IIRC, it's on one of the "Afterhours" bootleg tapes.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Afterhours: legendary Velvet Underground bootleg tape series.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a pretty horrible recording, but cool to hear nonetheless ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Now that just kills. It also should be said that McCarty is pretty underrated drummer. Great no-frills stuff.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the info and thanks for posting the song. Cool stuff! Makes them sound like the MC5.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I love the Yardbirds but when they crap out they really go all out. "Pafff...BUM that's a sound called LUUUV!"
― Brio, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
damn that velvets cover rocks
― crackers is biters (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i think there's some story about the Velvets and the Yardbirds playing on the same bill ... Jeff Beck carrying a gun around or something ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Are we sure that's really the Yardbirds? This seems too good to be true.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Definitely sounds like the Yardbirds right at the end of the song, wouldn't have known otherwise.
Did a search and turned up this bootleg:
(Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 31/05/68)
1. The Train Kept A Rollin'2. Mr. You're A Better Man Than I3. Heart Full Of Soul4. Dazed And Confused5. Shapes Of Things6. I'm A Man7. Smokestack Lightning8. Beck's Bolero9. I'm Waiting For The Man -Bye Bye Bird -Happenings Ten Years Time Ago -Drinking Muddy Water -New York City Blues10. I Wish You Would11. Hey Gyp
The Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page Live At The Shrine - Another show featuring Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds. This show, a bit more complete has an over exuberant taper in spots however, the sound quality get's pretty good in places. Another nice document of Jimmy Page
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, dunno if these links will still work, but that show is over here: http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.com/2008/12/yardbirds-with-jimmy-page.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kTObUFWzaKA/ST_5z5hQo4I/AAAAAAAABs4/w5fcygnxfsc/s1600-h/Fillmore+Poster.jpg
^ I'm liking the look of that gig.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
oops, should read 'that Velvets cover'
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link
They might have played with them!
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Page something of an aficionado of US underground music, yes?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess he was. Wasn't he a big Spirit fan or something?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
And Kaleidoscope, and Buffalo Springfield et al
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Not to go all off-topic, but: "Psycho Daisies"!
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Kinda like that engineer album. Not too keen on the early blues stuff.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, Roger the Engineer is great. And Psycho Daisies too! B-side of Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, what an amazing single.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Not a big fan of the Yardbirds, beyond the famous songs
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― factcheckr, Thursday, 5 February 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― dad a, Thursday, 5 February 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
always thought the riff @ 2:35 of this stooges track
sounded like happenings ten years time ago
― eman, Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
made me a edit recently. loop madness.yardbirds-train kepta rollin (ettiem kepta editin)
― andrew m., Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
also "i'm not talking" and "i got a right"
― eman, Thursday, 5 February 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
For that matter, the MC5 version of I'm A Man on '66 Breakout owes more to the Yardbirds than to Bo Diddley.
― dad a, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Woah! Never saw the Stooges link before!
The archetypal Freakbeat band. I really need to upgrade from my crappy beat-up Vinyl greatest hits.
― Soukesian, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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".
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
are there any bootlegs of the brief beck & page lineup? paging tyler
― baby beluga (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 January 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
not that i know of? this one is tricky -- http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com/2009/02/yardbirds-feat-jimmy-page-jeff-beck.htmli think there are two shows though, one w/ beck, one w/ page.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
here's the high point of the beck/page y-birds recorded outputhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S47NPJQq8h8
― tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
actually a pretty rockin' milkshake commercial tbh.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpcyWKKY9-s and here they are playing in 1966 -- page on bass, I think?
― tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 April 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
This, from last year, is really awesome, especially the live disc: https://www.discogs.com/Yardbirds-Yardbirds-68/master/1269951
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 April 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
I would skip the McCarty-birds and get that killer Yardbirds '68 comp. I think it's my fave reissue from last year.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 15 April 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
Roger the Engineer was pretty much the shape of hard rock to come.
― earlnash, Sunday, 15 April 2018 08:13 (six years ago) link
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?
― Josefa, Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Haven't heard it yet, but the original issue had overdubbed crowd noise (from bullfights), so presumably this reissue sounds better.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
EVERY live album should have overdubbed bullfight noises.
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
the new ugly things claims that they are not actual bullfight noises, the myth beginning with a misinterpreted jimmy page quote.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 15 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
It was actually Jake Holmes who said it had bullfight noises.(and Scott otm)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
and it wasn't even released on matador
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 April 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link