OldNewRockMusic: The Yardbirds - The Yardbirds Story By Giorgio Gomelsky (Box Set 4xCD) (2007)

Year: 1964-1967 (CD 2007)
Label: Charly Records (UK), SNAJ 736 CD
Style: Classic Rock, Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 71:51, 79:23, 73:56, 76:30
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 416, 523, 428, 390 Mb

The Yardbirds, 1960s British musical group best known for their inventive conversion of rhythm and blues into rock. The original members were singer Keith Relf (b. March 22, 1943, Richmond, Surrey, England-d. May 14, 1976, London), guitarist Eric Clapton (original name Eric Patrick Clapp; b. March 30, 1945, Ripley, Surrey), bassist Chris Dreja (b. November 11, 1946, London), drummer Jim McCarty (b. July 25, 1943, Liverpool, Merseyside), bassist Paul Samwell-Smith (b. May 8, 1943, London), and guitarist Anthony ("Top") Topham (b. July 3, 1947, Southall, Middlesex). Later members were Jeff Beck (b. June 24, 1944, Wallington, Surrey) and Jimmy Page (b. January 9, 1944, Heston, Middlesex).

The Yardbirds, who produced three of Britain"s most influential rock guitarists, followed in the footsteps of the Rolling Stones on the western London rhythm-and-blues circuit in 1963–64, their early repertoire consisting almost exclusively of cover versions of songs by artists who recorded for the Chess and Vee Jay record labels. With Clapton as lead guitarist, the band created the "rave-up," accelerating their playing until it transformed into white noise. Employing distortion and reverb (a succession of echoes that blend into one another to create sonic space), Clapton"s successor, Beck, pushed later hits like "Shapes of Things" (1966) into the realm of psychedelic rock. Page, later the leader of one of the most successful heavy metal–hard rock groups of the 1970s, Led Zeppelin, initially joined the Yardbirds as a replacement for bassist Samwell-Smith. Switching to guitar, Page joined Beck as the band"s colead guitarist-though the two played together on only one single, the visionary "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (1966), before the band"s short-lived final lineup dissolved in 1968. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

(britannica.com/topic/The-Yardbirds) (Jon Savage)

CD1: 1963 - r&broots

01. Smokestack Lightning (06:51)
02. You Can't Judge A Book (02:57)
03. Let It Rock (02:18)
04. I Wish You Would (05:55)
05. Who Do You Love (04:10)
06. Honey In Your Hips (02:29)
07. Bye Bye Bird (03:34)
08. Mister Downchild (03:58)
09. The River Rhine (05:24)
10. 23 Hours Too Long (05:07)
11. A Lost Care (02:15)
12. Pontiac Blues (03:49)
13. Take It Easy Baby (05:41)
14. Out On The Water Coast (03:09)
15. Western Arizona (03:04)
16. Take It Easy Baby (04:13)
17. Do The Weston (04:13)
18. Baby What's Wrong (02:37)

CD2: 1964 - early studio & at the marquee

01. Boom Boom (demo) (02:27)
02. Honey in Your Hips (demo) (02:19)
03. Talkin' 'Bout You (demo) (01:58)
04. I Wish You Would (demo) (04:17)
05. A Certain Girl (demo) (02:21)
06. Slow Walk (The Birmingham R&B Festival) (01:04)
07. Highway 69 (The Birmingham R&B Festival) (03:17)
08. My Little Cabin (The Birmingham R&B Festival) (03:45)
09. Too Much Monkey Business (The Marquee Club) (03:49)
10. Got Love If You Want It (The Marquee Club) (02:37)
11. Smokestack Lightning (The Marquee Club) (05:34)
12. Good Morning, Little Schoolg (The Marquee Club) (02:41)
13. Respectable (The Marquee Club) (05:29)
14. Five Long Years (The Marquee Club) (05:15)
15. Pretty Girl (The Marquee Club) (03:02)
16. Louise (The Marquee Club) (03:41)
17. I'm a Man (The Marquee Club) (04:31)
18. Here 'Tis (The Marquee Club) (05:10)
19. I Wish You Would (02:19)
20. A Certain Girl (02:18)
21. Good Morning, Little Schoolg (03:20)
22. Good Morning, Little Schoolg (03:04)
23. Good Morning, Little Schoolg (02:54)
24. I Ain't Got You (02:01)

CD3: 1965/66 - big hits & america calling

01. For Your Love (02:30)
01. New York City Blues (Stereo (04:17)
02. Got To Hurry (Take 2) (00:42)
03. Got To Hurry (Take 3 Master) (02:48)
04. Got To Hurry (Take 4) (02:36)
05. Putty In Your Arms (02:18)
06. Sweet Music (Take 3) (02:30)
07. Sweet Music (Take 4) (02:37)
08. I'm Not Talking (02:32)
09. I Ain't Done Wrong (03:39)
10. My Girl Sloopy (05:37)
11. Heart Full Of Soul (With Sit (01:55)
12. Heart Full Of Soul (02:28)
13. Steeled Blues (02:39)
14. Evil Hearted You (02:25)
15. Still I'm Sad (02:59)
16. Shapes Of Things (02:37)
17. Shapes Of Things (Alternativ (02:27)
18. You're A Better Man Than I (03:58)
19. I'm A Man (02:38)
20. New York City Blues (04:19)
21. The Train Kept A Rollin' (03:26)
22. Paff...Bum (02:39)
23. Questa Volta (02:33)
24. Mr. Zero (Keith Relf) (02:43)
25. Knowing (Keith Relf) (01:52)

CD4: 1966/67 - an eye view of beat

01. Jeff's Blues (take 1) (03:07)
02. Jeff's Blues (take 2) (03:09)
03. Someone to Love part 1 (instrumental - take 2) (02:15)
04. Someone to Love part 1 (instrumental - take 4) (02:13)
05. Someone to Love part 1 (instrumental - take 14) (02:04)
06. Someone to Love part 1 (vocal - take 15) (02:24)
07. Someone to Love part 2 (04:17)
08. Like Jimmy Reed Again (03:06)
09. Chris' Number (02:39)
10. Pounds and Stomps (XYZ) (02:41)
11. Pounds and Stomps (02:29)
12. What Do You Want (take 1) (03:45)
13. What Do You Want (take 2) (03:29)
14. What Do You Want (take 3) (03:36)
15. 15 What Do You Want (take 4) (03:11)
16. Here 'Tis (stereo instrumental version) (03:48)
17. Here 'Tis (Ready Steady Go version) (04:04)
18. Crimson Curtain (edit of take 1 and insert) (02:46)
19. Stroll On (02:44)
20. I'm A Man (live in Germany 1967) (06:14)
21. Shapes of Things (live in Germany 1967) (02:20)