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The Yardbirds 1999 “BBC Sessions” (1965-1968)

(mp3 - 256 Kbps; 142 Mb.)

I love live radio broadcast albums. And this is one of the best of the BBC series releases. It's got some memorable performances by both the Beck and the Page lineups from 1965-68. This is pretty much Jeff Beck's show though. He appears on 20 of these cuts and he just cooks on here. Especially on "Too Much Monkey Business", where his guitar playing is just ferocious! This had to be pretty shocking stuff at the time for those stiff lipped studio technitions to hear. I love all the old blues covers they were generous enough to put on here. Especially Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man". There's nothing quite like hearing the spelling out of M-A-N with an english accent. Also another great cover is Chester Burnett's "The Sun Is Shining" where Beck plays a mean sounding bottleneck slide. But their best material is their originals such as "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", Shapes Of Things, and my favorite "Over Under Sideways Down". It's hard to believe most of these songs were from the 65-66 era. They were so far ahead of their time. The only thing that gives it away is when those cheesy disc jockeys start introducing the band before each song with "Groovy" and "Here's a Real Knockout Band". But this album is just like a Best Of from the Yardbirds. It's got all their good stuff that's played pretty close to their studio versions, but with a little Beck and Page pizzaz. And being in the BBC studios, the recordings are crystal clear, with none of that annoying hiss. So if you haven't got any Yardbirds cd's yet, this is as good a place as any to start. Excellent

Tracklist:


01 I Ain't Got You
02 Keith Relf Talks About The Band's Background
03 For Your Love
04 I'm Not Talking
05 I Wish You Would
06 Keith Relf Talks About USA Tour
07 Heart Full Of Soul
08 I Ain't Done Wrong
09 Too Much Monkey Business
10 Love Me Like I Love You
11 I'm A Man
12 Evil Hearted You
13 Interview About The 'Still I'm Sad' Single
14 Still I'm Sad
15 Hang On Sloopy
16 Smokestack Lightning
17 The Yardbirds Give Their New Year's Resolutions
18 You're A Better Man Than I
19 The Train Kept A-Rollin'
20 Shapes Of Things
21 Dust My Broom
22 Baby, Scratch My Back
23 Keith Relf Talks About His Solo Single
24 Over Under Sideways Down
25 The Sun Is Shining
26 Shapes Of Things, Version 2
27 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
28 Little Games
29 Drinking Muddy Water
30 Think About It
31 Interview With Jimmy Page
32 Goodnight Sweet Josephine
33 My Babys

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The Yardbirds 1964 “Live!” /Blueswailing July '64/ (Rem 2004)

(mp3 - 256 Kbps; 57,5 Mb.)

This recently discovered seven-song set is an awe-inspiring live recording of the Yardbirds before their official debut, Five Live Yardbirds. As a document, it adds considerable weight to the band's early rep that has been passed into legend. It also rewrites history: this short set blows Five Live away both in terms of performance and sound quality. This is the second incarnation of the band, with Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, and new guitarist Eric Clapton (who had replaced Andrew "Top" Topham). The music here roars, screams, howls, growls, and bleeds white-boy British blues; it is blistering in its raw intensity, with covers of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" and the standard "Smokestack Lightning." The band's trademark "rave-up" antics are abundant here (check out "She's So Respectable"), and in the closer - one of the most startling rock versions of "The Sky Is Crying" on record - the listener gets the clearest picture yet of Clapton as an early and worthy guitar hero. His playing is so inspired and full of razor-sharp turnarounds and knotty arpeggios, one has to wonder what was left for him to accomplish even then. The energy here is crackling, dangerous, and woolly. Anyone interested in vintage garage or modern garage rock should check this out, as it rivals most of what comes out of today's "raw and raucous" scene as well. Indeed, history has been rewritten.

Tracklist:

01 Someone To Love Me
02 Too Much Monkey Business
03 I Got Love If You Want It
04 Smokestack Lightning
05 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
06 She Is So Respectable/Humpty Dumpty
07 The Sky Is Crying

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