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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 I
3. Heart Full Of Soul
4. Dazed And Confused
5. Shapes Of Things
6. I'm A Man
7. Smokestack Lightning
8. Beck's Bolero
9. I'm Waiting For The Man
-Bye Bye Bird
-Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
-Drinking Muddy Water
-New York City Blues
10. I Wish You Would
11. 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.

Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link

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

one year passes...

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

two years pass...

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.html
i 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 output
https://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

five years pass...

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

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?

Lee626, Monday, 16 April 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link

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

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link

Fun stories about the Anderson:

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

Josefa, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link

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.

Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

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

xzanfar, Friday, 24 December 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link

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.

earlnash, Friday, 24 December 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link

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.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link

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

earlnash, Friday, 24 December 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link

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

xzanfar, Friday, 24 December 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link


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