 
12. Out Of The Dark (4:30) not broadcasted 
13. Smokestack Lightning (4:58)

The Yardbirds - Leverkusen,Germany 
Forum, Bluesfestival 1997.05.03

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Yardbirds & Sonny Boy Williamson – The Complete Crawdaddy Recordings (1965)

2009-10-30T13:38:25Z

The Yardbirds & Sonny Boy Williamson – The Complete Crawdaddy Recordings (1965)


1. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 01 - Bye Bye Bird (2:47)
2. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 02 - Mister Downchild (4:15)
3. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 03 - 23 Hours Too Long (5:19)
4. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 04 - Out Of The Water Coast (3:15)
5. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 05 - Baby Don't Worry (4:39)
6. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 06 - Pontiac Blues (4:01)
7. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 07 - Take It Easy Baby (Ver 1) (4:19)
8. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 08 - I Don't Care No More (3:17)
9. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 09 - Do The Weston (4:14)
10. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 10 - The River Rhine (5:18)
11. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 11 - A Lost Care (2:08)
12. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 12 - Western Arizona (3:02)
13. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 13 - Take It Easy Baby (Ver 2) (5:40)
14. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 14 - Slow Walk (1:06)
15. Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds - 15 - Highway 69 (3:13)

Personnel
    Sonny Boy Williamson II - vocal, harmonica

The Yardbirds
    Eric Clapton - guitar
    Chris Dreja - guitar
    Jim McCarty - drums
    Paul Samwell-Smith - bass
    Keith Relf - handclapping, shouting and foot-tapping

An exploitative album, released in 1966 shortly after the Yardbirds had their first American hits. This is a live show from late 1963, on which Chicago blues great Sonny Boy Williamson is backed by an extremely green Yardbirds. Yes, Eric Clapton is on here; no, he doesn't play well, managing some thin, extremely tentative solos that find him stumbling occasionally. It's really not that bad, though, as Sonny Boy himself sings well. But it should really be treated as a Sonny Boy Williamson release that happens to have a soon-to-be-famous-but-still-embryonic band in the background, in the manner of the sides the Beatles cut in Hamburg supporting Tony Sheridan. All of the material, and even some unreleased/alternate takes from the same dates, has since shown up on anthologies that are much easier to find than this instant collector's item. ---Richie Unterberger

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