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^ I'm liking the look of that gig.

Oops, no picture. The one with Cecil Taylor and It's A Beautiful Day anyhow.

Bumping this for Tom D. The idea of that Velvets is still amazing me. Know anything about it?

oops, should read 'that Velvets cover'

They might have played with them!

Also, Page something of an aficionado of US underground music, yes?

Yeah, I guess he was. Wasn't he a big Spirit fan or something?

And Kaleidoscope, and Buffalo Springfield et al

Not to go all off-topic, but: "Psycho Daisies"!

Kinda like that engineer album. Not too keen on the early blues stuff.

Yeah, Roger the Engineer is great. And Psycho Daisies too! B-side of Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, what an amazing single.

Not a big fan of the Yardbirds, beyond the famous songs

Somewhere I have an old Rolling Stone wherein it says, in the Random Notes section, that The Yardbirds changed their name to Led Zepplin, which in hindsight, is a pretty terrible name for a band.

The hook that follows the chorus of "Heart Full of Soul" always (still) gets me.

Full circle for this thread: the VU book Uptight says the Velvets were originally slated to be the band in Blow-Up, but it went to the Yardbirds instead.

Anyhow, Yardbirds are classic. Clapton never topped his work with them, by my reckoning.

always thought the riff @ 2:35 of this stooges track

sounded like happenings ten years time ago

made me a edit recently. loop madness.
yardbirds-train kepta rollin (ettiem kepta editin)

Eman, Iggy was a big Yardbirds fan, so you are probably onto something.
In some interview he talks about listening to "Heart Full of Soul" and thought to himself "Well, what's my heart full of?" (Napalm, obv)

I guess I mean he IS a big YB fan.
I love their psych shit, some of the early "rave up" stuff is great, too.
Especially "Here Tis"

also "i'm not talking" and "i got a right"

For that matter, the MC5 version of I'm A Man on '66 Breakout owes more to the Yardbirds than to Bo Diddley.

Woah! Never saw the Stooges link before!

The archetypal Freakbeat band. I really need to upgrade from my crappy beat-up Vinyl greatest hits.

Sundazed dropped the news on Facebook today that they'll be putting out the Little Games lp in mono on cd & vinyl in December. Only two bonus tracks tho: "Puzzles" & "I Remember The Night".

are there any bootlegs of the brief beck & page lineup? paging tyler

not that i know of? this one is tricky -- http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com/2009/02/yardbirds-feat-jimmy-page-jeff-beck.html
i think there are two shows though, one w/ beck, one w/ page.

in case anyone missed it, i wrote a little something about the VU/Yardbirds thang (along with mp3) here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/01/15/the-yardbirds-im-waiting-for-the-man-vu-cover-live-1968/

here's the high point of the beck/page y-birds recorded output
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S47NPJQq8h8

actually a pretty rockin' milkshake commercial tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpcyWKKY9-s
and here they are playing in 1966 -- page on bass, I think?

jim mccarty + whoever is playing as yardbirds in my town but tickets are like 40 or 50 bucks so screw that. i got ghostface tickets and they were only 30! anyway, i fuckin' love yardbirds and i have listened to their (post-clapton) records a TON in the last 5 years or so. hoo boy, so addicted. so great. i could rave about them all night.

This, from last year, is really awesome, especially the live disc: https://www.discogs.com/Yardbirds-Yardbirds-68/master/1269951

I would skip the McCarty-birds and get that killer Yardbirds '68 comp. I think it's my fave reissue from last year.

Roger the Engineer was pretty much the shape of hard rock to come.

Reviews say Yardbirds '68 has the Anderson Theater set that's been available before, but it's fixed up to sound clearer. Question: does it sound *that* much better to justify the premium price?

Sounds quite good, finally heard it yesterday. But not compared it with anything. Just been shared on torrent sites. But I'm still thinking of buying it.

Haven't heard it yet, but the original issue had overdubbed crowd noise (from bullfights), so presumably this reissue sounds better.

EVERY live album should have overdubbed bullfight noises.

the new ugly things claims that they are not actual bullfight noises, the myth beginning with a misinterpreted jimmy page quote.

It was actually Jake Holmes who said it had bullfight noises.

(and Scott otm)

and it wasn't even released on matador

What's the deal with "Knowing That I'm Losing You" being released without the vocals (as they'd already been on Cumular Limit)? Is Pagey afraid of being sued by Relf's estate for not acknowledging Keith wrote the lyrics to the second verse?

FWIW, I have the original issue of the Anderson Bullfight show and the new remaster completely smokes it.

Fun stories about the Anderson:

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/01/the-anderson-theater-forgotten-forerunner-of-the-fillmore-east/

that was the anderson, huh? i was actually in there! when it was the "cbgb theater" in the late 70s. saw the jam. mick jagger was in the house that night w/ jerry hall.

this is a group i could be a completist of from their beginning till their end!

Watching through some interviews, picked up a nugget from Angus that him and Malcolm saw the Yardbirds live with Jimmy Page and were quite impressed.

Seeing the Yardbirds live seems to be a pretty formative thing for many of the old rock and rollers - I've seen this stated in various interviews with Nugent, Iggy, Wayne Kramer and both Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry.

It's pretty easy to snag the more or less 'Complete' Yardbirds: the Yardbirds By Giorgio Gomelsky box on Charly for everything from the beginning up 'til early '66; a good reissue of Roger The Engineer for the rest of '66; and an expanded Little Games and that Yardbirds '68 thing for everything Page. There's also a BBC set, but IMHO those recordings (Beck & Page eras, nothing together) aren't that revelatory.

Yardbirds discography has generally always been a bit of a basket case.

ultimate covers all their albums best songs and more and the ones it misses is no great loss!

Oh yeah, drag with taht yardbirds Giorgio gomelski thing is that it has loads of tyakes of several songs following each other. Which I think is probably not the best way to listen to them. I think I have a copy.
Shame the Ultimate set is so compressed.

& wish I could get that Roger The Engineer expanded as cd only. Or at least without Stereo following mono version which is a drag on a 3changer.

the expanded for your love, having a rave up and little games might be interesting to hear anyone have these?